January 14 ...

In 1639 Connecticut's first constitution, the "Fundamental Orders," was adopted. In 1690 the clarinet was invented in Nurnberg, Germany by a German instrument maker named Denner. In 1741 Benedict Arnold was born in Norwich, Connecticut. In 1784 the Revolutionary War officially ended when the US ratified the Treaty of Paris with England. In 1814 Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden under the Treaty of Kiel. In 1875 1954 Nobel Prize winner Albert Schweitzer was born in Alsace-Lorraine. In 1898 Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll died in Guildford, England at age 65. In 1900 Puccini's Tosca opened in Rome. In 1938 Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs opened in the US. In 1943 President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill opened a wartime conference in Casablanca. In 1953 Josip Broz Tito was elected president of Yugoslavia by the country's Parliament. In 1954 the Hudson Motor Car Company merged with Nash-Kelvinator; the new company was called the American Motors Corporation. Also on this day, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married; the marriage only lasted nine months. In 1957 actor Humphrey Bogart died. In 1963 at his swearing-in ceremony newly elected Alabama Governor George C. Wallace pledged he would enforce "segregation forever." In 1965 for the first time in 43 years the prime ministers of Northern Ireland and Ireland met. In 1967 the great 'Human Be-In' was held in Golden Gate Park, drawing national attention to the Haight-Asbury scene. In 1990 The Simpsons premiered. In 2004 President Bush proposed that the US send humans back to the moon by 2015 and establish a base for a further manned mission to Mars. In 2005 a probe from the Cassini-Huygens mission sent back pictures during and after landing on Saturn's moon Titan. The mission was launched on October 15, 1997.