TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 15
1626 The Pilgrim Fathers, who have settled in New Plymouth, buy out their London investors.
1763 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon began surveying the Mason-Dixon line.
1777 The Articles of Confederation, instituting perpetual union of the United States of America, are adopted by Congress.
1805 Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and their party reach the mouth of the Columbia River, completing their trek to the Pacific.
1806 Explorer Zebulon Pike discovers the Colorado Peak that bears his name, despite the fact that he didn’t climb it.
1864 Union Major General William T. Sherman’s troops set fires that destroy much of Atlanta’s industrial district prior to beginning Sherman’s March to the Sea.
1867 the first stock ticker was unveiled in New York City.
1904 King C. Gillette patents the Gillette razor blade
1920 The League of Nations met for the first time in Geneva, Switzerland.
1926 Radio network National Broadcasting Co ( NBC ) launches with a radio network of 24 stations and one of the earliest remote musical broadcasts.
1934 Sir Oswald Mosley and Black-Shirt fascist followers were put on Trial. They were arrested and charged of “riotous assembly” after a fascist meeting on October 9th.
1939 The cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial was laid by President Roosevelt.
1937 Eighteen lawsuits are brought against the Tennessee Valley Authority, calling for its dissolution.
1940 The first 75,000 men were called to Armed Forces duty under peacetime conscription.
1942 An American fleet defeats a Japanese naval force in a clash off Guadalcanal.
1943 Heinrich Himmler orders that all Gypsies and those of mixed Gypsy blood are to be put on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps
1957 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev asserts Soviet superiority in missiles, challenging the United States to a rocket-range shooting match.
1960 The first submarine with nuclear missiles, USS George Washington, takes to sea from Charleston, South Carolina.
1963 Argentina voids all foreign oil contracts.
1968 Russia has long been known for its Vodka. However, during this time in history it had turned to the U.S., requesting for supplies of this alcohol to cover its shortage. The embarrassing thing was that Soviet Premier Krushechev (a.k.a. Krushchev) had not too long ago boasted about how much Russia’s Vodka is better.
1969 A quarter of a million anti-Vietnam War demonstrators march in Washington, D.C.
1971 Intel releases world’s first commercial complete central processing unit ( CPU ) on one chip “a single-chip microprocessor” the 4004.
1974 The so called UnaBomber strikes for the first time when a bomb explodes in the cargo cabin of an American Airlines 727 on its way from Chicago to Washington, forcing it to make an emergency landing.
1984 Baby Fae dies 20 days after receiving a baboon heart transplant in Loma Linda, California.
1986 A government tribunal in Nicaragua convicted American Eugene Hasenfus of charges related to his role in delivering arms to Contra rebels. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison and was pardoned a month later.
1988 State of Palestine created. The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) declared the creation of the state while in exile in Algiers, Algeria. The declaration designated eastern Jerusalem as the state’s capital.
1990 The Milli Vanilli duo’s producer, Frank Farian revealed that the Grammy winning pop duo were lip synching in the songs on the album which gained them the award.
1993 A judge in Mineola, NY, sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher. Fisher was serving a prison sentence for shooting and wounding Buttafuoco’s wife, Mary Jo.
1998 Following the threat by Great Britain and the United States to bomb Iraq military installations unless UN weapons inspectors are given full co-operation by Iraq to look for weapons of mass destruction . Iraq’s letter accepting the terms is delivered to the United Nations Security Council and the bombing is averted
2007 A panel tells Congress that Chinese espionage poses “the single greatest risk” to the security of US technology. China has been pursuing new technology “aggressively”, it says. It has been doing so through legal research and business deals as well as illegally through industrial espionage.
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