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The
Calgary Hitmen are a
major junior
ice hockey team based in
Calgary ,
Alberta ,
Canada . The Hitmen play in the
Western Hockey League . They play their home games at the
Scotiabank Saddledome . Their name is derived from local-born
professional wrestler
Bret "The Hitman" Hart , a founding owner. Established in 1994, the team has been owned by the
Calgary Flames hockey club since 1997. They are the third WHL team to represent Calgary, preceded by the
Centennials and
Wranglers . The Hitmen have had the
best record in the WHL four times, and have qualified for the playoffs every season since 1998. In 1999, they became the first Calgary team to win the
President's Cup as league champions, and the first to represent Calgary in the
Memorial Cup since the
Calgary Canadians won the national junior title in 1926. The Hitmen hold numerous WHL attendance records, and in 2004–05 became the first team in the
Canadian Hockey League to average 10,000 fans per game. Thirty-two former Hitmen players have gone on to play in the
National Hockey League . The Hitmen are the defending league champions, winning their second title in
2009–10 . (
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January 14 :
New Year in the
Julian calendar
1301 – The
Árpád dynasty , which had ruled
Hungary since the late
9th century , ended with the death of
King Andrew III .
1814 –
Sweden and
Denmark–Norway signed the
Treaty of Kiel , whereby
Frederick VI of Denmark , a loser in the
Napoleonic Wars , ceded
Norway to Sweden in return for the Swedish holdings in
Pomerania .
1907 – A 6.5
MW
earthquake struck
Kingston ,
Jamaica , resulting in at least 800 deaths, which was at the time considered one of the world's deadliest earthquakes recorded in history.
1933 –
Cricketer
Harold Larwood of
England , employing the controversial tactic known as
Bodyline ,
bowled a ball into
Australian captain
Bill Woodfull 's chest, an image that became one of the defining symbols of the
series .
1978 –
Austrian
logician
Kurt Gödel (pictured) , who suffered from an
obsessive fear of being poisoned , died of
starvation after his wife was hospitalized and unable to cook for him.
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A person engaged in
tubing (or "inner tubing"), the
recreational activity of riding an
inner tube , either on
water ,
snow , or through the air. Tubing on water generally consists of two forms: free-floating and towed (shown here). In the latter, one or more riders tether their tubes to a powered
watercraft , which
tows them along the surface of the water.
Photo: Peter Opatrny
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