TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 1
79 The city of Pompeii is buried by eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
1512 Michelangelo’s painting on the Sistine Chapel ceiling is exhibited for the first time.
1755 Earthquake, fires, and tsunami leveled Lisbon and claimed 70,000 lives.
1765 The British Parliament enacted The Stamp Act in the American colonies. The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative power of the colonies.
1800 U.S. President John Adams became the first president to live in the White House when he moved in.
1814 Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.
1861 Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, 50 year-veteran and leader of the U.S. Army at the onset of the Civil War, retires. General George McClellan is appointed general-in-chief of the Union armies.
1870 The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations.
1894 The last Tsar of Russia took over the reign of the empire after his father, Alexander III died. Nicholas was forced to abdicate in 1917 and was executed a year later along with his family
1911 Prior to this, bombs were dropped using unmanned balloons. The first bomb launched from an aircraft was used by the Italians in the Italo-Turkish War.
1916 Paul Miliukov delivers in the Russian State Duma the famous “stupidity or treason” speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
1923 Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company buys the rights to manufacture Zeppelin dirigibles.
1936 Benito Mussolini made a speech in Milan, Italy, in which he described the alliance between Italy and Nazi Germany as an “axis” running between Berlin and Rome.
1945 John H. Johnson publishes the first issue of Ebony magazine.
1950 Two members of a Puerto Rican nationalist movement attempt to assassinate President Harry S Truman.
1952 The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
1955 A bomb hidden in checked luggage of United Airlines Flight 629 exploded over Longmont, Colorado killing all 44 people on board.
1967 The first issue of Rolling Stone hits the streets.
1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged all Iranians to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand their attacks against the U.S. and Israel. On November 4, Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage.
1982 Honda opens a plant in Marysville, Ohio, becoming the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the US.
1991 Gang Lu a student at the University of Iowa goes on a shooting rampage armed with a .38-caliber revolver and a .22 caliber handgun at the University killing five people on the Iowa campus in Iowa City he then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.
1995 In Dayton, OH, the Bosnian peace talks opened with the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia present.
2009 Bill Clinton attends the unveiling of a statue of himself in Pristina. The 3.5m (11 ft) bronze statue was inaugurated on the Kosovan capital’s Bill Clinton Boulevard, and received loud cheers from the thousands of ethnic Albanians that attended. Mr. Clinton is their hero for launching Nato’s bombing campaign to drive the Yugoslav troops out of the Serbian province in 1999. Kosovo declared independence from Belgrade in 2008. The move was supported by the Western states, even though China and Russia still regard Kosovo as part of Serbia.
2012 Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe’s first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang
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