📜 November 12: On This Day in History |  | Celestial light show |  Image: Optics Central | Each of the following events happened on November 12. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) Andrew Ellicott, an early American astronomer, witnesses the Leonids meteor shower from a ship off the Florida Keys, marking the first-ever recorded meteor shower in North America.
- B) Ellis Island, the gateway to America, shut its doors after processing a total of 12+ million immigrants since first opening.
- C) Crown Prince Akihito is enthroned as emperor of Japan. He’s the first Japanese monarch to reign solely as an official figurehead, and not an absolute monarch.
- D) President Jimmy Carter stops all importation of oil from Iran, in response to 66 Americans being taken hostage in the US Embassy in Tehran by a radical Islamic group.
Hint: You only need to move one event to put them all in order |
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📜 Answers | | A, B, D, C - A) 1799 – First recorded meteor shower appears in North America. Ellicott wrote in his journal that the “whole heaven appeared as if illuminated with sky rockets”.
- B) 1954 – Ellis Island closes its doors. 15-year-old Annie Moore, from Ireland, was the first person to pass through Ellis Island
- D) 1979 – President Carter halts the importation of oil from Iran.
- C) 1990 – Crown Prince Akihito is enthroned as emperor of Japan.
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