Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 14

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• Woodfull evading the cricket ball
  Woodfull evading the cricket ball
• Giacomo Puccini
  Giacomo Puccini
• Árpád coat of arms
  Árpád coat of arms
• Frederick VI of Denmark
  Frederick VI of Denmark
• Headquarters of the Reserve Bank of Australia
  Headquarters of the Reserve Bank of Australia
• "Recondita armonia" from Tosca, performed by Enrico Caruso
  "Recondita armonia" from Tosca, performed by Enrico Caruso
• Josip Broz Tito
  Josip Broz Tito
• Fire on Template:Nowrap
  Fire on Template:Nowrap
• Kingston after the earthquake
  Kingston after the earthquake
• Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
New Year (Julian calendar);	refimprove section
Makar Sankranti in India	refimprove/unreferenced sections
1761 – The Afghans led by Ahmad Shah Abdali defeated the French-supplied and trained Maratha troops at the Third Battle of Panipat in Panipat, present-day Haryana, India.	refimprove section
1950 – The first flight of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17, one of the most successful transonic fighter aircraft, took place.	refimprove
1952 – Today, the world's first morning/breakfast television show, debuted on the American television network NBC.	refimprove sections
1954 – Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson Motor Car Company merged to become American Motors in an effort to create one multibrand company capable of challenging the "Big Three" as an equal.	refimprove section
1975 – British teenage heiress Lesley Whittle was kidnapped by Donald Neilson and subsequently murdered during a failed ransom-collection attempt.	refimprove
Michael Arne |d|1786|	Deathday not cited
Mehmed VI |b|1861|	Verification failed for birthday

Eligible

• 1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.
• 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.
• 1907 – An earthquake registering 6.2 M_w 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'.
• 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.
• 1969 – A major fire and series of explosions aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Template:USS killed 28 sailors, injured 314 others, and destroyed 15 aircraft.
• 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: | Ladislaus II of Hungary |d|1163| Alexander Lindsay |b|1785|Evander Berry Wall |b|1861| Carrie Derick |b|1862| Wang Bingzhang |b|1914| James P. Hagerstrom |b|1921| Murray Bookchin |b|1921| Juan Bielovucic |d|1949| Steven Soderbergh |b|1963| Anthony Eden |d|1977| Jess Fishlock |b|1987| Alan Rickman |d|2016

January 14: Ratification Day in the United States (1784) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 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 (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
• 1960 – The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote-issuing authority, was established.
• 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 (56 m) touchdown pass that secured the Minnesota Vikings' victory in the National Football Conference divisional playoff game.