1995 – The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC, by U.S. President Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam.
1214 – 1st battle of Bouvines – King Philip II of France vs Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV and King John of England; as a result John lost Normandy and his other possessions in France (hence his nickname John “Lackland”)
1245 – Frederick II was deposed by a council at Lyons after they found him guilty of sacrilege.
1377 – First example of quarantine in Rugusa (now Dubroknik); city council passes law saying newcomers from plague areas must isolation for 30 days (later 40 days, quaranta in Italian)
1549 – 1st Christian missionary in Japan, Jesuit priest Francis Xavier reaches Japan but is not permitted to enter any port until 15 August
1566 – Tribunal convicts Agnes Waterhouse of witchcraft, and sentences her to be first British woman executed for the crime (Chelmsford, England)
1663 – The British Parliament passed a second Navigation Act, which required all goods bound for the colonies be sent in British ships from British ports.
1689 – Government forces defeated the Scottish Jacobites at the Battle of Killiecrankie.
1694 – The Bank of England received a royal charter as a commercial institution.
1775 – Benjamin Rush began his service as the first Surgeon General of the Continental Army.
1777 – The marquis of Lafayette arrived in New England to help the rebellious American colonists fight the British.
1789 – The Department of Foreign Affairs was established by the U.S. Congress. The agency was later known as the Department of State.
1794 – Maximilien Robespierre is overthrown in a coup in Paris
1804 – The 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. With the amendment Electors were directed to vote for a President and for a Vice-President rather than for two choices for President.
1811 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Spanish Catholic priest, and leader Mexican independence, defrocked and excommunicated by the church
1816 – US troops destroy Fort Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
1914 – British troops invaded the streets of Dublin, Ireland, and began to disarm Irish rebels.
1918 – The Socony 200 was launched. It was the first concrete barge and was used to carry oil.
1919 – Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed, 500 injured)
1921 – Canadian biochemist Frederick Banting and associates announced the discovery of the hormone insulin.
1931 – Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota destroyed thousands of acres of crops
1940 – Bugs Bunny made his official debut in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon “A Wild Hare.”
1945 – US Communist Party forms
1950 – US President Harry Truman promises aid to Taiwan
1953 – The armistice agreement that ended the Korean War was signed at Panmunjon, Korea.
1955 – The Allied occupation of Austria ended.
1962 – Martin Luther King Jr. jailed in Albany, Georgia
1964 – U.S. President Lyndon Johnson sent an additional 5,000 advisers to South Vietnam.
1965 – In the U.S., the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act was signed into law. The law required health warnings on all cigarette packages.
1967 – U.S. President Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of the violence in the wake of urban rioting.
1972 – The F-15 Eagle flies for the first time.
1974 – The House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Richard Nixon for obstructing justice in the Watergate case.
1980 – Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead
1985 – Coup in Uganda – Tito Lutwa Okello, an Ugandan military officer successfully staged a coup against president Milton Obote. He was ousted by current president Yoweri Museveni 6 months later.
1993 – Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome, Milan and Vatican City, 5 killed
1993 – IBM’s new chairman, Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., announced an $8.9 billion plan to cut the company’s costs.
1995 – The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC, by U.S. President Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam.
1996 – Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured
1999 – The U.S. space shuttle Discovery completed a five-day mission commanded by Air Force Col. Eileen Collins. It was the first shuttle mission to be commanded by a woman.
2003 – A group of 321 Filipino armed soldiers called “Magdalo” take over Oakwood Premier Ayala Center in Makati City to show Filipino people the alleged corruption of the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration
2006 – The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance
2013 – 100 people are killed and 1,500 injured in a crackdown against protesters in Cairo, Egypt
2013 – 1,000 inmates escape from a prison in Benghazi, Libya
2014 – Liberia shuts down most of its borders with fears about the spread of Ebola epidemic
2017 – Boy Scouts of American Chief Scout Executive Michael Surbaugh issues an apology for politically motivated remarks made by President Donald Trump at rally attended by 30,000 scouts
2017 – Reince Priebus resigns as Chief of Staff to US President Donald Trump, after just over 6 months – shortest non-interim tenure ever
2019 – At least 65 mourners killed in a gun attack at a funeral near Maiduguri, by suspected Boko Haram militants in north-east Nigeria
2021 – Largest-ever repatriation of 17,000 looted Iraqi antiquities returned to Baghdad, including items from Hobby Lobby’s Museum of the Bible and Cornell University
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
