1973 – The espionage trial, the “Pentagon Papers” case, of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo ended. Judge William M. Byrne dismissed all charges due to government misconduct. https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/pentagon-papers
0868 – The earliest surviving dated printed book is produced in China, The “Diamond Sutra” is one of the most important texts in Mahayana Buddhism. The British Library in London presently houses the copy.
1189 – “Emperor Frederik I Barbarossa & 100,000 crusaders depart Regensburg”
1310 – 54 members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics.
1330 – Constantinople (Istanbul) becomes new capital by Roman Emperor Constantine for Eastern Roman Empire
1573 – Henry of Anjou became the first elected king of Poland.
1647 – Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor.
1689 – French and English naval battle takes place at Bantry Bay.
1745 – French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army at Fontenoy.
1751 – First US hospital founded (Pennsylvania Hospital)
1792 – The Columbia River was discovered by Captain Robert Gray.
1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham (bankrupt banker) in the lobby of the House of Commons, London
1816 – The American Bible Society was formed in New York City.
1857 – Indian mutineers seized Delhi from the British.
1858 – Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
1889 – Major Joseph Washington Wham takes charge of $28,000 in gold and silver to pay troops at various points in the Arizona Territory. The money was stolen in a train robbery.
1894 – Workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company in Illinois went on strike.
1904 – Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5 million to build a peace palace
1910 – Glacier National Park in Montana was established.
1934 – Dust Bowl: A strong two-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl in North America.
1935 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order that created the Rural Electrification Administration to provide emergency loans.
1943 – Naval task force lands Army troops on Attu, Aleutians
1944 – A major offensive was launched by the allied forces in central Italy.
1947 – The creation of the tubeless tire was announced by the B.F. Goodrich Company.
1949 – Siam changed its name to Thailand.
1949 – First Polaroid camera sold $89.95
1949 – By a vote of 37-12, Israel becomes 59th member of UN
1953 – Winston Churchill criticizes John Foster Dulles domino theory
1960 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann, living under the assumed name Ricardo Klement.
1963 – Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham AL
1966 – Henry “”Dickie”” Marrow is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, N.C.
1967 – The siege of Khe Sanh ended.
1969 – Monty Python comedy troupe forms
1972 – John Lennon says his phone is tapped by the FBI on Dick Cavett Show
1973 – The espionage trial, the “Pentagon Papers” case, of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo ended. Judge William M. Byrne dismissed all charges due to government misconduct. https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/pentagon-papers
1983 – In West Pubnico Nova Scotia a mob of 100 fishermen burn and sink two fisheries patrol boats at to protest lobster quotas.
1985 – 56 football fans die in a stadium fire. During a match against Lincoln City, the wooden stands at Valley Parade football ground went up in flames. The exits were locked. A burning cigarette thrown into a waste bin has been determined as the probable cause of the disaster.
1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
1987 – The first heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore)
1989 – Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds
1989 – President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panama
1995 – The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was extended indefinitely. The treaty limited the spread of nuclear material for military purposes.
1998 – An election is held in the Philippines where actor Joseph Estrada emerged as winner for President.
1998 – India conducted its first underground nuclear tests, three of them, in 24 years. The tests were in violation of a global ban on nuclear testing.
1998 – A French mint produced the first coins of Europe’s single currency. The coin is known as the euro.
2001 – U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced his decision to approve a 30-day delay of the execution of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. McVeigh had been scheduled to be executed on May 16, 2001. The delay was because the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had failed to disclose thousands of documents to McVeigh’s defense team. (Oklahoma)
2009 – An American soldier in Iraq opened fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Bagdhad, leaving 5 other US soldiers dead and 3 soldiers wounded
2010 – David Cameron, at age 43, became Britain’s youngest prime minister in nearly 200 years.
2012 – Chinese scientists break world record by transferring photons over 97 kilometers using quantum teleportation
2016 – Brazilian senate votes to suspend President Dilma Rousseff and put her on trial for budgetary violations
2019 – Militants attack Zaver Pearl-Continental Hotel in Gwadar, Pakistan killing five, Balochistan Liberation Army claim responsibility
2020 – Twitter announced that it would add a warning label to any tweet they decided contained disputed or misleading information about the coronavirus.
2021 – First major US offshore windfarm off the coast of Massachusetts approved by Biden administration
2021 – Northern Ireland inquest into 1971 Ballymurphy killing of ten people finds people were innocent and killed (nine by soldiers) using unjustified force
2022 – Costa Rica declares a state of emergency after a ransomware attack infiltrates and cripples several government agencies
2022 – First ever US government report into Indian boarding school deaths released (not complete), documents more than 500 deaths across 400 schools and 50 gravesites over 150 years
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
