Today in History : January 14
1236 : Henry III marries Eleanor of Provence.
1526 : Francis of France, held captive by Charles V for a year, signs the Treaty of Madrid, giving up most of his claims in France and Italy.
1797 : Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at Rivoli in northern Italy.
1858 : Emperor Napoleon and Empress Eugenie escape unhurt after an Italian assassin throws a bomb at their carriage as they travel to the Paris Opera.
1864 : Confederate President Jefferson Davis writes to General Joseph E. Johnson, observing that troops may need to be sent to Alabama or Mississippi.
1911 : The USS Arkansas, the largest U.S. battleship, is launched from the yards of the New York Shipbuilding Company.
1915 : The French abandon five miles of trenches to the Germans near Soissons.
1916 : British authorities seize German attaché Franz von Papen’s financial records confirming espionage activities in the U.S.
1917 : A Provisional Parliament is established in Poland.
1920 : Berlin is placed under martial law as 40,000 radicals rush the Reichstag; 42 are dead and 105 are wounded.
1942 : President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders all aliens in the U.S. to register with the government.
1943 : Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Charles DeGaulle meet at Casablanca to discuss the direction of the war.
1943 : Italian occupation authorities refuse to deport Jews living in their territories in France.
1969 : A blast on the U.S. carrier Enterprise in the Pacific results in 24 dead and 85 injured.
1980 : The United Nations votes 104-18 to deplore the Soviet aggression in Afghanistan.
2000 : UN tribunal sentences 5 Bosnian Croats to prison for up to 25 years; they were charged with killing some 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village in 1993.
2004 : The Republic of Georgia restores the “five cross flag” as its national flag after some 500 years of disuse.
2005 : Huygens probe lands on Saturn’s moon Titan.
2010 : Yemen declares war on al-Qaeda terrorist group.
2011 : Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, former president of Tunisia, flees to Saudi Arabia after a series of demonstrations against his regime.
Born on January 14
1730 : William Whipple, signatory of Declaration of Independence.
1741 : Benedict Arnold, American colonial General turned traitor.
1875 : Dr. Albert Schweitzer, French theologian who set up a native hospital in French Equatorial Africa in 1913.
1919 : Andy Rooney, American humorist, author and television personality (60 Minutes).
1940 : Julian Bond, civil rights leader and Georgia state senator.
1944 : Nina Totenberg, journalist; legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio.
1947 : Taylor Branch, author, historian; best known for his America in the King Years trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
1948 : T Bone Burnett (Joseph Henry Burnett), musician, songwriter, Grammy-winning producer (O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack).
1952 : Maureen Dowd, New York Times columnist, author; won Pulitzer Prize for her series on the Monica Lewinsky scandal during the Clinton administration.
1968 : LL Cool J (James Todd Smith), influential rapper (“I’m Bad”); actor (NCIS: Los Angeles TV series).
1236 : Henry III marries Eleanor of Provence.
1526 : Francis of France, held captive by Charles V for a year, signs the Treaty of Madrid, giving up most of his claims in France and Italy.
1797 : Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at Rivoli in northern Italy.
1858 : Emperor Napoleon and Empress Eugenie escape unhurt after an Italian assassin throws a bomb at their carriage as they travel to the Paris Opera.
1864 : Confederate President Jefferson Davis writes to General Joseph E. Johnson, observing that troops may need to be sent to Alabama or Mississippi.
1911 : The USS Arkansas, the largest U.S. battleship, is launched from the yards of the New York Shipbuilding Company.
1915 : The French abandon five miles of trenches to the Germans near Soissons.
1916 : British authorities seize German attaché Franz von Papen’s financial records confirming espionage activities in the U.S.
1917 : A Provisional Parliament is established in Poland.
1920 : Berlin is placed under martial law as 40,000 radicals rush the Reichstag; 42 are dead and 105 are wounded.
1942 : President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders all aliens in the U.S. to register with the government.
1943 : Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Charles DeGaulle meet at Casablanca to discuss the direction of the war.
1943 : Italian occupation authorities refuse to deport Jews living in their territories in France.
1969 : A blast on the U.S. carrier Enterprise in the Pacific results in 24 dead and 85 injured.
1980 : The United Nations votes 104-18 to deplore the Soviet aggression in Afghanistan.
2000 : UN tribunal sentences 5 Bosnian Croats to prison for up to 25 years; they were charged with killing some 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village in 1993.
2004 : The Republic of Georgia restores the “five cross flag” as its national flag after some 500 years of disuse.
2005 : Huygens probe lands on Saturn’s moon Titan.
2010 : Yemen declares war on al-Qaeda terrorist group.
2011 : Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, former president of Tunisia, flees to Saudi Arabia after a series of demonstrations against his regime.
Born on January 14
1730 : William Whipple, signatory of Declaration of Independence.
1741 : Benedict Arnold, American colonial General turned traitor.
1875 : Dr. Albert Schweitzer, French theologian who set up a native hospital in French Equatorial Africa in 1913.
1919 : Andy Rooney, American humorist, author and television personality (60 Minutes).
1940 : Julian Bond, civil rights leader and Georgia state senator.
1944 : Nina Totenberg, journalist; legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio.
1947 : Taylor Branch, author, historian; best known for his America in the King Years trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
1948 : T Bone Burnett (Joseph Henry Burnett), musician, songwriter, Grammy-winning producer (O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack).
1952 : Maureen Dowd, New York Times columnist, author; won Pulitzer Prize for her series on the Monica Lewinsky scandal during the Clinton administration.
1968 : LL Cool J (James Todd Smith), influential rapper (“I’m Bad”); actor (NCIS: Los Angeles TV series).
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