TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MAY 30
1416 Jerome of Prague is burned as a heretic by the Church.
1431 Hundred Years’ War: 19 year old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal in Rouen, France
1536 King Henry VIII of England married his 3rd wife, Jane Seymour, 11 days after he had his 2nd wife, Anne Boleyn executed.
1539 Hernando de Soto lands in Florida with 600 soldiers in search of gold.
1783 The first American daily newspaper, The Pennsylvania Evening Post, begins publishing in Philadelphia.
1848 William Young patents the ice cream freezer.
1848 Mexico ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California & parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona & Colorado in return for $15 million
1854 The Kansas-Nebraska Act repeals the Missouri Compromise.
1868 “Decoration Day”, later called Memorial Day is first observed in Northern US states
1889 The brassiere is invented.
1921 The U.S. Navy transfers the Teapot Dome oil reserves to the Department of the Interior.
1922 The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, was dedicated by Chief Justice William Howard Taft.
1937 Memorial Day Massacre – Chicago police shoot on union marchers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago, 10 die
1959 Iraq terminates military assistance pact with US due to neutrality
1966 US launches Surveyor 1 to the Moon
1972 3 Japanese PFL terrorists kill 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv’s Lod International Airport
1991 Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police & can be held accountable
1997 Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas is convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling seven year old Megan Kanka, the case inspired “Megan’s Law,” which requires that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.
2011 Germany abandons nuclear energy
2012 Former leader of Liberia Charles Taylor was sentenced to fifty years in jail by a UN-backed war crimes court. Taylor had earlier been found guilty of aiding and abetting Sierra Leone rebels during a 1991 to 2002 civil war.
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