1924 – Fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks was murdered in a “thrill killing” committed by Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb. The killers were students at the University of Chicago.
0878 – Syracuse is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
0996 – Sixteen year old Otto III was crowned the Roman Emperor.
1260 – Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire sends his envoy Hao Jing and two other advisors to the Chinese Song Dynasty court of Emperor Lizong of Song; while attempting to negotiate with the Song in order to resolve their conflict, Hao Jing and his fellow emissaries were imprisoned by order of the high Chinese chancellor, Jia Sidao.
1471 – King Henry VI was killed in the tower of London. Edward IV took the throne.
1502 – The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese navigator Joo da Nova.
1536 – The Reformation was officially adopted in Geneva, Switzerland.
1542 – Hernando de Soto died along the Mississippi River while searching for gold.
1602 – Martha’s Vineyard was first sighted by Captain Bartholomew Gosnold.
1674 – The nobility elects John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
1725 – The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky was instituted in Russia by the empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky
1758 – Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War.
1790 – Paris was divided into 48 zones.
1819 – Bicycles were first seen in the U.S. in New York City. They were originally known as “swift walkers.”
1832 – In the U.S., the Democratic Party held its first national convention.
1840 – New Zealand was declared a British colony.
1856 – Lawrence, Kansas was captured by pro-slavery forces.
1871 – French Government troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of “”Bloody Week”” some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested
1881 – The American branch of the Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton.
1891 – Peter Jackson and Jim Corbett fought for 61 rounds only to end in a draw.
1900 – Russia annexes Manchuria
1904 – Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was founded.
1917 – Leo Pinckney, first American drafted during WWI
1922 – The cartoon, “On the Road to Moscow,” by Rollin Kirby won a Pulitzer Prize. It was the first cartoon awarded the Pulitzer.
1924 – Fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks was murdered in a “thrill killing” committed by Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb. The killers were students at the University of Chicago. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/monkeytrial-leopold-and-loeb-trial/
1927 – Charles A. Lindberg completed the first solo nonstop airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. The trip began May 20.
1929 – The first automatic electric stock quotation board was used by Sutro and Company of New York City.
1934 – Oskaloosa, IA, became the first city in the U.S. to fingerprint all of its citizens.
1936 – Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover’s severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon became one of Japan’s most notorious scandals
1940 – AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
1947 – Joe DiMaggio and five of his New York Yankee teammates were fined $100 because they had not fulfilled contract requirements to do promotional duties for the team.
1950 – Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
1951 – The 9th Street Show opens in New York, The ground-breaking art exhibition showing works by artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning is considered the birth hour of the artistic avant-garde referred to as the New York School.
1956 – The U.S. exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean over Bikini Atoll.
1961 – Governor Patterson declared martial law in Montgomery, AL.
1964 – The first nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)
1968 – The nuclear-powered U.S. submarine Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, was last heard from. The remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores. https://www.discoveryuk.com/mysteries/what-happened-to-the-uss-scorpion-and-has-it-been-found/
1979 – White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
1980 – The movie “The Empire Strikes Back” was released.
1982 – The British landed in the Falkland Islands and fighting began.
1987 – Military coup in Fiji Islands under Lieutenant Colonel Sitivani Rabuka
1991 – Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end
1991 – In Madras, India, the former prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a bouquet of flowers that contained a bomb.
1992 – New Jersey senate overrides Governor Florio’s veto & lowers sales tax to 6%
1994 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen secedes from the Republic of Yemen.
1998 – An expelled student, Kipland Kinkel, in Springfield, OR, killed 2 people and wounded 25 others with a semi-automatic rifle. Police also discovered that the boy had killed his parents before the rampage.
1998 – In Miami, FL, five abortion clinics were hit by an butyric acid-attacker.
2001 – French Taubira law which officially recognize the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
2001 – The Enron Corporation’s power generating venture in India, the Dabhol Power Company, serves formal notice that it will terminate its power supply contract and pull out
2004 – Stanislav Petrov is awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in 1983.
2011 – End of World prediction – Judgment Day will begin and the rapture (the taking up into heaven of God’s elect people) will occur at the end of the 23-year great tribulation. On October 21st, the world will be destroyed by fire (7000 years from the flood; 13,023 years from creation).
2012 – 120 people are killed and 350 injured by a suicide bomb in Sana’a, Yemen
2014 – Russian President Putin signs agreements with China in Beijing in relation to trade and infrastructure
2016 – Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, leader of the Afghan Taliban is reportedly killed by a US drone in Pakistan
2018 – Teenager who started California’s 2017 Eagle Creek Fire ordered to pay $36.6 million to cover damages by district judge
2018 – Truckers begin a 10 strike in Brazil, blocking roads in protest at the price of diesel leading to country-wide shortages
2019 – Austria’s far-right Freedom Party resigns from the ruling coalition after two of their ministers are sacked for offering government contracts for political influence in a video
2019 – Washington is the first US state to legalize human composting
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
