1922 – Insulin first used on humans to treat diabetes, Frederick Banting injects fellow Canadian Leonard Thompson, aged 14
1055 – Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
1158 – Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.
1569 – First recorded lottery in England is drawn in St Paul’s Cathedral in London. First prize was £5,000, other prizes included silver plate, tapestries and high quality linen cloth.
1571 – Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion
1693 – Mt. Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy. A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta
1753 – Ferdinand VI of Spain & Pope Benedictus XIV sign concord, Spain recovers the right to appoint bishops and tax the clergy
1770 – The first shipment of rhubarb was sent to the United States from London.
1775 – Francis Salvador becomes first Jew elected to office in America (SC)
1785 – Continental Congress convenes in New York City NY
1787 – Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel
1794 – Robert Forsythe, a US Marshal was killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US Marshal to die in action
1803 – Monroe & Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy Louisiana
1805 – The Michigan Territory was created.
1861 – Alabama seceded from the United States.
1867 – Benito Juarez returned to the Mexican presidency, following the withdrawal of French troops and the execution of Emperor Maximilian.
1878 – In New York, milk was delivered in glass bottles for the first time by Alexander Campbell.
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War begins as British Lieutenant-General Lord Chelmsford invades Zululand in South Africa
1894 – Donghak Peasant Rebellion begins in Mujiang, Korea over local corruption, sparking the 1st Sino-Japanese War
1902 – “Popular Mechanics” magazine was published for the first time.
1912 – Bread & Roses Strike begins in Lawrence, Massachusetts following a pay cut
1913 – The first sedan-type car was unveiled at the National Automobile Show in New York City. The car was manufactured by the Hudson Motor Company.
1917 – Kingsland Explosion Sabotage of munitions factory.
1919 – Romania annexes Transylvania
1922 – At Toronto General Hospital, Leonard Thompson became the first person to be successfully treated with insulin.
1923 – Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments.
1924 – A republic is proclaimed in Greece; King George II is deposed and Eleutherios Venizelo is named Prime Minister of the Greek National Assembly
1938 – In Limerick, ME, Frances Moulton assumed her duties as the first woman bank president.
1942 – Japan declared war against the Netherlands. The same day, Japanese forces invaded the Dutch East Indies.
1943 – The United States and Britain signed treaties relinquishing extraterritorial rights in China.
1944 – Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established
1946 – Enver Hoxha declares People’s Republic of Albania with himself dictator
1953 – J. Edgar Hoover declines 6 figure offer to become president of International Boxing Club
1957 – American plane mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed via the Gas Chamber
1961 – Racial riot at University of Georgia
1962 – Mandela leaves South Africa, travels to Ethiopia, Algeria & England
1963 – The first discotheque opens, The Whiskey-a-go-go in Los Angeles CA
1964 – U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry released a report that said that smoking cigarettes was a definite health hazard.
1972 – East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh
1973 – Owners of American League baseball teams voted to adopt the designated-hitter rule on a trial basis.
1977 – France released Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
1978 – Two Soviet cosmonauts aboard the Soyuz 27 capsule linked up with the Salyut 6 orbiting space station, where the Soyuz 26 capsule was already docked.
1984 – Supreme Court reinstated $10M award to Karen Silkwood’s family
1988 – U.S. Vice President George Bush met with representatives of independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh to answer questions about the Iran-Contra affair.
1989 – Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school
1991 – An auction of silver and paintings that had been acquired by the late Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda, brought in a total of $20.29 million at Christie’s in New York.
1993 – Independent presidential candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics
1995 – NHLPA & owners agree to end NHL strike
1996 – Ryutaro Hashimoto become Japan’s prime minister. He replaced Tomiichi Murayama who had resigned on January 5, 1996.
2000 – The U.S. Postal Service unveiled the second Vietnam Veterans Memorial commemorative stamp in a ceremony at The Wall.
2001 – The Texas Board of Criminal Justice released a review of the escape of the “Texas 7.” It stated that prison staff missed critical opportunities to prevent the escape by ignoring a fire alarm, not reporting unsupervised inmates and not demanding proper identification from inmates.
2002 – The first prisoners arrive in Guantanamo Bay, Following reports of torture, Amnesty International called the situation at the US detention camp a “human rights scandal”.
2003 – Illinois governor George H. Ryan announces decision to grant clemency to all inmates of death row.
2013 – 46 people are killed and 12 are missing after a landslide buries a village in the Yunnan province, China
2018 – US President Donald Trump causes worldwide controversy when it is reported he called African countries “shitholes” during immigration meeting
2021 – The king of Malaysia, Al-Sultan Abdullah declares a state of emergency over COVID-19 till 1 August, suspending parliament and giving the government new powers
2022 – Quebec announces it will impose a healthcare tax on unvaccinated adults who are accounting for 50% of ICU cases (scrapped Feb 2022)
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
