1942 – 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee, Alabama
0322 BC – Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, died.
0161 – Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire
0321 – Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire
0322 – The Greek philosopher Aristotle dies.
1277 – Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological theses by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris
1530 – English King Henry VIII’s divorce request is denied by the Pope
1644 – Massachusetts establishes 1st two-chamber legislature in colonies
1774 – King George III charges colonists in Boston with attempting to injure British commerce, paving the way for the closing of the port to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party
1778 – Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast at Yaquina Bay
1799 – In Palestine, Napoleon captured Jaffa and his men massacred more than 2,000 Albanian prisoners.
1801 – Massachusetts enacts first state voter registration law
1827 – Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England, is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand
1847 – U.S. General Winfield Scott occupies Vera Cruz, Mexico.
1849 – The Austrian Reichstag was dissolved.
1862 – Confederate forces surprise the Union army at the Battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas, but the Union is victorious.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell received a patent (U.S. Patent No. 174,465) for his telephone.
1901 – A grand jury indicted four citizens of Anderson, SC, that had been operating a slavery system in parts of South Carolina. It was determined that many African-Americans were captured while traveling, were jailed and then sent to work for local landowners.
1904 – The Japanese bombed the Russian town of Vladivostok.
1904 – In Springfield, OH, a mob broke into a jail and shot a black man accused of murder.
1906 – Finland becomes the third country to give women the right to vote, decreeing universal suffrage for all citizens over 24, however, barring those persons who are supported by the state.
1908 – Cincinnati’s Mayor Leopold Markbreit announced before the city council that, “Women are not physically fit to operate automobiles.”
1911 – In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. sent 20,000 troops to the border of Mexico.
1918 – Finland signed an alliance treaty with Germany.
1918 – President Woodrow Wilson authorizes US Army’s Distinguished Service Medal
1921 – Red Army under Trotsky attacks sailors of Kronstadt naval base near St Petersburg, Russia
1927 – A Texas law that banned Negroes from voting was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
1932 – Riots at Ford factory in Dearborn, Michigan, 4 killed
1933 – The board game Monopoly was invented.
1936 – Hitler sent German troops into the Rhineland in violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles.
1942 – 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee, Alabama
1942 – Japanese troops landed on New Guinea.
1945 – U.S. troops capture the Ludendorff Bridge and cross the Rhine at Remagen, The legendary capture yielded little strategic advantage but it elevated the morale of the U.S. troops in pursuit of retreating German fighters,
1946 – Bikini Atoll islanders are evacuated by the US government to make way for a nuclear testing site
1951 – U.N. forces in Korea under General Matthew Ridgeway launched Operation Ripper against the Chinese.
1965 – Police brutally attack civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, Scores of demonstrators were injured, and the day entered history books as Bloody Sunday. The event helped to shift public opinion in favor of the Civil Rights movement.
1968 – The Battle of Saigon, begun on the day of the Tet Offensive, ends.
1971 – A thousand U.S. planes bombed Cambodia and Laos.
1971 – A speech by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman helps spark the Bangladesh war of independence
1975 – The U.S. Senate revised the filibuster rule. The new rule allowed 60 senators to limit debate instead of the previous two-thirds.
1977 – Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin meets US President Jimmy Carter
1979 – Voyager 1 reaches Jupiter.
1981 – Anti-government guerrillas in Colombia executed the kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Allen Bitterman. The guerrillas accused Bitterman of being a CIA agent.
1985 – The first AIDS antibody test, an ELISA-type test, was released.
1989 – Poland accused the Soviet Union of a World War II massacre in Katyn.
1991 – Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
1994 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that parodies that poke fun at an original work can be considered “fair use” that does not require permission from the copyright holder.
1994 – In Moldova, a referendum was rejected by 90% of voters to form a union with Rumania.
1996 – 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)
1999 – In El Salvador, Francisco Flores Pérez of the ruling Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) was elected president.
2002 – A federal judge awarded Anna Nicole Smith more than $88 million in damages. The ruling was the latest in a legal battle over the estate of Smith’s late husband, J. Howard Marshall II.
2003 – Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center announced that they had transferred 6.7 gigabytes of uncompressed data from Sunnvale, CA, to Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 58 seconds. The data was sent via fiber-optic cables and traveled 6,800 miles.
2009 – NASA’s Kepler Mission, a space photometer for searching for extrasolar planets in the Milky Way galaxy, was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
2015 – 54 people are killed & 143 are wounded by 5 Boko Haram suicide bombings in Maiduguri city, Nigeria
2017 – In Malta, the Azure Window landmark collapsed into the sea after period of heavy storms.
2019 – Chinese telecommunications company Huawei sues the US government over a federal ban on its products
2022 – Global death toll from Covid-19 passes 6 million according to Johns Hopkins figures, with 57% of the world’s population fully vaccinated
2022 – UN refugee agency says Russian invasion of Ukraine has now led to 1.7 million people fleeing the country, civilian deaths recorded at 406 with 801 injured
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
