1979 – “Disco Demolition Night” at Comiskey Park: fans go wild destroying disco records and cause the White Sox to forfeit second game of a doubleheader to the Detroit Tigers
1109 – Crusaders capture Syria’s harbor city of Tripoli
1191 – English King Richard I the Lionheart and Crusaders defeat Saracens in Palestine
1346 – Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany.
1533 – Henry VIII, who divorced his wife and became head of the church of England, was excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Clement VII.
1561 – “Trinity Church” (now Saint Basil’s Cathedral) is consecrated in Moscow, Russia, built to commemorate defeat of the Mongols at battle of Kazan
1630 – New Amsterdam’s governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, later known as Ellis Island
1679 – Britain’s King Charles II ratifies Habeas Corpus Act allowing prisoners right to be imprisoned to be examined by a court
1705 – Ottoman army officer Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī proclaims himself Bey of Tunis, founding the Husainid Dynasty (dynasty rules till 1957)
1786 – Morocco agreed to stop attacking American ships in the Mediterranean for a payment of $10,000.
1790 – French Revolution: The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted, putting the Catholic Church in France under the control of the state
1798 – The U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by “An Act for Establishing a Marine Corps” passed by the U.S. Congress. The act also created the U.S. Marine Band. The Marines were first commissioned by the Continental Congress on November 10, 1775.
1804 – Former vice president Aaron Burr fatally wounded former secretary of the treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Hamilton died the following afternoon.
1812 – US forces led by General Hull invade Canada (War of 1812)
1843 – Mormon leader Joseph Smith says God allows polygamy
1864 – In the U.S., Confederate forces led by Gen. Jubal Early began an invasion of Washington, DC. They turned back the next day.
1878 – Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500
1905 – The British and Japanese renew their alliance (of January 1902) for 10 years and agree to provide mutual support if attacked by other power
1909 – 16th Amendment was passed by congress (power to tax incomes)
1917 – The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona
1933 – Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
1934 – The first appointments to the newly created Federal Communications Commission were made.
1951 – Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero, Illinois
1954 – President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system
1955 – The U.S. Air Force Academy was dedicated in Colorado at Lowry Air Base.
1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird is first published as Atticus – Harper Lee’s classic and Pulitzer Prize-winning book is about racial inequality during the Great Depression.
1962 – The first transatlantic TV transmission was sent through the Telstar I satellite.
1966 – Start of 3 day race riot in Chicago, looting brings out National Guardsmen
1967 – Race riot in Newark, New Jersey, 26 killed, 1,500 injured & over 1,000 arrested
1972 – U.S. forces broke the 95-day siege at An Loc in Vietnam.
1974 – John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg’s rights
1977 – The Medal of Freedom was awarded posthumously to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a White House ceremony.
1979 – The abandoned U.S. space station Skylab returned to Earth. It burned up in the atmosphere and showered debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.
1979 – “Disco Demolition Night” at Comiskey Park: fans go wild destroying disco records and cause the White Sox to forfeit second game of a doubleheader to the Detroit Tigers
1982 – FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail
1985 – Dr. H. Harlan Stone announced that he had used zippers for stitches on 28 patients. The zippers were used when he thought he may have to re-operate.
1995 – Full diplomatic relations were established between the United States and Vietnam.
1998 – U.S. Air Force Lt. Michael Blassie, a casualty of the Vietnam War, was laid to rest near his Missouri home. He had been positively identified from his remains that had been enshrined in the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington, VA.
1999 – A U.S. Air Force jet flew over the Antarctic and dropped off emergency medical supplies for Dr. Jerri Nelson after she had discovered a lump in her breast. Nelso was at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Center.
2006 – Over 200 people were killed and about 700 people were injured in a series of bombings on Mumbai city trains.
2011 – The News of the World, a British newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch, closes after several allegations that the paper’s journalists hacked into voicemail accounts belonging to not only a 13-year-old murder victim, but also the relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
2012 – 200 people are killed by the Syrian army in Tremseh
2018 – Republic of Ireland will be the first country to sell off its investments in fossil fuel companies after passing legislation in parliament
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
