1892 – Homer Plessy was arrested for his refusal to move from a whites-only seat on a train. This led to the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision.
1099 – 1st Crusaders arrive in Jerusalem
1494 – Spain and Portugal divided the new lands they had discovered between themselves.
1498 – Christopher Columbus left on his third voyage of exploration.
1520 – Field of the Cloth of Gold; meeting begins between English Henry VIII and King Francis I of France at Balinghem, France
1546 – Peace of Andres Treaty ends the stalemated Italian War of 1542–1546 of France and the Ottoman Empire against the Holy Roman Empire and England, as well as England’s dispute with Scotland and Ireland
1654 – Louis XIV was crowned king of France.
1665 – Great Plague of London: Samuel Pepys writes in his diary of houses marked with a red cross in London’s Drury Lane, meaning somebody inside is infected with the plague and must be locked in for 40 days or until death
1712 – The Pennsylvania Assembly banned the importation of slaves.
1769 – American frontiersman Daniel Boone ascends Pilot Knob, setting sight on the fertile hunting grounds of what is now known as the Bluegrass Region of the State of Kentucky
1776 – Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution in the Continental Congress proposing a Declaration of Independence.
1780 – Anti-Catholic riot in London, hundreds die
1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada
1862 – General B. Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed and destroyed US flag on display over New Orleans Mint
1863 – Mexico City was captured by French troops.
1892 – Homer Plessy was arrested for his refusal to move from a whites-only seat on a train. This led to the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/plessy-v-ferguson
1900 – Boxer rebels cut the rail links between Peking and Tientsin in China.
1903 – Professor Pierre Curie revealed the discovery of Polonium.
1916 – Theodore Roosevelt declines nomination of the Progressive Party and throws his support behind Republican Charles Evans Hughes
1929 – The sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.
1932 – Over 7,000 war veterans marched on Washington, DC, demanding their bonuses.
1939 – King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived in the U.S. It was the first visit to the U.S. by a reigning British monarch.
1942 – USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island
1942 – The Battle of Midway ended. The sea and air battle lasted 4 days. Japan lost four carriers, a cruiser, and 292 aircraft, and suffered 2,500 casualties. The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the destroyer USS Hammann, 145 aircraft, and suffered 307 casualties.
1942 – Japan landed troops on the islands of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutians. The U.S. invaded and recaptured the Alutians one year later.
1944 – Off of the coast of Normandy, France, the Susan B. Anthony sank. All 2,689 people aboard survived.
1946 – US Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel
1948 – President Eduard Bene of Czechoslovakia resigned and the Communist takeover of the country was completed.
1965 – In the U.S., the Gemini 4 mission was completed. The mission featured the first spacewalk by an American.
1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples
1967 – Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem, Jericho and Bethlehem
1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public
1977 – During the Queen’s Jubilee, the Sex Pistols attempt to perform on a boat on the River Thames, but are forced to stop by the police
1981 – Israel destroys Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactors – The attack, triggered by fears of a potential Iraqi atom bomb, prompted international criticism and is considered a political disaster as it caused the quarreling Arab states to unite against their common enemy, Israel
1983 – The U.S. ordered Nicaragua to close all six of its consulates and informed 21 Nicaraguan consular officials that they could not longer remain in the U.S.
1991 – Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time
1998 – James Byrd, Jr. is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime
2001 – BP announces that it will build a new $600-million platform offshore Trinidad that is expected to double the company’s production of natural gas there by 2004
2012 – 16th century archaeology remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare’s plays first performed found under a pub in London
2017 – Suicide bombers attack Iranian parliament in Tehran and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini killing 12, 1st Islamic State attacks in Iran
2017 – Police warn bald men against attacks in Mozambique after 5 men murdered for the gold believed in their heads
2019 – More than four million Venezuelans have left their country since 2015 due to its economic crisis according to the UN
2020 – US National Guard pulled out of Washington D.C. and curfew ends in New York as anti-racism protests stay largely peaceful
2020 – Black Lives Matter Protests continue worldwide in large numbers, In Bristol England statue of 17th century slave trader Edward Colston pulled down
2021 – Multicellular organisms (bdelloid rotifer) frozen for 24,000 years in Siberia to return to life after Russian scientists have them thawed
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
