2020 – The New York Times prints front page with nearly 1,000 names of people who have died from COVID-19, as the US toll nears 100,000
1153 – Malcolm IV becomes king of Scotland
1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
1300 – King Philip IV occupies Flanders, Earl Gwijde captured
1487 – Imposter Lambert Simnel ceremony crowned as King Edward VI of Dublin
1610 – Sir Thomas Gates institutes “laws divine moral and marshal,” a harsh civil code for Jamestown.
1624 – After years of unprofitable operation Virginia’s charter was revoked and it became a royal colony.
1626 – Peter Minuet buys Manhattan from Indians for trinkets, valued at $24
1689 – The English Parliament passed Act of Toleration, protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics were specifically excluded from exemption.
1726 – People’s revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax
1738 – The Methodist Church was established.
1738 – John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day.
1764 – Bostonian lawyer James Otis denounced “taxation without representation” and called for the colonies to unite in demonstrating their opposition to Britain’s new tax measures.
1798 – Believing that a French invasion of Ireland was imminent, Irish nationalists rose up against the British occupation.
1818 – General Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola FL
1822 – At the Battle of Pichincha, Bolivar secured independence of the Quito.
1830 – Mary had a little lamb by Sarah Hale is published
1844 – Samuel F.B. Morse formally opened America’s first telegraph line. The first message was sent from Washington, DC, to Baltimore, MD. The message was “What hath God wrought?”
1856 – John Brown and his men murder five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
1863 – Bushwackers led by Captain William Marchbanks attacked a U.S. Federal militia party in Nevada, Missouri.
1883 – After 14 years of construction the Brooklyn Bridge was opened to traffic.
1884 – Anti-Monopoly party & Greenback Party form People’s Party in the US
1913 – The U.S. Department of Labor entered into its first strike mediation. The dispute was between the Railroad Clerks of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
1931 – B&O Railroad began service with the first passenger train to have air conditioning throughout. The run was between New York City and Washington, DC.
1941 – The HMS Hood was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic. Only three people survived.
1943 – Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer in Birkenau, the supplementary extermination camp at Auschwitz
1950 – ‘Sweetwater’ (Nat) Clifton’s contract was purchased by the New York Knicks. Sweetwater played for the Harlem Globetrotters.
1951 – Racial segregation in Washington DC restaurants ruled illegal
1954 – The first moving sidewalk in a railroad station was opened in Jersey City, NJ.
1958 – United Press International was formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
1959 – The first house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills PA)
1961 – The Freedom Riders were arrested in Jackson, Mississippi.
1965 – Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional
1967 – California Governor Ronald Reagan greeted Charles M. Schulz at the state capitol in observance of the legislature-proclaimed “Charles Schulz Day.”
1968 – FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
1970 – Engineers begin drilling the world’s deepest hole, The Kola Superdeep Borehole had reached the unsurpassed depth of 12,262 meters (40,230 feet) before the project was abandoned due to a lack of funding.
1975 – A group of 80 reporters and cameramen are the first Westerners allowed to leave Saigon in South Vietnam since it fell to communist forces on April 29.
1976 – Britain and France opened trans-Atlantic Concorde service to Washington.
1980 – The International Court of Justice issued a final decision calling for the release of the hostages taken at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979.
1983 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had the right to deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminate.
1989 – French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice
1991 – Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
1993 – Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesus Posada Ocampo and six other people were killed at the Guadalajara, Mexico, airport in a shootout that involved drug gangs.
1993 – The Ethiopian province of Eritrea declared itself an independent nation.
1994 – The four men convicted of bombing the New York’s World Trade Center were each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
1999 – 39 miners were killed in an underground gas explosion in the Ukraine.
2000 – Five people were killed and two others wounded when two gunmen entered a Wendy’s restaurant in Flushing, Queens, New York. The gunmen tied up the victims in the basement and then shot them.
2000 – The U.S. House of Representatives approved permanent normal trade relations with China. China was not happy about some of the human rights conditions that had been attached by the U.S. lawmakers.
2000 – A Democratic Party event for Al Gore in Washington brought in $26.5 million. The amount set a new record, which had just been set the previous month by Republicans for Texas Gov. George W. Bush.
2002 – Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
2010 – Tribal gunmen have kidnapped two American tourists along with their driver and translator, and are demanding the release of their jailed tribesman for the pair, – Yemen
2011 – NASA announced the development of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) spacecraft. It is intended to facilitate exploration of the Moon, asteroids and Mars.
2014 – Yingluck Shinawatra, former prime minister of Thailand, is detained by the army after a military coup
2018 – At least 14 children reported mauled to death by wild dogs near Khairabad, India after closure of slaughterhouses
2018 – Record US fentanyl seizure of 120lbs (54kg) confirmed by police in Nebraska in April, enough to kill 26 million people, one of largest drug busts in US history
2019 – Brazil’s Supreme Court votes to make homophobia and transphobia crimes
2020 – The New York Times prints front page with nearly 1,000 names of people who have died from COVID-19, as the US toll nears 100,000
2021 – Constitutional crisis deepens in Samoa after Speaker of the House shuts out Fiame Naomi Mata’afa from being sworn in as the country’s first woman leader in 56 years
2022 – 19 children and two teachers shot and killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, by an 18-year-old gunman
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
