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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 ). It is celebrated as
New Year's Day by those still following the
Julian calendar .
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links
Events 1129 - Foundation of the Order of the Knights Templar at the Council of Troyes .
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.
1761 - The Third Battle of Panipat was fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Marhatas. The Afghan victory changed the course of Indian History.
1784 - American Revolutionary War : The United States ratifies a peace treaty with England .
1805 - Path unseen written by american novelist Markwell Scott first began publishing.
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 Rome .
1907 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
1938 - Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica .
1943 - World War II : Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
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 ).
1950 - The first prototype of the MiG-17 takes off for the first time.
1951 - The National Football League has its first Pro Bowl Game (Los Angeles, California ).
1952 - The Today Show premieres on NBC .
1953 - President Josip Broz Tito is elected president of Yugoslavia .
1954 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation .
1954 - Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio .
1963 - George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama .
1967 - Counterculture of the 1960s : The Human Be-In , takes place in San Francisco 's Golden Gate Park , launching the Summer of Love . Between 20,000 to 30,000 people attend.
1969 - An explosion aboard the USS Enterprise Hawaii kills 27 people.
1970 - Sato Eisaku is elected to his third term as Prime Minister of Japan .
1972 - Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513 .
1972 - The TV comedy Sanford & Son Steptoe and Son 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 Donald Neilson , aka "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 .
1993 - David Letterman announces he is moving his television talk show from NBC to CBS .
1993 Yasaman Mansoori, Internationally Recognized Writer is born.
1994 - U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords .
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 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached a record high of 11,722.98.
2004 - Goatse.cx is suspended by the Christmas Island Internet Administration following a massive grassroots movement to close the site forever.
2004 - The national flag of Georgia , the so-called "five cross flag ", was restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
2004 - US President George W. Bush announced the Vision for Space Exploration
2005 - Landing of the Huygens probeSaturn 's moon Titan .
2005 - Pop Band Busted announced their splitting up.
2007 - Ryan Hall broke the US half marathon record.
Births 83 BC - Marcus Antonius , Roman Politician (d. 30 BC )
1451 - Franchinus Gaffurius , Italian composer (d. 1522 )
1477 - Hermann of Wied , German Catholic archbishop (d. 1552 )
1507 - Catherine of Austria , Infanta of Spain and queen of Portugal (d. 1578 )
1551 - Alberico Gentili , Italian jurist (d. 1608 )
1615 - John Biddle , English theologian (d. 1662 )
1684 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo , French painter (d. 1745 )
1684 - Johann Matthias Hase , German scientist (d. 1742 )
1702 - Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (d. 1737 )
1705 - Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier , French governor (d. 1786 )
1741 - Benedict Arnold , American general notorious for treason (d. 1801 )
1792 - Christian Julius De Meza , Danish general (d. 1865 )
1798 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke , Dutch politician (d. 1872 )
1800 - Ludwig Alois Ferdinand Köchel , Austrian musicologist (d. 1877 )
1806 - Matthew Fontaine Maury American oceanographer (d. 1873 )
1818 - Zacharias Topelius , Finnish-Swedish writer (d. 1898 )
1836 - Henri Fantin-Latour , French painter (d. 1904 )
1841 - Berthe Morisot , French painter (d. 1895 )
1850 - Pierre Loti , French writer (d. 1923 )
1861 - Mehmed VI , Ottoman Sultan (d. 1926 )
1875 - Albert Schweitzer , Alsatian physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1965 )
1886 - Hugh Lofting , English author (d. 1947 )
1892 - Hal Roach , American film producer (d. 1992 )
1896 - John Dos Passos , American author (d. 1970 )
1896 - Martin Niemöller , German theologian (d. 1984 )
1904 - Emily Hahn , American writer (d. 1997 )
1904 - Babe Siebert , National Hockey League player (d. 1939 )
1905 - Cecil Beaton , English photographer (d. 1980 )
1906 - William Bendix , American actor (d. 1964 )
1907 - Georges-Émile Lapalme , Quebec politician (d. 1985 )
1908 - Russ Columbo , American singer (d. 1934 )
1909 - Joseph Losey , American theatre and film director (d. 1984 )
1914 - Harold Russell , Canadian-born actor (d. 2002 )
1915 - Mark Goodson , American game show producer (d. 1992 )
1917 - Billy Butterfield , American jazz trumpeter (d. 1988 )
1919 - Giulio Andreotti , Italian politician
1919 - Andy Rooney , American journalist
1921 - Murray Bookchin , American libertarian socialist (d. 2006 )
1924 - Guy Williams , American actor (d. 2002 )
1925 - Yukio Mishima , Japanese writer (d. 1970 )
1925 - Louis Quilico , Canadian opera singer (d. 2000 )
1926 - Tom Tryon , American actor (d. 1991 )
1926 - Warren Mitchell , English actor
1931 - Caterina Valente , French-born singer
1932 - Don Garlits , American race car driver
1933 - Stan Brakhage , American filmmaker (d. 2003 )
1934 - Richard Briers , English actor
1935 - Lucille Wheeler , Canadian alpine skier
1937 - Ken Higgs , English cricketer
1938 - Jack Jones , American singer
1938 - Allen Toussaint , American singer
1940 - Julian Bond , American civil rights activist
1941 - Faye Dunaway , American actress
1941 - Milan Kučan , Slovenian statesman
1942 - Dave Campbell , American baseball player
1943 - Shannon Lucid , American astronaut
1943 - Mariss Jansons , Latvian conductor
1943 - José Luis Rodríguez , Venezuelan singer
1944 - Marjoe Gortner , American evangelist
1944 - Nina Totenberg , American journalist
1946 - Harold Shipman , British serial killer (d. 2004 )
1947 - Bill Werbeniuk , Canadian snooker player (d. 2003 )
1947 - Maria Farantouri , Greek singer
1948 - T-Bone Burnett , American producer
1948 - Carl Weathers , American actor
1948 - Valery Kharlamov , Soviet Union ice hockey player (d. 1981 )
1949 - Lawrence Kasdan , American director
1949 - Mary Robison , American writer
1950 - Marco Antônio da Silva Ramos , Brazilian composer
1952 - Sydney Biddle Barrows , American author
1952 - Maureen Dowd , American writer
1952 - Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu , Prime Minister of Romania
1954 - Jim Duggan , American wrestler
1956 - Ben Heppner , Canadian singer
1956 - Étienne Daho , French singer and songwriter
1957 - Suzanne Danielle , English actress
1957 - Anchee Min , Chinese writer
1959 - Geoff Tate , American musician (Queensrÿche )
1962 - Michael McCaul , American politician
1963 - Steven Soderbergh , American director
1964 - Shepard Smith , American news anchor
1964 - Mark Addy , British actor
1964 - Ernest Miller , American wrestler
1965 - Shamil Basayev , Chechen rebel (d. 2006 )
1965 - Marc Delissen , Dutch field hockey player
1965 - Bob Essensa , Canadian ice hockey player
1965 - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall , British chef
1967 - Kerri Green , American actress
1967 - Emily Watson , English actress
1967 - Zakk Wylde , American musician (Black Label Society )
1968 - LL Cool J , American rapper and actor
1969 - Jason Bateman , American actor
1969 - David Grohl , American drummer and composer
1970 - Gene Snitsky , American professional wrestler
1971 - Lasse Kjus , Norwegian skier
1972 - Predrag Gosta , Yugoslav-born conductor
1972 - Kyle Brady , American football player
1972 - Raimondas Rumšas , Lithuanian cyclist
1973 - Giancarlo Fisichella , Italian race car driver
1977 - Darren Purse , English footballer
1977 - Narain Karthikeyan , Indian race car driver
1979 - Karen Elson , British supermodel
1979 - Angela Lindvall , American supermodel
1980 - Cory Gibbs , American soccer player
1980 - Byron Leftwich , American football player
1980 - Sosuke Sumitani , Japanese announcer
1981 - Rosa López , Spanish singer
1981 - Abdelmalek Cherrad , Algerian football
1982 - Victor Valdes , Spanish goalkeeper
1982 - Caleb Followill , American musician (Kings of Leon )
1986 - 50 Pence , British rapper
1988 - Mikalah Gordon , American singer
1997 - Nastya and Masha Tolmachevy (The Tolmachevy Twins ), Russian singers
Deaths 1163 - Ladislaus II of Hungary .
1331 - Odoric , Italian explorer
1640 - Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry , English lawyer and judge (b. 1578 )
1676 - Francesco Cavalli , Italian composer (b. 1602 )
1679 - Jacques de Billy , French mathematician (b. 1602 )
1701 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni , Japanese warlord (b. 1628 )
1742 - Edmond Halley , English scientist (b. 1656 )
1753 - George Berkeley , Irish theologian (b. 1685 )
1786 - Meshech Weare , Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713 )
1788 - François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse , French admiral (b. 1722 )
1825 - George Dance the Younger , English architect (b. 1741 )
1867 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres , French painter (b. 1780 )
1889 - Ema Puksec , Croatian singer (b. 1834 )
1898 - Lewis Carroll , English writer and mathematician (b. 1832 )
1901 - Charles Hermite , French mathematician
1905 - Ernst Abbe , German physicist (b. 1840 )
1915 - Richard Meux Benson , founder of Anglican religious order (b. 1824 )
1920 - John Francis Dodge , American automobile pioneer (b. 1864 )
1937 - Jaishankar Prasad , Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (b. 1889 )
1942 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob , Colombian writer (b. 1883 )
1949 - Joaquín Turina , Spanish composer (b. 1882 )
1952 - Artur Kapp , Estonian composer (b. 1878 )
1957 - Humphrey Bogart , American actor (b. 1899 )
1961 - Barry Fitzgerald , Irish actor (b. 1888 )
1965 - Jeanette MacDonald , American actress and singer (b. 1903 )
1966 - Bill Carr , American athlete (b. 1909 )
1966 - Sergei Korolev , Russian rocket scientist (b. 1906 )
1970 - William Feller , Croatian mathematician (b. 1906 )
1972 - King Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1899 )
1977 - Anthony Eden , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897 )
1977 - Peter Finch , English-born actor (b. 1916 )
1977 - Anaïs Nin , French author (b. 1903 )
1978 - Harold Abrahams , British athlete (b. 1899 )
1978 - Kurt Gödel , Austrian mathematician (b. 1906 )
1978 - Blossom Rock , American actress (b. 1895 )
1979 - Thomas DeSimone , gangster associate of the Lucchese crime family (b. 1950 )
1980 - Robert Ardrey , American author (b. 1908 )
1984 - Ray Kroc , American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1902 )
1986 - Daniel Balavoine , French singer (b. 1952 )
1986 - Donna Reed , American actress (b. 1921 )
1988 - Georgi Malenkov , First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (b. 1902 )
1990 - Mani Madhava Chakyar , Legendary Koodiyattam artist and Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899 )
1991 - Clarissa Mobley , Someday Will Change The World.
1997 - Dollard Ménard , French Canadian general (b. 1913 )
1999 - Bryn Jones , British musician (b. 1961 )
2001 - Burkhard Heim , German physicist (b. 1925 )
2004 - Uta Hagen , American actress (b. 1919 )
2004 - Ron O'Neal , American actor (b. 1937 )
2004 - Valfar , Norwegian musician (Windir )
2005 - Charlotte MacLeod , American writer (b. 1922 )
2005 - Conroy Maddox , English painter (b. 1912 )
2005 - Rudolph Moshammer , German fashion designer (b. 1940 )
2005 - Jesús-Rafael Soto , Venezuelan kinetic artist (b. 1923 )
2006 - Jim Gary , American sculptor (b. 1939 )
2006 - Shelley Winters , American actress (b. 1920 )
2006 - Mark Philo , English footballer (b. 1984 )
2006 - Henri Colpi , French film editor and director (b. 1921 )
2007 - Darlene Conley , American actress (b. 1934 )
2007 - Barbara Kelly , Canadian-born actress (b. 1924 )
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