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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Kurt Gödel
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Makar Sankranti in India | {{refimprove}} |
| 1724 – Philip V, the first Bourbon ruler of Spain, abdicated the throne to his eldest son Louis. | Tagged with {{unreferenced section}} |
| 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. | introduction too long |
| 1952 – Today, the world's first morning/breakfast television show, debuted on the American television network NBC. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1953 – Josip Broz Tito became the first President of Yugoslavia. | refimprove section |
| 1972 – Queen Margrethe II ascended to the Danish throne under a new act of succession. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 2004 – The Five Cross Flag was restored to official use as the national flag of Georgia after a hiatus of some 500 years. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
Eligible
- 1301 – The Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century, ended with the death of King Andrew III.
- 1814 – Sweden and Denmark–Norway signed the Treaty of Kiel, whereby Frederick VI of Denmark, a loser in the Napoleonic Wars, ceded Norway to Sweden in return for the Swedish holdings in Pomerania.
- 1907 – A 6.5 Mw earthquake struck Kingston, Jamaica, resulting in at least 800 deaths, which was at the time considered one of the world's deadliest earthquakes recorded in history.
- 1933 – Cricketer Harold Larwood of England, employing the controversial tactic known as Bodyline, bowled a ball into Australian captain Bill Woodfull's chest, an image that became one of the defining symbols of the series.
- 1954 – Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson Motor Car Company merged to become American Motors, the largest corporate merger in United States history at the time.
- 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.
- 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.
January 14: New Year (Julian calendar); Arba'een (Shi'a Islam, 2012); National Forest Conservation Day in Thailand; Ratification Day in the United States (1784)
- 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca, based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
- 1939 – Norway claimed Queen Maud Land in Antarctica as a dependent territory.
- 1957 – Kripalu Maharaj became the fifth Jagadguru ("world teacher"), a Hindu spiritual leader.
- 1960 – The Reserve Bank of Australia (headquarters pictured), the country's central bank and banknote-issuing authority, was established.
- 1967 – The counterculture Human Be-In was held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.