Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 14
This is a list of selected January 14 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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"Recondita armonia" from Tosca, performed by Enrico Caruso
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Josip Broz Tito -
Fire on USS Enterprise
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| New Year (Julian calendar); | refimprove section |
| Makar Sankranti in India | refimprove section |
| 1724 – Philip V, the first Bourbon ruler of Spain, abdicated in favour of his seventeen-year-old eldest son, who became Louis I. | most of article under-referenced |
| 1761 – The Afghans led by Ahmad Shah Abdali defeated the French-supplied and trained Maratha troops at the Third Battle of Panipat in Panipat, present-day Haryana, India. | refimprove section |
| 1814 – Sweden and Denmark–Norway signed the Treaty of Kiel, whereby Frederick VI of Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden in return for the Swedish holdings in Pomerania. | unreferenced section |
| 1950 – The first flight of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17, one of the most successful transonic fighter aircraft, took place. | refimprove |
| 1952 – Today, the world's first morning/breakfast television show, debuted on the American television network NBC. | refimprove sections |
| 1954 – Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson Motor Car Company merged to become American Motors in an effort to create one multibrand company capable of challenging the "Big Three" as an equal. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1933 – English cricketer Harold Larwood, employing the controversial bodyline tactic, bowled a ball into the chest of the Australian captain Bill Woodfull, an event that was once voted the most important in cricket history.
- 1939 – Norway claimed Queen Maud Land, a 2.7-million km2 (1.0-million sq mi) region of Antarctica as a dependent territory.
- 1943 – Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, and Henri Giraud met in Casablanca to plan the Allies' European strategy for the next phase of World War II.
- 1953 – Josip Broz Tito was inaugurated as the first president of Yugoslavia.
- 1957 – Hindu spiritual leader Kripalu Maharaj was named the fifth original Jagadguru, meaning 'world teacher'.
- 1967 – The Human Be-In countercultural event, a prelude to the Summer of Love, was held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
- 1969 – A major fire and series of explosions broke out aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (pictured), killing 28 sailors, injuring 314, and destroying 15 aircraft.
- 1973 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite was broadcast live, setting a record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
- 1975 – British teenage heiress Lesley Whittle was kidnapped by Donald Neilson and subsequently murdered during a failed ransom-collection attempt.
- 1978 – Austrian logician Kurt Gödel, who suffered from an obsessive fear of being poisoned, died of starvation after his wife was hospitalized and unable to cook for him.
- Born/died this day: Ladislaus II of Hungary (d. 1163) · Berthe Morisot (b. 1841) · Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (d. 1867) · Steven Soderbergh (b. 1963) · Jess Fishlock (b. 1987)
January 14: National Forest Conservation Day in Thailand; Ratification Day in the United States (1784)
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- 1301 – The Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century, ended with the death of King Andrew III.
- 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca, based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
- 1907 – An earthquake registering 6.5 Mw struck Kingston, the capital of Jamaica (damage pictured), resulting in approximately 1,000 deaths.
- 1960 – The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote-issuing authority, was established.
- 1970 – The self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra in southeastern Nigeria surrendered to the federal government less than three years after declaring independence, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
Michael Arne (d. 1786) · Carrie Derick (b. 1862) · Rambhadracharya (b. 1950)