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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 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 Abinine 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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