TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – SEPT 3
301 San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world’s oldest republic still in existence, founded by Saint Marinus
1189 After the death of Henry II, Richard Lionheart is crowned king of England.
1260 Mamelukes under Sultan Qutuz defeat Mongols and Crusaders at Ain Jalut.
1752 Day skipped in the British Empire The British Empire skipped 11 days starting September 3 when it adopted the Gregorian calendar.
1783 The Treaty of Paris is signed by Great Britain and the new United States, formally bringing the American Revolution to an end.
1838 Frederick Douglass escapes slavery disguised as a sailor. He would later write The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, his memoirs about slave life.
1895 The first professional American football game is played in Latrobe, Pennsylvania between the Latrobe Young Men’s Christian Association and the Jeannette Athletic Club. Latrobe wins 12-0.
1900 With a proclamation by General Lord Roberts, Britain annexes the Boer Republic of South Africa
1918 The United States recognizes the nation of Czechoslovakia.
1925 : New figures have been published by Washington to provide an idea of Income Tax paid against income based on a married man with no dependents it also includes normal tax and surtax.
Tax/Income:
$22.50/$4,000
$37.50/$5,000
$57.50/$6,000
$87.50/$7,000
$127.50/$8,000
$167.50/$9,000
$207.50/$10,000
$557.50/$15,000
$1017.50/$20,000
$2317.50/$30,000
$4037.50/$40,000
$14,877.50/$80,000
The tax increases steeply after $100,000 to as high as 40%.
1939 After Germany ignores Great Britain’s ultimatum to stop the invasion of Poland, Great Britain declares war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II in Europe.
1971 Qatar independence The Persian Gulf state gained its independence after 55 years of British rule.
1976 The unmanned US spacecraft Viking 2 lands on Mars, takes first close-up, color photos of the planet’s surface.
1981 Egypt arrests some 1,500 opponents of the government.
1988 Estimated by this date 50,000 Kurdish civilians and soldiers killed by Iraq, many using chemical weapons, in aftermath of Iran-Iraq War
1989 US begins shipping military aircraft and weapons to Columbia for use against that country’s drug lords.
1994 Russia and China sign a demarcation agreement to end dispute over a stretch of their border and agree they will no longer target each other with nuclear weapons.
2004 The Hostage Siege ends in The Beslan school in Russia when The group of armed terrorists who had held more than 1,000 hostages in a Beslan school sets of explosives (disagreements over accidentally or on purpose) sets of a fire in the roof of the building leaving 334 hostages dead including 175 school children. Following the explosion Russian forces storm the building leaving 31 terrorists dead.
2007 The final British withdrawal of British troops from their base in the center of Basra to the airport continues in preparation for Iraq security forces to take control of the city.
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