2019 – US Senate passes bill championed by comedian Jon Stewart to ensure 9/11 first responders fund never runs out of money
0636 – Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire
1148 – Crusaders begin siege of Damascus during Second Crusade (abandoned 28 July)
1253 – Jews are expelled from Vienne, France by order of Pope Innocent IV
1298 – Rindfleisch (“Beef”) Persecutions – Jewish community in Wurzburg, Germany massacred
1579 – Francis Drake departs San Francisco to cross the Pacific Ocean
1632 – Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France
1715 – The first lighthouse in America was authorized for construction at Little Brewster Island, Massachusetts.
1764 – James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation
1777 – Polish military leader Casimir Pulaski arrives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, to volunteer in the Continental Army cavalry
1812 – Battle of Mogilev: first significant fighting during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia results in minor French victory
1829 – William Burt patented the typographer, which was the first typewriter.
1851 – Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians and US
1852 – Private John Brown becomes the 1st interment in the National Cemetery at the Presidio in San Francisco, California
1858 – Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament
1900 – First Pan-African Congress meets in London, organized by Trinidadian Henry Sylvester Williams, makes plea for African self-government
1900 – The Canadian government reviews immigration policy, prohibiting criminals and paupers from landing in Canada
1904 – The ice cream cone was invented by Charles E. Menches during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, MO.
1913 – Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot, Palestine
1914 – Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serb assassin. The dispute led to World War I.
1929 – The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words
1938 – The first federal game preserve was approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The area was 2,000 acres in Utah.
1943 – Battle of Koersk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks)
1945 – Vichy government leader Marshal Henri Petain went on trial for treason for colluding with the Nazis
1946 – Menachem Begin’s Zionist militant group Irgun bombs the King David Hotel, the then British administrative headquarters for Palestine
1952 – Revolution erupted in Egypt as the military took power in a bloodless coup. The following year the monarchy was abolished and, for the first time since the pharaohs, Egypt was again ruled by Egyptians.
1954 – A law was passed that stated “The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to repair, equip, and restore the United States Ship Constitution, as far as may be practicable, to her original appearance, but not for active service, and thereafter to maintain the United States Ship Constitution at Boston, Massachusetts.”
1958 – The submarine Nautilus departed from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, under orders to conduct “Operation Sunshine.” The mission was to be the first vessel to cross the north pole by ship. The Nautils achieved the goal on August 3, 1958.
1962 – The “Telstar” communications satellite sent the first live TV broadcast to Europe.
1967 – 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)
1967 – First successful liver transplant, on 19 month old Julie Rodriguez by Dr Starzl at the University of Colorado
1968 – Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 police officers killed
1972 – The U.S. launched Landsat 1 (ERTS-1). It was the first Earth-resources satellite.
1973 – US President Richard Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation
1977 – Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Muslims on hostage charges
1980 – River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter
1984 – Miss America, Vanessa Williams, turned in her crown after it had been discovered that nude photos of her had appeared in “Penthouse” magazine. She was the first to resign the title.
1985 – Commodore unveiled the personal computer Amiga 1000.
1986 – Britain’s Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London. They divorced in 1996.
1992 – The Republic of Abkhazia, is a disputed territory of Georgia and is recognized as an independent state by only a handful of counties including Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Nauru, Tuvalu.
1995 – The Hale-Bopp comet was discovered by Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp.
1997 – The US State Department rules that Turkey’s agreement to purchase $23 billion worth of natural gas from Iran does not violate the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act
1998 – U.S. scientists at the University of Hawaii turned out more than 50 “carbon-copy” mice, with a cloning technique.
2005 – Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people
2009 – The Bank of Canada announces the end of the recession even though it remains nascent and still dependent on government stimulus money
2015 – NASA’s Kepler mission announces discovery of the most Earth-like planet yet – Kepler-452b, 1,400 light years from Earth
2015 – Supreme Court rejects Bill Cosby’s petition against a civil case of his alleged sexual assault of 15-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1974
2016 – Suicide bomb in Kabul kills 80 during a protest march, Islamic State claim responsibility
2018 – International Monetary Fund predicts inflation of 1 million percent in Venezuela by end of 2018
2019 – Boris Johnson is chosen the new British Prime Minister by the ruling Conservative Party to replace Theresa May
2019 – US Senate passes bill championed by comedian Jon Stewart to ensure 9/11 first responders fund never runs out of money
2020 – US President Trump says he could send 75,000 federal agents to deal with violence in American cities like Portland, drawing backlash
2021 – MLB Cleveland Indians announce team will be re-named the Guardians, after the Guardians of Traffic, eight large Art Deco statues on the Hope Memorial Bridge, located near their playing field
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
