14 Januar - Wikipedia

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The 14t o Januar is the 14t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 351 days ti come (352 in lowp years).

Events

• 1539 - Spain annexes Cuba.
• 1724 - Philip V o Spain abdicates the throne.
• 1814 - Frederick VI o Denmark cedes Norawa tae Swaden.
• 1872 - Greyfriars Bobby, a famous Scots Skye Tarrie kent for its lyalty tae its deceased awner, dees at the age o aroond 14 year.
• 1897 - Aconcagua (in Argentinae), the heichest peak in the Soothren Hemisphere, is climbed for the first time.
• 1907 - A major yirdquauk strikes Kingston, Jamaica.
• 1911 - Roald Amundsen reaches Antarcticae's Ross Ice Shelf on his way tae the Sooth Pole.
• 1953 - Josip Broz Tito is inauguratit as Preses o Yugoslavie.
• 1954 - Film star Marilyn Monroe mairies basebaw star Joe DiMaggio.
• 1972 - Margrethe II o Denmark becomes Queen.
• 1980 - Indira Gandhi becomes prime meenister o Indie for a seicont time.
• 2004 - Georgie chynges its banner tae the five-cross banner.
• 2005 - The Cassini-Huygens space probe lands on Titan, a muin o Saturn.
• 2008 - NASA probe MESSENGER flies bi the planet Mercury.
• 2011 - Zine El Abidine Ben Ali resigns as Preses o Tunisie after protests.
• 2015 - Demission o Giorgio Napolitano as Preses o Italy.
• 2016 - Jimmy Morales becomes Preses o Guatemala.
• 2020 - Alejandro Giammattei becomes Preses o Guatemala.
• 2021 - Richard Leonard propales his demission as leader o the Scots Labour Pairty.

Births

• 83 BC - Mark Antony, Roman politeecian (d. 30 BC)
• 1741 - Benedict Arnold, American general (d. 1801)
• 1841 - Berthe Morisot, French airtist (d. 1895)
• 1861 - Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1926)
• 1875 - Albert Schweitzer, French medicinar an philosopher (d. 1965)
• 1919 - Giulio Andreotti, Italian politeecian (d. 2013)
• 1925 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (d. 1970)
• 1934 - Richard Briers, Inglis actor (d. 2013)
• 1940 - Julian Bond, American activist (d. 2015)
• 1941 - Faye Dunaway, American actress
• 1943 - Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor (d. 2019)
• 1946 - Harold Shipman, Inglis medicinar an serial killer (d. 2004)
• 1948 - Jocky Scott, Scots fitbawer an coach
• 1963 - Steven Soderbergh, American director, producer an screenwriter
• 1968 - LL Cool J, American rapper an muisicker
• 1969 - Jason Bateman, American actor, director an producer
• 1969 - Dave Grohl, American muisicker
• 1973 - Giancarlo Fisichella, Italian racin driver
• 1982 - Víctor Valdés, Spaingie fitbawer
• 1984 - Iain Davidson, Scots fitbawer
• 1986 - Yohan Cabaye, French fitbawer
• 1994 - Ross Murdoch, Scots swimmer

Daiths

• 1611 - Edward Bruce, 1st Laird Kinloss, Scots lawer an juidge (b. 1548)
• 1721 - William Johnstone, 1st Marquess o Annandale, Scots nobleman (b. 1664)
• 1729 - David Carnegie, 4t Yerl o Northesk, Scots peer (b. 1675)
• 1753 - George Berkeley, Erse philosopher (b. 1685)
• 1766 - Frederick V o Denmark (b. 1723)
• 1867 - Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French penter (b. 1780)
• 1872 - Greyfriars Bobby, Scots dug (b. 1856)
• 1898 - Lewis Carroll, Inglis writer, mathemateecian an photographer (b. 1832)
• 1947 - Mary Gilchrist, Scots chess player (b. 1882)
• 1957 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1966 - Sergei Korolev, Roushie ingineer an spacecraft designer (b. 1907)
• 1972 - Frederick IX o Denmark (b. 1899)
• 1977 - Anthony Eden, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1897)
• 1978 - Kurt Gödel, German mathemateecian (b. 1906)
• 1988 - Georgy Malenkov, Soviet politeecian (b. 1902)
• 1995 - Alexander Gibson, Scots conductor (b. 1926)
• 2004 - John Bonnar, Scots fitbawer (b. 1924)
• 2013 - Conrad Bain, Canadian actor (b. 1923)
• 2016 - Alan Rickman, Inglis actor (b. 1946)
• 2017 - Zhou Youguang, Cheenese linguist (b. 1906)

Halidays

• Ne'er's Day (Eastren Orthodox kintras)

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