2006 – Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush’s plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
0922 – Kingdom of the West Franks crowns Robert I as King of West Francia, after deposing Charles the Simple (Charles III)
1072 – Former Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes blinded by rivals and exiled
1540 – Former Lord Privy Seal and Chancellor of the Exchequer of England Thomas Cromwell indicted as a heretic
1613 – London’s Globe Theatre burned down during a performance of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII.
1652 – Massachusetts declared itself an independent commonwealth.
1767 – The British Parliament approved the Townshend Revenue Acts. The acts imposed import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea shipped to America.
1776 – The Virginia constitution was adopted and Patrick Henry was made governor.
1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario
1804 – Privates John Collins and Hugh Hall of the Lewis and Clark Expedition were found guilty by a court-martial consisting of members of the Corps of Discovery for getting drunk on duty. Collins received 100 lashes on his back and Hall received 50.
1874 – Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled “Who’s to Blame?” in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
1880 – France annexed Tahiti.
1888 – First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel’s “Israel in Egypt” on wax cylinder
1897 – The Chicago Cubs scored 36 runs in a game against Louisville, setting a record for runs scored by a team in a single game.
1900 – The Imperial Chinese Court issues what is essentially a declaration of war against foreigners in China blaming them for hostilities and giving license to the Boxers for even greater ferocity
1903 – The British government officially protested Belgian atrocities in the Congo.
1905 – Russian troops intervened as riots erupted in ports all over the country. Many ships were looted.
1914 – Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia
1917 – The Ukraine proclaimed independence from Russia.
1926 – Fascists in Rome added an hour to the work day in an economic efficiency measure.
1931 – Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical on Nun abbiamo bisogno (We do not need fascism and Mussolini)
1932 – Siam’s army seized Bangkok and announced an end to the absolute monarchy.
1940 – US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register
1946 – British authorities arrested more than 2,700 Jews in Palestine in an attempt to end alleged terrorism.
1950 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorized a sea blockade of Korea.
1951 – The United States invited the Soviet Union to the Korean peace talks on a ship in Wonson Harbor.
1953 – The Federal Highway Act authorized the construction of 42,500 miles of freeway from coast to coast.
1954 – The Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer’s access to classified information.
1955 – The Soviet Union sent tanks to Poznan, Poland, to put down anti-Communist demonstrations.
1967 – Israel removed barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem.
1969 – 1st Jewish worship service at the White House
1972 – The Supreme Court ruled in Furman v. Georgia that the death penalty could constitute “cruel and unusual” prompting some states to revise their laws.
1977 – Supreme Court rules out death penalty for rapists of adults
1981 – Bomb attack on headquarters of Islamic Party in Tehran, 72 killed
1982 – Israel invaded Lebanon.
1989 – South Africa’s National Party adopts five year programme of its objectives, including a political “reform” plan to give Black majority role in national and local government; ANC responds it would consider only a one-man, one-vote system
1990 – Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are banned to protect the ozone layer
1992 – Algerian head of state, Mohamed Boudiaf, is assassinated by military officers during a public speech at the opening of a cultural center in Annaba
1995 – The shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.
1998 – With negotiations on a new labor agreement at a standstill, the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced that a lockout would be imposed at midnight.
2002 – Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
2002 – US Vice President Dick Cheney, serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
2006 – Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush’s plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5521062
2007 – The first generation Apple iPhone went on sale.
2011 – The state of Nevada passed the first law that permitted the operation of autonomous cars on public roads. The law went into effect on March 1, 2012 and did not permit the use of the cars to the general public. Google received the first self-driving vehicle license in the U.S. on May 4, 2012 in Nevada.
2014 – Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announces establishment of worldwide “caliphate” at the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraq
2017 – Vatican treasurer Cardinel George Pell charged with historic sexual offenses in Victoria, Australia
2017 – Battle for Mosul: Iraqi forces retake destroyed Great Mosque of al-Nuri from Islamic State – symbolic site where their leader declared a “caliphate”
2021 – World’s first known plague victim identified in the remains of a 5,000-year-old hunter-gatherer in Latvia
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
