TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: NOVEMBER 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 First nationally observed uniform election day in the Unites States, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November
1862 American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling patents the hand cranked Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis
1880 James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio, patented the first cash register.
1922 Howard Carter discovers the intact tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt
1922 The U.S. Postmaster General orders all homes to get mailboxes or relinquish delivery of mail.
1924 Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was elected America’s first woman governor so she could serve out the remaining term of her late husband, William B. Ross.
1939 1st air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Ill1
1939 During World War II, the U.S. modified its neutrality stance with the Neutrality Act of 1939. The new policy allowed cash-and-carry purchases of arms by belligerents.
1946 The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is established.
1956 Russian troops attacked Budapest and crushed the Hungarian revolt under Premier Imre Nagy.
1970 Genie a feral child is taken to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles after her mother enters a welfare office in Temple City, California, to seek benefits for the blind. Genie had spent nearly all of the first thirteen years of her life locked in her bedroom.
1970 Former King Peter II of Yugoslavia died in Denver, CO. He was the first European king or queen to die and to be buried in the U.S.
1973 Car Free Sunday – Following on from the experience of “Car Free Sundays” in The Netherlands during the Suez Crisis in 1956, the Netherlands organises the first Car Free Sunday during the 1973 oil crisis with Highways deserted which are solely used by cyclists and roller skaters.
1978 Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U
1985 Soviet defector Vitaly Yurchenko announced he was returning to the Soviet Union. He had charged that he had been kidnapped by the CIA.
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.
2008 Californian voters have approved Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriages.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
