On This Day:
Tuesday January 14, 2014 This is the 14th day of the year, with 351 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: drive-on-the-left locations No one knows for sure, but some suggest that left-side driving originated from the fact that carriage drivers liked to sit on the right to give their whip hands more freedom. In the Middle Ages, one kept to the left for the simple reason that one never knew when someone unfriendly would come along, and driving on the left kept the right arm free to hold a sword. This custom was given official sanction in 1300 AD, when Pope Boniface VIII invented the modern science of traffic control by declaring that pilgrims headed to Rome should keep left. The first known keep-right law in the U.S. was enacted in Pennsylvania in 1792, and the other states and Canadian provinces followed suit.
Holidays Feast day of the Martyrs of Mount Sinai, St. Barbasymas or Barbascemin, St. Antony Pucci, St. Datius, St. Macrina the Elder, St. Sava, St. Felix of Nola, and St. Kentigern or Mungo.
Uzbekistan: Army Day.
India: Pongal.
Events 1639 - The first constitution in the American colonies, the "Fundamental Orders" of Connecticut, was adopted.
1784 - The United States ratified The Treaty of Paris with England, ending the Revolutionary War.
1794 - Dr. Jesse Bennett of Virginia performed the first successful Caesarean section; the patient was his wife.
1914 - Henry Ford started his first manufacturing assembly line.
1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered all aliens in the United States to register with the government.
1943 - United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met at Casablanca.
1952 - NBC's "Today" show premiered on TV.
1954 - Baseball hero Joe DiMaggio married film star Marilyn Monroe.
1963 - George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with a pledge of "segregation forever."
1980 - Gold reached a new record price of more than $800 an ounce.
Births 1741 - Benedict Arnold, turncoat American general in the American Revolutionary War.
1875 - Albert Schweitzer, German philosopher, musician, physician, humanitarian, winner of thw 1952 Nobel Peace Prize.
1892 - Hal Roach, American producer, writer, and director.
1904 - Cecil Beaton, British photographer and stage designer.
1919 - Andy Rooney, American writer, columnist, commentator.
1941 - Faye Dunaway, American Academy Award-winning actress.
Deaths 1742 - Edmund Halley, English astronomer.
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