TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MARCH 12
538 Witiges, King of the Ostrogoths, ends his siege of Rome, retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of victorious Byzantine General Belisarius
1365 University of Vienna founded
1496 The Jews are expelled from Syria.
1664 New Jersey becomes a British colony.
1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
1789 The United States Post Office is established.
1860 Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists
1879 The British Zulu War begins.
1894 Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
1912 Juliet Low founds the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Georgia.
1928 Hundreds Reported Drowned When the St. Francis dam burst flooding into the San Francisquito Canyon in California
1930 Gandhi begins his march to the sea to symbolizes his defiance of British rule in India.
1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the first of his nation-wide “fireside chats” on radio.
1947 President Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism
1959 Congressional approval to admit Hawaii as the 50th state in the U.S.
1964 Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
1980 A jury finds John Wayne Gacy Jr. ( also known as The Killer Clown ) guilty of the murders of 33 boys and young men, he had admitted the murders but he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
1984 National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
1990 Los Angeles Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
1993 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
1994 Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
2002 The color-coded terror alert system was unveiled by Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge.
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