Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 14

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 * 1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.
 * 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca, based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
 * 1907 – An earthquake registering 6.2 Mw struck Kingston, Jamaica, resulting in approximately 1,000 deaths.
 * 1933 – The England cricket team employed bodyline tactics against Australia during a Test match at the Adelaide Oval, the peak of a major controversy in the sport.
 * 1939 – Norway claimed Queen Maud Land, a 2.7-million km2 (1.0-million sq mi) region of Antarctica, as a dependent territory.
 * 1943 – Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, and Henri Giraud met in Casablanca to plan the Allies' European strategy for the next phase of World War II.
 * 1953 – Josip Broz Tito was inaugurated as the first president of Yugoslavia.
 * 1957 – Hindu spiritual leader Kripalu Maharaj was named the fifth original jagadguru, meaning 'world teacher'.
 * 1960 – The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote-issuing authority, was established.
 * 1967 – The Human Be-In, a countercultural event forming a prelude to the Summer of Love, was held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
 * 1973 – Elvis Presley's (pictured) concert Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite was broadcast live to audiences in Asia and Oceania.
 * 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.
 * 2011 - Tunisian president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali fled the country after several violent protests.
 * Born/died this day: | Berthe Morisot |b|1841| Carrie Derick |b|1862| George Pearce |b|1870| James P. Hagerstrom |b|1921|  Murray Bookchin |b|1921| Rambhadracharya |b|1950| Steven Soderbergh |b|1963| Anthony Eden |d|1977| Jess Fishlock |b|1987|  Arfa Karim |d|2012

January 14: Ratification Day in the United States (1784)


 * 1724 – Philip V (pictured), the first Bourbon king of Spain, abdicated in favour of his seventeen-year-old eldest son, who became Louis I.
 * 1814 – Sweden and Denmark–Norway signed the Treaty of Kiel, whereby Frederick VI of Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden in return for the Swedish holdings in Pomerania.
 * 1969 – A major fire and series of explosions aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) killed 28 sailors, injured 314 others, and destroyed 15 aircraft.
 * 1970 – The self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra in southeastern Nigeria surrendered to the federal government less than three years after declaring independence, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
 * 2018 – In the "Minneapolis Miracle", American football player Stefon Diggs caught a 61-yard touchdown pass that secured the Minnesota Vikings' victory in the National Football Conference divisional playoff game.