83BC Roman general and politician Marcus Antonius, commonly known in English as Mark Antony, was born on January 14, 83 BC to a well-respected family. After Julius Caesar's assassination, he formed a three-man dictatorship with Caesar's nephew Octavian and Marcus Aernillius Lepicius. Mark Antony was assigned Rome's eastern territories, including the client kingdom of Egypt, then ruled
by Cleopatra, with whom he had a famous romance.
1301 The Magyars established Hungary in 896, after they had arrived there from their previous, Eastern European territories. Prince Árpád was their leader at the time; he also established the first royal house of the country, the Árpád-house. The Árpád dynasty ruled Hungary until the death of King Andrew III on January 14, 1301.
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1301 The Magyars established Hungary in 896, after they had arrived there from their previous, Eastern European territories. Prince Árpád was their leader at the time; he also established the first royal house of the country, the Árpád-house. The Árpád dynasty ruled Hungary until the death of King Andrew III on January 14, 1301.
1404 During the 4th Parliament of King Henry IV, which met at Westminster from January 14, 1404 until March 20, 1404, they signed into law the Multipliers Act, forbidding alchemists from turning base metals into gold. It was repealed by Royal Mines Act 1688,
1741 Benedict Arnold was born on January 14, 1741, in Norwich, Connecticut. He was the second of six children to Benedict Arnold III and Hannah Waterman King. An American general during the Revolutionary War, he is best known for his role as a general for the Continental Army, and later for his defection to the British side. Arnold's name is often associated with the word "traitor" due to his betrayal of the Patriot cause and his subsequent support of the British,
1784 The 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the American Revolutionary War and recognized the independence of the United States, was ratified by the Congress of the Confederation on January 14, 1784. This took place in the Old Senate Chamber of the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland, making Annapolis the first peacetime capital of the new United States.
1806 American Matthew Maury, the Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology, was born on January 14, 1806. He used Psalm 8 as a guide when he discovered ocean currents. In 1847, Maury published the Wind and Current Chart of the North Atlantic, which showed sailors how to use the ocean's currents and winds to their advantage and drastically reduced the length of ocean voyages.
1814 Before 1814, Norway had been in a union with Denmark. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Sweden and Denmark–Norway signed the Treaty of Kiel on January 14, 1814, whereby Frederick VI of Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden in return for the Swedish holdings in Pomerania. The union with Sweden lasted from 1814 until June 7, 1905 when Norway finally became a separate nation again.
1831 Victor Hugo's novel, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, was first published in France on January 14, 1831 and was quickly translated into other languages across Europe. The success of the book inspired a renewed appreciation for pre-Renaissance buildings, which thereafter began to be actively preserved. It especially shamed the city of Paris into restoring the much-neglected Cathedral of Notre Dame, which was attracting thousands of tourists who had read the popular novel.
1878 On January 14, 1878 the telephone was demonstrated to Queen Victoria at Osborne House by Alexander Graham Bell and she immediately commissioned installations throughout the British royal residences. When Queen Victoria first installed a telephone at Osborne House, it was one of only two phones in Britain. The only person who could possibly ring her was a member of her household staff.
1898 Charles Dodgson, aka Alice In Wonderland author Lewis Carroll, died on January 14, 1898. Dodgson died of pneumonia following influenza at Chesthunts, Guildford, the residence of his sisters. The funeral of Lewis Carroll was held at St Mary's Church in Guildford and he is buried in Guildford's Mount Cemetery.
1900 Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca was due to premiere at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on January 13, 1900. Many Roman dignitaries were due to attend the premiere, including The Prime Minister of Italy, Luigi Pelloux and Queen Margherita. Police received warnings of an anarchist bombing of the theater, and the unrest caused the premiere to be postponed by one day, to January 14, 1900 when it was performed without disruption.
1925 The U.S. state of Tennessee outlawed evolution from being taught in public schools on January 14, 1925. Six months later, John T. Scopes, a high school biology teacher from Tennessee was convicted and fined $100 on July 21, 1925 of teaching the theory of evolution to his class, now an illegal act under Tennessee law. The Scopes Trial decision caused the subject of evolution to become very rare in American secondary biology textbooks for a generation.
1933 The controversial "Bodyline" cricket tactics, used by Douglas Jardine's England for their 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia, peaked on January 14, 1933 when Australian captain Bill Woodfull was hit by a ball balled by English fast bowler Harold Larwood over the heart.
1943 The first sitting U.S. president to travel by airplane was Franklin D. Roosevelt. On January 14, 1943, during World War II, President Roosevelt flew on a Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat named the Dixie Clipper. He traveled from Miami, Florida, to Casablanca, Morocco, for a meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to discuss wartime strategy.
1954 Marilyn Monroe married her second husband, baseball star Joe DiMaggio on January 14, 1954.
DiMaggio's jealousy meant their relationship was fraught and possibly violent. Just nine months after the wedding, the actress told a court her husband had become "cold and indifferent" and a divorce was granted. Their union had lasted just 274 days.
1957 Hollywood star Humphrey Bogart died of esophageal cancer in Los Angeles on January 14, 1957. He was 57 years old. His attributed last words were "I should never have switched from scotch to martinis." Bogart is buried with a silver whistle bearing the legend "If you need anything just whistle," a constant reminder of the first film he made with his wife, Lauren Bacall, To Have and Have Not.
1972 Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascended the throne on January 14, 1972. She was the first Queen of Denmark since 1412. Margrethe announced her abdication in favour of her son Crown Prince Frederik on January 14, 2024, the 52nd anniversary of her accession.
1973 On January 14, 1973 Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii was broadcast live via satellite, and set a record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history. Later released as a double album, it became one of Elvis's bestselling releases of the '70s.
1973 On January 14, 1973 the Miami Dolphins football team achieved the first and so far only undefeated NFL season after narrowly beating the Washington Redskins 14-7 at Super Bowl VII. The 1972 Dolphins went 14–0 in the regular season and won all three postseason games, including Super Bowl VII, to finish 17–0.
1814 Before 1814, Norway had been in a union with Denmark. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Sweden and Denmark–Norway signed the Treaty of Kiel on January 14, 1814, whereby Frederick VI of Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden in return for the Swedish holdings in Pomerania. The union with Sweden lasted from 1814 until June 7, 1905 when Norway finally became a separate nation again.
1831 Victor Hugo's novel, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, was first published in France on January 14, 1831 and was quickly translated into other languages across Europe. The success of the book inspired a renewed appreciation for pre-Renaissance buildings, which thereafter began to be actively preserved. It especially shamed the city of Paris into restoring the much-neglected Cathedral of Notre Dame, which was attracting thousands of tourists who had read the popular novel.
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| Notre-Dame de Paris 1st edition cover. Wikipedia |
1878 On January 14, 1878 the telephone was demonstrated to Queen Victoria at Osborne House by Alexander Graham Bell and she immediately commissioned installations throughout the British royal residences. When Queen Victoria first installed a telephone at Osborne House, it was one of only two phones in Britain. The only person who could possibly ring her was a member of her household staff.
1898 Charles Dodgson, aka Alice In Wonderland author Lewis Carroll, died on January 14, 1898. Dodgson died of pneumonia following influenza at Chesthunts, Guildford, the residence of his sisters. The funeral of Lewis Carroll was held at St Mary's Church in Guildford and he is buried in Guildford's Mount Cemetery.
1900 Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca was due to premiere at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on January 13, 1900. Many Roman dignitaries were due to attend the premiere, including The Prime Minister of Italy, Luigi Pelloux and Queen Margherita. Police received warnings of an anarchist bombing of the theater, and the unrest caused the premiere to be postponed by one day, to January 14, 1900 when it was performed without disruption.
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| Front cover of the original 1899 libretto |
1925 The U.S. state of Tennessee outlawed evolution from being taught in public schools on January 14, 1925. Six months later, John T. Scopes, a high school biology teacher from Tennessee was convicted and fined $100 on July 21, 1925 of teaching the theory of evolution to his class, now an illegal act under Tennessee law. The Scopes Trial decision caused the subject of evolution to become very rare in American secondary biology textbooks for a generation.
1933 The controversial "Bodyline" cricket tactics, used by Douglas Jardine's England for their 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia, peaked on January 14, 1933 when Australian captain Bill Woodfull was hit by a ball balled by English fast bowler Harold Larwood over the heart.
1943 The first sitting U.S. president to travel by airplane was Franklin D. Roosevelt. On January 14, 1943, during World War II, President Roosevelt flew on a Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat named the Dixie Clipper. He traveled from Miami, Florida, to Casablanca, Morocco, for a meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to discuss wartime strategy.
1954 Marilyn Monroe married her second husband, baseball star Joe DiMaggio on January 14, 1954.
DiMaggio's jealousy meant their relationship was fraught and possibly violent. Just nine months after the wedding, the actress told a court her husband had become "cold and indifferent" and a divorce was granted. Their union had lasted just 274 days.
1957 Hollywood star Humphrey Bogart died of esophageal cancer in Los Angeles on January 14, 1957. He was 57 years old. His attributed last words were "I should never have switched from scotch to martinis." Bogart is buried with a silver whistle bearing the legend "If you need anything just whistle," a constant reminder of the first film he made with his wife, Lauren Bacall, To Have and Have Not.
1972 Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascended the throne on January 14, 1972. She was the first Queen of Denmark since 1412. Margrethe announced her abdication in favour of her son Crown Prince Frederik on January 14, 2024, the 52nd anniversary of her accession.
1973 On January 14, 1973 Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii was broadcast live via satellite, and set a record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history. Later released as a double album, it became one of Elvis's bestselling releases of the '70s.
1977 Sir Anthony Eden, British Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957, died from liver cancer in Salisbury on January 14, 1977 at the age of 79. Born in the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, he died in the year of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee.
1978 Austrian-American mathematician, philosopher and logician Kurt Gödel starved to death on January 14, 1978 aged 71, after his wife was hospitalized and he did not trust eating food prepared by anyone else.
2014 The national flag of the Republic of Georgia is a white rectangle with a large red cross in the center, extending to all four edges. In each corner of the white field sits a smaller red cross, known as a Bolnur-Katskhuri cross or Georgian Cross. The so-called "five cross flag" (see below), was restored to official use on January 14, 2014 after a hiatus of some 500 years.
2016 The World Health Organization announced the end of the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa on January 14, 2016. A total of 28,638 suspected cases and 11,315 deaths had been reported by that date, though the WHO believed that this substantially understated the magnitude of the outbreak.
2016 When Hurricane Alex transitioned into a full-fledged tropical cyclone on January 14, 2016, it became the first recorded Atlantic hurricane to form in the month of January since 1938. The formation of Alex in January was attributed to a combination of factors, including unusually warm upper-level atmosphere and strong winds aloft.
2020 British rapper M.I.A. received an MBE for her services to music, during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on January 14, 2020. In a statement, the hip-hop star said she accepted the honor in tribute to her mother, Kala Pragasam, who for over three decades has hand stitching medals distributed by the palace. Fittingly, the medal that the Duke of Cambridge pinned to M.I.A's chest was one that her mother had made.
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