1369 – Battle of Montiel: Peter of Castile (Peter the Cruel) with support from England is defeated by an alliance between the French and his half-brother Henry II
1590 – Battle of Ivry: French King Henry IV beats Catholic League during French Wars of Religion
1644 – England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
1689 – Scotland dismisses William III & Mary Stuart as king & queen
1743 – The first town meeting was held in Boston, Massachusetts, at Faneuil Hall.
1757 – On board HMS Monarch (his own flagship), British Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for failing to come to aide of besieged British garrison
1812 – US Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812
1899 – German Ferdinand von Zeppelin receives a US patent for a “Navigable Balloon”
1900 – US currency goes on gold standard after Congress passes the Currency Act
1904 – In a landmark case, Northern Securities Company v United States, the US Supreme Court finds the company has violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act; first case in T. Roosevelt’s ‘trust-busting’ campaign
1907 – By Presidential order, Japanese laborers are excluded from entering the USA
1913 – South African Supreme Court declares that marriages not celebrated according to Christian rites and/or not registered by the Registrar of Marriages, are invalid; all Muslim and Hindu marriages are therefore declared invalid
1923 – German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP (Nazi party)
1939 – The Republic of Czechoslovakia was dissolved, soon to be occupied by the Nazis.
1941 – Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
1950 – The FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives? list made its debut.
1960 – The leaders of Germany and Israel confer for the first time – 15 years after the end of World War II, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion met at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.
1964 – Jack Ruby was found guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy.
1967 – JFK’s body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
1968 – CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn’t make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA
1973 – Future US senator John McCain is released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZfox_XINZE
1980 – Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
1983 – OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
1991 – The Birmingham Six are released – The 6 men had been wrongly sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 for the IRA Birmingham pub bombings.
2003 – Start of weekend of protests against war in Iraq that are attended by millions
2005 – Cedar Revolution, where over a million Lebanese march in the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and against the government, following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri
2013 – 25 people are killed and 50 are wounded by a series of car bombings in Baghdad, Iraq
2016 – President Putin orders Russian troops out of Syria
2018 – US students across American commemorate Florida high school shooting with mass walkouts across the country
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
