1933 – The Reichstag, Germany’s parliament building in Berlin, was set afire. The Nazis accused Communist for the fire and execute Dutch Communist Marinus van der Lubbe
1526 – Saxony and Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)
1531 – German Protestants form the League of Schmalkalden to resist the power of the emperor.
1594 – Henry IV crowned King of France
1670 – Jews expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
1678 – Earl of Shaftesbury freed from the Tower of London
1700 – The Pacific Island of New Britain was discovered.
1801 – The city of Washington, DC, was placed under congressional jurisdiction.
1813 – 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted
1827 – New Orleans held its first Mardi Gras celebration.
1844 – Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti
1861 – In Warsaw, Russian troops fired on a crowd protesting Russian rule over Poland. Five protesting marchers were killed in the incident.
1865 – Confederate raider William Quantrill and his bushwackers attack Hickman, Kentucky, shooting women and children.
1896 – The “Charlotte Observer” published a picture of an X-ray photograph made by Dr. H.L. Smith. The photograph showed a perfect picture of all the bones of a hand and a bullet that Smith had placed between the third and fourth fingers in the palm.
1900 – In South Africa, the British received an unconditional surrender from Boer Gen. Piet Cronje at Paardeberg.
1908 – Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)
1920 – The United States rejects a Soviet peace offer as propaganda.
1922 – The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 19th Amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote
1932 – The neutron is discovered, English physicist James Chadwick was later awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery.
1933 – The Reichstag, Germany’s parliament building in Berlin, was set afire. The Nazis accused Communist for the fire and execute Dutch Communist Marinus van der Lubbe
1939 – The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed sit-down strikes.
1939 – Borley Rectory, “the most haunted house in England”, destroyed in a fire
1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14 (radiocarbon dating) at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California
1942 – J S Hey discovers radio emissions from Sun
1943 – Non-violent protests in Berlin prevent the deportation of 2000 jews, The “Rosenstrasse protest” was carried out by the “Aryan” wives and relatives of detained Jewish men.
1949 – Chaim Weizmann became the first Israeli president.
1951 – The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, limiting U.S. Presidents to two terms.
1957 – Mao’s famous speech to the Supreme State Conference “On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People” expounding Maoist ideals
1962 – South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem is unharmed as two planes bomb the presidential palace in Saigon.
1963 – The Soviet Union says that 10,000 troops will remain in Cuba.
1968 – CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite delivers a scathing editorial on America’s chances of winning the Vietnam War
1969 – Thousands of students protest President Richard Nixon‘s arrival in Rome
1972 – The Shanghai Communique was issued by U.S. President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai.
1973 – The American Indian Movement occupied Wouned Knee in South Dakota.
1973 – U.S. Supreme Court rules that a Virginia pool club can’t bar residents because of color.
1976 – Final meeting between Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon
1980 – Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota
1981 – Chrysler Corporation was granted an additional $400 million in federal loan guarantees. Chrysler had posted a loss of $1.7 billion in 1980.
1982 – Wayne B. Williams was convicted of murdering two of the 28 black children and young adults whose bodies were found in Atlanta, GA, over a two-year period.
1985 – Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
1986 – The U.S. Senate approved the telecast of its debates on a trial basis.
1987 – NCAA cancels SMU’s entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption
1990 – Final day of the rum ration in the Royal New Zealand Navy
1990 – The Exxon Corporation and Exxon Shipping were indicted on five criminal counts in reference to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
1994 – Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed
1995 – Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed)
1997 – In Ireland, divorce became legal.
1998 – Britain’s House of Lords agreed to give a monarch’s first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first-born son. This was the end to 1,000 years of male preference.
1999 – Nigeria returned to civilian rule when Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo became the country’s first elected president since August of 1983.
2002 – In Boston, twenty people working at Logan International Airport were charged with lying to get their jobs or security badges.
2002 – A Muslim mob set fire to a train carrying Hindu pilgrims, The attack killed 59 people, including many women and children.
2010 – A massive earthquake strikes Chile, The tremor measured 8.8 on the Richter scale and left more than 500 people dead and thousands injured.
2013 – 17 Afghan militia are killed by Taliban insurgents in an attack in the Andar District
2013 – 20 people are killed in a market fire in Calcutta, India
2014 – Chaos erupts after the Swedish Public Employment Service mistakenly invites 61,000 people to a job interview in Stockholm
2014 – US Republican Governor Jan Brewer vetoes a “religious freedom” bill that would have allowed businesses to turn away gay customers
2015 – Russian politician Boris Nemtsov is assassinated in Moscow
2018 – Jared Kushner, son-in-law of President Trump, has his top-secret security clearance at the White House downgraded
2019 – First gun control legislation for 25 years passed by US House of Representatives, with new federal background checks
2019 – Pakistan shoots down an Indian fighter jet and captures the pilot, further escalating tensions in the disputed Kashmir region
2019 – Second summit begins between US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam
2020 – Biggest cosmic explosion ever detected from a supermassive black hole in Ophiuchus galaxy 390 million lights years away, (size of 15 Miky Ways), published in “Astrophysical Journal”
2022 – Countries sanction Russia for its invasion of Ukraine; EU closes its airspace to Russian planes, Russian banks excluded from worldwide Swift payment system, Sweden sends arms to Ukraine
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
