TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – SEPT 29 2017
1399 – Richard II of England is deposed. His cousin, Henry of Lancaster, declares himself king under the name Henry IV.
1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovers the Pacific Ocean.
1567 – War of Religion breaks out in France – Huguenots try to kidnap King Charles IX
1789 – Congress votes to create a U.S. army.
1829 – Sir Robert Peel’s police force, the “bobbies,” began operations at Scotland Yard.
1833 – A civil war breaks out in Spain between Carlists, who believe Don Carlos deserves the throne, and supporters of Queen Isabella.
1850 – Mormon leader Brigham Young is named the first governor of the Utah Territory
1879 – Dissatisfied Ute Indians kill Agent Nathan Meeker and nine others in the “Meeker Massacre.”
1941 – 30,000 Jews are gunned down in Kiev when Heinrich Himmler sends four strike squads to exterminate Soviet Jewish civilians and other “undesirables.”
1943 – Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf is published in the United States.
1950 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev repeatedly disrupts a UN General Assembly meeting with his violent outbursts over intervention in the Belgian Congo, US U2 spy planes, and arms control.
1962 – A new report by the department of Labor Statistics shows that the average weekly take home pay of a factory worker with three dependents is now $94.87.
1982 – Seven people died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. This led to the use of safety seals on most consumer products.
1983 – The War Powers Act was used for the first time by the U.S. Congress when they authorized President Reagan to keep U.S. Marines in Lebanon for 18 more months.
1984 – Irish officials announced that they had intercepted the Marita Anne carrying seven tons of U.S.-purchased weapons. The weapons were intended for the Irish Republican Army.
1986 – In a rare occurrence the Democrats and Republicans set aside their political differences to introduce sweeping tax reform legislation.
1991 – Haiti President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was deposed in a military coup
1993 – Bosnia’s parliament voted overwhelmingly to reject an international peace plan unless Bosnian Serbs returned land that had been taken by force.
1994 – The U.S. House voted to end the practice of lobbyist buying meals and entertainment for members of Congress.
1997 – A number of American servicemen have been falling foul of the law in Turkey which does not allow the use of profanity in public places
2006 – A fifteen year old student Eric Hainstock shot and killed his principal on this day. The shooting took place in Cazenovia, Wisconsin.
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