1968 – Johnny Cash records his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison
0532 – Nika riots begin in Constantinople, a revolt against Byzantine Emperor Justinian I that leaves half the city burned and thousands dead. The riots were prompted by the failed execution of chariot racing supporters and only stopped after Empress Theodora refused to flee, forcing her husband to act decisively.
0888 – Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks/ West-France
1099 – Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria
1128 – Pope Honorius II granted a papal sanction to the military order known as the Knights Templar. He declared it to be an army of God.
1328 – Edward III of England marries Philippa of Hainault, daughter of the Count of Hainault
1404 – The Act of Multipliers is passed by the English Parliament forbidding alchemists to use their knowledge to create precious metals (it was feared that if any alchemist should succeed it would bring ruin upon the state)
1559 – Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey.
1605 – The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.
1607 – Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
1610 – Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th moon of Jupiter.
1733 – James Oglethorpe & 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC
1794 – U.S. President Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the union.
1830 – Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves
1832 – President Andrew Jackson writes Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
1842 – On this day Dr.William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, became famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reached the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad
1854 – Anthony Faas of Philadelphia, PA, was granted the first U.S. patent for the accordion. He made improvements to the keyboard and enhanced the sound.
1863 – Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet
1893 – US Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
1898 – Emile Zola’s “J’accuse” was published in Paris.
1900 – In Austria-Hungary, Emperor Franz Joseph decreed that German would be the language of the imperial army to combat Czech nationalism.
1906 – Hugh Gernsback, of the Electro Importing Company, advertised radio receivers for sale for the price of just $7.50 in “Scientific American” magazine.
1915 – Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, presents plan for assault on Dardanelles
1917 – Ammunitions ship explosion at Ekonomiia port near Archangel, Russia kills many and injures hundreds
1927 – US & Mexico battle over oil interests
1928 – Ernst F. W. Alexanderson gave the first public demonstration of television.1935 – A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
1937 – The U.S. government announces that Americans cannot actively participate in the Spanish Civil War.
1938 – Church of England accepts theory of evolution.
1942 – Henry Ford patented the plastic automobile referred to as the “Soybean Car.” The car was 30% lighter than the average car.
1943 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca, French Morocco for a conference of Allied forces in World War II
1953 – Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia.
1954 – Military rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested
1958 – 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban
1959 – French President Charles de Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 Algerians sentenced to death
1964 – Hindu-Muslim rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta – now Kolkata – resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people.
1966 – Robert C. Weaver became the first black Cabinet member when he was appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by U.S. President Johnson.
1968 – Johnny Cash records his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison
1972 – Prime Minister Kofi Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong.
1975 – US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger hints at military action against oil countries in case of “actual strangulation of the industrialized world” in the wake of oil shock
1979 – YMCA files libel suit against Village People’s YMCA song
1980 – Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium
1983 – AMA urges ban on boxing, cites Muhammad Ali’s deteriorating condition
1986 – A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
1988 = Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays & other expressive activities
1990 – L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia, the nation’s first elected black governor, took the oath of office in Richmond.
1991 – Soviet Union military troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius.
1992 – Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II.
1994 – Tonya Harding’s bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt & Derrick Brian Smith arrested & charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan
1995 – Philippine authorities unearth a plot by militant Muslims to assassinate Pope John Paul II during his visit
1998 – NBC agreed to pay almost $13 million for each episode of the TV show E.R. It was the highest amount ever paid for a TV show.
2000 – Bill Gates steps down as CEO of Microsoft
2002 – U.S. President George W. Bush fainted after choking on a pretzel.
2004 – Harold Shipman, a British GP who is believed to have killed more than 200 of his patients in Manchester, is found hanged in his prison cell
2009 – Ethiopian military forces began pulling out of Somalia, where they had tried to maintain order for nearly two years.
2018 – Chelsea Manning, former soldier responsible for Wikileaks announces her bid to run for US Senate
2020 – Oldest material existing on earth at 7.5 billion years old revealed by scientists studying the Murchison meteorite that fell to earth in Australia in 1960s
2021 – Irish PM Minister Micheál Martin issues apology for treatment of unmarried mothers and babies in church-run institutions 1920-1990s after report 9,000 children had died
2022 – Britain’s Prince Andrew stripped of his military titles and royal patronages by Buckingham Palace, amid continuing sexual assault allegations
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
