TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MARCH 3
1791 1st US internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
1803 The first impeachment trial of a U.S. Judge, John Pickering, begins.
1805 Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms
1820 Missouri Compromise passes, allowing Missouri to join the United States despite slavery still being legal there.
1842 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)
1845 Florida becomes the 27th U.S. state.
1849 Territory of Minnesota is organized
1857 Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China
1861 The serfs of Russia are emancipated by Alexander II as part of a program of westernization.
1863 Idaho Territory forms
1873 US Congress & government raise own salary, retroactively
1879 Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood became the first woman lawyer to be admitted to appear before the Supreme Court of the United States.
1887 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller
1921 Toronto’s Dr Banting & Dr Best announce discovery of insulin
1931 President Herbert Hoover signs a bill that makes Francis Scott Key’s “Star Spangled Banner,” the national anthem.
1952 The U.S. Supreme Court upholds New York’s Feinberg Law banning Communist teachers in the United States.
1972 Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia
1991 Los Angeles police officers severely beat motorist Rodney King, the beating is famously captured on amateur video and later leads to riots when the police officers are acquitted
1992 US President George H. W. Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to
1999 Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky appears on national television to explain her affair with President Bill Clinton.
2013 45 people are killed by a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan
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