TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – FEB 3
1160 Emperor Frederick Barbarossa hurtles prisoners, including children, at the Italian city of Crema, forcing its surrender.
1238 The Mongols take over Vladimir, Russia.
1690 The first paper money in America is issued in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1783 Spain recognizes United States’ independence.
1809 The territory of Illinois was created.
1870 The 15th Amendment (black suffrage) passed.
1900 In Frankfort, KY, gubernatorial candidate William Goebels died from an assasin’s bullet wounds. On August 18, 1900, Ex-Sec. of State Caleb Powers was found guilt of conspiracy to murder Gov. Goebels.
1908 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that union-sponsored boycotts are illegal, and applies the Sherman Antitrust Act to labor as well as capital.
1913 The 16th Amendment, establishing federal income tax, was ratified.
1917 A German submarine sinks the U.S. liner Housatonic off coast of Sicily. The United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany.
1927 President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill creating the Federal Radio Commission to regulate the airwaves.
1947 Percival Prattisbecame the first black news correspondent admitted to the House and Senate press gallery in Washington, DC. He worked for “Our World” in New York City.
1948 Late in the 1940s the first of the next generation of car design ( tail-fins ) is seen for the first time on the Cadillac.
1950 Klaus Fuchs one of the scientists who came to Britain following the end of World War II and helped develop the atomic bomb, is arrested for passing top secret information about the bomb to the Soviet Union.
1959 Rock singers, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and Big Bopper died in a plane crash.
1962 President John F. Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba.
1969 Yasser Arafat becomes leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
1971 OPEC decides to set oil prices without consulting buyers.
1984 The Environmental Protection Agency orders a ban on the pesticide EDB for grain products.
1988 The U.S. House of Representatives rejects Ronald Reagan’s request for more than $36 million in aid to the Nicaraguan Contras.
1994 President Bill Clinton had lifted the trade embargo that was placed on the Republic of Vietnam.
1998 20 people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster The wings of a low-flying U.S. military aircraft cut the aerial tramway’s cables, causing the cabin to plunge 80 meters.
2007 A suicide bomber with a truck loaded with high explosives commits suicide in a Baghdad market killing more than 130 mainly Shiite Muslims
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