TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – SEPT 8
1380 Battle on Kulikovo: Moscow’s great monarch Dimitri defeats the Mongols beginning the decline of the Tatars
1504 Michelangelo’s 13-foot marble statue of David is unveiled in Florence, Italy.
1565 Spanish explorers found St. Augustine, Florida, the first permanent European settlement in what is now the United States
1628 John Endecott arrives with colonists at Salem, Massachusetts, where he will become the governor.
1892 1st appearance of “The Pledge of Allegiance” (Youth’s Companion)
1893 In New Zealand, the Electoral Act 1893 was passed by the Legislative Council. It was consented by the governor on September 19 giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
1903 Between 30,000 and 50,000 Bulgarian men, women and children are massacred in Monastir by Turkish troops seeking to check a threatened Macedonian uprising.
1921 Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C., is named the first Miss America.
1930 NYC public schools begin teaching Hebrew
1935 Louisiana Senator Huey P. Long, “The Kingfish,” was shot and mortally wounded by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr.
1945 Korea is partitioned by the Soviet Union and the United States.
1952 Ernest Hemingway’s “Old Man & the Sea” published
1960 Penguin Books in Britain is charged with obscenity for trying to publish the D.H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
1970 Black September hijackings begin, three airliners hijacked and blown up by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
1974 President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard M. Nixon for any crimes arising from the Watergate scandal he may have committed while in office.
1991 Macedonian Independence Day; voters overwhelmingly approve referendum to form the Republic of Macedonia, independent of Yugoslavia.
1994 USAir Flight 427 crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, killing all 132 people aboard; subsequent investigation leads to changes in manufacturing practices and pilot training.
2015 British researchers announced that evidence of a larger version of Stonehenge had been located about 2 miles from the Stonehenge location. There were 90 buried stones that had been found by ground penetrating radar.
** history.net, onthisday.com, infoplease.com, timeanddate.com, thepeoplehistory.com, on-this-day.com **
