1776 – Abigail Adams writes to husband John that women are “determined to foment a rebellion” if the new Declaration of Independence fails to guarantee their rights.
1084 – Anti-pope Clemens crowns German King Hendrik IV as Holy Roman Emperor
1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine are present and join the Crusade
1521 – Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St Lazarus, Philippines
1547 – In France, Francis–king since 1515–dies and is succeeded by his son Henry II.
1657 – English Parliament makes the Humble Petition to Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell offering him the crown: he declines
1683 – Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I and King John III Sobieski of Poland sign a covenant against Turkey, beginning of the Holy League
1717- A sermon on “The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ” by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy
1776 – Abigail Adams writes to husband John that women are “determined to foment a rebellion” if the new Declaration of Independence fails to guarantee their rights.
1779 – Russia and Turkey sign a treaty by which they promise to take no military action in the Crimea.
1808 – French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names
1822 – Massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following a rebellion attempt, (later depicted by artist Eugène Delacroix)
1836 – The first monthly installment of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens is published in London.
1854 – The U.S. government signed the Treaty of Kanagawa with Japan. The act opened the ports of Shimoda and Hakotade to American trade.
1862 – Skirmishing between Rebels and Union forces took place at Island 10 on the Mississippi River.
1870 – In Perth Amboy, NJ, Thomas Munday Peterson became the first black to vote in the U.S.
1885 – Binney & Smith Company was founded in New York City. The company later became Crayola, LLC.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower in Paris officially opens on the Left Bank as part of the Exhibition of 1889.
1900 – The W.E. Roach Company was the first automobile company to put an advertisement in a national magazine. The magazine was the “Saturday Evening Post”.
1900 – In France, the National Assembly passed a law reducing the workday for women and children to 11 hours.
1901 – In Russia, the Czar lashed out at Socialist-Revolutionaries with the arrests of 72 people and the seizing of two printing presses.
1902 – In Tennessee, 22 coal miners were killed by an explosion.
1904 – In India, hundreds of Tibetans were slaughtered by the British.
1905 – Kaiser Wilhelm arrived in Tangier proclaiming to support for an independent state of Morocco.
1908 – 250,000 coal miners in Indianapolis, IN, went on strike to await a wage adjustment.
1909 – Serbia accepted Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1916 – General John Pershing and his army rout Pancho Villa‘s army in Mexico.
1917 – The U.S. purchased and took possession of the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million.
1918 – For the first time in the U.S., Daylight Saving Time went into effect.
1921 – Great Britain declared a state of emergency because of the thousands of coal miners on strike.
1923 – French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die
1930 – The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next 38 years
1933 – The U.S. Congress authorized the Civilian Conservation Corps to relieve rampant unemployment.
1939 – Britain and France agreed to support Poland if Germany threatened invasion.
1945 – The United States and Britain bar a Soviet supported provisional regime in Warsaw from entering the U.N. meeting in San Francisco.
1948 – The Soviets in Germany began controlling the Western trains headed toward Berlin.
1949 – Winston Churchill declared that the A-bomb was the only thing that kept the U.S.S.R. from taking over Europe.
1949 – Newfoundland entered the Canadian confederation as its 10th province.
1954 – The siege of Dien Bien Phu, the last French outpost in Vietnam, begins after the Viet Minh realize it cannot be taken by direct assault.
1959 – The Dalai Lama (Lhama Dhondrub, Tenzin Gyatso) began exile by crossing the border into India where he was granted political asylum. Gyatso was the 14th Daila Lama.
1960 – The South African government declared a state of emergency after demonstrations led to the death of more than 50 Africans.
1964 – Following a coup d’etat, a military dictatorship takes charge in Brazil
1966 – An estimated 200,000 anti-war demonstrators march in New York City.
1966 – The Soviet Union launched Luna 10, which became the first spacecraft to enter a lunar orbit.
1967 – U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Consular Treaty, the first bi-lateral pact with the Soviet Union since the Bolshevik Revolution.
1968 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson authorizes a troop surge in Vietnam, bringing the total number of US soldiers to a peak of 549,500
1970 – Following an Orange Order parade, intense riots erupt on the Springfield Road in Belfast; violence lasts for three days, and the British Army use CS gas for the first time in large quantities
1972 – Final day of the rum ration in the Royal Canadian Navy
1976 – The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that Karen Anne Quinlan could be disconnected from a respirator. Quinlan remained comatose until 1985 when she died.
1980 – U.S. President Carter deregulated the banking industry.
1981 – In Bangkok, Thailand, four of five Indonesian terrorists were killed after hijacking an airplane on March 28.
1983 – “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life,” is released in the US
1985 – The first edition of WrestleMania is held in New York, The annual event is the world’s most important wrestling meet. It is the biggest event organized by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
1989 – Donald Trump purchases Eastern’s Northeast Shuttle
1989 – Canada and France signed a fishing rights pact.
1990 – Major riots occur in London and other British towns in protest against the new Community Charge poll tax laws
1991 – Albania offered a multi-party election for the first time in 50 years. Incumbent President Ramiz Alia won.
1991 – Iraqi forces recaptured the northern city of Kirkuk from Kurdish guerillas.
1993 – Brandon Lee was killed accidentally while filming a movie.
1994 – “Nature” magazine announced that a complete skull of Australppithecus afarensis had been found in Ethiopia. The finding is of humankind’s earliest ancestor.
1998 – U.N. Security Council imposed arms embargo on Yugoslavia.
1998 – For the first time in U.S. history the federal government’s detailed financial statement was released. This occurred under the Clinton administration.
1999 – Three U.S. soldiers were captured by Yugoslav soldiers three miles from the Yugoslav border in Macedonia.
2000 – In Uganda, officials set the number of deaths linked to a doomsday religious cult, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments, at more than 900. In Kanungu, a March 17 fire at the cult’s church killed more than 530 and authorities subsequently found mass graves at various sites linked to the cult.
2004 – Air America Radio launched five stations around the U.S.
2004 – In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed
2013 – 14 Boko Haram suspects are killed in a Nigerian Army raid
2013 – 2 people die from bird flu (type H7N9) in China
2021 – French President Emmanuel Macron announces a new pandemic lockdown, closing schools for three weeks with new national restrictions
2021 – New York state legalizes recreational use of marijuana in legislation signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo (sales not legal for 18 months)
2021 – US President Joe Biden unveils ” the American Jobs Plan” one of the largest infrastructure plans in US history- worth $2 trillion
2022 – First truly complete sequence of a human genome published by Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium, after breakthroughs in new technology (previously just over 90% coded)
2022 – US announces it will release 1 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for six months to drive down prices
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
