TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – OCT 5
1795 The day after he routed counterrevolutionaries in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte accepts their formal surrender.
1813 U.S. victory at the Battle of the Thames, in Ontario, broke Britain’s Indian allies with the death of Shawnee Chief Tecumseh, and made the Detroit frontier safe.
1877 Nez Perce Chief Joseph surrenders to Colonel Nelson Miles in Montana Territory, after a 1,700-mile trek to reach Canada falls 40 miles short.
1882 Outlaw Frank James surrenders in Missouri six months after brother Jesse’s assassination.
1915 Germany issues an apology and promises for payment for the 128 American passengers killed in the sinking of the British ship Lusitania.
1919 Enzo Ferrari debuted in his first race. He later founded the Auto Avio Construzioni Ferrari, an independent manufacturing company.
1933 Machine Gun Kelly has pleaded not guilty to charges of a being a co-conspirator in the Urschel kidnapping.
1937 U.S. President Roosevelt called for a “quarantine” of aggressor nations.
1938 Germany invalidates Jews’ passports.
1947 US President Harry S Truman delivers the first televised White House address.
1953 Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1962 The first James Bond film, Dr. No starring Sean Connery, debuts.
1968 Police attack civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland; the event is considered to be the beginning of “The Troubles.”
1969 Monty Python’s Flying Circus debuts on BBC One.
1970 The US Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is established.
1974 IRA plant bombs in two pubs in Guildford in southern England, The pubs are mostly frequented by soldiers back from duty in Northern Ireland
1985 An Egyptian policeman went on a shooting rampage at a Sinai beach. Seven Israeli tourists were killed. The policeman died in prison the following January of an apparent suicide.
1986 The British newspaper The Sunday Times ran an Israeli former nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu’s story reavealing the secrets of Israel’s nuclear arsenal, possibly which included as many as 100 nuclear warheads.
1993 China set off an underground nuclear explosion.
1994 Forty Eight members of the Order of the Solar Tradition Cult committed suicide to escape the hypocrisies and oppression of this world.
1998 The U.S. paid $60 million for Russia’s research time on the international space station to keep the cash-strapped Russian space agency afloat.
2001 Concerns over the threat of an increase in biological attack by terrorists increased when a Florida man died after opening a letter containing anthrax bacteria sent through the US Postal Service
2005 Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is indicted by a grand jury on two new charges of money laundering following his indictment by a separate grand jury on criminal conspiracy charges last week.
2011 Visionary co-founder of Apple Computers, Steve Jobs, died after battling pancreatic cancer for several years. The 56-year-old former CEO had resigned prior to his death leading to speculation that his health had made a turn for the worse
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