TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 4
644 Umar of Arabia is assassinated at Medina and is succeeded as caliph by Uthman.
1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Guadeloupe during his second expedition.
1529 English cardinal Thomas Wolsey arrested on charges of treason
1576 Eighty Years’ War: In Flanders, Spanish defeat Walloon and capture Antwerp
1646 Massachusetts uses death penalty for denying that Holy Bible is God’s word
1677 William III and Mary of England wed on William’s birthday.
1791 General Arthur St. Clair, governor of Northwest Territory, is badly defeated by a large Indian army near Fort Wayne.
1798 Congress agrees to pay a yearly tribute to Tripoli, considering it the only way to protect U.S. shipping.
1846 Benjamin Palmer patents artificial leg
1862 Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis
1873 Dentist John Beers of San Francisco patents the gold crown
1880 James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio, patented the first cash register.
1918 Austria signs an armistice with the Allies.
1922 The U.S. Postmaster General orders all homes to get mailboxes or relinquish delivery of mail.
1922 The entrance to King Tut’s tomb is discovered.
1924 Calvin Coolidge is elected 30th president of the United States.
1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross and Miriam Ferguson are elected first and second women governors (Wyoming and Texas).
1939 1st air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Ill
1939 US allows “cash & carry” arms sales during WW II
1952 US National Security Agency formed The agency was preceded by the Armed Forces Security Agency.
1952 General Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected 34th president of the United States.
1979 At the American Embassy in Teheran, Iran, 90 people, including 63 Americans, are taken hostage by militant student followers of Ayatollah Khomeini. The students demand the return of Shah Mohammad Reza Pablavi, who is undergoing medical treatment in New York City.
1980 Ronald Reagan is elected the 40th president of the United States.
1992 Carol Moseley Braun becomes the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
2008 Senator Barack Obama of Illinois elected 44th president of the United States, the first African American to hold that position.
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