TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 6
1429 Henry VI is crowned King of England.
1572 Supernova is observed in the constellation known as Cassiopeia
1789 Father John Carroll was appointed as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States of America.
1812 The first winter snow falls on the French Army as Napoleon Bonaparte retreats from Moscow.
1813 Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain
1861 Jefferson Davis is elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy.
1894 William C. Hooker received a patent for the mousetrap.
1913 Mahatma Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners’ march in South Africa
1917 The Bolshevik “October Revolution” (October 25 on the old Russian calendar), led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, seizes power in Petrograd.
1923 As European inflation soars, one loaf of bread in Berlin is reported to be worth about 140 billion German marks.
1947 Meet the Press makes its TV debut
1961 In the Saraha Desert of Algeria, a natural gas well ignited when a pipe ruptured. The flames rose between 450 feet and 800 feet. The fire burned until April 28, 1962 when a team led by Red Adair used explosives to deprived the fire of oxygen. (Devil’s Cigarette Lighter)
1962 United Nations passes resolution to condemn Apartheid in South Africa
1965 The Freedom Flights program began which would allow 250,000 Cubans to come to the United States by 1971.
1978 Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi places the country under military rule; General Gholan Reza Azhari forms government
1985 Guerrillas of the leftist 19th of April Movement seize Colombia’s Palace of Justice in Bogata; during the two-day siege and the military assault to retake the building over 100 people are killed, including 11 of the 25 Supreme Court justices.
1986 U.S. intelligence sources confirmed a story run by the Lebanese magazine Ash Shiraa that reported the U.S. had been secretly selling arms to Iran in an effort to secure the release of seven American hostages.
1989 In the hopes of freeing U.S. hostages held in Iran, the U.S. announced that it would unfreeze $567 million in Iranian assets that had been held since 1979.
1999 Australia’s voters reject a referendum to make the country a republic with a president appointed by Parliament.
2001 In London, the “Lest We Forget” exhibit opened at the National Memorial Arboretum. Fred Seiker was the creator of the 24 watercolors. Seiker was a prisoner of war that had been forced to build the Burma Railroad, the “railway of death,” for the Japanese during World War II.
2001 In Madrid, Spain, a car bomb injured about 60 people. The bomb was blamed on Basque separatists.
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