TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JUNE 18 2019

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    TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JUNE 18 2019

    618 Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty’s rule over China

    1583 Richard Martin of London takes out 1st life insurance policy, on William Gibbons. The premium was œ383

    1778 British Redcoats evacuate Phila

    1812 War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain

    1815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon and France defeated by British forces under Wellington and Prussian troops under Blucher

    1822 Part of US-Canadian boundary determined

    1873 Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.

    1940 A speech by Charles de Gaulle sparks the French Resistance to German occupation

    1945 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) Brit radio traitor charged with treason

    1948 The LP record is introduced

    1948 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights. The General Assembly would give it final approval on Dec. 10, 1948.

    1968 Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing

    1976 NBA & ABA agree to merge

    1979 Leonid Brezhnev and Jimmy Carter sign SALT II- The second “Strategic Arms Limitation Talks” (SALT) agreement was a ground-breaking arms reduction treaty between the Soviet Union and the United States.

    1980 “Blues Brothers” with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi premiers

    1981 Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O’Connor, 1st woman on high court)

    1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote

    1983 Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.

    2003 More than 100 People are killed when an explosion on a vandalized pipeline is ignited by a spark from a passing motorcycle in the village of Amaokwe Oghughe.

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