1812 – The term “gerrymandering” had its beginning when the governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry, signed a redistricting law that favored his party.
660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu
0055 – Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
0385 – Siricius, bishop of Tarragona, elected as Bishop of Rome; first to style himself Pope
1531 – Henry VIII is recognized as the supreme head of the Church of England.
1543 – Battle at Wayna Daga: Ethiopian and Portuguese troops beat Muslim army
1752 – The Pennsylvania Hospital opened as the very first hospital in America.
1768 – Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes
1790 – Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery
1805 – Sixteen-year-old Sacajawea, the Shoshoni guide for Lewis & Clark, gives birth to a son, with Meriwether Lewis serving as midwife.
1808 – Judge Jesse Fell experimented by burning anthracite coal to keep his house warm. He successfully showed how clean the coal burned and how cheaply it could be used as a heating fuel.
1812 – The term “gerrymandering” had its beginning when the governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry, signed a redistricting law that favored his party. https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/gerrymander-born-in-massachusetts.html
1815 – News of the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812, finally reaches the United States.
1855 – Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam
1858 – A French girl, Bernadette Soubirous, claimed to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary near Lourdes.
1903 – Congress passes the Expedition Act, giving antitrust cases priority in the courts.
1904 – President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims strict neutrality for the United States in the Russo-Japanese War.
1926 – The Mexican government nationalizes all church property.
1929 – The Lateran Treaty was signed. Italy now recognized the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City.
1936 – The Reich arrests 150 Catholic youth leaders in Berlin.
1936 – Pumping began the process to build San Francisco’s Treasure Island.
1937 – General Motors agreed to recognize the United Automobile Workers Union, which ended the current sit-down strike against them.
1938 – The BBC broadcasts Karel Čapek’s “R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)”, the world’s first science fiction TV program
1942 – “Archie” comic book debuts
1943 – General Dwight David Eisenhower was selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
1945 – During World War II, the Yalta Agreement was signed by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
1951 – U.N. forces push north across the 38th parallel for the second time in the Korean War.
1953 – President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple
1956 – British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean deny working as spies for Soviet Russia after reappearing in the Soviet Union after going missing 5 years earlier
1958 – Ruth Carol Taylor was the first black woman to become a stewardess by making her initial flight.
1959 – Iran turns down Soviet aid in favor of a U.S. proposal for aid.
1960 – Jack Paar walked off while live on the air on the “Tonight Show” with four minutes left. He did this in response to censors cutting out a joke from the show the night before.
1962 – Poet and novelist Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London at age 30.
1965 – President Lyndon Johnson orders air strikes against targets in North Vietnam, in retaliation for guerrilla attacks on the American military in South Vietnam.
1968 – The new 20,000 seat Madison Square Garden officially opened in New York. This was the fourth Garden.
1974 – Communist-led rebels shower artillery fire into a crowded area of Phnom Pehn, killing 139 and injuring 46 others.
1974 – Henry Kissinger unveils Nixon Administration’s seven-point “Project Independence” plan to make the U.S. energy independent
1974 – Libya nationalizes three US oil companies that had not agreed to 51 percent nationalization in September
1975 – Margaret Thatcher became the first woman to head a major party in Britain when she was elected leader of the Conservative Party.
1978 – China lifts a ban on works of Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens
1979 – Nine days after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran (after 15 years in exile) power was seized by his followers.
1982 – ABC-TV’s presentation of “The Winds of War” concluded. The 18-hour miniseries cost $40 million to produce and was the most-watched television program in history at the time.
1982 – France nationalized five groups of major industries and 39 banks.
1986 – Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country
1989 – Rev. Barbara C. Harris became the first woman to be consecrated as a bishop in the Episcopal Church.
1990 – Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in captivity.
1993 – Janet Reno was appointed to the position of attorney general by U.S. President Clinton. She was the first female to hold the position.
1999 – Pluto moves further away from the sun than Neptune regaining its status as solar system’s outermost planet, a title it will retain for 228 years
2006 – In Texas, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a quail hunt.
2007 – A national referendum in Portugal legalises non-therapeutic abortion when requested by the woman during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.
2011 – Egyptian Revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests (Arab Spring)
2013 Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from February 28, the first pope to resign since 1415
2014 – 11 people are killed after a grenade was tossed into a movie theatre in Peshawar, Pakistan
2016 – It was reported that scientists had detected gravitational waves. The waves had been detected on September 14, 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors in Livingston, LA, and Hanford, WA.
2016 – Last of Oregon militia occupying Malheur wildlife refuge surrenders to authorities after 41 days
2016 – Riot between rival drug cartels at a prison in Monterrey, Mexico, leaves 52 dead
2019 – Artificial Intelligence system meant to assist diagnosis in the future, pitted against physicians in test to diagnose 600,000 patients in results published in “Nature Medicine”,
2021 – US President Joe Biden rescinds the national emergency order used by Donald Trump to fund the border wall with Mexico
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
