1876 – Lt. Col. Custer and the 210 men of U.S. 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana. The event is known as “Custer’s Last Stand.”
0841 – Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeated Lothar at Fontenay.
1080 – At Brixen, a council of bishops declared Pope Gregory to be deposed and Archbishop Guibert as antipope Clement III.
1178 – 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon
1298 – Rindfleisch Persecutions, 250 Jews killed in Rothenburg, Germany
1483 – The House of Lords and Commons declares King Edward V of England as illegitimate based on his parent’s alleged bigamous marriage
1530 – The Augsburg Confession: German Protestant princes force Holy Roman Emperor Charles V to hear their Confession of Faith (statement of Lutheran theology)
1580 – The Book of Concord was first published. The book is a collection of doctrinal standards of the Lutheran Church.
1607 – Mentally ill Emperor Rudolf II signs Treaty of Lieben, giving up Austria, Hungary and Moravia
1630 – Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop
1658 – Aurangzeb proclaimed himself emperor of the Moghuls in India.
1767 – Mexican Indians rioted as Jesuit priests were ordered home.
1788 – Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution and became the 10th state of the United States.
1798 – US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
1864 – Union troops surrounding Petersburg, VA, began building a mine tunnel underneath the Confederate lines.
1867 – Lucien B. Smith patented the first barbed wire.
1868 – The U.S. Congress enacted legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the Federal government.
1868 – Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.
1870 – In Spain, Queen Isabella abdicated in favor of Alfonso XII.
1876 – Lt. Col. Custer and the 210 men of U.S. 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana. The event is known as “Custer’s Last Stand.” https://www.history.com/news/little-bighorn-battle-facts-causes
1906 – Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw, the son of coal and railroad baron William Thaw, shot and killed Stanford White. White, a prominent architect, had a tryst with Florence Evelyn Nesbit before she married Thaw. The shooting took place at the premiere of Mamzelle Champagne in New York. https://avenuemagazine.com/stanford-white-murder-notorious-new-yorker/
1910 – US Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes). The Act was aimed at prostitution, immorality, and human trafficking.
1917 – The first American fighting troops landed in France.
1920 – The Greeks took 8,000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna.
1929 – US President Herbert Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1938 – US federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25 cents per hour (rising to 40 cents by 1945) and a maximum 44 hour working week
1941 – Finland enters WW2 against the USSR following a massive airstrike the previous day
1941 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 8802, which forbids racial discrimination in the defense industry
1946 – Ho Chi Minh traveled to France for talks on Vietnamese independence.
1947 – The Diary of Anne Frank is published, The Jewish girl’s account of her life in hiding from the Nazis has become a well-known work of world literature and made Anne one of the most prominent victims of the Nazi regime. She died at age 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/anne-frank-diary
1948 – Harry Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill (205,000 Europeans to US)
1950 – The beginning of the Korean War, with the invasion of the South by the North. Ends 27 Jul 1953.
1951 – In New York, the first regular commercial color TV transmissions were presented on CBS using the FCC-approved CBS Color System. The public did not own color TV’s at the time.
1957 – United Church of Christ founded with the union of the Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches.
1959 – The Cuban government seized 2.35 million acres under a new agrarian reform law.
1962 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of unofficial non-denominational prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.
1964 – U.S. President Lyndon Johnson ordered 200 naval personnel to Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights workers.
1967 – The world’s first live global satellite TV program is aired, The BBC program “Our World” featured artists from 19 countries. The Beatles premiered their song “All You Need Is Love” on the show. Some 400 million viewers tuned in.
1970 – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission handed down a ruling (35 FR 7732), making it illegal for radio stations to put telephone calls on the air without the permission of the person being called.
1973 – White House Counsel John Dean admitted that U.S. President Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.
1975 – Mozambique became independent. Samora Machel was sworn in as president after 477 years of Portuguese rule.
1975 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares Emergency in India, suspending civil liberties and elections
1976 – Missouri Governor Christopher S. Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused the Latter Day Saints
1978 – First use of the rainbow flag, symbol of gay pride, made by Gilbert Baker at a march in San Francisco
1979 – Failed attack on NATO commander Alexander Haig Jr. in Obourg, Belgium by German terrorist Rolf Klemens Wagner, a former member of the Red Army Faction
1981 – The U.S. Supreme Court decided that male-only draft registration was constitutional.
1985 – Thurman v City of Torrington decides in favor of Tracey Thurman, 1st woman to sue a police department for violating her civil rights (not protecting against abusive husband)
1986 – The U.S. Congress approved $100 million in aid to the Contras fighting in Nicaragua.
1987 – Austrian President Kurt Waldheim visited Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. The meeting was controversial due to allegations that Waldheim had hidden his Nazi past.
1990 – The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual, whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment. “The right to die” decision was made in the Curzan vs. Missouri case.
1991 – The last Soviet troops left Czechoslovakia 23 years after the Warsaw Pact invasion.
1991 – The Yugoslav republics of Slovenia and Croatia declared their independence from Yugoslavia.
1993 – Both Canada and Turkey elect female heads of government for the first time, Kim Campbell became Canada’s and Tansu Çiller Turkey’s Prime Minister on this day. Worldwide, women in top political positions are still the exception.
1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/saudi-arabia-khobar-towers-bombing-kills-19
1997 – The Russian space station Mir was hit by an unmanned cargo vessel. Much of the power supply was knocked out and the station’s Spektr module was severely damaged.
1997 – U.S. air pollution standards were significantly tightened by U.S. President Clinton.
1998 – The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the line-item veto thereby striking down presidential power to cancel specific items in tax and spending legislation.
1998 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that those infected with HIV are protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act.
1999 – Germany’s parliament approved a national Holocaust memorial to be built in Berlin.
2000 – U.S. and British researchers announced that they had completed a rough draft of a map of the genetic makeup of human beings. The project was 10 years old at the time of the announcement.
2000 – A Florida judge approved a class-action lawsuit to be filed against America Online (AOL) on behalf of hourly subscribers who were forced to view “pop-up” advertisements.
2008 – Atlantis Plastics shooting, An employee shot and killed five people after an argument, which ended in the gunman’s suicide in Henderson, Kentucky
2013 – 37 people are killed after a gold mine collapses in the Central African Republic
2014 – The US Supreme Court rules that police cannot examine the digital contents of a cell phone without a court order
2015 – The Affordable Care Act (‘Obamacare’) subsidies preserved by US Supreme Court Ruling in King v Burwell 6-3
2019 – Stephanie Grisham replaces Sarah Sanders as US White House press secretary and communications director – 1st in American history to hold no press conferences; serves until April 2020
2020 – US Center of Disease Control estimates 20 million people in America have been infected with COVID-19, 10 times higher than confirmed cases
2020 – WHO declares the Ebola outbreak in the Congo over. The second worst outbreak, it killed 2,280 people over 2 years
2021 – New type of ancient human announced “Nesher Ramla Homo” lived 140,000-120,000 years ago, a possible ancestor of Neanderthals, uncovered in Ramla, Israel
2022 – 30,000-year-old intact remains of a baby wooly mammoth found frozen in permafrost in Klondike gold fields in the Yukon, Canada
2022 – US President Joe Biden signs the “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act” into law, creating greater background checks for gun purchasers, funding for mental health programs and the closure of some existing seller loopholes
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
