Today is Wednesday, January 14, the 14th day of 2015. There are 351 days left in the year.
1236 ― English king Henry III marries Eleonora of Provence
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"
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
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!"
1966 ― David Bowie releases his first record ("Can't Help Thinking About Me”)
1979 ― President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday