1977 – In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz (“”Son of Sam””) is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over a year’s period
0612 BC – Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
0070 – Second Temple in Jerusalem set on fire by Roman army under Titus during the capture of the city (approx)
0610 – In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur’an
0843 – Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German & Charles the Bald divide France
0955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
0991 – Battle of Maldon: English, led by Bryhtnoth, confront a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon in Essex. The English are defeated and the story is immortalised in a well-known poem
1346 – Majorcan explorer Jaume Ferrer sets sail to find the legendary ‘river of gold’ along the West African coast (disappears without trace)
1461 – Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma urges for an Inquisition in Spain
1519 – Ferdinand Magellan’s five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
1627 – Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle
1628 – The Swedish warship Vasa sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes on her maiden voyage.
1659 – Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb has his brother and competitor for the throne Dara Shukoh executed on religious grounds
1675 – The foundation stone for the Royal Observatory, Greenwich is laid
1680 – Tewa medicine man, Popé, leads the Pueblo Rebellion against Spanish colonizers in the New Mexican Province, killing 400 and driving out another 2,000
1792 – King Louis XVI was taken into custody by mobs during the French Revolution. He was executed the following January after being put on trial for treason.
1792 – Papers from the Tuileries Palace, proving the Comte de Mirabeau had secret dealings with the court are revealed
1809 – Area of Quinto is the first to declare itself independent of Spain in Latin America, though put down by the Spanish after 24 day (now Ecuador’s National Day)
1821 – Missouri became the 24th state to join the Union.
1827 – Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the U.S. Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist James Smithson
1859 – In Boston, MA, the first milk inspectors were appointed.
1877 – First use of the telephone to dispatch trains. This was at the Caledonia Mine at Glace Bay on the Sydney Mines Railway. One of the owners was Gardiner G. Hubbard who was the father in law of Alexander Graham Bell who installed two telephones to control train movements.
1885 – The first electric streetcar, to be used commercially, was operated in Baltimore, MD, by Leo Daft.
1893 – Chinese deported from San Francisco under Exclusion Act
1904 – The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets.
1906 – Pope Pius X condemns 1905 French “Law on the Separation of the Churches and State” which allowed the State authority to control aspects of Catholic orthodoxy and worship (Encyclical “Gravissimo Officii Munere”)
1911 – Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords
1914 – Austria-Hungary invaded Russia.
1920 – World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI’s representatives sign the Treaty of Svres which divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
1921 – Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio.
1927 – Mount Rushmore was formally dedicated. The individual faces of the presidents were dedicated later.
1932 – The Lego Group founded in Billund, Denmark, by Ole Kirk Christiansen; name is contraction of Danish words ‘leg godt’ (‘play well’ in English)
1940 – Anti-Jewish laws are passed in Romania.
1941 – FDR & Churchill’s 2nd meeting at Placentia, Newfoundland
1944 Battle of Narva ends; The 8-day long battle was fought between the German Army and the Soviet Leningrad Front for the control of the Narva Isthmus in Estonia during the Second World War.
1944 – U.S. forces defeated the remaining Japanese resistance on Guam.
1945 – The day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan announced they would surrender. The only condition was that the status of Emperor Hirohito would remain unchanged.
1949 – US President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the National Military Establishment with the United States Department of Defense.
1954 – At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
1960 – Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
1965 – In Austin, TX, a fire burned part of the 20th floor of the 27-story University of Texas main building. A collection that contained items once owned by escape artist Harry Houdini and circus magnate P. T. Barnum were damaged by smoke and water.
1968 – Race riots in Miami, Chicago & Little Rock
1969 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson’s cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca
1970 – British Home Secretary Reginald Maulding threatens to impose direct rule on Northern Ireland if the agreed reform measures are not carried out
1976 – Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer shot dead by the British Army as he drove in Belfast; his car out of control and kills 3 children, sparking “peace rallies” throughout the month by the ‘Peace People’
1977 – About 100 white sympathisers joined evicted black squatters in a protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outside Cape Town, South Africa
1977 – In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz (“”Son of Sam””) is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over a year’s period. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/son-of-sam-arrested
1988 – Japanese American Internment: US President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were either interned or relocated by in the United States during World War II.
1990 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
1990 – The Massacre of more than 127 Muslims in the North East Sri Lanka by the paramilitaries.
1993 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg sworn in as a US Supreme Court Justice
1993 – A massive deficit-reduction bill was signed into law by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1994 – U.S. President Clinton claimed presidential immunity when he asked a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones.
1995 – Norma McCorvey, “Jane Roe” of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced that she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
1999 – Near an India-Pakistan border area an Indian fighter jet shot down a Pakistani naval aircraft. Sixteen people were killed.
2001 – Rebels from the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) in Angola attack and derail on a train during the Angolan Civil War killing about 250 people
2001 – US and UK reject a proposal by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to permit the Iraqi government to use $1 billion per year to fund infrastructure improvements and to increase oil production capacity
2003 – Ekaterina Dmitriev and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko were married. Malenchenko was about 240 miles above the earth in the international space station. It was the first-ever marriage from space.
2006 – Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft traveling from the United Kingdom to the United States.
2014 – Unrest breaks out in Ferguson, Missouri after the shooting death of African-American Michael Brown (18) by a police officer Darren Wilson
2017 – US President Donald Trump declares opioid addiction a national emergency
2018 – Evidence of one million Uighurs being held in “counter-extremism centers” in China presented to UN Committee on Human Rights
2018 – Turkish lira falls dramatically after US President Donald Trump announces tariff increases on Turkish steel and aluminum
2019 – Financier Jeffrey Epstein found dead of an apparent suicide in his jail cell in New York, while awaiting trail for sex trafficking charges
2020 – Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab announces his government is resigning, less than a week after massive industrial explosions devastated Beirut
2021 – “I am Legend” screenwriter Akiva Goldsman tweets “It’s a movie. I made that up. It’s. Not. Real.” amid rumors COVID-19 vaccines could turn people into zombies, as in the film
2021 – Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo resigns amid a sexual harassment scandal
2022 – Former US President Donald Trump invokes the fifth amendment against self-incrimination at a disposition into his organization’s business by NY attorney’s office
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
