TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON DEC 14
644 Uthman ibn Affan, companion of Muhammad, appointed 3rd Caliph of Islam
1542 Princess Mary Stuart succeeds her father James V and becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland at 6 days old
1793 1st state road authorized, Frankfort KY to Cincinnati OH
1799 George Washington dies on his Mount Vernon estate.
1819 Alabama is admitted as the 22nd state, making 11 slave states and 11 free states.
1825 Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins
1900 Max Planck presents the quantum theory at the Physics Society in Berlin.
1909 The Labor Conference in Pittsburgh ends with a “declaration of war” on U.S. Steel.
1911 Roald Amundsen and four others discover the South Pole.
1920 The League of Nations creates a credit system to aid Europe.
1927 Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
1939 The Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations for making aggressive demands of Finland.
1962 The U.S. space probe Mariner II approached Venus. It transmitted information about the planet’s atmosphere and surface temperature.
1967 DNA synthesized for the first time.
1969 Jackson Five made their 1st appearance on “Ed Sullivan Show”
1975 Six South Moluccan terrorists surrendered to police after holding 23 people hostage for 12 days on a train near the Dutch town of Beilen.
1981 Israel’s Knesset passes the Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the Golan Heights area.
1987 Chrysler pleads no contest to selling driven vehicles as new
1990 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later
1995 Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by leaders of various governments ending the conflict in former Yugoslavia
2003 Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan, narrowly escapes and assassination attempt.
2008 Iraqi broadcast journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at US President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad.
2012 At Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Conn., 20 children and six adults are shot to death by a 20-year-old gunman who then commits suicide.
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