On This Day:
Wednesday January 15, 2014 This is the 15th day of the year, with 350 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Caesar salad The Caesar salad, a tossed assemblage of lettuce, garlic-flavored croutons, and Parmesan cheese with a dressing of olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, and Worcestershire sauce, has a story. Caesar Cardini emigrated to the United States from Italy after World War II. He lived in San Diego and operated a restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico to circumvent Prohibition. In 1924, on a busy Fourth of July evening in his restaurant, Cardini famously improvised the salad recipe. He was running low on food and used what was left over in the kitchen to put together a salad for his guests. The original salad was prepared at tableside and the anchovy was not part of it.
Holidays Feast day of St. Macarius the Elder, St. Isidore of Alexandria, St. Bonitus or Bonet, St. Ita, and St. John Calybites.
Guatemala: Feast of Christ of Esquipulas or Black Christ Festival.
Japan: Coming of Age Day.
Quarterly estimated U.S. federal income tax due date (other dates are April, June, September).
Events 1535 - Henry VIII assumed the title "Supreme Head of the Church."
1559 - England's Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1759 - The British Museum opened, at Montague House, Bloomsbury, London.
1777 - The people of New Connecticut declared their independence; the tiny republic later became the state of Vermont.
1844 - The University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana.
1870 - The Democratic party was represented as a donkey for the first time in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in "Harper's Weekly."
1892 - The rules of basketball were published, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1919 - Ignace Jan Paderewski (also a pianist) became the first premier of the newly created republic of Poland.
1922 - The Irish Free State was established.
1927 - The Dumbarton Bridge opened in San Francisco carrying the first automobile traffic across the bay.
1929 - The Kellogg-Briand pact was ratified by the U.S. Senate, an agreement for the peaceful settlement of international disputes.
1943 - Work was completed on the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense.
1962 - The centigrade scale or Celsius scale was used for the first time in British Meteorological Office weather forecasts. It was invented 200 years earlier.
1967 - The Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League in the first Super Bowl, 35-10.
1970 - Muammar al-Qaddafi, Libyan army captain who deposed King Idris in September 1969, was proclaimed premier of Libya by the so-called General People's Congress.
1970 - The Republic of Biafra, a breakaway state of eastern Nigeria, surrendered to Nigeria after three years of fighting.
1971 - The Aswan High Dam, on the Nile in Egypt and financed by the USSR, was opened.
1973 - President Richard Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations.
1974 - "Happy Days" premiered on television.
1981 - The police series "Hill Street Blues" premiered on TV.
1992 - The European Community recognized the republics of Croatia and Slovenia, ending the Yugoslav federation.
Births 1622 - Jean Baptiste MoliÈre (Jean Baptiste Poquelin), French playwright.
1870 - Pierre S. DuPont, American industrialist.
1908 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born American scientist known as the "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb."
1929 - Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader, minister, and winner of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.
Deaths 1993 - Sammy Cahn, American lyricist.
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