Historical Events
- Jan 1 100th Rose Bowl: #4 Michigan State beats #5 Stanford, 24-20
- Jan 1 43rd Fiesta Bowl: #15 UCF beats #6 Baylor, 52-42
Sports History
Jan 1 Dutchman Michael van Gerwen wins his first PDC World Darts Championship beating Peter Wright of Scotland, 7-4; first time no Englishman in the final
- Jan 1 New Zealand cricket batsman Corey Anderson smashes a record century off just 36 balls in the Black Caps' 159 run ODI win over the West Indies in Queenstown; finishes on 131 not out off 47 balls
- Jan 2 30 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff and falls 400 ft in Malshej Ghat, India
- Jan 2 80th Sugar Bowl: #11 Oklahoma beats #3 Alabama, 45-31
55th Anniversary of Cuban Revolution
Jan 2 Raúl Castro gives a speech commemorating the 55th anniversary of the Cuban revolution and warns of "neo-liberal and neo-colonial thinking" entering the country
- Jan 3 80th Orange Bowl: #12 Clemson beats #7 Ohio State, 40-35
- Jan 3 Cambodian garment workers go on strike demanding a wage increase
- Jan 3 Tommy Lynn Sells is executed at Texas State Penitentiary, Huntsville, for the murder of nine-year-old Mary Perez, thought to have committed 21 more murders
- Jan 4 14 people are killed after a three-story building construction site collapses in Goa, India
- Jan 4 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: France wins first title; Alizé Cornet & Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Poland's Agnieszka Radwańska & Grzegorz Panfil 6-0, 6-2 to clinch 2-1 victory
- Jan 6 College Football, 16th BCS National Championship, Rose Bowl, Pasadena: #1 Florida State beats #2 Auburn, 34-31
Damascus Truce in Syria
Jan 6 Truce begins between Free Syrian Army and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in northern Damascus
Election of Interest
Jan 7 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wins re-election in Bangladesh general election
40th People's Choice Awards
Jan 8 40th People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Sandra Bullock win (Movie Star) and Josh Charles & Stana Katić win (Dramatic TV)
- Jan 8 First known interstellar meteor to ever hit Earth - CNEOS 2014-01-08 crash lands in Papua New Guinea [1]
- Jan 9 Five people are killed at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan
- Jan 9 Taliban suicide car bomb assassinates senior police officer Chaudhry Aslam and kills three others in Pakistan, Pakistan
- Jan 9 Yaya Toure wins African Footballer of the Year
Christine McVie Rejoins Fleetwood Mac
Jan 11 During a concert in Maui, Mick Fleetwood announces that Christine McVie would be rejoining Fleetwood Mac
- Jan 11 Pianist Menahem Presser (90) makes his Berlin Philharmonic debut as soloist in Mozart's 17th Piano Concerto; he had fled Nazi persecution in Germany as a teenager
"True Detective"
Jan 12 "True Detective", a crime-drama starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, debuts on HBO
- Jan 12 71st Golden Globes: "12 Years a Slave", Matthew McConaughey, & Cate Blanchett win
- Jan 12 Stephen Bunting and Lisa Ashton win the 2014 BDO World Darts Championship
Woody Allen Lifetime Achievement Award
Jan 12 Woody Allen receives the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards
- Jan 13 14 people are killed and 7 are injured from an explosion in an illegal gambling hall in Kaili City, China
Ballon d'Or
Jan 13 FIFA Ballon d'Or: Real Madrid & Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo ends Lionel Messi's domination of award; FFC Frankfurt goalkeeper Nadine Angerer takes women's award
- Jan 14 American journalist David Satter is expelled from Russia
"The River & The Thread"
Jan 14 Blue Note Records releases singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash's critically acclaimed thirteenth album "The River & The Thread"; produced by her husband John Leventhal, it wins 3 Grammy Awards
"High Hopes"
Jan 14 Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen's 18th studio album "High Hopes", produced with members of the E Street Band, including the deceased Danny Federici and Clarence Clemons
- Jan 15 LA Dodgers sign pitcher Clayton Kershaw to the biggest deal in baseball history, a 7-year, $215 million package averaging $30.7 million per season
12 Years a Slave Wins
Jan 16 19th Critics' Choice Movie Awards: 12 Years a Slave wins Best Film
- Jan 17 21 people are killed in a suicide bombing in a restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan
McConaughey, Blanchett Win
Jan 18 20th Screen Actors Guild Awards: Matthew McConaughey and Cate Blanchett win
- Jan 19 AFC Championship, Mile High Stadium, Denver: Denver Broncos beat New England Patriots, 26-16
Seahawks Defeat 49ers
Jan 19 NFC Championship, CenturyLink Field, Seattle: Seattle Seahawks beat San Francisco 49ers, 23-17
1st Asian Champion
Jan 25 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Li Na of China becomes first Asian Australian champion; beats Dominika Cibulková of Slovakia 7-6, 6-0
- Jan 26 21 people are killed after a tourist boat capsizes off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Jan 26 30th Sundance Film Festival: "Whiplash", directed by Damien Chazelle, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
56th Grammy Awards
Jan 26 56th Grammy Awards: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Lorde, and Daft Punk win
Wawrinka Defeats Nadal
Jan 26 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland wins his first major title; beats Rafael Nadal 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
NFL Pro Bowl
Jan 26 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: Team Rice beats Team Sanders, 22-21; MVPs: Nick Foles, Philadelphia, QB; Derrick Johnson, KC Chiefs, LB
- Jan 28 DNA analysis confirms that the 6th century Plague of Justinian was caused by a variant of Yersinia pestis (the same bacteria for the Black Death)
- Jan 28 Peter Cosgrove is named the next Governor-General of Australia
- Jan 29 Archaeologists discover the oldest Roman Temple (6th C BC) at Sant’Omobono
- Jan 29 Bohuslav Sobotka becomes Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
- Jan 29 Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the 1st non-Spanish player to captain Real Madrid, making his 500th appearance for the club
Sports History
Jan 29 Dale Jarrett is inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame
- Jan 29 Scientists discover how to convert normal cells into stem cells in mice
- Jan 30 24 hostages are killed after 6 suicide bombers temporarily take over the Iraqi Ministry of Transportation in Baghdad
Sports History
Jan 31 The Utah Jazz honor Jerry Sloan by raising a banner featuring the number "1223"
Famous Birthdays
Like Nastya (10 years old)
Jan 27 born in Krasnodar Krai, Russia
Famous Weddings
- Jan 4 Actor Justin Bartha (35) weds personal trainer Lia Smith in Oahu, Hawaii
- Jan 4 Actress and singer Alexa Vega (25) weds Big Time Rush singer Carlos Pena Jr (24) in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
- Jan 26 "The Bachelor" star Sean Lowe (30) weds graphic designer Catherine Giudici (27) at the Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore in Santa Barbara, California
- Jan 30 NBA player Baron Davis (34) weds CAA agent Isabella Brewster (31) in a secret ceremony
Famous Deaths
Phil Everly (1939-2014)
Jan 3 American rock and roll singer-guitarist (The Everly Brothers - "Bye, Bye Love"; "Wake Up Little Susie"; "When WIll I Be Loved"), dies of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 74
- Jan 3 Saul Zaentz, American record company executive (Fantasy), and film producer (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest; Amadeus; The Unbearable Lightness Of Being; The English Patient), dies of Alzheimer's disease complications at 92
- Jan 3 Tom Rosenthal, British publisher & broadcaster, dies at 78
- Jan 5 Carmen Zapata, American actress (Hagen, Viva Valdez, Man & the City), dies at 86
- Jan 5 Eusébio da Silva Ferreira, Portuguese soccer striker (64 caps; top goalscorer-1966 FIFA World Cup; Benfica 301 games, 317 goals), dies from heart failure at 71
- Jan 5 Jerry Coleman, American MLB 2nd baseman, dies from complications from brain bleeding and surgery at 89
- Jan 6 H. Owen Reed, American composer, dies at 103
- Jan 6 Larry D Mann, Canadian actor and broadcaster (Accidental Family, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer), dies at 91
- Jan 8 Ben Garrido Blaz, American politician (Rep-R-Guam, 1985-93), dies at 85
- Jan 9 Dale T. Mortensen, American economist and Nobel laureate, dies at 74
- Jan 10 Aram Gharabekian, Armenian conductor (National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia; Boston SinfoNova, 1983-96), dies at 58
- Jan 10 Larry Speakes, Acting White House Press Secretary under President Ronald Reagan, dies at 74
Ariel Sharon (1928-2014)
Jan 11 Israeli general, politician and Prime Minister of Israel (2001-06), dies from heart failure at 85
- Jan 12 Gyula Torok, Hungarian Olympic Champion Boxer, dies at 75
- Jan 12 Michael L. Strang, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado), dies at 84
- Jan 13 Bobby Collins, Scottish soccer midfielder (31 caps; Celtic, Everton, Leeds), dies at 82
- Jan 14 Flavio Testi, Italian composer and musicologist, dies at 91
- Jan 14 Juan Gelman, Argentine poet, dies at 84
- Jan 14 Mae Young, American professional wrestler and one of the pioneers in women's wrestling (National Wrestling Alliance, WWF), dies at 90
- Jan 15 Joachim Nowotny, German writer, dies at 80
- Jan 16 Dave Madden, Canadian-born American actor (Charlotte's Web, Alice, The Partridge Family), dies from heart and kidney failure at 82
- Jan 16 Roger Lloyd-Pack, British stage and screen actor (Only Fools and Horses - "Trigger"; The Vicar of Dibley - "Owen"; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), dies of pancreatic cancer at 69
- Jan 16 Russell Johnson, American television and film actor, best known for his role as "The Professor" on Gilligan's Island, dies of kidney failure at 89
- Jan 17 Francine Lalonde, Canadian politician (Member of Parliament for La Pointe-de-l'Île), dies of cancer at 73
- Jan 17 Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian Islamic religious leader (52nd Da'i al Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohrans), dies at 98
- Jan 18 Dennis Frederiksen, American rock singer, dies from liver cancer at 62
- Jan 19 Bert Williams MBE, English soccer goalkeeper (24 caps; Wolverhampton Wanderers 381 games), dies at 93
- Jan 19 Christopher Chataway, British middle and long-distance runner (world record 5k) and Conservative MP, dies at 82
- Jan 19 Udo Kasemets, Estonian-born Canadian composer, dies at 94
- Jan 20 Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (La Scala, 1969-86; London Symphony, 1979-87; Berlin Philharmonic, 1989-2002), dies of stomach cancer at 80
- Jan 22 Luis Ávalos, Cuban-American stage and screen character actor (Condo; E/R; I Had 3 Wives), dies of heart failure at 67
- Jan 22 Roy Cicala, American sound engineer (Record Plant Studios (NYC) - Jimi Hendrix; John Lennon; Frank Sinatra), dies at 74
- Jan 23 Elmira Nazirova, Azerbaijani-Israeli classical pianist, composer, and educator, dies at 85
- Jan 23 Riz Ortolani, Italian Grammy Award-winning composer and arranger, predominantly of film scores (Mondo Cane - "More"), dies at 87
- Jan 26 Tom Gola, American basketball player, dies at 81
Pete Seeger (1919-2014)
Jan 27 American folk singer (The Weavers - "Goodnight Irene") and activist, helped create the modern American folk music movement, dies at 94
- Jan 28 Fernand Leduc, Canadian abstract expressionist painter (Les Automatistes), and teacher, dies of cancer at 97
- Jan 29 Ashutosh Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader and founder of the Divine Light Awakening Mission, claims 30 million followers, dies at 68
- Jan 29 Ildefonso P. Santos Jr., Filipino landscape architect (National Artist of the Philippines in Architecture, 2006), dies of heart failure at 84
- Jan 30 Arthur Rankin, Jr, American director, producer, and screenwriter (Rankin/Bass Productions -The Year Without A Santa Claus; Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer; Frosty The Snowman), dies at 89
- Jan 31 Alexander Ivashkin, Russian cellist, conductor, and sitar player, dies at 65
- Jan 31 Christopher Jones, American actor, dies from cancer at 72
- Jan 31 Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian director (The Red and the White), dies at 92
- Jan 31 Paul Humphrey, American jazz, R&B, and rock session and touring drummer, dies at 78
- Jan 31 Rainer Boesch, Swiss pianist, composer, improviser, and teacher, dies at 75
