TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – APRIL 8 2019
1730 1st Jewish congregation in US consecrates synagogue, “Shearith Israel, NYC”
1766 1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley & chain
1832 Some 300 American troops of the 6th Infantry leave Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, to confront the Sauk Indians in what would become known as the Black Hawk War.
1879 Milk is sold in glass bottles for 1st time
1913 The 17th Amendment is ratified, requiring direct election of senators.
1935 The Works Progress Administration (WPA) is approved by Congress.
1946 The League of Nations assembled for the last time.
1952 President Truman orders the seizure of U.S. steel mills to prevent a strike.
1962 Bay of Pigs invaders get thirty years imprisonment in Cuba.
1966 AFL chooses 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner
1970 Senate rejects Nixon’s nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court
1975 Frank Robinson of the Cleveland Indians becomes first black manager of a major league baseball team.
1977 The Clash release their debut album of the same name
1986 Actor Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, California.
1988 Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, 52, was defrocked by the Assemblies of God following the disclosure of his involvement with a prostitute. (Swaggart was ordered to stay off TV for a year, but had returned after only three months.)
1992 After 151 years Britain’s “Punch Magazine” final issue
1994 Smoking banned in Pentagon & all US military bases
2004 Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups
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