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.
0927 – Battle of the Bosnian Highlands Simeon I of Bulgaria decisively defeated by King Tomislav of Croatia
1120 – Richard III of Capua anointed as prince a fortnight 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 – Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest & imprisonment) passes in UK
1703 – St Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great
1812 – South American Wars of Independence: In Bolivia, the battle of La Coronilla, in which the women from Cochabamba fought against the Spanish army
1813 – Americans captured Fort George, Canada.
1856 – Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning
1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification
1883 – Czar Alexander III crowned in Moscow
1895 – Oscar Wilde is sent to prison for sodomy.
1905 – Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima
1907 – The Bubonic Plague broke out in San Francisco.
1926 – Bronze figures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer were erected in Hannibal, MO.
1927 – Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
1930 – The 1,046 feet (319 meters) tall Chrysler Building in New York (tallest man-made structure at the time) opens to the public.
1931 – Piccard and Knipfer made the first flight into the stratosphere, by balloon.
1933 – Walt Disney’s “Three Little Pigs” was first released.
1933 – In the U.S., the Federal Securities Act was signed. The act required the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1935 – The U.S. Supreme Court declared that President Franklin Roosevelt’s National Industrial Recovery Act was unconstitutional.
1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge was opened to pedestrian traffic. The bridge connected San Francisco and Marin County.
1940 – World War II: 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk. The German commander, Captain Fritz Knoechlein, is eventually hanged for war crimes.
1941 – U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed an “unlimited national emergency” amid rising world tensions.
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.
1942 – German General Erwin Rommel began a major offensive in Libya with his Afrika Korps.
1943 – US forbids racial discrimination in war industry
1944 – U.S. General MacArthur landed on Biak Island in New Guinea.
1951 – Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
1958 – Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock’s Central HS
1960 – In Turkey, a military coup removed President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
1967 – Australians vote in favour of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians, and to count them in the national census.
1968 – After 48 years as coach of the Chicago Bears, George Halas retired.
1971 – The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal
1977 – The Sex Pistols release “God Save the Queen”, sparking major controversy and leading to a ban on the song by the BBC
1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
1982 – Japan announced the elimination of tariffs on 96 industrial goods.
1985 – In Beijing, representatives of Britain and China exchanged instruments of ratification on the pact returning Hong Kong to the Chinese 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.
1986 – President Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled
1987 – Jim & Tammy Bakker appear on “”Nightline”” after PTL scanda
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.
1993 – Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6
1994 – Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia. He had been in exile for two decades.
1995 – In Charlottesville, VA, Christopher Reeve was paralyzed after being thrown from his horse during a jumping event.
1996 – First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire in the war.
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 – Michael Fortier was sentenced to 12 years in prison for not warning anyone about the plot to bomb an Oklahoma City federal building.
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. http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9905/27/kosovo.milosevic.04/
2009 – South Africa enters the global recession; the first recession for South Africa in 17 years
2010 – The alleged leader of the Beltran Leyva drug trafficking organization, Pedro Roberto Velazquez Amador, alias “”La Pina,”” was killed in a shootout with federal forces in northern Mexico
2012 – A NATO airstrike kills a family of eight, including six children, in Afghanistan
2013 – 75 people are killed and 200 are injured in a wave of bombings across Iraq
2016 – 3 ships in 3 days sink carrying immigrants across the Mediterraneann, drowning over 700 people
2018 – Oil workers for Brazilian state oil company Petrobrás join the truckers’ national strike
2019 – Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz removed from office after a no-confidence vote in parliament, Vice Chancellor Hartwig Löger appointed interim chancellor
2019 – World’s rivers widely contaminated with antibiotics according to new global study of 711 sites
2020 – Locust swarms in western and central India worst since 1993 after spreading from Pakistan and Iran and due to extreme weather
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
2021 – French President Emmanuel Macron recognizes France’s role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide after a meeting with Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Kigali, Rwanda
2021 – US President Joe Biden calls for a ceasefire in the Tigray conflict, north Ethiopia, citing killings and “widespread sexual violence” as a weapon of war
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
