TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MARCH 26
1790 Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
1799 Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa, Palestine.
1804 Congress orders the removal of Indians east of the Mississippi River to Louisiana.
1845 Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid
1871 Municipal elections bring revolutionaries to power in Paris to form Commune government
1885 Eastman Film Co. manufactures the first commercial motion picture film.
1938 Hermann Goering warns all Jews to leave Austria.
1942 The Germans begin sending Jews to Auschwitz in Poland.
1950 Senator Joe McCarthy names Owen Lattimore, an ex-State Department adviser, as a Soviet spy.
1951 The United States Air Force flag design is approved.
1954 The United States sets off an H-bomb blast in the Marshall Islands, the second in four weeks.
1966 Large-scale anti-Vietnam War protests take place in the United States, including in New York, Washington D.C. and Chicago
1973 Soap opera “The Young and the Restless” premieres
1979 The Camp David treaty is signed between Israel and Egypt.
1981 A new political party ( Social Democrats ) has been formed in the UK from four breakaway Labour party defectors Roy Jenkins, David Owen, William Rodgers and Shirley Williams. The Social Democrats have launched their new political party pledging to “reconcile the nation” and “heal divisions between classes”.
1982 Ground is broken in Washington D.C. for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1989 The first free elections take place in the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin is elected.
1997 The bodies of 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate cult were found dead in a California mansion all having committed suicide by ingesting a lethal mixture of phenobarbital and vodka.
1999 Dr. Jack Kevorkian, was found guilty of second-degree murder for giving a lethal injection to a terminally ill man and airing it on the television program “60 Minutes.”
2000 Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia
2008 Five of American International Group’s (A.I.G’s) insurance executives have been convicted of fraud for their part in its accounting scandal.
2010 Barack Obama and the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have agreed a new nuclear arms reduction treaty. The treaty will limit both sides to 1,550 warheads, which is about 30% less than currently are allowed.
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