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