Today in History in 1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II).

The On This Day In History archives at “Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia” contains over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 351 days remaining until the end of the year (352 in leap years).

EVENTS

1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Arpad Dynasty in Hungary.

1343 – Arnost of Barbudice becomes the last Bishop of Prague.

1539 – Spain annexes Cuba.

1639 – "Fundamental Orders": The first written Constitution that created a government is created in Connecticut.

1724 – King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.

1784 – American Revolutionary War: The United States ratifies a peace treaty with England.

1814 – Frederick VI of Denmark gives Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.

1822 – Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrios Ypsilantis.

1832 – American writer Edgar Allan Poe publishes his first short story, "Metzengerstein".

1858 – Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.

1897 – Matthias Zurbriggen becomes the first person to climb Aconcagua, in Argentina, the highest mountain in the Southern hemisphere.

1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca is performed for the first time, at the Teatro Constanzi in Rome.

1907 – A magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits Kingston, Jamaica, killing 1,600 people.

1911 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition lands on the eastern Ross Ice Shelf.

1917 – Japanese warship Tsukuba sinks after fire and an explosion in Yokosuka Bay, killing 200 of the 817 on board.

1938 – Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.

1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.

1943 – Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II).

1950 – The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.

1952 – NBC's long–running news program Today is broadcast for the first time, with host Dave Garroway.

1953 – Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as President of Yugoslavia.

1954 – Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star Joe DiMaggio.

1957 – Jagadguru Kripalu Maharaja is named the fifth Jagad guru (meaning "world teacher") after giving seven days of speeches in front of 500 Hindu scholars.

1960 – The Reserve Bank of Australia is created.

1967 – The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love. Between 20,000 and 30,000 people attend.

1968 – The Soviet Union launches the Soyuz 4 probe.

1969 – An accidental explosion on the ship USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.

1972 – 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.

1973 – Super Bowl VII: The Miami Dolphins defeat the Washington Redskins. The Dolphins become the first NFL team to go undefeated in a season.

1979 – The first Paris–Dakar Rally reaches its finish line in Dakar, Senegal.

1980 – Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India for a second time.

1994 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords.

1998 – Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis).

1998 – An Afghan cargo plane crashes into a mountain in southwest Pakistan killing more than 50 people.

1999 – Major snowfall affects Toronto, and Mayor Mel Lastman calls the army in to help with emergency evacuations.

2000 – 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.

2004 – The national flag of Georgia, the so–called "five cross flag", was restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.

2005 – Landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan.

2011 – Arab Spring: In the wake of anti–government demonstrations, Tunisia's President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali dissolves the government and resigns from office.

2015 – Giorgio Napolitano resigns as President of Italy at the age of 89 for age and health reasons. Pietro Grasso becomes Interim President.

2015 – Two climbers, Kevin Jorgesen and Tommy Caldwell, become the first people to successfully climb El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, California.

2016 – Bomb attacks in Jakarta kill 5 attackers and 2 civilians.

2016 – Jimmy Morales becomes President of Guatemala.

2019 – Mayor of Gdansk Pawel Adamowicz dies of injuries sustained in a stabbing the previous evening, aged 53.