What are the important events that happened on January 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

January 14: Facts & Myths About This Day

January 14 is the 14^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 351 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 1, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 482,448 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘tetradecagon’ day.

Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 15 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,407 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

January 14: This Day In History

It is celebrated as New Year’s Day (at least in the 20th and 21st centuries) by countries still following the Julian calendar.

January 14 Historical Events

• 1129 –
  Formal approval of the Order of the Templar at the Council of Troyes.
• 1761 –
  The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Marhatas. The Afghan victory changes the course of Indian History.
• 1784 –
  American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.
• 1911 –
  Roald Amundsen’s South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
• 1938 –
  Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
• 1952 –
  NBC’s long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
• 1967 –
  Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
• 1972 –
  Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
• 1973 –
  Elvis Presley’s concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets a record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
• 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.

Who were born on January 14?

• 1850 –
  Jean de Reszke, Polish operatic tenor (d. 1925)
• 1863 –
  Manuel Gomes da Costa, 96th Prime Minister of Portugal and 10th President of Portugal (d. 1929)
• 1892 –
  Martin Niemöller, German theologian (d. 1984)
• 1912 –
  Tillie Olsen, American writer (d. 2007)
• 1941 –
  Milan Kučan, Slovenian statesman
• 1946 –
  Harold Shipman, British serial killer (d. 2004)
• 1965 –
  Ellis Paul, American singer-songwriter and folk musician
• 1972 –
  Raimondas Rumšas, Lithuanian cyclist
• 1979 –
  Evans Soligo, Italian footballer
• 1989 –
  Liu Xiaodong, Chinese footballer

Who died on January 14?

• 1753 –
  George Berkeley, Irish theologian (b. 1685)
• 1819 –
  Peter Pindar, English satirist (b. 1738)
• 1937 –
  Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (b. 1889)
• 1945 –
  Heinrich Schroth, German actor (b. 1871)
• 1957 –
  Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1978 –
  Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1906)
• 1978 –
  Robert Heger, German conductor and composer (b. 1886)
• 1991 –
  Jerry Nolan, American rock drummer (The New York Dolls) (b. 1946)
• 2006 –
  Mark Philo, English footballer (b. 1984)
• 2007 –
  Vassilis Photopoulos, Greek painter, film director, art director and set designer (b. 1934)