TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – APRIL 23
1014 King Brian Boru of Ireland defeats Viking forces at Battle of Clontarf, freeing Ireland from foreign control
1348 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of the Garter)
1500 Pedro Cabral claims Brazil for Portugal.
1661 Charles II is formally crowned king, returning the monarchy to Britain, albeit with greatly reduced powers.
1789 President George Washington moves into Franklin House, New York.
1856 Free Stater J.N. Mace in Westport, Kansas shoots pro-slavery sheriff Samuel Jones in the back.
1896 Vitascope system of movie projection 1st demonstrated (Koster & Bial’s Music Hall, NYC)
1900 1st known occurrence of word “hillbillie” (New York Journal)
1915 The ACA becomes the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA), the forerunner of NASA.
1924 The U.S. Senate passes the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill.
1945 Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated
1950 Chiang Kai-shek evacuates Hainan, leaving mainland China to Mao Zedong and the communists.
1968 United Methodist Church forms
1979 Major oil companies have been reporting sharp profit increases in profits , the profits have been made due to the large increases in supply prices and the President Carter is thinking of implementing a windfall profits tax on oil companies excessive profits .
1983 A think tank in Washington predicted by the year 2000 50% of the worlds energy resources will be met from renewable energy sources . ( In 2004 Oil accounted for 37.6% , Natural Gas 25.6% and Coal for 23.1% so the total for Non Renewable Energy Sources = 85.2% )
1985 Coca-Cola announced that it was changing its formula and introduced New Coke.
1988 Federal smoking ban during domestic airline flights of 2 hours or less
1991 USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions
1994 Libertarian party nominates Howard Stern for Governor of New York
2004 The U.S. resumed diplomatic relations with Libya.
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