Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 14

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This is a list of selected January 14 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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Philip V of Spain
Woodfull evading the cricket ball
Giacomo Puccini
Árpád coat of arms
Frederick VI of Denmark
Headquarters of the Reserve Bank of Australia
"Recondita armonia" from Tosca, performed by Enrico Caruso
Josip Broz Tito
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Blurb	Reason
New Year (Julian calendar);	refimprove section
Makar Sankranti in India	refimprove section
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.	lots of CN tags
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.	unreferenced section
* 1907 – A 6.5 M_w earthquake struck Kingston, Jamaica, resulting in at least 800 deaths.	Issues with referencing/hook, see ERRORS2 for 14/1/19
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

Eligible

1933 – Harold Larwood, of the England cricket team, employing the controversial tactic known as Bodyline, bowled a ball into the chest of the Australian cricket captain, Bill Woodfull, during play, an event that was once voted the most important event in cricket history.
1943 – Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, and Henri Giraud met in Casablanca to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II.
1953 – Josip Broz Tito was inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
1957 – Kripalu Maharaj became the fifth Jagadguru ("world teacher"), a Hindu spiritual leader.
1960 – The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote-issuing authority, was established.
1967 – The counterculture Human Be-In was held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, heralding the Summer of Love.
1970 – The self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra in southeastern Nigeria surrendered, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
1973 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii was broadcast live via satellite, and set a record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
1975 – British teenage heiress Lesley Whittle was kidnapped by Donald Neilson and subsequently murdered during a failed ransom collection attempt.
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.
Born/died this day: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (d. 1867) · Jess Fishlock (b. 1987)

January 14: Coming of Age Day in Japan (2019); National Forest Conservation Day in Thailand; Ratification Day in the United States (1784)

Fire on USS Enterprise

1301 – The Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century, ended with the death of King Andrew III.
1724 – Philip V, the first Bourbon ruler of Spain, abdicated in favor of his eldest son Louis.
1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca, based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
1939 – Norway claimed Queen Maud Land in Antarctica as a dependent territory.
1969 – A major fire and series of explosions broke out aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (pictured), killing 28 sailors, injuring 314, and destroying 15 aircraft.

Ladislaus II of Hungary (d. 1163) · Berthe Morisot (b. 1841) · Steven Soderbergh (b. 1963)

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