TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JAN 23
971 War elephant corps of the Southern Han defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops; Southern Han state forced to submit to the Song Dynasty. 1st regular war elephant corps in Chinese army
1647 Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament
1789 Georgetown University established in what is now Washington, DC.
1870 173 Blackfoot Indians (140 women & children) killed in Montana by US Arm
1913 The “Young Turks” revolt because they are angered by the concessions made at the London peace talks.
1948 The Soviets refuse UN entry into North Korea to administer elections.
1950 Jerusalem becomes the official capital of Israel.
1951 President Truman creates the Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights, to monitor the anti-Communist campaign.
1964 The 24th Amendment to the Constitution, barring poll taxes, was ratified.
1968 North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo (the crew was released 11 months later.)
1972 Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest
1973 President Richard Nixon claims that Vietnam peace has been reached in Paris and that the POWs would be home in 60 days.
1977 Alex Haley’s Roots begins a record-breaking eight-night broadcast on ABC.
1978 Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging to earth’s ozone layer.
1981 Under international pressure, opposition leader Kim Dae Jung’s death sentence is commuted to life imprisonment in Seoul.
1983 “A-Team” with Mr T premieres on NBC
1984 Hulk Hogan defeats Iron Sheik to become WWF champ
1991 World’s largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait
1993 New York Newsday reports Oregon’s Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women
1998 Pope John Paul II condemns US embargo against Cuba
2002 Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped by the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty.
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