TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MAY 13
1568 Mary Queen of Scots was defeated at the Battle of Langside and immediately fled to North England.
1607 English colonists land near the James River in Virginia.
1637 Cardinal Richelieu of France creates the table knife
1648 Margaret Jones of Plymouth is found guilty of witchcraft and is sentenced to be hanged.
1787 Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay, Australia
1828 US passes Tariff of Abominations
1830 Republic of Ecuador is founded, with Juan Jose Flores as president
1846 US declares war on México, 2 months after fighting begins
1861 Britain declares its neutrality in the American Civil War.
1934 Great dustbowl storm sweeps across US prairies
1940 Winston Churchill gave his first speech as prime minister: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
1946 US convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death
1947 Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions
1950 The first Formula One World Championship season kicks off
1965 Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel
1966 Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1968 Peace talks between the United States and North Vietnam begin in Paris.
1979 Shah & family sentenced to death in Teheran
1989 Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China
1991 South African activist Winnie Mandela convicted of abducting 4 blacks
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