TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JAN 22
1689 England’s “Bloodless Revolution” reaches its climax when parliament invites William and Mary to become joint sovereigns.
1807 President Thomas Jefferson exposes a plot by Aaron Burr to form a new republic in the Southwest.
1813 During the War of 1812, British forces under Henry Proctor defeat a U.S. contingent planning an attack on Fort Detroit.
1879 Battle of Rorke’s Drift: British garrison of 150 holds off 3,000-4,000 Zulu warriors. Eleven Victoria Crosses and a number of other decorations were awarded to the defenders.
1901 Queen Victoria of England died after reigning for 63 years (the 4th longest among longest-reigning monarchs and the longest for queens).
1905 In St Petersburg, Russia, a large demonstration of workers led by Father Gapon, march to the Winter Palace with a petition to the Tsar; troops fire on protesters in what becomes known as ‘Bloody Sunday’
1932 Government troops crush a Communist uprising in Northern Spain.
1939 A Nazi order erases the old officer caste, tying the army directly to the Party.
1946 US President Harry Truman sets up the Central Intelligence Agency
1957 Mad Bomber (George P Metesky) had confessed to the planting of approximately 30 bombs within New York City
1963 The Élysée Treaty formalizes the reconciliation between Germany and France
1968 “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” premieres on NBC
1971 Communist forces shell Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for the first time.
1973 Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes most abortions
1979 Abu Hassan, the alleged planner of the 1972 Munich raid, is killed by a bomb in Beirut.
1982 President Ronald Reagan formally links progress in arms control to Soviet repression in Poland.
1984 Apple Macintosh A new Apple Computer was introduced . The ad for the new Macintosh computer was first displayed during the Super Bowl.
2002 Kmart Corp files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
2008 Following stocks plunging around the world on Monday 21st January, The Federal Reserve slashed a key interest rate by 3/4 of a percentage point on federal funds rate from 4.25 percent down to 3.5 percent on Tuesday Jan. 22nd, and signaled that further rate cuts were likely.
2010 Announcement by US President Barack Obama of plans to regulate the banking industry, the US stock market drop continues, The market lost nearly 3.0% in 2 days and the banking sector has dropped up to 5.0%
2013 The United Nations Security Council approved the tightening of sanctions after North Korea test launched a long-range missile.
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