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