Once Upon A Time – January 14 – 1724 – Spanish King Philip V Abdicates Throne

1526 – Charles V and Francis I sign the Treaty of Madrid, forcing Francis to give up claims to Burgundy, Italy and Flanders

1641 – United East Indian Company conquers city of Malacca, 7,000 killed

1724 – Spanish King Philip V abdicates throne

1761 – Third Battle of Panipat: In one of the largest battles of the century, the mostly Muslim Afghani Durrani Empire defeats the mostly Hindu Maratha Empire in Northern India. An estimated 60,000–70,000 were killed in the fighting and about 40,000 Maratha prisoners massacred afterwards.

1784 – US Congress of the Confederation ratifies the Treaty of Paris, signed September 3, 1783, ending the Revolutionary War, and forwards it to Great Britain

2011 – Tunisian president Ben Ali, flees to Saudi Arabia after popular protests known as the Jasmine Revolution

More Historical Events

In Film & Tv

1952 – “Today Show” premieres with Dave Garroway & Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV

In Music

1900 – Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Tosca” premieres in Rome

In Sport

1898 – Australian cricketer Joe Darling hits the 1st six in Tests (out of the ground)

More Facts…

1794 – Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom, Virginia, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation in the US on his wife

1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill, becoming the first American president to travel overseas by airplane

Famous Weddings

1236 – English King Henry III marries Eleonora of Provence

1914 – Danish “Out of Africa” author Karen Blixen (28), pen name Isak Dinesen marries her 2nd cousin Baron Hans von Blixen-Finecke

1930 – American author John Steinbeck (27) weds Carol Henning (23) in Los Angeles, California