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”.
0843 – Vikings sail up the Loire with 67 ships and destroy Frankish-held city of Nantes
0972 – Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces
1128 – Battle of So Mamede, near Guimares. Portuguese forces led by Alfonso I defeat his mother D.Teresa and D.Ferno Peres de Trava. After this battle, the future king calls himself “”Prince of Portugal””, the first step towards “”official independence”” in 1143
1298 – Rindfleisch Persecutions – Jews of Ifhauben, Austria massacred
1314 – Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce won over Edward II of England at the Battle of Bannockburn in Scotland.
1340 – Edward III personally commands the English fleet in their victory over the French off Sluys (who were trying to blockade English export of wool to Flanders)
1374 – A 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
1472 – Byzantine princess Sophia Palaiologina departs Rome with a large entourage for Moscow to marry Ivan III
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.
1527 – Paracelsus publicly burns standard medical textbooks at the University of Basel, as a protest against the current teaching and practice of medicine
1535 – Anabaptist commune of Münster captured and its leaders tortured and killed
1540 – Henry VIII divorces his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
1572 – Five clergymen of Dutch city Enkhuizen are hanged during the Dutch Rebellion against Philip II of Spain
1650 – England’s Charles II returns from the Continent, landing in Scotland. He signs the National Covenant and is proclaimed king, but he is defeated September 3 at the Battle of Dunbar by Oliver Cromwell
1664 – New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, was founded.
1675 – King Philip’s War began when Indians massacre colonists at Swansee, Plymouth colony.
1717 – The Freemasons were founded in London.
1793 – The first republican constitution in France was adopted.
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon’s Grande Arme crosses the Neman River beginning his invasion of Russia.
1843 – Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside a ghetto in Italy
1844 – Charles Goodyear was granted U.S. patent #3,633 for vulcanized rubber.
1859 – At the Battle of Solferino, also known as the Battle of the Three Sovereigns, the French army led by Napoleon III defeated the Austrian army under Franz Joseph I in northern Italy.
1861 – Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US
1862 – U.S. intervention saved the British and French at the Dagu forts in China
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.
1913 – Greece and Serbia annulled their alliance with Bulgaria following border disputes over Macedonia and Thrace.
1930 – 1st detection of an airplane using reflected radio waves, a precursor to radar, by US Naval Research Laboratory engineers in Anacostia, Washington, D.C.
1931 – The Soviet Union and Afghanistan signed a treaty of neutrality.
1932 – A military coup ends the absolute power of the king of Siam (Thailand).
1940 – France signed an armistice with Italy.
1940 – TV cameras were used for the first time in a political convention as the Republicans convened in Philadelphia, PA.
1941 – U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pledged all possible support to the Soviet Union.
1941 – Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy, Lithuania, exterminated
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”. https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-blockade
1955 – Soviet MIG’s down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering Strait.
1957 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in Roth v. United States
1961 – Iraq demands dominion over Kuwait
1963 – Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain
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 – Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat https://www.history.com/news/equal-rights-amendment-failure-phyllis-schlafly
1982 – A British Airways jumbo jet experiences a sudden total engine failure, At the same time, the crew observed a mysterious glow in the darkness. The Boeing 747’s pilots had unwittingly flown into a cloud of volcanic ash caused by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, causing all four engines to flame out. The crew eventually succeeded in restarting the engines and landing safely in Jakarta.
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.
1985 – Natalia Solzhenitsyn the wife of exiled, Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, became a U.S. citizen.
1986 – The Empire State Building was designated a National Historic Landmark.
1986 – Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
1992 – Mafia boss John Gotti begins life sentence in jail for murder and other crimes
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.
2012 – Female athletes will be allowed to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics for the first time
2016 – British Prime Minister David Cameron resigns after the UK votes to leave the EU
2017 – UN states Yemen cholera epidemic reached 200,000 cases, with 1,300 deaths. Worst cholera outbreak anywhere in the world.
2018 – Women drive for the first time in Saudi Arabia after ban is lifted
2019 – El Salvador immigrant father and his 23-month-old daughter drown trying to cross the Rio Grande into the US with their photo causing widespread condemnation
2019 – Mysterious sickness affects 718 children with 152 deaths around Indian city of Muzaffarpur, previously thought due to lychee fruit but now unknown
2020 – NY Governor Andrew Cuomo announces people arriving from nine states hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic will have to isolate for two weeks
2021 – Second discovery of the remains of 761 people, mainly indigenous children announced at former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan
2022 – US Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, eliminating constitutional right to choose abortion, in a 6-3 vote
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
