TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JAN 5
1477 Battle of Nancy, Burgundy vs Switzerland, 7,000 + killed including their leader Charles Duke of Burgundy
1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Virginia
1815 Federalists from all over New England, angered over the War of 1812, draw up the Hartford Convention, demanding several important changes in the U.S. Constitution.
1836 Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo
1896 A German newspaper reported German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen’s discovery of X-rays.
1914 Henry Ford astounds the world as he announces that he will pay a minimum wage of $5 a day and will share with employees $10 million in the previous year’s profits.
1920 GOP women demand equal representation at the Republican National Convention in June.
1923 The U.S. Senate debates the benefits of Peyote for the American Indian.
1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is sworn in as the first woman governor in the United States
1927 Fox Studios exhibits Movietone
1945 Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon “Odor-able Kitty”
1949 US President Harry Truman labels his administration the “Fair Deal”
1959 “Bozo the Clown” live children’s show premieres on TV
1972 President Nixon ordered the development of the space shuttle.
1976 “MacNeil-Lehrer Report” premieres on PBS
1982 A Federal judge voids a state law requiring balanced classroom treatment of evolution and creationism.
2005 Eris, largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System is discovered in images taken Oct. 21, 2003, at Palomar Observatory.
** history.net, onthisday.com, infoplease.com, timeanddate.com, thepeoplehistory.com, on-this-day.com **
