TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – SEPT 18
1758 James Abercromby is replaced as supreme commander of British forces after his defeat by French commander the Marquis of Montcalm at Fort Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War.
1789 Alexander Hamilton negotiated and secured the first loan for the United States. The Temporary Loan of 1789 was repaid on June 8, 1790 at the sum of $191,608.81.
1793 George Washington lays the foundation stone for the U.S. Capitol.
1812 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after 5 days, 75% of the city destroyed and 12,000 killed
1850 Congress passes the second Fugitive Slave Bill into law (the first was enacted in 1793), requiring the return of escaped slaves to their owners.
1851 First published by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones on September 18th, 1851, under the name of the New York Daily Times.
1862 After waiting all day for a Union attack which never came at Antietam, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins a retreat out of Maryland and back to Virginia.
1873 Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St, the start of the panic of 1873 and the Long depression
1874 The Nebraska Relief and Aid Society is formed to help farmers whose crops were destroyed by grasshoppers swarming throughout the American West.
1911 Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin dies four days after being shot at the Kiev opera house by socialist lawyer Dimitri Bogroff.
1931 To create a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria, China, a railway explosion is faked by the Japanese
1934 The League of Nations admits the Soviet Union.
1942 The order for ‘extermination asocials through labour’ is approved by Otto Thierack, Nazi minister of justice
1945 1000 whites walk out of Gary Ind schools to protest integration
1947 The National Security Act, which unified the Army, Navy, and Air Force, was passed.
1960 Two thousand cheer Fidel Castro’s arrival in New York for the United Nations session.
1962 Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica & Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to the UN
1973 East and West Germany and The Bahamas are admitted to United Nations.
1973 Future President Jimmy Carter files a report with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), claiming he had seen an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) in October.
1975 Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst is arrested in a San Francisco apartment and arrested for armed robbery.
1977 Voyager I takes first photo of Earth and the Moon together.
1992 During a strike by mineworkers at the Giant Mine in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Canada a bomb is planted by mine employee Roger Warren 750 feet underground which kills nine strikebreakers.
1998 ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is formed to coordinate unique identifying addresses for Websites worldwide.
2009 The US television soap opera The Guiding Light broadcasts its final episode, ending a 72-year run that began on radio.
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