60 – St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
1098 – Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch
1355 – The St. Scholastica’s Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 62 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days
1676 – Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass
1763 – The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War. In the treaty France ceded Canada to England.
1774 – Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit
1842 – Moreton Bay Penal Colony abolished and opened for free settlement (modern city of Brisbane, Australia)
1846 – Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began their exodus to the west from Illinois.
1855 – US citizenship laws amended; all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship
1870 – The YWCA was founded in New York City.
1890 – Around 11 million acres ceded to US by Sioux Indians, then opened for settlement
1897 – “The New York Times” began printing “All the news that’s fit to print” on their front page.
1915 – US President Woodrow Wilson protests to Britain on the use of US flags on British merchant ships to deceive the Germans
1933 – The singing telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegraph Company of New York City.
1933 – Adolf Hitler proclaims end of Marxism
1935 – The Pennsylvania Railroad began passenger service with its electric locomotive. The engine was 79-1/2 feet long and weighed 230 tons.
1940 – “Tom & Jerry” cartoon created by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera debut by MGM
1946 – Charles “Lucky” Luciano is deported to Italy, and never returns to the United States
1954 – President Dwight Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam
1962 – The Soviet Union exchanged capture American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for the Soviet spy Rudolph Ivanovich Abel being held by the U.S. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/spies-swapped
1967 – The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment required the appointment of a vice-president when that office became vacant and instituted new measures in the event of presidential disability.
1975 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army agrees to a truce and ceasefire with the British government and the Northern Ireland Office; Seven “incident centres” are established in nationalist areas to monitor the ceasefire
1988 – 3 judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army’s ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)
1989 – To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a NJ court
1990 – South African President F.W. de Klerk announced that black activist Nelson Mandela would be released the next day after 27 years in captivity.
1997 – O.J. Simpson jury reaches decision on $25M in punitive damages
1998 – A man became the first to be convicted of committing a hate crime in cyberspace. The college dropout had e-mailed threats to Asian students.
1998 – Voters in Maine repealed a 1997 gay rights law. Maine was the first state to abandon such legislation.
2005 – North Korea publicly announced for the first time that it had nuclear arms. The country also rejected attempts to restart disarmament talks in the near future saying that it needed the weapons as protection against an increasingly hostile United States.
2019 – Sexual abuse investigation into US Southern Baptist churches reveals 400 church members implicated with over 700 victims, according to The Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News
2019 – Insect populations are collapsing worldwide threatening a“catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems” according to a global review saying 40% declining, 30% endangered
2021 – 17,000 year old couch shell discovered to be oldest known wind instrument, after being reassessed by archaeologists, originally found in Marsoulas cave, Pyrenees
2021 – Astronomers confirm the planetoid named Farfarout as the most distant orbiting the Sun, almost four times more distant than Pluto
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
