page_title: 2014
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 2014 / Events / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Frozen Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, January 7, 2014. The temperature reached +4ºF (-16ºC), record low. Previous record was +7ºF (-14ºC) in 1988. View from South St. Bridge.
context_page_description: 2014 was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar.
context_section_description: January 1 - Latvia begins using the Euro.
  January 1 - Greece assumes the six-month Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
  January 1 - Bill de Blasio becomes Mayor of New York City.
  January 6 - Severe cold weather hits the upper area of North America, which includes Canada and the United States. Record-breaking weather is recorded in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Chicago, Illinois. Several people are killed because of the cold weather.
  January 10 - Former Prime Minister of Poland Zbigniew Messner died from a heart attack. He was 84 years old.
  January 25 - A shooting breaks out at a mall in Maryland. Four people are killed including the gunman. Police officers disarmed explosive devices in gunman's bag.
  January 27 - Juan Orlando Hernández is elected to be Honduras' new President. He succeeds Porfirio Lobo Sosa.
  January 29 - Bohuslav Sobotka becomes the new Prime Minister of the Czech Republic.
  January 29 - Scientists in Japan announce that shocking blood cells with acid could also trigger the transformation into stem cells, a process far easier than producing IP cells. The cells are termed STAP (Stimulus-Triggered Acquisition of Pluripotency) cells.
caption: Ice on the Schuylkill River, Philadelphia during the 2014 North American polar vortex.
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