TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JUNE 10 2019
1190 Third Crusade: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa drowns while crossing the Saleph River (modern Turkey) leading an army to Jerusalem
1692 Bridget Bishop is hanged in Salem, Mass., for witchcraft.
1720 Mrs Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard
1760 NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine
1801 Tripoli declares war on the U.S. for refusing to pay tribute.
1846 Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire
1861 Dorothea Dix is appointed superintendent of female nurses for the Union army.
1905 Japan and Russia agree to peace talks brokered by President Theodore Roosevelt.
1909 An SOS signal is transmitted for the first time in an emergency when the Cunard liner SS Slavonia is wrecked off the Azores.
1916 Mecca, under control of the Turks, falls to the Arabs during the Great Arab Revolt.
1920 The Republican convention in Chicago endorses women’s suffrage.
1925 Tennessee adopts a new biology text book denying the theory of evolution.
1942 The entire male population of the Czech village of Lidice was massacred in retaliation for the death of Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich.
1947 Saab a supplier of military aircraft before and during World War II produces their first car in attempt to diversify the model 92 prototype.
1948 The news that the sound barrier has been broken is finally released to the public by the U.S. Air Force. Chuck Yeager, piloting the rocket airplane X-1, exceeded the speed of sound on October 14, 1947.
1963 Buddhist monk Ngo Quang Duc dies by self immolation in Saigon to protest persecution by the Diem government.
1967 The Six-Day War ends Israel and Syria agreed to observe a ceasefire mediated by the United Nations, ending six days of armed conflict.
1975 Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans
1977 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II computers
1977 James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King’s killer) escapes from prison
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