TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JUNE 2
455 King Gaiseric & the Vandals sack Rome – Rome looted for 14 days
1537 Pope Paul III bans the enslavement of Indians in the New World.
1774 The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to allow British soldiers into their houses, is reenacted.
1793 Maximilien Robespierre, a member of France’s Committee on Public Safety, initiates the “Reign of Terror.”
1847 Felix Mendelssohn’s Wedding March is used at a wedding for the first time
1851 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
1886 Grover Cleveland becomes the first American president to wed while in office.
1896 Guglielmo Marconi applies to patent the radio, accepted 2 July 1897
1924 The United States grants full citizenship to American Indian
1928 Nationalist Chiang Kai-shek captures Peking, China, in a bloodless takeover.
1953 Queen Elizabeth II is crowned
The coronation in London’s Westminster Abbey was the first televised major international event in history. Elizabeth’s accession to the throne followed the death of her father, King George VI, 16 months previously.
1954 Senator Joseph McCarthy charges that there are communists working in the CIA and atomic weapons plants.
1969 Australian aircraft carrier “Melbourne” slices US destroyer “Frank E Evans” in half, killing 74. (South Vietnam)
1977 NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
1979 John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland)
1986 Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, protecting students demonstrating for democracy
1997 Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.
1998 Proposition 227, requiring that all schoolchildren be taught in English is passed by the voters of California.
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