TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON NOV 30 2018
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.
1900 The French government denounces British actions in South Africa, declaring sympathy for the Boers.
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt publicly denounces segregation of Japanese schoolchildren in San Francisco.
1935 Non-belief in Nazism is proclaimed grounds for divorce in Germany.
1939 The Winter War begins The 4-month long war between Finland and the Soviet Union began after the USSR invaded Finland and bombed Helsinki.
1947 Civil War in Palestine Also known as the Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, the conflict began the day after the United Nations General Assembly voted on a resolution that provided a partition plan for Palestine.
1948 The Soviet Union complete the division of Berlin, installing the government in the Soviet sector.
1950 President Truman declares that the United States will use the A-bomb to get peace in Korea.
1956 The United States offers emergency oil to Europe to counter the Arab ban.
1961 The Soviet Union vetoes a UN seat for Kuwait, pleasing Iraq.
1974 Pioneer II sends photos back to NASA as it nears Jupiter.
1974 Most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia’s Afar Depression
1979 Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC)
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.
1983 Radio Shack announces the Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip)
1988 Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 years
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.
1998 Exxon and Mobil oil companies agree to a $73.7 billion merge, creating the world’s largest company, Exxon-Mobil.
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