1898 – Wilmington riots begin, Thought to be one of the only incidents of insurrection against a local government in the United States, the Wilmington Race Riots of 1898 or the Wilmington Massacre of 1898 began after an election voted in a biracial city council. In retaliation, white supremacists overthrew the council, destroyed a lot of property and killed many black people in the city over the course of a few days.
911 – Conrad I of Germany [Conrad the Younger] elected as King of East Francia
1444 – Battle at Varna, Black Sea: Sultan Murad II beats crusaders
1526 – John I Zapolyai of Transsylvania chosen as king of Hungary
1544 – Flemish painter Jan Matsys banished from Antwerp for religious beliefs
1630 – Failed palace revolution in France against Richelieu
1674 – Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (New York) to the English
1775 – The U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress. The Marines went out of existence after the end of the Revolutionary War in April of 1783. The Marine Corps were formally re-established on July 11, 1798. This day is observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps.
1793 – France ends forced worship of God
1801 – The U.S. state of Tennessee outlawed the practice of dueling.
1808 – Osage Treaty / Treaty of Fort Clark, Osage Nation cedes territory in Missouri and Arkansas to the US
1871 – Henry M. Stanley, journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone. Livingstone was a missing Scottish missionary in central Africa. Stanley delivered his famous greeting: “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
1879 – Western Union and the National Bell Telephone Company reached a settlement over various telephone patents.
1885 – German engineer Gottlieb Daimler unveils the world’s first motorcycle
1898 – Wilmington riots begin, Thought to be one of the only incidents of insurrection against a local government in the United States, the Wilmington Race Riots of 1898 or the Wilmington Massacre of 1898 began after an election voted in a biracial city council. In retaliation, white supremacists overthrew the council, destroyed a lot of property and killed many black people in the city over the course of a few days. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55648011
1903 – Windshield wiper patented
1911 – Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corporation for scholarly and charitable works
1917 – 41 suffragists were arrested in front of the White House.
1917 – New bolshevik government under Lenin suspends freedom of press (temporary) during October Revolution
1918 – Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe stating on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air
1919 – The American Legion held its first national convention, in Minneapolis, MN.
1924 – Dion O’Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio’s gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.
1928 – Michinomiya Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of Japan.
1940 – Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.
1951 – Direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service began when Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, NJ, called his counterpart in Alameda, CA.
1953 – Giants end their tour of Japan (players got $331 of $3,000 promised)
1954 – The Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated in Arlington, VA.
1969 – “Sesame Street” made its debut on PBS.
1970 – The Great Wall of China opened for tourism.
1975 – The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution that equated Zionism with racism. The resolution was repealed in December of 1991.
1975 – The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling ship, and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior.
1976 – The Utah Supreme Court gave approval for Gary Gilmore to be executed, according to his wishes. The convicted murderer was put to death the following January.
1980 – CBS News anchor Dan Rather claimed he had been kidnapped in a cab. It turned out that Rather had refused to pay the cab fare.
1982 – Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev died of a heart attack at age 75. He was suceeded by Yuri V. Andropov.
1986 – Camille Sontag and Marcel Coudari, two Frenchmen were released by the captors that held them in Lebanon.
1988 – The U.S. Department of Energy announced that Texas would be the home of the atom-smashing super-collider. The project was cancelled by a vote of the U.S. Congress in Oct. 1993.
1991 – Robert Maxwell was buried in Israel, five days after his body was recovered off the Canary Islands.
1993 – The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Brady Bill, which called for a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases.
1994 – U.S. officials announced that it planned to stop enforcing the arms embargo against the Bosnian government the following week. The U.N. Security Council was opposed to lifting the ban.
1994 – Iraq recognized Kuwait’s borders in the hope that the action would end trade sanctions.
1995 – Nigeria’s military rulers hanged playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa along with several other anti-government activists.
1995 – In Katmandu, Nepal, searchers rescued 549 hikers after a massive avalanche struck the Himalayan foothills. The disaster left 24 tourists and 32 Nepalese dead.
1997 – A jury in Virginia convicted Mir Aimal Kasi of the murder of two CIA employees in 1993.
1997 – A judge in Cambridge, MA, reduced Louise Woodward’s murder conviction to manslaughter and sentenced the English au pair to time served. She had served 279 days in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen.
1998 – At the White House, “The Virtual Wall” website (www.thevirtualwall.org) was unveiled. The site allows visitors to experience The Wall through the Internet.
2001 – An agreement is reached at talks in Marrakech, Morocco, on rules for implementation of the Kyoto climate change treaty
2007 – “Por qué no te callas?” (“Why don’t you shut up?”)incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela’s president Hugo Chávez.
2012 – 20 Syrian troops are killed by suicide bombings in Daara
2012 – 27 people are killed and dozens injured in a prison conflict in Colombo, Sri Lanka
2015 – Portugal’s minority government is toppled by left-wing opposition 2 weeks after coming to power
2019 – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announces the discovery of a new oil field with an estimated 53 million barrels of oil in Khuzestan province
2084 – Next transit of Earth as seen from Mars
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
