1888 – “Casey at the Bat” the poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published.
350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
1083 – Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St Peter’s Cathedral
1098 – Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seized Antioch, Turkey.
1492 – Martin Behaim presents the world’s first globe – The German geographer called his terrestrial globe Erdapfel, or Earth Apple. It is kept in a darkened room at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, Germany.
1539 – Hernando De Soto claimed Florida for Spain.
1620 – Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
1621 – The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands (now known as New York).
1784 – The U.S. Congress formally created the United States Army to replace the disbanded Continental Army. On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress had created the Continental Army for purposes of common defense and this event is considered to be the birth of the United States Army.
1800 – John Adams moved to Washington, DC. He was the first President to live in what later became the capital of the United States.
1864 – General Robert E. Lee wins his last victory of the US Civil War at the Battle of Cold Harbor
1888 – “Casey at the Bat” the poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published.
1918 – US Supreme Court in Hammer v. Dagenhart rules child labor laws unconstitutional
1923 – In Italy, Benito Mussolini granted women the right to vote.
1932 – Paul von Hindenburg disbands German Parliament
1937 – The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson.
1938 – The German Reich voted to confiscate so-called “degenerate art.”
1940 – Last British and French troops evacuated from Dunkirk
1943 – A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots
1952 – A rebellion by North Korean prisoners in the Koje prison camp in South Korea was put down by American troops.
1959 – The first class graduated from the Air Force Academy in Denver, CO.
1965 – Maj. Edward White became the first U.S. astronaut to walk in space, during the Gemini 4 mission.
1968 – Poor Peoples March on Washington, D.C.
1968 – American radical feminist Valerie Solanas attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times. She is later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and pleads guilty to “reckless assault with intent to harm”, serving a 3 year sentence.
1974 – Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, and forms a new government
1976 – US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
1979 – The world’s worst oil spill occurred when an exploratory oil well, Ixtoc 1, blew out, spilling over 140 million gallons of oil into the Bay of Campeche off the coast of Mexico.
1982 – The Israeli ambassador to the U.K. is shot – Shlomo Argov survived the assassination attempt by a Palestinian terrorist group, but he was permanently paralyzed. The event triggered the 1982 Lebanon War.
1989 – Chinese army troops positioned themselves to began a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.
1999 – Slobodan Milosevic’s government accepted an international peace plan concerning Kosovo. NATO announced that airstrikes would continue until 40,000 Serb forces were withdrawn from Kosovo.
2001 – Iraq announces that it will halt crude oil exports in response to the UN’s resolution that extends the oil-for-food program by only 1 month, instead of the normal 6-month period
2005 – ‘The Knight of Sainte-Hermine’ by Alexandre Dumas is published in France by Editions Phébus, completed by Claude Schopp, 135 years after the author’s death.
2012 – Plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, kills all 152 passengers and 40 people on the ground
2013 – The trial against whistleblower Bradley Manning begins – The American soldier, a trans woman now called Chelsea Manning, was responsible for leaking classified videos documenting U.S. war atrocities during the Iraq War. She was sentenced to 35 years confinement.
2015 – Dr. Jesse Selber performs the world’s first partial-skull and scalp transplant at Houston Methodist Hospital
2017 – Terrorist attack in Borough Market, London by three men who drive van into pedestrians then stab and kill 7 and wound 48. Attackers shot dead by British police.
2018 – Dead whale found with 17 pounds (80 pieces) of plastic in its stomach in Songkhla province, Thailand
2019 – Sudanese military attacks protesters in Khartoum killing 100 people, some dumped in the river Nile, prompting international condemnation
2020 – Former Defense Secretary James Mattis says in The Atlantic: “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us.”
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
