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- 2018-01-14SportsIn 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.
- 2011-01-14ConflictArab Spring: Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled the country after several violent protests.
- 1978-01-14Science & TechAustrian 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.
- 1973-01-14Arts & CultureElvis Presley's (pictured) concert Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite was broadcast live to audiences in Asia and Oceania.
- 1970-01-14ConflictThe 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.
- 1969-01-14DisasterA major fire and series of explosions aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise killed 28 sailors, injured 314 others, and destroyed 15 aircraft.
- 1966-01-14ConflictVietnam War: United States and Australian troops ended Operation Crimp; during the military operation, troops discovered an extensive tunnel network used by the Viet Cong.
- 1939-01-14GeopoliticsNorway claimed Queen Maud Land, a 2.7-million km2 (1.0-million sq mi) region of Antarctica, as a dependent territory.
- 1907-01-14DisasterAn earthquake registering 6.2 Mw struck Kingston, Jamaica, resulting in approximately 1,000 deaths.
- 1900-01-14Arts & CultureGiacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
- 1814-01-14ConflictSweden 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.
- 1724-01-14GeopoliticsPhilip V (pictured), the first Bourbon king of Spain, abdicated in favour of his seventeen-year-old eldest son, who became Louis I.
- 1641-01-14ConflictDutch–Portuguese War: The Dutch siege of Malacca against the Portuguese ended when Dutch troops seized the city's citadel (depicted).
- 1301-01-14GeopoliticsKing Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.