1965 – In his State of the Union address, U.S. President Johnson proclaimed the building of the “Great Society.
46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina
1490 – Anna of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the king of France will be considered guilty of the crime of lese-majesty.
1570 – Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City’s only physician, Joost Sweiter, “because he is a Jew”
1642 – King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament
1656 – Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas, laden with gold and jewelry bound for Spain, sinks off the coast of the Bahamas, only 45 of 650 people survive (most eaten by sharks)
1754 – Columbia University founded, as Kings College (NYC)
1847 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver, Captain Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers placed an order for 1000 revolver pistols after having witnessed their devastating effect.
1847 – Manuscripts of Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne Brontë’s “Agnes Grey” sent to publisher T.C. Newby (published December 1847)
1863 – Four wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton in New York
1884 – Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario)
1885 – Dr William Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy in America on Mary Gartside, aged 22
1893 – US President Cleveland grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy
1896 – Utah became the 45th U.S. state, following Mormon abandonment of polygamy
1902 – The French Panama Canal Company offers to sell its right to build a canal to the US for 40 million, tipping the balance away from those favoring a canal through Nicaragua
1903 – Topsy the elephant is electrocuted by her owners at Luna Park, Coney Island and filmed by Edison Manufacturing movie company
1904 – In ‘Gonzales v Williams’, the US Supreme Court rules that Puerto Ricans are not aliens and may not be refused admission into continental United States; not until 1917 will citizenship rights be granted https://news.usc.edu/trojan-family/sam-erman-usc-puerto-rican-citizenship/
1915 – 1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho
1925 – French psychologist Emil Coué brings his self-esteem therapy to US “Every day in every way I am getting better & better”
1936 – The first pop music chart based on national sales was published by “Billboard” magazine.
1944 – The attack on Monte Cassino was launched by the British Fifth Army in Italy.
1947 – Emilio G. Segrè and Carlo Perrier announce technetium, a previously unknown element and the first artificially synthesized chemical element
1948 – Britain granted independence to Burma.
1951 – During the Korean conflict, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces captured the city of Seoul.
1957 – “Collier’s” magazine was published for the last time. The periodical was published for 69 years.
1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputknik I fell to the earth from its orbit. The craft had been launched on October 4, 1957.
1961 – Longest recorded strike ends as the Danish barbers’ assistants end a 33 year strike
1965 – In his State of the Union address, U.S. President Johnson proclaimed the building of the “Great Society.” https://www.archives.gov/files/legislative/resources/education/excerpts-1965-state-of-the-union.pdf
1969 – A People’s Democracy march between Belfast and Derry is repeatedly attacked by loyalists and off-duty police officers
1971 – Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to relatives of Kent State victims
1974 – U.S. President Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
1976 – The Ulster Volunteer Force shoot dead 6 Catholic civilians in 2 coordinated attacks in County Armagh, North Ireland
1981 – The Broadway show “Frankenstein” lost an estimated $2 million, when it opened and closed on the same night.
1983 – US Football League holds its 1st player draft
1989 – US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean
1991 – The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to condemn Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians in the occupied territories.
1995 – Newt Gingrich (R) becomes speaker of the US House of Representatives
1998 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria: over 170 are killed in three remote villages
1999 – Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura was sworn in as Minnesota’s 37th governor.
1999 – Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people and injuring 25.
2000 – A day after accepting the head coaching position at the New York Jets, Bill Belichick resigns and moves to the New England Patriots
2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars
2006 – Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
2007 – Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. She was the first woman to hold the position.
2010 – The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed HIV infection from its list of communicable diseases of public health significance.
2013 – 8 people are killed by a gunman in Kawit, the Philippines
2013 – 9 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria
2020 – Australian bushfires death toll reaches 23 as PM Scott Morrison announces national defense force will be employed to help fight the more than 200 fires, amid criticism of his leadership
2021 – Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces new national lockdown for England following Scotland, as COVID-19 variant spreads rapidly with hospitalizations now higher than the first wave
2021 – South Korea, already the country with world’s lowest birth rate, records more deaths than births for the first time
2022 – Canadian government announces US$31.5 billion settlement to fix and compensate for Indigenous child welfare system, largest in its history
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
