TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – Nov 6
1429 Henry VI is crowned King of England.
1789 Father John Carroll was appointed as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States of America.
1812 The first winter snow falls on the French Army as Napoleon Bonaparte retreats form Moscow.
1860 Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th American President
1861 Jefferson Davis is elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy.
1894 William C. Hooker received a patent for the mousetrap
1903 Philippe Bunau-Varilla, as Panama’s ambassador to the United States, signed the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty. The document granted rights to the United States to build and indefinitely administer the Panama Canal Zone and its defenses.
1911 Maine becomes a dry state.
1913 Mahatma Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners’ march in South Africa
1923 Jacob Schick was granted a patent for the electric shaver
1935 Edwin H. Armstrong announced his development of FM broadcasting.
1956 Allied forces took control of the Suez Canal with British and French parachute troops holding the Mediterranean key to the Suez Canal at Port Said.
1961 In the Saraha Desert of Algeria, a natural gas well ignited when a pipe ruptured. The flames rose between 450 feet and 800 feet. The fire burned until April 28, 1962 when a team led by Red Adair used explosives to deprived the fire of oxygen. (Devil’s Cigarette Lighter)
1965 Cuba and the United States agree to start an airlift for Cubans who wish to live in the United States.
1973 Coleman Young becomes the first African-American mayor of Detroit, Michigan.
1978 Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule; General Gholan Reza Azhari forms government
1961 In the Saraha Desert of Algeria, a natural gas well ignited when a pipe ruptured. The flames rose between 450 feet and 800 feet. The fire burned until April 28, 1962 when a team led by Red Adair used explosives to deprived the fire of oxygen. (Devil’s Cigarette Lighter)
1985 Guerrillas of the leftist 19th of April Movement seize Colombia’s Palace of Justice in Bogata; during the two-day siege and the military assault to retake the building over 100 people are killed, including 11 of the 25 Supreme Court justices.
1986 The Iran arms-for-hostages deal is revealed, damaging the Reagan administration.
1986 Former Navy radioman John A. Walker Jr., was sentenced in Baltimore to life imprisonment. Walker had admitted to being the head of a family spy ring.
1989 In the hopes of freeing U.S. hostages held in Iran, the U.S. announced that it would unfreeze $567 million in Iranian assets that had been held since 1979
1991 Kuwait celebrated the dousing of the last of the oil fires ignited by Iraq during the Persian Gulf War.
1998 The Islamic militant group Hamas exploded a car bomb killing the two attackers and injuring 21 civilians.
1999 Australia’s voters reject a referendum to make the country a republic with a president appointed by Parliament.
2001 Ten people were executed in Beijing, China. The state newspaper of China said that all of the people executed were robbers and killers aged 20-23.
2007 King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia meets Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican, and this is the first ever audience by the head of the Roman Catholic Church with a Saudi monarch.
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