1967 First African-American justice is Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The United States Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall to the country’s highest court of justice. Marshall was also the first African-American to have held the post of Solicitor General of the United States.
1146 – European leaders outlaw the crossbow, intending to end war for all time
1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhangare pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty
1481 – 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Casimir IV
1563 – Jewish community of Neutitschlin, Moravia, expelled
1645 – Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty
1682 – William Penn sailed from England and later established the colony of Pennsylvania in America.
1721 – Russian and Swedish sign Treaty of Nystad, ending North Sea War
1780 – General Benedict Arnold secretly promised to surrender the West Point fort to the British army.
1799 – Capture of the entire Dutch fleet by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
1800 – Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia
1806 – New York City’s second daily newspaper, the “Daily Advertiser,” was published for the last time.
1820 – James Wilson, Strathaven Radical, hung and beheaded at Glasgow Green for his part in the 1820 Rising. A crowd of 20,000 sympathetic to Wilson, witnessed the event. James Wilson, on his way to the scaffold, remarked to the hangman Thomas Moore – “Did ye evir see sic a crowd, Tammas?”
1862 – The Confederates defeated Union forces at the second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, VA.
1890 – President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products
1896 – Eight provinces in the Philippines were declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. This included the provinces of Batangas, Rizal, Cavite, Nueva Ecija as well as the nearby areas.
1905 – Ty Cobb made his major league batting debut with the Detroit Tigers.
1909 – Burgess Shale fossil site – one of most diverse and best-preserved in the world, discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott in Candaian Rocky Mountains (now British Columbia’s Yoho National Park)
1918 – Fanya Kaplan, an assassin, shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror
1933 – Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar forms secret police (PIDE)
1941 – Winston Churchill approves a nuclear programme (Tube Alloys), first national leader to do so
1941 – During World War II, the Nazis severed the last railroad link between Leningrad and the rest of the Soviet Union.
1944 – Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania
1945 – General Douglas MacArthur set up Allied occupation headquarters in Japan.
1945 – The Japanese POW camp Shamshuipo in Hong Kong is liberated containin 1500 POW’s including 400 Canadians
1951 – The Philippines and the United States signed a defense pact.
1956 – In Louisianna, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opened.
1956 – White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
1960 – A partial blockade was imposed on West Berlin by East Germany.
1963 – The “Hotline” between Moscow and Washington, DC, went into operation. The system of direct communication between the heads of then Soviet Union and now Russia and the United States was set up during the height of the Cold War when the Cuban Missile Crisis almost led the two countries to the brink of an active war. The hotline was used for the first time in 1967 during the 6-day long Arab–Israeli War.
1967 First African-American justice is Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The United States Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall to the country’s highest court of justice. Marshall was also the first African-American to have held the post of Solicitor General of the United States. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/thurgood-marshall-confirmed-as-supreme-court-justice
1973 – Kenya bans the hunting of elephants and the trade in ivory.
1974 – Powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 killed, 378 injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities
1979 – The first recorded occurrence-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
1983 – The space shuttle Challenger blasted off with Guion S. Bluford Jr. aboard. He was the first black American to travel in space.
1984 – The space shuttle Discovery lifted off for the first time. On the voyage three communications satellites were deployed.
1986 – US News and World Report correspondent Nicholas Daniloff is arrested by Soviet authorities for suspicion of spying.
1991 – The Soviet republic of Azerbaijan declared its independence.
1994 – Rosa Parks was robbed and beaten by Joseph Skipper. Parks was known for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, which sparked the civil rights movement.
1994 – The largest U.S. defense contractor was created when the Lockheed and Martin Marietta corporations agreed to a merger.
1996 – An expedition to raise part of the Titanic failed when the nylon lines being used to raise part of the hull snapped.
1999 – The residents of East Timor overwhelmingly voted for independence from Indonesia. The U.N. announced the result on September 4.
2002 – Conoco Inc. and Phillips Petroleum merged to create ConocoPhillips. The new company was the third largest integrated energy company and the second largest refining company in the U.S.
2007 – NASA spacecraft Voyager 2 crosses the termination shock, where solar and interstellar winds met (following Voyager 1 in 2004)
2012 – Cholera outbreak kills 229 people in Sierra Leone
2013 – 15 people are killed by a liquid ammonia leak at a cold storage plant in Shanghai, China
2015 – Rap artist Kanye West announces he will run for President in 2020 at the MTV Video Music Awards
2017 – Brazilian court blocks President Michel Temer from abolishing Renca, which would open parts of the Amazon to mining
2017 – Late author Terry Pratchett’ unfinished works destroyed by steamroller as per his instructions
2018 – Argentina’s central bank raises interest rates to 60% in attempt to stabilize the peso
2021 – Algeria becomes the last country to stop selling leaded petrol, ending 99 years of gasoline use worldwide, saving 1.2 million lives a year
2022 – In Jackson, Mississippi’, the city’s largest water treatment plant fails, leaving 150,000 people without safe running water, closing schools and businesses
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
