1968 – “Resurrection City,” a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People’s March on Washington D.C., was closed down by authorities.
0972 – Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces; Mieszko I of Poland decisively defeated Odo I of Lusatia
1314 – Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce won over Edward II of England at the Battle of Bannockburn in Scotland.
1322 – Jews are expelled from France for 3rd time
1374 – Sudden outbreak of St. John’s Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion
1497 – Italian explorer John Cabot, sailing in the service of England, landed in North America on what is now Newfoundland.
1509 – Henry VIII was crowned King of England.
1535 – Anabaptist commune of Münster captured and its leaders tortured and killed
1540 – English King Henry VIII commands his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves, to leave the court
1572 – 5 clergymen of Dutch city of Enkhuizen hanged during Dutch Rebellion against Philip II of Spain
1648 – Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews and 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine
1675 – King Philip’s War began when Indians massacre colonists at Swansee, Plymouth colony.
1717 – 1717 The world’s first Masonic Grand Lodge is established – Freemasonry is a fraternal organization that has counted among its members a large number of known intellectuals. Due to its secretive nature, many myths about their underground activities have emerged through the ages. A Grand Lodge is the governing body for a certain geographic area.
1795 – US and Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty
1812 – Napoleon crossed the Nieman River and invaded Russia.
1853 – US President Franklin Pierce signs the Gadsden Purchase, buying 29,670 square-miles (76,800 square km) from Mexico for $10 million (now southern Arizona and New Mexico)
1859 – Battle of Solferino, Northern Italy: a French Army under Napoleon III and a Sardinian Army under Victor Emmanuel II overcomes the Austrian Army under Emperor Franz Joseph I
1880 – First performance of “O Canada,” the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français
1910 – The Japanese army invaded Korea.
1922 – Adolf Hitler begins a month long prison sentence for paramilitary operations; he rails against the ‘Jewish sell-out’ of Germany to the Bolsheviks
1931 – The Soviet Union and Afghanistan signed a treaty of neutrality.
1938 – 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1940 – France signed an armistice with Italy.
1941 – Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy, Lithuania, exterminated
1942 – Village of Ležáky, Czechoslovakia destroyed by Nazis after Gestapo finds a radio transmitter believed to have been involved coordinating the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, 33 adults were executed by firing squad on site, and children were sent to concentration camp gas chambers, and the village was burned down and plowed under
1947 – Kenneth Arnold reported seeing flying saucers over Mt. Rainier, Washington.
1948 – The Berlin Blockade begins – In reaction to the currency reform in West Germany, the Soviet Union blocked all access to West Berlin. It was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. Western Allies launched the Berlin airlift to transport supplies to the blocked area. In Germany, the planes became known as “raisin bombers” or “candy bombers”.
1957 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in Roth v. United States
1964 – The Federal Trade Commission announced that starting in 1965, cigarette manufactures would be required to include warnings on their packaging about the harmful effects of smoking.
1968 – “Resurrection City,” a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People’s March on Washington D.C., was closed down by authorities.
1970 – The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
1977 – IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
1982 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that no president could be sued for damages connected with actions taken while serving as President of the United States.
1986 – Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
1993 – Arab terrorist group planning bombing of Holland and Lincoln Tunnels caught
1993 – Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber
1997 – The U.S. Air Force released a report titled “The Roswell Report, Case Closed” that dismissed the claims that an alien spacecraft had crashed in Roswell, NM, in 1947.
2002 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, must make the decision to give a convicted killer the death penalty.
2002 – Africa’s worst ever train disaster kills 281 – The crash occurred near Msagali, Tanzania, when a passenger train with some 1200 passengers rolled back down Igandu hill after its brakes had failed.
2004 – Capital punishment is declared unconstitutional in New York
2016 – British Prime Minister David Cameron resigns after the UK votes to leave the EU
2019 – US President Donald Trump imposes sanctions on Iran, targeted at Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in response to the shooting down of a US drone
2020 – World Monetary fund predicts a deeper global recession with contraction of 4.9% (down from 3%), noting 2/3 of all countries used 11 trillion to support their economies
2021 – Second discovery of the remains of 761 people, mainly indigenous children announced at former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
