THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2010

Today is Thursday, January 14, the 14th day of 2010. There are 351 days left in the year.

1690 _ Clarinet is invented, in Nuremberg, Germany

1794 _ Dr. Jessee Bennet of Edom, Va., performs first successful Cesarean section operation on his wife

1897 _ 6,960-meter (22,834-foot) Cerro Aconcagua (Argentina) first climbed

1900 _ Giacomo Puccini's opera ``Tosca" premieres in Rome

1954 _ Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star, New York Yankee, Joe DiMaggio

1964 _ Jacqueline Kennedy's first public appearance (TV) since assassination

1967 _ New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments

1976 _ ``"The Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC)

1979 _ President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday

1993 _ David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC to CBS