TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MARCH 14
1590 Battle of Ivry: French King Henry IV beats Catholic League during French Wars of Religion
1629 England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony
1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
1743 First American town meeting is held at Boston’s Faneuil Hall.
1757 British Admiral John Byng is executed by a firing squad on board HMS Monarch for neglect of duty.
1812 Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812
1910 The Lakeview Gusher causes the largest accidental oil spill in history
The spill lasted 18 months and 9 million barrels of crude oil were released.
1912 An anarchist named Antonio Dalba unsuccessfully attempts to kill Italy’s King Victor Emmanuel III in Rome.
1923 President Warren G. Harding becomes the first U.S. President to file an income tax report.
1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen TX
1941 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
1947 The United States signs a 99-year lease on naval bases in the Philippines.
1950 The FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list made its debut.
1951 U.N. forces recapture Seoul for the second time during the Korean War.
1964 A Dallas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
1967 1st NFL-AFL common draft, Baltimore Colts pick Bubba Smith
1978 An Israeli force of 22,000 invades south Lebanon, hitting the PLO bases.
1983 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
1991 The “Birmingham Six,” imprisoned for 16 years for their alleged part in an IRA pub bombing, are set free after a court agrees that the police fabricated evidence.
1992 Soviet newspaper “Pravda” suspends publication
1997 President Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery
2002 Arthur Andersen the accounting firm is charged by federal prosecutors with obstruction of justice, securing its first indictment in the collapse of Enron.
2008 The Iranians have voted in an election, in which conservatives are expected to win. Opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were barred from running, and the senior election official reported turnout as ‘glorious.’
2009 An audio message that is said to be from the al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, has accused the more moderate Arab leaders of conspiring with the West against Muslims.
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