TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JAN 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.
1559 Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England “The Virgin Queen” was the daughter of Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII.
1601 Church authorities burn Hebrew books in Rome
1639 The first constitution of Connecticut, Fundamental Orders, was adopted.
1690 Clarinet is invented, in Nüremberg, Germany
1699 Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting “witches”
1784 US Revolutionary War ends with the US Congress of the Confederation ratifying the Treaty of Paris
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.
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.
1935 Oil pipeline Iraq-Mediterranean goes into use
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.
1959 Hudson and Nash, two different car companies, become one on this day. They have become the AMC (American Motors Association).
1963 George Wallace sworn in as Alabama’s governor, promising “segregation forever.”
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.
2008 Bobby Jindal takes office as governor of Louisiana as the first elected Indian-American governor of the U.S.
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