TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – APRIL 7
0451 Attila’s Hun’s plunder Metz
1521 Inquisitor-General Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
1788 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
1818 General Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks FL from Seminole Indians
1827 English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches
1891 Nebraska introduces the 8 hour work day
1923 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney
1913 5,000 suffragists march to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. , seeking the vote for women.
1927 U.S. secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover’s Washington speech was seen and heard in New York in the first long-distance television transmission.
1943 LSD was first produced at Sandoz Laboratorie in Basil, Switzerland, by Albert Hoffman.
1948 World Health Organization established by UN
1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
1969 Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material
1971 President Richard Nixon orders Lieutenant Calley (My Lai) free
1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
1988 Russia announces it will withdraw its troops from Afghánistán
1990 John Poindexter (National Security Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal
1994 Hutu extremists in Rwanda began massacring ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. In 100 days of killing, an estimated 800,000 are murdered.
1999 The World Trade Organisation rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas
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