TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – OCT 3 2018
2333 BC State of Gojoseon (Modern-day Korea) founded by Dangun Wanggeom during the reign of the Chinese Emperor Yao
52 BC Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia
1283 Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Gwynedd, Wales, becomes the first person executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered
1739 Russia signs a treaty with the Turks, ending a three-year conflict between the two countries.
1776 Congress borrows five million dollars to halt the rapid depreciation of paper money in the colonies.
1863 President Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
1873 Captain Jack and three other Modoc Indians are hanged in Oregon for the murder of General Edward Canby.
1893 The motor-driven vacuum cleaner was patented by J.S. Thurman.
1913 Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)
1922 Rebecca L. Felton became the first woman U.S. Senator when she was appointed to serve out the term of Senator Thomas E. Watson.
1928 The ongoing Taxicab war in Chicago is increasing in intensity as Two Yellow Cab Garages were bombed with dynamite this week . Both companies are staying tight-lipped about the feud and have not passed details on to the local police.
1929 The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes officially changes its name to Yugoslavia.
1942 The Office of Economic Stabilization was established by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He also authorized controls on rents, wages, salaries and farm prices.
1942 A new war effort has started across the country with the new initiative of “scrap days” encouraging every American to help the war effort by giving scrap consisting of metal and old clothing to the nearest scrap merchant who will then be able to provide much needed raw materials for the war effort.
1952 Tea rationing ends after 12 years in Great Britain a nation of tea drinkers. Sweets, Meat, Eggs, Butter and sugar are still on ration.
1952 The UK successfully conducts a nuclear weapon, becoming the world’s third nuclear power
1955 Captain Kangaroo and The Mickey Mouse Club premiered on television.
1963 A violent coup in Honduras ends a period of political reform and ushers in two decades of military rule.
1964 Berliners dig a 470-foot tunnel between East and West Berlin (Tunnel 57) which allows 57 east Berliners to escape to the West.
1985 The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.
1990 After 40 years of division, East and West Germany are reunited as one nation.
1993 Battle of Mogadishu, in which 18 US soldiers and some 1,000 Somalis are killed during an attempt to capture officials of the warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid’s organization.
1995 Former pro football star and actor O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, ending what many called “the Trial of the Century.”.
2002 Five more people are killed in random shootings in the Washington, D.C., area and authorities began to search for the “Beltway Sniper.”
2006 North Korea announced that it would conduct a nuclear test as a key step in the manufacture of atomic bombs that it viewed as a deterrent against a U.S. attack. A date for the test was not announced.
2008 The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase distressed assets of financial corporations and supply cash directly to banks to keep them afloat.
2011 Amanda Knox’s conviction for murder and sexual assault of Meredith Kercher is overturned by an Italian appeals court, she had served nearly 3 years of the 26 year sentence handed down following the first trial in 2009.
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