January 14
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January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 351 days remaining (352 in leap years ). Celebrated as New Year's Day by those still following the Julian calendar .
Events
1301 - Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Arpad dynasty in Hungary .
1501 - Martin Luther , 17, enters the University of Erfurt .
1514 - Pope Leo X issues a papal bull against slavery .
1539 - Spain annexes Cuba .
1639 - The "Fundamental Orders ", the first written constitution that created a government , was adopted in Connecticut .
1690 - The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg , Germany .
1724 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.
1784 - American Revolutionary War : The United States ratifies a peace treaty with England .
1814 - Treaty of Kiel : Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania .
1858 - Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.
1900 - Giacomo Puccini 's opera Tosca premieres in Rome .
1907 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
1939 - Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica .
1943 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II ).
1951 - The National Football League has its first Pro Bowl Game (Los Angeles, California ).
1952 - The Today show premieres on NBC .
1954 - Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio .
The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator forming the American Motors Corporation .
1963 - George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama .
1969 - An explosion aboard the USS Enterprise Hawaii kills 25 people.
1970 - Sato Eisaku is elected to his third term as Prime Minister of Japan .
1972 - Queen Margrethe II of Denmark accends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513 .
1972 - Sanford & Son premieres on NBC .
1973 - Super Bowl VII : The Miami Dolphins defeat the Washington Redskins . The Dolphins become the first NFL team to go undefeated in a season.
1975 - Teenage heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped by the Black Panther .
1978 - Johnny Rotten quits the Sex Pistols after the final show of their American tour, at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco .
1984 - Ray Mancini defeats Bobby Chacon by a knockout in three to retain his WBA boxing world Lightweight title in Reno .
1985 - Martina Navratilova wins her 100th tennis tournament.
1993 - David Letterman announces he is moving his television talk show from NBC to CBS .
1994 - President of the United States Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles to targets and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine .
1996 - Jorge Sampaio is elected president of Portugal .
1998 - Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis ).
1998 - An Afghan cargo plane crashes into a mountain in southwest Pakistan killing more than 50 people.
2000 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
2000 - Sport Club Corinthians Paulista wins Vasco da Gama, on the final match for the FIFA Club World Championship.
2000 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached a record high of 11,722.98.
2004 - Goatse.cx is suspended by the Christmas Island Technology Corporation following a massive grassroots movement to close the vile site forever.
2004 - Amartya Sen steps down as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge .
2004 - The national flag of Georgia , the so-called "five cross flag ", was restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
2005 - Landing of the Huygens probeSaturn 's moon Titan .
Births
1741 - Benedict Arnold (General in United States' Revolutionary War , turncoat) (d. 1801 )
1798 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke , Dutch politician (d. 1872 )
1800 - Ludwig Alois Ferdinand Köchel , Austrian researcher on music (d. 1877 )
1836 - Henri Fantin-Latour , painter (d. 1904 )
1841 - Berthe Morisot , Impressionist painter (d. 1895 )
1850 - Pierre Loti , writer (d. 1923 )
1861 - Mehmed VI , Ottoman sultan (d. 1926 )
1866 ?- G. I. Gurdjieff , Greek-Armenian mystic and teacher of dancing. He stated that he was born at the stroke of midnight at the beginning of New Year's Day, Julian calendar (d. 1949 )
1875 - Albert Schweitzer , Alsatian physician, Christian missionary, philosopher, and musician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1952 (d. 1965 )
1886 - Hugh Lofting , author (d. 1947 )
1889 - Ema Puksec , AKA Ilma de Murska , Croat opera singer (b. 1834 )
1892 - Hal Roach , film producer (d. 1992 )
1896 - Martin Niemöller , German theologian and pacifist (d. 1984 )
1896 - John Dos Passos , author (d. 1970 )
1904 - Emily Hahn , novelist , travel author, bon vivant (d. 1997 )
1905 - Cecil Beaton , photographer (d. 1980 )
1906 - William Bendix , actor (d. 1964 )
1908 - Rus Columbo , singer, bandleader, composer
1912 - Rudolf Hagelstange , German lyricist, narrator and essayist (d. 1984 )
1914 - Harold Russell , actor (d. 2002 )
1915 - Mark Goodson , game show producer (d. 1992 )
1919 - Andy Rooney , television journalist
1919 - Giulio Andreotti , Italian politician
1924 - Guy Williams , actor (d. 2002 )
1925 - Yukio Mishima , writer (d. 1970 )
1926 - Tom Tryon , actor, novelist (d. 1991 )
1928 - Gerald Arpino , choreographer
1932 - Don Garlits , drag racer
1933 - Stan Brakhage , filmmaker (d. 2003 )
1934 - Richard Briers , actor
1938 - Jack Jones , singer, actor
1938 - Allen Toussaint , singer
1940 - Julian Bond , civil rights activist (cofounder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee , chairman of NAACP board of directors)
1941 - Faye Dunaway , actress
1941 - Milan Kučan , Slovene politician , statesman
1942 - Stig Engström , actor
1943 - Shannon Lucid , astronaut
1943 - Holland Taylor , actress
1944 - Peter Fechter , Berlin Wall (d. 1962 )
1944 - Nina Totenberg , journalist
1944 - Marjoe Gortner , evangelist, actor
1946 - Harold Shipman , British serial killer (d. 2004 )
1947 - Bill Werbeniuk , Canadian snooker player (d. 2003 )
1948 - Carl Weathers , actor
1948 - T-Bone Burnett , producer, musician
1949 - Lawrence Kasdan , director, screenwriter
1952 - Sydney Biddle Barrow , madam, author
1956 - Ben Heppner , Canadian tenor
1962 - Michael McCaul , American politician
1963 - Steven Soderbergh , director
1967 - Emily Watson , actress
1968 - LL Cool J , rapper, actor
1969 - Jason Bateman , actor
1969 - David Grohl , drummer, composer
1972 - Predrag Gosta , conductor, musicologist, harpsichordist
1973 - Giancarlo Fisichella , Formula One Racing driver.
1980 - Cory Gibbs , American soccer player
1981 - Rosa , Spanish singer
Deaths
1301 - Andrew III of Hungary
1825 - George Dance the Younger , architect (b. 1741 )
1898 - Lewis Carroll , English writer, mathematician (b. 1832 )
1905 - Ernst Abbe , German physicist (b. 1840 )
1942 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob , Colombian poet and writer (b. 1883 )
1949 - Joaquín Turina , Spanish composer (b. 1882 )
1957 - Humphrey Bogart , American actor (b. 1899 )
1965 - Jeanette MacDonald , actress, singer
1966 - Barry Fitzgerald , actor (b. 1888 )
1966 - Bill Carr , American athlete
1966 - Sergei Korolev , rocket scientist
1970 - William Feller , Croat mathematician (b. 1906 )
1972 - King Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1899 )
1977 - Peter Finch , actor (b. 1916 )
1977 - Anaïs Nin , French author (b. 1903 )
1977 - Anthony Eden , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897 )
1978 - Kurt Gödel , mathematician (b. 1906 )
1978 - Blossom Rock , actress
1978 - Harold Abrahams , British athlete (b. 1899 )
1980 - Robert Ardrey , author
1984 - Ray Kroc , McDonald's founder (b. 1902 )
1986 - Donna Reed , American actress (b. 1921 )
1988 - Georgi Malenkov , First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party
1999 - Bryn Jones (a.k.a. Muslimgauze ), musician (b. 1961 )
2004 - Ron O'Neal , actor
2004 - Uta Hagen , actress
2005 - Dennis Flanagan , long time editor of Scientific American 2005 - Ofelia Guilmain , Spanish film and stage actress, worked mostly in Mexico
2005 - Alfred Hause , German composer and conductor
2005 - Charlotte MacLeod , United States mystery writer
2005 - Conroy Maddox , British surrealist painter
2005 - Carl Mohner , German artist and actor
2005 - Rudolph Moshammer , German fashion designer (b. 1940 )
2005 - Georges Piroué , French writer (b. 1920 )
2005 - Jesús-Rafael Soto , Venezuelan kinetic artist (b. 1923 )
Holidays and observances
External links
January 13 - January 15 - December 14 - February 14 -- listing of all days
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