On this day in History - Jan. 14

• 1301 - Andrew III dies, ending the Arpad dynasty in Hungary.
• 1501 - Martin Luther, 17, enters the University of Erfurt.
• 1514 - Pope Leo X issued a papal bull against slavery.
• 1539 - Spain annexes Cuba.
• 1623 - Paolo Sarpi, Italian church historian/politician, dies at 70
• 1639 -The first constitution of Connecticut, Fundamental Orders, was adopted.
• 1690 - The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany.
• 1724 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.
• 1741 - Benedict Arnold was born (General in United States' Revolutionary War, turncoat) (d. 1801) .
• 1742 - Edmund Halley, genius eclipsed by Newton, dies at 85.
• 1784 -The United States ratified treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.
• 1798 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, was born, Dutch politician (d. 1872).
• 1800 - Ludwig Alois Ferdinand Köchel, was born Austrian researcher on music (d. 1877).
• 1801 -Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart was born,[d. 18 Feb 1876]. French botanist whose classification of fossil plants, which drew surprisingly accurate relations between extinct and existing forms prior to Charles Darwin's principles of organic evolution, earned him distinction as the founder of modern paleobotany .
• 1806 -Matthew Fontaine Maury was born, [died 1 Feb 1873]. As a U.S. naval officer, Maury was a pioneer hydrographer.
• 1814 - Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.
• 1825 - George Dance the Younger, dies, architect (b. 1741).
• 1836- Henri Fantin-Latour, was born painter (d. 1904) .
• 1841 - Berthe Morisot, was born Impressionist Painter (d. 1895).
• 1850 - Pierre Loti, was born writer (d. 1923).
• 1852 - Promulgación de una nueva Constitución en Francia, que otorga el poder a Carlos Luis Bonaparte.
• 1858 - Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt by an Italian revolutionary Felice Orsini
• 1861- Mehmed VI, was born future Ottoman sultan (d. 1926) .
• 1861- David Wesson was born [died 22 May 1934]. American chemist who created Wesson Oil. He experimented with purifying cotton seed oil, developed a system in 1900 to make the pure oil palatable, and formed the Southern Oil Company to market it.
• 1866- G. I. Gurdjieff, was born; Greek-Armenian mystic and teacher of dancing. He stated that he was born at the stroke of midnight at the beginning of New Year's Day, Julian calendar (d. 1949) .
• 1866 -O Peru, insatisfeito com os termos do tratado de paz reconhecendo sua independência em 1865, declara guerra à Espanha.
• 1875 - Albert Schweitzer, was born [d.1965]; Alsatian physician, Christian missionary, philosopher, and musician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1952 .
• 1876 - Queda patentado el teléfono por su inventor, Graham Bell.
• 1886 - Hugh Lofting, was born author (d. 1947).
• 1889 - Ema Puksec, was born AKA Ilma de Murska, Croat opera singer (b. 1834)
• 1890 -Arthur Holmes was born [ died 20 Sep 1965]; English geologist and petrologist was one of the foremost geologists of the twentieth century, who made major contributions to the geochronology of Africa, the genesis of igneous rocks, and physical geology .
• 1890 - Rolla Neil Harger was born [died 8 Aug 1983]; American toxicologist and biochemist who was at Indiana University when he invented the first successful machine for testing human blood alcohol content, called the Drunkometer (1931).
• 1892 - Hal Roach, was born film producer (d. 1992)
• 1896 - Martin Niemöller, was born German theologian and pacifist (d. 1984) .
• 1896 - John Dos Passos, was born author (d. 1970) .
• 1897 - Primera ascensión al Aconcagua (Argentina).
• 1898 - Lewis Carroll, dies, writer, mathematician (b. 1832) .
• 1898 - Fallece Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), escritor inglés, autor de "Alicia en el país de las maravillas".
• 1900 - Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca premieres in Rome.
• 1901 - Víctor Balaguer, fallecimiento de, escritor y político español.
• 1902 -Alfred Tarski, was born [died 26 Oct 1983]; Polish-born American mathematician and logician who made important studies of general algebra, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, and metamathematics.
• 1904 - Emily Hahn, waxs born novelist, travel author, bon vivant (d. 1997) .
• 1905 - Cecil Beaton, was born photographer (d. 1980)
• 1906 - William Bendix,was born actor (d. 1964) .
• 1907- An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
• 1908 - Rus Columbo, was born singer, bandleader, composer .
• 1912- Rudolf Hagelstange, was born German lyricist, narrator and essayist (d. 1984) .
• 1914 - Harold Russellwas born actor (d. 2002) .
• 1914 - la erupción del volcán Strato en la isla de Sakura (Japón) provoca la muerte de 7.000 personas y destruye 13.000 casas .
• 1915 - Mark Goodson, was born game show producer (d. 1992) .
• 1919 - Andy Rooney, was born television journalist .
• 1924 - Nace Guy Williams, actor que interpretó a "El Zorro".
• 1925 - Yukio Mishima, was born writer (d. 1970) .
• 1926 - Tom Tryon, wasi born actor, novelist (d. 1991)
• 1931 - Caterina Valente,was born singer, actress .
• 1933 - Stan Brakhage,was born filmmaker (d. 2003)
• 1938 - Jack Jones, was born singer, actor .
• 1939 - Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
• 1940 - Julian Bond,was born civil rights activist (cofounder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, chairman of NAACP board of directors) .
• 1941 - Faye Dunaway, was born, American actress .
• 1941 - Milan Kučan,was born Slovene politician, statesman .
• 1942 - Stig Engström, was born actor .
• 1942 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, dies, Colombian poet and writer (b. 1883) .
• 1943 - Nace José Luis Rodriguez "El Puma", cantante venezolano.
• 1943 -Shannon Lucid was born;American biochemist and astronaut who stayed aboard the Russian space station Mir in 1996 for a record-breaking 188 days .
• 1943 -President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill meet at the Casablanca Conference to discuss World War II).
• 1947 - Bill Werbeniuk, was born Canadian snooker player (d. 2003) .
• 1948 - Carl Weathers, was born actor .
• 1948 - T-Bone Burnett, was born producer, musician .
• 1949 - Lawrence Kasdan, was born director, screenwriter .
• 1949 - Joaquín Turina, dies, Spanish composer (b. 1882) .
• 1951 - The National Football League has its first Pro Bowl Game (Los Angeles, California).
• 1952 - The Today show premieres on NBC.
• 1953 -Tito formally became the first president of the Republic of Yugoslavia.
• 1953 - Importantes descubrimientos arqueológicos de las culturas incaica y preincaica cerca de Cuzco (Perú).
• 1954 -Marilyn Monroe married baseball legend Joe DiMaggio.
• 1956 - Ben Heppner, was born, Canadian tenor .
• 1957 - Humphrey Bogart, dies, actor (b. 1899) ("Casablanca").
• 1962 - Michael McCaul, was born, American politician
• 1963 - Steven Soderbergh, was born,director .
• 1963 -George Wallace sworn in as Alabama's governor, promising "segregation forever."
• 1965 - Os primeiros-ministros da Irlanda e da Irlanda do Norte se reúnem pela primeira vez em 43 anos.
• 1965 - Jeanette MacDonald, dies, actress, singer.
• 1966 - Barry Fitzgerald, dies, actor (b. 1888) .
• 1967 - Zakk Wylde, nacimiento de, rockero, qué trabajó con Ozzy Osbourne y Black Label Society.
• 1967 -Bill Carr, dies, American athlete.
• 1967 - Emily Watson, was born, actress .
• 1968 - LL Cool J, was born, rapper, actor (Toys, In Too Deep, Any Given Sunday)
• 1968 - Lanzamiento de la Soyuz 4 .
• 1969 - Jason Bateman, was born, actor .
• 1969 - David Grohl, was born, drummer, composer.
• 1969 - An explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 25.
• 1970 -Diana Ross e seu grupo musical “the Supremes” fazem a sua última apresentação em conjunto, no hotel Frontier, em Las Vegas.
• 1970 - Sato Eisaku is elected to his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
• 1970 - William Feller, dies, Croat mathematician (b. 1906) .
• 1972 - King Frederick IX of Denmark dies (b. 1899) .
• 1972 - Queen Margrethe II of Denmark accended to the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick nor Christian since 1513.
• 1972 - Sanford & Son premieres on NBC.
• 1972 - Predrag Gosta, was born, conductor, musicologist, harpsichordist .
• 1973 - Super Bowl VII: The Miami Dolphins defeat the Washington Redskins. The Dolphins become the first NFL team to go undefeated in a season.
• 1975 - Teenage heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped by the Black Panther.
• 1977 - Peter Finch, dies, actor (b. 1916)
• 1977 - Anaïs Nin, dies, author (b. 1903) .
• 1977 - Anthony Eden, dies, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897) .
• 1978 - Kurt Gödel, dies, mathematician (b. 1906) .
• 1978 - Harold Abrahams, dies, British athlete (b. 1899) .
• 1978 - Johnny Rotten quits the Sex Pistols after the final show of their American tour, at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.
• 1980 - Cory Gibbs, was born, American soccer player .
• 1981- Rosa, was born , Spanish singer .
• 1984 - Ray Kroc, dies,McDonalds founder (b. 1902) .
• 1984 - Ray Mancini defeats Bobby Chacon by a knockout in three to retain his WBA boxing world Lightweight title in Reno.
• 1985 - Martina Navratilova wins her 100th tennis tournament.
• 1986 - Donna Reed, dies,actress (b. 1921)
• 1986 - Britain and US are asked for help by Lesotho in breaking South Africa's border blockade.
• 1988 - Georgi Malenkov, dies, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party .
• 1990 - The Simpsons debuts on FOX as a regular series with the episode "Bart the Genius".
• 1991 - Jorge Serrano Elías asume la presidencia de Guatemala .
• 1991 - The deputy leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad) is assassinated in Tunis by a bodyguard (possibly on the instructions of Abu Nidal).
• 1993 -Five women are stoned to death in Somalia for adultery.
• 1993 - David Letterman announces he was moving his television talk show from NBC to CBS.
• 1994 - President of the United States Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles to targets and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.
• 1996 - O empresário Álvaro Arzu, um político de direita, assume poder como o novo presidente da Guatemala.
• 1996 - Jorge Sampaio is elected president of Portugal.
• 1998 - Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis).
• 1998 - An Afghan cargo plane crashes into a mountain in southwest Pakistan killing more than 50 people.
• 1999 - Bryn Jones (a.k.a. Muslimgauze), dies, musician (b. 1961) .
• 2000 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
• 2004 - Amartya Sen steps down as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
• 2004 - The national flag of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", was restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.