Mr. Metcalf 11 R US History 2018-19: January 2019

1885

Dr. William W. Grant of Davenport, Iowa, performed what is thought to be the first appendectomy.
1896

Utah was admitted as 45th state in the United States.
1904

In Gonzales v. Williams, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that citizens of Puerto Rico are not aliens and can enter the U.S. freely.
1948

Burma (Myanmar) gained independence from Great Britain.
1951

During the Korean War, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces captured the city of Seoul.
1965

President Johnson outlined his "Great Society" in his State of the Union address.
1999

The U.S. Mint began distributing the 50 State Quarters.
2007

California Democrat Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Martin Luther excommunicated by Pope Leo X.
1777

George Washington defeated Cornwallis's forces at the Battle of Princeton.
1833

Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands.
1870

Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge began.
1920

The New York Yankees acquired Babe Ruth and so began the "curse of the Bambino" that haunted the Boston Red Sox until 2004.
1947

Congressional proceedings were televised for the first time.
1958

Sir Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole overland.
1959

Alaska became the 49th state in the United States.
1962

Pope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro.
1967

Jack Ruby, the man who shot John Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, died.
1987

Aretha Franklin became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1990

Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces.

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1492

Muhammad XI, the leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain, surrendered to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I.
1788

Georgia was admitted to the Union as the 4th state.
1839

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon.
1905

The Russo-Japanese war ended.
1923

The African-American town of Rosewood, Fla., was burned by a white mob.
1935

The Bruno R. Hauptmann trial began for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh baby.
1959

The first spacecraft to fly by the Moon and also to orbit the Sun, Mechta (Luna 1) was launched by the USSR.
1994

Rudolph Giuliani is inaugurated as New York City's mayor.

Mr. Metcalf 11 R US History 2018-19