TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 24
1615 French King Louis XIII married Ann of Austria. They were both 14 years old.
1642 Abel Tasman discovered Van Diemen’s land, later renamed Tasmania.
1832 South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification
1859 Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. The first printing of 1,250 copies sells out in a single day
1864 Kit Carson and his 1st Cavalry, New Mexico Volunteers, attack a camp of Kiowa Indians in the First Battle of Adobe Walls
1871 The National Rifle Association was incorporated.
1874 Joseph Farwell Glidden patented barbed wire.
1896 1st US absentee voting law enacted by Vermont
1927 Federal officials battle 1,200 inmates after prisoners in Folsom Prison revolt
1938 Mexico seizes oil land adjacent to Texas
1939 In Czechoslovakia, the Gestapo execute 120 students who are accused of anti-Nazi plotting
1947 Un-American Activities Committee finds “Hollywood 10” in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists
1954 1st US Presidential airplane christened
1963 Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK’s accused assassin, in the garage of Dallas police headquarters.
1971 D. B. Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Airlines flight with $200,000.
1979 The United States admits that thousands of troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange
1983 The Palestine Liberation Organization released six Israeli prisoners in exchange for the release of 4,500 Palestinians and Lebanese held by the Israelis.
1987 The U.S. and the Soviet Union agreed to scrap short- and medium-range missiles. It was the first superpower treaty to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons.
1993 Robert Thompson and Jon Venables (both 11 years old) were convicted of murdering 2-year-old James Bulger of Liverpool, England. They were both sentenced to “indefinite detention.”
1995 Ireland votes 50.28% to 49.72% to end its 70-year-old ban on divorce.
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