1495 – The first written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Friar John Cor is the distiller
4000 BC – Approximate domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Dereivka, central Ukraine (hypothesis only)
0193 – Roman Emperor Didius Julianus assassinated.
0987 – Hugh Capet is elected king of France.
1215 – Beijing, then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Beijing
1283 – Albert I, son of Rudolph pf Hapsburg made sole ruler of the Duchies of Austria and Styria under Treaty of Rheinfelden, removing his brother Rudolph II as co-ruler (leads later to Rudolph’s son murdering his uncle)
1459 – Pope Pius II opens the Council of Mantua to call for a new crusade against the Ottoman Empire – crusade never amounts to much (Council disbanded January 1560)
1495 – The first written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Friar John Cor is the distiller https://www.thescotchadvocate.com/history.html
1533 – Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s new queen, was crowned.
1543 – Flemish physician Andreas Vesalius publishes “De humani corporis fabrica (On the fabric of the human body in seven books)” a major step forward in understanding human anatomy [date is representative as exact date of publication unknown]
1568 – Duke of Alva oversees beheading of 18 nobles in Brussels as part of Council of Troubles/Council of Blood
1649 – Russian Tsar Alexis throws English merchants out of Moscow
1660 – Mary Dyer hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1774 – The British government ordered the Port of Boston closed.
1789 – The first U.S. congressional act on administering oaths became law.
1792 – Kentucky became the 15th state of the U.S.
1796 – Tennessee became the 16th state of the U.S.
1812 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
1813 – Captain James Lawrence, commander of the U.S. frigate Chesapeake, coins the phrase “”Don’t give up the ship,”” during a losing battle with a British frigate
1831 – James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole.
1855 – US adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery
1861 – The first skirmish of the U.S. Civil War took place at the Fairfax Court House, Virginia.
1862 – American Civil War Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks) – Engagement ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
1868 – Treaty of Bosque Redondo signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
1869 – Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric voting machine.
1877 – U.S. troops were authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico.
1892 – The General Electric Company (GE) began operations after the merging of the Edison General Electric and the Thomson-Houston Electric companies.
1896 – In Paris, France, the first recorded automobile theft occurred. The Peugeot of Baron de Zuylen de Nyevelt was stolen by his mechanic.
1910 – Robert Falcon Scott’s South Pole expedition leaves England
1915 – Germany conducted the first zeppelin air raid over England.
1916 – The National Defense Act increased the strength of the U.S. National Guard by 450,000 men.
1921 – A race riot erupted in Tulsa, OKlahoma. 85 people were killed.
1935 – The Ingersoll-Waterbury Company reported that it had produced 2.5 million Mickey Mouse watches during its 2-year association with Disney.
1938 – Superman Comics launched
1938 – Baseball helmets were worn for the first time.
1941 – The German Army completed the capture of Crete as the Allied evacuation ended.
1942 – The U.S. began sending Lend-Lease materials to the Soviet Union.
1943 – During World War II, Germans shot down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London.
1944 – The French resistance was warned by a coded message from the British that the D-Day invasion was imminent.
1944 – Siesta was abolished by the government of Mexico.
1945 – The first group of Berlin women start clearing the rubble of World War II, In Germany, the Trümmerfrauen are a well-known symbol for a new beginning after the total desolation in the aftermath of the war, and for the Wirtschaftswunder, the rapid reconstruction of Germany’s economy through hard labor.
1954 – In the Peanuts comic strip, Linus’ security blanket made its debut.
1958 – Charles de Gaulle became the premier of France.
1958 – IBM ended its design of machines that contained electronic tubes.
1961 – Radio listeners in New York, California, and Illinois were introduced to FM multiplex stereo broadcasting. A year later the FCC made this a standard.
1963 – Governor George Wallace vowed to defy an injunction that ordered the integration of the University of Alabama.
1966 – 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
1970 – Zimbabwe came into existence. It was formerly known as Rhodesia.
1972 – In Iraq, The Ba’athist government nationalized the western-owned Iraq Petroleum Company and turned operations over to the Iraq National Oil Company.
1974 – Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1977 – The Soviet Union formally charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason. He was imprisoned until 1986.
1978 – The U.S. reported the finding of wiretaps in the American embassy in Moscow.
1979 – In the U.S., the government-controlled ceiling on oil prices ends. The control was phased out over 28 months.
1979 – Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) ends 90 years of white rule, In 1980, the Republic of Zimbabwe achieved sovereignty from the United Kingdom
1979 – Los Angeles passes its first homosexual rights bill
1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) made its debut as the first all-news station.
1988 – Morton Downey Jr Show” debuts in TV syndication
1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
1993 – Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army
1998 – In the U.S., the FDA approved a urine-only test for the AIDS virus.
1998 – A $124 million suit was brought against Goodyear Tire & Rubber that alleged discrimination towards black workers.
1999 – Merrill Lynch chairman David Komansky announced that the firm would soon allow its customers to buy and sell stocks over the Internet.
2001 – Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
2001 – Nepalese Royal Massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal slaughters his parents, two siblings, and five other family members during dinner at the Narayanhiti Palace, in Katmandu
2007 – Jack Kevorkian was released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County, Michigan
2008 – The Phoenix Mars Lander became the first NASA spacecraft to scoop Martian soil.
2009 – Air France flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic, All 228 people on board died in the crash. It took two years to find and recover the wreckage from the ocean floor.
2009 – General Motors filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. The filing made GM the largest U.S. industrial company to enter bankruptcy protection.
2017 – US President Donald Trump announces the US is withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement
2018 – Rouzan al-Najjar, a 22 year-old Palestinian medic is shot and killed by Israeli forces on the Gaza border, causing widespread condmnation
2018 – US unemployment rate falls to 3.8%, lowest since 2000
2020 – US President Trump threatens to employ the military to quell protests across the country sparked by the death of George Floyd then walks with staff to St. John’s Church
2021 – US President Joe Biden visits Tulsa, Oklahoma, marking 100 year anniversary of racial massacre in the Greenwood neighborhood
2021 – US President Joe Biden’s administration suspends oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, reversing Donald Trump’s decision
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
