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

1639 - Connecticut's first constitution, the "Fundamental_Orders," is adopted.

1690 - The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany.

1724 - King Philip_V_of_Spain abdicates the throne.

ratifies a peace treaty with England.

1814 - Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden.

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 - 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'' near Hawaii kills 25.

1970 - Sato_Eisaku is elected to his third term as Prime_Minister_of_Japan.

1972 - Queen Margaret_II_of_Denmark's accession to the throne.

1972 - ''Sanford_&_Son'' premieres on NBC.

team to go undefeated in a season.

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.

1990 - The_Simpsons debuts on FOX as a regular series with the episode "Bart the Genius".

1993 - David_Letterman announces he was 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 the 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.

2004 - Amartya_Sen steps down as Master of Trinity_College,_Cambridge.

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)

1861 - Mehmed_VI, future 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)

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

1925 - Yukio_Mishima, writer (d. 1970)

1926 - Tom_Tryon, actor, novelist (d. 1991)

1931 - Caterina_Valente, singer, actress

1933 - Stan_Brakhage, filmmaker (d. 2003)

1938 - Jack Jones, singer, actor

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

1948 - Carl_Weathers, actor

1948 - T-Bone_Burnett, producer, musician

1949 - Lawrence_Kasdan, director, screenwriter

1963 - Steven_Soderbergh, director

1967 - Emily_Watson, actres

1968 - LL_Cool_J, rapper, actor

1969 - Jason_Bateman, actor

1969 - David_Grohl, drummer, composer

Deaths

1898 - Lewis_Carroll, writer, mathematician (b. 1832)

1949 - Joaquín_Turina, composer (b. 1882)

1957 - Humphrey_Bogart, actor (b. 1899)

1965 - Jeanette_MacDonald, actress, singer

1966 - Barry_Fitzgerald, actor (b. 1888)

1970 - William_Feller, Croatian mathematician (b. 1906)

1972 - King Frederick_IX_of_Denmark (b. 1899)

1977 - Peter_Finch, actor (b. 1916)

1977 - Anaïs Nin, author (b. 1903)

1977 - Anthony_Eden, Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom (b. 1897)

1978 - Kurt_Gödel, mathematician (b. 1906)

1986 - Donna_Reed, actress (b. 1921)

1988 - Georgi_Malenkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party

Holidays and observances

January 14 is observed as Makar Sankranti in India. The event is marked by flying kites. ---- January_13 - January_15 - December_14 - February_14 -- listing of all days

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