2011 – Muammar Gaddafi is Captured, The deposed leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, is captured by the National Transitional Council Forces. He was killed by the troops soon after.
1097 – 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch during the First Crusade
1536 – King Christian III of Denmark & Norway leads reform in Catholic possessions
1600 – Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan’s rulers (shoguns)
1603 – Chinese uprising in the Philippines fails after 23,000 killed
1634 – British King Charles I disbands new “Ship Money” tax
1740 – Maria Theresa became the ruler of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia with the death of her father, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI.
1774 – The new Continental Congress, the governing body of America’s colonies, passed an order proclaiming that all citizens of the colonies “discountenance and discourage all horse racing and all kinds of gaming, cock fighting, exhibitions of shows, plays and other expensive diversions and entertainment.”
1803 – The U.S. Senate approved the Louisiana Purchase.
1818 – US and Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country
1818 – The U.S. and Great Britain established the boundary between the U.S. and Canada to be the 49th parallel.
1827 – Naval Battle of Navarino (off the Peloponnese coast): English, Russian, French combined fleet beat a Turkish and Egyptian force, paving the way for Greek independence
1847 – 12 year old English boy William Nelman poisons his grandpa with arsenic, would become famous court case
1873 – A Hippodrome was opened in New York City by showman Phineus T. (P.T.) Barnum.
1902 – The Chamber of Deputies appoints a committee to consider questions on the separation of Church and State in France
1903 – A joint commission ruled in favor of the U.S. concerning a dispute over the boundary between Canada and the District of Alaska.
1904 – Bolivia and Chile sign a treaty ending the War of the Pacific; recognizing Chile’s possession of the coast, providing for construction of a railway linking La Paz, Bolivia, to Arica on the coast
1905 – Russian Tsar Nicholas II allows the Poles to speak Polish to help quell the revolution in the Kingdom of Poland
1917 – US suffragette Alice Paul begins a 7 month jail sentence for peacefully picketing in support of the women’s Suffrage (right to vote) Amendment at the White House in Washington, D.C.
1918 – In order to secure a WWI armistice, Germany agrees to further concessions
1935 – Mao Zedong arrived in Hanoi after his Long March that took just over a year. He then set up the Chinese Communist Headquarters.
1941 – Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia
1942 – “Durham Manifesto” issued by the Southern Conference on Race Relations held in Durham, North Carolina, calls for fundamental changes in race relations
1944 – US forces under General Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines with the landing of the US 6th army on Leyte
1947 – Hollywood came under scrutiny as the House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings into alleged Communist influence within the motion picture industry.
1952 – The Mau Mau uprising against white settlers began in Kenya.
1957 – Walter Cronkite began hosting “The 20th Century.” The show aired until January 4, 1970.
1967 – A purported bigfoot is filmed at Bluff Creek by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin in Northern California
1973 – US President Nixon accepts the resignations of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus as they refuse orders to discharge Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, in what has become known as “The Saturday Night Massacre”
1975 – Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning
1977 – Plane chartered by rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd runs out of fuel and crashes in a wooded area near Gillsburg, Mississippi. Six people are killed, including band members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gains, and Cassie Gaines, and road manager Dean Kilpatrick
1981 – 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery
1981 – Bomb attack on Antwerp Belgium synagogue, 1 dead, 80 injured
1982 – Luzhniki Disaster, A stampede during a UEFA Cup soccer (football) match between Dutch club Haarlem and the Moscovian football club, Spartak at the Lenin Stadium in Moscow left about 60 people dead.
1984 – The U.S. State Department reduced the number of Americans assigned to the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
1989 – US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L Hastings
1990 – 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obscenity charges in Florida
1990 – Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq)
1993 – Attorney General Janet Reno warned the TV industry to limit the violence in their programs.
2009 – European astronomers discover 32 exoplanets.
2011 – Muammar Gaddafi is Captured, The deposed leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, is captured by the National Transitional Council Forces. He was killed by the troops soon after.
2013 – 30 people are killed by a suicide truck bomber in Hama, Syria
2013 – 37 people are killed in a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
2013 – 78 people are killed by cattle raiders in Jonglei, Sudan
2015 – Migrants arriving in Greece top 500,00 for the year, according to the UN
2018 – President Trump threatens to pull the US out of an arms control agreement with Russia because Russia has violated its terms
2020 – Nigerian police open fire on protesters in Lagos amid escalating protests against police violence around the country
2020 – US Justice Department sues Google for illegal monopoly over search and search advertising
2021 – Brazilian Senate inquiry finds President Bolsonaro should face series of criminal charges, including crimes against humanity, for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
