Wednesday, January 14, 2015

History for January 14

History for January 14 - On-This-Day.com
Benedict Arnold 1741, Albert Schweitzer 1875, William Bendix 1906 


Andy Rooney 1919, Tom Tryon 1926, Julian Bond 1940 



Faye Dunaway 1941, Gene Washington, Carl Weathers 1948 



1873 - John Hyatt's 1869 invention ‘Celluloid’ was registered as a trademark. 



1952 - NBC's "Today" show premiered. 



1954 - Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married. The marriage only lasted nine months. 



1954 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merged with Nash-Kelvinator. The new company was called the American Motors Corporation. 



1972 - NBC-TV debuted "Sanford & Son." 



1973 - The Miami Dolphins defeated the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII and became the first NFL team to go undefeated in a season. 



1998 - Whitewater prosecutors questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House for 10 minutes about the gathering of FBI background files on past Republican political appointees. 



1999 - The impeachment trial of U.S. President Clinton began in Washington, DC



2000 - A U.N. tribunal sentenced five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 massacre of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village. 

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