1990 – Iraq invaded the oil-rich country of Kuwait. In 2 days Iraqi forces had overrun Kuwaiti forces and Saddam Hussein declared Kuwait as the 19th province of Iraq. The invasion lasted for 7 months and ended after a UN-authorized coalition force led by the United States intervened.
0338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean
0216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
1100 – England’s William II Rufus dies at age 44 after being struck by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest Sir Walter Tyrel is accused of having shot the arrow but flees the country to avoid a trial and then protests his innocence (Ralph of Aix is also accused)
1552 – Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion
1610 – Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean
1665 – Battle of Vågen: English warships attack a Dutch merchant and treasure fleet in neutral Bergen, Norway. English forced to retreat after suffering 421 dead and wounded.
1738 – France offers Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI mediation in his war against Turkey
1776 – Members of the Continental Congress began adding their signatures to the Declaration of Independence.
1790 – 1st US census conducted, the population was 3,939,214 including 697,624 slaves
1791 – Samuel Briggs and his son Samuel Briggs, Jr. received a joint patent for their nail-making machine. They were the first father-son pair to receive a patent.
1830 – Charles X of France abdicates in favour of his grandson the Duc de Bordeaux
1832 – Battle of Bad Axe, Wisconsin: 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sauk & Fox Native Americans ending the Black Hawk War in the US
1858 – In Boston and New York City the first mailboxes were installed along streets.
1861 – The United States Congress passed the first income tax. The revenues were intended for the war effort against the South. The tax was never enacted.
1869 – Japan’s samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinksh) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869)
1887 – Rowell Hodge patented barbed wire.
1892 – Charles A. Wheeler patented the first escalator.
1903 – Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Bulgarians in the region of Macedonia from the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising
1914 – German press falsely reports that French have bombed Nuremberg
1918 – Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
1926 – John Barrymore and Mary Astor starred in the first showing of the Vitaphone System. The system was the combining of picture and sound for movies.
1932 – The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson
1934 – Death of Hindenberg. Hitler becomes head of state and commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Hitler proclaims himself “”Fuehrer”” and forces all military personnel to swear allegience to him
1938 – Bright yellow baseballs were used in a major league baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals. It was hoped that the balls would be easier to see.
1939 – Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging the U.S. to have an atomic weapons research program.
1939 – U.S. President Roosevelt signed the Hatch Act. The act prohibited civil service employees from taking an active part in political campaigns.
1943 – Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
1945 – Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes
1958 – The Arab Federation is dissolved, The short-lived federation of Jordan and Iraq was dissolved after King Faisal of Iraq was deposed and assassinated during the 14 July Revolution.
1964 – Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin Incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fires on U.S. destroyers, USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy
1965 – Morley Safer’s sends first Vietnam report indicating we are losing
1970 – Rubber bullets used for the first time in Northern Ireland during ‘The Troubles’
1980 – A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
1983 – U.S. House of Representatives approved a law that designated the third Monday of January would be a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The law was signed by President Reagon on November 2.
1986 – Saddam Hussein offers peace in open letter to Iran
1989 – NASA confirmed Voyager 2’s discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24
1990 – Iraq invaded the oil-rich country of Kuwait. In 2 days Iraqi forces had overrun Kuwaiti forces and Saddam Hussein declared Kuwait as the 19th province of Iraq. The invasion lasted for 7 months and ended after a UN-authorized coalition force led by the United States intervened. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/iraq-invades-kuwait
1990 – US President George H. W. Bush orders troops to Saudi Arabia
1995 – China ordered the expulsion of two U.S. Air Force officers. The two were said to have been caught spying on military sights.
1998 – Second Congo War Begins, The deadliest war in Africa, the war and its aftermath has killed an estimated 5.4 million people. The war started with a mutiny in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and soon involved 9 African nations. It lasted for 5 years.
2009 – A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS is discovered in a woman from Cameroon.
2009 – Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami criticizes the “”show trial”” of election protestors currently underway in the country.
2012 – 23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan
2017 – First successful gene editing in human embryos to repair disease-causing mutation reported by scientists in “Nature”
2017 – US President Donald Trump signs legislation imposing sanctions on Russia, limiting his ability to ever lift them
2018 – Pope Frances declares the death penalty unacceptable in all cases, reversing church teachings and adding to Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church
2019 – Saudi Arabia announces news rules for women including allowing them to travel independently abroad without a male guardian’s permission
2020 – Islamic State stages a jail break at a prison in Afghan city of Jalalabad, placing bombs at its entrance, results in 20 hr gunfight, 29 deaths and over 300 prisoners at large
2020 – United Arab Emirates starts up the Arab world’s first nuclear power station at the Barakah plant
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
