TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JULY 22
1099 First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem
1298 King Edward I defeats the Scots under William Wallace at Falkirk.
1789 Thomas Jefferson becomes the first head of the U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs.
1796 Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland.
1814 Five Indian tribes in Ohio make peace with the United States and declare war on Britain.
1894 The first automobile race takes place between Paris and Rouen, France.
1934 American gangster John Dillinger is shot dead by FBI officers outside a Chicago cinema.
1937 Packing the courts – Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “court packing” scheme was rejected by the U.S. Senate.
1938 The Third Reich issues special identity cards for Jewish Germans.
1942 Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka Extermination Camp
1975 A growing number of people are filing for personal bankruptcy which is more than ever before, the reasons can be traced through to any number including: Inflation, Pay rises not matching expectations, Increased use of Credit Cards, Shop-A-Holics, Gas Price Increases.
1975 Congress restored Confederate general Robert E. Lee’s U.S. citizenship.
1986 House of Reps impeaches Judge Harry E Claiborne on tax evasion
1988 500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research
1991 Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978
2002 An Israeli F-16 has dropped a one-tonne guided bomb on an apartment block in Gaza City killing 15 including innocent children in an attack designed to kill Sheikh Salah Shahada a leading member of the militant group Hamas.
2003 A raid on a compound near Mosul, Iraq by United States Army 101st Airborne Division ended with the deaths of killing Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay and Qusay’s 14-year old son.
2011 Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first a bomb blast targeting government buildings in central Oslo, second a massacre at a youth camp on island of Utøya
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