History lesson

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1290 Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I

1543 England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th & last wife)

1776 Capt Cook departs with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean

1785 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands

1812 US forces led by Gen Hull invade Canada (War of 1812)

1843 Mormon leader Joseph Smith say God OKs polygamy

1878 Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500

1909 16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes

1914 Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut, pitches for Red Sox

1918 Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed

1920 Panama Canal opens

1921 Babe Ruth sets record of 137 career home runs

1927 Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 HRs

1933 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33› per hour)

1944 US govt recognizes authority of General De Gaulle

1951 Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero Ill

1957 1st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower

1957 US Surgeon Gen Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer

1960 USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs

1967 Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured & over 1000 arrested

1982 FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail

1990 "Les Miserables," opens at National Theatre, Washington

1990 Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party

1997 Cubs play in their 5,000th consecutive gane with out being no-hit



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