1943 – A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beats up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots.
0350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators
1083 – Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St Peter’s Cathedral
1140 – French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
1326 – Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
1492 – Martin Behaim presents the world’s first globe, The German geographer called his terrestrial globe Erdapfel, or Earth Apple. It is kept in a darkened room at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, Germany.
1539 – Hernando De Soto claimed Florida for Spain.
1540 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto crosses the Appalachian Mountains, 1st European to do so
1608 – Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
1620 – Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
1621 – The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands (now known as New York).
1784 – The U.S. Congress formally created the United States Army to replace the disbanded Continental Army. On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress had created the Continental Army for purposes of common defense and this event is considered to be the birth of the United States Army.
1805 – A peace treaty between the U.S. and Tripoli was completed in the captain’s cabin on board the USS Constitution.
1885 – Last military engagement fought on Canadian soil: Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North West Mounted Police.
1888 – “Casey at the Bat” the poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published.
1916 – The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men
1918 – The Finnish Parliament ratified its treaty with Germany.
1918 – Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional
1923 – In Italy, Benito Mussolini granted women the right to vote.
1935 – One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
1937 – The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson.
1938 – The German Reich voted to confiscate so-called “degenerate art.”
1943 – A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beats up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/zoot-suit-riots
1948 – Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore
1952 – A rebellion by North Korean prisoners in the Koje prison camp in South Korea was put down by American troops.
1965 – Edward White became the first American astronaut to do a “space walk” when he left the Gemini 4 capsule.
1968 – American radical feminist Valerie Solanas attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times. She is later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and pleads guilty to “reckless assault with intent to harm”, serving a 3 year sentence.
1970 – Har Gobind Khorana and colleagues announced the first synthesis of a gene from chemical components.
1979 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date.
1982 – The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed
1984 – The Indian Army storms the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), the most sacred shrine of Sikhism, near Amritsar
1989 – Chinese army troops positioned themselves to began a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.
1991 – Mount Unzen erupts in Japan in Kysh killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists
1999 – Slobodan Milosevic’s government accepted an international peace plan concerning Kosovo. NATO announced that airstrikes would continue until 40,000 Serb forces were withdrawn from Kosovo.
2001 – Iraq announces that it will halt crude oil exports in response to the UN’s resolution that extends the oil-for-food program by only 1 month, instead of the normal 6-month period
2003 – Toys “R” Us, Inc. announced that it had signed a multi-year agreement with Albertson to become the exclusive toy provider for all of all of Albertson’s food and drug stores.
2006 – The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro’s formal declaration of independence.
2013 – 20 people, including 10 children, are killed by a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan
2013 – The trial against whistleblower Bradley Manning begins, The American soldier, a trans woman now called Chelsea Manning, was responsible for leaking classified videos documenting U.S. war atrocities during the Iraq War. She was sentenced to 35 years confinement.
2017 – The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum opened in Springfield, MA.
2017 – Terrorist attack in Borough Market, London by three men who drive van into pedestrians then stab and kill 7 and wound 48. Attackers shot dead by British police.
2018 – Dead whale found with 17 pounds (80 pieces) of plastic in its stomach in Songkhla province, Thailand
2019 – Canadian government inquiry find deaths of over 1,000 indigenous women and girls over decades who have been murdered or are missing a “national genocide”
2019 – Sudanese military attacks protesters in Khartoum killing 100 people, some dumped in the river Nile, prompting international condemnation
2020 – Former Defense Secretary James Mattis says in The Atlantic: “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us.”
2021 – NASA administrator Bill Nelson announces two new missions to study ‘Lost Habitable’ world of Venus in 2028 and 2030
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
