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.
1059 – Henri I crowns his son compassionate King Philip I of France
1275 – King Edward I of England orders cessation of persecution of French Jews
1420 – Jews of Syria & Austria expelled
1430 – Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compigne. She was then sold to the English.
1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake, in Florence, Italy, on the orders of Pope Alexander VI
1533 – Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.
1568 – Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years’ War
1618 – The Thirty Years War began when three opponents of the Reformation were thrown through a window.
1667 – King Afonso VI of Portugal flees
1701 – In London, Captain William Kidd was hanged after being convicted of murder and piracy.
1706 – Battle of Ramillies-Marlborough defeats French; 17,000 killed
1774 – Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River)
1785 – Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter that he had invented bifocals.
1788 – South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify U.S. Constitution.
1813 – South American independence leader Simn Bolvar enters Mrida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador (“”The Liberator””).
1827 – The first nursery school in the U.S. was established in New York City.
1844 – Siyyid `Alí Muḥammad Shírází founds Bábism. The Báb, as he called himself, created the religion which was a forerunner of the Bahá’í Faith. His teachings were seen as a threat by the Islamic clergy, and his followers were brutally persecuted by the Persian government.
1873 – Canada’s North West Mounted Police force was established. The organization’s name was changed to Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920.
1876 – Boston’s Joe Borden pitched the very first no-hitter in the history of the National League.
1879 – The first U.S. veterinary school was established by Iowa State University.
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.
1901 – American forces captured Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo.
1903 – The first direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin
1908 – Part of the Great White Fleet arrived in Puget Sound, WA.
1915 – During World War I, Italy joined the Allies as they declared war on Austria-Hungary.
1918 – SS Moldavia, lost off Littlehampton, Sussex. This P & O ship of 9,500 tons was requisitioned in 1915 and converted to an auxilliary cruiser and commissioned by the British Admiralty. Later she was used as a troopship after the USA joined the war and while carrying troops to France she was torpedoed. Most soldiers were rescued but 56 lost their lives.
1922 – The play “Abie’s Irish Rose” opened in New York City.
1922 – “Daylight Saving Time” was debated in the first debate ever to be heard on radio in Washington, DC.
1926 – The French captured the Moroccan Rif capital.
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.
1938 – “LIFE” magazine’s cover pictured Errol Flynn as a glamour boy.
1945 – In Luneburg Germany, Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo, committed suicide while imprisoned by the Allied forces.
1948 – Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel
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.
1960 – Israel announced the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
1962 – Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7
1967 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran and blockades the port of Eilat at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping, laying the foundations for the Six Day War.
1969 – BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python’s Flying Circus
1977 – Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren & 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Netherlands, children released May 27, siege ends June 11
1977 – Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell
1981 – In Barcelona, Spain, gunmen seized control of the Central Bank and took 200 hostages.
1985 – Thomas Patrick Cavanagh was sentenced to life in prison for trying to sell Stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union.
1989 – An estimated one million people in Beijing (and tens of thousands in other Chinee cities) march to demand the resignation of Premier Li Peng
1990 – Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion
1991 – US Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion
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.
1992 – In Lisbon, Portugal , the U.S. and four former Soviet republics signed an agreement to implement the START missile reduction treaty that had been agreed to by the Soviet Union before it was dissolved.
1995 – The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was demolished.
1998 – British Protestants and Irish Catholics of Northern Ireland approved a peace accord.
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.
2004 – Part of Paris Charles De Gaulle International Airport Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.
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.
2010 – A work-from-home company claims more mothers are choosing to be phone sex operators. The earn $10 to $30 /hr – World
2010 – Mexican authorities suspend investigation into ex-presidential candidate who went missing. More than 22,700 people killed since Mexico declared war on the drug cartels in December 2006
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.
2018 – NFL owners approve new NFL national anthem policy whereby players required to stand if they choose to be on the field for pre-game presentations
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
2021 – Belarus accused of “state-sponsored hijacking” after diverting commercial Ryanair flight to Minsk to arrest dissident journalist Roman Protasevich
2022 – US President Joe Biden says for the first time he would be willing to use force to defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
