January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 351 days remaining until the end of the year (352 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Tuesday or Wednesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Friday or Sunday (56).
In the 20th and 21st centuries the Julian calendar is 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar, thus January 14 is sometimes celebrated as New Year's Day (Old New Year) by religious groups who use the Julian calendar.
RATIFICATION DAY (THE TREATY OF PARIS)
In the 20th and 21st centuries the Julian calendar is 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar, thus January 14 is sometimes celebrated as New Year's Day (Old New Year) by religious groups who use the Julian calendar.
RATIFICATION DAY (THE TREATY OF PARIS)
1501 ― Martin Luther enters the University of Erfurt, aged 17.
1514 ― Pope Leo X issues a papal bull against slavery. -- From One-Evil.org
1539 ― Spain annexes Cuba.
1641 ― United East Indian Company conquerors the city of Malacca, Malaysia; 7,000 are killed.
1690 ― The modern clarinet is invented in Nurnberg, Germany. It is a member of the woodwind family, has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight cylindrical tube with an almost cylindrical bore, and a flared bell.
1699 ― Massachusetts holds a day of fasting for six wrongly persecuting "witches". -- From Freethought Amanac
1724 ― Spanish King Philip V abdicates his throne in favor of his son Louis, and from 6 September 1724, when he assumed the throne again upon his son's death, to his own death 9 July 1746. Philip was the first member of the House of Bourbon to rule as king of Spain. The sum of his two reigns, 45 years and 21 days, is the longest in modern Spanish history.
1784 ― The U.S. Revolutionary War ends; the U.S. Congress of the Confederation ratifies the Treaty of Paris.
1814 ― The King of Denmark cedes Norway to King of Sweden by the Treaty of Kiel.
1864 ― General Sherman begins his March to the Sea in the American Civil War.
1860 ― House Committee of Thirty Three submits proposed Constitutional amendment protecting slavery in all areas where it already existed.
1868 ― The SC constitutional convention meets with a black majority.
1878 ― The U.S. Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional.
1938 ― National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia forms (NY) by the Rev. Charles Francis Potter. In 1067 they drew up the world's first "living will". -- From
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1943 ― President Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca during WW II.
1950 ― The United States recalls all consular officials from China following seizure of US Government andconsular property in Peking. Assistant Secretary of State Butterworth said that Chinese Communist police and civilian officials had 'invaded' the American consular compound against angry American protests. --Trove
1963 ― George C Wallace is sworn in as governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"
1968 - U.S. joint-service Operation Niagara is launched to support the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War.
1981 ― U.S. Federal Communications Commission frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish.
1985 ― The British pound sinks to record low $1.11 (US). -- I lived in Norway at the time. Nice.
1990 ― "Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV.
1994 ― The Duchess of Kent converts to Catholicism, the first member of the Royal Family to do so in more than 300 years.
1995 ― Mexico pledges profits from state-owned Pemex's $7-billion-per-year oil revenues in an effort to secure US congressional approval of loan guarantees;President Clinton approves a $20-billion U.S. aid package for Mexico.
2012 ― Ma Ying-jeou wins re-election as President of the Republic of China with 51% of the vote.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
83 BC – Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (d. 30 BCE)
1741 – Benedict Arnold, American-British general and traitor (d. 1801)
1896 – John Dos Passos, American novelist, poet, and playwright (d. 1970)
1919 – Andy Rooney, American soldier, journalist, critic, and television personality (d. 2011)
1943 – Shannon Lucid, American biochemist and astronaut
1952 – Maureen Dowd, American journalist and author
1514 ― Pope Leo X issues a papal bull against slavery. -- From One-Evil.org
1539 ― Spain annexes Cuba.
1641 ― United East Indian Company conquerors the city of Malacca, Malaysia; 7,000 are killed.
1690 ― The modern clarinet is invented in Nurnberg, Germany. It is a member of the woodwind family, has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight cylindrical tube with an almost cylindrical bore, and a flared bell.
1699 ― Massachusetts holds a day of fasting for six wrongly persecuting "witches". -- From Freethought Amanac
1724 ― Spanish King Philip V abdicates his throne in favor of his son Louis, and from 6 September 1724, when he assumed the throne again upon his son's death, to his own death 9 July 1746. Philip was the first member of the House of Bourbon to rule as king of Spain. The sum of his two reigns, 45 years and 21 days, is the longest in modern Spanish history.
1784 ― The U.S. Revolutionary War ends; the U.S. Congress of the Confederation ratifies the Treaty of Paris.
1814 ― The King of Denmark cedes Norway to King of Sweden by the Treaty of Kiel.
1864 ― General Sherman begins his March to the Sea in the American Civil War.
1860 ― House Committee of Thirty Three submits proposed Constitutional amendment protecting slavery in all areas where it already existed.
1868 ― The SC constitutional convention meets with a black majority.
1878 ― The U.S. Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional.
1938 ― National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia forms (NY) by the Rev. Charles Francis Potter. In 1067 they drew up the world's first "living will". -- From
SAYNSUMTHN’S BLOG
1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Presidential Proclamation No. 2537, requiring aliens from World War II-enemy countries–Italy, Germany and Japan–to register with the United States Department of Justice.
1943 ― President Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca during WW II.
1950 ― The United States recalls all consular officials from China following seizure of US Government andconsular property in Peking. Assistant Secretary of State Butterworth said that Chinese Communist police and civilian officials had 'invaded' the American consular compound against angry American protests. --Trove
1963 ― George C Wallace is sworn in as governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"
1968 - U.S. joint-service Operation Niagara is launched to support the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War.
1980 - In a crushing diplomatic rebuke to the Soviet Union, the U.N. General Assembly votes 104 to 18 to “deplore” the Russian intervention in Afghanistan.
1981 ― U.S. Federal Communications Commission frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish.
1985 ― The British pound sinks to record low $1.11 (US). -- I lived in Norway at the time. Nice.
1990 ― "Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV.
1994 ― The Duchess of Kent converts to Catholicism, the first member of the Royal Family to do so in more than 300 years.
1995 ― Mexico pledges profits from state-owned Pemex's $7-billion-per-year oil revenues in an effort to secure US congressional approval of loan guarantees;President Clinton approves a $20-billion U.S. aid package for Mexico.
2012 ― Ma Ying-jeou wins re-election as President of the Republic of China with 51% of the vote.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
83 BC – Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (d. 30 BCE)
1741 – Benedict Arnold, American-British general and traitor (d. 1801)
1896 – John Dos Passos, American novelist, poet, and playwright (d. 1970)
1919 – Andy Rooney, American soldier, journalist, critic, and television personality (d. 2011)
1943 – Shannon Lucid, American biochemist and astronaut
1952 – Maureen Dowd, American journalist and author
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