TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MARCH 12
1455 First record of Johannes Gutenberg’s Bible, letter dated this day by Enea Silvio Piccolomini refers to the bible printed a year before
1496 The Jews are expelled from Syria.
1609 Bermuda becomes an English colony
1664 New Jersey becomes a British colony.
1789 The United States Post Office is established.
1860 Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists
1879 The British Zulu War begins.
1884 Mississippi establishes the first U.S. state college for women.
1894 Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
1903 The Czar of Russia issued a decree providing for nominal freedom of religion throughout his territory.
1904 Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
1911 Dr. Fletcher of the Rockefeller Institute discovers the cause of infantile paralysis.
1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low
1933 President Paul von Hindenburg drops the flag of the German Republic and orders that the swastika and empire banner be flown side by side.
1944 Great Britain bars all travel to neutral Ireland, which is suspected of collaborating with Nazi Germany.
1947 President Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism
1959 The U.S. House of Representatives joins the Senate in approving the statehood of Hawaii.
1964 Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years
1964 Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
1980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
1985 The United States and the Soviet Union begin arms control talks in Geneva.
1989 About 2,500 veterans and supporters marched at the Art Institute of Chicago to demand that officials remove an American flag placed on the floor as part of an exhibit.
2002 U.S. homeland security chief Tom Ridge unveiled a color-coded system for terror warnings.
2003 The U.S. Air Force announced that it would resume reconnaissance flights off the coast of North Korea. The flights had stopped on March 2 after an encounter with four armed North Korean jets.
2009 It was announced that the Sears Tower in Chicago, IL, would be renamed Willis Tower.
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