1906 – Black soldiers accused of raid Brownsville, Texas; despite support from local commanding officers, President Theodore Roosevelt orders dishonorable discharge for 167 soldiers; all were cleared of wrongdoing in 1972, 165 posthumously
1326 – Neopagan religious figure Aradia de Toscano initiated into a Dianic witchcraft cult, goes on to found tradition of Stregheria (according to Wicca writer Raven Grimassi)
1415 – King Henry V of England lands his army at the mouth of Seine River in France
1521 – Present day Mexico City was captured by Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez from the Aztec Indians.
1536 – Buddhist monks from Kyōto’s Enryaku Temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536).
1553 – Spanish theologian and physician Michael Servetus arrested as a heretic in Geneva (put on trial the next day, eventually found guilty of heresy and burned to death)
1624 – Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII
1704 – The Battle of Blenheim was fought during the War of the Spanish Succession, resulting in a victory for English and Austrian forces.
1784 – The United States Legislature met for the final time in Annapolis, MD.
1792 – French revolutionaries took the entire French royal family and imprisoned them.
1876 – The Reciprocity Treaty between the U.S. and Hawaii was ratified.
1892 – US black newspaper “Afro-American” begins publishing from Baltimore
1906 – Black soldiers accused of raid Brownsville, Texas; despite support from local commanding officers, President Theodore Roosevelt orders dishonorable discharge for 167 soldiers; all were cleared of wrongdoing in 1972, 165 posthumously https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Learn-About-TR/TR-Encyclopedia/Race-Ethnicity-and-Gender/The-Brownsville-Incident
1910 – Brooklyn Superbas and Pittsburgh Pirates play “the game of perfect symmetry” in baseball to 8-8 tie, both have 8 runs, 13 hits, 2 errors, 12 assists, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 hit baseman, and 1 passed ball
1918 – First Woman enlists in the United States Marines, After joining the Marine corps, Opha May Johnson, was assigned desk duty at the Marine Corps headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.
1923 – US Steel Corp initiates 8-hour work day
1931 – The first community hospital in the U.S. was dedicated in Elk City, OK.
1932 – Adolf Hitler refused to take the post of vice-chancellor of Germany. He said he was going to hold out “for all or nothing.”
1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japanese forces begin the Battle of Shanghai, a conflict that will last 3 months and involve 1 million troops
1942 – Henry Ford unveiled his “Soybean Car.” It was a plastic-bodied car that weighed about 1000 lbs. less than a steel car.
1942 – The ‘Manhattan Project’ commences, under the direction of US General Leslie Groves: its aim – to deliver an atomic bomb
1950 – US President Harry Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime of Bảo Đại
1951 – Great Britain & Iraq sign new oil contract
1960 – Central African Republic Gains its Independence From France.
1961 – Construction of Berlin Wall starts, The construction on the Berlin Wall, a wall that divided West Berlin from East Berlin started. It was built by the German Democratic Republic or East Germany.
1970 – Pamphlet bombs which scatter revolutionary African National Congress propaganda leaflets explode in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Port Elizabeth, South Africa
1978 – Bomb attack in Beirut, 175 killed
1985 – South African Defence Force soldiers, travelling in a convoy of more than ten armoured vehicles, surrounded the Thaba-Juluba high school in Soweto and arrest 200 students during a clampdown on school boycotts
1990 – Iraq transferred $3-4 billion in bullion, currency, and other goods seized from Kuwait to Baghdad.
1993 – US Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail
1994 – It was reported that aspirin not only helps reduce the risk of heart disease, but also helps prevent colon cancer.
1997 – South Park Makes its Debut on Comedy Central
2004 – 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi
2014 – Israeli and Palestinian cease fire agreed to on August 8 is extended for another 120 hours to provide time for further negotiations
2015 – 76 people are killed & 212 are wounded by an ISIL truck bomb in Baghdad, Iraq
2019 – Measles cases have tripled worldwide in 2019 according to WHO with 364,808 reported against vs 129,239 in 2018
2020 – Israel strikes historic deal with the United Arab Emirates to normalize relations, Israel suspends plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank
2020 – New details about enormous “Terror Crocodile” (Deinosuchus), the size of a bus, with teeth as big as bananas, that lived during late Cretaceous period (75-84 million years ago) in North America published
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
