TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 19
1620 The Pilgrims sight Cape Cod.
1703 A masked man held prisoner in the Bastille in Paris died. His true identity was the cause of much intrigue, and his story became the basis of literary works by François Voltaire and Alexandre Dumas.
1861 Julia Ward Howe writes “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” while visiting Union troops near Washington.
1863 Lincoln delivers the “Gettysburg Address” at the dedication of the National Cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg.
1903 Carrie Nation attempts to address the Senate
1911 New York receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy.
1923 The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures.
1931 The United States and other countries involved with the League of Nations decided to aid China in the fight to force Japan to withdraw from Manchuria.
1959 Ford Motor Co. announced it was ending the production of the unpopular Edsel.
1973 New York stock market takes sharpest drop in 19 years.
1976 Patty Hearst is released from prison on $1.5 million bail.
1977 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visits Israel Sadat was the first Arab head of state to visit Israel and address the Israeli parliament, the Knesset.
1979 Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages quoting these hostages are being released because they are “oppressed minorities” and because of “the special place of women in Islam,”.
1981 U.S. Steel agrees to pay $6.3 million for Marathon Oil.
1985 US President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, meet for the first time.
1985 In the largest civil verdict in US history, Pennzoil wins $10.53 billion judgement against Texaco.
1998 US House of Representatives begins impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton.
2002 The U.S. government completed its takeover of security at 424 airports nationwide.
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