TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – APRIL 10
1516 1st Jewish ghetto established: Venice compels Jews to live in a specific area
1790 The U.S. patent system is established.
1809 Austria declares war on France and her forces enter Bavaria.
1849 Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. He sold the rights for $100.
1865 At Appomattox Court, Va, General Robert E. Lee issues his last orders to the Army of Northern Virginia.
1866 The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is formed.
1902 South African Boers accept British terms of surrender.
1912 The Titanic begins her maiden voyage which will end in disaster.
1919 Emiliano Zapata the leader of the peasants during the Mexican Revolution, is ambushed and shot to death in Morelos by government forces.
1922 The Genoa Conference opened. The meeting was used to discuss the reconstruction of Europe after World War I.
1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
1930 The first synthetic rubber is produced.
1941 U.S. troops occupy Greenland to prevent Nazi infiltration.
1945 Allied troops liberate the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald north of Weener, Germany.
1947 Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play major league baseball as he takes the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1963 The atomic-powered submarine Thresher sank off Cape Cod, Mass.
1971 In an effort to build better relations between the U.S. and China a US table tennis team begins a week long visit to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) at the invitation of China’s communist government
1972 Seventy nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union, signed an agreement banning biological warfare.
1981 Imprisoned Irish Republican Army hunger striker Bobby Sands is elected to the British Parliament.
1984 The U.S. Senate condemned the CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors.
1992 A bomb exploded in London’s financial district. The bomb, set off by the Irish Republican Army, killed three people and injured 91.
1992 Outside Needles, CA, comedian Sam Kinison was killed when a pickup truck slammed into his car on a desert road between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
1996 U.S. President Clinton vetoed a bill that would have outlawed a technique used to end pregnancies in their late stages.
1998 Negotiators in Northern Ireland reach an historic peace deal The Good Friday Agreement ended 30 years of violent conflict about Northern Ireland’s constitutional status (“The Troubles”).
2001 Mercy killings become legal in the Netherlands In a controversial decision the Dutch senate approved a bill legalizing euthanasia for patients with unbearable, terminal illness.
2002 Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke before the U.S. Senate as a representative of the Israeli government. He warned that suicide bombers would spread to the U.S. if Israel was not allowed to finish its military offensive in the West Bank. Netanyaho also cited the goals of dismantling the terror regime and expelling Arafat from the region, ridding the Palestinian territories of terrorist weapons and establishing “physical barriers” to protect Israelis from future Palestinian attacks.
2003 The U.S. House passed the “Amber Alert” bill. It provided a system for alerting the public about missing or abducted children.
2006 Following the No Vote on the Immigration bill ( often referred to as the Amnesty Bill ) that was designed for millions of illegal immigrants to become citizens two day earlier. Immigrants and their supporters have marched in the hundreds of thousands in more than one hundred cities throughout the country, casting off the old fears of their illegal status to assert that they have a right to a life in United States
2007 The military has started to build a three-mile concrete wall in the center of Baghdad. This is to run along the most murderous streets that separate the citys Sunni and Shiite Muslims
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