TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 30
1016 Cnut the Great (Canute), King of Denmark, claims the English throne after the death of Edmund ‘Ironside’
1648 English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I
1782 The British sign a preliminary agreement in Paris, recognizing American independence.
1804 Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase was tried for political bias.
1838 Mexico declares war on France.
1861 The British Parliament sends to Queen Victoria an ultimatum for the United States, demanding the release of two Confederate diplomats who were seized on the British ship Trent.
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt publicly denounces segregation of Japanese schoolchildren in San Francisco.
1919 Women cast votes for the first time in French legislative elections.
1925 Federal Prohibition Officer Gus J. Simmons, Captain J. R. Brockus, and C.M. Arbogast were all on trial for murder. The officers claimed that the man was murdered while resisting arrest for operating an illegal liquor distillery.
1935 Non-belief in Nazism is proclaimed grounds for divorce in Germany.
1950 President Truman declares that the United States will use the A-bomb to get peace in Korea.
1954 In Sylacauga, AL, Elizabeth Hodges was injured when a meteorite crashed through the roof of her house. The rock weighed 8½-pounds.1956 The United States offers emergency oil to Europe to counter the Arab ban.
1979 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope in 1,000 years to attend an Orthodox mass.
1981 Representatives of the US and USSR meet in Geneva, Switzerland, to begin negotiations on reducing the number of intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe.
1986 “Time” magazine published an interview with U.S. President Reagan. In the article, Reagan described fired national security staffer Oliver North as a “national hero.”
1989 Aileen Wuornos murders her first victim Richard Mallory, over the next 12 months she murders 7 more men in Florida. She was arrested on 9th January, 1991 and her live in partner agreed to get a confession from Wuornos in exchange for prosecutorial immunity. Aileen Wuornos was found guilty of 6 murders and received six death sentences and was executed via lethal injection on October 9, 2002
1989 PLO leader Yasser Arafat was refused a visa to enter the United States in order to address the U.N. General Assebly in New York City.
1993 US President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (better known as the Brady Bill) into law.
1995 Operation Desert Storm officially comes to an end.
1999 Protests by anti globalization protesters at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle, Washington force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
2004 On the game show Jeopardy! contestant Ken Jennings loses after 74 consecutive victories. It is the longest winning streak in game-show history, earning him a total of over $3 million.
2006 Pope Benedict has been trying to mend the church’s relations with the Muslim community by visited one of Turkey’s most famous mosques. His tour of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul included a silent prayer alongside some of the senior Muslim clerics that are based there. This is the only the second papal visit in history to a Muslim place of worship.
2012 A gay-friendly prayer room was opened in Paris by Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed. While the center is not technically a mosque, Zahed has said he wanted to create an inclusive place for Muslims to gather and pray in the city.
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