About January 14
January 14, 2025 is the 14th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 351 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 15 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.
- 1301 –Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Arpad dynasty in Hungary.
- 1514 –Pope Leo X issues a papal bull against slavery.
- 1724 –King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.
- 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.
- 1911 –Roald Amundsen’s South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
- 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: 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 –Jagadguru Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
- 1960 –The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country’s central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established.
- 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.
- 1978 –The English punk rock band Sex Pistols broke up amidst their US tour.
- 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.
- 2011 –Ben Ali, former Tunisian president, fled the country to Saudi Arabia after popular protests (dubbed as Jasmine Revolution) requesting his departure.
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