TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JAN 6
1535 City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro
1540 Henry VIII of England marries his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. The marriage will last six months.
1649 The English Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial for treason and other “high crimes”
1681 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle’s butler vs his butcher)
1838 Samuel Morse gave the first public demonstration of the telegraph.
1842 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India
1853 Franklin Pierce, the President-elect of the United States at the time, and his family are involved in a train wreck in Massachusetts
1861 The Governor of Maryland, Thomas Hicks, announces his opposition to the state’s possible secession from the Union
1907 Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)
1912 New Mexico became the 47th state in the United States.
1941 US President Franklin Roosevelt makes his “Four Freedoms” speech (freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear) during his US State of Union address
1958 Gibson patents the Flying V Guitar
1973 “Schoolhouse Rock” premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock
1977 EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols
1982 William G. Bonin was convicted in Los Angeles, CA, of being the “freeway killer” who had murdered 14 young men and boys.
1987 University of California astronomers first witnessed the birth of a galaxy that contained 1 billion stars.
1994 Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan clubbed on leg by men including husband of rival skater Tonya Harding.
1999 The 106th U.S. Congress opened. The first item on the agenda was the impeachment proceedings of U.S. President Bill Clinton. The trial was set to begin January 7, 1999.
2005 Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers.
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