January 14
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January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 351 days remaining until the end of the year (352 in leap years).
It is celebrated as New Year's Day by those still following the Julian calendar.
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[change] Events
- 1539 - Spain annexes Cuba.
- 1724 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.
- 1784 - American Revolutionary War: The United States ratifies a peace treaty with England.
- 1814 - Frederick VI of Denmark gives Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.
- 1832 - American author Edgar Allan Poe publishes his first short story, "Metzengerstein".
- 1858 - Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.
- 1943 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the 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 makes its maiden flight.
- 1967 - 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.
- 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.
- 1973 - Super Bowl VII: The Miami Dolphins defeat the Washington Redskins. The Dolphins become the first NFL team to go undefeated in a season.
- 1994 - U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords.
- 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.
- 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 probe on Saturn's moon Titan.
[change] Births
- 83 BC - Marcus Antonius, Roman politician (d. 30 BC)
- 1798 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (d. 1872)
- 1964 - Mark Addy, British actor
- 1969 - Dave Grohl, American musician
- 1973 - Giancarlo Fisichella, Italian race car driver
- 1985 - Shawn Sawyer, Canadian figure skater
[change] Deaths
- 1898 - Lewis Carroll, English writer and mathematician (b. 1832)
- 1949 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
- 1957 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
- 1977 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
- 1978 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1906)