TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – AUG 29
70 The Temple of Jerusalem burns after a nine-month Roman siege.
1533 In Peru, the Inca chief Atahualpa is executed by orders of Francisco Pizarro, although the chief had already paid his ransom.
1758 1st indian reservation established
1776 General George Washington retreats during the night from Long Island to New York City.
1833 The “Factory Act” was passed in England to settle child labor laws.
1842 Great Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war
1886 In New York City, Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-chang’s chef invented chop suey.
1923 In New York City a laundryman who was being bullied and blackmailed by the leader of the Dropper Gang Jak Kaplan took the law into his own hands when he shot and killed the notorious gangster chief.
1949 USSR explodes its first atomic bomb, “First Lightning.”
1950 International Olympic Committee votes to allow West Germany and Japan to compete in 1952 games.
1957 US Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957 after Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24-hour filibuster, the longest in Senate history, against the bill.
1960 US U-2 spy plane spots SAM (surface-to-air) missile launch pads in Cuba.
1966 The Beatles give their last public concert (Candlestick Park, San Francisco).
1983 Two U.S. marines were killed in Lebanon by the militia group Amal when they fired mortar shells at the Beirut airport.
1986 Morocco’s King Hassan II signs unity treaty with Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, strengthening political and economic ties and creating a mutual defense pact.
1990 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television interview, declared that America could not defeat Iraq.
1991 The Communist Party in the Soviet Union had its bank accounts frozen and activities were suspended because of the Party’s role in the failed coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
1992 Thousands of Germans demonstrate against a wave of racist attacks aimed at immigrants.
2003 A terrorist bomb kills Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, and nearly 100 worshipers as they leave a mosque in Najaf where the ayatollah had called for Iraqi unity.
2006 Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad challenged United States president George W. Bush to an uncensored televised debate. The White House declined his invitation dismissing it as a distraction from the concerns over Iran’s nuclear program.
2006 Warren Steed Jeffs is arrested in Nevada by a local patrol officer, Warren Jeffs was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List due to his involvement for alleged arrangement of extralegal marriages between his adult male followers and underage girls
2008 Iran and Nigeria formed a deal in which Iran would share nuclear technology with Nigeria in order to help the country produce more electricity.
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