1431 King Henry VI of England crowned King of France
1631 Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts, burying many villages under lava flows and killing around 3,000 people
1653 Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1689 English Parliament passes Bill of Rights establishing limits on crown powers and requirement for regular elections
1773 Nearly 350 chests of tea were dumped into Boston Harbor off of British ships by Colonial patriots. The patriots were disguised as Indians. The act was to protest taxation without representation and the monopoly the government granted to the East India Company.
1826 Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.
1901 “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” by Beatrix Potter, was printed for the first time.
1905 “Variety” covering all phases of show business, 1st published
1907 As a gesture of the US’s new presence as a world power, President Theodore Roosevelt sends the ‘Great White Fleet’ on a round-the-world cruise, visiting ports internationally https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/c/cruise-great-white-fleet-mckinley.html
1924 Hiram Bingham is elected as a Republican to serve in the US Senate forcing him to resign as Governor of Connecticut after serving only one day in office, the shortest term of any Connecticut Governor
1944 During World War II, the Battle of the Bulge began in Belgium. It was the final major German counteroffensive in the war. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge
1950 U.S. President Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight “Communist imperialism.
1953 1st White House Press Conference (President Eisenhower & 161 reporters)
1961 Martin Luther King Jr. joins over 500 jailed demonstrators who had been arrested in Albany, Georgia
1978 Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first post-Depression era city to default on its loans, owing $14,000,000 to local banks.
1979 Libya raises crude oil prices, joining four other OPEC nations, which has a dramatic effect on the United States
1981 The U.S. Congress restored the $122 minimum monthly social security benefit for current recipients.
1995 Many U.S. government functions were again closed as a temporary finance provision expired and the budget dispute between President Clinton and Republicans in Congress continued.
1995 The official adoption of the name “Euro”
1996 Britain’s agriculture minister announced the slaughter of an additional 100,000 cows thought to be at risk of contracting BSE in an effort to persuade the EU to lift its ban on Britain.
2000 Researchers announced that information from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft indicated that Ganymede appeared to have a liquid saltwater ocean beneath a surface of solid ice. Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, is the solar system’s largest moon. The discovery is considered important since water is a key ingredient for life.
2001 In Tora Bora, Afghanistan, tribal fighters announced that they had taken the last al-Quaida positions. More than 200 fighters were killed and 25 captured. They also announced that they had found no sign of Osama bin Laden.
2012 A gang rape of a woman on a bus in India that resulted in her death leads to national and international outrage
2014 An Army Public School in Pakistan is attacked by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants who kill 145 people
2016 US State Department increases reward for information on Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to $25 million
2020 Nine-year-old girl who died of an asthma attack in 2013 becomes first person in the world to officially have air pollution listed as cause of death
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
