2010 – US President Barack Obama signs the Affordable Care Act (ACA), nicknamed ‘Obamacare’, expanding the availability and affordability of health care insurance
1026 – Koenraad II crowned himself king of Italy.
1593 – English Separatist Puritans John Greenwood and Henry Barrowe tried and sentenced to death on the charge of devising and circulating seditious books
1708 – Pretender to the English throne James III attempts to land at Firth of Forth, Scotland, but is turned away by the British Royal Navy
1775 – American revolutionary Patrick Henry declared, “give me liberty, or give me death!”
1791 – Etta Palm, a Dutch champion of woman’s rights, sets up a group of women’s clubs called the Confederation of the Friends of Truth.
1806 – Explorers Lewis and Clark, reached the Pacific coast, and began their return journey to the east.
1808 – Napoleon’s brother Joseph took the throne of Spain.
1839 – The first recorded printed use of “OK” [oll korrect] occurred in Boston’s Morning Post.
1840 – The first successful photo of the Moon was taken.
1848 – Hungary proclaimed its independence of Austria.
1857 – Elisha Otis installed the first modern passenger elevator in a public building. It was at the corner of Broome Street and Broadway in New York City.
1880 – John Stevens of Neenah, Wis., patents the grain crushing mill. This mill allows flour production to increase by 70 percent.
1881 – The Boers and Britain signed a peace accord ending the first Boer war.
1889 – U.S. President Harrison opened Oklahoma for white colonization.
1901 – A group of U.S. Army soldiers, led by Brigadier General Frederick Funston, capture Emilio Aguinaldo, the leader of the Philippine Insurrection of 1899.
1901 – It was learned that Boers were starving in British concentration camps in South Africa.
1901 – Shots were fired at Privy Councilor Pobyedonostzev, who was considered to be Russia’s most hated man.
1902 – In Italy, the minimum legal working age was raised from 9 to 12 for boys and from 11 to 15 for girls.
1909 – British Lt. Shackleton found the magnetic South Pole.
1909 – Theodore Roosevelt began an African safari sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
1912 – The Dixie Cup was invented.
1918 – Lithuania proclaimed independence.
1919 – Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.
1920 – Britain denounced the U.S. because of their delay in joining the League of Nations.
1921 – Germany announces it will be unable to meet its Great War reparation payments
1931 – Indian independence fighters Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged after conducting an assassination and a bombing. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused.
1932 – In the U.S., the Norris-LaGuardia Act established workers’ right to strike.
1933 – The German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act. The act effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers.
1934 – The U.S. Congress accepted the independence of the Philippines in 1945.
1936 – Italy, Austria & Hungary signed the Pact of Rome.
1942 – 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported
1942 – During World War II, the U.S. government began evacuating Japanese-Americans from West Coast homes to detention centers.
1944 – Italian resistance group bombs occupying German police at Via Rasella, Rome; killing 33 and wounding 110 of the 156 man force; retaliation kills 335 civilians
1945 – The Swallow Sidecar Company headed by William Lyons agrees to change its name to Jaguar
1951 – U.S. paratroopers descended from flying boxcars in a surprise attack in Korea.
1956 – Pakistan became the first Islamic republic. It was still within the British Commonwealth. The Dominion of Pakistan also included the area of modern-day Bangladesh or East Pakistan, which seceded in 1971.
1956 – Sudan became independent.
1957 – The U.S. Army sold the last of its homing pigeons.
1965 – America’s first two-person space flight took off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard. The craft was the Gemini 3.
1965 – The Moroccan Army shot at demonstrators. About 100 people were killed.
1967 – Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. called the Vietnam War the biggest obstacle to the civil rights movement.
1970 – Mafia boss Carlo Gambino is arrested for plotting to steal $3 million.
1972 – The U.S. called a halt to the peace talks on Vietnam being held in Paris.
1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero calls on members of the El Salvador armed forces to stop killing their fellow Salvadorians, A death squad assassinated the archbishop only one day after his famous sermon.
1980 – The deposed shah of Iran, Muhammad Riza Pahlavi, left Panama for Egypt.
1981 – US Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions
1981 – U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law making statutory rape a crime for men but not women.
1983 – U.S. President Reagan first proposed development of technology to intercept enemy missiles. The proposal became known as the Strategic Defense Initiative and “Star Wars.”
1983 – Dr. Barney Clark died after 112 days with a permanent artificial heart.
1989 – A 1,000-foot diameter asteroid missed Earth by about 430,000 miles.
1989 – Two electrochemists, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischman, announced that they had created nuclear fusion in a test tube at room temperature.
1993 – U.N. experts announced that record ozone lows had been registered over a large area of the Western Hemisphere.
1994 – Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexico’s leading presidential candidate, was assassinated in Tijuana. Mario Aburto Martinez was arrested at the scene and confessed to the killing.
1994 – Howard Stern formally announced his Libertarian run for New York governor.
1998 – Germany’s largest bank pledged $3.1 million to Jewish foundations as restitution for Nazi looting.
1998 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that term limits for state lawmakers were constitutional.
1998 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired his Cabinet.
1999 – NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana gave formal approval for air strikes against Serbian targets.
2001 – Russia’s orbiting Mir space station plunged into the South Pacific after its 15-years of use.
2003 – In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 11 soldiers of the 507th Maintenance Company as well as 18 U.S. Marines are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom
2005 – Major explosion and fire at the BP’s Texas City Refinery kills 15 workers in Texas City, Texas
2005 – The United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, refuses to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube
2010 – US President Barack Obama signs the Affordable Care Act (ACA), nicknamed ‘Obamacare’, expanding the availability and affordability of health care insurance
2013 – The US Senate approves its first budget in four years by a margin of 50–49
2019 – More than 130 Fulani people killed in Ogossagou, Mali, in attack by Dogon hunters, prompting government ban on the hunters
2019 – Syrian Democratic Forces announce that the last Islamic State territory has been retaken raising flags in Baghuz, Syria and ending the five-year Islamic State “caliphate”
2020 – New York confirmed as new center of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US with 20,875 cases (5,707 in the last day) and 157 deaths
2020 – WHO says the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating, 1st 100,000 cases took 67 days, 2nd 100,000 cases 11 days, 3rd 100,000 cases 4 days
2021 – Cargo ship Ever Given gets stuck in the Suez Canal, Egypt, a 400m megaship it completely blocks the shipping canal
2022 – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken formally declares that members of Russia armed forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
