TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – DEC 9
536 Having captured Naples earlier in the year, Belisarius takes Rome.
1212 Frederick II (later also Holy Roman Emperor) crowned King of Germany in Mainz
1861 The U.S. Senate approves establishment of a committee that would become the Joint Committee on the Conduct of War.
1867 The capital of Colorado Territory is moved from Golden to Denver.
1900 The Russian czar rejects Boer Paul Kruger’s pleas for aid in South Africa against the British.
1908 A child labor bill passes in the German Reichstag, forbidding work for children under age 13.
1948 The United States abandons a plan to de-concentrate industry in Japan.
1949 The United Nations takes trusteeship over Jerusalem.
1950 President Harry Truman bans U.S. exports to Communist China.
1950 Harry Gold gets 30 years imprisonment for passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union during World War II.
1958 The anti-Communist John Birch Society was formed.
1960 The Laos government flees to Cambodia as the capital city of Vientiane is engulfed in war.
1965 “A Charlie Brown Christmas” premiered.
1967 Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace
1975 President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 Billion loan-authorization for NYC
1979 Smallpox declared eradicated
1990 Lech Walesa is elected president of Poland.
1992 U.S. Marines land in Somalia to ensure food and medicine reaches the deprived areas of that country.
1994 Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments
2008 Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is arrested on federal charges, including an attempt to sell the US Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.
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