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Events on January 14

• 1506 In his vineyards on the Esquiline Hill in Rome, the winegrower Felice de Fredi discovers a marble Laocoön group by the sculptors Hagesander, Polydorus, and Athanadorus, created around the time of Christ.
• 1887 The Reichstag is dissolved after a bill by Otto von Bismarck's government to increase the army by about 10 percent and extend the military law for another seven years has been rejected. A Reichstag election is held on 21 February.
• 1900 The world premiere of the veristic opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini takes place at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. The libretto is by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, based on the play of the same name by Victorien Sardou.
• 1914 Henry Ford switches production of the Ford Model T to assembly-line production, making it possible to reduce the selling price of the vehicle.
• 1956 In Herleshausen, the last prisoners of war returning from Soviet captivity arrive by train.
• 1956 The first installment of the comic strip Adam und Evchen, drawn by Loriot, appears in the German illustrated magazine Quick.
• 1963 At a press conference, French President Charles de Gaulle announces that he is rejecting Great Britain's application to join the EEC. His veto surprises the EEC Commission and the five other member states.
• 1965 The James Bond film Goldfinger opens in German cinemas.
• 1973 Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii, broadcast via satellite, is the first event of this kind to be broadcast live on television in different countries.
• 1979 The first Paris-Dakar Rally, which began on 26 December, reaches its destination in Dakar.
• 2005 The European lander Huygens lands on Saturn's moon Titan. It is the first landing of a human-made object on a moon of a planet in the outer Solar System.
• 2011 Amid escalating mass protests during the revolution in Tunisia, President Ben Ali hastily flees the country toward Saudi Arabia. Since then, 14 January has been the official Revolution Day in Tunisia.

Born on January 14

• 1851 Ludwig Claisen, German chemist
• 1870 Ida Dehmel, German lyric poet and women's rights activist
• 1911 Heinz Engelmann, German actor
• 1922 Helga Göring, German actress
• 1950 Hanne Haller, German singer
• 1960 Andrea Fischer, German politician
• 1970 Fazıl Say, Turkish pianist and composer
• 1971 Thomas Hellriegel, German triathlete
• 1971 Lasse Kjus, Norwegian alpine skier
• 1994 Lotte Flack, German-British actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „14. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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