Thursday, January 14, 2016

History for January 14

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


Tom Tryon 1926, Jack Jones 1938, Gene Washington 


1784 - The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War. 


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. 


1969 - An explosion aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise off Hawaii killed 25 crew members. 


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


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


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