1787 – Shays’ Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Captain Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield MA
0041 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate
0844 – Gregory IV begins & ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1327 – King Edward III accedes to the English throne aged 14, after his mother Isabella of France, and her lover Roger Mortimer depose his father Edward II
1504 – The English Parliament passed statutes against retainers and liveries to curb private warfare.
1533 – England’s King Henry VIII secretly married his second wife Anne Boleyn. Boleyn later gave birth to Elizabeth I.
1554 – Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary
1579 – The Treaty of Utrecht was signed marking the beginning of the Dutch Republic.
1655 – Duchy of Savoy orders expulsion or conversion of non-Catholic householders in Waldensian communities in Piedmont
1775 – Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)
1787 – Shays’ Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Captain Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield MA https://www.history.com/topics/early-us/shays-rebellion
1791 – British Parliament approves bill splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
1799 – Eliakim Spooner patented the seeding machine.
1848 – Last convict ship to Port Phillip in Victoria, the Marion, disembarks passengers.
1851 – Sojourner Truth addresses first Black Women’s Rights Convention (Akron)
1858 – Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” was presented for the first time at the wedding of the daughter of Queen Victoria and the Crown Prince of Prussia.
1865 – The CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia
1870 – G.D. Dows patented the ornamental soda fountain.
1890 – The United Mine Workers of America was founded.
1904 – 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick PA
1910 – Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem
1915 – In New York, Alexander Graham Bell spoke to his assistant in San Francisco, inaugurating the first transcontinental telephone service.
1940 – Nazi decrees the establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland
1945 – Grand Rapids MI becomes first US city to fluoridate its water
1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoined the American Federation of Labor.
1950 – A federal jury in New York City found former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury.
1955 – Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years
1957 – FBI arrests Jack & Myra Sobel, charged with spying for the USSR
1961 – John F. Kennedy presented the first live presidential news conference from Washington, DC. The event was carried on radio and television.
1964 – Nike was founded. The company was originally named Blue Ribbon Sports.
1970 – Robert Altman’s “M*AS*H,” premieres
1971 – Charles Manson & 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders
1977 – The world’s first solar power plant is opened, The solar furnace in Odeillo, France was the first power plant providing alternative energy.
1980 – Finance Minister Abolhassan Bani-Sadr is elected president of Iran
1981 – The 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived in the United States and were reunited with their families.
1986 – General Tito Okello’s government flees Kampala Uganda
1991 – Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US government
1993 – Five people were shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
1995 – The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile
1996 – Leilani Muir awarded $750,000 by Alberta judge; she was wrongly diagnosed as mentally disabled and sterilized by the province’s Eugenics Board in 1959
1998 – Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam mount a suicide attack on Sri Lanka’s Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, killing 8 people and injuring 25 others
1999 – In Louisville, KY, man received the first hand transplant in the United States.
2004 – NASA’s Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on the surface of Mars
2005 – A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258
2011 – Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins with a series of street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, labor strikes and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities
2013 – 50 people are killed and 90 are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela
2018 – Doomsday clock moved by 30 seconds to 2 minutes to midnight by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, closest since 1950s
2019 – Longest-ever US government shutdown ends after 35 days when President Donald Trump agrees to three week of negotiations on border security by a House-Senate conference committee
2022 – Australian government buys the copyright to the Aboriginal flag designed by artist Harold Thomas for A$20 million (US$14m)
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
