1959 – Kitchen debate between Nixon and Khrushchev – A series of debates, now popularly called the kitchen debates, occurred between U.S. President Nixon and Soviet Premier Khrushchev in Moscow. Nixon was visiting a house built as part of an exhibit in the American National Exhibition.
1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade
1487 – Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands, rebel against ban on foreign beer
1534 – Jacques Cartier lands in Canada, claims it for France
1567 – Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate; her 1-year-old son becomes King James VI of Scots
1651 – Anthony Johnson, a free African American, receives grant of 250 acres in Virginia
1660 – Great Fire of 1660 in Constantinople; two thirds of the city is destroyed including 280,000 wooden houses, with a death toll of around 40,000
1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, later becomes the city of Detroit
1824 – Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll, with a clear lead for Andrew Jackson
1847 – Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah.
1851 – The long hated Window Tax is abolished in the United Kingdom
1866 – Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the U.S. Civil War.
1877 – 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers
1905 – Tsar Nicholas II (Russia) and Emperor Wilhelm II (Germany) sign the Björkö Treaty, whereby each country agrees to come to the other’s defense if attacked by European powers
1911 – Rediscovery of Machu Picchu, The 15th century, largely forgotten Inca site in Peru was rediscovered by American Hiram Bingham III.
1917 – Trial of Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari begins in Paris for allegedly spying for Germany and thus causing the deaths of 50,000 soldiers
1919 – Race Riot in Washington, D.C. (6 killed, 100 wounded)
1923 – The Treaty of Lausanne, which settled the boundaries of modern Turkey, was concluded in Switzerland.
1929 – U.S. President Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy.
1933 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his fourth “Fireside Chat.”
1937 – Charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the Scottsboro case were dropped.
1941 – Nazis kill entire Jewish population of Grodz, Lithuania
1948 – Soviet occupation forces in Germany blockaded West Berlin. The U.S.-British airlift began the following day.
1952 – US President Harry Truman settles 53-day steel strike
1959 – Kitchen debate between Nixon and Khrushchev – A series of debates, now popularly called the kitchen debates, occurred between U.S. President Nixon and Soviet Premier Khrushchev in Moscow. Nixon was visiting a house built as part of an exhibit in the American National Exhibition.
1967 – First modern hospice St Christopher’s founded by Dr. Cicely Saunders in London, England, beginning of modern palliative care and the hospice movement
1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1974 – The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1977 – The 4-day long Libyan-Egyptian War comes to an end. The border war began with thousands of Libyans marching towards Egypt’s borders
1985 – Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi signs a peace accord with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai to settle the three-year Punjab crisis
1985 – French DGSE officers Dominique Prieur and Alain Mafart are arrested and charged with murder over the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
1986 – SF Federal jury convicts navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage
1990 – US warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait
1998 – Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
2002 – James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1
2002 – Nine coal miners were trapped in a mine in Pennsylvania. All were rescued three days later.
2014 – Over 10,000 Palestinians protest Israel’s operation in Gaza; 2 Palestinians killed after Al-Aqsa Brigades members fire at Israeli forces
2014 – 116 people are killed after Air Algérie Flight 5017 crashed in Mali
2018 – First bison born in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, in 140 years, after being reintroduced
2019 – Special counsel Robert Mueller reports to the US Senate that President Trump was not exonerated of obstruction of justice and that Russia interfered in US election to benefit Trump
2019 – Facebook agrees to pay $5 billion fine, largest ever for violating consumer privacy, to the US Federal Trade Commission
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
