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On this day - January 14
1236 — King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
1301 — Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in ...
1761 — The Third Battle of Panipat, the largest battle of the 18th ...
1784 — American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States: ...
1797 — The Battle of Rivoli is fought with a decisive French victory ...
1814 — Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes the Kingdom of ...
1858 — Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt made ...
1899 — RMS Oceanic, the largest ship afloat since SS Great Eastern, ...
1900 — Giacomo Puccini's Tosca opens in Rome.
1907 — An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000 ...
1911 — Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on ...
1939 — Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
1943 — World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill ...
1943 — World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful ...
1951 — National Airlines Flight 83 crashes during landing at ...
1952 — NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, ...
1953 — Josip Broz Tito is elected the first President of Yugoslavia.
1954 — The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator ...
1957 — Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after ...
1960 — The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank ...
1967 — Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in ...
1969 — USS Enterprise fire: An accidental explosion aboard the USS ...
1972 — Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first ...
1973 — Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast ...
1993 — Sinking of the MS Jan Heweliusz: In Poland's worst ...
2010 — Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group ...
2016 — Multiple explosions reported near the Sarinah Building, ...
2019 — A Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crashes at Fath Air Base near Karaj ...
2024 — Queen Margrethe II abdicates as Queen of Denmark and is ...
2026 — Thirty-two people are killed when a crane falls onto a ...