Today is Wednesday, January 14, the 14th day of 2009. There are 351 days left in the year.
1641 _ United East Indian Company conquerors city of Malacca, 7,000 killed
1699 _ Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting ``witches"
1878 _ U.S. Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional
1900 _ Giacomo Puccini's opera ``Tosca" premieres in Rome
1914 _ Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for T-Fords
1943 _ FDR and Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WWII
1953 _ Yugoslavia elects its first president (Marshal Tito)
1954 _ Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star, New York Yankee's Joe DiMaggio
1960 _ U.S. Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant
1989 _ 1,000 Muslims burn Rushdie's ``Satanic Verses" in Bradford England