1991 – Following Iraq’s capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, US President George H. W. Bush told Congress that “aggression is defeated. The war is over”
1447 – Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V
1454 – Thirteen Years’ War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to Casimir IV of Poland, and the Polish king agrees to help in their struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam.
1590 – Dutch and English army led by Maurice of Nassau captures heavily protected city of Breda using a small assault force hidden in a peat barge
1714 – Treaty of Rastatt signed by Austria and France ending hostilities between them during the War of the Spanish Succession
1816 – Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck, Germany
1820 – The Missouri Compromise was enacted by the U.S. Congress and signed by U.S. President James Monroe. The act admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory.
1836 – The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army ended. The Mexican army of three thousand men defeated the 189 Texas volunteers.
1854 – At the Washington Monument, several men stole the Pope’s Stone from the lapidarium.
1857 – The U.S. Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision ruled that blacks could not sue in federal court to be citizens.
1869 – The first periodic table of chemical elements is presented, Dmitri Mendeleev presented the system to the Russian Chemical Society on that day.
1884 – Over 100 suffragists, led by Susan B. Anthony, present President Chester A. Arthur with a demand that he voice support for female suffrage.
1899 – Aspirin was patented by German researchers Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dreser.
1900 – In West Virginia, an explosion trapped 50 coal miners underground.
1901 – An assassin tried to kill Wilhelm II of Germany in Bremen.
1907 – British creditors of the Dominican Republic claimed that the U.S. had failed to collect debts.
1916 – The Allies recapture Fort Douaumont in France during the Battle of Verdun.
1921 – Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
1939 – In Spain, Jose Miaja took over the Madrid government after a military coup and vowed to seek “peace with honor.”
1944 – During World War II, U.S. heavy bombers began the first American raid on Berlin. Allied planes dropped 2000 tons of bombs.
1945 – Dutch resistance fighters kill two, and injure one Nazi officer in an attempt to hijack food supplies at de Woeste Hoeve, Netherlands
1946 – Ho Chi Minh, the President of Vietnam, struck an agreement with France that recognized his country as an autonomous state within the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
1947 – The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the contempt conviction of John L. Lewis.
1947 – Winston Churchill announced that he opposed British troop withdrawals from India.
1951 – Trial of Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel Rosenberg begins for providing top-secret information to the Soviet Union
1957 – The British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana.
1959 – Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)
1960 – Switzerland granted women the right to vote in municipal elections.
1960 – The United States announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam.
1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his plan to establish a draft lottery.
1967 – Stalin’s daughter defects to the West, The Soviet dictator’s daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, caused an international uproar when she approached the United States embassy in New Delhi and later became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon imposed price controls on oil and gas.
1975 – Iran and Iraq announced that they had settled their border dispute.
1978 – Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and his lawyer shot by a militant white supremacist sniper in Georgia, leaving Flynt crippled and wheelchair bound
1980 – Islamic militants in Tehran said that they would turn over American hostages to the Revolutionary Council.
1981 – U.S. President Reagan announced a plan to cut 37,000 federal jobs.
1983 – The United States Football League began its first season of pro football competition.
1990 – In Afghanistan, an attempted coup to remove President Najibullah from office failed.
1990 – The Russian Parliament passed a law that sanctioned the ownership of private property.
1991 – Following Iraq’s capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, US President George H. W. Bush told Congress that “aggression is defeated. The war is over”
1991 – In Paris, five men were jailed for plotting to smuggle Libyan arms to the Irish Republican Army.
1992 – The computer virus “Michelangelo” went into effect.
1998 – A Connecticut state lottery accountant gunned down three supervisors and the lottery chief before killing himself.
2001 – US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham establishes the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve to be used in emergency circumstances
2006 – South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs a bill into legislation that would ban most abortions in the state.
2007 – Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice trial.
2014 – 2014 Crimean parliament votes unanimously to make the Crimea part of Russia
2015 – The NASA space probe Dawn entered orbit around the protoplanet Ceres in the asteroid belt.
2015 – US State Department charges 2 Vietnamese and a Canadian citizen with cyberfraud, for stealing 1 billion email addresses for spam
2018 – World’s oldest message in a bottle found in Western Australia, thrown from German ship Paula 132 years ago (12 June 1886)
2020 – Russia refuses to reduce oil production over COVID-19 fears, breaking with Saudi Arabia and OPEC and prompting a price war
2021 – US Senate passes $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill the American Rescue Plan
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
