TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – SEPT 10
1349 Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death
1419 John the Fearless is murdered at Montereau, France, by supporters of the dauphin.
1588 Thomas Cavendish returns to England, becoming the third man to circumnavigate the globe.
1776 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
1794 America’s first non-denominational college was chartered. Blount College later became the University of Tennessee.
1813 Oliver H. Perry sent his famous message, “We have met the enemy, and they are ours,” after defeating the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.
1846 Elias Howe patents the first practical sewing machine in the United States.
1869 Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
1924 Leopold and Loeb found guilty of the murder of Robert Franks in Chicago in the “the crime of the century”
1948 Mildred “Axis Sally” Gillars was indicted for treason in Washington, DC. Gillars was a Nazi radio propagandist during World War II. She was convicted and spent 12 years in prison.
1953 Swanson sells its 1st “TV dinner”
1961 14 spectators are killed during the Italian Grand Prix when Baron Wolfgang von Trips driving a Ferrari goes off the track onto a grass-covered embankment filled with spectators.
1963 President John F. Kennedy federalizes Alabama’s National Guard to prevent Governor George C. Wallace from using guardsmen to stop public-school desegregation.
1970 The Nixon administration is to enforce a 49 year old import duty law to stop the dumping of foreign goods on American Soil by increasing the import tax paid on those goods to enter the United States.
1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France
1979 U.S. President Carter granted clemency to four Puerto Rican nationalists who had been imprisoned for an attack on the U.S. House of Representatives in 1954 and an attempted assassination of U.S. President Truman in 1950.
1981 Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica is returned to Spain and installed in Madrid’s Prado Museum. Picasso stated in his will that the painting was not to return to Spain until the Fascists lost power and democracy was restored.
1990 Iraq’s Saddam Hussein offered free oil to developing nations in an attempt to win their support during the Gulf War Crisis.
2003 Sweden’s foreign minister, Anna Lindh, is stabbed while shopping and dies the next day.
2008 The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator—described as the biggest scientific experiment in history—is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
2014 First Invictus Games Held.. The international games bring together wounded armed forces personnel and veterans who compete in athletic competitions.
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