1960 – Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
0330 – Constantinople, previously the town of Byzantium, was founded.
0868 – “The Diamond Sutra”, the world’s oldest surviving and dated printed book is printed in Chinese and made into a scroll
1189 – Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa and 100,000 crusaders depart Regensburg for the Third Crusade
1310 – Fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics
1751 – Pennsylvania Hospital founded by Dr. Thomas Bond and Benjamin Franklin, in Philadelphia
1792 – The Columbia River was discovered by Captain Robert Gray.
1800 – French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck give a lecture first outlining his theories of evolution at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle in Paris, France
1812 – British prime Minster Spencer Perceval was shot by a bankrupt banker in the lobby of the House of Commons.
1858 – Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
1889 – Major Joseph Washington Wham takes charge of $28,000 in gold and silver to pay troops at various points in the Arizona Territory. The money was stolen in a train robbery.
1891 – The Otsu Scandal: While visiting Japan, Prince Nicholas (later Tsar Nicholas II) survives an assassination attempt
1910 – Glacier National Park in Montana was established.
1934 – A severe two-day dust storm stripped the topsoil from the great plains of the U.S. and created a “Dust Bowl.” The storm was one of many.
1953 – Winston Churchill criticizes US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles’ domino theory
1960 – Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/eichmann-captured
1963 – Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham Alabama
1970 – Henry Marrow is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, North Carolina.
1972 – John Lennon says his phone is tapped by FBI on “The Dick Cavett Show”
1978 – Margaret A Brewer is 1st female general in the US Marine Corps
1981 – The musical Cats is premiered
1995 – The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was extended indefinitely. The treaty limited the spread of nuclear material for military purposes.
1996 – ValuJet flight 592 crashes into the Florida Everglades shortly after takeoff
2001 – U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced his decision to approve a 30-day delay of the execution of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. McVeigh had been scheduled to be executed on May 16, 2001. The delay was because the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had failed to disclose thousands of documents to McVeigh’s defense team. (Oklahoma)
2009 – An American soldier in Iraq opened fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Bagdhad, leaving 5 other US soldiers dead and 3 soldiers wounded
2016 – Brazilian senate votes to suspend President Dilma Rousseff and put her on trial for budgetary violations
2018 – Mass murder-suicide in Margaret River, Australia, grandfather shoots six members of his family and himself
2021 – Northern Ireland inquest into 1971 Ballymurphy killing of ten people finds people were innocent and killed (nine by soldiers) using unjustified force
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
