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13
Jan
THESE PAST EVENTS MADE NEWS HISTORY
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10
Dec
FIRST PAPER CURRENCY IS AUTHORIZED
On December 10, 1690, a failed attack on Quebec and
subsequent near-mutiny force the Massachusetts Bay
Colony to issue the first paper currency in the history
of the Western Hemisphere.
With a shortage of coins and nothing else to pay the
troops with, Governor William Phips of Britain’s
Massachusetts Bay Colony faced a potential mutiny.
With no other option, the General Court of Massachusetts
ordered the printing of a limited amount of government-
backed, paper currency to pay the soldiers.
Sir William Phips
(February 2, 1651 – February 18, 1695)
The envoy of Sir William Phips (right) demanding the
surrender of Quebec, 1690.
17
Nov
‘THE TERMINATOR’’ AND ‘’THE GOVERNATOR”
On November 17, 2003, the actor and former bodybuilder
Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as the 38th governor
of California at the State Capitol in Sacramento.
Schwarzenegger, who became a major Hollywood star in
the 1980s with such action movies as Conan the Barbarian
and The Terminator, defeated Governor Gray Davis in a
special recall election on October 7, 2003.
Prior to Schwarzenegger, another famous actor, Ronald
Reagan, served as the 33rd governor of California from
1967 to 1975 before going on to become the nation’s
40th president in 1980.
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is 78.
12
Aug
NEWS EVENTS THAT MADE HISTORY
CARLATA BRADLEY
A Russian nuclear submarine sank to the bottom of the Barents
Sea on August 12, 2000; all 118 crew members are later found
dead. The exact cause of the disaster remains unknown.
Kursk left port on August 10 to take part in war games with the
Russian military. Russian ships, planes and submarines met
up in the Barents Sea, which is above the Arctic Circle, to
practice military maneuvers.
On August 12, Kursk was scheduled to fire a practice torpedo;
at 11:29 a.m., before doing so, two explosions spaced shortly
apart occurred in the front hull of the submarine and it plunged
toward the bottom of the sea.
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15
May
GOVERNOR SHOT ON THIS DAY IN 1972
During an outdoor rally in Laurel, Maryland, George Wallace
(right) the governor of Alabama and a presidential candidate
was shot by 21-year-old Arthur Bremer (left).
Three others were wounded, and Wallace was permanently
paralyzed from the waist down. The next day, while fighting
for his life in a hospital, he won major primary victories in
Michigan and Maryland.
On June 8, Shirley Chisholm, the first African American
woman elected to Congress and one of Wallace’s opponents
for the Democratic nomination, famously visited him in the
hospital to wish him well.
He remained in the hospital for several months, bringing his
third presidential campaign to an irrevocable end.
After his shooting, a hospitalized George C.
Wallace holds up a newspaper touting his
victories in the Maryland and Michigan
Democratic presidential primaries.
George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September
13, 1998).
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