On this day– A timeline of Events
Today is December 1. Russia now, then USSR was equally dominant.
Let’s peep into the Chronology of events and how it unfolded when Ukraine freed itself from the Claws of USSR.
When John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford, and Henry Clay couldn’t agree on a candidate for president in 1824, the U.S. House of Representatives was given control of the election-Adams emerged victorious.
In his Second Annual Message to Congress in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln demanded the outlawing of slavery and added, “Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.” Despite ourselves, this Congress and this Administration will be remembered.
After his government rejected American demands outlined in the Hull Note, Japan’s Emperor Hirohito authorized the country to go to war against the United States, Britain, and the Netherlands in 1941.
During World War II, nationwide gasoline rationing was implemented in the US in 1942. The intention was to conserve rubber, which was vital for the war effort, by lowering the number of tires used, rather than to save money on gas.
Under the headline “Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty,” the New York Daily News published a front-page article about Christine Jorgensen’s sex-reassignment surgery in 1952.
Black seamstress Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The incident led to a boycott of the buses for a full year.
Thousands of Cubans were granted permission to flee their island nation when an airlift of refugees from Cuba to the United States started in 1965.
The United States government conducted its first draft lottery since World War II in 1969.
The 92 people on board TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727 headed for Washington, perished when it crashed in Virginia in 1974 after it was diverted from National Airport to Dulles International Airport. The same day, three crew members perished in the crash of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, a Boeing 727 that had been chartered to transport the Baltimore Colts football team from Buffalo, New York, to Stony Point, New York.
The majority of Ukrainians voted in favor of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
A roadside bomb near Fallujah, Iraq, killed ten U.S. Marines in 2005.
President Barack Obama pledged to start troop withdrawals from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in an address to cadets in 2009, despite ordering the deployment of 30,000 more American soldiers into Afghanistan.
Jovan Belcher, a linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs, shot and killed his girlfriend Kasandra Perkins in 2012. He then drove to Arrowhead Stadium and committed suicide in front of the general manager and coach of the team.
When a commuter train in New York City rounded a bend near a river, it derailed in 2013, killing four people and wounding over seventy.
Retired general Michael Flynn, the first national security adviser to President Donald Trump, entered a guilty plea to the FBI in 2017 for lying to them about contacting the Russians on Trump’s behalf. Flynn was later pardoned by Trump.
Attorney General William Barr told The Associated Press in 2020 that the U.S. Justice Department had not found any evidence of widespread voter fraud that could have altered the results of the 2020 election, refuting President Donald Trump’s vehement and unfounded claims.
The omicron variant of the coronavirus was first detected in the United States in 2021 in a vaccinated tourist who had returned to California from a trip to South Africa.
Congress finally approved legislation in 2022 to prevent what might have been an economically devastating freight rail strike in response to President Joe Biden’s request for federal intervention in the protracted labor dispute.
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