1948 – Israel becomes an independent state, The announcement by Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, triggered a 10-month armed conflict known as the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. It started the day after the proclamation as troops of Egypt, Syria, Transjordan and Iraq invaded the young nation.
1097 – Siege of Nicaea began during the first Crusade – Turkey
1264 – King Henry III was captured by his brother in law Simon deMontfort at the Battle of Lewes in France.
1501 – Lisbon Portugal, explorer Gaspar Corte Réal leaves on his second voyage to Newfoundland; never heard from again
1509 – In the Battle of Agnadello, French defeated Venitians in Northern Italy.
1607 – An expedition led by Captain Christopher Newport went ashore at Jamestown, Virginia. The group had arrived at the location the day before. This became the first permanent English colony in America.
1610 – French King Henri IV (Henri de Navarre) was assassinated by a fanatical monk, François Ravillac.
1643 – Louis XIV became King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
1747 – In the Atlantic New France Governor Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de La Jonquière 1685-1752 captured by the British at sea and taken to England.
1787 – Delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution.
1796 – The first smallpox vaccination was given by Edward Jenner. He enoculated James Phipps using cowpox matter.
1804 – William Clark set off the famous expedition from Camp Dubois. A few days later, in St. Louis, Meriwether Lewis joined the group. The group was known as the “Corps of Discovery.”
1811 – Paraguay gained independence from Spain.
1853 – Gail Borden applied for a patent for condensed milk.
1868 – Japanese Boshin War: End of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former Shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikk.
1878 – The name Vaseline was registered by Robert A. Chesebrough.
1897 – “The Stars and Stripes Forever” by John Phillip Sousa was performed for the first time. It was at a ceremony where a statue of George Washington was unveiled.
1897 – Guglielmo Marconi made the first communication by wireless telegraph.
1904 – St Louis hosts the first Olympic Games to be held in the United States
1913 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
1931 – Dalen Shootings; five people are killed in Dalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
1932 – “We Want Beer!”” parade in New York
1935 – The Philippines ratified an independence agreement.
1939 – Lina Medina becomes the world’s youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
1940 – During World War II, the Netherlands surrendered to Nazi Germany.
1942 – The Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) was established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
1943 – Australian Hospital Ship Centaur sunk by a Japanese submarine off the south Queensland coast The ship was crewed by members of the Australian merchant navy and only 64 of the 333 on board survived
1944 – General Rommel, Speidel & von Stïlpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler
1946 – The House of Commons passes the Canadian Citizenship Act; first nationality statute in Canada to define its people as Canadians
1948 – Israel becomes an independent state, The announcement by Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, triggered a 10-month armed conflict known as the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. It started the day after the proclamation as troops of Egypt, Syria, Transjordan and Iraq invaded the young nation. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/state-of-israel-proclaimed
1955 – The Warsaw Pact, a Easter European mutual-defense treaty, was signed in Poland by eight communist bloc countries including the Soviet Union. The pact was dissoved in 1991.
1960 – USSR launch first (unmanned) space capsule
1961 – Busses carrying Freedom Riders was bombed and burned in Anniston and Birmingham, Alabama.
1964 – Underground America Day is first observed
1969 – Abortion & contraception legalized in Canada
1970 – The Red Army Faction (RAF) begins operations, The German left-wing activist group grew out of the peace and anti-imperialist movement of the 1960s. In reaction to the violent oppression by the German state, they later began operating as a terrorist cell and are responsible for several murders.
1970 – Mississippi state police kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State University, Mississippi)
1973 – Skylab One was launched into orbit around Earth as the first U.S. manned space station.
1973 – US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military
1975 – U.S. forces raided the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and recaptured the American merchant ship Mayaguez. All 40 crew members were released safely by Cambodia. About 40 U.S. servicemen were killed in the military operation.
1980 – U.S. President Carter inaugurated the Department of Health and Human Services.
1982 – British troops return in force to the Falklands, fierce fighting brings heavy casualties to both sides in the next few weeks
1985 – Ray Kroc’s first McDonald’s restaurant became the first fast-food business museum. It is located in Des Plaines, Illinois.
1988 – In the Andean village of Cayara, Peru’s military was involved in a massacre of at least 26 peasants.
1988 – Carrollton bus disaster: A drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, USA hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27
1991 – Angry truckers blockade Parliament Hill; say they can’t compete due to higher Canadian taxes than US
1992 – Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev addressed members of the U.S. Congress, appealing to them to pass a bill to aid the people of the former Soviet Union.
1998 – The Associated Press marked its 150th anniversary.
1999 – North Korea returned the remains of six U.S. soldiers that had been killed during the Korean War.
2001 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that there was no exception in federal law for people to use marijuana for medical purposes.
2002 – Ten members of the Darwin-based Network Against Prohibition invade the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory of Australia.
2005 – Ex-America (CV-66), a decommissioned supercarrier of the United States Navy, is deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. She is the largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.
2008 – The Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species due to loss of Arctic sea ice
2012 – 1,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons agree to end mass hunger strike
2018 – Boulder City Council in Colorado votes to ban assault weapons
2018 – US Supreme Court strikes down federal law banning sports gambling in most states
2019 – Huge protests closes schools in Kashmir after the rape of a three-year-old girl
2020 – Former pandemic agency head Rick Bright testifies to a US House Committee “without better planning, 2020 could be the darkest winter in modern history”
2022 – 18 year-old gunman kills 10 people and wounds three at a Tops supermarket in east Buffalo, New York, in a racially motivating attack
2022 – US records one million COVID-19 deaths, with The White House ordering flags to fly at half mast through the weekend
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
