1309 – Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.
1351 – Battle of the Thirty: 30 English and 30 Breton knights and squires square off using swords, maces, lances and daggers – considered one of the most chivalrous battles in history
1513 – Spaniard Juan Ponce de León and his expedition first sight Florida
1794 – Congress authorizes the construction of six frigates, including the Constitution (Old Ironsides), for the U.S. Navy.
1814 – Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson defeats the Red Sticks, part of the Creek Indian tribe near Dadeville, Alabama
1836 – In Goliad, TX, about 350 Texan prisoners, including their commander James Fannin, were executed under orders from Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna. An estimated 30 Texans escaped execution.
1836 – The first Mormon temple was dedicated in Kirtland, OH.
1866 – U.S. President Andrew Johnson vetoed the civil rights bill, which later became the 14th amendment.
1900 – The London Parliament passed the War Loan Act that gave 35 million pounds to the Boer War cause in South Africa.
1904 – Mary Jarris “Mother” Jones was ordered by Colorado state authorities to leave the state. She was accused of stirring up striking coal miners.
1915 – Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid
1917 – The Seattle Metropolitans, of the Pacific Coast League of Canada, defeated the Montreal Canadiens and became the first U.S. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup.
1941 – Tokeo Yoshikawa arrived in Oahu, HI, and began spying for Japan on the U.S. Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
1952 – The U.S. Eighth Army reached the 38th parallel in Korea, the original dividing line between the two Koreas.
1958 – Nikita Khrushchev became the chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers in addition to First Secretary of the Communist Party.
1958 – The U.S. announced a plan to explore space near the moon.
1964 – A 9.2 magnitude earthquake hit 80 miles east of Anchorage, Alaska, killing 117 and producing a 50-foot tsunami that traveled over 8,000 miles.
1977 – The worst air crash in history occurs in Tenerife, Spain – 583 people died when 2 Boeing 747 aircraft collided on the runway.
1979 – US Supreme Court rules 8-1 that cops can’t randomly stop cars
1980 – The oil rig Alexander L. Kjelland collapses in high winds in the North Sea – Only 89 of 212 crew survived the Norwegian platform’s capsizing, which was caused by a fatigue crack in one of the legs.
1984 – Beginning of “tanker war”: over the next 9 months, 44 ships, including Iranian, Iraqi, Saudi Arabian and Kuwaiti tankers, are attacked by Iraqi or Iranian warplanes or damaged by mines
1997 – Russian workers, nearly 2 million, held a nationwide strike to protest unpaid wages.
1997 – In Australia, Governor-General William Deane signed a bill to overturn a 1996 Northern Territory act to legalize assisted suicides. The 1996 act was the first in the world to permit assisted suicides.
1998 – In the U.S., the FDA approved the prescription drug Viagra. It was the first pill for male impotence.
2002 – Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel.
2016 – Suicide bomb kills more than 70 people at a park in Lahore, Pakistan, Taliban connected Jamaat-ul-Ahrar claim responsibility
2019 – Facebook bans white nationalism and white supremacy following criticism that Christchurch terrorist able to live-stream his attack
2019 – US Special Council Robert S. Mueller writes a letter to US Attorney William Barr regarding Barr’s summary of the Mueller Report stating Barr’s letter “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the findings. “There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.”
2020 – $2.2 trillion stimulus package, largest in US history, signed into law by President Donald Trump saying “I never signed anything with a ‘T’ on it”
2021 – Iran and China sign major agreement guaranteeing Chinese investment of $400 billion and Iranian oil supply in return in Tehran
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
