1968 – United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked out of the USA’s team for performing a Black Power salute during a medal ceremony.
0456 – Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire.
1384 – Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, despite being a woman
1579 – Francis Drake sights land in the Philippines after crossing the Pacific Ocean aboard the ‘Golden Hind’
1690 – English demand the surrender of Quebec, French Governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac replies “I have no reply to make to your general other than from the mouths of my cannon and muskets”
1701 – The Collegiate School was founded in Killingworth, CT. The school moved to New Haven in 1745 and changed its name to Yale College.
1775 – Portland, Maine burned by British
1781 – George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown
1793 – During the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded after being convicted of treason.
1813 – Battle of Leipzig, largest battle in Europe prior to WWI, Napoleon’s forces defeated by Prussia, Austria and Russia
1829 – In Boston, MA, the first modern hotel in America opened. The Tremont Hotel had 170 rooms that rented for $2 a day and included four meals.
1847 – “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte was first published in London.
1859 – Abolitionist John Brown led a raid on Harper’s Ferry, VA (now located in West Virginia).
1869 – A hotel in Boston became the first in the U.S. to install indoor plumbing.
1900 – Great Britain and Germany sign the Anglo-German Treaty, agreeing to maintain territorial integrity of China and support ‘open door’ policy called for by US Secretary of State
1906 – The Captain of Kpenick fools the city hall of Kpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
1916 – Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in New York City, NY.
1923 – The Walt Disney Company is Founded
1925 – Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution
1926 – US Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200
1931 – Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd kills her first victim
1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman
1941 – The Nazis advanced to within 60 miles of Moscow. Romanians entered Odessa, USSR, and began exterminating 150,000 Jews.
1943 – Chicago’s new subway system was officially opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony.
1946 – Ten war criminals of the Second World War, condemned in the Nuremberg trials are hanged.
1949 – Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a “”temporary cease-fire””, effectively ending the Greek Civil War
1951 – The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi
1955 – Mrs. Jules Lederer replaced Ruth Crowley in newspapers using the name Ann Landers.
1962 – U.S. President Kennedy was informed that there were missile bases in Cuba, beginning the Cuban missile crisis.
1964 – China detonated its first atomic bomb becoming the world’s fifth nuclear power.
1967 – NATO headquarters opened in Brussels.
1968 – United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked out of the USA’s team for performing a Black Power salute during a medal ceremony.
1970 – Anwar Sadat was elected president of Egypt to succeed Gamal Abdel Nassar.
1973 – Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Vietnamese official declined the award.
1975 – The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops
1978 – Poland’s Karol Josef Wojtyla was elected Pope John Paul II.
1982 – China announced that it had successfully fired a ballistic missile from a submarine.
1986 – US government shuts down due to disputes between President Reagan and the House
1987 – Rescuers freed Jessica McClure from the abandoned well that she had fallen into in Midland, TX. She was trapped for 58 hours.
1989 – U.S. President George H.W. Bush signed the Gramm-Rudman budget reduction law that ordered federal programs be cut by $16.1 billion.
1990 – US forces reach 200,000 in the Persian Gulf
1991 – Luby’s massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby’s Cafeteria.
1993 – The U.N. Security Council approved the deployment of U.S. warships to enforce a blockade on Haiti to increase pressure on the controlling military leaders.
1995 – The “Million Man March” took place in Washington, DC.
1996 – Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City
1997 – Charles M. Schulz and his wife Jeannie announced that they would give $1 million toward the construction of a D-Day memorial to be placed in Virginia.
2000 – It was announced that Chevron Corp. would be buying Texaco Inc. for $35 billion. The combined company was called Chevron Texaco Corp. and became the 4th largest oil company in the world.
2002 – The Arthur Andersen accounting firm was sentenced to five years probation and fined $500,000 for obstructing a federeal investigation of the energy company Enron.
2012 – Conflict in Maiduguri, Nigeria, leads to 24 militant deaths and several structures set ablaze
2013 – The United States ends its 16-day government shut down and avoids default in a Bi-partisan deal in the Senate
2017 – Panama Papers Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia killed in a suspicious car bomb in Malta
2018 – Chairman of China’s Xinjiang’s government defends its detention camps for Uighur Muslims saying they provided “vocational education and training”
2020 – French teacher Samuel Paty beheaded by 18 year-old Islamist militant in Paris suburb of Éragny
2021 – NASA probe Lucy launched on mission to fly-by eight Trojan asteroids circling the sun
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
