1982 – Conch Republic is established – secession of the Florida Keys from the United States of America https://conchrepublic.com/our-founding-in-1982/
215 BC – A temple, built on the Capitoline Hill, is dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene
1014 – King Brian Boru of Ireland defeats Viking forces at Battle of Clontarf, freeing Ireland from foreign control
1348 – The first English order of knighthood was founded. It was the Order of the Garter.
1500 – Pedro Cabal claimed Brazil for Portugal.
1516 – Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria endorses “The German Beer Purity Law” (Reinheitsgebot) and adds to it standards for the sale of beer in Bavaria, ensuring beer is only brewed from three ingredients – water, malt and hops
1521 – The Comuneros were crushed by royalist troops in Spain.
1635 – The Boston Public Latin School was established. It was the first public school building in the United States.
1702 – Queen Anne is crowned at Westminster Abbey, London
1759 – The British seized Basse-Terre and Guadeloupe in the Antilles from France.
1789 – U.S. President George Washington moved into Franklin House, New York. It was the first executive mansion.
1795 – William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason
1827 – Irish mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton presents his Theory of Systems of Rays
1861 – Arkansas troops seized Fort Smith.
1867 – Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel
1872 – Charlotte E. Ray became the African-American woman lawyer.
1891 – Jews are expelled from Moscow, Russia
1895 – Russia, France, and Germany forced Japan to return the Liaodong peninsula to China.
1896 – The Vitascope system for projecting movies onto a screen was demonstrated in New York City.
1900 – The word “hillbilly” was first used in print in an article in the “New York Journal.” It was spelled “Hill-Billie”.
1908 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt signed an act creating the U.S. Army Reserve.
1915 – The A.C.A. became the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA).
1918 – Raid of Zeebrugge; the British navy attempts to block German vessels from leaving port by sinking obsolete ships – mostly fails
1924 – The U.S. Senate passed the Soldiers Bonus Bill.
1940 – Dance hall fires kills 198 in Natchez, Mississippi
1945 – The Soviet Army fought its way into Berlin.
1950 – Chaing evacuated Hainan, leaving mainland China to Mao and the communists.
1951 – The Associated Press began use of the new service of teletype setting.
1952 – Crude oil pipeline from Kirkuk, Iraq to Banias, Syria completed
1967 – The Soyuz 1 was launched by Russia.
1968 – The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church merged to form the United Methodist Church.
1969 – Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death (later reduced to a life sentence) for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
1969 – The Unionist Parliamentary Party votes by 28 to 22 to introduce universal adult suffrage in local government elections in Northern Ireland; the demand for ‘one man, one vote’ had been one of the most powerful slogans of the civil rights movement
1977 – Milt workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa
1981 – The Soviet Union conducted an underground nuclear test at their Semipaltinsk (Kazakhstan) test site.
1982 – Conch Republic is established – secession of the Florida Keys from the United States of America https://conchrepublic.com/our-founding-in-1982/
1982 – The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that consumer prices declined the previous month (March). It was the first decline in almost 17 years.
1984 – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that Dr. Robert Gallo and his colleagues had found the cause of AIDS. It was a retrovirus labeled HTLV-III.
1985 – The Coca-Cola Company announced that it was changing its 99-year-old secret formula. The New Coke was not successful, which resulted in the resumption of selling the original version.
1985 – The U.S. House rejected $14 million in aid to Nicaragua.
1988 – A U.S. federal law took effect that banned smoking on flights that were under two hours.
1988 – In Martinez, CA, a drain valve was left open at the Shell Marsh. More than 10,000 barrels of oil poured into the marsh adjoining Peyton Slough.
1992 – McDonald’s opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China
1993 – Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia
1996 – An auction of the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ possessions began at Sotheby’s in New York City. The sale brought in #34.5 million.
1997 – An infertility doctor in California announced that a 63-year-old woman had given birth in late 1996. The child was from a donor egg. The woman is the oldest known woman to give birth.
1999 – In Washington, DC, the heads of state and government of the 19 NATO nations celebrated the organization’s 50th anniversary.
2002 – Pope John Paul II meets with U.S. Catholic Church leaders at Vatican regarding sexual abuse of minors
2003 – Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus
2004 – U.S. President George W. Bush eased sanctions against Libya in return for Moammar Gadhafi’s agreement to give up weapons of mass destruction.
2013 – 28 people are killed and 70 are injured during clashes between police and Sunni Muslims in Hawija, Iraq
2015 – Loretta Lynch is confirmed as the first African-American woman as US Attorney-General, succeeding Eric Holder
2018 – Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan resigns after 10 years in office after mass protests against him beginning an unconstitutional third term
2018 – Van deliberately driven into pedestrians in Toronto, Canada, killing 10 and injuring 13
2019 – At least 54 jade miners buried by a mudslide in Kachin state, Myanmar
2020 – US President Donald Trump suggests COVID-19 might be treated by injecting disinfectant or UV lights into a human body at a White House press briefing. Government officials and disinfectant companies quickly state doing so is not only extremely dangerous but potentially deadly.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
