1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson submitted a $1 billion and asks Congress to pass his Economic Opportunity Act as part of his War on Poverty
0597 BC – Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king
1190 – York (England) Pogrom: Jews seek refuge in Clifford’s Tower, which is then besieged by a mob; about 150 people are massacred or commit suicide rather than submit to Christian baptism
1322 – Battle of Boroughbridge in the First War of Scottish Independence.
1345 – Holy spirit glides above fire; “the miracle of Amsterdam (legend)”
1521 – Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines. He was killed the next month by natives.
1527 – The Emperor Babur defeated the Rajputs at the Battle of Kanvaha in India.
1621 – Samoset walked into the settlement of Plymouth Colony, later Plymouth, MA. Samoset was a native from the Monhegan tribe in Maine who spoke English.
1649 – Jesuit priests Jean de Brebeuf 1593-1649 and Gabriel Lalement 1611-1649 are tortured by Iroquois invaders at St-Louis
1769 – Louis-Antoine de Bougainville’s expedition of two ships completes first French circumnavigation of the world arriving in Saint-Malo, France (also carried 1st woman to circumnavigate the world, Jeanne Baré)
1792 – Denmark becomes the first nation to ban the transatlantic slave trade, for financial reasons. Doesn’t go into effect until 1803 causing a frenzy of activity amongst slave traders who even receive financial support.
1802 – The U.S. Congress established the West Point Military Academy in New York.
1815 – Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium
1850 – The novel “The Scarlet Letter,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was published for the first time.
1861 – Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who was evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
1870 – Hiram R. Revels makes 1st official speech by an African American in the US Senate
1882 – The U.S. Senate approved a treaty allowing the United States to join the Red Cross.
1907 – The world’s largest cruiser, the British Invincible was completed at Glasgow.
1909 – Cuba suffered its first revolt only six weeks after the inauguration of Gomez.
1912 – Mrs William Howard Taft plants first cherry tree in Washington DC
1913 – The 15,000-ton battleship Pennsylvania was launched at Newport News, VA.
1915 – The Federal Trade Commission began operation.
1921 – Britain signs a trade agreement with the USSR and sends a trade mission to Moscow: this goes against the US, who in the same month refused to sign a trade agreement
1926 – Physicist Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fuel rocket.
1928 – The U.S. planned to send 1,000 more Marines to Nicaragua.
1935 – Adolf Hitler ordered a German rearmament and violated the Versailles Treaty.
1939 – Germany occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia.
1945 – Iwo Jima was declared secure by the Allies. However, small pockets of Japanese resistance still existed.
1946 – John Dick’s headless, armless and legless torso found on Hamilton Mountain, leading to sensational trial of his wife Evelyn, later convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
1947 – Martial law was withdrawn in Tel Aviv.
1955 – NHL President Clarence Campbell suspends Montreal Canadiens superstar Maurice “Rocket” Richard for the remainder of the season after he viciously attacked an opponent; Riots ensued in Montreal
1958 – Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company’s founding.
1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson submitted a $1 billion war on poverty program to Congress.
1967 – Quebec raises provincial sales taxes from 6% to 8%; new program to supplement family allowance; highest sales tax in Canada.
1968 – U.S. troops in Vietnam destroyed a village consisting mostly of women and children. The event is known as the My-Lai massacre.
1973 – OPEC discusses raising prices to offset decline of U.S. dollar value
1977 – US President Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland
1978 – Italian politician Aldo Moro was kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas. Moro was later murdered by the group.
1982 – Russia announced they would halt their deployment of new nuclear missiles in Western Europe.
1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped by gunmen. He died while in captivity.
1985 – Terry Anderson, an Associated Press newsman, was taken hostage in Beirut. He was released in December 4, 1991.
1988 – Indictments were issued for Lt. Colonel Oliver North, Vice Admiral John Poindexter of the National Security Council, and two others for their involvement in the Iran-Contra affair.
1989 – The Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee approved large-scale agricultural reforms and elected the party’s 100 members to the Congress of People’s Deputies.
1993 – Edmonton, Alberta Police use pepper spray and batons to control over 100 youths who attacked passers-by in the Eaton Centre and Edmonton Centre malls, after a screening of the rap movie spoof CB4
1994 – Tonya Harding pled guilty in Portland, OR, to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for covering up the attack on her skating rival Nancy Kerrigan. She was fined $100,000. She was also banned from amateur figure skating.
1995 – Mississippi House of Representatives formally abolishes slavery & ratifies 13th Amendment of US Constitution
1998 – Rwanda began mass trials for 1994 genocide with 125,000 suspects for 500,000 murders.
1999 – The 20 members of the European Union’s European Commission announced their resignations amid allegations of corruption and financial mismanagement.
2005 – Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
2010 – Parts of the Kasubi Tombs, architectural treasure and burial site of the Buganda kings, burns down in Kampala, Uganda
2014 – Voters in Crimea vote overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia amid international condemnation of its design
2016 – US college student Otto Warmbier is sentenced to 15 years hard labour for trying to steal a political poster, in Pyongyang, North Korea
2019 – Beached dead whale found to have 88 pounds of plastic inside it, including 40 pounds of plastic bags, in Mabini, Philippines
2021 – Declassified US intelligence report says Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized efforts to aid re-election of Donald Trump
2023 – Banking jitters continues as US Wall Street banks agree to deposit US$30 billion in First Republic Bank as its stock plummets in the wake of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
