Janurary 14, 2024
QUOTE
Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.
--T Bone Burnett
BIRTHDAYS
83 BC – Mark Antony, Roman general and politician
1741 – Benedict Arnold, American-British general
1875 – Albert Schweitzer, French-German physician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 – Faye Dunaway, American actress and producer
1948 – T Bone Burnett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
IN MEMORY
1701 – Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese daimyō
1957 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor
1978 – Harold Abrahams, English sprinter, lawyer, and journalist
1986 – Donna Reed, American actress
2009 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1639 – The “Fundamental Orders”, the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut.
1784 – American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States – Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.
1911 – Roald Amundsen’s South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
1943 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
1973 – Elvis Presley’s concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.