TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 4
1677 William III and Mary of England wed on William’s birthday.
1791 General Arthur St. Clair, governor of Northwest Territory, is badly defeated by a large Indian army near Fort Wayne.
1798 Congress agrees to pay a yearly tribute to Tripoli, considering it the only way to protect U.S. shipping.
1841 First wagon train arrives in California
1845 1st nationally observed uniform election day in US
1862 Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis
1922 The entrance to King Tut’s tomb is discovered.
1922 The U.S. Postmaster General orders all homes to get mailboxes or relinquish delivery of mail.
1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross and Miriam Ferguson are elected first and second women governors (Wyoming and Texas).
1939 US allows “cash & carry” arms sales during WW II
1952 US National Security Agency formed . The NSA as it is popularly known is an intelligence organization that is responsible for monitoring and collecting signal intelligence around the world.
1956 – Soviet forces enter Hungary in order to suppress the uprising that had begun on October 23, 1956.
1979 At the American Embassy in Teheran, Iran, 90 people, including 63 Americans, are taken hostage by militant student followers of Ayatollah Khomeini. The students demand the return of Shah Mohammad Reza Pablavi, who is undergoing medical treatment in New York City.
1992 Carol Moseley Braun becomes the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
1999 The United Nations imposed economic sanctions against the Taliban that controlled most of Afghanistan. The sanctions were imposed because the Taliban had refused to turn over Osama bin Laden, who had been charged with masterminding the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
2001 Hurrican Michelle hit Cuba destroying crops and thousands of homes. The United States made the gesture of sending humanitarian aid. On December 16, 2001, Cuba received the first commercial food shipment from the U.S. in nearly 40 years.
2008 First African-American U.S. President .. Democratic senator Barack Obama wins the presidential election against Sen. John McCain, taking 338 electoral votes to McCain’s 161. Obama makes history as the first African American U.S. president.
2010 Microsoft’s Kinect was launched worldwide.
** history.net, onthisday.com, infoplease.com, timeanddate.com, thepeoplehistory.com, on-this-day.com **
