TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 29 2018
526 A possible date for the Antioch earthquake in present-day Syria (then the Byzantine Empire) which killed 200,000 people
1760 Major Roger Rogers takes possession of Detroit on behalf of Britain.
1777 City of San Jose Founded
1787 Louis XVI promulgates an edict of tolerance, granting civil status to Protestants.
1864 Colonel John M. Chivington’s 3rd Colorado Volunteers massacre Black Kettles’ camp of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians at Sand Creek, Colo.
1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
1899 FC Barcelona founded
1903 An Inquiry into the U.S. Postal Service demonstrates the government has lost millions in fraud.
1929 Commander Richard Byrd makes the first flight over the South Pole.
1931 The Spanish government seizes large estates for land redistribution.
1947 The United Nations voted to grant the Jewish people a homeland to be established in Palestine.
1948 The popular children’s television show, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, premieres.
1961 NASA launches a chimpanzee named Enos into Earth orbit.
1961 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss
1963 President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints Chief Justice Earl Warren head of a commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1967 US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
1972 Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game.
1973 Chrysler joins other US car makers in closing a number of plants affecting 38,000 workers and announced it was changing the focus to manufacturing smaller more efficient cars to combat the Japanese imports.
2007 The European Parliament has voted to tighten laws on obtaining and possessing firearms. The age at which a firearm can be bought or owned will be raised to 18, unless it is for hunting or target shooting under adult supervision.
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