14 January: First Successful Caesarean Section; "Tosca," "Sanford & Son" Premiere; Tito Elected; Joltin' Joe Marries Monroe; G. C. Wallace Sworn In; Last Supremes, Sex Potatoes Gigs

Today is Thursday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2010. There are 351 days left in the year. The UPI Almanac.Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 14, 1784, the United States ratified a peace treaty with England, ending the Revolutionary War.
On this date:
In 1639, the first constitution of Connecticut - the Fundamental Orders - was adopted.
In 1794, Dr. Jesse Bennett of Edom, Va., performed the first successful Caesarean section.
In 1858, Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, and his wife, Empress Eugenie, escaped an assassination attempt led by Italian revolutionary Felice Orsini, who was later captured and executed.
In 1898, author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - better known as "Alice in Wonderland" creator Lewis Carroll - died in Guildford, Surrey, England, less than two weeks before his 66th birthday.

In 1900, Puccini's opera "Tosca" had its world premiere in Rome.
In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French Gen. Charles de Gaulle opened a wartime conference in Casablanca.
In 1953, Josip Broz Tito was elected president of Yugoslavia by the country's Parliament.
In 1963, George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with a pledge of "segregation forever."
In 1969, 27 people aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, off Hawaii, were killed when a rocket warhead exploded, setting off a fire and additional explosions.
In 1998, Whitewater prosecutors questioned first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House about the gathering of FBI background files on past Republican political appointees.
In 1999, before a jury of 100 silent senators, House prosecutors demanded President Bill Clinton's removal from office, charging he had "piled perjury upon perjury" and obstructed justice.
In 2000, in a massive demonstration demanding the return of Elian Gonzalez, tens of thousands of Cuban women marched to the U.S. mission in Havana. A U.N. tribunal sentenced five Bosnian Croat militiamen to up to 25 years in prison for a 1993 murder rampage that emptied a Bosnian village of every one of its Muslim inhabitants.
In 2004, former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow pleaded guilty to conspiracy as he accepted a 10-year prison sentence. J.P. Morgan Chase and Co. struck a deal to buy Bank One Corp. for $58 billion. President George W. Bush unveiled a plan to send astronauts to the moon, Mars and beyond. A female Palestinian suicide bomber killed three Israeli soldiers and a private security guard at a Gaza crossing. U.N. officials announced that Libya had ratified the nuclear test ban treaty.
In 2005, Army Spc. Charles Graner Jr., the reputed ringleader of a band of rogue guards at the Abu Ghraib prison, was convicted at Fort Hood, Texas, of abusing Iraqi detainees. (He was later sentenced to 10 years in prison.) A European space probe sent back the first detailed pictures of the frozen surface of Saturn's moon, Titan. Mystery writer Charlotte MacLeod died in Lewiston, Maine, at 82.
In 2008, Republican Bobby Jindal, the first elected Indian-American governor in the United States, took office in Louisiana. Alvaro Colom was sworn in as Guatemala's first leftist president in more than 50 years.
In 2009, freshly returned from a tour of war zones and global hotspots, Vice President-elect Joe Biden told President-elect Barack Obama that "things are going to get tougher" in Afghanistan. A French court acquitted six doctors and pharmacists in the deaths of at least 114 people who'd contracted brain-destroying Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after being treated with tainted human growth hormones.
Today's Birthdays: CBS commentator Andy Rooney is 91. Don "Big Daddy" Garlits is 78. Blues singer Clarence Carter is 74. Country singer Billie Jo Spears is 73. Singer Jack Jones is 72. Singer-songwriter Allen Toussaint is 72. NAACP Chairman Julian Bond is 70. Actress Faye "The Skull" Dunaway is 69.

Actress Holland Taylor is 67. Marjoe Gortner is 66. Nina Totenberg is 66. Actor Carl Weathers is 62. Singer-producer T-Bone Burnett is 62. Movie writer-director Lawrence Kasdan is 61. Newspaper columnist Maureen Dowd is 58. Rock singer Geoff Tate (Queensryche) is 51. Movie writer-director Steven Soderbergh is 47. Actor Mark Addy is 46. Fox News Channel anchorman Shepard Smith is 46. Rapper Slick Rick is 45. Actor Dan Schneider is 44. Actress Emily Watson is 43. Actor-comedian Tom Rhodes is 43. Rock musician Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne Band) is 43. Rapper-actor LL Cool J is 42. Actor Jason Bateman is 41. Rock singer-musician Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) is 41. Actress Jordan Ladd is 35. Retro-soul singer-songwriter Marc Broussard is 28. Rock singer-musician Caleb Followill (Kings of Leon) is 28. Rock musician Joe Guese (The Click Five) is 27.
Those Born On This Date Include: American turncoat Gen. Benedict Arnold (1741); Thornton Waldo Burgess, author of "Peter Rabbit" (1874); philosopher and medical missionary Albert Schweitzer (1875); film director Hal Roach (1892); novelist John Dos Passos (1896); English photographer Cecil Beaton (1904); actors William Bendix (1906) & Guy Williams ("Zorro," "Lost In Space") (1924).
Today In Entertainment History January 14
In 1952, NBC's "Today" show premiered, with Dave Garroway as the host, or "communicator," as he was officially known.
In 1954, Baseball player Joe Dimaggio and actress Marilyn Monroe were married at San Francisco City Hall.

In 1957, actor Humphrey Bogart died of throat cancer. He was 57.
In 1967, the first so-called "Human Be-In" was held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Among the performers were the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane.

In 1970, Diana Ross performed for the last time with The Supremes, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. Also in 1970, a display of John Lennon's erotic "Bag One" lithographs opened in London. Scotland Yard seized prints two days later as evidence of pornography.
In 1972, "Sanford and Son" made its premiere on NBC.
In 1973, Elvis Presley's TV special "Elvis: Aloha From Hawaii" was beamed from Honolulu by satellite to dozens of countries. At the time, the program set a record for the number of people watching.
In 1978, the Sex Pistols played their last concert before breaking up, at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. They reunited in 1996 for a world tour.
In 1986, actress Donna Reed died. She was 64.
In 1990, "The Simpsons" made its premiere as a weekly show on Fox.
In 1993, late-night TV talk show host David Letterman announced he was moving from NBC to CBS.
In 1999, actor Robert Guillame suffered a mild stroke on the set of the TV show "Sports Night." The stroke was later written into the show.
In 2000, talk show host David Letterman had emergency heart surgery.
In 2004, death claimed actress Uta Hagen in New York at age 84 and actor Ron O'Neal in Los Angeles at age 66.
In 2006, Eminem re-married Kim Mathers in Detroit. He filed for divorce 82 days later.
In 2009, actor Ricardo Montalban died in Los Angeles at 88.
Thought for Today: "If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much." - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), English author (1832-1898).