TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 5
1605 Guy Fawkes is betrayed and arrested in an attempt to blow up the British Parliament in the “Gunpowder Plot.” Ever since, England has celebrated Guy Fawkes Day.
1653 The Iroquois League signs a peace treaty with the French, vowing not to wage war with other tribes under French protection.
1768 William Johnson, the northern Indian Commissioner, signs a treaty with the Iroquois Indians to acquire much of the land between the Tennessee and Ohio rivers for future settlement.
1814 Having decided to abandon the Niagara frontier, the American army blows up Fort Erie.
1840 Afghanistan surrenders to the British army.
1844 In California, a grizzly bear underwent a successful cataract operation at the Zoological Garden.
1862 President Abraham Lincoln relieves General George McClellan of command of the Union armies and names Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside commander of the Army of the Potomac.
1872 Susan B. Anthony is arrested for trying to vote.
1895 George B. Selden of Rochester, N.Y., received the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1912 Woodrow Wilson is elected 28th president of the United States.
1917 General John Pershing leads U.S. troops into the first American action against German forces.
1935 Parker Brothers company launches “Monopoly,” a game of real estate and capitalism.
1937 Adolf Hitler informs his military leaders in a secret meeting of his intentions of going to war
1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected for third term.
1943 Vatican City was bombed by a fascist Italian aircraft breaching the neutrality of Vatican during the second World War
1953 It was revealed that Israel and Arab states were warned that the United States could not carry the financial burden of the Middle East forever. The cause of this burden was largely because of plans to develop the Jordan River, and to assist 800,000 Israeli refugees. The refugees were displaced as a result of the Palestine War.
1959 The American Football League was formed.
1968 Richard Nixon is elected 37th president of the United States.
1974 Ella T. Grasso became the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.
1979 Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini declares US “The Great Satan”
1984 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the NFL had exceeded antitrust limits in attempting to stop the Oakland Raiders from moving to Los Angeles.
1986 The White House reaffirmed the U.S. ban on the sale of weapons to Iran.
1990 Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Kach movement, was shot to death after a speech at a New York Hotel. His assassin, Egyptian El Sayyid, was later convicted of the murder and was sentenced to life in prison for his part in the World Trade Center bombing.
1992 Malice Green, a black motorist, was beaten to death in Detroit during a struggle with police. Two officers were later convicted in his death and sentenced to prison.
1995 Andre Dallaire’s attempt to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien is foiled when the minister’s wife locks the door.
2003 Gary Ridgway, known as the Green River Killer, pleads guilty to 48 counts of murder.
2006 Former president of Iraq Saddam Hussein, along with Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, is sentenced to death for the massacre of 148 Shi’a Muslims in 1982.
2008 Dmitry Medvedev announces that Russia will be placing short-range conventional warhead missiles in Kaliningrad as a counter to the United States missile defense facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic. Russia will be also be deploying short-range missiles to the Baltic Sea region near the border with Poland.
2009 The deadliest mass shooting at a US military installation occurs at Fort Hood, Texas, when US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan kills 13 and wounds 29.
2011 Former Penn State defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, is arrested on charges of 40 counts of sexual abuse over a 15-year period.
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