3952 BC – The beginning of Creation, as calculated by the Venerable Bede in 735 AD
0037 – Roman Senate annuls Tiberius’ will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (aka Caligula = Little Boots) emperor
0978 – England’s King Edward is assassinated at Corfe Castle in Dorset at age 15 in a conspiracy engineered by his stepmother Elfthryth, who wants the crown for her son of 10
1123 – The first Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opened in Rome.
1190 – Crusaders killed 57 Jews in Bury St. Edmonds England.
1229 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declares himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade.
1241 – Mongolian armies rout the forces of Boleslaw IV at Chmielnik and sack and burn the city of Kraków to the ground
1314 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar is burned at the stake
1325 – According to legend, Tenochtitlan is founded on this date on an island in what was then Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico
1532 – The English parliament banned payments by English church to Rome.
1541 – Hernando de Soto observed the first recorded flood of the Mississippi River.
1608 – Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia
1662 – First public bus service begins, promoted by Blaise Pascal, operates in Paris as the “Carosses a Cinq Sous” until 1675
1673 – Lord Berkley sold his half of New Jersey to the Quakers.
1692 – William Penn was deprived of his governing powers.
1766 – After four months of organized American protests, the British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, a taxation measure enacted to raise revenues for a standing British army in America
1793 – The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann
1807 – British forces occupy Alexandria but are able to hold it for only 6 months before the Turks force their evacuation
1818 – The U.S. Congress approved the first pensions for government service.
1850 – Henry Wells & William Fargo founded American Express.
1865 – The Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourned for the last time.
1874 – Hawaii signed a treaty giving exclusive trading rights with the islands to the U.S.
1881 – Barnum and Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth opened in Madison Square Gardens.
1892 – Lord Stanley of Preston pledges to donate a challenge cup for the best ice hockey team in Canada
1899 – Phoebe, a moon of the planet Saturn, was discovered.
1900 – Japan uses its influence over Korea to deny Russia’s efforts to obtain a naval station at Korean Port of Masampo, the lead up to the Russo-Japanese war
1902 – In Turkey, the Sultan granted a German syndicate the first concession to access Baghdad by rail.
1903 – France dissolved the Catholic religious orders.
1906 – In Morocco, it was reported that France and Germany were in a deadlock at the Algeciras Conference.
1909 – Einar Dessau of Denmark used a short wave transmitter to become the first person to broadcast as a “ham” operator.
1911 – Theodore Roosevelt opened the Roosevelt Dam in Arizona. It was the largest dam in the U.S. at the time.
1911 – North Dakota enacted a hail insurance law.
1913 – Greek King George I was killed by an assassin. Constantine I succeeded him.
1916 – Russia countered the Verdun assault with an attack at Lake Naroch. The Russians lost 100,000 men and the Germans lost 20,000.
1917 – The Germans sank the U.S. ships, City of Memphis, Vigilante and the Illinois, without any warning.
1921 – Poland was enlarged with the second Peace of Riga.
1922 – Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience in India. He served only 2 years of the sentence.
1931 – Schick Inc. displayed the first electric shaver.
1937 – More than 400 people, mostly children, were killed in a gas explosion at a school in New London, TX.
1938 – Mexico took control of all foreign-owned oil properties on its soil.
1940 – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini held a meeting at the Brenner Pass. The Italian dictator agreed to join in Germany’s war against France and Britain during the meeting.
1942 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9102, creating the War Relocation Authority, which was charged with overseeing the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II
1944 – The Russians reached the Rumanian border in the Balkans during World War II.
1945 – 1,250 U.S. bombers attacked Berlin.
1949 – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was ratified.
1950 – Nationalist troops landed on the mainland of China and capture Communist held Sungmen.
1952 – In Philadelphia, PA, the first plastic lenses were fitted for a cataract patient.
1954 – RKO Pictures was sold for $23,489,478. It became the first motion picture studio to be owned by an individual. The person was Howard Hughes.
1959 – U.S. President Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill.
1962 – The Évian Accords: French and Algerian rebels agreed to a truce.
1963 – The U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Miranda decision concerning legal council for defendants.
1965 – Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first man to spacewalk when he left the Voskhod II space capsule while in orbit around the Earth. He was outside the spacecraft for about 20 minutes.
1966 – The government of Indonesia was formed by General Suharto.
1966 – Scott Paper began selling paper dresses for $1.
1968 – The U.S. Congress repealed the requirement for a gold reserve.
1969 – U.S. President Nixon authorizes Operation Menue. It was the ‘secret’ bombing of Cambodia.
1970 – The U.S. Postal Service experienced the first postal strike.
1971 – U.S. helicopters airlifted 1,000 South Vietnamese soldiers out of Laos.
1974 – Most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their five-month embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
1975 – The Kurds ended their fight against Iraq.
1977 – Vietnam turned over an MIA to a U.S. delegation.
1979 – Iranian authorities detained American feminist Kate Millett. The next day she was deported.
1981 – The U.S. disclosed that there were biological weapons tested in Texas in 1966.
1986 – The U.S. Treasury Department announced that a clear, polyester thread was to be woven into bills in an effort to thwart counterfeiters.
1987 – The U.S. performed nuclear tests at a Nevada test site.
1990 – The first free elections took place in East Germany.
1992 – American businesswoman Leona Helmsley sentenced to 4 years for tax evasion “We don’t pay taxes; only the little people pay taxes.”
2003 – FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the company’s top executives.
2011 – MESSENGER spacecraft enters Mercury’s orbit
2013 – 98 people are killed and 248 are injured across Iraq from a series of bombings and shootings
2014 – US closes the Syrian embassy in Washington & expels all Syrian diplomats
2018 – African American Stephon Clark shot 20 times by police in his Grandmother’s backyard in Sacramento, California during vandalism investigation
2019 – Suspected terrorist attack by shooter aboard a tram in Utrecht, Netherlands kills 3 and injures 5
2020 – US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agree to close the US-Canada border, the world’s longest, to non-essential travel to curb COVID-19
2021 – US House Judiciary Committee hearing begins on rise of violence and discrimination against Asian-Americans with report saying 3,800 hate incidents recorded over 12 months
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
