MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2013

Today is Monday, January 14, the 14th day of 2013. There are 351 days left in the year.

1236 ― English king Henry III marries Eleonora of Provence

1690 ― Clarinet is invented, in Nuremberg, Germany

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

1897 ― 6,960-meter (22,834-feet) Cerro Aconcagua (Argentina) first climbed

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

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

1953 ― Yugoslavia elects its first president (Marshal Tito)

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

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

1989 ― 1,000 Muslims burn Rushdie’s' ``Satanic Verses” in Bradford, England