TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – NOV 7
1492 Ensisheim Meteorite strikes a wheat field near the village of Ensisheim in Alsace, France. Oldest meteorite with a known date of impact.
1637 Anne Hutchinson, the first female religious leader in the American colonies, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy.
1665 The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
1775 Lord Dunmore, promises freedom to male slaves who join British army
1811 Rebellious Indians in a conspiracy organized in defiance of the United States government by Tecumseh, Shawnee chief, are defeated during his absence in the Battle of the Wabash (or Tippecanoe) by William Henry Harrison, governor of Indiana Territory.
1814 Andrew Jackson attacks and captures Pensacola, Florida, defeating the Spanish and driving out a British force.
1837 In Alton, IL, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy was shot to death by a mob (supporters of slavery) while trying to protect his printing shop from a third destruction
1874 The Republican Party was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly magazine.
1876 The cigarette manufacturing machine was patented by Albert H. Hook.
1881 Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, two participants in Tombstone, Arizona’s, famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, are jailed as the hearings on what happened in the fight grow near.
1916 Jeannette Rankin (R-Montana) is elected the first congresswoman
1933 Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports
1940 Tacoma Bridge in Washington State collapses.
1955 Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas
1956 UN General Assembly calls for France, Israel and the UK to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt
1965 The “Pillsbury Dough Boy” debuted in television commercials.
1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1967 The U.S. Selective Service Commission announced that college students arrested in anti-war demonstrations would lose their draft deferment
1973 Congress overrides Pres. Richard M. Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Resolution that limited presidential power to wage ware without congressional approval.
1983 A bomb explodes in the US Capitol’s Senate Chambers area, causing $250,000 damages but no one is harmed; a group calling itself the Armed Resistance Unit claimed the bomb was retaliation for US military involvement in Grenada and Lebanon.
1995 In a Japanese courtroom, three U.S. military men admitted to the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl.
2001 The new .BIZ domain extension was officially launched.
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