TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – OCT 9
28 BC The Temple of Apollo is dedicated on the Palatine Hill in Rome.
768 Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks
1000 Leif Ericson discovers “Vinland” (possibly L’Anse aux Meadows, Canada) reputedly becoming first European to reach North America
1470 Henry VI of England restored to the throne.
1635 Religious dissident and Rhode Island founder, Roger Williams, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
for people to seek religious freedom.
1701 The Collegiate School of Connecticut was chartered in New Haven. The name was later changed to Yale.
1776 A group of Spanish missionaries settled in what is now San Francisco, CA.
1779 The Luddite riots being in Manchester, England in reaction to machinery for spinning cotton.
1855 Isaac Singer patented the sewing machine motor.
1872 Aaron Montgomery started his mail order business with the delivery of the first mail order catalog. The firm later became Montgomery Wards
1888 The Washington Monument, designed by Robert Mills, opens to the public.
1934 In Marseilles, a Macedonian revolutionary associated with Croat terrorists in Hungary assassinates King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. The two had been on a tour of European capitals in quest of an alliance against Nazi Germany. The assassinations bring the threat of war between Yugoslavia and Hungary, but confrontation is prevented by the League of Nations.
1936 The Hoover Dam begins creating hydroelectric power which it sends over transmission lines spanning 266 miles of mountains and deserts to run the lights, radios, and stoves of Los Angeles.
1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic program – beginning of the Manhattan project
1950 U.N. forces, led by the First Cavalry Division, cross the 38th parallel in South Korea and begin attacking northward towards the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
1967 Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia.
1969 The National Guard is called in to control demonstrations that continue in Chicago protesting the trial of the Chicago Eight.
1983 The president of South Korea, Doo Hwan Chun, with his cabinet and other top officials are scheduled to lay a wreath on a monument in Rangoon, Burma, when a bomb explodes. Hwan had not yet arrived so escaped injury, but 17 Koreans–including the deputy prime minister and two other cabinet members–and two Burmese are killed. North Korea is blamed.
1985 The terrorists who had taken the passengers and crew of the Achille Lauro hostage agree to release the hostages on condition of safe passage to Tunisia
1986 U.S. District Judge Harry E. Claiborne became the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment. The U.S. Senate convicted Claiborne of “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
1991 Defense secretary Dick Cheney defended the Pentagon policy of a ban of homosexuals in the military stating we shouldn’t take any step that undermines the overall fighting effectiveness of our military forces.
1994 The U.S. sent troops and warships to the Persian Gulf in response to Saddam Hussein sending thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks toward the Kuwaiti border.
2004 This is the first US presidential elections where bloggers from both sides of the political spectrum are commenting on news stories and providing political commentary in large numbers during the run up to the presidential election with a number of high profile left and right leaning blogs now attracting many thousands of readers.
2006 North Korea reportedly tests its first nuclear device.
2007 Iraq has demanded that the US ends its use of private security firm Blackwater within six months in Iraq and demanded Blackwater pay $8m compensation to each family bereaved by last month’s shootings by Blackwater staff of 17 Iraq Iraqi civilians.
2012 Assassination Attempt on Malala Yousafzai. The Pakistani education activist was shot at and injured while going back home from school
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