1977 – The Sex Pistols release “God Save the Queen”, sparking major controversy and leading to a ban on the song by the BBC
1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as prince two weeks before his untimely death
1199 – John crowned King of England after the death of his brother Richard I
1529 – 30 Jews of Posing, Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake
1647 – Alse Young (Achsah Young or Alice Young), a resident of Windsor, CT, was executed for being a “witch.” It was the first recorded American execution of a “witch.”
1668 – Three colonists were expelled from Massachusetts for being Baptists.
1679 – Habeas Corpus Act passes in England, strengthening a person’s right to challenge unlawful arrest and imprisonment
1813 – Americans captured Fort George, Canada.
1856 – Doctor William Palmer (the Rugeley Poisoner) found guilty of poisoning in Stafford, England
1905 – Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the only decisive clash between modern steel battleships in history
1907 – The Bubonic Plague broke out in San Francisco.
1933 – In the U.S., the Federal Securities Act was signed. The act required the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1933 – Walt Disney’s cartoon Three Little Pigs is released – The animated short film is one of the best-known cartoons of all time. In 1934, it was awarded the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
1935 – The U.S. Supreme Court declared that President Franklin Roosevelt’s National Industrial Recovery Act was unconstitutional.
1941 – The German battleship Bismarck was sunk by British naval and air forces. 2,300 people were killed.
1942 – Czech resistance fighters kill Reinhard Heydrich – The high-ranking German Nazi official was one of the main architects of the Holocaust. In retaliation, the Nazis murdered all male inhabitants over 15 years of age in the Czech village of Lidice and deported most of the remaining people to concentration camps.
1951 – Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
1958 – Ernest Green becomes the 1st African-American to graduate from Little Rock’s Central High School
1969 – Construction of Walt Disney World began in Florida.
1977 – The Sex Pistols release “God Save the Queen”, sparking major controversy and leading to a ban on the song by the BBC
1985 – Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1986 – Mel Fisher recovered a jar that contained 2,300 emeralds from the Spanish ship Atocha. The ship sank in the 17th century.
1988 – The U.S. Senate ratified the INF treaty. The INF pact was the first arms-control agreement since the 1972 Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) to receive Senate approval.
1996 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin negotiated a cease-fire to the war in Chechnya in his first meeting with the leader of the rebels.
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the sexual harassment suit filed by Paula Jones could continue while President Clinton was in office.
1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
1999 – In The Hague, Netherlands, a war crimes tribunal indicted Slobodan Milosevic and four others for atrocities in Kosovo. It was the first time that a sitting head of state had been charged with such a crime.
2013 – 75 people are killed and 200 are injured in a wave of bombings across Iraq
2018 – Oil workers for Brazilian state oil company Petrobrás join the truckers’ national strike
2020 – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Hong Kong no longer has autonomy from China, doesn’t merit special trade relationship, in note to Congress
2020 – Locust swarms in western and central India worst since 1993 after spreading from Pakistan and Iran and due to extreme weather
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
