About January 14
January 14, 2020 is the 14th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 352 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 11 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
January 14: More About This Day
It is celebrated as New Year’s Day (at least in the 20th and 21st centuries) by countries still following the Julian calendar.
What Happened On January 14
- 1129 –Formal approval of the Order of the Templar at the Council of Troyes.
- 1343 –Arnošt of Pardubice became the last bishop of Prague.
- 1514 –Pope Leo X issues a papal bull against slavery.
- 1639 –The “Fundamental Orders”, the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut.
- 1761 –The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Marhatas. The Afghan victory changes the course of Indian History.
- 1814 –Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.
- 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 the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
- 1943 –World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office when he travels from Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.
- 1950 –The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
- 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 –Elvis Presley’s concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets a record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
- 1975 –Teenage heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped by Donald Neilson, aka “the Black Panther”.
- 1998 –An Afghan cargo plane crashes into a mountain in southwest Pakistan killing more than 50 people.
- 1999 –Toronto, Ontario Mayor Mel Lastman becomes the first mayor in Canada to call in the Army to help with emergency medical evacuations and snow removal after more than one meter of snow paralyzes the city.
- 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 The Republic of Georgia, the so-called “five cross flag”, is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
- 2005 –Landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn’s moon Titan.
- 2011 –Stampede near Sabarimala – 104 devotees killed and several others injured in a stampede at Uppupara in Idukki district.
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