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January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian ... and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history. ...
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.Usually considered one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed in response to issues related to formerly enslaved Americans following the American Civil War.
January – The constitution of California is ratified. January 1 – The Specie Resumption Act takes effect: the Greenback is valued the same as gold for the first time since the American Civil War. February 12 – At New York City's Madison Square Garden, the first artificial ice rink in North America opens.
The 14th century lasted from 1 January 1301 (represented by the Roman numerals MCCCI) to 31 December 1400 (MCD). It is estimated that the century witnessed the death of more than 45 million lives from political and natural disasters in both Europe and the Mongol Empire. [1] [2] West Africa experienced economic growth and prosperity.
Ratification Day in the United States is the anniversary of the congressional proclamation of the ratification of the Treaty of Paris, on January 14, 1784, at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland, by the Confederation Congress, which marked the official end of the American Revolutionary War. [1]
January 21 – William Hill Brown's anonymous sentimental epistolary novel The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature, usually considered the first American novel, is published in Boston. [1] January 23 – Georgetown University is founded in what would become Washington, D.C., becoming the first Catholic college in the United States.
January 5 Stephen Decatur, U.S. Naval commander (died 1820) Zebulon Pike, General and explorer (died 1813) January 23 – Isaac C. Bates, United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1841 till 1845. (died 1845) April 11 – Oliver Ames Sr., founder of the Ames Shovel Works (died 1863)
January 7 – Victor H. Krulak, United States Marine Corps general (died 2008) January 9 – Richard Nixon, 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974, 36th vice president of the United States from 1953 to 1961 (died 1994) January 11 – Jean Murrell Capers, judge (died 2017) January 15 – Lloyd Bridges, film and television actor ...