January 14, 1909 (Thursday)
- A methane explosion and fire at a coal mine in Ajka, Hungary killed 55 miners. A museum was erected at the site of the Armin Akna coal mine in 1965, along with a memorial plaque.
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Famous quotes containing the word january:
“and you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions,
The New England postcards,
the January ten o’clock night,
and we rose up like wheat....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)