1528 – Pánfilo the Narváez, Spanish conquistador arrives in Florida with 350 men to a hostile reception from native indians
1689 – French King Louis XIV declares war on Spain
1783 – American Revolution: the Continental Congress ratified preliminary articles of peace, ending the seven-year-long war with Great Britain.
1784 – The first balloon was flown in Ireland.
1813 – U.S. troops under James Wilkinson attacked the Spanish-held city of Mobile that would be in the future state of Alabama.
1817 – The American Asylum [now American School for the Deaf (ASD)], 1st permanent US school for deaf founded by Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, Dr. Mason Cogswell, and teacher Laurent Clercn (West Hartford, Connecticut,)
1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln died from injuries inflicted by John Wilkes Booth.
1896 – 1st modern Summer Olympic Games close in Athens, Greece; USA wins gold medal count, 11; Greece wins total medal count, 46; IOC has retroactively assigned gold, silver & bronze medals to 3 best placed athletes in each event
1902 – Rioting and arson continue in Russia with peasants plundering estates to find food.
1923 – Insulin became generally available for people suffering with diabetes.
1934 – In the comic strip “Blondie,” Dagwood and Blondie Bumstead welcomed a baby boy, Alexander. The child would be nicknamed, Baby Dumpling.
1945 – During World War II, British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.
1948 – The Arabs were defeated in the first Jewish-Arab battle.
1952 – U.S. President Harry Truman signed the official Japanese peace treaty.
1953 – Charlie Chaplin surrendered his U.S. re-entry permit rather than face proceedings by the U.S. Justice Department. Chaplin was accused of sympathizing with Communist groups.
1957 – Saturday mail delivery restored in the US after Congress gives the Post Office $41 million
1959 – Cuban leader Fidel Castro began a U.S. goodwill tour.
1962 – US national debt above $300,000,000,000
1967 – Richard Speck was found guilty of murdering eight student nurses.
1984 – Ten members of a family were found murdered in their home in New York City. An infant was found crawling among the corpses.
1986 – U.S. F-111 warplanes attacked Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5, 1986.
1989 – Students in Beijing launched a series of pro democracy protests upon the death of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang. The protests led to the Tienanmen Square massacre.
1989 – In Sheffield, England, 96 people were killed and hundreds were injured at a soccer game at Hillsborough Stadium when a crowd surged into an overcrowded standing area. Ninety-four died on the day of the incident and two more later died from their injuries.
1999 – In Rawalpindi, Pakistan, a panel of two Lahore High Court judges convicted former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, of corruption.
2000 – 600 anti-IMF (International Monetary Fund) protesters were arrested in Washington, DC, for demonstrating without a permit.
2010 – In Prospect Harbor, ME, the Stinson Seafood plant stopped sardine processing after 135 years in operation.
2012 – 400 Islamist Militants escape from a Pakistan prison after an insurgent attack
2013 – 33 people are killed and 163 are injured in a wave of bombings across Iraq
2013 – Boston Marathon bombings: 3 people are killed and 183 injured after two explosions near the finish line https://www.britannica.com/event/Boston-Marathon-bombing-of-2013
2017 – Suicide car bomb targets buses carrying Syrian evacuees at Rashidin, 126 killed including 70 children
2019 – Paris cathedral Notre Dame catches fire, toppling its spire and destroying its roof
2021 – A shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, leaves eight dead and five injured
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
