TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – OCT 30
1270 The Seventh Crusade ends by the Treaty of Barbary.
1534 English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Church in England – a role formerly held by the Pope
1831 Escaped slave Nat Turner was apprehended in Southampton County, VA, several weeks after leading the bloodiest slave uprising in American history.
1838 Oberlin Collegiate Institute in Lorian County, Ohio becomes the first college in the U.S. to admit female students.
1905 The czar of Russia issues the October Manisfesto, granting civil liberties and elections in an attempt to avert the burgeonng supprot for revolution.
1922 Mussolini sends his black shirts into Rome. The Fascist takeover is almost without bloodshed. The next day, Mussolini is made prime minister. Mussolini centralized all power in himself as leader of the Fascist party and attempted to create an Italian empire, ultimately in alliance with Hitler’s Germany.
1938 H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds is broadcast over the radio by Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre. Many panic believing it is an actual newscast about a Martian invasion.
1953 US Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves a top secret document to maintain and expand the country’s nuclear arsenal.
1953 Gen. George C. Marshall won the Nobel Peace Prize for originating the Marshall Plan.
1961 The USSR detonates “Tsar Bomba,” a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb; it is still (2013) the largest explosive device of any kind over detonated.
1961 The Soviet Party Congress unanimously approved an order to remove Joseph Stalin’s body from Lenin’s tomb.
1972 U.S. President Richard Nixon approved legislation to increase Social Security spending by $5.3 billion.
1974 The “Rumble in the Jungle,” a boxing match in Zaire that many regard as the greatest sporting event of the 20th century, saw challenger Muhammad Ali knock out previously undefeated World Heavyweight Champion George Foreman.
1975 The New York Daily News ran the headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead.” The headline came a day after U.S. President Gerald R. Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City.
1981 The secretary of the UK’s pro-euthanasia group Exit Nicholas Reed is found guilty and jailed for two and a half years for aiding and abetting suicide.
1985 Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for its final successful mission.
1998 The terrorist who hijacked a Turkish Airlines plane and the 39 people on board was killed when anti-terrorist squads raided the plane.
2012 The “super-storm” Sandy hit the US East Coast creating a major disaster area in heavily populated areas like New York City and the coast of New Jersey.
2014 Sweden Recognizes Palestine. it became the first EU country in Western Europe to recognize the State of Palestine.
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