1984 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan was preparing for his weekly radio broadcast when, during testing of the microphone, the President said of the Soviet Union, “My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you that I just signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”
3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins
480 BC – Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Artemisium – Persian naval victory over the Greeks in an engagement fought off north coast of Euboea.
355 – Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
1597 – Germany throws out English sales people
1718 – Battle of Cape Passaro: British fleet destroys Spanish off Sicily
1772 – Explosive eruption blows 4,000′ off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000
1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia
1860 – The first successful silver mill in America began operations. The mill was in Virginia City, NV.
1877 – The two moons of Mars were discovered by Asaph Hall, an American astronomer. He named them Phobos and Deimos.
1885 – $100,000 raised in US for pedestal for Statue of Liberty
1909 – The American ship Arapahoe became the first to ever use the SOS distress signal off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC.
1914 – Jews are expelled from Mitchenick, Poland
1924 – Newsreel pictures were taken of U.S. presidential candidates for the first time.
1934 – Alcatraz, in San Francisco Bay, received federal prisoners for the first time.
1935 – Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews
1941 – The Atlantic Charter was signed by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
1942 – 999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium
1945 – Allies refuse Japan’s offer to surrender on the condition that Emperor Hirohito retains his status
1950 – Ethel Rosenberg testifies before grand jury on allegations of spying for the Soviet Union
1954 – Seven years of fighting came to an end in Indochina. A formal peace was in place for the French and the Communist Vietminh.
1960 – Chad gains its independence from the French
1965 – The U.S. conducted a second launch of “Surveyor-SD 2” for a landing on the Moon surface test.
1965 – Watts riots begin in Southeast Los Angeles, lasts 6 days
1971 – 4 people are shot dead in separate incidents in Belfast; three of them by the British Army, as violence continues following the introduction of Internment and Operation Demetrius
1975 – The U.S. vetoed the proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to the United Nations. The Security Counsel had already refused to consider South Korea’s application.
1984 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan was preparing for his weekly radio broadcast when, during testing of the microphone, the President said of the Soviet Union, “My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you that I just signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”
1988 – Al-Qaeda formed at a meeting between Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Dr Fadl in Peshawar, Pakistan
1990 – Egyptian and Moroccan troops joined U.S. forces in Saudia Arabia to help protect from a possible Iraqi attack.
1990 – Egypt & Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion
1991 – 400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed
1992 – In Bloomington, MN, the Mall of America opened. It was the largest shopping mall in the United States.
1994 – A U.S. federal jury awarded $286.8 million to about 10,000 commercial fishermen for losses as a result of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
1995 – All U.S. nuclear tests were banned by President Clinton.
1997 – U.S. President Clinton made the first use of the line-item veto approved by Congress, rejecting three items in spending and tax bills.
1998 – British Petroleum became No. 3 among oil companies with the $49 billion purchase of Amoco. It was the largest foreign takeover of a U.S. company.
1999 – Last Total Solar Eclipse of the Millennium
2002 – US Airways announced that it had filed for bankruptcy.
2003 – Charles Taylor, President of Liberia, flew into exile after ceding power to his vice president, Moses Blah.
2003 – In Kabul, NATO took command of the 5,000-strong peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.
2015 – Greek debt crisis: European Commission announces a bailout with Greece and its creditors has been agreed “in principle”
2015 – Largest ever outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in New York – 12 dead, with over 100 cases in the South Bronx
2020 – President Vladimir Putin in a propaganda stunt announces Russia has become the 1st country to grant regulatory approval to a Covid-19 vaccine, called “Sputnik V”, despite no scientific data being published or phase 3 trials having even begun
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
