HISTORY AT A GLANCE

TODAY is Monday, January 14, the 14th day of 2019. There are 351 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:

1953 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito was elected first president of the Republic of Yugoslavia. 1993 - British boxer Lennox Lewis holds his WBC heavyweight champion belt for the first time after former holder Riddick Bowe relinquished the title. 2003 - Tens of thousands demonstrated in Nicosia in the biggest demonstration in Turkish Cypriot history, demanding an end to decades of isolation. 2004 - Georgia restores national “fivecross flag” after 500 year hiatus. 2011 - Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali flees after mass protests.