1569 – England’s first state lottery was held.
1599 – Jacob van Neck’s fleet leaves Bantam, Java in modern day Indonesia with 1 million pounds of pepper and cloves and a further half a ship full of nutmeg, mace and cinnamon
1693 – Most powerful earthquake in Italian recorded history strikes Sicily and Southern Italy with an estimated magnitude of 7.4. Tsunamis followed and devastated coastal villages on the Ionian Sea and the Straits of Messina.
1787 – Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel
1805 – The Michigan Territory was created.
1838 – First public demonstration of telegraph messages sent using dots and dashes at Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail
1861 – Alabama seceded from the United States.
1867 – Benito Juarez returned to the Mexican presidency, following the withdrawal of French troops and the execution of Emperor Maximilian.
1878 – In New York, milk was delivered in glass bottles for the first time by Alexander Campbell.
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War begins as British Lt-General Chelmsford invades Zululand in South Africa
1922 – At Toronto General Hospital, Leonard Thompson became the first person to be successfully treated with insulin.
1924 – A republic is proclaimed in Greece; King George II is deposed and Eleutherios Venizelo is named Prime Minister of the Greek National Assembly
1957 – Mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed via the Gas Chamber.
1964 – U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry released a report that said that smoking cigarettes was a definite health hazard.
1966 – 550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain
1967 – San Diego is granted an NBA franchise to be called the Rockets; franchise moves to Houston for the 1971-72 season https://sportsteamhistory.com/san-diego-rockets
1970 – Irish republican political party Sinn Féin party splits between those in favor of abstentionism (of not taking any seats won in the parliaments) and those where against
1984 – Supreme Court reinstated $10M award to Karen Silkwood’s family
1988 – U.S. Vice President George Bush met with representatives of independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh to answer questions about the Iran-Contra affair.
1991 – Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq
1991 – Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence
2001 – The Texas Board of Criminal Justice released a review of the escape of the “Texas 7.” It stated that prison staff missed critical opportunities to prevent the escape by ignoring a fire alarm, not reporting unsupervised inmates and not demanding proper identification from inmates.
2018 – YouTube issues sanctions against vlogger Logan Paul after he posted footage of suicide victim’s body in Japan in December
2018 – US President Donald Trump causes worldwide controversy when it is reported he called African countries “shitholes” during immigration meeting
2021 – The king of Malaysia, Al-Sultan Abdullah declares a state of emergency over COVID-19 till 1 August, suspending parliament and giving the government new powers
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
