January 14

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It is celebrated as New Year's Day by those still following the Julian calendar.

Events

1129 - Formal approval of the Order of the Templar at the Council of Troyes.
1301 - Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Arpad dynasty in Hungary.
1501 - Martin Luther, age 17, enters the University of Erfurt.
1514 - Pope Leo X issues a papal bull against slavery.
1539 - Spain annexes Cuba.
1639 - The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut.
1724 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.
1761 - The Third Battle of Panipat was fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Marhatas. The Afghan victory changed the course of Indian History.
1784 - American Revolutionary War: The United States ratifies a peace treaty with England.
1814 - Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.
1822 - Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrius Ypsilanti.
1858 - Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.
1907 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
1913 - First Balkan War: The Greek army defeats the Turks at Bizani.
1938 - Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
1943 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
1943 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office He travelled from Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II.
1950 - The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
1953 - President Josip Broz Tito is elected president of Yugoslavia.
1954 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
1967 - Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love. Between 20,000 to 30,000 people attend.
1969 - An explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.
1972 - Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
1975 - Teenage heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped by Donald Neilson, aka "the Black Panther".
1994 - President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords.
1998 - Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis).
1998 - An Afghan cargo plane crashes into a mountain in southwest Pakistan killing more than 50 people.
2000 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
2000 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches a record high of 11,722.98.
2004 - The national flag of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", was restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
2005 - Landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan.

Births

83 BC - Marcus Antonius, Roman politician (d. 30 BC)
1131 - King Valdemar I of Denmark (d. 1182)
1451 - Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian music theorist (d. 1522)
1477 - Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (d. 1552)
1507 - Catherine of Habsburg, Infanta of Spain and queen of Portugal (d. 1578)
1551 - Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (d. 1608)
1615 - John Biddle, English theologian (d. 1662)
1684 - Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (d. 1742)
1684 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (d. 1745)
1702 - Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (d. 1737)
1705 - Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, French governor (d. 1786)
1767 - Maria Theresia of Tuscany, queen consort of Saxony (d. 1827)
1780 - Henry Baldwin, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1844)
1792 - Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (d. 1865)
1793 - John C. Clark, American politician (d. 1852)
1798 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (d. 1872)
1800 - Ludwig Alois Ferdinand Köchel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1877)
1806 - Sir Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria (d. 1855)
1806 - Matthew Fontaine Maury American oceanographer (d. 1873)
1818 - Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (d. 1898)
1824 - Vladimir Stasov, Russian art and music critic (d. 1906)
1836 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
1841 - Berthe Morisot, French painter (d. 1895)
1845 - 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, Viceroy of India (d. 1927)
1850 - Pierre Loti, French writer (d. 1923)
1850 - Jean de Reszke, Polish operatic tenor (d. 1925)
1856 - J. F. Archibald, Australian journalist and publisher (d. 1919)
1861 - Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1926)
1863 - Manuel Gomes da Costa, 96^th Prime Minister of Portugal and 10^th President of Portugal (d. 1929)
1870 - Sir George Pearce, Australian politician (d. 1952)
1875 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1882 - Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-American historian and journalist (d. 1944)
1883 - Nina Ricci, Italian-born French fashion designer (d. 1970)
1886 - Hugh Lofting, English author (d. 1947)
1892 - Martin Niemöller, German theologian (d. 1984)
1892 - Hal Roach, American film producer (d. 1992)
1896 - John Dos Passos, American author (d. 1970)
1897 - Hasso von Manteuffel, German army general and politician (d. 1978)
1899 - Carlos Romulo, Filipino diplomat, politician, soldier, journalist and author (d. 1985)
1901 - Bebe Daniels, American actress (d. 1971)
1904 - - Sir Cecil Beaton, English photographer (d. 1980)
1904 - Emily Hahn, American writer (d. 1997)
1904 - Babe Siebert, National Hockey League player (d. 1939)
1905 - Takeo Fukuda, 67th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1995)
1906 - William Bendix, American actor (d. 1964)
1907 - Georges-Émile Lapalme, Quebec politician (d. 1985)
1908 - Russ Columbo, American singer (d. 1934)
1909 - Joseph Losey, American theatre and film director (d. 1984)
1911 - Anatoly Rybakov, Russian writer (d. 1998)
1914 - Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (d. 2002)
1915 - Mark Goodson, American game show producer (d. 1992)
1917 - Billy Butterfield, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1988)
1919 - Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician
1919 - Andy Rooney, American journalist
1921 - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)
1924 - Guy Williams, American actor (d. 2002)
1925 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (d. 1970)
1925 - Louis Quilico, Canadian baritone (d. 2000)
1926 - Frank Aletter, American actor
1926 - Warren Mitchell, English actor
1926 - Tom Tryon, American actor (d. 1991)
1927 - Zuzana Ruzickova, Czech harpsichordist
1928 - Gerald Arpino, American dancer, choreographer, co-founder of The Joffrey Ballet.
1928 - Lars Forssell, Swedish writer, member of the Swedish Academy (d. 2007)
1931 - Frank Costigan, Australian lawyer
1931 - Caterina Valente, French-born singer
1932 - Don Garlits, American race car driver
1933 - Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (d. 2003)
1934 - Alberto Rodriguez Larreta, Argentine racing driver (d. 1977)
1934 - Richard Briers, English actor
1935 - Lucille Wheeler, Canadian alpine skier
1937 - Ken Higgs, English cricketer
1937 - Erland Kops, Danish badminton player
1938 - Morihiro Hosokawa, 79th Prime Minister of Japan
1938 - Jack Jones, American singer
1938 - Allen Toussaint, American singer
1940 - Julian Bond, American civil rights activist
1940 - Sir Trevor Nunn, English theatre director and film director
1941 - Faye Dunaway, American actress
1941 - Milan Kučan, Slovenian statesman
1942 - Ian Brayshaw, Australian cricketer and Australian Rules footballer
1942 - Dave Campbell, American baseball player
1943 - Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor
1943 - Shannon Lucid, American astronaut
1943 - José Luis Rodríguez, Venezuelan singer
1944 - Marjoe Gortner, American evangelist
1944 - Graham Marsh, Australian golfer
1944 - Nina Totenberg, American journalist
1945 - Maina Gielgud, British ballet dancer and administrator
1946 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer (d. 2004)
1947 - Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (d. 2003)
1948 - T-Bone Burnett, American producer
1948 - Valery Kharlamov, Soviet Union ice hockey player (d. 1981)
1948 - Carl Weathers, American actor
1949 - Paul Chubb, Australian actor (d. 2002)
1949 - Lawrence Kasdan, American director
1949 - Mary Robison, American writer
1950 - Marco Antônio da Silva Ramos, Brazilian composer
1952 - Sydney Biddle Barrows, American author
1952 - Maureen Dowd, American writer
1952 - Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, Prime Minister of Romania
1954 - Jim Duggan, American wrestler
1956 - Étienne Daho, French singer and songwriter
1956 - Ben Heppner, Canadian singer
1957 - Suzanne Danielle, English actress
1957 - Anchee Min, Chinese writer
1959 - Geoff Tate, American musician (Queensrÿche)
1962 - Michael McCaul, American politician
1963 - Steven Soderbergh, American director
1964 - Mark Addy, British actor
1964 - Ernest Miller, American wrestler
1964 - Shepard Smith, American news anchor
1965 - Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (d. 2006)
1965 - Marc Delissen, Dutch field hockey player
1965 - Bob Essensa, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, British chef
1965 - Ellis Paul, American singer-songwriter and folk musician
1967 - Kerri Green, American actress
1967 - Emily Watson, English actress
1967 - Saskia Wickham, British actress
1967 - Zakk Wylde, American musician (Black Label Society)
1968 - LL Cool J, American rapper and actor
1968 - Ruel Fox, English footballer
1969 - Jason Bateman, American actor
1969 - David Grohl, American drummer and composer (Nirvana, Foo Fighters)
1970 - Gene Snitsky, American professional wrestler
1971 - Lasse Kjus, Norwegian skier
1972 - Kyle Brady, American football player
1972 - Predrag Gosta, Yugoslav-born conductor
1972 - Raimondas Rumšas, Lithuanian cyclist
1973 - Giancarlo Fisichella, Italian race car driver
1974 - Kevin Durand, Canadian actor
1977 - Darren Purse, English footballer
1978 - Just Blaze, African American hip hop producer
1978 - Shawn Crawford, American sprinter
1979 - Karen Elson, British supermodel
1979 - Angela Lindvall, American supermodel
1979 - John Reuben, American hip hop artist
1980 - Clive Clarke, Irish footballer
1980 - Cory Gibbs, American soccer player
1980 - Byron Leftwich, American football player
1980 - Sosuke Sumitani, Japanese announcer
1980 - Hiroshi Tamaki, Japanese actor and model
1981 - Abdelmalek Cherrad, Algerian football
1981 - Rosa López, Spanish singer
1981 - Pitbull, Cuban-American rapper
1982 - Caleb Followill, American musician (Kings of Leon)
1982 - Léo Lima, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Víctor Valdés, Spanish goalkeeper
1984 - Mike Pelfrey, American baseball player
1986 - Gary Brolsma, American internet celebrity
1986 - Cristina Aicardi, Peruvian badminton player
1988 - Mikalah Gordon, American singer
1988 - Jack P. Shepherd, English actor
1994 - Samir Patel, American spelling prodigy

Deaths

1163 - Ladislaus II of Hungary (b. 1131)
1235 - Saint Sava, Serbian saint (b. 1175)
1301 - King Andrew III of Hungary (b. 1265)
1331 - Odoric, Italian explorer (b. 1286)
1640 - Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge (b. 1578)
1676 - Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (b. 1602)
1679 - Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (b. 1602)
1701 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (b. 1628)
1742 - Edmond Halley, English scientist (b. 1656)
1753 - George Berkeley, Irish theologian (b. 1685)
1786 - Michael Arne, English composer (b. 1740 or 1741)
1786 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713)
1788 - François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722)
1819 - Peter Pindar, English satirist (b. 1738)
1825 - George Dance the Younger, English architect (b. 1741)
1833 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox saint (b. 1759)
1867 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)
1888 - Stephen Heller, Hungarian composer (b. 1813)
1889 - Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (b. 1834)
1892 - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, British prince (b. 1864)
1898 - Lewis Carroll, English writer and mathematician (b. 1832)
1901 - Bishop Mandell Creighton, English historian and ecclesiastic (b. 1843)
1901 - Charles Hermite, French mathematician (b. 1822)
1905 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840)
1907 - Sir James Fergusson, British politician, and governor of South Australia, New Zealand and Bombay (b. 1832)
1908 - Holger Drachmann, Danish poet and dramatist (b. 1846)
1915 - Richard Meux Benson, founder of Anglican religious order (b. 1824)
1920 - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (b. 1864)
1923 - Zübeyde Hanım, Mother of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (b. 1857)
1937 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (b. 1889)
1942 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer (b. 1883)
1949 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
1952 - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (b. 1878)
1957 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
1961 - Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888)
1965 - Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (b. 1903)
1966 - Bill Carr, American athlete (b. 1909)
1966 - Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1906)
1968 - Dorothea Mackellar, Australian poet (My Country) (b. 1885)
1970 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (b. 1906)
1972 - King Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1899)
1976 - Tun Abdul Razak, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1922)
1977 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
1977 - Peter Finch, English-born actor (b. 1916)
1977 - Anaïs Nin, French author (b. 1903)
1978 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (b. 1899)
1978 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1906)
1978 - Robert Heger, German conductor and composer (b. 1886)
1978 - Blossom Rock, American actress (b. 1895)
1979 - Thomas DeSimone, gangster associate of the Lucchese crime family (b. 1950)
1980 - Robert Ardrey, American author (b. 1908)
1981 - John O'Grady, Australian writer (Nino Culotta) (b. 1907)
1984 - Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1902)
1986 - Daniel Balavoine, French singer (b. 1952)
1986 - Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
1987 - Douglas Sirk, German-U.S. film director (b. 1900)
1988 - Georgi Malenkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (b. 1902)
1990 - Mani Madhava Chakyar, [Koodiyattam]] artist and Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899)
1991 - Gordon Bryant, Australian politician (b. 1914)
1995 - Sir Alexander Gibson, Scottish conductor (b. 1926)
1997 - Dollard Ménard, French Canadian general (b. 1913)
1999 - Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)
2001 - Burkhard Heim, German physicist (b. 1925)
2003 - Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (b. 1902)
2004 - Uta Hagen, American actress (b. 1919)
2004 - Ron O'Neal, American actor (b. 1937)
2004 - Valfar, Norwegian musician (Windir) (b. 1978)
2005 - Charlotte MacLeod, American writer (b. 1922)
2005 - Conroy Maddox, English painter (b. 1912)
2005 - Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b. 1940)
2005 - Jesús-Rafael Soto, Venezuelan kinetic artist (b. 1923)
2006 - Henri Colpi, French film editor and director (b. 1921)
2006 - Jim Gary, American sculptor (b. 1939)
2006 - Mark Philo, English footballer (b. 1984)
2006 - Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
2007 - Darlene Conley, American actress (b. 1934)
2007 - Barbara Kelly, Canadian-born actress (b. 1924)

Holidays and observances

Pongal in South India. Harvest Festival for Tamil people. Also celebrated as Makar Sankranti by Kannada, Telugu and North Indian People.
New Year's Day in Eastern Orthodoxy, see Julian Calendar.
Makar Sankranti in India. The event is marked by flying kites.
Feast of Divina Pastora, in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
Day of St. Basil the Great in Eastern Orthodoxy, January 1 on the Julian Calendar.
Festum Asinorum, medieval burlesque festival celebrating the Flight into Egypt.

Religious feast days

References

External links

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