1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
1279 BC – Ramesses II, also known as Ramesses the Great becomes Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt (19th Dynasty)
0070 – Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem
1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River – Mongol armies of Genghis Khan lead by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus and Cumans.
1433 – Sigismund was crowned emperor of Rome.
1531 – Dutch Catholic activist Engel Korsendochter leads a march of 300 women from the Guild of the Holy Sacrament protesting plans to replace a treasured chapel with a wool warehouse in Amsterdam; they are charged with rebellion, fined, and banished for 4 years – most were pardoned upon appeal to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
1578 – Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool’s gold, used to pave streets in London.
1621 – Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night
1634 – US colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony
1665 – Jerusalem’s rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah
1759 – The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions.
1790 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790
1821 – Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, first US Catholic cathedral, is dedicated in Baltimore
1859 – In London, Big Ben went into operation.
1866 – In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O’Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the English. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, at a cost of 9 dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian’s 19 dead and about 17 wounded
1870 – E.J. DeSemdt patented asphalt.
1879 – Werner von Siemens presents the world’s first electric locomotive
1884 – Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patented “flaked cereal.”
1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-johnstown-flood
1900 – U.S. troops arrived in Peking to help put down the Boxer Rebellion.
1902 – The Boer War ended between the Boers of South Africa and Great Britain with the Treaty of Vereeniging.
1907 – The first taxis arrived in New York City. They were the first in the United States.
1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) held its first conference.
1910 – The Union of South Africa was founded.
1913 – The 17th Amendment went into effect. It provided for popular election of U.S. senators.
1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: A civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, the official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.
1927 – Ford Motor Company produced the last “Tin Lizzie” in order to begin production of the Model A.
1929 – In Beverly, MA, the first U.S. born reindeer were born.
1934 – The Barmen Declaration is published by a group of church leaders in Germany including Karl Barth to help Christians withstand the challenges of the Nazi party
1941 – The first issue of “Parade: The Weekly Picture Newspaper” went on sale.
1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.”
1947 – Communists seized control of Hungary.
1949 – Charley Lupica begins stay on 4-foot-square platform platform atop a 60′ pole, vowing to stay until Indians clinch pennant. (They don’t, and he comes down 117 days later)
1955 – The U.S. Supreme Court ordered that all states must end racial segregation “with all deliberate speed.”
1955 – Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike
1961 – South Africa became an independent republic.
1974 – Israel and Syria signed an agreement on the Golan Heights.
1977 – The trans-Alaska oil pipeline was finished after 3 years of construction.
1979 – Zimbabwe proclaimed its independence.
1985 – Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States
1994 – The U.S. announced it was no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union.
1995 – Bob Dole singled out Time Warner for “the marketing of evil” in movies and music. Dole later admitted that he had not seen or heard much of what he had been criticizing.
2002 – A series of major storms blew through Western Pennsylvania, killing 1 person when the Whip pavilion at Kennywood collapses
2003 – In North Carolina, Eric Robert Rudolph was captured. He had been on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list for five years for several bombings including the 1996 Olympic bombing.
2004 – A foul-up during routine software update at the Royal Bank of Canada leads to a three-day misplacement of 10 million account balances.
2005 – Deep Throat reveals himself, Former FBI agent Mark Felt admitted that he was the most important informant in the 1970’s Watergate scandal which uncovered the dirty tricks of the Nixon administration, ultimately leading to Nixon’s resignation..
2010 – Gaza Flotilla raid: Israeli Shayetet 13 soldiers board ships trying to break blockade of Gaze, during violent confrontation aboard MV Mavi Marmara 9 activists killed and several activists and soldiers injured
2017 – Kenya’s Madaraka Express, a Chinese-built high speed railway from Mombasa to Nairobi is opened by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta
2018 – Danish government bans garments that cover the face, including the niqab and burqa
2018 – Uganda’s parliament imposes tax on social media to stop gossip
2019 – Disgruntled employee shoots and kills 12 people at a US municipal building in Virginia Beach, Virginia https://www.reuters.com/article/us-virginia-shooting/disgruntled-city-worker-kills-12-in-virginia-beach-resort-suspect-also-killed-idUSKCN1T12JX
2019 – US President Donald Trump threatens to impose extra 5% tax on Mexican goods if country does not increase its efforts to curb immigration
2021 – China’s ruling Communist Party announces it will allow married couples to have three children, in effort to boost falling birthrates
2021 – Tulsa, Oklahoma, marks 100 year anniversary of the massacre of hundreds of black residents by a white mob in the Greenwood neighborhood Tulsa marks 100 years since massacre with somber ceremonies, demands for reparations (nbcnews.com)
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
