Today in History — Friday, Jan. 14, 2022

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Today’s spotlight

On Jan. 14, 2013, Lance Armstrong ended a decade of denial through confessing to Oprah Winfrey throughout a videotaped interview that he’d used performance-enhancing capsules to win the Tour de France.

On this date

In 1784, the USA ratified the Treaty of Paris finishing the Revolutionary War; Britain accompanied healthy in April 1784.

In 1914, Ford Motor Co. Significantly stepped forward its meeting-line operation through employing an limitless chain to pull every chassis alongside at its Highland Park, Michigan, plant.

In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French General Charles de Gaulle opened a wartime convention in Casablanca.

In 1952, NBC’s “Today” show premiered, with Dave Garroway as the host, or “communicator.”

In 1954, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married at San Francisco City Hall. (The marriage lasted about 9 months.)

In 1963, George C. Wallace became sworn in as governor of Alabama with the pledge, “Segregation for all time!” — a view Wallace later repudiated.

In 1964, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, in a brief televised address, thanked Americans for their condolences and messages of aid following the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, nearly two months earlier.

In 1967, the Nineteen Sixties’ “Summer of Love” unofficially started out with a “Human Be-In” regarding tens of hundreds of younger humans at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

In 1970, Diana Ross and the Supremes accomplished their ultimate concert together, on the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.

In 1975, the House Internal Security Committee (formerly the House Un-American Activities Committee) turned into disbanded.

In 1994, President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed an accord to stop aiming missiles at any nation; the leaders joined Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk in signing an accord to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine.

In 2010, President Barack Obama and the U.S. Moved to take rate in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, dispatching hundreds of troops at the side of tons of resource.

Ten years ago: Rescue employees scrambled aboard the stricken Costa Concordia cruise liner, seeking to help a few 4,2 hundred passengers a day after the deliver ran aground and tipped over off Italy’s Tuscan coast; the dying toll from the tragedy finally reached 32.

Five years in the past: Donald Trump tore into civil rights legend and Georgia congressman John Lewis on Twitter for wondering the legitimacy of Trump’s White House victory. Protesters amassed in Washington and other towns to denounce the president-go with’s anti-immigrant stance and his pledge to construct a wall on the Mexican border. A SpaceX Falcon nine rocket sporting a payload of satellites blasted off from California, marking the company’s first release on the grounds that a fireball engulfed a comparable rocket on a Florida launch pad extra than 4 months in advance.

One yr ago: Airlines and airports stated they had been stepping up security earlier than the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration, with airways pronouncing they could limit passengers flying to the Washington area from placing guns in checked baggage. An Arkansas guy, Peter Stager, changed into in custody, accused of thrashing a police officer with a pole flying a U.S. Flag during the Jan. 6 rebel at the U.S. Capitol. A global crew of researchers despatched by using the World Health Organization arrived in the Chinese city in which the coronavirus pandemic turned into first detected to research its origins. Authorities said a new research of the Flint water catastrophe had led to charges towards 9 human beings, together with former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and key participants of his administration.

Today’s birthdays: Blues singer Clarence Carter is 86. Singer Jack Jones is eighty four. Actor Faye Dunaway is 81. Actor Holland Taylor is 79. Actor Carl Weathers is seventy four. Singer-manufacturer T-Bone Burnett is seventy four. Movie creator-director Lawrence Kasdan is 73. Pulitzer Prize-triumphing columnist Maureen Dowd is 70. Rock singer Geoff Tate (Queensryche) is sixty three. Movie author-director Steven Soderbergh is 59. Actor Mark Addy is fifty eight. Former Fox News Channel anchorman Shepard Smith is 58. Actor/producer Dan Schneider is fifty eight. Rapper Slick Rick is fifty seven. Actor Emily Watson is fifty five. Actor-comic Tom Rhodes is 55. Rock musician Zakk Wylde is fifty five. Rapper-actor LL Cool J is 54. Actor Jason Bateman is fifty three. Rock singer-musician Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) is fifty three. Actor Kevin Durand is 48. Actor Jordan Ladd is 47. Actor Ward Horton is 46. Actor Emayatzy Corinealdi is 42. Retro-soul singer-songwriter Marc Broussard is forty. Rock singer-musician Caleb Followill (Kings of Leon) is forty. Actor Zach Gilford is 40. Actor Jake Choi is 37. Actor Jonathan Osser is 33. Actor-singer Grant Gustin is 32. Singer/guitarist Molly Tuttle is 29.