TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MARCH 29
1638 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans)
1847 U.S. troops under General Winfield Scott take possession of the Mexican stronghold at Vera Cruz.
1852 Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 & women to work more than 10 hours a day
1867 The United States purchases Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million dollars.
1886 Coca-Cola goes on sale for the first time at a drugstore in Atlanta. Its inventor, Dr. John Pemberton, claims it can cure anything from hysteria to the common cold.
1912 Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary “the end cannot be far”
1913 The German government announces a raise in taxes in order to finance the new military budget.
1936 Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates
1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage
1951 The Chinese reject Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s offer for a truce in Korea.
1952 President Harry Truman removes himself from the presidential race.
1961 The 23rd amendment, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to vote for president, is ratified.
1968 Students seize building at Bowie State College
1971 Charles Manson is sentenced to death in the gas chamber
1973 The last U.S. troops withdraw from South Vietnam.
1974 Chinese farmers discover the Terracotta Army near Xi’an, 8,000 clay warrior statues buried to guard the tomb of China’s 1st emperor, Qin Shi Huang
1984 NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis under cover of night
1986 A court in Rome acquits six men in a plot to kill the Pope.
1988 US Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras
1994 Serbs & Croats signed a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia
2004 Ireland becomes the first country to ban smoking in all workplaces
2010 Two Chechen suicide bombers detonate their devices in the Moscow underground
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