About January 14
January 14, 2024 is the 14th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 352 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 27 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
- 1301 –Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Arpad dynasty in Hungary.
- 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.
- 1724 –King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.
- 1784 –American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.
- 1858 –Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.
- 1933 –The controversial Bodyline cricket tactics used by Douglas Jardine’s England peaks when Australian captain Bill Woodfull was hit in the heart.
- 1938 –Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II: Operation Ke, the successful Japanese operation to evacuate their forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign, begins.
- 1950 –The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
- 1952 –NBC’s long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
- 1954 –The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
- 1967 –Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
- 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.
- 1978 –The English punk rock band Sex Pistols broke up amidst their US tour.
- 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.
- 2011 –Ben Ali, former Tunisian president, fled the country to Saudi Arabia after popular protests (dubbed as Jasmine Revolution) requesting his departure.
- 2011 –Stampede near Sabarimala – 104 devotees killed and several others injured in a stampede at Uppupara in Idukki district.
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