1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan
0068 – Roman General Vespasian conquers Jericho during the Great Jewish Revolt
1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Emperor of China and seventh Great Khan after defeating rival factions and succeeding his uncle Temür Khan
1404 – Owain Glyndwr established a Welsh Parliament at Machynlleth and was crowned Prince of Wales.
1498 – Jews are expelled from Nuremberg, Bavaria, by Emperor Maximillian
1529 – Queen of England, Catherine of Aragon, speaks against her marriage’s annulment at the Blackfriars Legatine Court
1547 – Great fire in Moscow, a third of the largely wooden city destroyed and 2-3,000 killed
1607 – First Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown”
1621 – Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
1633 – Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to “”abjure, curse, & detest”” his Copernican heliocentric views”
1665 – First soldiers of Le Rgiment de Carignan-Salires arrive at Quebec to invade Iroquois territories.
1675 – Foundation stone for London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral is laid
1734 – In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Anglique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, was tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
1788 – The U.S. Constitution went into effect when New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at Battle of Vinegar Hill
1805 – Great Stone Face, or the Profile found in New Hampshire
1813 – Laura Secord sets out to warn British forces of an impending U.S. attack on Queenston, Ontario during the War of 1812.
1834 – Cyrus McCormick patented the first practical mechanical reaper for farming. His invention allowed farmers to more than double their crop size.
1859 – Andrew Lanergan received the first rocket patent.
1877 – The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania Prisons
1893 – The Ferris Wheel was introduced at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, IL.
1894 – Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
1895 – The Kiel Canal is opened by German Emperor Wilhelm II, connecting the North Sea with the Baltic Sea.
1900 – In the Philippines, General Arthur McArthur, US military governor of the Philippines, issues an amnesty proclamation to those Filipinos who will renounce the insurgent movement and accept US sovereignty
1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens
1919 – Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed were the last casualties of the First World War
1938 – In Washington, U.S. President Roosevelt signed the $3.75 billion Emergency Relief Appropriation Act.
1939 – NY Yankees announce Lou Gehrig’s retirement after doctors reveal he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
1941 – German troops entered Russia on a front from the Arctic to Black Sea.
1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the U.S. mainland
1944 – Mantello sends out Auschwitz Protocols through the British Exchange Telegraph and, two weeks later, 500 Swiss newspapers publish the story of 1,715,000 Jews being murdered
1945 – Pan Am announced an 88-hour round-the-world flight at a cost of $700.
1948 – The “”Manchester Baby”” (SSEM) runs the first ever computer program stored in electronic memory.
1954 – The American Cancer Society reported significantly higher death rates among cigarette smokers than among non-smokers.
1958 – In Arkansas, a federal judge let Little Rock delay school integration.
1963 – Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini becomes Pope Paul VI
1963 – France announced that they were withdrawing from the North Atlantic NATO fleet.
1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan
1968 – US Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren announces he will resign once a successor is found
1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test, which now governs obscenity in U.S. law
1974 – The U.S. Supreme Court decided that pregnant teachers could no longer be forced to take long leaves of absence.
1977 – Bülent Ecevit forms a minority government in Turkey which lasts only 1 month
1981 – Bread riots in Casablanca, Morocco, kill 66 people (government figure vs opposition estimate of 637)
1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1985 – Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
1989 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest was protected by the First Amendment.
1990 – US House of Representatives votes 254-177 to stop US flag burning, doesn’t pass
1993 – English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of French mathematician Pierre de Fermat after 356 years, the world’s most difficult maths problem
2000 – Section 28 (outlawing the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
2001 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen
2001 – Former Haitian Army colonel Carl Dorelien taken into custody in Port St. Lucie. Dorelien had been in exile since 1994 when he was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a 1994 massacre.
2006 – Pluto’s newly discovered moons are officially christened Nix & Hydra.
2009 – Greenland assumes self-rule, The island had been administered by Denmark (earlier Denmark-Norway) for centuries. The Self-Government Act grants Greenland full responsibility for its inner affairs, while Denmark retains control of foreign policy.
2012 – Moody’s downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe
2013 – 15 people are killed and 20 are injured after a suicide bomber attacks a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan
2015 – Hackers ground 1400 passengers by attacking IT system at Warsaw Chopin airport in Poland
2017 – In landmark case Israeli woman wins sexism case against airline El Al after asked to change seat away from a man
2018 – EU imposes tariffs on US goods worth $3.2 billion in response to US tariffs
2020 – Saudi Arabia bans international visitors from making the Islamic Hajj pilgrimage in 2020 due to COVID-19
2021 – Swedish government of Prime Minister Stefan Lofven toppled after a no confidence vote for the first time in Swedish history
2022 – Law enforcement’s response to the Uvalde school shooting was an “abject failure” says Texas’s public safety chief Steven McCraw in testimony at a Senate hearing
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
