1256 Hulagu Khan captures and destroys Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut, in present-day Iran, part of the Mongol offensive on Islamic southwest Asia
1569 Hunted by Queen Elizabeth I for treason in “The Rising of the North”, Charles Neville, Earl of Westmorland, escapes to Scotland.
1612 German Astronomer Simon Marius is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
1675 King Philip’s War: After peace talk fail, Narraganset warriors attack the Jireh Bull Blockhouse, in South Kingston, Rhode Island, killing at least 15 colonists
1680 Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal
1791 In the U.S., the first ten amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, went into effect following ratification by the state of Virginia.
1862 Nathan Bedford Forrest crosses the Tennessee River at Clifton with 2,500 men to raid the communications around Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1890 American Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull and 11 other tribe members were killed in Grand River, SD, during an incident with Indian police working for the U.S. government.
1907 In Persia, the Shah leads a coup de’etat against the liberal Prime Minister Nasir ul-Mulk and imprisons him, but a popular uprising forces the Shah to restore Nasir ul-Mulk soon after
1927 William Edward Hickman kidnaps 12 year-old Marion Parker in Los Angeles, whom he later kills
1938 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt presided over the ground-breaking ceremonies for the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC.
1941 The American Federation of Labor adopts a no-strike policy in war industries.
1961 Adolf Eichmann, the former German Gestapo official accused of a major role in the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews, is sentenced by a Jerusalem court to be hanged.
1961 Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time
1964 Canada’s House of Commons votes 163 to 78 to approve the red Maple Leaf Flag
1967 The Silver Bridge collapses over the Ohio River in the US, killing 46 people
1973 American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not a mental illness
1978 U.S. President Carter announced he would grant diplomatic recognition to Communist China on New Year’s Day and sever official relations with Taiwan.
1981 The U.S. Congress passed $200 billion spending bill. At the time it was the largest in U.S. history.
1992 IBM announced it would eliminate 25-thousand employees in the coming year.
1995 Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland
2001 It was announced that Siena Heights University would begin offering a class called “Animated Philosophy and Religion.” The two-credit class would cover how religion and philosophy are part of popular culture and is based on the television series “The Simpsons.”
2015 Mayor of Flint, Michigan declares state of emergency over contaminated water supplies amid calls for a criminal investigation
2016 White supremacist Dylann Roof is found guilty of the Charleston Church Massacre which killed 9
2019 Protests against India’s new citizenship bill that excludes Muslims, erupt across major cities, killing at least five
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
