From Historynet: 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.