1999 – In Kansas City, MO, Owen Hart (Blue Blazer) died when he fell 90 feet while being lowered into a WWF wrestling ring. He was 33 years old.
1275 – King Edward I of England orders cessation of persecution of French Jews
1421 – Jews of Austria imprisoned & expelled
1430 – Joan of Arc was captured by Burgundians. She was then sold to the English.
1533 – Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.
1618 – Second Defenestration of Prague: Two Catholic Lords Regent and their secretary are thrown out of a window and amazingly are not seriously injured by the 70 foot (21m) fall. Triggers the Thirty Years’ War.
1701 – In London, Captain William Kidd was hanged after being convicted of murder and piracy.
1706 – Battle of Ramillies during War of the Spanish Succession.: John Churchill (1st Duke of Marlborough) defeats French; 17,000 killed
1774 – Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River)
1788 – South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify U.S. Constitution.
1867 – Jesse James gang robs bank in Richmond, Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken)
1895 – The New York Public Library was created with an agreement that combined the city’s existing Astor and Lenox libraries.
1900 – Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney became the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, 37 years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.
1922 – Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
1934 – In Bienville Parish, LA, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers. The bank robbers were riding in a stolen Ford Deluxe.
1939 – British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949
1939 – Submarine USS Squalus sinks in the Gulf of Maine, drowning 26, 33 remaining crew rescued from a depth of 243 ft (74 m) by divers using newly developed heliox air systems (divers later awarded the Medal of Honor)
1945 – The Allies arrest the members of the Nazi Flensburg government, including Admiral Karl Donitz, formally dissolving Nazi Germany
1949 – The Federal Republic of Germany is established – The proclamation of the Grundgesetz, Germany’s current constitution, marked the birth hour of the republic. The foundation of West Germany came four years after the demise of the Nazi regime and the end of World War II.
1951 – Delegates of the Dalai Lama sign the Seventeen Point Agreement – The contract affirmed Chinese sovereignty over Tibet. According to Tibetan officials, the document was signed under duress and is, therefore, invalid.
1960 – Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
1977 – US Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell
1977 – Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren & 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Neth, children released May 27, siege ends June 11
1981 – Peter Sutcliffe is convicted for the “Yorkshsire Ripper” murders of 13 women at the Old Bailey in London and sentenced to life sentences for each
1985 – Thomas Patrick Cavanagh was sentenced to life in prison for trying to sell Stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union.
1990 – Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion
1992 – The Italian mafia murder Giovanni Falcone – Falcone, a judge, was the mafia’s most prominent adversary. After he, together with his wife and three bodyguards, fell victim to a car bomb, Falcone became a folk hero in Italy.
1999 – In Kansas City, MO, Owen Hart (Blue Blazer) died when he fell 90 feet while being lowered into a WWF wrestling ring. He was 33 years old.
2008 – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.
2014 – Russia and China veto the U.N. Security Council resolution to establish an International Criminal Court for war crimes in Syria
2016 – U.S. President Obama announced that the United States would end its ban of lethal military equipment sales to Vietnam. The restrictions had been in place since the end of the Vietnam War.
2017 – Library of Al-Qarawiyyin, the world’s oldest continually operating library, reopens after a major restoration by King Mohammed VI in Fez, Morocco
2019 – Fifty children rescued from an international paedophile ring on the dark web in Thailand, Australia and the US by Interpol under Operation Blackwrist, main organizer sentenced to 146 years
2019 – The last slave ship to smuggle slaves to America from Africa, the Clotilda (sunk 1860), is found in Mobile river, Alabama
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
