1915 – Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid
1003 – Peace deal signed between Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor and the pagan Wends (Slavs)
1309 – Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.
1350 – While besieging Gibraltar, Alfonso XI of Castile dies of the black death.
1351 – Battle of the Thirty: 30 English and 30 Breton knights and squires square off using swords, maces, lances and daggers – considered one of the most chivalrous battles in history
1512 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights Florida.
1613 – The first English child born in Canada at Cuper’s Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy
1625 – Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland ascends the English throne
1708 – Pretender to the English throne James III flees to Dunkirk
1713 – Spain loses Menorca and Gibraltar to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht
1794 – The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of the U.S. Navy.
1802 – The Treaty of Amiens was signed ending the French Revolutionary War.
1814 – U.S. troops under Gen. Andrew Jackson inflict a crushing defeat on the Creek Indians at Horshoe Bend in Northern Alabama.
1836 – In Goliad, TX, about 350 Texan prisoners, including their commander James Fannin, were executed under orders from Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna. An estimated 30 Texans escaped execution.
1836 – The first Mormon temple was dedicated in Kirtland, OH.
1866 – U.S. President Andrew Johnson vetoed the civil rights bill, which later became the 14th amendment.
1899 – The Italian inventor G. Marconi achieves the first international radio transmission between England and France.
1900 – The London Parliament passed the War Loan Act that gave 35 million pounds to the Boer War cause in South Africa.
1900 – The Russian army mobilized 250,000 troops for active duty.
1901 – Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo was captured by the U.S.
1904 – Mary Jarris “Mother” Jones was ordered by Colorado state authorities to leave the state. She was accused of stirring up striking coal miners.
1907 – French troops occupied Oudja, Morocco, as a punitive action for the murder of French Dr. Muchamp.
1912 – The first cherry blossom trees were planted in Washington, DC. The trees were a gift from Japan.
1915 – Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid
1917 – The Seattle Metropolitans, of the Pacific Coast League of Canada, defeated the Montreal Canadiens and became the first U.S. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup.
1933 – About 55,000 people staged a protest against Hitler in New York City.
1933 – In the U.S., the Farm Credit Administration was authorized.
1941 – Tokeo Yoshikawa arrived in Oahu, HI, and began spying for Japan on the U.S. Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
1944 – Thousands of Jews are murdered in Kaunas, Lithuania. The Gestapo shoots forty Jewish policemen in the Riga, Latvia ghetto.
1944 – One thousand Jews leave Drancy, France for the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1945 – General Dwight Eisenhower declares that the German defenses on the Western Front have been broken.
1946 – Four-month long strikes at both General Electric and General Motors ended with a wage increase.
1952 – The U.S. Eighth Army reached the 38th parallel in Korea, the original dividing line between the two Koreas.
1958 – Nikita Khrushchev became the chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers in addition to First Secretary of the Communist Party.
1958 – The U.S. announced a plan to explore space near the moon.
1958 – Havana Hilton opens in Cuba, later HQ for Fidel Castro
1961 – Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen
1963 – Beeching axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom’s rail network.
1964 – The Great Alaska Earthquake (9.2 magnitude) and resulting tsunami kill 139 people in the largest US earthquake and second largest ever recorded
1976 – Washington, DC, opened its subway system.
1977 – The worst air crash in history occurs in Tenerife, Spain, 583 people died when 2 Boeing 747 aircraft collided on the runway.
1979 – US Supreme Court rules 8-1 that cops can’t randomly stop cars
1980 – The oil rig Alexander L. Kjelland collapses in high winds in the North Sea, Only 89 of 212 crew survived the Norwegian platform’s capsizing, which was caused by a fatigue crack in one of the legs.
1984 – Beginning of “tanker war”: over the next 9 months, 44 ships, including Iranian, Iraqi, Saudi Arabian and Kuwaiti tankers, are attacked by Iraqi or Iranian warplanes or damaged by mines
1988 – The U.S. Senate ratified the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
1989 – The U.S. anti-missile satellite failed the first test in space.
1993 – In China, Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin was appointed President.
1994 – Silvio Berlusconi rises to power in Italy, In his 20 years in Italian politics, Berlusconi arguably made more headlines for his numerous affairs and scandals than for his policies. In 2013, he was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for tax fraud.
1997 – Russian workers, nearly 2 million, held a nationwide strike to protest unpaid wages.
1997 – In Australia, Governor-General William Deane signed a bill to overturn a 1996 Northern Territory act to legalize assisted suicides. The 1996 act was the first in the world to permit assisted suicides.
1998 – In the U.S., the FDA approved the prescription drug Viagra. It was the first pill for male impotence.
2000 – Phillips explosion kills 1 and injures 71 in Pasadena, Texas.
2002 – Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel.
2004 – NASA successfully launched an unpiloted X-43A jet that hit Mach 7 (about 5,000 mph).
2015 – Russia’s Soyuz TMA-16M launches to deliver three crew members to the international space station to research the long-term effects of micro gravity
2016 – Suicide bomb kills more than 70 people at a park in Lahore, Pakistan, Taliban connected Jamaat-ul-Ahrar claim responsibility
2019 – Facebook bans white nationalism and white supremacy following criticism that Christchurch terrorist able to live-stream his attack
2019 – Former president of the Gambia Yahya Jammeh stole almost 1 billion from his country before his exile in 2017 according to a corruption report
2020 – $2.2 trillion stimulus package, largest in US history, signed into law by President Donald Trump saying “I never signed anything with a ‘T’ on it”
2021 – 114 people including children killed in one day by armed forces in Myanmar, with more than 420 killed since protests began against the military coup
2021 – Iran and China sign major agreement guaranteeing Chinese investment of $400 billion and Iranian oil supply in return in Tehran
2022 – China announces Shanghai will be locked down in two stages over nine days affecting 25 million people to carry out COVID-19 testing
2022 – El Salvador’s parliament declares a state of emergency after 62 gang killings in one day
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
