Events on January 14 30
Year 1343
Arnoลกt of Pardubice becomes the last bishop of Prague and, subsequently, the first Archbishop of Prague.
Year 1639
The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut.
Year 1761
The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Marathas.
Year 1784
American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States - Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.
Year 1814
Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.
Year 1822
Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrios Ypsilantis.
Year 1911
Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
Year 1943
World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
Year 1943
World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
Year 1943
World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.
Year 1954
The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
Year 1957
Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
Year 1960
The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established.
Year 1967
Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
Year 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.
Year 1973
Elvis 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.
Year 1993
In Poland's worst peacetime maritime disaster, ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rรผgen, drowning 55 passengers and crew; nine crew-members are saved.
Year 2000
A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.
Year 2004
The national flag of the Republic of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
Year 2011
Former president of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees his country to Saudi Arabia after a series of street demonstrations against his regime and corrupt policies, asking for freedom, rights and democracy, considered as the anniversary of the Tunisian Revolution and the birth of the Arab Spring.