Today in History: January 14, Lance Armstrong admits to using performance-enhancing drugs

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2026. There are 351 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On Jan. 14, 2013, cyclist Lance Armstrong ended a decade of denial by confessing to Oprah Winfrey during a videotaped interview he'd used performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France seven consecutive times. The interview was aired as a two-part special later in the week.

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In 1784, the United States ratified the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War; Britain followed suit in April.

In 1858, Napoleon III survived an assassination attempt by an Italian revolutionary and accomplices who threw explosives at the emperor's carriage as he and wife Eugénie headed to the opera in Paris. Though bystanders were killed, the emperor and empress were unharmed and the revolutionary was swiftly captured and later executed.

In 1943, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French Gen. Charles de Gaulle opened a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco.

In 1963, Democrat George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with the pledge, ''segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever!'' It was a view he later repudiated.

In 1967, the ''Summer of Love'' unofficially began with a ''Human Be-In'' involving tens of thousands of young people at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

In 1970, Diana Ross and the Supremes performed their last concert together, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.

In 1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk signed the Trilateral Statement, an accord to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine.

In 2006, Eminem remarried Kim Mathers in Detroit. He filed for divorce 82 days later.