1980 – US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hostage-rescue-mission-ends-in-disaster
1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty)
1184 BC – The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date)
1066 – Halley’s Comet sparks English monk to predict country will be destroyed
1288 – Jews of Troyes France are accused of ritual murder
1503 – Michelangelo undertakes to carve 12 Apostles for the Cathedral of Florence, each four and a quarter braccia high (248.2cm), at the rate of at least one completed statue per year. He produced only one, of St. Matthew, and that remained unfinished.
1519 – Envoys of Montezuma II attended the first Easter mass in Central America.
1547 – Charles V’s troops defeated the Protestant League of Schmalkalden at the battle of Muhlburg.
1558 – Mary, Queen of Scotland, married the French dauphin, Francis.
1800 – The Library of Congress was established with a $5,000 allocation.
1805 – The U.S. Marines attacked and captured the town of Derna in Tripoli.
1833 – A patent was granted for first soda fountain.
1877 – Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire.
1877 – In the U.S., federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans. This was the end to the North’s post-Civil War rule in the South.
1884 – Otto von Bismarck cabled Cape Town that South Africa was now a German colony.
1897 – William Price became the first to be named White House news reporter.
1898 – Spain declared war on the U.S., rejecting America’s ultimatum for Spain to withdraw from Cuba.
1904 – President Loubet of France visits King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and pointedly ignores the Pope, exacerbating relations between France and the Roman Catholic Church
1913 – The Woolworth Building is opened in New York City by Frank Winfield Woolworth at a cost of $13.5 million, at 792 feet it was the world’s tallest building at the time
1915 – Leaders of the Armenian community in Constantinople (now Istanbul) are arrested by Ottoman authorities, and many later killed, marking the start of the Armenian Genocide
1916 – Irish nationalist launched the Easter Rebellion against British occupation forces. They were overtaken several days later.
1917 – US Congress passes the Liberty Loan Act, authorizing the Treasury to issue a public subscription for 2 billion in bonds for the war
1944 – The first B-29 arrived in China, over the Hump of the Himalayas.
1950 – Jordan formally annexes the West Bank
1953 – Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1955 – “X-Minus One,” a science fiction show, was first heard for the first time on NBC radio.
1957 – The Suez Canal reopens after the Suez Crisis, The conflict between Egypt on the one hand and France, the United Kingdom and Israel on the other, erupted in October 1956 when Egypt announced that the canal will be nationalized.
1961 – U.S. President Kennedy accepted “sole responsibility” following Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
1962 – MIT sent a TV signal by satellite for the first time.
1967 – The newest Greek regime banned miniskirts.
1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had “gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily.”
1970 – The People’s Republic of China launched its first satellite.
1973 – Albert Sabin reported that herpesviruses were factors in nine kinds of cancer.
1980 – US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hostage-rescue-mission-ends-in-disaster
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/desert-one-inside-the-failed-1980-hostage-rescue-in-iran/
1989 – Thousands of students began striking in Beijing.
1990 – West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st
1990 – The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL. It was carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope.
1993 – The IRA explodes a 1000kg car bomb in Bishopsgate, London, killing a news photographer and injuring 44 others
1995 – Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B Murray
1997 – The U.S. Senate ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention. The global treaty banned the development, production, storage and use of chemical weapons.
2003 – A U.S. official reported the North Korea had claimed to have nuclear weapons.
2005 – Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as Pope Benedict XVI
2007 – Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime
2013 – 1129 people die in Bangladesh in the worst building collapse disaster in modern history
2018 – Suffragist Millicent Fawcett is the first woman to have a statue erected in Parliament Square, London, England
2018 – US President Donald Trump hosts his first state dinner for visiting French President Emmanuel Macron
2021 – Joe Biden becomes the first US President to officially recognize killing of Armenians in the Ottoman empire during WWII as ‘genocide’
2022 – Violent clashes between Arab nomads and members of the Massalit community in Sudan’s West Darfur state result in the deaths of at least 168 people
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
