On This Day: 14 January

14 January in Indian history

• 1957Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.India

14 January in world history

• 2019A Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crashes at Fath Air Base near Karaj in Alborz Province, Iran, killing 15 people.
• 2018In 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.
• 2016Multiple explosions reported near the Sarinah Building, Jakarta, followed by shootout between perpetrators and the police, killing seven people. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility.
• 2011Arab Spring: Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled the country after several violent protests.
• 1978Austrian 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.
• 1973Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
• 1969USS Enterprise fire: An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 28 people.
• 1967Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
• 1966Vietnam War: United States and Australian troops ended Operation Crimp; during the military operation, troops discovered an extensive tunnel network used by the Viet Cong.
• 1943World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign.
• 1943World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
• 1907An earthquake registering 6.2 Mw struck Kingston, Jamaica, resulting in approximately 1,000 deaths.
• 1900Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca, based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
• 1858Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt made by Felice Orsini and his accomplices in Paris.
• 1814Sweden 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.
• 1797The Battle of Rivoli is fought with a decisive French victory by Napoleon Bonaparte, marking the beginning of the end of the War of the First Coalition and the start of French hegemony over Italy for two decades.
• 1724Philip V, the first Bourbon king of Spain, abdicated in favour of his seventeen-year-old eldest son, who became Louis I.

Born on 14 January

• 1951O. Panneerselvam, Indian politician, 7th Chief Minister of Tamil NaduIndia
• 1940Siegmund Nimsgern, German opera singer (died 2025)
• 1937Rao Gopal Rao, Indian actor, producer, and politician (died 1994)India
• 1932Don Garlits, American race car driver and engineer
• 1921Murray Bookchin, American author and philosopher (died 2006)
• 1845Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, English politician, 34th Governor-General of India (died 1927)India

Died on 14 January

• 2023Mukarram Jah, 8th Nizam of Hyderabad (born 1933)India
• 2012Arfa Karim, Pakistani student and computer prodigy, youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in 2004 (born 1995)
• 1937Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet, author, and playwright (born 1889)India
• 927Wang Yanhan, king of Min (Ten Kingdoms)

Frequently asked questions

What happened on 14 January in history?

2019: A Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crashes at Fath Air Base near Karaj in Alborz Province, Iran, killing 15 people. 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. 2016: Multiple explosions reported near the Sarinah Building, Jakarta, followed by shootout between perpetrators and the police, killing seven people. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility. 2011: Arab Spring: Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled the country after several violent protests.

What happened on 14 January in Indian history?

1957: Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.

Which famous people were born on 14 January?

O. Panneerselvam, Indian politician, 7th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (1951); Siegmund Nimsgern, German opera singer (died 2025) (1940); Rao Gopal Rao, Indian actor, producer, and politician (died 1994) (1937); Don Garlits, American race car driver and engineer (1932).

Which day is observed on 14 January?

Defender of the Motherland Day (Uzbekistan); Feast of the Ass (Medieval Christianity); Flag Day (Georgia); National Forest Conservation Day (Thailand); Old New Year, and its related observance: Azhyrnykhua (Abkhazia).