1997 – Princess of Wales, Diana, Dies in a Car Crash
Diana, the former wife of Charles, the heir apparent to the British Crown, was fatally injured when the driver of her car lost control while speeding away from paparazzi, and crashed in a road tunnel in Paris, France. Diana’s companion Dodi al Fayed and the car’s driver also died as a result of the accident. Her funeral was one of the most watched televised events of the century.
1056 – Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill, dying suddenly a few days later, without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty
1310 – German king Heinrich VII makes his son Johan king of Bohemia
1422 – Henry VI, becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.
1535 – Pope Paul II deposed & excommunicated King Henry VIII
1778 – British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in the Bronx during Revolution
1803 – Lewis and Clark start their expedition from Pittsburgh at 11 o clock in the morning.
1823 – Ferdinand VII was restored to the throne of Spain when invited French forces entered Cadiz. The event is known as the Battle of Trocadero.
1852 – The first pre-stamped envelopes were created with legislation of the U.S. Congress.
1876 – Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
1887 – The kinetoscope was patented by Thomas Edison. The device was used to produce moving pictures.
1888 – Jack the Ripper claims his first victim as the body of Mary Ann Nicholls is found in London.
1907 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.
1910 – Theodore Roosevelt makes a speech in Kansas advocating a ‘square deal’: property shall be ‘the servant and not the master of the commonwealth’
1911 – The “Sullivan Act” requiring New Yorkers to possess licences for firearms small enough to be concealed comes into effect
1919 – Communist Labor Party of America formed in Chicago
1919 – Petlyura’s Ukranian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
1920 – The first news program to be broadcast on radio was aired. The station was 8MK in Detroit, MI.
1920 – John Lloyd Wright was issued a patent for “Toy-Cabin Construction,” which are known as Lincoln Logs. (U.S. patent 1,351,086)
1935 – The act of exporting U.S. arms to belligerents was prohibited by an act signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1939 – Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on Gleiwitz radio station, giving them an excuse to attack Poland the following day, starting World War II in Europe.
1942 – In Ternopil, western Ukraine, at 4.30 am, German SS organise the first deportation of Jews from Ternopil ghetto to death camp in Belzec, about 5,000 Jews were deported to face death in Belzec. When the Germans captured Ternopil, about 18,000 Jews lived in the city
1943 – The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named for a black person, is commissioned.
1946 – Superman returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System after being dropped earlier in the year.
1950 – Gil Hodges of the Brooklyn Dodgers hit four home runs in a single game off of four different pitchers.
1955 – The first sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Ill https://www.sparkenergy.com/in-energy-history-the-worlds-first-solar-powered/
1959 – Sandy Koufax set a National League record by striking out 18 batters.
1962 – The Caribbean nations Tobago and Trinidad became independent within the British Commonwealth.
1964 – California officially became the most populated state in America.
1965 – The Department of Housing and Urban Development was created by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.
1965 – The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Aircraft makes its first flight.
1970 – Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted of conspiracy to commit murder
1971 – Dave Scott becomes first person to drive a car on the Moon
1978 – Symbionese Liberation Army founders William & Emily Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst
1980 – Poland’s Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a 17-day strike.
1985 – Night Stalker suspect that terrorized S Calif captured in East LA
1988 – 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins
1990 – U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar met with the Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz to try and negotiate a solution to the crisis in the Persian Gulf.
1990 – East and West Germany signed a treaty that meant the harmonizing of political and legal systems.
1991 – Uzbekistan and Kirghiziz declared their independence from the Soviet Union. They were the 9th and 10th republics to announce their plans to secede.
1991 – In a “Solidarity Day” protest hundreds of thousands of union members marched in Washington, DC.
1994 – Russian Troops Leave Estonia 3 years after Estonia declared independence from the Soviet Union
1994 – A cease-fire was declared by the Irish Republican Army after 25 years of bloodshed in Northern Ireland.
1997 – Princess of Wales, Diana, Dies in a Car Crash
Diana, the former wife of Charles, the heir apparent to the British Crown, was fatally injured when the driver of her car lost control while speeding away from paparazzi, and crashed in a road tunnel in Paris, France. Diana’s companion Dodi al Fayed and the car’s driver also died as a result of the accident. Her funeral was one of the most watched televised events of the century. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/princess-diana-dies-in-car-crash-paris
1999 – The first of a series of Russian Apartment Bombings in Moscow, killing one person and wounding 40 others.
2005 – A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
2015 – Violent protests in Kiev after Ukraine parliament vote leave 1 national guard dead, 100 injured
2017 – International Organization for Migration states 18,500 Rohingya Muslims have fled from violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state after 110 deaths, making for Bangladesh
2019 – Gunman kills seven and injures 22 during high speed chase in Odessa, Texas
2019 – US missile attack in al-Qaeda jihadist training camp in Idlib province, Syria, kills 40
2020 – US cases of COVID-19 pass 6 million with 183,300 deaths with California (699.000), Florida (619,000) recording the most (Johns Hopkins)
2022 – UN releases report accusing China of serious human rights abuses against Uyghurs in its western Xinjiang region, “may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity”
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
