1935 – In Flemington, New Jersey, a jury found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of the kidnapping and death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh.
0167 – Polycarp, a disciple of St. John and Bishop of Smyrna, is martyred on the west coast of Asia Minor.
1258 – Baghdad, then a city of 1 million, falls to the Mongols as the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed, tens of thousands slaughtered, ending the Islamic Golden Age
1349 – Jews are expelled from Burgdorf, Switzerland
1503 – Disfida di Barletta – Famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta, Southern Italy
1542 – Catherine Howard was executed for adultery. She was the fifth wife of England’s King Henry VIII.
1578 – Tycho Brahe first sketches “Tychonic system” of solar system
1633 – Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition.
1689 – Parliament of England adopts the Bill of Rights which establishes the rights of parliament and places limits on the crown
1692 – Glencoe Massacre: about 38 MacDonalds killed early in the morning by rival Campbell clan members, allegedly for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange
1741 – “The American Magazine,” the first magazine in the U.S., was published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1777 – Marquis de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress
1826 – American Temperance Society forms in Boston
1837 – Riot in New York due to a combination of poverty and increase in the cost of flour
1865 – The Confederacy approves the recruitment of slaves as soldiers, as long as the approval of their owners is gained.
1866 – Jesse James holds up his first bank, stealing $15,000 from the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri
1880 – Thomas Edison observed what became known as the Edison Effect for the first time.
1889 – Norman Coleman became the first U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.
1900 – The Anglo-German accord of 1899 was ratified by Reichstag, in which Britain renounced rights in Samoa in favor of Germany and the U.S.
1907 – English suffragettes storm British Parliament & 60 women are arrested
1917 – Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is arrested in Paris on suspicion that she is a German spy
1920 – The League of Nations recognized the continued neutrality of Switzerland.
1920 – The National Negro Baseball League was organized.
1929 – Cruiser Act, USA, approves the construction of 19 new cruisers & an aircraft carrier
1935 – In Flemington, New Jersey, a jury found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of the kidnapping and death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh
1945 – During World War II, the Soviets captured Budapest, Hungary, from the German army.
1945 – During World War II, Allied aircraft began bombing the German city of Dresden.
1949 – A mob burns a radio station in Ecuador after the broadcast of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds.“
1953 – The Pope asks the United States to grant clemency to convicted spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
1955 – Israel acquired 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
1968 – The United States sends 10,500 more combat troops to Vietnam.
1971 – South Vietnamese troops invaded Laos. They were backed by U.S. air and artillery support.
1972 – Enemy attacks in Vietnam decline for the third day as the United States continues its intensive bombing strategy.
1974 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is deported from the Soviet Union to Frankfurt, West Germany and stripped of his Soviet citizenship
1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
1984 – Konstantin Chernenko was chosen to be general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee, succeeding the late Yuri Andropov.
1985 – Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders
1989 – Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients
1990 – In Ottawa, the United States and its European allies forged an agreement with the Soviet Union and East Germany on a two-stage formula to reunite Germany.
1991 – Hundreds of Iraqis were killed by two laser-guided bombs that destroyed an underground facility in Baghdad. U.S. officials identified the facility as a military installation, but Iraqi officials said it was a bomb shelter.
1997 – Astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery brought the Hubble Space Telescope aboard for a tune up. The tune up allowed the telescope to see further into the universe.
1999 – A bomb exploded just outside a government-owned bank in southern Kosovo. Nine people were killed.
2000 – Charles M. Schulz’s last original Sunday “Peanuts” comic strip appeared in newspapers. Schulz had died the day before.
2002 – In Alexandria, VA, John Walker Lindh pled innocent to a 10-count federal indictment. He was charged with conspiring to kill Americans and aiding Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network.
2002 – Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II.
2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement when mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for 2008 presidential election.
2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologizes to Indigenous Australians for the “stolen generations”
2010 – A bombing at the German Bakery in Pune, India, kills 10 and injures 60 more.
2017 – US President Donald Trump accepts the resignation of national security adviser Michael Flynn over his dealings with Russia
2018 – Israeli Police report recommends Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be prosecuted on bribery, fraud and breach-of-trust charges
2019 – NASA confirms Mars Opportunity rover’s mission has ended after 15 years due to a sandstorm damaging its communications
2019 – Suicide attack on bus carrying Iranian military’s Revolutionary Guard kills 23 in Sistan-Baluchestan province, separatist group Jaish al-Adl claim responsibility
2020 – Scientists overturn current thought about how planets form – not by violent collision but gentle clumping, through study of Arrokoth in Kepler belt, published in “Science”
2021 – Archaeologists announce discovery of oldest known beer factory in Abydos, Egypt, from early Dynastic period 3150 B.C.- 2613 B.C
2021 – Former US President Donald Trump acquitted in second Senate impeachment trial on charge of incitement of insurrection after senators vote 57 to 43 in favor of conviction, less than the two thirds majority required for impeachment
2022 – Canadian police arrest truckers who have protested a vaccine mandate for blocking Ambassador’s Bridge, between Detroit and Windsor, for a week at the busiest land border crossing in North America
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
