1993 – Six people were killed and more than a thousand injured when a van exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. The bomb had been built by Islamic extremists. https://www.history.com/news/world-trade-center-bombing-1993-facts
0364 – On the death of Jovian, a conference at Nicaea chooses Valentinan, an army officer who was born in the central European region of Pannania, to succeed him in Asia Minor.
1401 – English Catholic priest William Sawtrey convicted of heresy and later becomes 1st Lollard martyr to be publicly burnt at the stake
1548 – Ottoman fleet under Piri Reis retakes the port of Aden (modern Yemen) from the Portuguese
1616 – Roman Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon his belief in heliocentrism, which states the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun
1773 – Construction of Walnut Street Jail is approved by the state of Pennsylvania; it will become the first experiment with the practice of solitary confinement in the United States
1790 – As a result of the Revolution, France is divided into 83 departments.
1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from the Island of Elba. He then began his second conquest of France.
1848 – The second French Republic was proclaimed.
1863 – U.S. President Lincoln signed the National Currency Act.
1869 – US 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states to ratify
1870 – In New York City, the first pneumatic-powered subway line was opened to the public. (Beach Pneumatic Transit)
1901 – Boxer Rebellion leaders Chi-Hsin and Hsu-Cheng-Yu are publicly executed in Peking.
1907 – The U.S. Congress raised their own pay to $7500.
1916 – Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930
1916 – General Henri Philippe Petain takes command of the French forces at Verdun.
1917 – The world’s first jazz record is created, The “Original Dixieland Jass Band” recorded “Livery Stable Blues” for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
1917 – Russian February Revolution: Tsar Nicolas II orders army to quell civil unrest in Petrograd – army mutinies
1919 – In Arizona, the Grand Canyon was established as a National Park with an act of the U.S. Congress.
1924 – U.S. steel industry finds claims an eight-hour day increases efficiency and employee relations.
1929 – U.S. President Coolidge signed a bill creating the Grand Teton National Park.
1935 – RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt
1936 – Japanese military troops march into Tokyo to conduct a coup and assassinate political leaders.
1941 – Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory
1945 – In the U.S., a nationwide midnight curfew went into effect.
1946 – 2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia, Tennessee
1951 – Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia begins
1952 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed an atomic bomb.
1954 – Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing “obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy” phonograph (rock & roll) records
1962 – US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation
1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson signs a tax bill with $11.5 billion in cuts.
1968 – Thirty-two African nations agree to boycott the Olympics because of the presence of South Africa.
1970 – Five Marines are arrested on charges of murdering 11 South Vietnamese women and children.
1973 – A publisher and 10 reporters are subpoenaed to testify on Watergate.
1980 – Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for 1st time
1987 – The Tower Commission rebuked U.S. President Reagan for failing to control his national security staff in the wake of the Iran-Contra affair.
1987 – The U.S.S.R. conducted its first nuclear weapons test after a 19-month moratorium period.
1990 – Daniel Ortega, communist president of Nicaragua, suffers a shocking election defeat at the hands of Violeta Chamorro.
1991 – Coalition planes bomb Iraqi forces retreating from Kuwait during the Gulf War, killing hundreds and creating the so-called ‘Highway of Death’
1991 – The world’s first web browser is presented to the public, The browser “WorldWideWeb” (later renamed “Nexus”) was developed by Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the internet.
1991 – Iraqi President Saddam Hussein announced on Baghdad Radio that Iraqi troops were being withdrawn from Kuwait.
1993 – Six people were killed and more than a thousand injured when a van exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. The bomb had been built by Islamic extremists.
1995 – Barings PLC collapsed after a securities dealer lost more than $1.4 billion by gambling on Tokyo stock prices. The company was Britain’s oldest investment banking firm.
1998 – A Texas jury rejected an $11 million lawsuit by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey for price drop after on-air comment about mad-cow disease.
1998 – In Oregon, a health panel rules that taxpayers must help to pay for doctor-assisted suicides.
2001 – The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan.
2001 – A U.N. tribunal convicted Bosnian Croat political leader Dario Kordic and military commander Mario Cerkez of war crimes. They had ordered the systematic murder and persecution of Muslim civilians during the Bosnian war.
2002 – In Rome, Italy, a bomb exploded near the Interior Ministry. No injuries were reported.
2004 – The United States lifts a ban on travel to Libya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years.
2009 – Former Serbian president Milan Milutinovic was acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia regarding war crimes during the Kosovo War.
2009 – The Pentagon reveresed its 18-year policy of not allowing media to cover returning war dead. The reversal allowsd some media coverage with family approval.
2012 – 17-year old black teenager Trayvon Martin shot and killed by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, highlighted issue of racial profiling in the US
2018 – Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, receives its 1 millionth seed on 10 year anniversary
2019 – Catholic Cardinal George Pell convicted of child sexual abuse in Melbourne, Australia. As treasurer at the Vatican, the highest-ranking church official to be convicted; overturned in 2020
2019 – More than 4,500 complaints of child sexual abuse against migrant children received by US Health Department, Department of Justice received 1,300 more
2021 – Amnesty International Report says that Eritrean troops might have committed crimes against humanity, killing hundreds of civilians, in attack on Ethiopian city of Aksum 28-29 November
2021 – Toymaker Hasbro announces that the Mr Potato Head brand name will be changed to be gender-neutral
2022 – Scientists publish findings into “lost” continent Balkanatolia, that linked southern Europe with Asia, providing passageway for animal migrations 35 to 38 million years ago
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
