2000 – The submarine H.L. Hunley was raised from ocean bottom after 136 years. The sub had been lost during an attack on the U.S.S. Housatonic in 1864. The Hunley was the first submarine in history to sink a warship.
1356 – Edward “the Black Prince” began a raid north from Aquitaine.
1508 – Spaniard Juan Ponce de León founds Caparra the first European settlement in Puerto Rico
1549 – Henry II of France declares war on England and orders the siege of Boulogne
1647 – The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungans Hill – English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
1786 – US Congress unanimously chooses the dollar as the monetary unit for the United States of America
1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena, in the South Atlantic. The remainder of his life was spent there in exile.
1844 – Brigham Young chosen as head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints following the death of Joseph Smith
1863 – American Civil War: Tennessee’s “military” Governor Andrew Johnson frees his personal slaves. Celebrated as a holiday by Tennessee African Americans (early 20th century)
1876 – Thomas Edison received a patent for the mimeograph. The mimeograph was a “method of preparing autographic stencils for printing.”
1899 – The refrigerator was patented by A.T. Marshall.
1911 – The number of representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives was established at 435. There was one member of Congress for every 211,877 residents.
1918 – World War I: The Allies launch the Hundred Days Offensive, beginning with the Battle of Amiens where 500 tanks and 10 Allied divisions attacked German lines
1925 – 1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (between 25,000 and 40,000 marchers) in Washington, D.C.
1940 – The German Luftwaffe began a series of daylight air raids on Great Britain.
1942 – 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Washington, D.C.
1945 – The United Nations Charter was signed by U.S. President Truman.
1945 – US, USSR, Britain and France sign Treaty of London which sets down procedures for the Nuremberg war trials of Nazi leaders
1950 – Whataburger opened its restaurant in Corpus Christi, TX.
1953 – The U.S. and South Korea initiated a mutual security pact.
1955 – Fidel Castro forms the “26th of July Movement”, a Cuban vanguard revolutionary organization
1960 – Charges against 53 of the 76 Africans detained after the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa are dropped
1967 – Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore & Thailand meet to form Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
1973 – US Vice President Spiro Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are “damned lies” from government contracts in Maryland. Vowed not to resign.
1974 – US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12pm the next day
1983 – Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned)
1988 – It was announced that a cease-fire between Iraq and Iran had begun.
1988 – 8888 Uprising in Myanmar Begins, The pro-democracy uprising began as a student protest in Burma’s capital city, Yangon. Hundreds and thousands protesters came out on the streets to protest against the one-party rule by General Ne Win.
1990 – American forces began positioning in Saudia Arabia.
1991 – John McCarthy, a British TV producer, was released by his Lebanese kidnappers. He had been held captive for more than five years. A rival group abducted Jerome Leyraud in retaliation and threatened to kill him if any more hostages were released.
1991 – The U.N. Security Council approved North and South Korea for membership.
1994 – The first road link between Israel and Jordan opened.
1994 – Representatives from China and Taiwan signed a cooperation agreement.
1995 – Saddam Hussein’s two eldest daughters, their husbands, and several senior army officers defected.
1997 – The UN approves a sale-price formula for Iraqi crude oil sales under the oil-for-food plan
2000 – The submarine H.L. Hunley was raised from ocean bottom after 136 years. The sub had been lost during an attack on the U.S.S. Housatonic in 1864. The Hunley was the first submarine in history to sink a warship.
2012 – China announces that it plans to close 23 rare earth mines and up to 50 smelting companies
2013 – 4 people are killed and 4 are wounded in a shooting spree in Dallas, Texas
2018 – Malaysia charges former prime minister Najib Razak with three counts of money laundering
2018 – US State Department imposes new sanctions on Russia for nerve attack in Britain
2019 – Nuclear accident at Russian nuclear-weapon testing site at closed city Sarov kills five scientists in mysterious circumstances
2021 – More than 51 people killed in northern Mali after attacks on three villages by Islamist jihadists
2021 – Taliban forces capture three regional Afghan cities including key northern city of Kunduz
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
