1975 – Soyuz capsule and an Apollo capsule — leftover from a canceled moon flight — launched within hours of each other from opposite sides of the planet. Then, two days later, they met up 140 miles over Earth’s surface.
0971 – According to legend English saint Swithun is reburied inside Winchester Cathedral (against his wishes), whereby a terrible storm proceeds to rain for 40 days and nights
1099 – Jerusalem falls to the Crusaders after a siege of just over one month The streets of the city run with blood as the Crusaders slaughter 40,000 and set fire to mosques and synagogues, and the First Crusade comes to an end
1205 – Pope Innocent III states Jews are doomed to perpetual servitudea and subjugation due to crucifixion of Jesus
1207 – John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton.
1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants’ Revolt, hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England
1410 – Poles and Lithuanians defeated the Teutonic knights at Tannenburg, Prussia.
1685 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemore on 6 July 1685
1789 – The electors of Paris set up a “Commune” to live without the authority of the government.
1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign
1806 – Lieutenant Zebulon Pike began his western expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine, near St. Louis, MO.
1813 – Napoleon Bonaparte’s representatives met with the Allies in Prague to discuss peace terms.
1815 – Napolon Bonaparte surrenders from aboard HMS Bellerophon.
1869 – Margarine is patented in Paris, for use by French Navy
1870 – Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
1885 – In New York, the Niagara Reservation State Park opened.
1895 – Ex-prime minister of Bulgaria, Stephen Stambulov, was murdered by Macedonian rebels.
1901 – Over 74,000 Pittsburgh steel workers went on strike.
1904 – The first Buddhist temple in the U.S. was established in Los Angeles, CA.
1914 – Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe
1915 – The head of German propaganda in the US, Dr Heinrich Albert, loses his briefcase on a New York City subway; an examination of its content reveals extensive network of German espionage and subversion across the US
1918 – The Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I.
1922 – The duck-billed platypus arrived in America, direct from Australia. It was exhibited at the Bronx Zoo in New York City.
1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
1932 – US President Herbert Hoover cuts own salary 15%
1937 – Buchenwald concentration camp is opened
1940 – Physicist Donald Kerst becomes the first person to accelerate electrons using electromagnetic induction, reaching energies of 2.3 MeV, when his betatron device (for particle acceleration) becomes operational in Urbana, Illinois
1940 – Voluntary Defence Force (VDC), composed mainly of World War One veterans, formed by Returned Sailors’ Soldiers’ and Airmen’s League of Australia for home defence
1942 – The first supply flight from India to China over the ‘Hump’ was carried to help China’s war effort.
1942 – First deportees sent to Auschwitz come from Germany and Holland.
1953 – John Reginald Christie, British serial killer executed.
1958 – Five thousand U.S. Marines landed in Beirut, Lebanon, to protect the pro-Western government. The troops withdrew October 25, 1958.
1959 – The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history
1960 – UN troops arrive in Congo to help deal with the political crisis after Moïse-Kapenda Tshombé’s declaration of independence for Katanga province
1961 – Spain accepts equal rights for men and women
1965 – The spacecraft Mariner IV sent back the first close-up pictures of the planet Mars.
1968 – Commercial air travel began between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., when the first plane, a Soviet Aeroflot jet, landed at Kennedy International Airport in New York.
1971 – U.S. President Nixon announced he would visit the People’s Republic of China to seek a “normalization of relations.”
1972 – NASA’s Pioneer 10 spacecraft became the first to enter the asteroid belt.
1974 – TV news reporter Christine Chubbuck shoots herself live on WXLT-TV, Florida, first person to commit suicide in a live broadcast
1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d’tat, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
1975 – Soyuz capsule and an Apollo capsule — leftover from a canceled moon flight — launched within hours of each other from opposite sides of the planet. Then, two days later, they met up 140 miles over Earth’s surface. https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/apollo-soyuz-mission-when-the-space-race-ended
1980 – Billy Carter, the brother of US President Jimmy Carter, registers as a foreign agent of the Libyan government after it was revealed they paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars
1982 – Body of Wendy Caulfield, first Green River victim, found near Seattle
1983 – 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France
1985 – Baseball players voted to strike on August 6th if no contract was reached with baseball owners. The strike turned out to be just a one-day interruption.
1987 – Taiwan ended thirty-seven years of martial law.
1994 – Hundreds of thousands of Hutus flee to Zaire in the Congo near the end of the Rwandan Genocide
1996 – MSNBC is launched, The American news television channel was created by Microsoft and General Electric’s NBC unit. The first show of the channel was hosted by Jodi Applegate.
1997 – In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home
1997 – Jerold Mackenzie awarded $26.6M (later reduced to $625,000) for being fired from Miller Brewing for sexual harassment for relaying a Seinfeld episode to a co worker
1999 – Scientists uncover possible reason for SS Waratah’s disappearance 100 years later; The SS Waratah was a luxury steamer which did not reach its destination in 1909, and no trace of the wreckage was ever found
2002 – Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan awarded death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life term to three other suspects in murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2004 – The BBC airs the documentary The Secret Agent, exposing racism by members of the British National Party
2005 – The EPA approves a 70 parts per million addition of fluoride to all processed food
2006 – The social networking service Twitter was launched.
2006 – Mogadishu Int’l Airport in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu re-opens after an eleven-year closure mainly due to the Somali civil war
2013 – 13 people are killed by a car bomb in Deir Atiyah, Syria
2013 – 18 people are killed and 47 are injured in a riot following a boxing match in Indonesia
2014 – Israel announces it has officially voted to accept the ceasefire proposed by Egypt; Hamas reject, saying they were not consulted
2016 – Attempted military coup in Turkey fails, nearly 300 killed, 6,000 then arrested
2017 – Australian Justine Damond killed by Minneapolis police officer after calling 911 for a disturbance
2018 – 8-year-old girl finds pre-Viking-era sword in Vidostern lake, Sweden, internet proclaims her Queen of Sweden
2021 – Devastating floods linked to climate change sweep through towns in western Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, after record rainfall, killing at least 188 people
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
