532 – Nika riots begin in Constantinople, revolt against Emperor Justinian I, prompted by chariot racing
1099 – Crusaders set fire to Mara, Syria
1128 – Pope Honorius II granted a papal sanction to the military order known as the Knights Templar. He declared it to be an army of God.
1404 – The Act of Multipliers is passed by the English Parliament forbidding alchemists to use their knowledge to create precious metals (it was feared that if any alchemist should succeed it would bring ruin upon the state)
1794 – U.S. President Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the union (15 stars & 15 stripes). https://gratefulamericanfoundation.com/what-was-the-flag-act-of-1794/
1842 – Dr. William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for (reputedly) being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
1898 – French writer Emile Zola published his “J’Accuse” letter, accusing the French of a cover-up in the Alfred Dreyfus treason case.
1900 – In Austria-Hungary, Emperor Franz Joseph decreed that German would be the language of the imperial army to combat Czech nationalism.
1913 – Delta Sigma Theta, the world’s largest Black Women’s Sorority is founded at Howard University, Washington, D.C.
1922 – Buck Weaver, a Black Sox, applies unsuccessfully for reinstatement
1927 – US & Mexico battle over oil interests
1930 – “Mickey Mouse” comic strip 1st appears
1938 – The Church of England accepts the theory of evolution
1942 – Henry Ford patented the plastic automobile referred to as the “Soybean Car.” The car was 30% lighter than the average car.
1966 – Robert C. Weaver became the first black Cabinet member when he was appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by U.S. President Johnson.
1968 – Minnesota North Stars NHL player Bill Masterson, suffers head injuries during a game and dies two days later, becoming the 1st player to die as result of a game
1975 – Henry Kissinger hints at military action against oil countries in case of “actual strangulation of the industrialized world” in the wake of oil shock
1979 – YMCA files libel suit against Village People’s YMCA song
1988 – Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays & other expressive activities
1989 – Computers across Britain hit by “Friday the 13th”/Jerusalem virus
1992 – American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane
1992 – Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II.
1997 – Radical guerrillas hold 72 hostages and shoot at police outside the Japanese Embassy in Lima, Peru
2002 – Japan and Singapore signed a free trade pact that would remove tariffs on almost all goods traded between the two countries.
2002 – U.S. President George W. Bush fainted after choking on a pretzel.
2004 – Joseph Darby, a U.S. soldier at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, reported U.S. abuses of Iraqi prisoners to the Army’s Criminal Investigations Division..
2004 – Harold Shipman, a British GP who is believed to have killed more than 200 of his patients in Manchester, is found hanged in his prison cell
2018 – Early-morning ballistic missile alert sent across Hawaii in error, revoked after 38 minutes
2018 – Chelsea Manning, former soldier responsible for Wikileaks announces her bid to run for US Senate
2020 – Oldest material existing on earth at 7.5 billion years old revealed by scientists studying the Murchison meteorite that fell to earth in Australia in 1960s
2021 – President Donald Trump is impeached by the US House of Representatives voting 232-197, for “incitement of insurrection”, first time in history a US President is impeached twice
2021 – Irish PM Minister Micheal Martin issues apology for treatment of unmarried mothers and babies in church-run institutions 1920-1990s after report 9,000 children had died
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
