TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – DEC 1
1135 Henry I of England dies and the crown is passed to his nephew Stephen of Bloise.
1581 Edmund Champion and other Jesuit martyrs are hanged at Tyburn, England, for sedition, after being tortured
1742 Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia
1824 The presidential election between John Q. Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford, and Henry Clay was turned over to the House of Representatives due to the lack of an electoral-vote majority.
1881 Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan Earp are exonerated in court for their action in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ariz.
1887 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes appeared for the first time in print in the story “A Study in Scarlet.”
1905 Twenty officers and 230 guards are arrested in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the revolt at the Winter Palace.
1913 Ford Motor Company institutes world’s 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford
1929 Game of BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe
1934 Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov is assassinated and Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great Purge of 1934-38
1941 The first Civil Air Patrol is organized in the United States.
1955 Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, defying the South’s segregationist laws.
1964 Martin Luther King speaks to J Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign
1969 US government holds its 1st draft lottery since WWII
1976 Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as “rotten punks”
1978 President Carter more than doubles national park system size
1981 AIDS virus officially recognized.
1986 Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North pleads the 5th Amendment before a Senate panel investigating the Iran-Contra arms sale
1988 Benazir Bhutto, politician, becomes the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Pakistan and the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state
1990 Channel Tunnel sections from France and the UK meet beneath the English Channel
1994 The U.S. Senate gave final congressional approval to the 124-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
1997 Representatives from more than 150 countries gathered at a global warming summit in Kyoto, Japan, and over the course of ten days forged an agreement to control the emission of greenhouse gases. President Bush pulled the U.S. out of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001.
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