TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 25
1715 Sybilla Thomas Masters became the first American to be granted an English patent for cleaning and curing Indian corn.
1758 The British captured Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) in the French and Indian Wars.
1841 The slaves who seized the Amistad in 1839 were freed by the Supreme Court. They had been defended by former president John Quincy Adams.
1850 Texas relinquished one-third of its territory in exchange for $10 million from the U.S. to pay its public debts and settle border disputes.
1864 Confederate plot to burn NYC, fails
1867 Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.
1876 Colonel Ronald MacKenzie destroys Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife’s village, in the Bighorn Mountains near the Red Fork of the Powder River, during the so-called Great Sioux War.
1901 Japanese Prince Ito arrives in Russia to seek concessions in Korea.
1923 Transatlantic broadcasting from England to America commences for the first time.
1946 The U.S. Supreme Court grants the Oregon Indians land payment rights from the U.S. government.
1947 Movie studio executives meeting in New York agreed to blacklist the “Hollywood 10,” who were cited a day earlier and jailed for contempt of Congress when they failed to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
1951 A truce line between U.N. troops and North Korea is mapped out at the peace talks in Panmunjom, Korea.
1957 President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech
1960 1st atomic reactor for research & development, Richland Wa
1964 Eleven nations give a total of $3 billion to rescue the value of the British currency.
1986 As President Ronald Reagan announces the Justice Department’s findings concerning the Iran-Contra affair; secretary Fawn Hall smuggles important documents out of Lt. Col. Oliver North’s office.
1988 Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed
1990 Lech Walesa wins in Poland’s 1st popular election
1992 Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to partition the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, beginning Jan. 1, 1993
1998 Britain’s highest court ruled that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, whose extradition was being sought by Spain, could not claim immunity from prosecution for the crimes he committed during his rule.
2002 President George W. Bush signed into law the Department of Homeland Security and named Tom Ridge as head.
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