This Week in History Setpember 17th-22nd

in #history6 years ago

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Sep. 17
1996
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Daytime talk show host. And movie star Oprah Winfrey launches a television book club and announces “The Deep End of the Ocean” by Jacquelyn Mitchard as her first selection.

Sep. 18

1812
The Great Fire of Moscow burns out after 5 days, leaving 75% of the city destroyed and 12,000 killed

1973
Carter files report on UFO sighting

Future President Jimmy Carter files a report with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), claiming he had seen an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) in October 1969.

Sep. 19

1881

President Garfield succumbs to shooting wounds
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Eighty days after a failed office seeker shot him in Washington, D.C., President James A. Garfield dies of complications from his wounds.

1995

A manifesto by the Unabomber, an anti-technology terrorist, is published by The New York Times and Washington Postin the hope that someone will recognize the person who, for 17 years, had been sending homemade bombs through the mail that had killed and maimed innocent people around the United States.

Sep. 20

2012

Amish convicted in beard cutting attacks
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16 members of a dissident Amish group in Ohio are convicted of federal hate crimes and conspiracy for forcibly cutting the beards and hair of fellow Amish with whom they had religious differences.

Sep. 21

1966

Jimmy Hendrix changes spelling of his name to Jimi

2013

The Westgate Mall is attacked in Nairobi, Kenya
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In a daring siege, militants of the extremist group al-Shabaab took over the Westgate Mall. 63 shoppers were killed during the attack that lasted a around 3 hours, and before the Kenyan security forces rescued the hostages, 4 terrorists were also killed. Al-Shabaab declared that it had undertaken the attack as retaliation for the presence of Kenyan armed forces in Somalia.

Sep. 22

1980 Iran-Iraq War begins with Iraq invading Iran

It is thought to be one of the 20th century's deadliest and longest conventional war. It ended 7 years later with no decisive victory and massive losses, both in terms of human lives and in terms of economy to both sides.

1862
Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation

Lastly, President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which sets a date for the freedom of more than 3 million black slaves in the United States and recasts the Civil War as a fight against slavery.

When the Civil War broke out in 1861, shortly after Lincoln’s inauguration as America’s 16th president, he initially maintained that the war was about restoring the Union and not about slavery.

Sources:
History.com
Onthisday.com

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