January 14th

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January 14 (in Austria and South Tyrol : January 14 ) is the 14th day of the Gregorian calendar , so there are still 351 (in leap years 352) days until the end of the year.

Historical Anniversaries
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29 30 31

events

politics and world affairs

1526: Francis I
1724: Philip V
Territory of the Danish-Norwegian personal union until 1814
1943: Casablanca Conference
2015: Napolitano's resignation

business

science and technology

1690: Denner's clarinet

Culture

1506: find of the Laocoön group
1900: Original poster for the opera Tosca

society

1771: Arrest of Matthias Klostermayr

disasters

1907: Kingston after the earthquake
  • 1907: A 6.5 magnitude earthquake in Kingston , Jamaica , destroys 75% of the city and kills about 1,600.
  • 1917: The Japanese armored cruiser Tsukuba sank in Yokosuka Bay after a fire and explosion in the ammunition stores. 305 of the 817-strong crew die, of which more than 400 are on shore leave at the time of the disaster.
  • 1975: A MiG-21 crashed in Cottbus , killing seven. It is considered to be the most serious accident involving a military aircraft of the air force of the GDR's National People's Army.
  • 2001: A 7.6 magnitude earthquake in El Salvador kills nearly 1,000 and injures around 28,000.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

Sports

1897: Emmanuel Lasker

Entries of track and field world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics .

Born

Before the 18th century

Catherine of Castile (b. 1507)

18th century

Maria Theresa of Austria (b. 1767)

19th century

1801-1850

Adolphe Brongniart (b. 1801)
Zechariah Topelius (b. 1818)
Berthe Morisot (b. 1841)

1851-1900

Albert Schweitzer (b. 1875)
Martin Niemöller (* 1892)

20th century

1901-1925

Bebe Daniels (b. 1901)
Joseph Losey (b. 1909)
Giulio Andreotti (b. 1919)

1926-1950

Catherine Valente (b. 1931)
Faye Dunaway (born 1941)
Peter Fechter (born 1944)
Hans Fehr (born 1947)

1951-1975

Martin Auer (born 1951)
Jan Fedder (born 1955)
Steven Soderbergh (born 1963)
L.L. Cool J (b. 1968)
Giancarlo Fisichella (born 1973)

1976-2000

Benoit Joachim (born 1976)
Victor Valdes (born 1982)
Larke Moller (b. 1989)

21st century

Died

Before the 16th century

16th to 18th centuries

George Berkeley (died 1753)

19th century

Johann Georg Repsold († 1830)
Lewis Carroll († 1898)

20th century

1901-1950

Otto Liebmann († 1912)
Paul Kulbusch († 1919)
Heinrich August Meissner († 1940)

1951-2000

Luis Zuegg († 1955)
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev († 1966)
Anthony Eden (died 1977)
Donna Reed († 1986)

21st century

Rudolph Moshammer († 2005)
Petra Schuermann († 2010)

holidays and commemorations

The list of commemoration and action days contains further entries .


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