1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty)
1184 BC – The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date)
1066 – Halley’s Comet sparks English monk to predict country will be destroyed
1288 – Jews of Troyes France are accused of ritual murder
1503 – Michelangelo undertakes to carve 12 Apostles for the Cathedral of Florence, each four and a quarter braccia high (248.2cm), at the rate of at least one completed statue per year. He produced only one, of St. Matthew, and that remained unfinished.
1519 – Envoys of Montezuma II attended the first Easter mass in Central America.
1558 – Mary, Queen of Scotland, married the French dauphin, Francis.
1800 – The Library of Congress was established with a $5,000 allocation.
1805 – The U.S. Marines attacked and captured the town of Derna in Tripoli.
1833 – A patent was granted for first soda fountain.
1877 – In the U.S., federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans. This was the end to the North’s post-Civil War rule in the South.
1897 – 1st reporter, William Price (Washington Star), assigned to White House
1898 – Spain declared war on the U.S., rejecting America’s ultimatum for Spain to withdraw from Cuba.
1908 – Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock and their children depart Los Angeles in a Packard Thirty, endeavoring to become 1st family to travel across United States by car; arrive in NYC 32 days, 5 hours and 25 minutes later
1915 – Turks began deportation of Armenians that led to the massacre of between 600,000 and 1.5 million Armenians
1916 – Irish nationalist launched the Easter Rebellion against British occupation forces. They were overtaken several days later.
1917 – US Congress passes the Liberty Loan Act, authorizing the Treasury to issue a public subscription for 2 billion in bonds for the war
1921 – Under Allies supervision, a plebiscite in the Tyrol favors merging with Germany; unhappy with the outcome, Allies give the area to Italy
1950 – US President Harry Truman denies there are communists in the US government
1957 – The Suez Canal reopens after the Suez Crisis – The conflict between Egypt on the one hand and France, the United Kingdom and Israel on the other, erupted in October 1956 when Egypt announced that the canal will be nationalized.
1961 – U.S. President Kennedy accepted “sole responsibility” following Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had “gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily.”
1980 – US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die
1991 – Freddie Stowers is awarded the posthumous Medal of Honor for which he had been recommended in 1918.
1995 – Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B Murray
1997 – The U.S. Senate ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention. The global treaty banned the development, production, storage and use of chemical weapons.
2003 – A U.S. official reported the North Korea had claimed to have nuclear weapons
2004 – United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years ago, as reward for cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction
2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
2013 – 1129 people die in Bangladesh in the worst building collapse disaster in modern history – The building was used by clothing factories producing garments for western markets, highlighting the disastrous working conditions in the industry.
2021 – Joe Biden becomes the first US President to officially recognize killing of Armenians in the Ottoman empire during WWII as ‘genocide’
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
