1947 – U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University in which he outlined the Marshall Plan.
0070 – Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem
0754 – Friezen robbers murder Bishop Boniface (later Saint) and over 50 companions near Dokkum
1305 – Pope Clement V is elected.
1284 – Charles of Salerno is captured by Roger of Lauria during a naval battle in the Gulf of Naples, part of the Sicilian Vespers uprising
1288 – Battle of Worringen: Jan I, Duke of Brabant defeats army of Archbishop Siegfried II of Cologne, one of the largest and fiercest battles of the Middle Ages
1595 – Henry IV’s army defeated the Spanish at the Battle of Fontaine-Francaise.
1752 – Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity.
1794 – The U.S. Congress pases the Neutrality Act, prohibiting Americans from enlisting in the service of a foreign power..
1806 – Batavian Republic becomes the Kingdom of Holland
1827 – Athens fell to the Ottomans.
1832 – Parisian student uprisings of 1832 begin.
1849 – Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution
1851 – Harriet Beecher Stow published the first installment of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in “The National Era.”
1855 – Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party’s first convention
1865 – The first safe deposit vault was opened in New York. The charge was $1.50 a year for every $1,000 that was stored.
1884 – U.S. Civil War General William T. Sherman refused the Republican presidential nomination, saying, “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”
1902 – Emperor Wilhelm II responds to growing demands from Polish and other Slavic peoples living within German territory by calling for more ‘Germanization’ of the Slavs
1912 – US marines invade Cuba (3nd time)
1916 – The Sherif Hussein proclaims a revolt of the Arabs in the province of Hejaz, an action that undermines the Turkish Empire
1917 – American men began registering for the World War I draft.
1924 – Ernst F. W. Alexanderson transmitted the first facsimile message across the Atlantic Ocean.
1933 – President Roosevelt signed the bill that took the U.S. off of the gold standard.
1934 – The first formal meeting of The Baker Street Irregulars (NYC)
1937 – Henry Ford initiates a 32 hour work week
1940 – During World War II, the Battle of France began when Germany began an offensive in Southern France.
1942 – In France, Pierre Laval congratulated French volunteers that were fighting in the U.S.S.R. with Germans.
1944 – After receiving favorable weather reports, General Eisenhower decides to proceed with the D-Day invasion on June 6
1946 – The first medical sponges were first offered for sale in Detroit, MI.
1947 – U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University in which he outlined the Marshall Plan. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/george-marshall-calls-for-aid-to-europe
1950 – US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation
1956 – Premier Nikita Khrushchev denounced Josef Stalin to the Soviet Communist Party Congress.
1957 – NY narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes
1963 – Movement of 15 Khordad: protest against arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators were confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
1967 – The National Hockey League (NHL) awarded three new franchises. The Minnesota North Stars (later the Dallas Stars), the California Golden Seals (no longer in existence) and the Los Angeles Kings.
1967 – The Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan began.
1968 – Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, who was immediately arrested. Kennedy had just claimed victory in California’s Democratic presidential primary.
1975 – Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping, eight years after it was closed because of the 1967 war with Israel.
1976 – After a suspected republican bombing kills 2 Protestant civilians in a pub, the Ulster Volunteer Force kill 5 civilians in a gun and bomb attack at the Chlorane Bar, North Ireland
1977 – The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale
1981 – In the U.S., the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five men in Los Angeles were suffering from a rare pneumonia found in patients with weakened immune systems. They were the first recognized cases of what later became known as AIDS.
1986 – A federal jury in Baltimore convicted Ronald W. Pelton of selling secrets to the Soviet Union. Pelton was sentenced to three life prison terms plus 10 years.
1986 – A 52-year old man in Auburn, Washington, United States, dies after taking an Excedrin capsule laced with cyanide; this is the first of two Excedrin deaths.
1988 – Russian Orthodox Church celebrates its 1,000th anniversary
1991 – Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.
1993 – Liberian Charles Taylors rebellion kills 550 fugitives
1998 – A strike began at a General Motors Corp. parts factory near Detroit, MI, that closed five assembly plants and idled workers across the U.S. for seven weeks.
1998 – Volkswagen AG won approval to buy Rolls-Royce Motor Cars for $700 million, outbidding BMW’s $554 million offer.
1998 – C-Span reported that Bob Hope had died. The report was false and had begun with an inaccurate obituary on the Associated Press website.
2000 – Armed conflict between Rwanda and Uganda erupts in Kinsangani, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2001 – U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party
2004 – The U.S.S. Jimmy Carter was christened in the U.S. Navy in Groton, CT.
2006 – Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro
2013 – The first article based on NSA leaked documents by Edward Snowden are published by the Guardian Newspaper in the UK
2017 – Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt sever ties with Qatar, citing its support of terrorist groups, Yemen, the Maldives and Libya follow suit
2018 – US Judge Aaron Persky, criticized for his leniency towards campus sex attacker Brock Turner, becomes the 1st judge voted out in 80 years in Santa Clara, California
2018 – US President Donald Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their families violates international law according to the UN
2019 – Average person ingests 50,000 pieces of microplastic a year and breathes in similar amount according to first-ever such study published in journal “Environmental Science and Technology”
2019 – Ohio doctor William Husel charged with 25 counts of murder for prescribing potentially fatal doses of opioids in Franklin County
2021 – At least 160 killed by suspected Islamist extremists in Solhan, Burkina Faso amid a deepening security crisis in the region
2022 – At least 50 Nigerian church worshippers, including children, killed by gunman armed with explosives at St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, south-western Nigeria
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
