TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 24
380 Theodosius I makes his adventus, or first formal entry, into Constantinople
1639 1st observation of transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree – helped establish size of the Solar System
1642 Abel Tasman discovered Van Diemen’s land, later renamed Tasmania.
1859 Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. The first printing of 1,250 copies sells out in a single day.
1863 In the Battle Above the Clouds, Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker’s forces take Lookout Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1864 Kit Carson and his 1st Cavalry, New Mexico Volunteers, attack a camp of Kiowa Indians in the First Battle of Adobe Walls.
1871 The National Rifle Association was incorporated.
1874 Joseph Glidden receives a patent for barbed wire.
1877 Black Beauty is published
1927 Federal officials battle 1,200 inmates after prisoners in Folsom Prison revolt.
1938 Mexico seizes oil land adjacent to Texas.
1939 In Czechoslovakia, the Gestapo execute 120 students who are accused of anti-Nazi plotting.
1949 The Iron and Steel Act nationalizes the steel industry in Britain.
1950 UN troops begin an assault into the rest of North Korea, hoping to end the Korean War by Christmas.
1961 The United Nations adopts bans on nuclear arms over American protests.
1963 Jack Ruby fatally shoots the accused assassin of President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, in the garage of the Dallas Police Department.
1971 D. B. Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Airlines flight with $200,000.
1979 The United States admits that thousands of troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange.
1983 PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians & Lebanese
1992 US Congress passes the Brady Bill requiring a 5-day waiting period for handgun sales; the bill is named for Pres. Ronald Reagan’s press secretary who was left partially paralyzed by a bullet during an assassination attempt on Reagan.
2012 A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills over 110 people.
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