1883 – First Carnegie library financed by industrialist Andrew Carnegie opens in Dunfermline, Scotland, the 1st of 2,509 libraries built around the world
1178 – Anti-Pope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III
1350 – Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships
1526 – Battle of Mohács: In a decisive battle the Hungarian Empire is conquered by the Ottoman Empire led by Suleiman the Magnificent
1533 – Atahualpa, last Sapa Inca Emperor is suspected to have been buried in Northern Peru or in Ecuador
1708 – Haverhill, Massachusetts destroyed by French & Indians
1758 – New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation
1786 – Shays’ Rebellion, an armed uprising in Springfield and Worcester, Massachusetts, by citizens in opposition to the government’s increased efforts to collect taxes on both individuals and their businesses
1793 – Slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed
1833 – The “Factory Act” was passed in England to settle child labor laws.
1838 – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm announce their intention to publish a German Dictionary, eventually completed in 1961, after 123 years
1842 – The Treaty of Nanking was signed by the British and the Chinese. The treaty ended the first Opium War and gave the island of Hong Kong to Britain.
1862 – Second Battle of Bull Run, fought in Manassas, Virginia begins, Confederate victory (US Civil War)
1883 – First Carnegie library financed by industrialist Andrew Carnegie opens in Dunfermline, Scotland, the 1st of 2,509 libraries built around the world
1885 – The first prizefight under the Marquis of Queensberry Rules was held in Cincinnati, OH. John L. Sullivan defeated Dominick McCaffery in six rounds.
1900 – Gaetano Bresci, the assassin of King Umberto I of Italy, is tried and sentenced to life imprisonment; he will commit suicide in jail on 22 May 1901
1916 – Congress creates US Naval Reserve
1930 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
1939 – Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
1945 – U.S. General Douglas MacArthur left for Japan to officially accept the surrender of the Japanese.
1949 – At the University of Illinois, a nuclear device was used for the first time to treat cancer patients.
1965 – Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles (“Pete”) Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after eight days in space.
1970 – Black Panthers confront cops in Philadelphia (1 cop killed)
1975 – Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
1983 – Two U.S. marines were killed in Lebanon by the militia group Amal when they fired mortar shells at the Beirut airport.
1983 – The anchor of the USS Monitor, from the U.S. Civil War, was retrieved by divers.
1988 – Abdul Mohmand becomes the first person from Afghanistan to Visit Space
1990 – Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television interview, declared that America could not defeat Iraq.
1991 – The Communist Party in the Soviet Union had its bank accounts frozen and activities were suspended because of the Party’s role in the failed coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
1991 – The republics of Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to stay in the Soviet Union.
1992 – The U.N. Security Council agreed to send troops to Somalia to guard the shipments of food.
1997 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
1997 – Netflix is founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hasting in Scotts Valley, California as an online DVD rental business
2003 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
2004 – India test-launched a nuclear-capable missle able to carry a one-ton warhead. The weapon had a range of 1,560 miles.
2007 – A United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident takes place at Minot Air Force Base and Barksdale Air Force Base.
2012 – Georgian hostage crisis results in 3 police officers and 10 militants being killed
2012 – Banana Spider venom is found to be effective in relieving erectile dysfunction
2014 – Riots break out in Guinea following rumours that health workers are deliberately transmitting the Ebola virus to locals
2018 – Germany hands back human remains of Namibian Herero and Nama people murdered during 1904-08 genocide at church service in Berlin
2019 – Discovery of world’s largest child sacrifice site announced by archaeologists with 227 victims from Chimú culture in Huanchaco, Peru
2019 – Scientists announce there is no single ‘gay’ gene with genetics accounting for at most 25% of same-sex behavior, in study published in “Science”
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
