1629 – English King Charles I dissolves Parliament against opposition, imprisoning 9 members of parliament
1778 – Nathanael Greene is appointed Quartermaster General of the Continental Army under George Washington
1789 – Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances
1807 – The U.S. Congress passed an act to “prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States… from any foreign kingdom, place, or country.”
1819 – Territory of Arkansas organized
1836 – Texas declared its independence from Mexico and an ad interim government was formed.
1853 – Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Territory
1861 – US creates Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah territories
1877 – In the U.S., Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election by the U.S. Congress. Samuel J. Tilden, however, had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
1882 – Queen Victoria narrowly escapes assassination when Roderick Maclean shoots at her while boarding a train in Windsor
1899 – Mount Rainier National Park in Washington was established by the U.S. Congress.
1903 – The Martha Washington Hotel opened for business in New York City. The hotel had 416 rooms and was the first hotel exclusively for women.
1917 – Citizens of Puerto Rico were granted U.S. citizenship with the enactment of the Jones Act.
1925 – State and federal highway officials developed a nationwide route-numbering system and adopted the familiar U.S. shield-shaped, numbered marker.
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1933 – “King Kong” film directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, starring Fay Wray premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy in NYC
1939 – The Massachusetts legislature voted to ratify the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution. These first ten amendments had gone into effect 147 years before
1946 – Ho Chi Minh elected President of North Vietnam
1965 – US Air Force begins Operation Rolling Thunder, a three year sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam
1970 – Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years
1974 – Grand jury concludes US President Richard Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up
1984 – The first McDonald’s franchise was closed. A new location was opened across the street from the old location in Des Plaines, IL.
1985 – The U.S. government approved a screening test for AIDS to be used to keep infected blood from entering the blood supply.
1987 – The U.S. government reported that the median price for a new home had gone over $100,000 for the first time.
1991 – UN votes in favor of US resolutions for cease fire with Iraq
1991 – US Army controversially destroys a retreating Iraqi Republican Guard column at Rumaila Oil Field, despite a ceasefire being observed
1994 – Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcasted, it is, but he doesn’t
1998 – Images from the American spacecraft Galileo indicated that the Jupiter moon Europa has a liquid ocean and a source of interior heat.
2000 – In Great Britain, Chile’s former President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte was freed from house arrest and allowed to return to Chile. Britain’s Home Secretary Jack Straw had concluded that Pinochet was mentally and physically unable to stand trial. Belgium, France, Spain and Switzerland had sought the former Chilean leader on human-rights violations.
2001 – The Taliban began the destruction of ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan.
2004 – Voters in the U.S. state of Georgia vote on a referendum concerning its Confederacy-derived flag.
2004 – War in Iraq: Al Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500
2008 – Dmitri A. Medvedev, a former aide to Russian president Vladimir Putin who has never held elected office, won the Russian presidential election in a landslide. Putin remained in a position of power, serving as Medvedev’s prime minister.
2014 – President Vladimir Putin receives unanimous approval from Russia’s parliament to send troops to the Ukraine
2016 – The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved sanctions on North Korea that included mandatory inspections of cargo leaving and entering North Korea, a ban on all sales and transfers of small arms and light weapons and expulsion of diplomats that engage in “illicit activities.” The sanctions were in reaction to the latest nuclear test and rocket launch in defiance of a ban on all nuclear-related activity.
2021 – Six books by Dr. Seuss will cease publication because of racist and insensitive imagery according to Dr. Seuss Enterprises
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
