TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MAY 29
1453 Constantinople falls to Muhammad II, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1660 On his 30th birthday Charles II returns to London from exile in the Netherlands to claim the English throne after the Puritan Commonwealth comes to an end
1765 Patrick Henry bitterly denounced the Stamp Act in the Virginia House of Burgesses.
1790 Rhode Island becomes the last of the original thirteen colonies to ratify the Constitution.
1848 Wisconsin becomes the thirtieth state.
1849 A patent for lifting vessels is granted to Abraham Lincoln.
1912 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing the “Turkey Trot” during their lunch break
1916 U.S. forces invade the Dominican Republic.
1916 Official flag of President of US adopted
1922 The U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport not subject to antitrust laws.
1968 The (TILA) Truth In Lending Act passes into law with regulations designed to protect consumers in credit transactions requiring clear disclosure of key terms of the lending arrangement and all costs. It is part of the “Consumer Credit Protection Act”.
1972 Three gunmen open fire on crowds at Lod International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 26 people and injuring dozens more. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility and said they had recruited the gunmen from the Japanese Red Army who committed the murders.
1974 President Richard Nixon agrees to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts.
1982 Pentagon plans 1st strategy to fight a nuclear war
1989 Student protesters in Tiananmen Square China construct a replica of the Statue of Liberty
1990 Boris Yeltsin is elected the president of Russia.
1993 Nazis kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany
1996 Benjamin Netanyahu becomes Israel’s prime minister
1999 Olusegun Obasanjo wins Nigeria’s first free elections in 16 years
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