1992 – Marshalls exchange gun fire with Randy Weaver which begins the 11-day siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. On the first day Weaver’s 14 year old son Sammy, the family dog Striker and deputy marshal Bill Degan had died during a gunfight.
0392 – Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
0565 – St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
0851 – Erispoe’s army, King of Brittany, defeats Charles the Bald’s one, the Franc king, near the Breton town of Jengland. Beginning of the Breton state
1138 – English defeat the Scottish at Cowton Moor, Yorkshire. Banners of various saints carried into battle – led to the name Battle of the Standard
1485 – The War of the Roses ended with the death of England’s King Richard III. He was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field. His successor was Henry V II.
1559 – Bartolom Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
1567 – The “Council of Blood” was established by the Duke of Alba. This was the beginning of his reign of terror in the Netherlands.
1582 – King James VI of Scotland abducted by Presbyterian nobles wishing to limit French influence and pro-Catholic policy
1614 – Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt
1642 – The English Civil War began when Charles I called Parliament and its soldiers traitors.
1711 – British Admiral Hovenden Walker’s assault on New France falters as 8 of his 15 warships are wrecked in gales and heavy fog in the St. Lawrence; nearly 900 men drown; 25 ships remaining in fleet return to England.
1775 – The American colonies were proclaimed to be in a state of open rebellion by England’s King George III.
1779 – James Cook Lands on Possession Island
1780 – James Cook’s ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
1791 – Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
1798 – French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone’s United Irishmen’s Irish Rebellion
1846 – The U.S. annexed New Mexico.
1849 – First air raid in history. Austria launched pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.
1862 – US Civil War: Confederate Major General J.E.B. Stuart captures the dress coat of Union Major General John Pope at Catlett Station, Virginia
1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands
1902 – In Hartford, CT, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt became the first president of the United States to ride in an automobile.
1906 – The Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, NJ began to manufacture the Victrola. The hand-cranked unit, with horn cabinet, sold for $200.
1910 – Japan illicitly annexes Korea with the signing of the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty. The name Korea was abolished and replaced with the ancient name Joseon.
1921 – William J. Burns, the head of a famous private detective agency, became Director of the BOI (now FBI). Twenty-six year old J. Edgar Hoover was named Assistant Director.
1922 – Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.”
1932 – The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) began its first TV broadcast in England.
1941 – Nazi troops reached the outskirts of Leningrad during World War II.
1944 – World War II: Thirty-two Spaniards & four French Maquis tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self-propelled guns), at La Madeiline, France. Three Maquis are wounded, with 110 Germans killed and 200 wounded.
1944 – Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany
1950 – Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to be accepted into a national competition.
1952 – The penal colony on Devil’s Island is permanently closed.
1951 – 75,052 people watched the Harlem Globetrotters perform. It was the largest crowd to see a basketball game.
1959 – Stephen Rockefeller married Anne Marie Rasmussen. Anne had once been a maid for the powerful and wealthy Rockefeller family.
1962 – An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
1966 – Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers
1968 – Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to Latin America.
1971 – Bolivian military coup led by army Col. Hugo Banzer, drives out leftist President Juan José Torres
1971 – FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and US Attorney General John Mitchell announce arrest of 20 of the “Camden 28”, a religious-left anti-war activist group intent on disrupting the military draft in Camden, New Jersey
1972 – Due to its racial policies, Rhodesia was asked to withdraw from the 20th Olympic Summer Games.
1978 – Tear gas used to quell riot by 150 prisoners in Sydney’s Long Bay Jail who set fire to their cells
1984 – The last Volkswagen Rabbit rolled off the assembly line in New Stanton, PA.
1986 – Kerr-McGee Corp. agreed to pay the estate of the late Karen Silkwood $1.38 million to settle a 10-year-old nuclear contamination lawsuit.
1989 – The first complete ring around Neptune discovered
1990 – U.S. President George H.W. Bush signed an order for calling reservists to aid in the build up of troops in the Persian Gulf.
1990 – The U.S. State Department announced that the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait would not be closed under President Saddam Hussein’s demand.
1990 – Angry smokers blocked a street in Moscow to protest the summer-long cigarette shortage.
1991 – Mikhail S. Gorbachev returned to Moscow after the collapse of the hard-liners’ coup. On the same day he purged the men that had tried to oust him.
1992 – Marshalls exchange gun fire with Randy Weaver which begins the 11-day siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. On the first day Weaver’s 14 year old son Sammy, the family dog Striker and deputy marshal Bill Degan had died during a gunfight. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/26/ruby-ridge-1992-modern-american-militia-charlottesville
1992 – In Rostock, Germany, neo-Nazi violence broke out against foreigners.
1996 – U.S. President Clinton signed legislation that ended guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanded work from recipients.
2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
2007 – The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day
2012 – 47 people are killed in the Syrian civil war
2012 – 48 people are killed in Kenyan tribal wars between the Pokomo and Orma
2017 – Missouri Governor Eric Greitens grants stay of execution for Marcellus Williams in light of possible new DNA eividence
2018 – Discovery of a bone of a 90,000 hybrid human, half Neanderthal, half Denisovan from Anuy River, Siberia published in “Nature”
2019 – Russia launches Fedor, the first life-sized robot, into space to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
2020 – 13 people die in a stampede at an illegal disco in Lima, Peru, during a police raid to shut it down
2022 – Dr. Anthony Fauci announces he will step down as chief medical advisor to the US President and as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
