1895 – The first professional football game was played in Latrobe, PA. The Latrobe YMCA defeated the Jeannette Athletic Club 12-0
0301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world’s oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus
1189 – England’s King Richard I was crowned in Westminster.
1260 – The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire.
1650 – Third English Civil War – Battle of Dunbar; Oliver Cromwell’s English New Model Army defeats Scottish force in surprise attack
1651 – Battle of Worcester: Oliver Cromwell’s New Model army destroys English royalist force of mainly Scots in last battle of English Civil War
1697 – King William’s War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick, the peace treaty ending the Nine Years’ War between France and the Grand Alliance (reverting to conditions that existed before the war)
1752 – This day never happened nor the next 10 as England adopts Gregorian Calendar. People riot thinking the govt stole 11 days of their lives
1777 – Cooch’s Bridge – Skirmish of American Revolutionary war in New Castle County, Delaware where the Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time
1783 – The Revolutionary War between the U.S. and Great Britain ended with the Treaty of Paris.
1798 – Battle of St. George’s Caye: Week long battle begins between the Spanish Empire and Great Britain off the coast of Belize
1833 – The first successful penny newspaper in the U.S., “The New York Sun,” was launched by Benjamin H. Day.
1838 – Frederick Douglass boarded a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from being a slave.
1852 – Anti Jewish riots break out in Stockholm
1855 – Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.
1891 – Cottonpickers organize union & stage strike in Texas
1895 – The first professional football game was played in Latrobe, PA. The Latrobe YMCA defeated the Jeannette Athletic Club 12-0.
1914 – William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
1916 – US President Woodrow Wilson signs Adamson Act, providing an 8-hour day on interstate railroads, preventing a national railroad strike
1918 – 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917
1935 – Sir Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 miles an hour. He reached 304.331 MPH on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
1938 – 1940 Olympic site is changed from Tokyo, Japan to Helsinki, Finland because of the Second Sino-Japanese War; WWII causes eventual cancellation
1939 – British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in a radio broadcast, announced that Britain and France had declared war on Germany. Germany had invaded Poland on September 1.
1940 – US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease
1943 – Italy was invaded by the Allied forces during World War II.
1944 – 68th and last transport of Dutch Jews (including Anne Frank) from Westerbork leaves for Auschwitz concentration camp
1954 – “The Lone Ranger” was heard on radio for the final time after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years.
1954 – Espionage & Sabotage Act of 1954 signed in the US, prompted by the cold war
1964 – Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson
1966 – The television series “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” ended after 14 years.
1967 – Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution.
1967 – In Sweden, motorists stopped driving on the left side of the road and began driving on the right side.
1971 – Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office in Los Angeles, but failed to find his file
1971 – Qatar regains complete independence from Britain
1976 – The U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars. The unmanned spacecraft took the first close-up, color photos of the planet’s surface.
1981 – David Brinkley left NBC News after 38 years to join with ABC.
1981 – Egypt arrested more than 1,500 opponents of the government.
1988 – Estimated by this date 50,000 Kurdish civilians and soldiers killed by Iraq, many using chemical weapons, in aftermath of Iran-Iraq War
1989 – The U.S. began shipping military aircraft and weapons, worth $65 million, to Columbia in its fight against drug lords.
1990 – A Florida dentist dies of AIDS after allegedly infecting five of his patients with the AIDS virus.
1994 – Russia and China announced that they would no longer be targeting nuclear missiles or using force against each other.
1995 – Internet giant eBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar
2012 – 3 people are killed and 19 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
2013 – 15 militants are killed by an Egyptian Army helicopter in Sinai Peninsula
2015 – Kentucky clerk (Kim Davis) in Rowan County jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples
2017 – North Korea conducts its sixth and largest ever nuclear test, saying it had successfully conducted a test of a hydrogen bomb
2018 – First public caning and conviction of lesbian couple attempting to have sex, by Sharia High Court in Terengganu state, Malaysia
2019 – Unknown text by John Locke “Reasons for tolerateing Papists equally with others” (1667-68), an argument for religious toleration announced discovered at St John’s College, Annapolis
2019 – Walmart says it will stop selling handguns and some ammunition and ask customers not to openly carry firearms in response to El Paso shootings
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
