22 • Aug 2 - 4, 2020 HISTORY bransonglobe.com Today in History: Movies, sports and more • • • 1838 Apprenticeship system abolished in most of the British Empire. Former slaves no longer indentured to former owners. Labourer 1840 slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated 1842 Rotherhithe Tunnel under the Thames opens • 1842 Lombard Street Riot erupts • 1855 Castle Clinton in NYC opens as 1st US receiving station for immigrants • 1861 Brazil recognizes Confederacy • 1863 Battle of Little Rock, Arkansas; start of Chattanooga campaign • 1863 Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign • 1867 Blacks vote for 1st time in a US state election in the South (Tennessee) • 1869 1st voyage down Colorado River • 1870 Irish Land Act gives rights to tenants of landlords in Ireland • 1876 Colorado becomes • • • 38th state of the Union 1881 US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, San Francisco Bay • 1883 Amsterdam’s Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights • • 1883 Inland postal service begins in Great Britain 1886 Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand 1888 The roof of Seville’s cathedral collapses after an earthquake 1926 Failed assassination on • General Primo de Rivera in Barcelona 1932 George Washington quarter goes into circulation • 1943 Race riot in Harlem, NYC Movies & TV • 1927 Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards • 1934 2nd Venice Film Festival opens • 1953 KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, Oregon (NBC) begins broadcasting • 1954 WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting • 1955 WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (PBS) begins broadcasting • 1956 KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, California (ABC) begins broadcasting • 1959 WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/ NBC) begins broadcasting • 1963 WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, Illinois (ABC) begins broadcasting • • • • 1967 WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting 1968 WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting 1970 KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting 1970 2nd San Diego Comic-Con International opens at U.S. Grant Hotel • 1971 CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre’s 6 Wives of Henry VIII • 1979 12th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at U.S. Grant Hotel • 1981 MTV premieres at 12:01 AM • 1985 18th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Hotel San Diego EXP. 8/30/20
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