TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JAN 7
1327 King Edward II of England is deposed.
1610 Galileo discovers first three satellites of Jupiter, Io, Europa & Ganymede
1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
1782 The Bank of North America opened in Philadelphia. It was the first commercial bank in the United States.
1785 Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American Dr. John Jeffries make the first crossing of the English Channel in a hydrogen balloon.
1807 Responding to Napoleon Bonaparte’s attempted blockade of the British Isles, the British blockade Continental Europe.
1865 Cheyenne and Sioux warriors attack Julesburg, Colo., in retaliation for the Sand Creek Massacre.
1894 W.K. Dickson received a patent for motion picture film.
1896 Fanny Farmer published her first cookbook.
1901 New York stock exchange trading exceeds two million shares for the first time in history.
1904 The distress signal “CQD” was established. Two years later “SOS” became the radio distress signal because it was quicker to send by wireless radio.
1927 In Hinckley IL, the Harlem Globetrotters played their first game.
1927 The first transatlantic telephone service is established A 3-minute call between New York and London cost about $45 USD, which is roughly $550 in today’s dollars.
1929 The debut of “Buck Rogers 2429 A.D.” occurred in newspapers around the U.S. The title of the comic strip was later changed to “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1932 Chancellor Heinrich Brüning declared that Germany cannot, and will not, resume reparations payments.
1934 Six thousand pastors in Berlin defy the Nazis insisting that they will not be silenced.
1953 US President Harry Truman announces American development of the hydrogen bomb
1954 Georgetown-IBM experiment, 1st public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held at IBM’s head office in New York
1954 The Duoscopic TV receiver was unveiled this day. The TV set allowed the watching of two different shows at the same time.
1975 OPEC agreed to raise crude oil prices by 10%, which began a time of world economic inflation.
1979 Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge are overthrown when Vietnamese troops seize the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh.
1980 US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation providing $1.5 billion in loans to salvage Chrysler Corporation.
1990 Safety concerns over structural problems force the Leaning Tower of Pisa to be closed to the public.
1996 One of the biggest blizzards in U.S. history hit the eastern states. More than 100 deaths were later blamed on the severe weather.
1998 Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signed an affidavit denying that she had an affair with U.S. President Clinton.
1999 The impeachment trial of US President Bill Clinton opens in the US Senate.
2009 Russia shut off all gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly endorsed the move and urged greater international involvement in the energy dispute.
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