January 14 is:
Dress Up Your Pet Day Was started in 2009 by celebrity pet lifestyle expert and animal behaviorist Colleen Paige. It celebrates pets and helps to support the pet fashion community.
The Fundamental Orders, the first written constitution that created a government, was adopted in Connecticut on January 14, 1639.
The document was inspired by Thomas Hooker’s sermon of May 31, 1638 and provided the framework for the government of Connecticut colony from 1639 to 1662.
1690 – Clarinet was invented, in Nurnberg, Germany, by Johann Christoph Denner. The clarinet was introduced to London by Bach in 1751.
Birthday of Benedict Arnold (January 14, 1741), American patriot/traitor.
Revolutionary War ended; Congress ratified Treaty of Paris, officially ending the Revolutionary War and establishing the United States as a sovereign nation on January 14, 1784. Representing the United States were Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Henry Laurens, and John Adams. Article I states “Britain acknowledges the United States (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia) to be free, sovereign, and independent states, and that the British Crown and all heirs and successors relinquish claims to the Government, property, and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof”.
Birthday of Albert Schweitzer (January 14, 1875), author and medical missionary.
When Mohammed VI (b: 14 Jan 1861-1926) became Sultan of Turkey in 1918, he had been a prisoner for fifty-three years, having been put under strict house arrest at the age of four. Arrest was not uncommon in some countries for royal family members who might aspire to the throne and thereby present a threat to the current ruler. Mohammed went from prison to throne.
From Asimov, Isaac. Isaac Asimov’s Book of Facts. New York, Bell Publishing Company, 1981
Mohammed VI was the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning from 4 July 1918 until 1 November, 1922 when the Ottoman Empire was dissolved, after World War I, and was replaced by the Republic of Turkey, on 29 October 1923.
US Supreme court ruled in 1878 that race separation on trains was unconstitutional.
Henry Ford introduced an assembly line for Model T Fords in 1914.
On January 14, 1954, the Hudson Motor Car Company merged with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation to form the American Motors Corporation.