597 BC – Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king
1190 – York Progrom: Jews living in York, England, besieged in Clifford’s Tower and massacred or commit suicide rather than submit to baptism
1322 – The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in the First War of Scottish Independence
1690 – French King Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland
1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot by Count Jacob Johan Anckarström at a masked ball at the Opera; he dies on March 29
1829 – Ohio authorizes high school night classes
1836 – Constitution of the Republic of Texas approved, legalises slavery
1850 – Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter was published.
1861 – Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union (US Civil War)
1861 – Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who is evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy
1882 – U.S. Senate ratifies the Geneva Convention of 1864, legitimatizing the International Red Cross and the American Red Cross
1900 – Sir Arthur Evans rediscovers the bronze age city of Knossos in Crete, home of the legendary Minotaur
1917 – Russian Grand Duke Michael, brother of Tsar Nicholas II declines the Russian throne
1926 – Ancestor of the Space Age – The first liquid-fuel rocket was successfully launched by Prof. Robert Goddard at Auburn, Massachusetts. The rocket traveled 184 feet in 2.5 seconds.
1955 – President Eisenhower upholds the use of atomic weapons in case of war
1964 – LBJ asks Congress to pass Economic Opportunity Act as part of his War on Poverty
1968 – U.S. troops massacre hundreds of unarmed civilians in Vietnam – The 504 victims of the My Lai Massacre included many children and infants.
1973 – Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Consortium members agree to nationalize all assets immediately in return for an assured 20-year supply of Iranian oil
1973 – OPEC discusses raising prices to offset decline of U.S. dollar value
1977 – US President Jimmy Carter pleads for a Palestinian homeland
1978 – Italian politician Aldo Moro was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the Red Brigades.
1984 – Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut
1985 – U.S. journalist Terry Anderson was kidnapped in Beirut; he was not released until December 4, 1991 after 2454 days in captivity.
1988 – A poison gas attack kills 5000 civilians in the Kurdish town of Halabjah – The war crime was in all likelihood executed on the orders of Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein.
1988 – Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. North and Vice Admiral John M. Poindexter of the National Security Council are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States for their role in the Iran-contra affair.
1995 – Mississippi House of Representatives formally abolishes slavery & ratifies 13th Amendment
2005 – Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
2014 – Voters in Crimea vote overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia amid international condemnation of its design
2016 – US college student Otto Warmbier is sentenced to 15 years hard labour for trying to steal a political poster, in Pyongyang, North Korea
2017 – US President Donald Trump’s second travel ban is blocked by 2 federal courts
2021 – Israeli researchers reveal re-discovery of 2,000 year-old Dead Sea Scrolls, 1st found in 60 years, left by Jews fleeing Romans in “Horror Cave”, Israel
2021 – Declassified US intelligence report says Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized efforts to aid re-election of Donald Trump
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
