1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins, The ex-Nazi was one of the main organizers of the Holocaust, in which millions of people were slaughtered. He was hanged for war crimes in 1962. https://israeled.org/adolf-eichmann-trial-begins-jerusalem/
1241 – Battle of Mohi: Mongols led by Batu and Subedei defeat Hungarian King Béla IV in the major battle in during Mongolian invasion of Hungary, with 30,000 Hungarians slain
1471 – Wars of the Roses: King Edward IV of England seizes London from Henry VI
1512 – The forces of the Holy League were heavily defeated by the French at the Battle of Ravenna.
1612 – Last public burning at the stake in England – Edward Wrightman for heresy in Lichfield
1689 – William III and Mary II were crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
1713 – The Treaty of Utrecht is signed, ending the War of Spanish Succession. France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain.
1783 – After receiving a copy of the provisional treaty on March 13, the U.S. Congress proclaimed a formal end to hostilities with Great Britain.
1814 – Napoleon was forced to abdicate his throne. The allied European nations had marched into Paris on March 30, 1814. He was banished to the island of Elba.
1831 – The 12th century Lewis chess pieces are exhibited at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, shortly after their rediscovery in a sand bank on the Scottish Isle of Lewis
1856 – Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats William Walker’s invading Nicaraguans
1868 – The Shogunate is abolished in Japan
1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized.
1891 – 8-year old Jewish tailor’s daughter disappears in Greece, rumor spreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews
1898 – U.S. President William McKinley asked Congress for a declaration of war with Spain.
1899 – The treaty ending the Spanish-American War was declared in effect.
1912 – Cornerstone of Technion laid in Haifa, Palestine
1914 – Mexican President Huerta breaks off diplomatic relations with the US
1921 – Iowa became the first state to impose a cigarette tax.
1921 – The first live sports event on radio took place this day on KDKA Radio. The event was a boxing match between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee.
1941 – Nazi occupiers in Netherlands confiscate Jewish assets
1945 – During World War II, American soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald in Germany.
1945 – After two frustrating days of being repulsed and absorbing tremendous casualties, the Red Army finally takes the Seelow Heights north of Berlin.
1948 – The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was announced in a general press release.
1951 – U.S. President Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur as head of United Nations forces in Korea.
1955 – Chartered Air India plane the “Kashmir Princess” is bombed and crashes into the South China Sea in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by a Kuomintang secret agent
1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins, The ex-Nazi was one of the main organizers of the Holocaust, in which millions of people were slaughtered. He was hanged for war crimes in 1962. https://israeled.org/adolf-eichmann-trial-begins-jerusalem/
1963 – Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical “Pacem in terris”, that peace between all peoples must be based on truth, justice, love and freedom
1968 – U.S. President Johnson signed the 1968 Civil Rights Act.
1970 – Apollo 13 blasted off on a mission to the moon that was disrupted when an explosion crippled the spacecraft. The astronauts did return safely.
1974 – The Judiciary committee subpoenas U.S. President Richard Nixon to produce tapes for impeachment inquiry.
1979 – Idi Amin was deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seized control.
1980 – The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations specifically prohibiting sexual harassment of workers by supervisors.
1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan returned to the White House from the hospital after recovering from an assassination attempt on March 30.
1981 – In the Brixton area of London, a race riot erupted that resulted in the injury of more than 300 people.
1983 – In the first ‘supergrass’ trial in Northern Ireland, fourteen Ulster Volunteer Force members are jailed for a total of two hundred years
1984 – China invaded Vietnam.
1984 – General Secretary Konstantin U. Cherenkov was named president of the Soviet Union.
1986 – Kellogg’s stopped giving tours of its breakfast-food plant. The reason for the end of the 80-year tradition was said to be that company secrets were at risk due to spies from other cereal companies.
1991 – U.N. Security Council issued a formal cease-fire with Iraq.
1993 – 450 prisoners riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continue for ten days, citing grievances about prison conditions and the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis)
1996 – Seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff was killed with her father and flight instructor when her plane crashed after takeoff from Cheyenne, Wyoming. Jessica had hoped to become the youngest person to fly cross-country.
1998 – Northern Ireland’s biggest political party, the Ulster Unionists, announced its backing of the historic peace deal.
1999 – Daouda Malam Wanke was designated president of Niger. President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara had been assassinated on April 9.
2001 – China agreed to release 24 crewmembers of a U.S. surveillance plane. The EP-3E Navy crew had been held since April 1 on Hainon, where the plane had made an emergency landing after an in-flight collision with a Chinese fighter jet. The Chinese pilot was missing and presumed dead.
2002 – An attempted coup d’état takes place in Venezuela against President Hugo Chávez.
2006 – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has enriched uranium, The Iranian nuclear program has become a source of great controversy. Several countries, some of them possessing nuclear weapons themselves, accuse Tehran of developing an Iranian atom bomb.
2006 – Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano is arrested, Provenzano was one of Cosa Nostra’s central figures. The mafioso was arrested near Corleone, Sicily after 40 years on the run.
2007 – Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers kill 33 people and wounds a further 222
2010 – “The night of Sora Aoi”, Japanese porn actress Sora Aoi joins twitter prompting many Chinese fans to try and circumnavigate Chinese censorship
2012 – 2011 London riot looter is jailed for 11 years after starting a fire at a furniture retailer
2013 – 14 people are killed in clashes between drug traffickers and police in Michoacán, Mexico
2013 – 57 people are killed by the Syrian Army in Daraa Governorate, Syria
2015 – Barack Obama and Raúl Castro meet in Panama, the 1st meeting of US and Cuban heads of state since the Cuban Revolution
2019 – EU leaders agree to a six-month extension to Brexit after UK parliament fails to reach any consensus
2019 – Ex-Pope Benedict XVI claims Catholic sexual abuse caused in part by 1960s sexual revolution
2019 – Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir overthrown and arrested by the army in Khartoum after 29 years in power
2021 – 20-year-old Daunte Wright shot and killed at a traffic stop by police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, who says they mistook their gun for a taser
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
