WHAT HAPPENED ON 14. JANUARY
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The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation. (14. January 1954)

Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. (14. January 1957)

The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established. (14. January 1960)

Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love. (14. January 1967)

An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people. (14. January 1969)

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. (14. January 1972)

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. (14. January 1973)

Teenage heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped by Donald Neilson, aka "the Black Panther". (14. January 1975)

Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman becomes the first mayor in Canada to call in the Army to help with emergency medical evacuations and snow removal after more than one meter of snow paralyzes the city. (14. January 1999)

A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village. (14. January 2000)

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. (14. January 2004)

The Huygens probe lands on Saturn's moon Titan. (14. January 2005)

Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda. (14. January 2010)

The former president of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled 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. (14. January 2011)

The Pirate Party of Greece is founded, on the model of the Swedish Pirate Party. (14. January 2012)

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