^B{^#!16!14 January^N! Feast day of The Martyrs of Mount Sinai, St Barbasymas or Barbascemin, St Antony Pucci, St Datius, St Macrina the Elder, St Sava, St Felix of Nola, and St Kentigern or Mungo.
^B{1858^B} Attempt on the life of Napoleon III, in Paris. ^B{1900^B} Puccini's opera ^I{Tosca^I} was first performed, in Rome. ^B{1907^B} An earthquake killed over 1,000 people in Kingston, Jamaica, virtually destroying the capital. ^B{1943^B} US President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill met at Casablanca. ^B{1954^B} Baseball hero Joe DiMaggio married film star Marilyn Monroe. ^B{1993^B} Amid increasingly intrusive coverage about the private lives of the British royal family, the government pledged to introduce legislation to criminalize invasions of privacy by the press.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter, ^B{1836^B}; Albert Schweitzer, French missionary surgeon, ^B{1875^B}; Cecil Beaton, British photographer and stage designer, ^B{1904^B}; Joseph Losey, US film director, ^B{1909^B}; Yukio Mishima, Japanese novelist, ^B{1925^B}; Trevor Nunn, British stage director, ^B{1940^B}; Faye Dunaway, US actress, ^B{1941^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Edmond Halley, English astronomer, ^B{1742^B}; Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter, ^B{1867^B}; Lewis Carroll, English mathematician and author, ^B{1898^B}; Humphrey Bogart, US film actor, ^B{1957^B}; Peter Finch, English actor, ^B{1977^B}; Ana∩s Nin, US novelist and diarist, ^B{1977^B}.
