TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 20 2018
284 Roman soldier Diocletian proclaimed Emperor by the army
762 Bögü, Khan of the Uyghurs, conquers Lo-Yang, capital of the Chinese Empire
1700 Sweden’s 17-year-old King Charles XII defeats the Russians at Narva.
1789 New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1815 2nd Treaty of Paris: France & her allies agree France pay indemnities after Battle of Waterloo, ending Napoleonic Wars
1903 In Cheyenne, Wyoming, 42-year-old hired gunman Tom Horn is hanged for the murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell.
1931 Japan and China reject the League of Council terms for Manchuria at Geneva.
1938 1st documented anti-Semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin)
1945 The Nazi war crime trials begin at Nuremberg.
1947 Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) marries Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey.
1947 “Meet the Press” makes network TV debut on NBC
1955 The Maryland National Guard is ordered desegregated.
1959 Declaration of the Rights of the Child The United Nations General Assembly adopted the document that laid out the rights of children around the world
1962 President John F. Kennedy bars religious or racial discrimination in federally funded housing.
1962 US lifts blockade of Cuba
1967 U.S. census reports the population at 200 million.
1971 The United States announces it will give Turkey $35 million for farmers who agree to stop growing opium poppies.
1974 The United States files an antitrust suit to break up ATT.
1981 Microsoft Windows 1.0 released.
1983 100 million watch ABC-TV movie “The Day After,” about nuclear war
1986 World Health Organization announces first global effort to combat AIDS
2008 Dow Jones Industrial Average sinks to lowest level in 11 years in response to failures in the US financial system.
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