1960 – The World Series ended on a home run for the first time. Bill Mazeroski’s homerun allowed the Pirates to beat the Yankees.
54 – Nero succeeds Claudius as Roman Emperor
1307 – French King Philip IV has Grand Master Jacques de Molay and Knights Templar arrested and charged with idolatry and corruption
1399 – Henry of Bolingbroke is crowned King Henry IV of England in Westminster Abbey, a few weeks after deposing Richard II
1483 – Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on Bible
1536 – Pilgrimage of Grace begins in Northern England, protest against King Henry VIII’s break with the Pope
1773 – The Whirlpool Galaxy discovered by astronomer Charles Messier
1775 – The U.S. Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.
1792 – The cornerstone of the Executive Mansion was laid in Washington, DC. The building became known as the White House in 1818.
1812 – American forces were defeated at the Battle of Queenstown Heights. The British victory effectively ended an further U.S. invasion of Canada.
1843 – B’nai B’rith, the Jewish organization, was founded by Henry Jones and eleven others in New York City, NY.
1854 – The state of Texas ratified a state constitution.
1881 – Revival of Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda & friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations
1884 -mGreenwich in London established as the universal time meridian of longitude
1902 – US President Theodore Roosevelt threatens to start using army troops to work coal mines struck since 12 may; this brings the owners to agree to abide by a Commission of Arbitration
1917 – 70,000 people gather to see ‘Miracle of the Sun’, solar visions reportedly by the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal after prophecies by local children
1924 – Mecca falls without struggle to Saudi forces led by Abdulaziz Ibn Saud
1941 – Nazis kill 11,000 Jewish children and old people, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine; additional murders continue on the 14th
1943 – During World War II, Italy signed an armistice with the Allies and declared war on Germany.
1944 – American troops entered Aachen, Germany, during World War II.
1953 – An ultrasonic burglar alarm was patented by Samuel Bagno.
1958 – Paddington Bear Makes His Debut
1960 – The World Series ended on a home run for the first time. Bill Mazeroski’s homerun allowed the Pirates to beat the Yankees.
1973 – Jordan enters Yom Kippur war
1978 – US President Jimmy Carter answers callers’ questions on National Public Radio
1980 – Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, NY
1981 – Egyptian voters elected Vice President Hosni Mubarak as the new president one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
1988 – Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ’s burial cloth, is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages
1989 – U.S. President George H.W. Bush called for an overthrow of the Panamanian ruler Manuel Antonio Noriega.
1990 – First Russian Orthodox service in over 70 years held in St Basil’s Cathedral, in Red Square, Moscow
1999 – The U.S. Senate rejected the ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
2008 – HM Treasury infused £37 billion ($64 billion, 47 billion euros) of new capital-bailout into Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Lloyds TSB and HBOS Plc, to avert a financial sector collapse.
2010 – Near Copiapó, Chile, 33 miners were trapped underground in San José Mine. The miners were rescued after 69 days underground.
2012 – Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was shot at and injured. Oficial reports suggest that he was mistakenly shot by the military.
2013 – 109 people are killed in a stampede on a bridge in Datia district, Madhya Pradesh, India
2017 – Archaeologists announce the discovery of Arabic characters “Allah” and “Ali” on Viking funeral costumes from a grave in Gamla Uppsala, Sweden
2017 – Hungry bear crisis due to over-fishing leaves 2 people dead and 83 hostile bears shot on Sakhalin Island, Eastern Russia
2019 – Kurdish forces make a deal with Syrian army for them to patrol border areas in north east Syria to combat Turkish offensive after US President Donald Trump pulls out US forces
2021 – Bow and arrow terrorist attack kills five and injuries two in Kongsberg, Norway
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
