1971 – U.S. President Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, rents and prices.
1057 – Macbeth, the King of Scotland, was killed by the son of King Duncan.
1185 – The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia
1193 – Philip II of France marries Ingeborg, daughter of King Valdemar I of Denmar in Amiens, requests annulment immediately after on grounds of non-consummation (bride deputes)
1457 – Earliest dated book, “Mainz Psalter,” completed, 1st to be printed in three colours
1534 – Ignatius of Loyola co-founds the Society of Jesus (Jesuit) religious order at Sanit Densi Church in Montmartre, France
1548 – Mary Queen of Scotland arrives in France, aged 6
1599 – Nine Years War: Battle of Curlew Pass – Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O’Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.
1824 – Freed American slaves establish Liberia on the West African coast through the American Colonization Society (ACS)
1865 – Battle of Lone Jack, Missouri: fierce fighting between Union soldiers and Confederate forces prompted by bushwacker attacks destroys town of Lone Jack
1876 – US law removes Indians from Black Hills after gold find
1877 – Thomas Edison wrote to the president of the Telegraph Company in Pittsburgh, PA. The letter stated that the word, “hello” would be a more appropriate greeting than “ahoy” when answering the telephone.
1906 – King Edward VII of Great Britain visits German Emperor Wilhelm II to discuss the escalating rivalry between their nations’ naval forces
1911 – The product Crisco was introduced by Procter & Gamble Company.
1914 – A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the architect’s Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground.
1914 – The Panama Canal was officially opened to commercial traffic as an American ship sailed from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The first vessel to pass through the canal was the American cargo and passenger ship SS Ancon.
1918 – Diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Russia were severed.
1935 – Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed in an airplane crash in near Point Barrow, AK.
1943 – Because of his special talent to use food scraps in both unusual and appetizing recipes, the U.S. War Department awarded Sgt. Edward Dzuba the Legion of Merit.
1944 – German field marshal Günther von Kluge vanishes for one day; he killed himself on the 19th in the aftermath of the attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler
1947 – India became independent from Britain and was divided into the countries of India and Pakistan. India had been under British about 200 years.
1948 – The Republic of Korea was proclaimed.
1962 – Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg, Georgia
1971 – U.S. President Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, rents and prices. https://www.cato.org/commentary/remembering-nixons-wage-price-controls
1975 – Bangladesh military coup under Khondakar Moustaque Ahmed
1975 – Joanne Little acquitted of murdering her prison guard in North Carolina – 1st woman to successfully use defense of deadly force to resist rape
1977 – Herbert Kappler, head of Nazi police and security services (SS) in Rome during WWII, escapes from prison hospital in Rome
1983 – Six-month-old Lisa Harap of Queens Village, NY became the youngest identifiable living person to appear on a cover of “TIME” magazine.
1986 – The U.S. Senate approved a package of economic sanctions against South Africa. The ban included the importing of steel, uranium, textiles, coal, and produce from South Africa.
1992 – Vietnam blamed Hollywood for creating the “myth” concerning the issue of U.S. servicemen still being held prisoner in Indochina.
1994 – The U.S. Social Security Administration became an independent government agency. It had been a part of the Department of Health and Human Services agency.
1997 – The U.S. Justice Department decided not to prosecute FBI officials in connection with the deadly 1992 Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho. The investigation dealt with an alleged cover-up.
1998 – Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles, kills 29 people and injures about 220
2000 – A group of 100 people from North Korea arrived in South Korea for temporary reunions with relatives they had not seen for half a century. Also, a group of 100 South Koreans visited the North.
2001 – Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own. They had discovered two planets orbiting a star in the Big Dipper.
2017 – Falling tree kills 13, injures 49 at a religious festival in Funchal, on Portuguese island of Madeira
2017 – Scientists genetic study of the apple reveal its origin was in Kazakhstan, published in “Nature Communications”
2018 – Suicide bomber attacks tuition centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing 48 and injuring 67
2018 – Australian Senator Fraser Anning evokes Nazi euphemism “a final solution to the immigration problem”, in proposing outlawing Muslim immigration into Australia in parliament speech
2019 – Whistleblower releases damaging report on General Electric titled “General Electric, a Bigger Fraud Than Enron” claiming $38 billion accountancy fraud
2019 – Israel bars US Democratic congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering for supporting Palestinian-led boycott movement
2021 – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani flees the country as Taliban forces enter the capital Kabul and take control
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
