1982 – The trial of John W. Hinckley Jr. began in Washington. Hinckley was later acquitted by reason of insanity for the shooting of U.S. President Reagan and three others. https://www.famous-trials.com/johnhinckley/537-home
1124 – David I becomes King of Scots
1296 – The Scots were defeated by Edward I at the Battle of Dunbar.
1509 – Pope Julius II excommunicated the Italian state of Venice.
1521 – Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines.
1565 – The first Spanish settlement in Philippines was established in Cebu City.
1646 – On the verge of defeat, King Charles I flees Oxford for a Scottish army camp close to Southwell near Newark-on-Trent
1667 – Blind and impoverished, English poet John Milton sells the copyright of “Paradise Lost” for £10
1805 – A force led by U.S. Marines captured the city of Derna, on the shores of Tripoli.
1813 – Americans under Gen. Pike capture York (present day Toronto) the seat of government in Ontario.
1861 – West Virginia seceded from Virginia after Virginia seceded from the Union during the American Civil War.
1861 – U.S. President Lincoln issued an order to General Winfield Scott that authorized him to suspend the writ of habeas corpus between Philadelphia and Washington at or near any military line.
1863 – The Army of the Potomac began marching on Chancellorsville.
1865 – In the U.S. the Sultana exploded while carrying 2,300 Union POWs. Between 1,400 – 2,000 were killed.
1880 – Francis Clarke and M.G. Foster patented the electrical hearing aid.
1897 – Grant’s Tomb was dedicated.
1904 – The Australian Labor Party under Prime Minister Chris Watson becomes the first Labor government in the world
1909 – The sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid II, was overthrown.
1911 – Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore (for the time being) of the United States Senate
1915 – Counterattack launched by Turkish forces under the command of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk against allied troops
1933 – Adolf Hitler authorizes creation of Ministry of Aviation, in part to revive the German Luftwaffe, under Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering
1938 – Geraldine Apponyi married King Zog of Albania. She was the first American woman to become a queen.
1938 – A colored baseball was used for the first time in any baseball game. The ball was yellow and was used between Columbia and Fordham Universities in New York City.
1942 – Belgian Jews are forced to wear stars
1945 – The Second Republic was founded in Austria.
1946 – The SS African Star was placed in service. It was the first commercial ship to be equipped with radar.
1948 – A Major Rail Strike country wide is due to start at midnight with much of the rail network closed down across the US.
1950 – South Africa passed the Group Areas Act, which formally segregated races.
1953 – The U.S. offered $50,000 and political asylum to any Communist pilot that delivered a MIG jet.
1953 – Five people were killed and 60 injured when Mt. Aso erupted on the island of Kyushu.
1953 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10450: Hiring and Firing rules for Government Employment. Homosexuality, moral perversion, and communism were categorized as national security threats and could be used as a condition for firing a federal employee and for denying employment to potential applicants.
1958 – Scientists around the world are asking politicians to stop nuclear bomb tests including the Nobel Prize Winner Dr Albert Schweitzer.
1960 – The submarine Tullibee was launched from Groton, CT. It was the first sub to be equipped with closed-circuit television.
1961 – The United Kingdom granted Sierra Leone independence.
1965 – “Pampers” were patented by R.C. Duncan.
1975 – Saigon was encircled by North Vietnamese troops.
1978 – Military rebels in Afghanistan murdered both the president and his brother during the coup and have taken over all news TV and radio stations in the capital Kabul and have sealed off the countries airports and roads.
1978 – Cooling tower collapses at a coal-fired power plant at Willow Island, West Virginia, kills 51
1982 – The trial of John W. Hinckley Jr. began in Washington. Hinckley was later acquitted by reason of insanity for the shooting of U.S. President Reagan and three others. https://www.famous-trials.com/johnhinckley/537-home
1982 – China proposed a new constitution that would radically alter the structure of the national government.
1984 – In London, Libyan gunmen left the Libyan Embassy 11 days after killing a policewoman and wounding 10 others.
1986 – Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) hacks into and interrupts HBO
1986 – Soviet authorities order the evacuation of the city of Pripyat (pop. 50,000) 1 day after the Chernobyl nuclear accident
1987 – The U.S. Justice Department barred Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the U.S. He claimed that he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
1992 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was proclaimed in Belgrade by the Republic of Serbia and its ally Montenegro.
1992 – Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
1992 – For the first time in its 700-year history, the British House of Commons is presided over by a female Speaker
1994 – South African citizens of all races are allowed to vote in a general election for the first time
2002 – The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10
2005 – Russian President Vladimir Putin became the first Kremlin leader to visit Israel.
2006 – In New York, NY, construction began on the 1,776-foot One World Trade Center on the site of former World Trade Center.
2007 – Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
2011 – U.S. President Barack Obama, coerced by incessant false “birther” accusations, publicly releases a copy of his birth certificate
2013 – 10 people are killed and 25 are injured after a bomb attack in Karachi, Pakistan
2018 – Historic Korean summit, the North’s Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in of South Korea agree to officially end Korean war and rid peninsula of nuclear weapons
2018 – Mass protests across Spain after 5 men convicted of sexual abuse but not rape of teenage girl during Running of the Bulls festival in Pamplona
2018 – More than 40 Tuareg killed over two days by suspected jihadists in Menaka region, Mali
2019 – Pope Francis donates $500,000 for migrants stranded in Mexico trying to reach the US
2019 – Shooter opens fire in a synagogue in Poway, California, killing one and injuring three
2020 – Global confirmed cases of COVID-19 pass 3 million with the death toll at 205,000. US has 1/3 of all new cases.
2022 – SpaceX, launches its Crew Dragon capsule with four astronauts, including Jessica Watkins – becomes 1st black woman to serve extended mission on International Space Station
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
