NATIONAL JERKY DAY
1665 ― New Amsterdam legally becomes a British possession and is renamed New York after the English Duke of York.
1775 ― The first naval engagement of the Revolutionary War takes place in the Battle of the Machias. The Unity (US) captures the British vessel Margaretta.
1787 ― A U.S. Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old.
1859 ― The Comstock Silver Lode is discovered located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range in Nevada (then western Utah Territory). It was the first major discovery of silver ore in the United States.
1861 - Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers to stop Federates from taking over his state.
1867 ― The Austro-Hungarian Empire forms. -- Encyclopedia Britannica
1897 ― Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (low mortality rate given size of earthquake, 1500 casualties).
1901 ― In Cuba, the constitutional convention - knowing that the USA will not withdraw its troops until does so - adopts the Platt Amendment as part of its constitution.
1917 ― The U.S. Secret Service extends protection of president to his family.
1931 ― Chicago Prohibition-era gangster, Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone, is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition and perjury.
1934 ― The Black-McKeller Bill passes, closely regulating the air mail business, dissolved the holding companies that brought together airlines and aircraft manufacturers, and prevented companies that held the old contracts from getting new ones. The Bill Boeing empire is broken up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] and United Air Lines.
1942 ― Adolph Hitler orders enslavement of all Slavic peoples.
1943 ― Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), Henrich Himmler, orders extermination of all Nazi ghettos in occupied Poland.
1952 ― The USSR , under Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin), declares the WWII peace treaty with Japan invalid.
1954 ― Bill Haley and His Comets' song, "Rock Around the Clock", is released.
1967 ― A race riot takes place in Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio (300 arrested).
1973 ― Indira Gandhi, the prime minister of India, is found guilty of electoral corruption in her successful 1971 campaign.
1665 ― New Amsterdam legally becomes a British possession and is renamed New York after the English Duke of York.
1775 ― The first naval engagement of the Revolutionary War takes place in the Battle of the Machias. The Unity (US) captures the British vessel Margaretta.
1787 ― A U.S. Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old.
1859 ― The Comstock Silver Lode is discovered located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range in Nevada (then western Utah Territory). It was the first major discovery of silver ore in the United States.
1861 - Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers to stop Federates from taking over his state.
1867 ― The Austro-Hungarian Empire forms. -- Encyclopedia Britannica
1897 ― Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (low mortality rate given size of earthquake, 1500 casualties).
1901 ― In Cuba, the constitutional convention - knowing that the USA will not withdraw its troops until does so - adopts the Platt Amendment as part of its constitution.
1917 ― The U.S. Secret Service extends protection of president to his family.
1920 ― On this day in 1920, Man O’ War wins the 52nd Belmont Stakes, and sets the record for the fastest mile ever run by a horse to that time. Man O’ War was the biggest star yet in a country obsessed with horse racing, and the most successful thoroughbred of his generation.
1934 ― The Black-McKeller Bill passes, closely regulating the air mail business, dissolved the holding companies that brought together airlines and aircraft manufacturers, and prevented companies that held the old contracts from getting new ones. The Bill Boeing empire is broken up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] and United Air Lines.
1942 ― Adolph Hitler orders enslavement of all Slavic peoples.
1943 ― Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), Henrich Himmler, orders extermination of all Nazi ghettos in occupied Poland.
1952 ― The USSR , under Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin), declares the WWII peace treaty with Japan invalid.
1954 ― Bill Haley and His Comets' song, "Rock Around the Clock", is released.
1963 ― In the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, African American civil rights leader Medgar Wiley Evers is shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith.
1965 ― The "Big Bang" theory of creation of the universe is supported by announcement of discovery of cosmic background radiation (CBM).
1967 ― A race riot takes place in Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio (300 arrested).
1973 ― Indira Gandhi, the prime minister of India, is found guilty of electoral corruption in her successful 1971 campaign.
1978 ― "Son of Sam" serial killer, David Richard Berkowitz, is sentenced in New York Supreme Court to 25 yrs to life.
1983 ― Comet C/1983 (Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa) approaches 0.0628 AUs (2.4656 million miles) of Earth.
1987 ― U.S. President Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin wall. Finally, on November 9, 1989, at 7:17 PM local time on ARD's Tagesthemen, anchorman Hans Joachim Friedrichs proclaimed, "This is a historic day. East Germany has announced that, starting immediately, its borders are open to everyone. The GDR is opening its borders... the gates in the Berlin Wall stand open." That evening Berliners on both sides of the wall celebrated and began tearing down the wall with any tool at hand.
1983 ― Comet C/1983 (Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa) approaches 0.0628 AUs (2.4656 million miles) of Earth.
1987 ― U.S. President Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin wall. Finally, on November 9, 1989, at 7:17 PM local time on ARD's Tagesthemen, anchorman Hans Joachim Friedrichs proclaimed, "This is a historic day. East Germany has announced that, starting immediately, its borders are open to everyone. The GDR is opening its borders... the gates in the Berlin Wall stand open." That evening Berliners on both sides of the wall celebrated and began tearing down the wall with any tool at hand.
1996 ― Three Philadelphia Federal Court judges overturn the U.S. indecency ban on the internet. The Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA), also known by some legislators as the "Great Cyberporn Panic of 1995", was the first notable attempt by the United States Congress to regulate pornographic material on the Internet. In 1997, in the landmark cyberlaw case ofReno v. ACLU, the United States Supreme Court struck the anti-indecency provisions of the Act.
2007 ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation for his humanitarian work by President Putin.
2009 ― TSC: All television broadcasts in the United States switch from analog NTSC to digital ATSC transmission.
BORN TODAY
1519 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
1806 – John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (d. 1869)
1915 – David Rockefeller, American banker and businessman (d. 2017)
1922 – Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and author (d. 2013)
1924 – George H. W. Bush, American lieutenant and politician, 41st President of the United States
1929 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist; victim of the Holocaust (d. 1945)
1946 – Catherine Bréchignac, French physicist and academic
1519 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
1806 – John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (d. 1869)
1915 – David Rockefeller, American banker and businessman (d. 2017)
1922 – Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and author (d. 2013)
1924 – George H. W. Bush, American lieutenant and politician, 41st President of the United States
1929 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist; victim of the Holocaust (d. 1945)
1946 – Catherine Bréchignac, French physicist and academic
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