1957 – The Arkansas National Guard was ordered by Governor Orval Faubus to keep nine black students from going into Little Rock’s Central High School.
0476 – Romulus Augustulus, the last emperor of the western Roman Empire, was deposed when Odoacer proclaimed himself King of Italy.
1479 – King Alfonso I of Portugal recognizes Isabella as queen of Castile
1571 – Catholic rebellion in Scotland
1609 – English navigator Henry Hudson began exploring the island of Manhattan.
1778 – City of Amsterdam signs trade agreement with American rebels
1781 – Los Angeles, CA, was founded by Spanish settlers. The original name was “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula,” which translates as “The Town of the Queen of Angels.”
1821 – Chilean independence figure José Miguel Carrera shot and killed after a show trial in Mendoza, Argentina
1825 – New York Governor Clinton ceremoniously emptied a barrel of Lake Erie water in the Atlantic Ocean to consummate the “Marriage of the Waters” of the Great Lakes and the Atlantic.
1833 – Barney Flaherty answered an ad in “The New York Sun” and became the first newsboy/paperboy at the age of 10.
1864 – Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama
1870 – Napoleon III ousted as Emperor of France, The first elected president of France, Napoleon took over the title of Emperor in 1852. The ouster came in response to Napoleon’s capitulation during the Franco-Prussian War. After being removed from power, he was exiled to England, where he died on January 9, 1873.
1885 – The Exchange Buffet opened in New York City. It was the first self-service cafeteria in the U.S.
1886 – Geronimo, and the Apache Indians he led, surrendered in Skeleton Canyon in Arizona to Gen. Nelson Miles.
1894 – A strike in New York City by 12,000 tailors took place to protest sweatshops.
1917 – The American expeditionary force in France suffered its first fatalities in World War I.
1918 – US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
1933 – Coup against Cuban president Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada by Fulgencio Batista
1939 – Mir, a Nazi ghetto in occupied Poland, is exterminated
1944 – 2,087 Jews transported for Westerbork to KZ-Lower Theresienstadt
1948 – Queen Wilhelmina abdicates the Dutch throne in favour of her daughter Juliana because of illness, after 58 years, longest of any Dutch monarch
1951 – The first live, coast-to-coast TV broadcast took place in the U.S. The event took place in San Francisco, CA, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference. It was seen all the way to New York City, NY.
1957 – The Arkansas National Guard was ordered by Governor Orval Faubus to keep nine black students from going into Little Rock’s Central High School. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration
1967 – Michigan Gov. George Romney said during a TV interview that he had undergone “brainwashing” by U.S. officials while visiting Vietnam in 1965.
1972 – Thieves steal 18 paintings from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in what was at the time the largest art theft in North America
1972 – “The Price is Right” – US’s longest running games show debuts on CBS
1981 – The Soviet Union began war games with about 100,000 troops on the Polish border.
1983 – U.S. officials announced that there had been an American plane, used for reconnaissance, in the vicinity of the Korean Air Lines flight that was shot down.
1986 – South African security forces halted a mass funeral for the victims of the riot in Soweto.
1989 – Monday demonstrations demanding political reforms begin at St Nicholas’s church in Leipzig, East Germany, would later be replicated around the country
1992 – “Scared Silent” is 1st non news program to be seen on 3 networks simultaneously. (CBS, NBC & PBS), about child abuse hosted by Oprah
1995 – The Fourth World Conference on Women was opened in Beijing. There were over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
1998 – In Mexico, bankers stopped approving personal loans and mortgages.
1998 – Google is founded, The internet company, now synonymous with the act of finding information on the world wide web was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It started as a research project when Page and Brin were doctoral students at Stanford University.
1998 – While in Ireland, U.S. President Clinton said the words “I’m sorry” for the first time about his affair with Monica Lewinsky and described his behavior as indefensible.
1999 – The United Nations announced that the residents of East Timor had overwhelmingly voted for independence from Indonesia in a referendum held on August 30. In Dili, pro-Indonesian militias attacked independence supporters, burned buildings, blew up bridges and destroyed telecommunication facilities.
2002 – Before a U.S. Congressional panel, Doris Roberts testifies that age discrimination is prevalent in Hollywood
2012 – 25 people are killed at a funeral suicide bombing in Nangarhar, Pakistan
2014 – Aracheological remains of a Viking fortress from the 900s CE, the Vallø Borgring, is discovered in Denmark
2016 – Mother Teresa canonized by Pope Francis in a ceremony at the Vatican
2017 – US President Donald Trump announces Dreamers program, The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca), will be stopped
2018 – F.B.I. announces it has recovered a pair of Dorothy’s ruby slippers from “The Wizard of Oz”, stolen 13 years earlier
2018 – WHO reports more than a quarter of people worldwide (1.4 billion) don’t get enough physical exercise to avoid major diseases
2019 – YouTube fined $170 million for illegally collecting data on children’s viewing habits by US Federal Trade Commission
2021 – Nigerian government announces it is suspending Twitter indefinitely after it removed a post by President Muhammadu Buhari
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
