2004 – The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C
0363 – Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is unable to take the city.
1167 – Battle of Monte Porzio – A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel
1453 – Constantinople fell to Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1660 – Charles II was restored to the English throne after the Puritan Commonwealth.
1677 – Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Indians.
1727 – Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1733 – Right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves upheld at Quebec City.
1765 – Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia’s House of Burgesses. Answering a cry of “”Treason!”” with, “”If this be treason, make the most of it!
1780 – Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton brutally massacred Colonel Abraham Buford’s continentals even after the continentals surrendered. 113 Americans were killed.
1790 – Rhode Island became the last of the original thirteen colonies to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1848 – Wisconsin became the 30th state to join the United States.
1861 – Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army
1867 – Austro-Hungarian agreement called Ausgleich (“”the Compromise””) is born through Act 12, which established the Austro-Hungarian Empire; on June 8 Emperor Franz Joseph was crowned King of Hungary.
1868 – The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade
1903 – May coup d’etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization
1912 – Fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, PA, for dancing the Turkey Trot while on the job.
1913 – Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Le Sacre du printemps is premiered, the performance sparked a riot in the audience as many felt its irregular beat and the percussive character was a sacrilege against music. Today, it is considered one of the key works of 20th-century art music.
1914 – Ocean liner Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost
1916 – The official flag of the president of the United States was adopted.
1916 – U.S. forces invaded Dominican Republic and remained until 1924.
1919 – Einstein’s theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington’s observation of a total solar eclipse in Principe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Cear, Brazil
1922 – Ecuador became independent.
1922 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that organized baseball was a sport, not subject to antitrust laws.
1942 – Bing Crosby records White Christmas, Crosby’s rendition of Irving Berlin’s song became the most successful of his career and the best-selling Christmas single in history.
1943 – Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower)
1943 – Meat & cheese rationed in US
1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became first men to reach the top of Mount Everest.
1954 – First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
1957 – Algerian rebels kill 336 collaborators
1962 – Buck (John) O’Neil became the first black coach in major league baseball when he accepted the job with the Chicago Cubs.
1964 – The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian situation in Israel which leads to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
1972 – 26 people are killed and dozens more injured when three Japanese gunmen opened fire on crowds at Lod International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel
1973 – Tom Bradley was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles.
1974 – U.S. President Nixon agreed to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts.
1981 – The U.S. performed a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
1985 – Thirty-nine people were killed and 400 were injured in a riot at a European Cup soccer match in Brussels, Belgium.
1986 – Colonel Oliver North told National Security Advisor William McFarlane that profits from weapons sold to Iran were being diverted to the Contras.
1988 – U.S. President Reagan began his first visit to the Soviet Union in Moscow.
1988 – NBC aired “To Heal A Nation,” the story of Jan Scruggs’ effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1990 – Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the Russian parliament.
1996 – Benjamin Netanyahu becomes Israel’s prime minister, The conservative politician is criticized for hampering the peace process that former prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, had promoted.
1997 – The ruling party in Indonesia, Golkar, won the Parliament election by a record margin. There was a boycott movement and rioting that killed 200 people.
1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule
2000 – Fiji’s military took control of the nation and declared martial law following a coup attempt by indigenous Fijians in mid-May.
2001 – In New York, four followers of Osama bin Laden were convicted of a global conspiracy to murder Americans. The crimes included the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people.
2001 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin could use a cart to ride in tournaments.
2004 – The Al-Khobar massacres in Saudi Arabia kill 22.
2004 – The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/world-war-ii-monument-opens-in-washington-d-c
2010 – Robbers stole $5.5 million from a southern Iraqi state bank after giving guards tea laced with a sleeping drug
2015 – The Obama adminstration removed Cuba from the U.S. terrorism blacklist. The two countries had severed diplomatic relations in January of 1961.
2018 – Death toll on Puerto Rico 70 times higher than official figure, likely 4,600 died from Hurricane Maria according to Harvard University study
2018 – Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko fakes his own death with Ukrainian security services to foil an assassination plot
2019 – 16 people charged for setting fire to and murdering a teenager who reported sexual harassment at an Islamic school in Feni, Bangladesh
2019 – Transgender no longer classified as a mental health illness by the World Health Organization
2022 – US President Joe Biden visits site of Uvalde school massacre in Texas, as Justice Department announces a review into how law enforcement responded
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
