1 of 5 | Marilyn Monroe prepares to kiss her husband, former baseball participant Joe DiMaggio after their marriage ceremony January 15, 1954. File Photograph courtesy Macfadden Publications/Wikimedia
Jan. 14 (UPI) — On this date in historical past:
In 1794, Dr. Jesse Bennett of Edom, Va., carried out the primary profitable Caesarean part.
In 1907, an earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, killed greater than 1,000 folks.
In 1935, a semi-official verify of voters within the Saar plebiscite indicated that just about 80 p.c had been in favor of reunification with Germany. A victory for Adolf Hitler and Nazism.
In 1943, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill opened a 10-day World Conflict II technique convention in Casablanca, Morocco.
In 1952, NBC’s At this time premiered. It was this system that began the morning information present format as it’s now recognized.
In 1953, Josip Broz Tito was chosen president of Yugoslavia. He would serve till Might 1980.
President Gerald Ford (L) leans over to talk with Josip Broz Tito, the president of Yugoslavia in Belgrade, throughout state dinner on August 3, 1975, throughout his official go to to the nation. UPI File Photograph
In 1954, Marilyn Monroe married baseball star Joe DiMaggio. The 2 would divorce lower than a yr later.
In 1963, George Wallace was inaugurated because the governor of Alabama, promising his followers, “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation without end!”
In 1969, a sequence of explosions aboard the nuclear plane provider USS Enterprise off Hawaii killed 27 men.
In 1993, David Letterman accepted a multimillion-dollar deal to maneuver his late-night speak present to CBS in August after his NBC contract expired.
File Photograph by Mike Theiler/UPI In 2005, a U.S. Military reservist, Spc. Charles Graner, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for abusing detainees at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib jail. Graner, who stated he did not remorse his actions, was launched from jail after 6 1/2 years.
In 2007, Saddam Hussein’s half-brother and the decide who authorized the 1982 killing of 148 Shiite males and boys had been executed by hanging in Baghdad. Saddam was hanged two weeks earlier.
In 2011, anti-government protesters forced the ouster of Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.
In 2020, Ken Jennings won the Jeopardy!: The Best of All Time competitors, taking dwelling a $1 million money prize. He beat out different record-setting Jeopardy! contestants James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter.
In 2024, King Frederik X took the throne of Denmark after the abdication of his mom, Queen Margrethe II.
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