TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – SEPT 27
1066 William the Conqueror’s troops set sail for England
1540 The Society of Jesus, a religious order under Ignatius Loyola, is approved by the Pope.
1669 The island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea falls to the Ottoman Turks after a 21-year siege.
1791 Jews in France are granted French citizenship.
1779 John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain
1822 French scholar Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone
1864 Confederate guerrilla Bloody Bill Anderson and his henchmen, including a teenage Jesse James, massacre 20 unarmed Union soldiers at Centralia, Missouri. The event becomes known as the Centralia Massacre.
1918 President Woodrow Wilson opens his fourth Liberty Loan campaign to support men and machines for World War I.
1919 Democratic National Committee votes to admit women
1920 Eight Chicago White Sox players are charged with fixing the 1919 World Series.
1937 The Bali Tiger Goes Extinct
1937 1st Santa Claus school opens (Albion NY)
1940 The Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis was set up. The military and economic pact was for 10 years between Germany, Italy and Japan.
1950 U.S. Army and Marine troops liberate Seoul, South Korea.
1962 Establishment of Yemen Arab Republic
1964 The Warren Commission, investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, issues its report, stating its conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole gunman.
1979 US Congress approves Department of Education as the 13th agency in the US Cabinet.
1983 Sukhumi massacre: Abkhaz separatist forces and their allies commit widespread atrocities against the civilian population in the USSR state of Georgia.
1988 Lab tests reportedly show Shroud of Turin not Christ`s burial cloth
1991 U.S. President George H.W. Bush eliminated all land-based tactical nuclear arms and removed all short-range nuclear arms from ships and submarines around the world. Bush then called on the Soviet Union to do the same.
1994 More than 350 Republican congressional candidates signed the Contract with America. It was a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.
1996 The Taliban capture Afghanistan’s capital city, Kabul.
2004 North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon announced that North Korea had turned plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons. He also said that the weapons were to serve as a deterrent against increasing U.S. nuclear threats and to prevent nuclear war in northeast Asia. The U.S. State Department noted that the U.S. has repeatedly said that the U.S. has no plans to attack North Korea.
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