TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – OCT 9
0028 The Temple of Apollo is dedicated on the Palatine Hill in Rome.
680 Husain ibn ‘Ali, Shi’i religious leader, enters martyrdom
768 Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks
1000 Leif Ericson discovers “Vinland” (possibly L’Anse aux Meadows, Canada) reputedly becoming first European to reach North America
1470 Henry VI of England restored to the throne.
1635 Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, was banished from Massachusetts because he had spoken out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away land that belonged to the Indians. Williams had founded Providence, Rhode Island as a place for people to seek religious freedom.
1781 The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War took place in Yorktown, VA. The American forces, led by George Washington, defeated the British troops under Lord Cornwallis.
1825 The first Norwegian immigrants to America arrive on the sloop Restaurationen.
1872 Aaron Montgomery started his mail order business with the delivery of the first mail order catalog. The firm later became Montgomery Wards.
1888 The Washington Monument, designed by Robert Mills, opens to the public.
1934 In Marseilles, a Macedonian revolutionary associated with Croat terrorists in Hungary assassinates King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. The two had been on a tour of European capitals in quest of an alliance against Nazi Germany. The assassinations bring the threat of war between Yugoslavia and Hungary, but confrontation is prevented by the League of Nations.
1936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to LA
1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt requests congressional approval for arming U.S. merchant ships.
1967 “Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome” Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia.
1980 1st consumer use of home banking by computer (Knoxville Tn)
1983 The president of South Korea, Doo Hwan Chun, with his cabinet and other top officials are scheduled to lay a wreath on a monument in Rangoon, Burma, when a bomb explodes. Hwan had not yet arrived so escaped injury, but 17 Koreans–including the deputy prime minister and two other cabinet members–and two Burmese are killed. North Korea is blamed.
1983 After a number of months where the unemployment rate has increased each month many are hoping last months figures are a turning point at 9.3%. The highest national rate was in December at 10.8% the highest in 42 years.
1986 Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him the 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment
1989 Penthouse Magazine’s hebrew edition hits the newstands
1999 Last flight of the Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird” stealth reconnaissance aircraft.
2006 North Korea reportedly tests its first nuclear device.
2007 Iraq has demanded that the US ends its use of private security firm Blackwater within six months in Iraq and demanded Blackwater pay $8m compensation to each family bereaved by last month’s shootings by Blackwater staff of 17 Iraq Iraqi civilians.
2009 NASA launched the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). On November 13, it was announced that water had been discovered in the planned impact plume on the moon.
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