37 – Roman Senate annuls Tiberius’ will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (aka Caligula = Little Boots) emperor
978 – Edward the Martyr, the teenage King of England, is murdered, possibly arranged by his stepmother Queen Ælfthryth, by Corfe Castle
1190 – Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmunds, England
1229 – Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II crowns himself King of Jerusalem
1325 – According to legend, Tenochtitlan is founded on this date on an island in what was then Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico
1662 – First public bus service begins, promoted by Blaise Pascal, operates in Paris as the “Carosses a Cinq Sous” until 1675
1673 – Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers
1766 – Britain repeals the Stamp Act, which had caused outrage in colonial America and helped lead to the American Revolution
1813 – David Melville, Newport, Rhode Island, patents apparatus for making coal gas
1818 – US Congress approves 1st pensions for government service
1870 – 1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland California)
1877 – US President Rutherford B. Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington, D.C.
1881 – Barnum & Bailey Circus, traveling as “The Greatest Show on Earth”, debuts at Madison Square Garden in New York City following the merger of two existing circus groups
1882 – Morgan Earp is assassinated by outlaws while playing billiards in Tombstone
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
1922 – British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years imprisonment for disobedience
1937 – Gas explosion in school in New London, Texas: 294 die
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
1959 – US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
1963 – The Supreme Court held in Gideon v. Wainwright that public defenders must be provided for indigent defendants in felony cases.
1965 – Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov made the first spacewalk.
1966 – Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1
1970 – Two-week US postal strike begins; it is against the government and is the largest wildcat strike in US history
1977 – The Clash release their first recording “White Riot”
1990 – The biggest art theft in U.S. history occurs at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The works, including pieces by Vermeer and Rembrandt, were never recovered.
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.
2005 – After a long legal battle, Terry Schiavo’s feeding tube was removed. She died 13 days later.
2013 – A car bombing kills 10 people and injures 20 in Mogadishu, Somalia
2013 – 98 people are killed and 248 are injured across Iraq from a series of bombings and shootings
2014 – Russia formally annexes Crimea, previously part of Ukraine. by signing Treaty on Accession
2018 – Serial bomber suspected after fourth bomb goes off in Austin, Texas, injuring two, total bombing death toll, 2 dead, 5 injured
2018 – African American Stephon Clark shot 20 times by police in his Grandmother’s backyard in Sacramento, California during vandalism investigation
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 President Joe Biden agrees Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “killer” in ABC News interview. Putin responds “It takes one to know one” a day later.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
