TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – OCT 5
1762 The British fleet bombards and captures Spanish-held Manila in the Philippines.
1789 French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris
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.
1880 The first ball-point pen is patented on this day by Alonzo T. Cross.
1882 Outlaw Frank James surrenders in Missouri six months after brother Jesse’s assassination.
1919 Enzo Ferrari debuted in his first race. He later founded the Auto Avio Construzioni Ferrari, an independent manufacturing company.
1938 Germany invalidates Jews’ passports.
1945 “Meet the Press” premieres on radio
1947 President Harry S Truman delivers the first televised White House address.
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 A Cuban defector landed a Soviet-made MiG-17 at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida. The plane entered U.S. air space and landed without being detected.
1969 Monty Python’s Flying Circus debuts on BBC One.
1970 PBS becomes a network
1970 Members of the Quebec Liberation Front (QLF) kidnap British Trade Commissioner James Cross in Montreal, resulting in the October Crisis and Canada’s first peacetime use of the War Measures Act.
1978 Over 30 major nations ratify the Environmental Modification Convention which prohibits weather warfare that has widespread, long-lasting or severe effects
1983 Lech Walesa wins the Nobel Peace Prize
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.
1991 Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced that his country would cut its nuclear arsenal in response to the arms reduction that was initiated by U.S. President George Bush.
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.
1999 MCI Worldcom Inc. and Sprint Corp. announced plans to merge.
2006 Walmart rolled out its $4 generic drug program to the entire state of Florida after a successful test in the Tampa area.
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