Friday 14 January 2011

On This Day - 14th January


1741 - Benedict Arnold born
1875 - Albert Schweitzer born
1892 - Hal Roach born
1906 - William Bendix born
1919 - Andy Rooney born
1938 - Jack Jones born
1941 - Faye Dunaway born
1968 - LL Cool J born
1969 - Sir Matt Busby retires as manager of Manchester United and Jason Bateman born
1975 - Seventeen year old heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped from her home in Shropshire while her mother sleeps
1983 - A man is critically injured in West London during a police ambush aimed at capturing escaped prisoner David Martin
1994 - The Duchess of Kent becomes the first member of the Royal Family to convert to Catholicism for more than 300 years
2002 - The foot-and-mouth crisis that began almost 11 months ago will officially end at midnight, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has said.

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