1966 – The landmark “Miranda v. Arizona” decision was issued by the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision ruled that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional rights before being questioned by police.
1325 – Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years)
1373 – Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Perpetual Alliance (world’s oldest still in existence) signed in London between King Edward III of England and King Ferdinand I of Portugal
1415 – Henry the Navigator, the prince of Portugal, embarked on an expedition to Africa.
1525 – Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy doctrine decreed by the Roman Catholic Church on priests and nuns
1625 – King Charles I is married to the French princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon
1777 – The Marquis de Lafayette arrived in the American colonies to help with their rebellion against the British.
1789 – Ice cream was served to General George Washington by Mrs. Alexander Hamilton.
1825 – Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. Hunt then then sold the rights for $400.
1837 – First Mormon missionaries to the British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio
1866 – The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. It was ratified on July 9, 1868. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
1881 – The USS Jeannette, under the command of George Washington De Long, sinks in the Arctic circle following 21 months of drifting after becoming trapped in the ice
1886 – Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, BC
1888 – The U.S. Congress created the Department of Labor.
1898 – The Canadian Yukon Territory was organized.
1900 – In China, Baron von Kettler, the German minister to China, beats two young Boxers with his walking stick; when word of this circulates, rioting and arson spread throughout Peking during the night
1900 – China’s Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted into violence.
1910 – William D Crum, a SC physician, appointed minister to Liberia
1917 – Deadliest German air raid on London during WWI carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries
1920 – The U.S. Post Office Department ruled that children may not be sent by parcel post.
1923 – The French set a trade barrier between the occupied Ruhr and the rest of Germany.
1927 – Charles Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.
1927 – For the first time, an American Flag was displayed from the right hand of the Statue of Liberty.
1934 – Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as “”a silly little monkey”
1940 – Paris was evacuated before the German advance on the city.
1943 – German spies landed on Long Island, New York. They were soon captured.
1944 – Germany launched 10 of its new V1 rockets against Britain from a position near the Channel coast. Of the 10 rockets only 5 landed in Britain and only one managed to kill (6 people in London).
1949 – Bao Dai entered Saigon to rule Vietnam. He had been installed by the French.
1950 – South Africa implements the Group Areas Act, The law assigned geographically separate residential and business areas for different racial groups, forcing non-whites from the most developed areas. It was a major pillar of the apartheid system of racial segregation and oppression.
1951 – U.N. troops seized Pyongyang, North Korea.
1955 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine of the USSR, is discovered
1966 – The landmark “Miranda v. Arizona” decision was issued by the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision ruled that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional rights before being questioned by police. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-miranda-rights-are-established
1967 – Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1971 – In defiance of a government ban, members of the Orange Order march through the mainly Catholic town of Dungiven, County Londonderry, causing a riot
1971 – The New York Times publishes the Pentagon Papers, The secret study of the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War revealed the government’s lies concerning the scale of U.S. activities in Vietnam and neighboring countries. Daniel Ellsberg, an employee of the RAND Corporation, leaked the documents to the New York Times, and he was later tried but not convicted of espionage. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-new-york-times-publishes-the-pentagon-papers
1974 – IMF establishes its “oil facility”, a special fund for loans to nations whose balance of payments have been severely affected by high oil prices
1979 – Sioux Indians were awarded $105 million in compensation for the U.S. seizure in 1877 of their Black Hills in South Dakota.
1980 – US Congressman John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in “Abscam” investigation
1981 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II
1983 – The unmanned U.S. space probe Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system. It was launched in March 1972. The first up-close images of the planet Jupiter were provided by Pioneer 10.
1988 – The Liggett Group, a cigarette manufacturer, was found liable for a lung-cancer death. They were, however, found innocent by the federal jury of misrepresenting the risks of smoking.
1988 – US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren’t racist
1989 – U.S. President George H.W. Bush exercised his first Presidential veto on a bill dealing with minimum wage.
1992 – Future U.S. President Bill Clinton criticized rap singer Sister Souljah for making remarks “filled with hatred” towards whites.
1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, found Exxon Corp. and Captain Joseph Hazelwood to be reckless in the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
1995 – France announced that they would conduct eight more nuclear tests in the South Pacific.
1997 – American fugitive Ira Einhorn is arrested in France for the murder of Holly Maddux after 16 years on the run, though he would not return for another four years
2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981
2000 – In Pyongyang, North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Il welcomed South Korea’s President Kim Dae for a three-day summit. It was the first such meeting between the leaders of North and South Korea.
2002 – The United States withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
2006 – The US Senate issues a formal resolution apologizing for failure to create anti-lynching legislation
2007 – The Al Askari Mosque in Samarra is bombed reportedly by Iraqi Baathists, destroying the mosque’s two ten-story minarets
2012 – A series of bombings across Iraq kill 93 and wound 300 people
2015 – Philae, 1st spacecraft to land on a comet in European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission re-awakes after 7 months
2016 – Some Democratic Party members of US House of Representatives protest ‘moment of silence’ as an inadequate response to mass shooting, and demand legislative action on gun control
2017 – US Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before Senate Intelligence Committee, denies secretly meeting Russians
2018 – Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate – 200 billion tonnes a year, 3 trillion tonnes in 25 years, in report published in “Nature” journal
2018 – Volkswagen fined €1 billion (£880m) by German prosecutors over diesel emissions scandal
2019 – Kenyan MP Rashid Kassim arrested for slapping female MP Fatuma Gedi, following a walk out of parliament by female MPs after claiming male MPs joked “its slapping day”
2019 – Recently deposed Sudan President Omar al-Bashir is charged with corruption in Sudan
2021 – Israel’s Knesset votes in a new coalition government with Naftali Bennett as Prime Minister, ousting Benjamin Netanyahu after a record 12 years
2022 – A Google engineer claims one of its AI systems, Lamda, might have a sentient mind, causing the company to place him on leave
2022 – MIT researchers propose creating raft of “space bubbles” floating above the earth to reflect the sun’s rays and help fight climate change
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
