217 – Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus
1525 – Albert von Brandenburg, the leader of the Teutonic Order, assumes the title “Duke of Prussia” and passed the first laws of the Protestant church, making Prussia a Protestant state.
1730 – Congregation Shearith Israel opens the 1st North American synagogue in New York City on Mill Street in Lower Manhattan
1783 – Catherine II of Russia annexes the Crimea
1789 – The U.S. House of Representatives held its first meeting.
1832 – About 300 American troops of the 6th Infantry left Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, to confront the Sauk Indians in the Black Hawk War.
1862 – John D. Lynde patents aerosol dispenser
1873 – Alfred Paraf patented the first successful oleomargarine.
1886 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
1902 – Demonstration organised by socialists in Belgium as people demand better education, living conditions, the right to strike and universal male suffrage result in a riot and some deaths
1904 – New York City changes the name of Longacre Square to Times Square, in honor of The New York Times’s move to the area
1913 – 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified by Congress, providing for election of senators by popular vote
1924 – South African State pass the Industrial Conciliation Act No 11: provides for job reservation, excluded blacks from membership of registered trade unions, prohibited registration of black trade unions
1935 – The Works Progress Administration was approved by the U.S. Congress.
1943 – U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases to common carriers and public utilities.
1946 – The League of Nations assembled in Geneva for the last time.
1952 – U.S. President Truman seized steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike. https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/steel-strike-1952
1953 – Jomo Kenyatta is sentenced to 7 years hard labor – Kenyatta led the Mau Mau movement against the British colonialists. He is considered to be Kenya’s founding father and became the country’s first President in 1964.
1953 – The bones of Sitting Bull were moved from North Dakota to South Dakota.
1966 – Time publishes its “Is God Dead” issue – its first issue without an image
1968 – Gangsters Henry Hill and Jimmy Burke commit the Air France robbery, stealing $420,000 from cargo terminal at New York City’s JFK International Airport
1977 – The Clash release their debut album of the same name – The British combo around lead vocalist Joe Strummer is considered one of the most influential early punk rock bands.
1984 – U.S. Census Bureau estimates rank Los Angeles as second most populated city, displacing Chicago which held the position since 1890; New York City remains the top
1986 – Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, CA.
1988 – Former U.S. President Reagan aid Lyn Nofzinger was sentenced to prison for illegal lobbying for Wedtech Corp.
1992 – After 151 years Britain’s “Punch Magazine” publishes its final issue
2006 – Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Ontario, Canada. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos motorcycle gang.
2013 – 163 people are killed and 50,000 are displaced after tribal violence erupts in Darfur, Sudan
2019 – 600 million birds die each year in the US after striking tall buildings with Chicago the worst city, according to Cornell Lab of Ornithology
2019 – Protests in Sudan against the government of Omar al-Bashir continue with seven killed and 2,500 arrested in Khartoum
2020 – Saudi-backed coalition fighting Houthi fighters in Yemen calls for a ceasefire after five years to stop the spread of COVID-19
2021 – Egyptian archaeologists announce their most important find since Tutankhamun’s tomb – discovery of a lost ‘golden city’ the 3,000-years-old ancient city of Aten near Luxor
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
