51 – Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth)
1215 – King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III
1522 – Anne Boleyn makes her debut at the English court at the Green Castle pageant
1681 – England’s King Charles II granted a charter to William Penn for an area that later became the state of Pennsylvania.
1699 – Jews are expelled from Lübeck, Germany
1766 – The British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, which had caused bitter and violent opposition in the U.S. colonies.
1789 – The Constitution of the United States went into effect.
1790 – France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land
1791 – Vermont was admitted as the 14th U.S. state. It was the first addition to the original 13 American colonies.
1793 – Washington’s 2nd inauguration as US President, shortest speech (133 words)
1794 – The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. The Amendment limited the jurisdiction of the federal courts to automatically hear cases brought against a state by the citizens of another state. Later interpretations expanded this to include citizens of the state being sued, as well
1829 – Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Andrew Jackson’s inaugural ball
1841 – Longest US presidential inauguration speech (8,443 words) by William Henry Harrison
1861 – The Confederate States of America adopted the “Stars and Bars” flag.
1863 – Territory of Idaho established
1894 – Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed
1904 – In Korea, Russian troops retreated toward the Manchurian border as 100,000 Japanese troops advanced.
1908 – The New York board of education banned the act of whipping students in school.
1921 – Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas
1922 – 1st vampire film “Nosferatu”, an un-authorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, premieres at the Berlin Zoological Garden, Germany
1925 – Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office in Washington, DC. The presidential inauguration was broadcast on radio for the first time.
1933 – U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt gave his inauguration speech in which he said “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.”
1933 – Labor Secretary Frances Perkins became the first woman to serve in a Presidential administrative cabinet.
1943 – Transport #50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor
1945 – United Kingdom’s Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), joins the British Auxiliary Transport Service as a driver
1962 – AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation
1964 – Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. announces plans for Poor People’s Campaign
1972 – Abercorn Restaurant bombing: a bomb explodes in a crowded restaurant in Belfast, killing two civilians and wounding 130
1979 – US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter’s rings
1985 – WWII veterans return to the “Bridge over the River Kwai”
1991 – Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW
1994 – Four Muslim fundamentalists were found guilty in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York. https://www.history.com/news/world-trade-center-bombing-1993-facts
1994 – Bosnia’s Croats and Moslems signed an agreement to form a federation in a loose economic union with Croatia.
1997 – U.S. President Clinton barred federal spending on human cloning.
1998 – Microsoft repaired software that apparently allowed hackers to shut down computers in government and university offices nationwide.
1998 – The U.S. Supreme Court said that federal law banned on-the-job sexual harassment even when both parties are the same sex.
2001 – IRA detonates a bomb in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, injuring 11 people
2002 – Canada banned human embryo cloning but permitted government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.
2007 – Estonian parliamentary election: approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, world’s 1st nationwide vote where part of the vote casting allowed by remote electronic voting
2009 – International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur becoming the first sitting head of state to be indicted
2012 – Vladimir Putin won re-election in Russia’s presidential election
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
