TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 13
1775 U.S. forces, under the command of Gen. Richard Montgomery, captured Montreal during the American Revolution.
1789 Ben Franklin writes “Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes”
1835 Texans officially proclaim independence from Mexico, and calls itself the Lone Star Republic, after its flag, until its admission to the Union in 1845.
1860 South Carolina’s legislature calls a special convention to discuss secession from the Union.
1862 Lewis Carroll writes in his diary, “Began writing the fairy-tale of Alice–I hope to finish it by Christmas.”
1878 New Mexico Governor Lew Wallace offers amnesty to many participants of the Lincoln County War, but not to gunfighter Billy the Kid.
1887 Protests by poor and unemployed Londoners over their hardships in Trafalgar Square took a violent turn when the police charged on those protesting with batons
1907 Paul Corno achieves the first helicopter flight.
1914 The brassiere, invented by Caresse Crosby, is patented.
1933 1st modern sit-down strike by Hormel meat packers in Austin, Minnesota
1940 U.S. Supreme Court rules in Hansberry v. Lee that African Americans cannot be barred from white neighborhoods.
1940 Walt Disney’s Fantasia debuted.
1945 Charles de Gaulle is elected president of France.
1952 Harvard’s Paul Zoll becomes the first man to use electric shock to treat cardiac arrest.
1956 The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously strikes down two Alabama laws requiring racial segregation on public buses.
1969 Anti-war protesters stage a symbolic “March Against Death” in Washington, DC.
1980 US spacecraft Voyager 1 sends back 1st close-up pictures of Saturn
1982 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated in Washington, DC.
1989 Compact of Free Association: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau—places US troops wrested from Japanese control in WWII—become sovereign nations, associated states of the United States.
2001 US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to planned or actual terrorist acts against the US.
2015 A series of coordinated terrorist attacks that included suicide bombs and mass shootings took place in France’s capital city.
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