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What Happened on January 14th This Day in History

Year Name
2019 A Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crashes at Fath Air Base near Karaj in Alborz Province, Iran, killing 15 people.
2011 President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia seeks refuge in Saudi Arabia after a series of demonstrations against his regime, considered to be the birth of the Arab Spring.
2010 Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
2004 The national flag of the Republic of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
1993 In Poland's worst peacetime maritime disaster, ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen, drowning 55 passengers and crew; nine crew-members are saved.
1973 Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
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.
1969 USS Enterprise fire: An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 28 people.
1967 Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
1960 The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority authorized by the 1959 Reserve Bank Act, is established.
1957 Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
1954 The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
1953 Josip Broz Tito is elected the first President of Yugoslavia.
1952 NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
1943 World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
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.
1939 Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
1911 Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
1907 An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000 people.
1900 Giacomo Puccini's Tosca opens in Rome.
1858 Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt made by Felice Orsini and his accomplices in Paris.
1814 Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes the Kingdom of Norway to Charles XIII of Sweden in return for Pomerania.
1784 American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States - Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.
1761 The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Marathas.
1639 The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut.
1301 Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
1236 King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
Famous People Born on January 14

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Year Name
1971 Lasse Kjus, Norwegian skier
1984 Mike Pelfrey, American baseball player
1949 Lamar Williams, American bass player (d. 1983)
1926 Tom Tryon, American actor and author (d. 1991)
1908 Russ Columbo, American singer, violinist, and actor (d. 1934)
1934 Pierre Darmon, French tennis player
1927 Zuzana Růžičková, Czech harpsichord player (d. 2017)
1963 Steven Soderbergh, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1939 Kurt Moylan, Guamanian businessman and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Guam
1937 Billie Jo Spears, American country singer (d. 2011)
Famous People Deaths On January 14

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Date Name
1331 Odoric of Pordenone, Italian priest and explorer (b. 1286)
973 Ekkehard I, Frankish monk and poet
1976 Abdul Razak Hussein, Malaysian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1922)
1959 Eivind Berggrav, Norwegian bishop and translator (b. 1884)
1766 Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)
1676 Francesco Cavalli, Italian organist and composer (b. 1602)
2020 Joel Robert, Belgian professional motocross racer (b. 1943)
1776 Edward Cornwallis, English general and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (b. 1713)
2010 Antonio Fontán, Spanish journalist and academic (b. 1923)
1972 Horst Assmy, German footballer (b. 1933)