1908 – America’s Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, to be greeted with a tremendous welcome; 221 American sailors desert to remain in Australia
0002 – Venus and Jupiter in conjunction – possible astrological explanation for Star of Bethlehem
1000 – The foundation of the Hungarian state, Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
1191 – Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 muslim prisoners in Akko
1566 – Iconoclasm reaches Antwerp, Belgium; the Cathedral’s interior is torn apart by Protestants
1612 – 9 Pendle witches hanged at Gallows Hill in Lancaster, England
1619 – 1st known African Americans in English North America (approx. 20) land at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia. They are then sold or traded into servitude.
1672 – Former Grand Pensionary of Holland Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague
1741 – Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovered Alaska.
1781 – George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis
1794 – Battle of Fallen Timbers: Major General “Mad Anthony” Wayne defeats a joint British-Native American force at Fallen Timbers, Ohio in the final battle of the Northwest Indian War
1862 – Horace Greeley’s “The Prayer of Twenty Millions” was published.
1866 – The National Labor Union in the U.S. advocated an eight-hour workday.
1865 – President Andrew Johnson proclaims an end to “insurrection” in Texas
1866 – It was formally declared by U.S. President Andrew Johnson that the American Civil War was over. The fighting had stopped months earlier.
1882 – Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” debuted in Moscow.
1900 – Japan’s primary school law is amended to provide for four years of mandatory schooling.
1908 – America’s Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, to be greeted with a tremendous welcome; 221 American sailors desert to remain in Australia
1914 – German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War I.
1915 – Chicago White Sox obtain ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson from Cleveland for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer & $31,500; Jackson involved in ‘Black Sox Scandal’ 1919
1918 – The British opened its Western Front offensive during World War I.
1923 – The first American dirigible, the “Shenandoah,” was launched in Lakehurst, NJ. The ship began its maiden voyage from the same location on September 4.
1926 – Uprising against Rezā Shāh Pahlavi in Iran
1940 – Leon Trotsky is attacked in Mexico, Russian revolutionary and founder of the Red Army, Leon Trotsky was attacked in his home by an undercover agent of the Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs or N.K.V.D. He died a day later due to the injuries sustained during the attack.
1940 – France fell to the Germans during World War II.
1940 – British PM Churchill says of Royal Air Force, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”
1953 – General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in a CIA supported coup d’état
1955 – In Morocco and Algeria hundreds of people were killed in anti-French rioting.
1964 – A $1 billion anti-poverty measure was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1967 – The New York Times reported about a noise reduction system for album and tape recording developed by technicians R. and D.W. Dolby. Elektra Record’s subsidiary, Checkmate Records became the first label to use the new Dolby process in its recordings.
1968 – The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring” liberalization.
1975 – Viking 1 is launched by NASA using a Titan launch vehicle, It became the first space probe to successfully land on Mars.
1977 – Voyager 2 was launched by the United States. The spacecraft was carrying a 12 inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature.
1985 – Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US
1986 – Postal worker Patrick Sherrill shot 14 fellow workers dead in Edmond, Oklahoma
1988 – The Iran-Iraq War comes to an end after 7 years, The deadly conventional war between the two Middle Eastern countries began when Iraq invaded Iran on September 22, 1980.
1991 – A rally of more than 100,000 people occurred outside the Russian parliament building to protest the coup that removed Gorbachev from power.
1991 – The United Democratic Front, one of the most prominent anti-apartheid movements, comprising of over 400 workers’, church, civic and student organisations, dissolves
1997 – NATO troops seized six police stations in Banja Luka that had been held by troops controlled by former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic.
1998 – Canada’s Supreme Court announced that Quebec could not secede without the federal government’s consent.
1998 – U.S. military forces attacked a terrorist camp in Afghanistan and a chemical plant in Sudan. Both targets were chosen for cruise missile strikes due to their connection with Osama bin Laden.
1998 – The U.N. Security Council extended trade sanctions against Iraq for blocking arms inspections.
2002 – A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
2010 – The last American combat brigade exited Iraq after more than seven years after the U.S.-led invasion began.
2015 – 30 students at West Point Military Academy are injured in a mass pillow fight
2018 – Measles cases reach record high in Europe with 41,000 infected first six months of 2018 with 37 deaths according to WHO
2018 – Polish immigrant and former volunteer Nazi guard Jakiw Palij (95) is deported from the US in New York to Germany
2019 – Computer systems in 22 small Texas towns hacked and held to ransom in coordinated attack prompts FBI investigation
2020 – Former adviser to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon arrested and charged with fraud over a fundraising campaign to build a wall on the Mexican border
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
