Today is Friday, January 14, the 14th day of 2011. There are 351 days left in the year.
1699 ― Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting ``witches"
1784 ― Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris
1785 ― Mozart completes ``Dissonantenkwartet" (opus 10)
1878 ― U.S. Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional
1897 ― 6,960-m (22,834') Cerro Aconcagua (Argentina) first climbed
1900 ― Giacomo Puccini's opera ``Tosca" premieres in Rome
1914 ― Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for T-Fords
1954 ― Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star, New York Yankee, Joe DiMaggio
1963 ― George C. Wallace sworn in as Governor of Alabama, his address states ``segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"
1979 ― President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday