January 14

2024 Calendar

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). January 14 is celebrated as New Year's Day by those still following the Julian calendar.

Events

Up to 1900

1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Arpad Dynasty in Hungary.
1343 – Arnost of Barbudice becomes the last Bishop of Prague.
1539 – Spain annexes Cuba.
1639 – "Fundamental Orders": The first written Constitution that created a government is created in Connecticut.
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.
1822 – Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrios Ypsilantis.
1832 – American writer Edgar Allan Poe publishes his first short story, "Metzengerstein".
1858 – Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.
1897 – Matthias Zurbriggen becomes the first person to climb Aconcagua, in Argentina, the highest mountain in the Southern hemisphere.
1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca is performed for the first time, at the Teatro Constanzi in Rome.

1901–2000

1907 – A magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits Kingston, Jamaica, killing 1,600 people.
1911 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition lands on the eastern Ross Ice Shelf.
1917 – Japanese warship Tsukuba sinks after fire and an explosion in Yokosuka Bay, killing 200 of the 817 on board.
1938 – Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
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.
1952 – NBC's long-running news program Today is broadcast for the first time, with host Dave Garroway.
1953 – Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as President of Yugoslavia.
1954 – Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star Joe DiMaggio.
1957 – Jagadguru Kripalu Maharaja is named the fifth Jagad guru (meaning "world teacher") after giving seven days of speeches in front of 500 Hindu scholars.
1960 – The Reserve Bank of Australia is created.
1967 – The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love. Between 20,000 and 30,000 people attend.
1968 – The Soviet Union launches the Soyuz 4 probe.
1969 – An accidental explosion on the ship USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.
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.
1979 – The first Paris-Dakar Rally reaches its finish line in Dakar, Senegal.
1980 – Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India for a second time.
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.
1999 – Major snowfall affects Toronto, and Mayor Mel Lastman calls the army in to help with emergency evacuations.
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.

From 2001

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.
2011 – Arab Spring: In the wake of anti-government demonstrations, Tunisia's President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali dissolves the government and resigns from office.
2015 – Giorgio Napolitano resigns as President of Italy at the age of 89 for age and health reasons. Pietro Grasso becomes Interim President.
2015 – Two climbers, Kevin Jorgesen and Tommy Caldwell, become the first people to successfully climb El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, California.
2016 – Bomb attacks in Jakarta kill 5 attackers and 2 civilians.
2016 – Jimmy Morales becomes President of Guatemala.
2019 – Mayor of Gdansk Pawel Adamowicz dies of injuries sustained in a stabbing the previous evening, aged 53.

Births

Deaths

Up to 1900

1092 – Vratislaus II of Bohemia (b. 1032)
1163 – Ladislaus I of Hungary (b. 1131)
1235 – Saint Sava, Serbian archbishop and saint (b. 1175)
1301 – King Andrew III of Hungary (b. 1231)
1331 – Odoric, Italian explorer (b. 1286)
1648 – Caspar Barlaeus, Dutch polymath (b. 1584)
1676 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (b. 1602)
1679 – Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (b. 1602)
1701 – Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese daimyo (b. 1628)
1742 – Edmond Halley, English scientist (b. 1656)
1753 – George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (b. 1685)
1766 – Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)
1786 – Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713)
1786 – Michael Warne, English composer (b. 1741)
1867 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)
1872 – Greyfriars Bobby, world famous dog (b. 1856)
1874 – Johann Philipp Reis, German inventor (b. 1834)
1883 – Napoléon Coste, French guitarist and composer (b. 1806)
1892 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (b. 1864)
1898 – Lewis Carroll, English writer and mathematician (b. 1832)

1901–2000

1905 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840)
1907 – Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet, Scottish Governor of New Zealand (b. 1832)
1908 – Holger Drachmann, Danish poet and dramatist (b. 1846)
1920 – John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (b. 1864)
1923 – Zübeyde Hanım, mother of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (b. 1857)
1934 – Ioan Cantacuzino, Romanian physician and bacteriologist (b. 1863)
1937 – Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet, dramatist and novelist (b. 1889)
1945 – Heinrich Schroth, German actor (b. 1871)
1949 – Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
1951 – Gregorios Xenopoulos, Greek novelist, journalist and playwright (b. 1867)
1952 – Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (b. 1878)
1957 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
1960 – Ralph Chubb, British poet (b. 1892)
1965 – Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (b. 1903)
1966 – Sergey Korolyov, Soviet engineer (b. 1907)
1966 – Bill Carr, American athlete (b. 1909)
1972 – King Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1899)
1976 – Abdul Razak Hussein, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1922)
1977 – Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
1977 – Peter Finch, British actor (b. 1916)
1977 – Anaïs Nin, French-American writer (b. 1903)
1978 – Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1906)
1978 – Harold Abrahams, English sprinter, lawyer and journalist (b. 1899)
1981 – John O'Grady, Australian writer (b. 1907)
1984 – Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1902)
1986 – Daniel Balavoine, French singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
1986 – Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
1987 – Douglas Sirk, German-American director (b. 1900)
1988 – Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov, Soviet politician (b. 1902)
1999 – Muslimgauze, British musician (b. 1961)
1999 – Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)

From 2001

2004 – Uta Hagen, German-American actress (b. 1919)
2006 – Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
2009 – Jan Kaplicky, Czech-British architect (b. 1937)
2009 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican-American actor (b. 1920)
2010 – Bobby Charles, American singer (b. 1938)
2010 – Petra Schürmann, German actress, model and presenter (b. 1933)
2011 – Mississippi Winn, American supercentenarian (b. 1897)
2012 – Txillardegi, Basque writer and politician (b. 1929)
2013 – Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor (b. 1923)
2014 – Juan Gelman, Argentine poet (b. 1930)
2014 – Mae Young, American wrestler (b. 1923)
2015 – Zhang Wannian, Chinese general (b. 1928)
2015 – Bob Boyd, American basketball player (b. 1930)
2015 – Lotte Hass, Austrian model and underwater diver (b. 1928)
2015 – Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, Israeli rabbi (b. 1943)
2015 – Nélida Romero, Argentine actress (b. 1926)
2015 – Jerry Dempsey, American politician (b. 1933)
2015 – Warren Weinstein, American economist (b. 1941)
2016 – Alan Rickman, English actor (b. 1946)
2016 – Shaolin, Brazilian cartoonist and humorist (b. 1971)
2016 – Leonid Zhabotinsky, Soviet-Ukrainian weightlifter (b. 1938)
2016 – René Angélil, Canadian singer and manager (b. 1942)
2016 – Franco Citti, Italian actor (b. 1935)
2016 – Ellen Meiksins Wood, American historian and scholar (b. 1942)
2016 – George Carroll, American lawyer and politician (b. 1922)
2016 – Rajesh Vivek, Indian actor (b. 1949)
2017 – Surjit Singh Barnala, Indian politician (b. 1925)
2017 – Yama Buddha, Nepalese rapper (b. 1987)
2017 – Mohammed bin Faisal Al Saud, Saudi royal and businessman (b. 1937)
2017 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist and supercentenarian (b. 1906)
2017 – Herbert Mies, German politician (b. 1929)
2017 – Nicodemo Scarfo, American mobster (b. 1929)
2018 – Dan Gurney, American racing driver (b. 1931)
2018 – Max Labovitch, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
2018 – Erling Mandelmann, Danish photojournalist (b. 1935)
2018 – Spanky Manikan, Filipino actor (b. 1942)
2018 – Cyrille Regis, English footballer (b. 1958)
2018 – Hugh Wilson, American film and television director (b. 1943)
2018 – John Pierik, Dutch sports shooter (b. 1950)
2019 – Pawel Adamowicz, Polish politician, Mayor of Gdansk (b. 1965)
2019 – Eli Grba, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2019 – Lenin Rajendran, Indian film director and screenwriter (b. 1951)
2019 – Gavin Smith, Canadian poker player (b. 1968)
2019 – Julio Vallejo Ruiloba, Spanish psychiatrist (b. 1945)

Holidays and observances

New Year's Day in Eastern Orthodoxy, see Julian Calendar.
National Flag Day and National Theatre Day (Georgia)
National Forest Conservation Day (Thailand)

January 14

Events

Up to 1900

1901–2000

From 2001

Births

Up to 1800

1801–1900

1901–1950

1951–1975

From 1976

Deaths

Up to 1900

1901–2000

From 2001

Holidays and observances