1994 – White separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, MS, of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
1428 – King Alfonso V, orders Sicily’s Jews to attend conversion sermons
1488 – Roman Catholic German Emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium
1512 – French troops under Gaston de Foix rescue Bologna, which was under siege from a combined Papal-Spanish army
1556 – King Henry II of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V sign the Treaty of Vaucelles, creating a temporary truce in the Italian War of 1551–59
1576 – Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) abjures Catholicism at Tours
1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians, known as the 26 Martyrs, are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society
1644 – 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
1782 – British garrison in Menorca (western Mediterranean) surrenders to French and Spanish fleet as part of the American Revolutionary War
1783 – Sweden recognized the independence of the United States.
1803 – English explorer George Bass and crew set sail from Sydney to Tahiti and Chile – they’re never seen again
1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway
1846 – “The Oregon Spectator”, based in Oregon City, became the first newspaper published on the Pacific coast.
1861 – Samuel Goodale patented the moving picture peep show machine.
1861 – Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress (US Civil War)
1869 – The biggest gold nugget in history is found, The “Welcome Stranger” was found at Moliagul in Australia and had a calculated refined weight of 71.081 kg.
1885 – Congo State was established under Leopold II of Belgium, as a personal possession.
1909 – The world’s first synthetic plastic is developed, Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announced his invention of Bakelite at a meeting of the American Chemical Society that day.
1917 – The U.S. Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 (Asiatic Barred Zone Act) with an overwhelming majority. The action overrode President Woodrow Wilson’s December 14, 1916 veto.
1919 – United Artists is founded, Charlie Chaplin was one of the film studio’s founders.
1922 – Reader’s Digest magazine 1st published
1924 – The BBC time signals, or “pips”, from Greenwich Observatory were heard for the first time. They are broadcast every hour.
1936 – “Modern Times”, silent film directed by, written by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released
1937 – U.S. President Roosevelt proposed enlarging the U.S. Supreme Court. The plan failed.
1952 – In New York City, four signs were installed at 44th Street and Broadway in Times Square that told pedestrians “don’t walk.”
1953 “Peter Pan”, animated film by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, NYC
1958 – Gamel Abdel Nasser was formally nominated to become the first president of the United Arab Republic.
1961 – The first issue of the “Sunday Telegraph” was published.
1962 – French President Charles De Gaulle called for Algeria’s independence.
1962 – Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn all within 16 degrees
1969 – “Turn-On,” debuts and cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly
1969 – United States population reaches 200 million
1971 – Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard & Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hrs
1972 – US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage
1973 – Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War, buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors
1980 – Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel
1981 – Military jury in North Carolina convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with the enemy during the Vietnam War
1982 – Great Britain imposed economic sanctions against Poland and Russia in protest against martial law in Poland.
1988 – A pair of indictments were unsealed in Florida, accusing Panama’s military leader, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, of bribery and drug trafficking.
1994 – “Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego,” debuts on Fox TV
1994 – 68 killed and 200 wounded after a mortar bomb is set off in Sarajevo
1994 – White separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, MS, of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
1997 – Switzerland’s “Big Three” banks announced they would create a $71 million fund for Holocaust victims and their families.
1997 – Japan’s Ministry of Finance announces plans to cut import tariffs on crude oil and most petroleum products
2003 – U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell presented evidence to the U.N. concerning Iraq’s material breach of U.N. Resolution 1441.
2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion
2014 – Archaeologists decrypt the 13th C Viking jötunvillur runic code
2014 – US President Obama and journalists globally call for the release of 3 Al Jazeera journalists detained in Egypt
2016 – Computer hackers try to steal 1 billion from Federal Reserve Bank of New York using Bangladesh banking codes, steal 81 million before a typo alerts authorities
2019 – Pope Francis admits for the first time that clerics have sexually abused nuns
2020 – US Senate votes to acquit President Donald Trump 52-48 on charges of abuse of power and 53-47 on obstruction of Congress
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
