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January 14: Ratification Day in the United States Poster for the premiere of Tosca 1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty , which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.
History Channel (UK): This Day in History New Zealand Government: Today in New Zealand History Archived 2017-04-14 at the Wayback Machine Computer History Museum : This Day in History
Remembrance Day (United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, including Australia and Canada) Veterans Day, called Armistice Day until 1954, when it was rededicated to honor American military (Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Force) veterans. (United States) Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Angola from Portugal in 1975.
1966 - A Vostok-2 rocket launches a Zenit-2 satellite; 1968 - An Atlas-Centaur launches the Surveyor 7 lunar lander; 1976 - A Voskhod rocket launches a Zenit-4MK satellite; 1987 - An Atlas-Centaur launches an Intelsat spacecraft; 1982 - A Kosmos-3M launches a Strela satellite; 1985 - A Mu-3 launches the Sagikake satellite; 1998 - An Athena-2 ...
1934 – Dust Bowl: A strong two–day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl in North America. 1942 – William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published. 1953 – The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
Events. 1796 – The U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.; 1798 – The United States Marine Corps is re–established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
Events. 1865 - Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech.; 1899 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States.; 1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio.; 1921 - Iowa becomes the first U.S. state to impose a cigarette tax.
1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA. 1980 – A massive bomb planted by extortionist John Birges explodes at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada , after a failed disarming attempt by the FBI.