1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, US vice president Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a “Kitchen Debate.”
1148 – The Crusaders led by Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany lay siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade (abandoned 28 July)
1411 – Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles on Scottish soil.
1487 – Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban on foreign beer
1525 – Second attempt to circumnavigate the globe as seven ships departs Corunna headed by García Jofre de Loaísa on orders of King Charles I of Spain for the Spice Islands (only one will make it)
1567 – Mary Queen of Scots is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son James VI.
1651 – Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va
1660 – Great Fire of 1660 in Constantinople; two thirds of the city is destroyed including 280,000 wooden houses, with a death toll of around 40,000
1683 – The first settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard the Concord
1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
1704 – Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain
1783 – Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia
1799 – William Clark is willed the slave York
1813 – Sailing Master Elijah Mix attempts to blow up British warship Plantagenet with a torpedo near Cape Henry, Virginia
1814 – War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown’s American invaders.
1847 – Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah.
1847 – Richard M. Hoe patented the rotary-type printing press.
1866 – Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the U.S. Civil War.
1877 – The first time federal troops are used to combat strikers
1911 – Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu “the Lost City of the Incas”
1919 – Race Riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded)
1923 – The Treaty of Lausanne, which settled the boundaries of modern Turkey, was concluded in Switzerland.
1927 – Opening of the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Ypres, Belgium. The gate records the names of over 56,000 allied soldiers, among them 6,176 Australian soldiers of the First Australian Imperial Force (AIF), missing in the battles near Ypres during the First World War
1929 – U.S. President Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy.
1931 – A fire at a home for aged people in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people
1933 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his fourth “Fireside Chat.”
1935 – The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109F (44C) in Chicago and 104F (40C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1937 – Alabama drops rape charges against 5 blacks, the so-called “Scottsboro Boys.”
1944 – Russians liberate the Majdanek extermination camp.
1944 – Following 43 days of naval gunfire and air bombardment, Naval Task Force lands Marines on Tinian.
1948 – Soviet occupation forces in Germany blockaded West Berlin. The U.S.-British airlift began the following day.
1952 – Pres Truman settles 53-day steel strike
1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, US vice president Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a “Kitchen Debate.”
1965 – Vietnam War: Four F-4C Phantoms escorting a bombing raid at Kang Chi are the targets of antiaircraft missiles in the first such attack against American planes in the war. One is shot down and the other three sustain damage.
1967 – During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Qubec libre! (Long live free Quebec!).
1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1974 – Chris Chubbock newscaster shoots self on air
1974 – The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1977 – The 4-day long Libyan-Egyptian War comes to an end
1983 – George Brett, batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the “Pine Tar Incident”
1985 – French DGSE officers Dominique Prieur and Alain Mafart are arrested and charged with murder over the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
1987 – Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Hulda became the oldest person to climb Japan’s highest peak.
1990 – Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait/Iraq border.
1998 – Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
2001 – An Iranian warship in the Caspian Sea threatens a BP oil exploration ship off the coast of Azerbaijan
2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, was sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, and became the only monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office
2002 – James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
2007 – Libya frees all six of the Medics in the HIV trial in Libya.
2012 – Four barrels containing 248 human fetuses are found in Sverdlovsk, Russia
2013 – 22 are left dead after a conflict between the Knights Templar Cartel and Mexican police in Michoacan
2014 – Over 10,000 Palestinians protest Israel’s operation in Gaza; 2 Palestinians killed after Al-Aqsa Brigades members fire at Israeli forces
2017 – Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner says he did not collude with Russia after meeting with Senate investigators
2017 – Taliban suicide bomber on a motorbikes kills at least 26 and injuries 50 in Lahore, Pakistan
2017 – Taliban suicide bus bombing in Kabul kills at least 38, mainly employees of Afghan ministry of mines and petroleum
2019 – 10th million Mini car produced during its 60th anniversary year in Oxford, England
2019 – Facebook agrees to pay $5 billion fine, largest ever for violating consumer privacy, to the US Federal Trade Commission
2019 – Special counsel Robert Mueller reports to the US Senate that President Trump was not exonerated of obstruction of justice and that Russia interfered in US election to benefit Trump
2022 – Pope Francis arrives in Edmonton, Canada, to begin “a penitential trip” to meet with and apologize to First Nation, Métis and Inuit communities for their treatment at church-run residential schools
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
