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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“Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days—whatever there may be for the dust—the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)