TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 2
1648 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol, Podlia
1721 Peter the Great (Peter I), ruler of Russia, changed his title to emperor.
1772 The first Committees of Correspondence are formed in Massachusetts under Samuel Adams.
1776 During the American Revolutionary War, William Demont, became the first traitor of the American Revolution when he deserted.
1789 The property of the church in France is taken away by the state.
1824 Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Jackson beats J.Q. Adams
1841 The second Afghan War begins.
1880 James A. Garfield is elected the 20th president of the United States.
1889 North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states, respectively.
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.
1903 London’s Daily Mirror newspaper is first published.
1917 Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
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.
1936 The first high-definition public television transmissions begin from Alexandra Palace in north London by the BBC.
1938 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation established
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 A British jury determines that Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence is not obscene.
1963 South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated.
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
1982 Ronald Reagan signs a bill to create Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
1983 President Ronald Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.
1984 Serial killer Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the US since 1962.
1986 American hostage David Jacobson was released after being held in Lebanon for 17 months by Shiite Muslims kidnappers.
1993 The U.S. Senate called for full disclosure of Senator Bob Packwood’s diaries in a sexual harassment probe.
1998 U.S. President Clinton gave his first in-depth interview since the White House sex scandal to Black Entertainment Television talk show host and political commentator Tavis Smiley on the network’s “BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley.”
2003 V. Gene Robinson was consecrated as bishop by the U.S. Episcopal Church, becoming the first openly gay bishop in the church.
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