TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – APRIL 30 2019
311 Roman Emperor Galerius issues Edict of Toleration, ending persercution of Christians in the Roman Empire
0313 Licinius unifies the whole of the eastern Roman Empire under his own rule.
711 Islamic conquest of Iberia: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus)
1250 King Louis IX of France is ransomed.
1562 1st French colonists in North America: Jean Ribault & colonists arrive in Florida
1563 All Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI.
1772 John Clais patents 1st scale
1789 George Washington is inaugurated as the first President of the United States of America
1798 Department of the Navy is established
1803 The United States doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase, which was sold by France for $15 million.
1808 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri
1812 Louisiana is admitted into the Union as a state.
1861 President Abraham Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory
1904 Ice cream cone makes its debut
1939 U.S. commercial television made its official debut at the New York World’s Fair.The signal was transmitted from the Empire State Building.
1943 The British submarine HMS Seraph drops ‘the man who never was,’ a dead man the British planted with false invasion plans, into the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain.
1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker. Karl Donitz becomes his successor.
1970 U.S. troops invade Cambodia to disrupt North Vietnamese Army base areas.
1973 President Richard Nixon announces the resignation of Harry Robbins Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and other top aides.
1975 The fall of Saigon marks the end of the Vietnam War
1980 Terrorists seize the Iranian Embassy in London.
2003 Libya accepted responsibility for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
2009 Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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