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[Lalitsharma]

On This Day In History– 6 January 2020



1066 King Harald of England crowned
1205 Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans
1449 Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI is crowned at Mistra.
1617 English court favourite George Villiers is made Earl of Buckingham by King James I
1622 Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propaganda Fide
1639 Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed
1649 The English Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial for treason and other "high crimes"
1681 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher)
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies' army draws to Glasgow
1784 Turkey & Russia sign the treaty in Constantinople
1802 Naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland reach Quito, Ecuador
1809 Napoleonic Wars: Invasion of Cayenne, by combined British, Portuguese and colonial Brazilian forces, begins
1838 Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail demonstrate their telegraph machine in New Jersey
1839 2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as the "Big Wind"
1853 Franklin Pierce, the President-elect of the United States at the time, and his family are involved in a train wreck in Massachusetts
1857 Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn
1861 NYC mayor proposes NY become a free city, trading with North and South
1873 US Congress begins investigating Crédit Mobilier scandal
1893 The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
1896 1st US women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden
1898 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake
1907 Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)
1925 Paavo Nurmi, sets indoor record, 4:13.6 mile & 14:44.6 5,000m
1925 Mussolini forms a cabinet composed entirely of Fascists in Italy
1929 Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest
1930 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
1931 Thomas Edison submits his last patent application
1938 Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in Bronx
1941 US President Franklin Roosevelt makes his "Four Freedoms" speech (freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear) during his US State of Union address
1950 "Happy as Larry" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 3 performances
1953 The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Burma
1957 Elvis Presley makes his 7th & final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show
1969 The Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame"
1976 Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million
1977 EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols
1979 The Village People's Y.M.C.A becomes their only UK No.1 single. At its peak, it sold over 150,000 copies a day
1980 Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India
1992 Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* v Australia at the SCG
1996 Record £42 million ($65.2 million) British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44)
2009 Israel begins an assault on the Gaza Strip
2009 Dakota Fanning receives the Rising Star Award at the 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival
2010 36th People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Sandra Bullock win (Movie Star) and Hugh Laurie & Katherine Heigl win (TV Drama)
2012 A suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus, Syria, killing 26 people and wounding 63
2014 Truce begins between Free Syrian Army and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in northern Damascus
2016 "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" breaks North American box office record, passing the $760.5m taken by "Avatar"
2019 Record $3.1 million (333.6 million yen) price for giant bluefin tuna at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market bought by sushi restaurant owner Kiyoshi Kimura
2019 76th Golden Globes: "The Americans", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Green Book", Glenn Close and Rami Malek among the winners

[harpreetkaur]

1910----Union leaders ask President William H. Taft to investigate U.S. Steel's practices.

1912---New Mexico becomes the 47th U.S. state of the Union.

1918---Germany acknowledges Finland's independence.

1946---Ho Chi Minh wins in the Vietnamese elections.

1987---Astronomers report sighting a new galaxy 12 billion light-years away.

[Nitin Kumar]

On This Day In History– 7 January 2020




1989 Akihito is sworn in as Emperor of Japan
His accession to the throne followed the death of his father, Emperor Hirohito, on the same day.

1979 The Khmer Rouge government of Cambodia is overthrown
Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh that day.

1927 The first transatlantic telephone service is established
A 3-minute call between New York and London cost about $45 USD, which is roughly $550 in today's dollars.

1785 Hot air balloon crosses the English Channel
French inventor Jean-Pierre Blanchard took about 2½ hours to fly from Dover (UK) to Guînes (France).

1610 Galileo Galilei discovers the Galilean Moons
The Italian astronomer spotted the four largest moons of Jupiter that day: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.


Births On This Day – 7 January

1991 Eden Hazard
Belgian footballer

1985 Lewis Hamilton
English race car driver

1967 Nick Clegg
English politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1964 Nicolas Cage
American actor, producer, director

1943 Sadako Sasaki
Japanese victim of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima, Nagasaki


Deaths On This Day – 7 January

1995 Murray Rothbard
American economist, historian

1989 Hirohito
Japanese emperor

1951 René Guénon
French/Egyptian author

1943 Nikola Tesla
Serbian/American physicist, engineer

1536 Catherine of Aragon

[Lalitsharma]

On This Day In History– 7 January 2020


754 Pope Stefanus II arrives in Ponthion
1579 England signs an offensive & defensive alliance with Netherland
1601 Robert, Earl of Essex, leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
1610 Galileo Galilei discovers the first three moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa & Ganymede
1618 Francis Bacon becomes Lord Chancellor of England
1654 Fire after heavy storm destroys two thirds of De Rijp Netherlands, 1 person dies
1698 Russian Tsar Peter the Great departs Netherlands for England
1782 1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia
1785 1st balloon flight across English Channel by Jean Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries
1822 1st printing in Hawaii
1822 Liberia colonized by Americans
1862 Romney Campaign: Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney, WV
1892 Mine explosion kills 100 in Krebs, Oklahoma; blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
1894 Early 5-second film of Fred Ott sneezing shot by Edison Manufacturing - 1st ever copyrighted
1915 World War I: Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm approves strategic bombing of Britain, but forbids bombing London, fearing his relatives in the royal family might be killed
1916 In response to pressure from President Woodrow Wilson, Germany notifies the US State Department that it will abide by strict international rules of maritime warfare
1955 Marian Anderson becomes the 1st African American to perform with the New York Metropolitan Opera
1958 USSR reduces army to 300,000
1971 -40°F (-40°C) in Hawley Lake, Arizona (state record)
1972 Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Atlanta Hawks, 134-90 for their 33rd straight win, the longest winning streak in major professional sports
1979 AFC Championship, Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Houston Oilers, 34-5
1980 American President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation to bail out the Chrysler Corporation with a 1.5 billion dollar loan
1987 Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket, at 28 the youngest
1989 Akihito becomes the 125th Emperor of Japan after the death of his father Horohito
1991 Saddam Hussein prepares his troops for what he says will be a long violent war against the US
1992 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499)
1996 16th United Negro College Fund raises $12,600,000
1998 Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signs affidavit denying she had an affair with President Bill Clinton
1999 President Bill Clinton's Impeachment trial begins in the US Senate after the House voted to impeach him for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky
2013 FIFA Ballon d'Or: Barcelona forward Lionel Messi wins award for a record 4th consecutive year; US forward Abby Wambach wins women's award
2018 Sydney, Australia has its hottest day for 80 years as Penrith reaches 47.3 degrees
2019 Amazon overtakes Microsoft to become the world's most valuable listed company for the first time, worth $797 billion

[Nitin Kumar]

On This Day In History– 8 January 2020




1994 Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov begins his record spaceflight
Polyakov stayed aboard the Mir space station for a record-breaking 437 days and 18 hours.

1959 Charles de Gaulle becomes president of France
His right-wing political ideology, Gaullism, still influences French politics today.

1912 The African National Congress (ANC) is founded
The ANC, whose most famous member is Nelson Mandela, played an important role in the fight against the South African apartheid regime and it is now the country's governing political party.

1889 Computer pioneer Herman Hollerith patents his punched card calculator
His invention paved the way for modern automatic computation.

1790 George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address
The U.S. president typically uses this annual speech to outline his political agenda.


Births On This Day – 8 January

1967 R. Kelly
American singer-songwriter, producer, actor

1947 David Bowie
English singer-songwriter, producer, actor

1942 Stephen Hawking
English physicist, author

1935 Elvis Presley
American singer, guitarist, actor

1934 Jacques Anquetil
French cyclist


Deaths On This Day – 8 January

1996 François Mitterrand
French politician, 21st President of France

1990 Terry-Thomas
British actor

1976 Zhou Enlai
Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China

1942 Joseph Franklin Rutherford
American lawyer, religious leader

1642 Galileo Galilei
Italian astronomer, physicist

[Lalitsharma]

On This Day In History– 8 January 2020


871 Battle of Ashdown: Ethelred I of Wessex and his brother Alfred the Great beat invading Danish army
1610 Simon Marius. a German astronomer, independently discovers the first three moons of Jupiter one day after Galileo
1675 1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co)
1708 Spanish armada headed by the San Jose and loaded with gold sunk after British squadron attacks off coast of Colombia (rediscovered 2015)
1745 Britain, Austria, Netherlands & Saxony sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance
1760 Comet C/1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 AUs of Earth
1790 1st US President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address
1798 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed
1806 Lewis and Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon
1815 Battle of New Orleans (War of 1812); the war had ended on 24th December 1814 but none of the combatants knew
1853 1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Washington
1863 American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
1867 African American men granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C. despite President Andrew Johnson's veto
1877 Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).
1902 New York state assemblyman Francis G. Landon gets a bill passed to criminalize men turning around on a street and "looking at a woman in that way"
1917 Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy
1918 Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, authorizing the prohibition of alcohol
1918 US President Woodrow Wilson outlines his Fourteen Points for peace after the Great War
1926 Abdulaziz Ibn Saud becomes King of Nejd and Hejaz; forerunner of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1952 Jordan adopts constitution
1954 Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio & records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" & "I'll Never Stand in Your Way"
1959 Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as president of France's 5th Republic
1962 Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Neth)
1962 21 year old future Hall of Fame golfer Jack Nicklaus makes his first professional appearance; tied 50th in Los Angeles Open
1963 "Mona Lisa", on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art
1973 Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris
1973 USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing
1974 Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London
1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator
2002 President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
2009 A 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit Costa Rica´s region of Volcan Poás, with an epicenter near Cinchona. It was caused by Varablanca-Angel fault.
2013 2,130 prisoners held by the Syrian government are exchanged for 48 Iranians kidnapped by Syrian rebels
2013 Steve Nash records his 10,000th career assist against Houston
2014 40th People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Sandra Bullock win (Movie Star) and Josh Charles & Stana Katić win (Dramatic TV)
2016 Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announces the recapture of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, six months after he escaped prison

[Nitin Kumar]

On This Day In History– 9 January 2020



2005 The second Sudanese War ends
As an outcome, Southern Sudan is granted autonomy; in 2011, South Sudan becomes an independent nation.

1916 The Battle of Gallipoli ends
The Gallipoli Campaign during World War I ended with the victory of the Ottoman Empire.

1861 The first shots of the American Civil War are fired
The steamer, Star of the West, was fired upon by the Confederates as it attempted to enter Charleston Harbor

1768 Philip Astley opens the world's first modern circus
The British equestrian, who is considered the father of modern circus, opened a riding school in London where he also performed tricks for an audience in the afternoons.

1431 The trial against Joan of Arc begins
She was executed on May 30, 1431, exonerated in 1456, and canonized in 1920 by Pope Benedict XV.


Births On This Day – 9 January

1944 Jimmy Page
English guitarist, songwriter, producer

1941 Joan Baez
American singer-songwriter, activist

1922 Ahmed Sékou Touré
Guinean politician, 1st President of Guinea

1913 Richard Nixon
American politician, 37th President of the United States

1890 Kurt Tucholsky
German journalist


Deaths On This Day – 9 January

2014 Amiri Baraka
American poet, actor, activist

1908 Wilhelm Busch
German poet, painter, illustrator

1908 Abraham Goldfaden
Russian actor, playwright, author

1873 Napoleon III
French politician, 1st President of France

1324 Marco Polo
Italian explorer

[Lalitsharma]

On This Day In History– 9 January 2020


1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses
1431 Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government
1464 1st meeting of States-General of Netherlands
1493 1st sight of manatees by Christopher Columbus
1558 Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland
1760 Afghans defeat Marathas in Battle of Barari Ghat
1788 Connecticut becomes 5th state to ratify the US constitution
1792 Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Jassy
1793 1st hot-air balloon flight in the US lifts off in Philadelphia, piloted by Jean Pierre Blanchard
1799 British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon
1848 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established
1857 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon, California
1861 A Union merchant ship, the Star of the West, is fired upon as it tries to deliver supplies to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
1862 The first petroleum shipment (1,329 barrels) from the U.S. to Europe arrives at Victoria Docks, London, England aboard the Elizabeth Watts
1880 6' (1.83 metres) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days
1909 Ernest Shackleton as part of the British Nimrod Expedition reaches a record farthest South latitude (88°23' south)
1916 The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops evacuated
1927 Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died
1930 Albert Kahn Associates architectural firm become consulting architects for all industrial construction in the Soviet Union
1945 US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades the Philippines
1951 "Life After Tomorrow", 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres
1958 In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54
1972 Billionaire Howard Hughes says Clifford Irving's autobiography is a fake
1990 US Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses
1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame for betting on baseball
1991 Chicago's Michael Jordan scores a game-high 40 points to lead the Bulls to a 107-99 win over Philadelphia at the Spectrum; reaches the 15,000 point mark of his career
2000 26th People's Choice Awards: Harrison Ford & Julia Roberts win (Motion Picture) and Drew Carey & Calista Flockhart win (TV)
2002 Michael Jackson receives the Artist of the Century award at the American music awards
2002 29th American Music Awards: Janet Jackson & Lenny Kravitz win
2005 Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.
2007 Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone
2012 FIFA Ballon d'Or: Barcelona forward Lionel Messi wins award for a record 3rd consecutive year; Japanese midfielder Homare Sawa wins women's award
2012 "Time is Love" single released by Josh Turner (Billboard Song of the Year 2012)
2018 The first same-sex marriages take place in Australia after legislation passed a month ago
2018 President Trump cancels program allowing 200,000 San Salvadoreans temporary status to live in the US
2019 US President Donald Trump makes Oval Office address live on TV over the government shutdown and border wall
2019 California's monarch butterfly count drops by 86% according to 2018 census

[harpreetkaur]

1719---Philip V of Spain declares war on France.

1915---Pancho Villa signs a treaty with the United States, halting border conflicts.

[Nitin Kumar]

On This Day In History– 10 January 2020




1946 The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens
51 nations were represented on that day.

1929 The first Adventures of Tintin comic book is published
Hergé's books became hugely popular in Europe and the rest of the world.

1920 The Treaty of Versailles takes effect
Although a ceasefire had been in place since November 11, 1918, World War I officially ended with the Treaty of Versailles.

1863 London Underground opens
“The Tube” is the world's oldest underground railway.

1776 Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense
The pamphlet argued for freedom from British rule and it helped spark the American Revolutionary War.


Births On This Day – 10 January

1987 César Cielo
Brazilian swimmer

1960 Brian Cowen
Irish politician, 12th Taoiseach of Ireland

1953 Pat Benatar
American singer-songwriter

1949 George Foreman
American boxer

1945 Rod Stewart
English/Scottish singer-songwriter


Deaths On This Day – 10 January

2016 David Bowie
English singer-songwriter, producer, actor

1976 Howlin' Wolf
American singer-songwriter, musician

1971 Coco Chanel
French fashion designer, founded the Chanel Company

1862 Samuel Colt
American inventor, industrialist, founded the Colt's Manufacturing Company

1778 Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, zoologist

[harpreetkaur]

1903---Argentina bans the importation of American beef because of sanitation problems.

1912----The world's first flying-boat airplane, designed by Glenn Curtiss, makes its maiden flight at Hammondsport.

1918----In Washington, the House of Representatives passes legislation for women's suffrage.

1984---The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations for the first time in 117 years.

1964---Panama breaks ties with the U.S. and demands a revision of the canal treaty.

[Lalitsharma]

On This Day In History– 10 January 2020


49 BC Julius Caesar defies the Roman Senate and crosses the Rubicon, uttering "alea iacta est" (the die is cast), signalling the start of civil war which would lead to his appointment as Roman dictator for life
69 Roman emperor Galba adopts Marcus Piso Licinianus as Caesar
1072 Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo
1430 Order of the Guilder forms
1642 King Charles I & family flee London for Oxford
1839 Tea from India 1st arrives in the United Kingdom
1870 John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
1889 Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France
1900 Lord Roberts & Lord Kitchener reach Capetown
1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
1932 "Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated
1941 World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
1943 1st US President to visit a foreign country in wartime - FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco
1944 1st mobile electric power plant delivered in Philadelphia
1952 "The Greatest Show on Earth", directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, starring James Stewart and Charlton Heston, premieres in New York (Best Picture 1953)
1956 Elvis Presley records single "Heartbreak Hotel"
1958 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the UK pop charts
1964 "Introducing the Beatles" released 1st Beatles album released in the US
1966 India & Pakistan sign Tashkent Declaration peace accord
1977 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom
1986 NASA's STS-61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Florida's Kennedy Space Center
1996 Jimmy Johnson announced as the new coach of Miami Dolphins
2013 39th People's Choice Awards: Robert Downey, Jr & Jennifer Lawrence win (Movie Star) and Nathan Fillion & Ellen Pompeo win (TV Drama)
2016 73rd Golden Globes: "The Revenant", "The Martian", Leonardo DiCaprio, Brie Larson win
2018 Jeff Bezos becomes the second man worth over $100 billion as his wealth hits $106 billion due to a rise in Amazon's share price
2019 13-year-old Jayme Closs escapes her kidnapper after 3 months in captivity in Wisconsin

[harpreetkaur]

1980---Honda announces it will build the first Japanese-owned passenger-car assembly plant in the United States--in Ohio.

1994---The Irish Government announces an end to a 15-year ban on broadcasting by the IRA and its political branch, Sinn Fein.

1964---A collection of previously unexhibited paintings by Pablo Picasso are displayed for the first time in Toronto.

1948---President Harry S. Trumanproposes free, two-year community colleges for all who want an education.

[Lalitsharma]

On This Day In History– 11 January 2020


1158 Vladislav II of Bohemia becomes king
1569 1st recorded lottery in England is drawn in St Paul's Cathedral
1759 1st American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia
1774 Messier adds M51 (spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici) to his catalogue
1787 Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel
1794 U.S. Marshal Robert Forsyth is killed in Augusta, Georgia, trying to serve court papers, first US marshal to die carrying out his duties
1838 First public demonstration of telegraph messages sent using dots and dashes at Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail
1879 Anglo-Zulu War begins as British Lt-General Chelmsford invades Zululand in South Africa
1892 William D McCoy of Indiana appointed US minister to Liberia
1893 Jaap Eden skates world record 1500m (2:35)
1922 Insulin first used on humans to treat diabetes, on Canadian Leonard Thompson, aged 14
1962 Volcano Huascaran in Peru erupts killing 4,000
1972 Abu Sayeed Choudhury becomes President of Bangladesh and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman premier
1973 American League adopts designated hitter rule
1980 Debut of first The Pretenders album "Pretenders"
1983 Edmonton’s Pat Hughes sets NHL record for the fastest 2 shorthanded goals by one player at just 25 seconds apart in a 7-5 win at St. Louis; the first player to break a Wayne Gretzky record
1984 NASA space shuttle STS 41-B moves to the launchpad
1987 Largest crowd (76,633) at NFL NY Giant Stadium (beat Wash 17-0)
1987 AFC Championship, Cleveland Stadium: Denver Broncos beat Cleveland Browns 23-20 (OT)
1994 Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy
1998 24th People's Choice Awards: Harrison Ford & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Oprah Winfrey win (TV)
2007 Author J. K. Rowling finishes the 7th and last Harry Potter novel in room 552 of the Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh
2009 66th Golden Globes: Slumdog Millionaire, Mickey Rourke, Kate Winslet win
2018 YouTube issues sanctions against vlogger Logan Paul after he posted footage of suicide victim's body in Japan in December
2018 US President Donald Trump causes worldwide controversy when it is reported he called African countries "shitholes" during an immigration meeting

[harpreetkaur]

1923----Hitler denounces the Weimar Republic as 5,000 storm troopers demonstrate in Germany.

1931----The bridge connecting New York and New Jersey is named the George Washington Memorial Bridge.

1937----The United States bars Americans from serving in the Civil War in Spain.

1980----The United States offers Pakistan a two-year aid plan to counter the Soviet threat in Afghanistan.