On This Day:
Wednesday January 14, 2015 This is the 14th day of the year, with 351 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: decomposing It takes: A Piece of Paper 2 to 4 Weeks to Decompose, A Banana Peel 3 to 5 Months to Decompose, A Cotton Rag 1 to 5 Months to Decompose, A Cigarette Butt 2 to 5 Years to Decompose, A Disposable Diaper 10 to 20 Years to Decompose, An Aluminum Can 200 to 400 Years to Decompose, A Piece of Plastic 450 Years to Decompose, And A Piece of Glass Over 1 Million Years to Decompose.
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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