MONDAY: this week in history the United States of America took formal possession of Alaska from Russia. (1867). Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia during World War II (1944). The first long distance call was made from New York to Chicago (it could only hold one call at a time) (1982). Congress passed the clean water act bypassing the veto given by former president Richard Nixon (1972). West German commandos stormed a hijacked Lufthansa jetliner on the ground in Mogadishu Somalia, freeing all 86 hostages and killing three of the four hijackers (1977)
TUESDAY: This day in history the first battle of Ypres began in Flanders (Belgium) the Germans set up trenches which set the tone for most of the warfare in WWI (1914). Canadian confederate soldiers crossed into St. Albans, Vermont and robbed banks in order to agitate the union (1864). Napoleon began his horrendous retreat from his attack on Russia (1812). Pope John Paul the 2nd beatified mother Teresa who had won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for her charity work (2003) The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted nearly 23 percent, the largest one-day percentage drop in the stock market's history (1987)
WEDNESDAY: on this day in history the Louisiana purchase was ratified (1803) the convention of 1818 is signed and settled the U.S. and Canada border along the 49th parallel most of the way (1818) a plane carrying the best rock band of all time lynyrd skynyrd crashed into some woodlands in Mississippi (1977)
THURSDAY: Thomas Edison (or one of his students/ College’s) Invented the first electric incandescent lamp. It would last for thirteen and a half hours before burning out (1879) Margaret Owen set a typing record at one hundred and seventy words per minute on a manual typewriter (1918) women are allowed to vote for the first time in France (1945) Chinese forces invade Tibet (1950) thousands of protesters March on Washington D.C. in protest of the Vietnam war (1967) the Philadelphia phillies win their first World Series (1980)
FRIDAY: The Cuban missile crisis starts when Former president John Fitzgerald Kennedy announced to the public that a spi plane had spotted missile bases that when completed would be able to launch missiles that could reach many United States cities (1962) Hawley Harvey Crippen became the first felon to be incarcerated with the help of a radio. He poisoned his wife (1910) The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus (1975) Lance Armstrong is formally stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after being charged for using ste
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