TODAY HISTORY LESSON: 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.
1601 Church authorities burn Hebrew books in Rome
1639 The first constitution of Connecticut, Fundamental Orders, was adopted.
1724 Spanish King Philip V abdicates throne.
1761 Third Battle of Panipat: In one of the largest battles of the century, the mostly Muslim Afghani Durrani Empire defeats the mostly Hindu Maratha Empire in Northern India. An estimated 60,000–70,000 were killed in the fighting and about 40,000 Maratha prisoners massacred afterwards.
1784 The United States ratified treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.
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.
1911 The USS Arkansas, the largest U.S. battleship, is launched from the yards of the New York Shipbuilding Company.
1920 Berlin is placed under martial law as 40,000 radicals rush the Reichstag; 42 are dead and 105 are wounded.
1939 Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica
1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders all aliens in the U.S. to register with the government.
1943 Italian occupation authorities refuse to deport Jews living in their territories in France.
1943 Churchill, Roosevelt and de Gaulle meet in Casablanca to discuss their WWII strategy
1953 Tito becomes President of Yugoslavia
1954 The Hudson Motor Car Company merged with Nash-Kelvinator. The new company was called the American Motors Corporation.
1963 George C Wallace sworn in as Governor of Alabama, his address states “segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!”
1979 President Carter proposes Martin Luther King’s birthday be a holiday
1980 The United Nations votes 104-18 to deplore the Soviet aggression in Afghanistan.
1986 Vinicio Cerezo becomes only the 2nd freely elected President of Guatemala since the CIA-sponsored coup in 1954
1994 U.S. President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed Kremlin accords to stop aiming missiles at any nation and to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine.
1998 Whitewater prosecutors questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House for 10 minutes about the gathering of FBI background files on past Republican political appointees.
1999 The U.S. proposed the lifting of the U.N. ceilings on the sale of oil in Iraq. The restriction being that the money be used to buy medicine and food for the Iraqi people.
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.
2011 Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, former president of Tunisia, flees to Saudi Arabia after a series of demonstrations against his regime.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
