1968 – Orangeburg Massacre: highway patrol officers kill 3 students and injure 27 others demonstrating at South Carolina State University, 1st student killing by law enforcement in the US
1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots is beheaded in Fotheringhay Castle for her alleged part in the conspiracy to usurp Elizabeth I.
1600 – Vatican convicts scholar and friar Giordano Bruno (who believed in an infinite universe) of heresy and sentences him to be burnt at the stake
1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, leads an unsuccessful revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
1690 – French and Native American troops set Schenectady settlement New York on fire
1693 – A charter was granted for the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA.
1807 – Battle of Eylau ends inconclusively between Napoleon’s forces and Russian Empire – 1st battle Napoleon isn’t victorious
1855 – The Devil’s Footprints, hoof-like marks mysteriously appear for over 60km after a snowfall in southern Devon, England
1861 – The Confederate States of America was formed.
1861 – A Cheyenne delegation and some Arapaho leaders accepted a new settlement (Treaty of Fort Wise) with the U.S. Federal government. The deal ceded most of their land but secured a 600-square mile reservation and annuity payments.
1879 – Sandford Fleming proposes the use of time zones, The later introduction of Universal Standard Time, which is based on time zones, revolutionized time keeping.
1887 – Congress passes the Dawes Act, which gives citizenship to Indians living apart from their tribe.
1896 – The Western Conference was formed by representatives of Midwestern universities. The group changed its name to the Big 10 Conference.
1900 – In South Africa, British troops under Gen. Buller were beaten at Ladysmith. The British fled over the Tugela River.
1904 – The Russo-Japanese War began with Japan attacking Russian forces in Manchuria.
1911 – US helps overthrow President Miguel Devila of Honduras
1918 – During World War I, “The Stars and Stripes” was published under orders from General John J. Pershing for the United States Army forces in France. It was published from February 8, 1918 to June 13, 1919.
1922 – The White House began using radio after U.S. President Harding had it installed.
1924 – The gas chamber is used for the first time to execute a murderer.
1925 – Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta
1931 – Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000
1936 – 1936 NFL Draft (first ever): Jay Berwanger from University of Chicago first pick by Philadelphia Eagles
1942 – Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn’t oppose the US war effort
1946 – Portuguese Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar forbids opposition parties
1950 – The Stasi, East Germany’s notorious secret police, is established, The “Staatssicherheit”, which was dissolved in 1990, is considered one of the most repressive intelligence agencies in the world.
1963 – The Kennedy administration prohibited travel to Cuba and made financial and commercial transactions with Cuba illegal for U.S. citizens.
1963 – Lamar Hunt, owner of the American Football League franchise in Dallas, TX, moved the operation to Kansas City. The new team was named the Chiefs.
1968 – “Planet of the Apes” premieres in New York City
1968 – Orangeburg Massacre: highway patrol officers kill 3 students and injure 27 others demonstrating at South Carolina State University, 1st student killing by law enforcement in the US
1969 – The last issue of the “Saturday Evening Post” was published. It was revived in 1971 as a quarterly publication and later a 6 times a year.
1971 – South Vietnamese ground forces, backed by American air power, begin Operation Lam Son 719, a 17,000 man incursion into Laos that ends three weeks later in a disaster.
1971 – The Nasdaq stock-market index debuted.
1973 – U.S. Senate leaders named seven members of a select committee to investigate the Watergate scandal.
1974 – The three-man crew of the Skylab space station returned to Earth after 84 days.
1978 – The U.S. Senate deliberations were broadcast on radio for the first time. The subject was the Panama Canal treaties.
1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced a plan to re-introduce draft registration.
1990 – CBS television temporarily suspends Andy Rooney for his anti-gay and anti-black remarks in a magazine interview.
1992 – Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter
1993 – General Motors sued NBC, alleging that “Dateline NBC” had rigged two car-truck crashes to show that some GM pickups were prone to fires after certain types of crashes. The suit was settled the following day by NBC.
1996 – The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
2005 – Leaders of both Palestine and Israel declare a truce in what many hope will be a “new era of peace”
2008 – Nebraska bans electric chair as sole execution method
2013 – 16 people are killed and 27 are wounded by a market bombing in Kalaya, Pakistan
2013 – 29 people are killed and 69 are injured in a series of Iraq bombings
2017 – US Senate confirms Jeff Sessions Attorney General, after controversy and protests
2018 – Bangladesh court sentences former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to 5 years in prison for corruption
2019 – Amazon founder Jeff Bezos accuses The National Enquirer and its owner, American Media Inc, of blackmail over private messages detailing an extramarital affair
2020 – Gunman shoots and kills 29 people in a shopping center in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, with 57 injured. Shooter shot and killed by security forces a day later.
2021 – Martial law declared in Mandalay, Myanmar, amid continuing protests against the country’s military coup
2022 – Horn of Africa with 13 million people now facing humanitarian crisis amid drought where the rainy season has failed three years in a row, according to UN World Food Program
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
