1954 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army
0068 – Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditus to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging
0641 – Arabic-Islamic army conquers Romans at Alexandria, taking control of Egypt
1064 – Coimbra, Portugal fell to Ferdinand, the King of Castile.
1310 – Duccio’s Maest Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy
1534 – Jacques Cartier became the first to sail into the river he named Saint Lawrence.
1549 – UK First Book of Common Prayer sanctioned by English Parliament
1628 – First deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Mass
1667 – The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet starts lasting for five days and resulting in a decisive victory of the Dutch over the English in the Second Anglo-Dutch War and a favourable peace for the Dutch.
1732 – Royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe
1772 – First Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion
1790 – John Barry copyrighted “Philadelphia Spelling Book.” It was the first American book to be copyrighted.
1790 – Civil war broke out in Martinique.
1856 – 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1860 – The Ms. Ann Stevens book “Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter” was offered for sale for a dime. It was the first published “dime novel.”
1898 – China leases Hong Kong’s new territories to the United Kingdom for 99 years
1908 – King Edward VII of Great Britain visits Tsar Nicholas II at Reval, Russia, where the two discuss the growing power of Germany and British plans for reform in Macedonia
1923 – Bulgaria’s premier Stamboeliski & King Boris III overthrown by the military.
1931 – Robert H. Goddard patented a rocket-fueled aircraft design.
1934 – Donald Duck made his debut in the Silly Symphonies cartoon “The Wise Little Hen.”
1940 – Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II.
1943 – “pay-as-you-go – The withholding tax on payrolls was authorized by the U.S. Congress.
1945 – Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declared that Japan would fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender.
1946 – King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand after the death of his brother King Ananda Mahidol
1954 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/joseph-mccarthy-meets-his-match
1967 – Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria during the Six-Day War.
1970 – Argentine military junta under Juan Carlos Lanusse ousts President Juan Carlos Onganía
1972 – In a show of support for Iraq, OPEC moves to prevent companies whose interests were nationalized in Iraq from increasing production elsewhere
1978 – Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.
1980 – Richard Pryor was severely burned by a “free-base” mixture that exploded. He was hospitalized more than two months.
1982 – Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley
1985 – Thomas Sutherland, an American educator, was kidnapped in Lebanon. He was not released until November 1991.
1986 – The Rogers Commission released a report on the Challenger disaster. The report explained that the spacecraft blew up as a result of a failure in a solid rocket booster joint.
1991 – The congress of the Italian party Proletarian Democracy decides to merge with the Communist Refoundation Party.
1998 – Abdulsalami Abubakar succeeds Sani Abacha as military President of Nigeria
1999 – NATO and Yugoslavia signed a peace agreement over Kosovo.
2000 – Canada and the United States signed a border security agreement. The agreement called for the establishment of a border-enforcement team.
2000 – The U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal gift and estate taxes. The bill called for the taxes to be phased out over 10 years.
2006 – King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand celebrates the 1st of 3 national holidays to commemorate his 60 years on the throne.
2010 – Scott Rothstein, the politically connected lawyer and admitted mastermind of a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison. Rothstein is known as “”the Bernie Madoff of South Florida”
2011 – The world’s first artificial organ transplant was performed. It was an artificial windpipe coated with stem cells.
2012 – Burma (Myanmar) riots kill 20 people and burn down 300 houses
2013 – Edward Snowden publicly makes his identity known as the leaker of NSA documents
2016 – Successful attempts to turn CO2 gases into stone underground in Iceland published in the journal “Science”
2019 – 95 people killed in attack on Dogon village Sobame Da in central Mali by suspected Fulani group
2021 – One of the worst ever plagues of mice in New South Wales, Australia, prompts local government to commit $100 million in support to farmers
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
