Ingenpedia:OnThisDay/January 14, 2021

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 * 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, a 2.7 e6km2 region of Antarctica as a dependent territory.
 * 1957 – Hindu spiritual leader Kripalu Maharaj was named the fifth original Jagadguru, meaning 'world teacher'.
 * 1960 – The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote-issuing authority, was established.
 * 1967 – The Human Be-In, a countercultural event forming a prelude to the Summer of Love, was held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
 * 1969 – A major fire and series of explosions broke out aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) (pictured), killing 28 sailors, injuring 314, and destroying 15 aircraft.
 * 1970 – The self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra in southeastern Nigeria surrendered to the federal government less than three years after declaring independence, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
 * 1973 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite was broadcast live, setting a record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
 * 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: | Ladislaus II of Hungary |d|1163| Michael Arne |d|1786| Berthe Morisot |b|1841| Carrie Derick |b|1862| Rambhadracharya |b|1950| Steven Soderbergh |b|1963| Jess Fishlock |b|1987| Arfa Karim |d|2012

January 14: Ratification Day in the United States (1784)


 * 1907 – An earthquake registering 6.2 Mw struck Kingston, Jamaica (damage pictured), resulting in approximately 1,000 deaths.
 * 1933 – The England cricket team employed bodyline tactics against Australia during a Test match at the Adelaide Oval, the peak of a major controversy in the sport.
 * 1943 – Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, and Henri Giraud met in Casablanca to plan the Allies' European strategy for the next phase of World War II.
 * 1953 – Josip Broz Tito was inaugurated as the first president of Yugoslavia.