1920 – Boston Red Sox baseball club owner Harry Frazee announces agreement to sell slugger Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 in cash and a $350,000 loan; start of the 84 year “Curse of the Bambino”
1496 – References in Leonardo da Vinci notebooks suggested that he tested his flying machine. The test didn’t succeed and he didn’t try to fly again for several years.
1521 – Martin Luther is excommunicated by Pope Leo X from the Roman Catholic Church for failing to recant parts of his Ninety-five Theses which started the Protestant Reformation
1653 – The Coonan Cross Oath is taken in the Saint Thomas Christian community in an effort to avoid submission to Portuguese rule in India
1749 – Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
1777 – The Battle of Princeton took place in the War of Independence, in which George Washington defeated the British forces, led by Cornwallis.
1815 – By secret treaty, Austria, Britain, and France formed a defensive alliance against Prusso-Russian plans to solve the Saxon and Polish problems.
1823 – Stephen F. Austin received a grant from the Mexican government and began colonization in the region of the Brazos River in Texas.
1825 – Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community
1833 – Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. About 150 years later, Argentina seized the islands from the British, but Britain took them back after a 74-day war.
1834 – The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City.
1861 – Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy
1868 – The Shogunate was abolished in Japan and Meiji dynasty was restored.
1870 – Construction begins on New York’s Brooklyn Bridge
1888 – The drinking straw was patented by Marvin C. Stone.
1919 – The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, which was a short-lived agreement for the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, is signed by the King of Iraq and the President of the World Zionist Organization
1920 – Boston Red Sox baseball club owner Harry Frazee announces agreement to sell slugger Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 in cash and a $350,000 loan; start of the 84 year “Curse of the Bambino”
1925 – In Italy, Mussolini announced that he would take dictatorial powers.
1926 – Greek gen Theodorus Pangulos names himself dictator
1932 – Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop revolt by banana workers fired by United Fruit.
1938 – The March of Dimes was established by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The organization fights poliomyelitis. The original name of the organization was the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
1944 – World War II: Top Ace Major Pappy Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Japanese Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero
1946 -As a reward for his wartime cooperation, Governor Thomas E. Dewey commutes Charles “Lucky” Luciano’s pandering sentence on condition that he does not resist deportation to Italy
1947 – U.S. Congressional proceedings were televised for the first time. Viewers in Washington, Philadelphia and New York City saw some of the opening ceremonies of the 80th Congress.
1951 – 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians “exposed” as British/US agents
1953 – Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, became the first mother-son combination to serve at the same time in the U.S. Congress..
1959 – In the U.S., Alaska became the 49th state.
1961 – An explosion at the Nuclear Reactor Testing Station in Idaho Falls kills three operators
1961 – The U.S. severed diplomatic relations with Cuba.
1973 – A 12-man syndicate led by Michael Burke and George Steinbrenner III buys MLB’s New York Yankees from CBS for US$10 million
1980 – Babrak Karmal defends the Soviet-backed coup in first public appearance since taking power as President of Afghanistan
1980 – Conservationist Joy Adamson, author of “Born Free,” was killed in northern Kenya by a servant.
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1984 – Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson
1985 – Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews
1990 – Ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces, 10 days after taking refuge in the Vatican’s diplomatic mission.
1991 – The British government announced that seven Iraqi diplomats, another embassy staff member and 67 other Iraqis were being expelled from Britain.
1993 – U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in Moscow.
1994 – Millions of people from the former Apartheid Homelands gain South African citizenship, The apartheid regime had stripped the black inhabitants of the right to citizenship to ensure a white majority of the de jure population.
1995 – WHO reported that the cumulative total of officially reported cases of AIDS had risen to 1,025,073 in 192 countries as at the end of 1994.
1998 – China announced that it would spend $27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys.
1999 – Israeli authorities detained, and later expelled, 14 members of Concerned Christians. Israili officials claimed that the Denver, CO-based cult was plotting violence in Jerusalem to bring about the Second Coming of Christ.
2001 – The ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) charged the “Texas 7” with weapons violations. An autopsy showed that Office Aubrey Hawkins, killed by the convicts, had been shot 11 times and run over with a vehicle.
2004 – NASA’s Spirit rover landed on Mars. The craft was able to send back black and white images three hours after landing.
2009 – Israeli ground forces invade Gaza.
2009 – The Bitcoin network is created as the first block of the digital currency is mined by a person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto
2013 – 27 Shiite pilgrims are killed and 60 are injured by a suicide bombing in Musayyib, Iraq
2014 – Tommy Lynn Sells is executed at Texas State Penitentiary, Huntsville, for the murder of nine-year-old Mary Perez, thought to have committed 21 more murders
2015 – Over 2,000 people are killed in north-east Nigeria after Boko Haram militants raze the town of Baga
2018 – Lawyers of US President Donald Trump try to stop the publication of book on Trump’s administration “Fire and Fury” by Michael Wolff
2019 – The Chinese probe Chang’e 4 became the first human-made object to land on the far side of the Moon.
2019 – Archaeologists in Mexico announce discovery of pre-Aztec temple to god Xipe Tótec in Puebla state (dated 900-1150 AD)
2020 – US drone strike kills top Iranian security and intelligence commander, Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani outside Baghdad airport in Iraq
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
