2011 – Osama bin Laden is killed by a U.S. commando, Bin Laden was the founder of al-Qaeda, a militant group that claimed responsibility for a series of terrorist attacks on U.S. targets on September 11, 2001.
1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter
1230 – William de Braose, 10th Baron Abergavenny is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great
1497 – John Cabot’s expedition departs Bristol searching for new lands across the Atlantic
1536 – Anne Boleyn is arrested and taken to the Tower of London
1670 – The Hudson Bay Company was founded by England’s King Charles II.
1703 – Portugal signs treaty with England to become a Great Covenant
1776 – France and Spain agreed to donate arms to American rebels fighting the British.
1797 – A mutiny in the British navy spread from Spithead to the rest of the fleet.
1798 – The black General Toussaint L’ouverture forced British troops to agree to evacuate the port of Santo Domingo.
1808 – The citizens of Madrid rose up against Napoleon.
1813 – Napoleon defeated a Russian and Prussian army at Grossgorschen.
1833 – Russian Tsar Nicolas I bans public sale of serfs
1853 – Franconi’s Hippodrome opened at Broadway and 23rd Street in New York City.
1865 – U.S. President Andrew Johnson offered $100,000 reward for the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
1885 – The Congo Free State was established by King Leopold II of Belgium.
1885 – The magazine “Good Housekeeping” was first published.
1890 – The Oklahoma Territory was organized.
1902 – “A Trip to the Moon,” the first science fiction film was released. It was created by magician George Melies.
1905 – French newspapers publish lists of Jules Verne’s unpublished work
1906 – Tsar Nicolas II of Russia dismisses his moderate Prime Minister Witte and appoints Ivan Goremykin, a conservative bureaucrat
1926 – In India, Hindu women gained the right to seek elected office.
1926 – U.S. Marines landed in Nicaragua to put down a revolt and to protect U.S. interests. They did not depart until 1933.
1927 – The U.S. Supreme Court upheld 8-1 a Virginia law that allowed the forced sterilization of people to promote the “health of the patient and the welfare of society.” (Buck v. Bell)
1933 – Hitler banned trade unions in Germany.
1941 – Nazi occupied Netherlands lays off Jewish journalists
1941 – Hostilities broke out between British forces in Iraq and that country’s pro-German faction.
1941 – The Federal Communications Commission agreed to let regular scheduling of TV broadcasts by commercial TV stations begin on July 1, 1941. This was the start of network television.
1945 – Russians took Berlin after 12 days of fierce house-to-house fighting. The Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.
1946 – Prisoners revolted at California’s Alcatraz prison.
1953 – Feisal II installed as King of Iraq
1953 – Hussein I installed as King of Jordan
1956 – US Methodist church disallows racial separation
1960 – US House of Representative investigating committee, looking into payola questions in broadcasting
1960 – Caryl Chessman was executed. He was a convicted sex offender and had become a best selling author while on death row.
1963 – Children’s crusade begins in Birmingham, Alabama. More than 600 African American school children arrested for marching against segregation, organised by James Bevel and the SCLC
1965 – The “Early Bird” satellite was used to transmit television pictures across the Atlantic.
1969 – The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) made its maiden voyage.
1972 – In Kellogg, ID, a fire at the Sunshine silver mine, 91 workers died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
1974 – Former U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew was disbarred by the Maryland Court of Appeals.
1982 – The British submarine HMS Conqueror sank Argentina’s only cruiser, the General Belgrano during the Falkland Islands War. More than 350 people died.
1989 – The Iron Curtain begins to crumble as Hungary dismantles its border fence. By gradually opening its border to Austria, Hungary facilitated the escape of hundreds of East Germans in the months before the Berlin Wall fell.
1993 – At Washington’s National Gallery of Art, an exhibit of 80 paintings from the collection of Dr. Albert C. Barnes opened.
1993 – Authorities said that they had recovered the remains of David Koresh from the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, TX.
1994 – Nelson Mandela claimed victory after South Africa’s first democratic elections.
1995 – Serbian missiles exploded in the heart of Zagreb, killing six
1997 – Republic of Texas security chief Robert Scheidt surrenders
2000 – Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveils the Man With Two Hats monument in Apeldoorn and the other in Ottawa on May 11, 2000. Symbolically linking both Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout World War II.
2000 – President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military
2004 – Yelwa massacre of more than 630 nomad Muslims by Christians in Nigeria
2011 – Osama bin Laden is killed by a U.S. commando, Bin Laden was the founder of al-Qaeda, a militant group that claimed responsibility for a series of terrorist attacks on U.S. targets on September 11, 2001.
2011 – The 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.
2013 – 14 members of the Sons of Iraq are killed in attacks in Fallujah, Iraq
2013 – 60 miners are killed after a gold mine collapses in Jebel Amir, North Darfur, Sudan
2018 – Armenian opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan asks widespread protests to halt after ruling Republican party said it would support his bid to be Prime Minister
2018 – The Boys Scouts of America announced their flagship program would be reneamed Scouts BSA. The program was known simply as the Boy Scouts for 108 years.
2019 – A clean-up on Mt Everest has removed three metric tons (6,613 pounds) of rubbish and four bodies in just two weeks
2019 – Facebook bans Alex Jones (InfoWars), Milo Yiannopoulos (ex-Breitbart), Louis Farrakhan (Nation of Islam), Paul Nehlen and Laura Loomer for hate speech
2022 – US Supreme Court draft opinion leaks suggesting Roe v. Wade about to be overturned published on news website Portico
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
