1921 – In one of the most controversial cases in U.S. history, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted of two murders and sentenced to death.
1077 – Bayeux Tapestry likely first goes on display to decorate the nave during the consecration of Notre-Dame of Bayeux Cathedral, Bayeux, Normandy
1430 – Joan of Arc, taken prisoner by the Burgundians in May, was handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais.
1570 – Pope Pius V introduces a standardised Roman Missal (text of the Latin mass), a reform of the Council of Trent. Will remain unchanged for 400 years.
1581 – English Jesuit priest Edmund Campion arrested for sedition in Anglican England (later hung, drawn and quartered)
1789 – French Revolution began with Parisians stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside.
1790 – The Fête de la Fédération, attended by Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, is held across France on the first anniversary of the French Revolution
1798 – 1st direct US federal tax on states-on dwellings, land and slaves
1798 – The U.S. Congress passed the Sedition Act. The act made it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the U.S. government.
1822 – Date planned for the slave revolt in Charleston, South Carolina by Denmark Vesey and Peter Poyas (plot already uncovered in June)
1850 – 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration by Florida physician John Gorrie
1865 – The Chickasaw Nation is the last of the Five Tribes to surrender to the Union following the Confederate defeat
1870 – The United States Congress grants Mary Todd Lincoln a life pension in the amount of $3,000 a year
1881 – Billy the Kid was shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico.
1911 – Harry N. Atwood landed an airplane on the lawn of the White House to accept an award from U.S. President William Taft.
1921 – In one of the most controversial cases in U.S. history, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted of two murders and sentenced to death.
1933 – All German political parties except the Nazi Party were outlawed.
1938 – Benito Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish African manifesto
1941 – 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
1941 – Vichy French Foreign Legionaries signed an armistice in Damascus, which allowed them to join the Free French Foreign Legion.
1945 – American battleships and cruisers bombarded the Japanese home islands for the first time.
1946 – Dr. Benjamin Spock’s “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care” was first published.
1946 – Kielce pogrom: Mob of civilians, police and soldiers investigating false kidnapping allegation attack Jewish Holocaust survivors in Kielce, Poland; 42 killed, 40+ injured
1957 – First female parliamentarian in the Arab world is elected to office – Egyptian Rawya Ateya became the first woman to be elected to the National Assembly.
1958 – A military coup overthrew the monarchy in Iraq, killing King Faisal II. General Abdul Karim Kassem becomes Iraq’s leader.
1965 – The American space probe Mariner 4 flew by Mars, and sent back photographs of the planet.
1966 – Richard Speck rapes and kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
1967 – Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing
1969 – The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
1977 – North Korea shoots down US helicopter, killing 3
1977 – US House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
1983 – US politicians Dan Crane (Rep-R-Il) and Gerry Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages
1998 – Los Angeles sued 15 tobacco companies for $2.5 billion over the dangers of secondhand smoke.
2002 – French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations
2003 – Jerry Springer officially filed papers to run for the U.S. Senate from Ohio.
2012 – Suicide bomber attacks a wedding reception and kills 22 people and inures 22 in northern Afghanistan
2015 – NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft became the first space mission to explore Pluto.
2015 – Arms deal agreed between 6 world powers and Iran limiting Iranian nuclear arms but ending sanctions
2016 – Terrorist Attack in Nice, France Kills 85 and Injures More than 300 People – The attack took place during Bastille Day Celebrations, when a 19-tonne truck was driven into the crowd. The attacker was eventually shot by the police.
2018 – Haitian Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigns after violent protests against fuel price rises
2018 – US President Donald Trump calls the EU a “trade foe” in interview with CBS ahead of meeting with Russian President Putin
2019 – US President Donald Trump ignites racial controversy by tweeting four Democrat women of color “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came”
2021 – Drug overdose deaths in the US rose 30% to record 93,000 in 2020 according to CDC
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
