1991 – Footage of Los Angeles police officers severely beating Rodney King causes a global outcry, The acquittal of the police officers involved sparked the Los Angeles riots in 1992.
473 – Glycerius appointed a puppet Emperor of the Western Empire by Burgundian king and patrician Gundobad (deposed 474)
1575 – Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi
1627 – Dutch privateer Piet Heyn attacks and conquers 22 Portuguese ships in Bay of Salvador, Brazil
1634 – 1st tavern in Boston (Mass) opens (Samuel Cole)
1791 – The U.S. Congress passed a resolution that created the U.S. Mint.
1791 – 1st US internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
1803 – The first impeachment trial of a U.S. Judge, John Pickering, began.
1812 – The U.S. Congress passed the first foreign aid bill.
1845 – Florida became the 27th U.S. state.
1845 – The U.S. Congress passed legislation overriding a U.S. President’s veto. It was the first time the Congress had achieved this.
1849 – The U.S. Department of the Interior was established.
1849 – The U.S. Congress created the territory of Minnesota.
1851 – The U.S. Congress authorized the 3-cent piece. It was the smallest U.S. silver coin.
1857 – Britain and France declared war on China.
1861 – Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs and granting them the full rights of free citizens
1863 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the conscription act compelling U.S. citizens to report for duty in the Civil War or pay $300.00.
1878 – Russia and the Ottomans signed the treaty of San Stenafano. The treaty granted independence to Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and the autonomy of Bulgaria.
1900 – Striking miners in Germany returned to work.
1903 – In St. Louis, MO, Barney Gilmore was arrested for spitting.
1903 – The U.S. imposed a $2 head tax on immigrants.
1904 – Wilhelm II of Germany made the first recording of a political document with Thomas Edison’s cylinder.
1905 – The Russian Czar agreed to create an elected assembly.
1908 – The U.S. government declared open war on U.S. anarchists.
1910 – J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announced his withdrawal from business to administer his father’s fortune for an “uplift in humanity”. He also appealed to the U.S. Congress for the creation of the Rockefeller Foundation.
1910 – In New York, Robert Forest founded the National Housing Association to fight deteriorating urban living conditions.
1910 – Nicaraguan rebels admitted defeat in open war and resorted to guerrilla tactics in the hope of U.S. intervention.
1913 – Woman suffrage procession through Washington, D.C. organized by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns and led by Inez Milholland. Ida B. Wells marched with her Illinois delegation despite blacks being told to march in a separate section.
1915 – The motion picture “Birth of a Nation” debuted in New York City.
1918 – The Treaty of Brest Litovsky was signed by Germany, Austria and Russia. The treaty ended Russia’s participation in World War I.
1923 – The first issue of Time magazine was published.
1924 – The last remnant of the Ottoman empire in Turkey is abolished, The end of the Islamic caliphate marked the demise of the 600-year old empire and gave way to the formation of a reformed Turkey under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
1931 – President Herbert Hoover signs a bill that makes Francis Scott Key’s “Star Spangled Banner,” the national anthem.
1934 – John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol
1939 – In Bombay, Ghandi began a fast to protest the state’s autocratic rule.
1941 – Moscow denounced the Axis rule in Bulgaria.
1942 – The RAF raids the industrial suburbs of Paris
1945 – Superman encountered Batman and Robin for the first time on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
1945 – During World War II, Finland declared war on the Axis.
1952 – The U.S. Supreme Court upheld New York’s Feinberg Law that banned Communist teachers in the U.S.
1956 – Morocco gained its independence.
1961 – King Hassan II ascends to throne of Morocco
1969 – Sirhan Sirhan testified in a Los Angeles court that he killed Robert Kennedy.
1973 – Japan disclosed its first defense plan since World War II.
1976 – 5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
1980 – The submarine Nautilus was decommissioned. The vessels final voyage had ended on May 26, 1979.
1982 – Senate begins debate on expulsion of Sen Harrison Williams (D-NJ)
1985 – The U.K. miners’ strike ends, The year-long dispute was the country’s longest-running industrial dispute and a defining issue of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government.
1985 – Women Against Pornography awarded its ‘Pig Award’ to Huggies Diapers. The activists claimed that the TV ads for diapers had “crossed the line between eye-catching and porn.”
1987 – The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a package of $30 million in non-lethal aid for the Nicaraguan Contras.
1991 – Footage of Los Angeles police officers severely beating Rodney King causes a global outcry, The acquittal of the police officers involved sparked the Los Angeles riots in 1992.
1992 – US President George H. W. Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to
1994 – The Mexican government reached a peace agreement with the Chiapas rebels.
1995 – A U.N. peacekeeping mission in Somalia ended. Several gunmen were killed by U.S. Marines in Mogadishu while overseeing the pull out of peacekeepers.
1999 – Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky appears on national television to explain her affair with President Bill Clinton.
2002 – Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.
2005 – Mayerthorpe Incident: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. Deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 North-West Rebellion.
2009 – The Sri Lankan cricket team is attacked by terrorists while on their way to the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore for 2nd Test against Pakistan; match abandoned
2013 – 45 people are killed by a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan
2013 – A 2 year old US girl becomes the first child born with HIV to be cured
2017 – Mass grave of 800 children and infants confirmed at a former Catholic care home in Tuam, Ireland
2020 – Iran releases 54,000 people from prison to avoid spread of COVID-19 as country reports 77 deaths and 2,300 cases including two dozen MPs
2020 – Last Ebola patient discharged from hospital in Beni, DR Congo, raising hopes outbreak at an end in the country after 2,300 deaths
2021 – Sarah Everard is kidnapped, raped and murdered by a UK policeman after being arrested under false pretenses in London
2021 – US President Joe Biden criticizes lifting of COVID-19 restrictions by Texas and Mississippi as “Neanderthal thinking”
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
