1927 – The White Bird and its crew mysteriously disappear – French aviators, Charles Nungesser and François Coli, had taken off from Paris in their Levasseur PL.8 biplane in an attempt to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight. Their disappearance remains a mystery. Charles Lindbergh succeeded two weeks later.
1254 – University of Salamanca granted a royal charter by Alfonso IX. Third oldest university still operating and the oldest Hispanic.
1348 – Ship from Bordeaux carrying the plague, lands in Melcombe Regis (now Weymouth), Dorset. The beginning of the Terrible Pestilence (Black Death) in England.
1450 – Jack Cade’s Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt begins against King Henry VI and they march towards London
1541 – Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River. He called it Rio de Espiritu Santo.
1660 – English parliament declares Charles Stuart to be King Charles II of England
1787 – First US prison reform society formed, the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons led by Dr. Benjamin Rush
1794 – Antoine Lavoisier was executed by guillotine. He was the French chemist that discovered oxygen.
1794 – The United States Post Office was established.
1846 – The first major battle of the Mexican War was fought. The battle occurred in Palo Alto, TX.
1858 – American abolitionist John Brown holds antislavery convention
1861 – Richmond, Virginia, is named the capital of the Confederacy in the US
1877 – The first Westminister Dog Show was held.
1879 – George Selden applied for the first automobile patent.
1886 – Coca-Cola is invented – According to legend, Dr. John Styth Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist, produced the syrup in a brass pot in his backyard. It was first intended as a patent medicine. Today, Coca-Cola is one of the world’s most popular soft drinks and one of the most recognized trademarks.
1919 – Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, leads to the creation of Remembrance Day
1921 – Sweden abolished capital punishment.
1927 – The White Bird and its crew mysteriously disappear – French aviators, Charles Nungesser and François Coli, had taken off from Paris in their Levasseur PL.8 biplane in an attempt to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight. Their disappearance remains a mystery. Charles Lindbergh succeeded two weeks later.
1933 – Mahatma Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against British oppression in India
1942 – Aircraft carrier USS Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack in Coral Sea
1943 – The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.
1946 – Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial that preceded the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn
1950 – President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek asks US for weapons
1958 – U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.
1958 – US VP Richard Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by protesters in Peru
1967 – Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army
1970 – Construction workers broke up an anti-war protest on New York City’s Wall Street.
1973 – Militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered.
1980 – World Health Organization announces smallpox has been eradicated
1984 – The Soviet Union announced that they would not participate in the 1984 Summer Olympics Games in Los Angeles.
1987 – Gary Hart quits US democratic presidential race due to affair with Donna Rice
1993 – 16 year old Keron Thomas disguises himself as a motorman & takes NYC subway train and 2,000 passengers on a 3 hour ride
1994 – President Clinton announces US will no longer repatriate boat people
1999 – The Citadel in South Carolina graduated its first female cadet, Nancy Mace.
2008 – Dmitry Medvedev appoints Vladimir Putin as Russian Prime Minister
2012 – Dmitry Medvedev is confirmed as Russian Prime Minister by the State Duma, after being nominated by Vladimir Putin
2013 – Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi receives a four year prison sentence for fraud
2018 – Ebola outbreak declared in north-west Democratic Republic of Congo with 2 confirmed cases and 17 deaths
2019 – UK goes a week without using a coal-fired power station for first time in 137 years due to use of more renewable energy
2021 – Bombings outside a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, kill at least 50 people, mostly teenage girls, amid growing fears about US military withdrawal
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
