TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – AUG 1

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    TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – AUG 1
    527 Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire

    1086 Results of the Domesday inquiry presented to William the Conqueror in Salisbury (the date of compilation and the Great Domesday are historically contestable)

    1096 The crusaders under Peter the Hermit reach Constantinople.

    1689 James II’s siege of Londonderry, Ireland, ends in failure. James’ force had suffered some 8,000 casualties to the defenders’ 3,600.

    1774 Joseph Priestley, English theologian, chemist and author discovers oxygen by isolating it in its gaseous state

    1790 The first U.S. census was completed, showing a population of 3,929,214 people.

    1791 Robert Carter III, a Virginia plantation owner, frees all 500 of his slaves in the largest private emancipation in U.S. history.

    1801 The American schooner Enterprise captures the Barbary cruiser Tripoli. Often venturing into harm’s way, America’s most famous sailing ship, the Constitution, twice came close to oblivion.

    1834 Slavery is abolished throughout the British Empire.

    1872 The first long-distance gas pipeline in the U.S. is completed. Designed for natural gas, the two-inch pipe ran five miles from Newton Wells to Titusville, Pennsylvania.

    1876 Colorado became the 38th state in the United States.

    1893 A machine for making shredded wheat breakfast cereal is patented.

    1937 The Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany becomes operational.

    1942 Ensign Henry C. White, while flying a J4F Widgeon plane, sinks U-166 as it approaches the Mississippi River, the first U-boat sunk by the U.S. Coast Guard.

    1946 President Truman signed the congressional acts that established the Atomic Energy Commission and the Fulbright Scholarship program.

    1957 US and Canada create North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).

    1966 Charles Whitman, shooting from the Texas Tower at the University of Texas, kills 16 people and wounds 31 before being killed himself.

    1981 MTV made its debut at 12:01 AM. The first video shown was Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles.

    1988 Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh begins his national radio show.

    2001 The United States House of Representatives votes to ban all human cloning but it is not voted into law as the Democratic led Senate votes against it

    2007 A bridge crossing the Mississippi river on I35W in Minneapolis collapses with cars dropping the 50 ft into the river, due to quick responses by emergency services only 13 people lost their lives in the tragedy.

    ** history.net, onthisday.com, infoplease.com, timeanddate.com, thepeoplehistory.com, on-this-day.com **

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