TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – SEPT 9
337 Constantine’s three sons, already Caesars, each take the title of Augustus. Constantine II and Constans share the west while Constantius II takes control of the east.
1000 Battle of Svolder, Baltic Sea: King Olaf on board the Long Serpent defeated in one of the greatest naval battles of the Viking Age.
1087 William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy and King of England, dies in Rouen while conducting a war which began when the French king made fun of him for being fat.
1585 Pope Sixtus V deprives Henry of Navarre of his rights to the French crown.
1776 The term “United States” is adopted by the Continental Congress to be used instead of the “United Colonies.”
1786 George Washington calls for the abolition of slavery.
1850 California, in the midst of a gold rush, enters the Union as the 31st state.
1892 Almalthea, 5th moon of Jupiter, discovered by EE Barnard at Lick
1914 First fully mechanized unit in the British Army created – the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade (WWI)
1926 The Radio Corporation of America creates the National Broadcasting Co.
1942 A Japanese float plane, launched from a submarine, makes its first bombing run on a U.S. forest near Brookings, Oregon.
1945 First bug discovered in Computer Software Program when operators at the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory traced an error in the Mark II Computer to a moth trapped in a relay, coining the term bug. This bug was carefully removed and taped to the log book September 9th 1945.
1948 Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
1950 Following President Truman signing the defense production Act yesterday today on fireside talks on the nations radio and TV stations he will explain why he has cut consumer spending by limiting installment buying, real estate credit and put sweeping controls in place to curb wages and prices. There will also be some rationing put in place for essentials. The reasons for all these are because of the Korean War and Communist aggression.
1956 Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show; cameras focus on his upper torso and legs to avoid showing his pelvis gyrations, which many Americans—including Ed Sullivan—thought unfit for a family show.
1965 US Department of Housing and Urban Development established.
1969 Canada’s Official Languages Act takes effect, making French equal to English as a language within the nation’s government.
1970 Palestinian Guerrillas Hijacked a BOAC British Airliner from India bound for London and forced it to land in the Jordanian Dessert.
1971 Attica Prison Riot; the 4-day riot leaves 39 dead.
1987 25 Liverpool fans have been extradited to Belgium possibly facing charges of manslaughter for charging Juventus fans during a riot at the stadium which led to a wall collapsing causing the death of 39 Juventus fans.
1987 The new Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan, raised the discount rates to tackle inflation which caused the markets to go into a frenzy.
1990 In a meeting between President Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev over the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, the Russian President has agreed with President Bush on a common ground to ensure stability in the Middle east.
1990 Sri Lankan Army massacres 184 civilians of the Tamil minority in the Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
1991 Tajikistan declares independence from USSR.
1993 The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
1997 Sinn Fein, the IRA’s political ally, formally renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland’s future.
1998 Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr delivered to the U.S. Congress 36 boxes of material concerning his investigation of U.S. President Clinton.
2001 Two al Qaeda assassins kill Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan.
2001 A car bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
2003 The Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese has agreed to an out of court settlement of $85 million to settle the clergy sex abuse cases involving. The case centered on abuse by clergy of young children which the Archdiocese knew about and covered up the abuses often sending the clergy to different parishes.
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