On This Day:
Saturday January 14, 2012
This is the 14th day of the year, with 352 days remaining
in 2012.
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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