01-14-2006, 09:10 AM
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January 14th
1690 ~ The clarinet was invented in Nuremberg, Germany.
1784 ~ The Continental Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the American War of Independence.
1857 ~ Birthday of Albert Schweitzer, Christian Missionary & winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1952.
1898 ~ Death of Lewis Carroll, Writer & Mathematician.
1900 ~ Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca premiered in Rome.
1957 ~ Death of Humphrey Bogart, Actor.
1978 ~ Death of Kurt Gödel, Mathematician.
1994 ~ U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the Kremlin accords which ended the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles to targets and also provided for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.
2000 ~ A UN tribunal sentenced five Bosnian Croats to prison for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
2005 ~ The Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan.
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