1634 – 1st tavern in Boston (Mass) opens (Samuel Cole)
1791 – 1st US internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
1803 – The first impeachment trial of a U.S. Judge, John Pickering, began.
1812 – The U.S. Congress passed the first foreign aid bill.
1820 – Missouri Compromise passes, allowing Missouri to join the United States despite slavery still being legal there.
1837 – Congress increases US Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9
1845 – Florida became the 27th U.S. state.
1849 – US Home Department (later renamed the Department of the Interior) established by Congress
1849 – The U.S. Congress created the territory of Minnesota.
1855 – US Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use
1878 – Russia and the Ottomans signed the treaty of San Stenafano. The treaty granted independence to Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and the autonomy of Bulgaria.
1885 – US Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of federal government)
1910 – J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announced his withdrawal from business to administer his father’s fortune for an “uplift in humanity”. He also appealed to the U.S. Congress for the creation of the Rockefeller Foundation.
1913 – Woman suffrage procession through Washington, D.C. organized by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns and led by Inez Milholland. Ida B. Wells marched with her Illinois delegation despite blacks being told to march in a separate section.
1931 – The “Star Spangled Banner,” written by Francis Scott Key, was adopted as the American national anthem. The song was originally a poem known as “Defense of Fort McHenry.”
1934 – John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol
1952 – The U.S. Supreme Court upheld New York’s Feinberg Law that banned Communist teachers in the U.S.
1972 – Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia
1980 – 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus is decommissioned
1985 – Women Against Pornography awarded its Pig Award to Huggies Diapers. The activists claimed that the TV ads for diapers had “crossed the line between eye-catching and porn.”
1985 – National Union of Mine Workers in Britain ends a 51 week strike
1987 – The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a package of $30 million in non-lethal aid for the Nicaraguan Contras.
1991 – Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers. The scene was captured on amateur video. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/police-brutality-caught-on-video
1991 – Iraqi generals and US general “Stormin’ Norman” Schwarzkopf meet to discuss Gulf War cease fire
1992 – US President George H. W. Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to
1995 – A U.N. peacekeeping mission in Somalia ended. Several gunmen were killed by U.S. Marines in Mogadishu while overseeing the pull out of peacekeepers.
2003 – New embassies opened in Kenya and Tanzania, to replace those lost in the 1998 terrorist bombings.
2005 – Mayerthorpe Incident: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. Deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 North-West Rebellion.
2013 – 45 people are killed by a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan
2020 – Iran releases 54,000 people from prison to avoid spread of COVID-19 as country reports 77 deaths and 2,300 cases including two dozen MPs
2020 – Last Ebola patient discharged from hospital in Beni, DR Congo, raising hopes outbreak at an end in the country after 2,300 deaths
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
