TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 12
764 Tibetan troops occupy Chang’an, capital of Chinese Tang Dynasty, occupy for fifteen days
1035 King Canute of Norway dies.
1276 Suspicious of the intentions of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the Prince of Wales, English King Edward I resolves to invade Wales.
1775 General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks
1867 Mount Vesuvius erupts.
1920 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of baseball.
1923 Adolf Hitler is arrested for his attempted German coup.
1927 Canada is admitted to the League of Nations.
1927 Leon Trotsky expelled from Soviet Communist Party, paving way for Joseph Stalin
1938 Mexico agrees to compensate the United States for land seizures.
1941 Madame Lillian Evanti and Mary Cardwell Dawson establish the National Negro Opera Company.
1948 Hikedi Tojo, Japanese prime minister, and seven others are sentenced to hang by an international tribunal.
1954 Ellis Island stopped serving as the chief immigration station for the United States. Twenty million immigrants went through Ellis Island in its 62 years of operation.
1955 Date returned to in “Back to the Future” & “Back to the Future II”
1966 High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame
1968 The U.S. Supreme Court voids an Arkansas law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools.
1971 President Richard Nixon announces the withdrawal of about 45,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam by February.
1980 NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana
1990 Sir Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, publishes a formal proposal for the creation of the World Wide Web.
1991 Dili massacre Several pro-independence protesters were shot at the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili, East Timor by Indonesian soldiers. about 250 people were killed in this event
1997 Ramzi Yousef convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
2003 The first Italians to die in the Iraq War are among 23 fatalities from a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base in Nasiriya, iraq.
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