TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – SEPT 16
1400 Owain Glyndwr was proclaimed Prince of Wales after rebelling against English rule. He was the last Welsh-born Prince of Wales.
1620 The Mayflower departed from Plymouth, England. The ship arrived at Provincetown, MA, on November 21st and then at Plymouth, MA, on December 26th. There were 102 passengers onboard.
1789 Jean-Paul Marat sets up a new newspaper in France, L’Ami du Peuple.
1810 Mexico issues Grito de Dolores, calling for the end of Spanish rule (Mexican Independence Day)
1893 Some 50,000 “Sooners” claim land in the Cherokee Strip during the first day of the Oklahoma land rush.
1906 Douglas Mawson, Edgeworth David and Alistair Mackay claim to have discovered the Magnetic South Pole in Antarctica
1919 The American Legion was incorporated by an act of Congress.
1920 Thirty people are killed in a terrorist bombing in New York’s Wall Street financial district.
1942 The Japanese base at Kiska in the Aleutian Islands is raided by American bombers.
1971 6 Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses
1974 Limited amnesty is offered to Vietnam-era draft resisters who would now swear allegiance to the United States and perform two years of public service.
1982 Members of a right-wing Lebanese militia massacre 1500-3000 people in two Beirut-area refugee camps
1987 The Montreal Protocol was signed by 25 nations, limiting production of substances that harm the ozone layer. To date, 197 nations have ratified the protocol.
1990 An eight-minute videotape of an address by U.S. President George H.W. Bush was shown on Iraqi television. The message warned that action of Saddam Hussein could plunge them into a war “against the world.”
1994 Exxon Corporation was ordered by federal jury to pay $5 billion in punitive damages to the people harmed by the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill.
1994 Britain’s government lifts the 1988 broadcasting ban against member of Ireland’s Sinn Fein and Irish paramilitary groups.
2007 Military contractors in the employ of Blackwater Worldwide allegedly kill 17 Iraqis in Baghdad’s Nisour Square, further straining relations between the US and the people of Iraq.
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