2000 – The dotcom bubble bursts when the NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5408.60, The dotcom boom, which started in 1997, accompanied the advent of countless new Internet-based companies. When the speculative bubble burst, many small investors were affected.
0241 BC – The Roman fleet sank 50 Carthaginian ships in the Battle of Aegusa.
0418 – Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire
0515 – The building of the great Jewish temple in Jerusalem is completed
1496 – Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere when he left Hispaniola for Spain.
1535 – Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers the Galapagos Islands
1578 – Queen Elizabeth I of England gives Johan Casimir £20,000 to aid Dutch rebellion
1629 – England’s King Charles I dissolved Parliament and did not call it back for 11 years.
1656 – In the American colony of Virginia, suffrage was extended to all free men regardless of their religion.
1783 – USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins last naval battle of US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral
1785 – Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France. He succeeded Benjamin Franklin.
1804 – The formal ceremonies transferring the Louisiana Purchase from France to the U.S. took place in St. Louis.
1806 – The Dutch in Cape Town, South Africa surrendered to the British.
1814 – In France, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by a combined Allied Army at the battle of Laon.
1831 – The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria
1848 – The U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war with Mexico.
1849 – Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent for a device to lift vessels over shoals by means of inflated cylinders.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful call with the telephone. He spoke the words “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”
1893 – New Mexico State University canceled its first graduation ceremony because the only graduate was robbed and killed the night before.
1900 – Regents for the King of Uganda and leading chiefs sign a treaty with Great Britain agreeing to the organization of the government, taxation, courts, military, and other functions of their country, which is under British protection.
1902 – The Boers of South Africa scored their last victory over the British, when they captured British General Methuen and 200 men.
1902 – A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera
1902 – Tochangri, Turkey, was entirely wiped out by an earthquake.
1903 – In New York’s harbor, the disease-stricken ship Karmania was quarantined with six dead from cholera.
1906 – In France, 1,200 miners were buried in an explosion at Courriers.
1910 – Slavery was abolished in China.
1912 – China became a republic after the overthrow of the Manchu Ch’ing Dynasty.
1920 – Home Rule Act passed by the British Parliament, dividing Ireland into two parts; it is rejected by the southern counties, where the Ango-Irish war continues for a year
1924 – The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York state law forbidding late-night work for women.
1927 – Prussia lifted its Nazi ban allowing Adolf Hitler to speak in public.
1933 – Nevada became the first U.S. state to regulate drugs.
1941 – Vichy France threatened to use its navy unless Britain allowed food to reach France.
1943 – Adolf Hitler calls Field Marshall Erwin Rommel back from Tunisia in North Africa.
1944 – The Irish refused to oust all Axis envoys and denied the accusation of spying on Allied troops.
1945 – The most destructive bombing raid in history hits Tokyo, About 100,000 Tokyo citizens died in the fires caused by the U.S. air force’s incendiary bombs.
1947 – The Big Four met in Moscow to discuss the future of Germany.
1947 – Poland and Czechoslovakia signed a 20-year mutual aid pact.
1949 – Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as “Axis Sally,” was convicted in Washington, DC. Gillars was convicted of treason and served 12 years in prison.
1951 – FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner
1952 – Fulgencio Batista assumes power in Cuba after a coup, The dictator was overthrown by rebels under the command of Che Guevara in 1959.
1953 – North Korean gunners at Wonsan fired upon the USS Missouri. The ship responded by firing 998 rounds at the enemy position.
1959 – A revolt erupts in Lhasa, sparking the Tibetan uprising, Fearing the Dalai Lama’s abduction by China, 300,000 Tibetans surrounded his palace.
1965 – Walter Matthau and Art Carney opened in “The Odd Couple”. It later became a hit on television.
1966 – The North Vietnamese captured a Green Beret camp at Ashau Valley.
1966 – France withdrew from NATO’s military command to protest U.S. dominance of the alliance and asked NATO to move its headquarters from Paris.
1968 – North Vietnamese and communist Laotian troops overrun a secret US radar facility, Lima Site 85, on a Laos mountaintop
1969 – James Earl Ray pled guilty in Memphis, TN, to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Ray later repudiated the guilty plea and maintained his innocence until his death in April of 1998.
1971 – The U.S. Senate approved an amendment to lower the voting age to 18.
1975 – The North Vietnamese Army attacks the South Vietnamese town of Buon Ma Thout, the offensive will end with total victory in Vietnam.
1975 – Dog spectacles patented in England
1977 – Rings of Uranus discovered during osculation of SAO
1980 – Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, lent his support to the militants holding American hostages in Tehran.
1982 – The U.S. banned Libyan oil imports due to their continued support of terrorism.
1986 – The Wrigley Company, of Chicago, raised the price of its seven-stick pack of Wrigley’s chewing gum from a quarter to 30 cents.
1987 – The Vatican condemned surrogate parenting as well as test-tube and artificial insemination.
1990 – Haitian President Prosper Avril was ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
1991 – “Phase Echo” began. It was the operation to withdraw 540,000 U.S. troops from the Persian Gulf region.
1993 – Physician David Gunn shot and killed by anti-abortionist Michael Frederick Griffin in Pensacola, Florida, first anti-abortion murder of a doctor in the US
1994 – White House officials began testifying before a federal grand jury about the Whitewater controversy.
1995 – U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher told Yasser Arafat that he must do more to curb Palestinian terrorists.
1998 – U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf began receiving the first vaccinations against anthrax.
2000 – The dotcom bubble bursts when the NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5408.60, The dotcom boom, which started in 1997, accompanied the advent of countless new Internet-based companies. When the speculative bubble burst, many small investors were affected.
2002 – The Associated Press reported that the Pentagon informed the U.S. Congress in January that it was making contingency plans for the possible use of nuclear weapons against countries that threaten the U.S. with weapons of mass destruction, including Iraq and North Korea.
2003 – North Korea test-fired a short-range missile. The event was one of several in a pattern of unusual military maneuvers.
2006 – Mass unrest by the PCC started in São Paulo (the biggest city in Brazil) which would eventually kill more than 152 people.
2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
2014 – German Chancellor Angela Merkel warns Russia’s Vladimir Putin that making Crimea part of Russia is illegal and in violation of Ukraine’s constitution
2017 – South Korean judges uphold parliaments’ decision to impeach President Park Geun-hye
2018 – 16 people die after being struck by lightning at a church in Nyaruguru District, Rwanda
2019 – Taliban force attacks Afghan army base killing or capturing about 50 soldiers in Badghis Province, Afghanistan
2020 – New York governor Andrew Cuomo deploys the national guard to New Rochelle after one-mile radius zone established as 108 cases of COVID-19 detected
2020 – Russian lower house of Parliament passes legislation to allow Vladimir Putin to hold office of President for life
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
