1936 – The first Oscar Meyer Wienermobile rolled out of General Body Company’s factory in Chicago, IL.
390 BC – Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia – Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leads to subsequent sacking of Rome
0064 – The Great Fire of Rome began.
1290 – King Edward I orders expulsion of Jews from England, this edict will remain in place for 350 years
1536 – The authority of the pope was declared void in England.
1716 – Decree orders all Jews expelled from Brussels
1743 – “The New York Weekly Journal” published the first half-page newspaper ad.
1812 – Great Britain signed the Treaty of Orebro, making peace with Russia and Sweden.
1853 – Completion of Grand Trunk Line, trains begin running over 1st North American railroad between Portland, Maine and Montreal
1864 – US President Abraham Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service
1870 – The first Vatican Council, also known as Vatican I, decrees the doctrine of Papal infallibility – The doctrine claims that the Pope cannot err when speaking on issues of morality and/ or faith.
1872 – The Ballot Act was passed in Great Britain, providing for secret election ballots.
1914 – US army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps
1925 – The first volume of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf was published.
1932 – The U.S. and Canada signed a treaty to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1936 – The first Oscar Meyer Wienermobile rolled out of General Body Company’s factory in Chicago, IL.
1942 – The German Me-262, the first jet-propelled aircraft to fly in combat, made its first flight.
1944 – Hideki Tojo was removed as Japanese premier and war minister due to setbacks suffered by his country in World War II.
1947 – King George VI signs Indian Independence Act
1947 – U.S. President Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act, which placed the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president.
1963 – Failed military coup in Syria
1963 – The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid releases its second interim report pressing for international sanctions against South Africa, particularly the supply of arms, ammunition and petroleum
1968 – Intel is founded – Founded in Santa Clara, California, the Intel corporation is the world’s largest semiconductor chip manufacturer.
1971 – New Zealand and Australia announced they would pull their troops out of Vietnam.
1975 – Jury can’t decide on trial of Dave Forbes of Boston Bruins (1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play)
1980 – Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn’t include women
1984 – 21 people are killed and 19 are injured in a massacre in a McDonalds restaurant in San Ysidro, California; it ends with the shooting of its perpetrator, James Oliver Huberty
1992 – The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappear from their university in Lima, Peru
1994 – Bomb attack on Jewish center AMIA in Buenos Aires, 86 killed
2001 – A train derailed, involving 60 cars, in a Baltimore train tunnel. The fire that resulted lasted for six days and virtually closed down downtown Baltimore for several days. (Maryland)
2012 – Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People’s Army
2012 – 6 Israeli tourists are killed and 30 injured after a bomb explodes on a tourist bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria
2012 – 14 people are killed after a bomb explosion at Pakistan’s Orakzai Agency
2013 – Government of Detroit declares bankruptcy – The city, which was up to $20 billion in debt, became the largest municipal entity in the United States to declare bankruptcy.
2015 – “The Sun” newspaper in Britain controversially publishes old picture and video of Queen Elizabeth giving Nazi salute in 1933
2018 – New Earth geological age announced, the Meghalayan Age 4,200 years ago to the present, by the International Commission on Stratigraphy
2018 – Seventeen men charged with the gang-rape of a 12-year old girl in Chennai, India
2019 – One of world’s earliest mosques at 1,200 years old discovered by archaeologists in Israel’s Negev Desert
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
