TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JAN 7
1327 King Edward II of England is deposed.
1610 Galileo Galilei discovers the first three moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa & Ganymede
1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
1785 Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American Dr. John Jeffries make the first crossing of the English Channel in a hydrogen balloon.
1789 1st national (Presidential) election in US
1807 Responding to Napoleon Bonaparte’s attempted blockade of the British Isles, the British blockade Continental Europe.
1822 Liberia colonized by Americans
1865 Cheyenne and Sioux warriors attack Julesburg, Colo., in retaliation for the Sand Creek Massacre.
1892 Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs OK-blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
1896 Fanny Farmer published her first cookbook.
1901 New York stock exchange trading exceeds two million shares for the first time in history.
1929 “Buck Rogers”, 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres
1929 “Tarzan”, one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears
1931 Committee for Unemployment Relief announced some 4 to 5 million Americans were unemployed. The Depression continued to grow worse, and by 1932, some 13 million Americans were without jobs.
1934 Six thousand pastors in Berlin defy the Nazis insisting that they will not be silenced.
1953 Harry Truman announced that the U.S. had developed the hydrogen bomb.
1955 Marian Anderson becomes the first African American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House.
1969 US Congress doubles presidential salary
1972 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1979 Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge are overthrown when Vietnamese troops seize the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh.
1985 Japan launches its first interplanetary spacecraft, Sakigake, the first deep space probe launched by any nation other than the US or the USSR.
1986 US President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
1990 Safety concerns over structural problems force the Leaning Tower of Pisa to be closed to the public.
1997 Newt Gingrich, narrowly re-elected speaker of the House
1999 The impeachment trial of US President Bill Clinton opens in the US Senate.
2006 Tom DeLay steps down as House majority leader following newspaper articles and possible charges of corruption
2009 Russia fully closes down Gas Supplies to Ukraine due to a dispute over a debt of $2.4 billion to Gazprom. Reduced supply had started on 1st but due to negotiations breaking down all supplies were cut on 7th.
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