TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 1
0079 The city of Pompeii is buried by eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
1210 King John of England begins imprisoning Jews
1512 “A veritable beacon to our art” Michelangelo’s paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were shown to the public for the first time.
1755 A great earthquake at Lisbon, Portugal, kills over 50,000 people.
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 The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative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 becomes the first president to move into the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C.
1814 Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars
1848 The first medical school for women, founded by Samuel Gregory, opened in Boston, MA. The Boston Female Medical School later merged with Boston University School of Medicine.
1870 The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations.
1894 Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris
1923 Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company buys the rights to manufacture Zeppelin dirigibles
1940 1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa
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.
1967 The first issue of Rolling Stone hits the streets.
1970 Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked & 142 die
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.
1993 The Maastricht Treaty was enacted, establishing the European Union.
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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