TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MARCH 7
0161 Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire
1530 King Henry VIII’s divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England’s church
1644 Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies
1774 The British close the port of Boston to all commerce.
1799 In Palestine, Napoleon captures Jaffa and his men massacre more than 2,000 Albanian prisoners.
1801 Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law
1847 U.S. General Winfield Scott occupies Vera Cruz, Mexico.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for the telephone.
1906 Finland becomes the third country to give women the right to vote, decreeing universal suffrage for all citizens over 24, however, barring those persons who are supported by the state.
1908 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council & announced that, “women are not physically fit to operate automobiles”
1912 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
1918 President Wilson authorizes US Army’s Distinguished Service Medal
1927 A Texas law that bans Negroes from voting is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
1932 Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn MI, kills 4
1933 Game of “Monopoly” invented
1942 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
1965 Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors clash in Selma
1968 The Battle of Saigon, begun on the day of the Tet Offensive, ends.
1971 A speech by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman helps spark the Bangladesh war of independence
1975 Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
1979 Voyager 1 reaches Jupiter.
1983 TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV
1991 Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
1994 ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa
1997 5 sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country’s constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life
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