1830 – US President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, a key law leading to the forced removal of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes out of Georgia and surrounding states, setting the stage for the Cherokee Trail of Tears
585 BC – A solar eclipse occurred that had been predicted by Thales Miletus.
1431 – Joan of Arc is accused of relapsing into heresy by donning male clothing again, providing justification for her execution
1533 – England’s Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.
1644 – Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby (English Civil War)
1731 – All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated
1830 – US President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, a key law leading to the forced removal of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes out of Georgia and surrounding states, setting the stage for the Cherokee Trail of Tears
1863 – The first black regiment left Boston to fight in the U.S. Civil War.
1892 – The Sierra club was organized in San Francisco, CA.
1900 – Britain annexed the Orange Free State.
1918 – Azerbaijan declared independence.
1923 – US Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere
1928 – Chrysler Corporation merged with Dodge Brothers, Inc.
1937 – Volkswagen (VW) is founded – The automobile manufacturer whose name means “People’s Car” in German is one of the world’s biggest. It produced classics like the VW Golf and the VW Beetle.
1937 – U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pushed a button in Washington, DC, signaling that vehicular traffic could cross the newly opened Golden Gate Bridge in California.
1948 – Israeli Air Force is officially founded shortly after the start of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
1953 – The Walt Disney film “Melody” premiered in the Paramount Theatre in Hollywood. The picture was the first 3-D cartoon.
1956 – Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus
1958 – French government of Prime Minister Pierre Pflimlin resigns; 200,000 demonstrate against Charles de Gaulle
1959 – Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, become 1st animals retrieved from a space mission
1961 – Amnesty International, a human rights organization, was founded.
1962 – Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester, NY
1976 – The Peaceful Nuclear Explosion Treaty was signed, limiting any nuclear explosion – regardless of its purpose – to a yield of 150 kilotons.
1984 – George Soros founds the Soros Foundation Budapest to help countries free themselves from communism
1985 – David Jacobsen, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, was abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers. He was freed 17 months later.
1987 – Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow’s Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses. He was released August 3, 1988.
1996 – U.S. President Clinton’s former business partners in the Whitewater land deal were convicted of fraud.
1998 – Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts. The U.S., Japan and other nations imposed economic sanctions. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said “Today, we have settled the score with India.”
1998 – Dr. Susan Terebey discovered a planet outside of our solar system with the use of photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
2003 – Pres. Bush signed a $350 billion tax cut into law; the third largest tax cut in U.S. history.
2004 – The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, to become Prime Minister of Iraq’s interim government
2008 – The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
2016 – Harambe, a gorilla at Cincinnati Zoo, is shot after dragging a 3 year old boy who had slipped into its enclosure (Cincinnati, Ohio)
2018 – One million French smokers quit in one year after anti-smoking measures introduced according to Public Health France
2019 – Johnson & Johnson go on trial in Oklahoma accused of deceptively marketing painkillers and downplaying risks of addiction helping create “opioid epidemic”, first of 2,000 cases against US pharmaceutical firms
2020 – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani calls for new protections for women after the ‘honor killing’ of a 14-year old by her father
2021 – Discovery of a mass grave with the remains of 215 children from Kamloops Indian Residential School announced by First Nation in British Columbia, Canada
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
