1794 – Whiskey Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
0322 BC – Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great
1420 – Construction begins on the dome of Florence Cathedral, designed by Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi
1461 – The Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor; after setting fire to the eastern and western gates of the Forbidden City (which were doused by pouring rains during the day-long uprising), Cao Qin found himself hemmed in on all sides by imperial forces, lost three of his own brothers in the fight, and instead of facing execution he fled to his house and committed suicide by jumping down a well located within the walled compound of his urban Beijing home.
1498 – Columbus arrives in Caribbean
1573 – Francis Drake’s fleet returns to Plymouth after a year spent raiding for Spanish treasure
1588 – English set alight eight fireships, with pitch, brimstone, gunpowder and tar, and cast them downwind towards the closely anchored vessels of the Spanish Armada, scattering the armada
1620 – Kepler’s mother arrested for witchcraft
1620 – Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII defeats his mother Marie de Medici
1760 – Ft Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians
1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
1789 – The U.S. War Department was established by the U.S. Congress.
1794 – Whiskey Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks. https://www.history.com/topics/early-us/whiskey-rebellion
1802 – Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St Domingue (Haiti)
1814 – Pope Pius VII reinstates the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
1888 – Theophilus Van Kannel received a patent for the revolving door.
1914 – Germany invaded France.
1915 – Charge of Australian Light Horse Brigade at the Nek, Gallipoli
1927 – The Peace Bridge opens, between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
1930 – A large mob estimated at 2,000, lynch two young black men Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana
1933 – The Iraqi Government slaughtered over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes Assyrian Martyrs Day
1934 – The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling striking down the government’s attempt to ban the controversial James Joyce novel “Ulysses.”
1942 – U.S. forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II.
1944 – German counterattacks at Avranches “”bottleneck.”” Allies successfully defend advances and continue to sweep Brittany.
1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I)
1947 – The balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki, which had carried a six-man crew 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean, crashed into a reef in a Polynesian archipelago.
1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first Transistor radios in Japan.
1959 – The U.S. launched Explorer 6, which sent back a picture of the Earth.
1960 – The Cuban Catholic Church condemned the rise of communism in Cuba. Fidel Castro then banned all religious TV and radio broadcasts.
1960 – Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
1962 – President John F. Kennedy signed National Security Action Memorandum 177. This memorandum enhanced the government’s foreign police-training program. In connection with this program, Director Hoover agreed to accept up to 20 foreign police officers into each session of the FBI National Academy
1964 – The U.S. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which gave President Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.
1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
1973 – NBC airs the final day of the Watergate hearings on U.S. daytime television.
1976 – Scientists in Pasadena, CA, announced that the Viking 1 spacecraft had found strong indications of possible life on Mars.
1978 – United States President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal.
1981 – After 128 years of publication, “The Washington Star” ceased all operations.
1983 – AT&T employees went on strike.
1987 – The presidents of five Central American nations, met in Guatemala City, and signed an 11-point agreement designed to bring peace to their region.
1989 – U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
1990 – U.S. President George H.W. Bush ordered U.S. troops and warplanes to Saudi Arabia to guard against a possible invasion by Iraq.
1998 – Bombing of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, kill 224 people and injure over 4,500
2003 – In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he would run for the office of governor.
2003 – Stephen Geppi bought a 1963 G.I. Joe prototype for $200,000.
2008 – War Between Russia and Georgia Breaks Out, The conflict began over South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two breakaway regions of Georgia. When the two provinces broke away from Georgia in the early 1990s and most of the international community did not recognize their independence.
2012 – 21 people are killed by a gun attack in a church in Okene, Nigeria
2015 – US Presidential candidate Donald Trump says in a CNN interview that news anchor Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever”
2018 – China bans release of Winnie the Pooh movie “Christopher Robin”, after character used to mock Chinese President Xi Jinping
2019 – Bodies of two teenagers at center of huge manhunt and suspected of killing three people on remote British Columbia roads found after apparent suicides
2019 – Largest single-state immigration raid in Mississippi as nearly 700 people arrested
2022 – US Senate passes sweeping Inflation Reduction Act, an economic package designed to combat climate change, address health care costs and tax large corporations
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
