TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – FEB 20

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    TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – FEB 20
    1513 Pope Julius II dies. He will lay in rest in a huge tomb sculptured by Michelangelo.

    1725 New Hampshire militiamen partake in the first recorded scalping of Indians by whites in North America.

    1768 1st American chartered fire insurance company receives charter (Pennsylvania)

    1792 The U.S. Postal Service is created.

    1809 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the power of the federal government is greater than any individual state in the Union.

    1915 President Woodrow Wilson opens the Panama-Pacific Expo in San Francisco to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal.

    1921 Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran

    1929 American Samoa organized as a territory of US

    1933 House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition

    1942 Lt. Edward O’Hare downs five out of nine Japanese bombers that are attacking the carrier Lexington.

    1944 Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers

    1954 The Ford Foundation gives a $25 million grant to the Fund for Advancement of Education.

    1959 The FCC applies the equal time rule to TV newscasts of political candidates.

    1962 Mercury astronaut John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth.

    1965 Ranger 8 hits the moon and sends back 7,000 photos to the United States.

    1985 Ireland a predominantly Catholic country after much debate allows contraceptives to be sold.

    1987 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City

    1992 Ross Perot says he’ll run for President on Larry King Show

    2003 A fire at a rock concert in a Rhode Island, nightclub kills 100 people and seriously injures almost 200 more . The cause was traced to a pyrotechnics display which which set fire to the soundproofing foam on the ceiling

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