TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – AUG 4
1265 King Henry III puts down a revolt of English barons lead by Simon de Montfort.
1558 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah)
1717 A friendship treaty is signed between France and Russia.
1735 Printer John Peter Zenger, defended by Andrew Hamilton, was acquitted of libel in a case that helped foster freedom of the press.
1789 The Constituent Assembly in France abolishes the privileges of nobility.
1790 The Revenue Cutter service, the parent service of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, is organized.
1892 Lizzie Borden took an axe… Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother were killed with an axe in Fall River, Mass.
1914 Germany invades Belgium causing Great Britain to declare war on Germany.
1916 US agrees to buy Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million
1942 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz
1942 The British government charges that Mohandas Gandhi and his All-Indian Congress Party favor “appeasement” with Japan.
1944 Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police (Grüne Polizei) following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified
1964 The bodies of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E. Chaney, are discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam.
1964 The U.S.S. Maddox and Turner Joy exchange fire with North Vietnamese patrol boats.
1974 Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor
1979 President Jimmy Carter establishes the Department of Energy.
1987 FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters
1988 The US Senate votes to give each Japanese-American who was interned during WWII $20,000 compensation and an apology.
1989 The Savings and Loan crisis which involved more than 500 savings and loan associations led President George Herbert Bush to consider a $150 billion bail out in an unprecedented piece of legislature.
2009 Two American journalists (Euna Lee and Laura Ling), who had been arrested and imprisoned for illegal entry into North Korea earlier in the year are granted a pardon following a meeting between former president Clinton and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
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