TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 2
1772 The first Committees of Correspondence are formed in Massachusetts under Samuel Adams.
1841 The second Afghan War begins.
1880 James A. Garfield is elected the 20th president of the United States.
1889 North Dakota is made the 39th state.
1889 South Dakota is made the 40th state.
1892 Lawmen surround outlaws Ned Christie and Arch Wolf near Tahlequah, Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). It will take dynamite and a cannon to dislodge the two from their cabin.
1917 Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
1920 Charlotte Woodward, who signed the 1848 Seneca Falls Declaration calling for female voting rights, casts her ballot in a presidential election.
1920 The first radio broadcast in the United States is made from Pittsburgh.
1921 Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett form the American Birth Control League.
1926 Air Commerce Act is passed, providing federal aid for airlines and airports.
1938 Officially known as CBC/Radio-Canada, the network is Canada’s public radio and television broadcaster.
1947 Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose flies for the first and last time.
1948 Harry S Truman is elected the 33rd president of the United States.
1960 Penguin Books is acquitted of the charge of publishing obscene material in the case over Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence.
1965 A man dies when he sets himself on fire to protest Vietnam War in front of the Pentagon. His widow said he gave his life protesting our government’s deep military involvement’ in Viet Nam,”
1966 The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the US
1976 Jimmy (James Earl) Carter elected the 39th president of the United States.
1982 The economy continued to be a major concern with unemployment at 7.4 percent and the jobs being created being lower paid in the service industry and not the traditional manufacturing jobs
1983 President Ronald Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.
2003 V. Gene Robinson was consecrated as bishop by the U.S. Episcopal Church, becoming the first openly gay bishop in the church.
2006 Vietnamese prosecutors have said they intend to charge three US citizens, and four others, with terrorism, accusing them of trying to overthrow the government. The US embassy in Hanoi has confirmed that the three US citizens are Nguyen Thuong Cuc, alias Cuc Foshee, Huynh Bich Lien, alias Linda Linh and Le Van Binh.
2011 Wikileaks’ Julian Assange who is accused of rape and molestation of two women in Sweden lost his appeal against extradition from the United Kingdom to Sweden. Assange’s lawyers stated that they would try to appeal to the Supreme Court on the matter.
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