1958 – Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflicts were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1087 – German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad
1416 – The Council of Constance, called by the Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy
1431 – Hundred Years’ War: In Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal
1434 – Hussite Wars (Bohemian Wars): Battle of Lipany – Effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Divi Boek of Miletnek defeat and almost annihilated Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great
1498 – Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America
1536 – English king Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour
1539 – Hernando de Soto, the Spanish explorer, landed in Florida with 600 soldiers to search for gold.
1574 – Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France
1588 – The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channe
1635 – Thirty Years’ War: Peace of Prague (1635) signed.
1783 – The first daily newspaper was published in the U.S. by Benjamin Towner called “The Pennsylvania Evening Post”
1806 – Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after the man had accused Jackson’s wife of bigamy.
1814 – The First Treaty of Paris was declared, which returned France to its 1792 borders.
1822 – House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)
1848 – Mexico ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California & parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona & Colorado in return for $15 million”
1854 – The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
1868 – Memorial Day first observed when 2 women in Columbus MS placed flowers on both Confederate & Union graves
1879 – William Vanderbilt renamed New York City’s Gilmore’s Garden to Madison Square Garden.
1883 – Twelve people were trampled to death in New York City in a stampede when a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing occurred.
1896 – The first automobile accident occurred in New York City.
1908 – First federal workmen’s compensation law approved
1911 – Ray Harroun won the first Indianapolis 500. At the time, it was known as International 500-Mile Sweepstakes Race. Harroun’s average speed was 74.59 miles per hour.
1912 – The U.S. Marines were sent to Nicaragua to protect American interests.
1913 – First Balkan War: Treaty of London, 1913 signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation
1921 – The U.S. Navy transferred the Teapot Dome oil reserves to the Department of the Interior.
1922 – The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC.
1933 – Sally Rand introduced her exotic and erotic fan dance to audiences at Chicago’s Century of Progress Exposition.
1937 – Memorial Day Massacre – Chicago police shoot on union marchers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago, 10 die
1941 – World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the athenian Acropolis, tear down the nazi swastika and replace it with the Greek flag
1943 – American forces secured the Aleutian island of Attu from the Japanese during World War II.
1958 – Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflicts were buried at Arlington National Cemetery. https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/Monuments-and-Memorials/Tomb-of-the-Unknown-Soldier
1959 – Iraq terminates military assistance pact with US due to neutrality
1961 – The Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo, is assassinated, El Jefe had been the Dominican Republic’s President for 31 years. Despite the assassination, the intended removal of the dictatorship in the Caribbean country failed as the ruler’s son, Ramfis Trujillo, soon stepped into his father’s shoes.
1966 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu
1967 – Daredevil Evel Knievel jumped 16 automobiles in a row in a motorcycle stunt at Ascot Speedway in Gardena, CA.
1967 – The Republic of Biafra is proclaimed, The short-lived state consisted of Nigeria’s Eastern Region. Its secession sparked the Nigerian Civil War, which lasted until 1970 and resulted in the region’s re-integration into Nigeria.
1971 – Mariner 9, the American deep space probe blasted off on a journey to Mars.
1972 – In Tel Aviv, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others
1981 – In Chittagong, Bangladesh, President Ziaur Rahman was assassinated.
1982 – Spain became the 16th NATO member. Spain was the first country to enter the Western alliance since West Germany in 1955.
1983 – Peru’s President Fernando Belaunde Terry declared a state of emergency and suspended civil rights after bombings by leftist rebels.
1989 – The “Goddess of Democracy” statue (33 feet height) was erected in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
1991 – Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police & can be held accountable
1997 – Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, NJ, of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka. The 1994 murder inspired “Megan’s Law,” requiring that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.
1998 – A powerful earthquake hit northern Afghanistan killing up to 5,000.
2002 – In New York, a ceremony were held to officially mark the end of the clean up from the World Trade Center terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
2011 – Germany abandons nuclear energy, The government’s decision followed the nuclear meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima power plant and years of hands-on protests and activism by Germany powerful anti-nuclear movement.
2012 – New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the Portion Cap Rule. The proposed amendment to the city health code would have required that food service establishments limit the size of sugary beverages to 16 ounces. On June 26, 2014, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that the New York City Board of Health had exceeded the scope of its regulatory authority.
2012 – A number of nations including Germany, Turkey and Canada, expel Syrian diplomats following the Houla massacre
2016 – Former Chad dictator Hissène Habré convicted of crimes against humanity by the Extraordinary African chambers, 1st ex-head of state convicted of the charge
2017 – Large suicide bomb in the diplomatic quarter of Kabul, Afghanistan kills more than 150 and injures 400
2019 – Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signs new anti-abortion, making it the fifth southern US state to ban abortion when fetal heartbeat detected
2019 – Two new studies find eating processed foods leads to an early death and ill health published in “British Medical Journal”
2022 – European Union agrees to a plan to block two-thirds of Russian oil
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
