1991 – Gulf War: An Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
0138 – The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor
1570 – Pope Pius V issued the papal bull ‘Regnans in Excelsis’ to excommunicate Elizabeth I and her followers in the Church of England
1601 – Robert Devereux, English 2nd Earl of Essex, executed for treason against the Crown of England
1643 – Pavonia Massacre: Dutch US colonists kill 120 Algonquin Native Americans at Communipaw (New Jersey)
1751 – Edward Willet displayed the first trained monkey act in the U.S.
1791 – First Bank of the United States (The President, Directors and Company, of the Bank of the United States) was chartered by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Washington.
1793 – The department heads of the U.S. government met with U.S. President Washington for the first Cabinet meeting on U.S. record.
1795 – French Politician and Educator Joseph Lakanal, defines on behalf of the French Revolution an “educational utopia” aiming to “put an end to inequalities of development that affected a citizen’s capacities for judgment.”
1803 – In the last significant act of the Holy Roman Empire, more than 100 German polities are abolished in a major internal reorganization
1836 – Samuel Colt received U.S. Patent No. 138 (later 9430X) for a “revolving-cylinder pistol.” It was his first patent.
1838 – Canadian militia routs American republican sympathizers on Fighting Island, in the Detroit River
1839 – Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay FL, to the West
1855 – Bowery Boys gang leader William Poole “Bill the Butcher” shot in the back by gang of archrival John Morrissey in New York (dies 8th March)
1870 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress
1879 – Congress passed first Timberland Protection Act
1885 – US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds
1901 – The United States Steel Corp. was incorporated by J.P. Morgan.
1910 – Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies
1919 – The state of Oregon became the first state to place a tax on gasoline. The tax was 1 cent per gallon.
1921 – The Living Buddha, Hutuktu, is crowned King of Mongolia as the country declares independence from China
1923 – Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark
1925 – Glacier Bay National Monument (now Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve) is established in Alaska.
1928 – The Federal Radio Commission issued the first U.S. television license to Charles Jenkins Laboratories in Washington, DC.
1930 – The bank check photographing device was patented.
1932 – Adolf Hitler obtains the German citizenship by naturalization, opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 election for Reichsprsident
1933 – The aircraft carrier Ranger was launched. It was the first ship in the U.S. Navy to be designed and built from the keel up as an aircraft carrier.
1941 – February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam
1947 – The state of Prussia is dissolved, At its peak, the most important state of the German empire encompassed parts of modern-day Germany, Poland, and Russia.
1951 – The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina
1966 – Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad
1969 – Germany gave a $5 million ransom to Arab terrorists who had hijacked a jumbo jet.
1972 – Attempted assassination of Irish Minister of State for Home Affairs John Taylor who is shot a number of times (the Official Irish Republican Army later claimed responsibility)
1973 – Mexican serial killer Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders in California
1980 – The Suriname government ( elected after gaining independence from the Netherlands in 1975 ) was overthrown by a military coup which was initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship of the coast of the nations capital; Paramaribo
1981 – Exec Board of Baseball Players’ Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved
1982 – House of Commons starts inquiry into bank profits, in wake of record interest rates
1986 – Filippino President Ferdinand E. Marcos fled the Philippines after 20 years of rule after a tainted election.
1989 – First independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
1990 – Nicaraguans vote out Sandinistas
1991 – Gulf War: An Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
1992 – Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan
1994 – Baruch Goldstein shoots and kills 29 worshippers inside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank. He is later beaten to death by survivors.
1995 – Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead
1999 – William King was sentenced to death for the racial murder of James Byrd Jr in Jasper, TX. Two other men charged were later convicted for their involvement.
2000 – In Albany, NY, a jury acquitted four New York City police officers of second-degree murder and lesser charges in the February 1999 shooting death of Amadou Diallo.
2005 – Dennis Rader was arrested for the BTK serial killings in Wichita, KS. He later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 life prison terms.
2009 – BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 People are being killed, including more than 50 Army officials, by Bangladeshi Boarder Guards inside its headquarter.
2012 – Syrian Army kills 100 civilians in artillery shelling of Homs and Hama
2014 – 50 students are killed in a Boko Harem attack on a college in Buni, Nigeria
2020 – 147 murders occurred during a five day police strike in Ceará, Brazil, despite army patrolling the streets according to authorities
2021 – Chinese President Xi Jinping claims the country has eradicated extreme poverty (earning less than US$620 a year), though many observers remain skeptical about the accuracy of Chinese data due to widespread corruption and lack of transparency
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
