TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – SEPT 7
70 Roman army under General Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem
1630 The town of Trimountaine in Massachusetts is renamed Boston. It became the state capital.
1701 England, Austria, and the Netherlands form an Alliance against France.
1714 Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI & France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine
1778 Shawnee Indians attack and lay siege to Boonesborough, Kentucky.
1813 The nickname “Uncle Sam” was first used as a symbolic reference to the United States. The reference appeared in an editorial in the New York’s Troy Post.
1822 Brazil declared its independence from Portugal.
1888 An incubator is used for the first time on a premature infant.
1892 The first heavyweight-title boxing match fought with gloves under Marquis of Queensbury rules ends when James J. Corbett knocks out John L. Sullivan in the 21st round.
1901 The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ended with the signing of the Peking Protocol (Peace of Beijing).
1916 The U.S. Congress passes the Workman’s Compensation Act.
1953 Nikita Krushchev elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1965 Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio.
1977 Panama and US sign Torrijos-Carter Treaties to transfer control of the Panama Canal from the US to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
1978 Secret police agent Francesco Gullino assassinates Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in London by firing a ricin pellet from a specially designed umbrella.
1979 ESPN, the Entertainment and Sports Programing Network, debuts.
1979 Chrysler has asked for Federal assistance to help with a rescue plan to the tune of 1 billion dollars following losses including a pre-tax loss in excess of $700 million dollars.
1983 In Ireland, voters approved a constitutional ammendment that banned abortion.
1985 The Country Singer Willie Nelson and the Governor James R. Thompson have organized a 12 hour concert to highlight the problems facing the nations debt-ridden farmers on September 22nd.
1989 Legislation was approved by the U.S. Senate that prohibited discrimination against the handicapped in employment, public accommodations, transportation and communications.
1992 Soldiers fire indiscriminately into African National Congress (ANC) demonstrators on the border of Ciskei in South Africa, killing 24 and injuring 150 more. The demonstration had attracted 50,000 people.
2006 Terrorists have targeted a Muslim Graveyard in Malegaon, western India, with multiple bombs during the Shab-e-Barat the day Muslims pray for their dead
2008 US Government assumes conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the country’s two largest mortgage financing companies, during the subprime mortgage crisis.
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