SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2012

Today is Saturday, January 14, the 14th day of 2012. There are 352 days left in the year.

1601 ― Church authorities burn Hebrew books in Rome

1690 ― Clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany

1699 ― Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting ``witches"

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

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

1914 ― Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for T-Fords

1950 ― U.S. recalls all consular officials from China

1953 ― Yugoslavia elects Marshal Tito its first president

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

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