1531 – Henry VIII recognised as supreme head of Church in England by the Convocation of Canterbury
1618 – Johann Kepler discovered the third Law of Planetary Motion.
1702 – James II’s daughter Anne Stuart becomes Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland following the death of William III
1782 – The Gnadenhutten massacre took place. About 90 Indians were killed by militiamen in Ohio in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded
1880 – U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes declared that the United States would have jurisdiction over any canal built across the isthmus of Panama.
1884 – Susan B. Anthony addresses U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote, 16 years after legislators 1st introduced a federal women’s suffrage amendment.
1905 – In Russia, it was reported that the peasant revolt was spreading to Georgia.
1913 – Internal Revenue Service begins to levy & collect income taxes
1917 – Russia’s “February Revolution” began with rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg. The revolution was called the “February Revolution” due to Russia’s use of the Old Style calendar.
1917 – The U.S. Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule, requiring a two-thirds majority to end debate, at the urging of Woodrow Wilson
1934 – Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
1943 – Japanese forces attacked American troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville. The battle lasted five days.
1945 – Phyllis Mae Daley received a commission in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. She later became the first African-American nurse to serve duty in World War II.
1948 – McCollum v. Board of Education: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools was unconstitutional. https://www.britannica.com/topic/McCollum-v-Board-of-Education
1954 – France and Vietnam opened talks in Paris on a treaty to form the state of Indochina
1958 – William Faulkner says US school degenerated to become babysitters
1971 – Joe Frazier ends Muhammad Ali’s 31-fight winning streak at Madison Square Garden, NYC; retains heavyweight boxing title by unanimous points decision over 15 rounds in the “Fight of the Century”
1973 – Two bombs exploded near Trafalgar Square in Great Britain. 234 people were injured.
1979 – The compact disc is presented to the public
1982 – The U.S. accused the Soviets of killing 3,000 Afghans with poison gas.
1985 – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reported that 407,700 Americans were millionaires. That was more than double the total from just five years before.
1991 – Planeloads of US troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists & 2 American soldiers it captured
1999 – The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Timothy McVeigh for the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
1999 – The White House, under President Bill Clinton, directed the firing of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee from his job at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The firing was a result of alleged security violations.
2001 – The U.S. House of Representatives voted for an across-the-board tax cut of nearly $1 trillion over the next decade
2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history and one of the most enduring aviation mysteries
2018 – US President Donald Trump authorizes tariffs on steel and aluminium, excluding Canada and Mexico
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
