1969 – In Washington, DC, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the Vietnam War.
1348 – Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells
1492 – Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco
1492 – In La Guardia, Spain, 6 Jews & 5 Conversos are accused of ritual murder
1532 – Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn
1620 – Myles Standish leads 16 men in a foot exploration of the northern portion of Cape Cod
1660 – First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in New Amsterdam (now New York City)
1720 – Pirates Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and John Rackham are captured by Capt. Jonathan Barnet and brought to Spanish Town, Jamaica, for trial
1727 – NY General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase “upon the faith of a Christian” from abjuration oath
1763 – Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason–Dixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland
1777 – The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, precursor to the U.S. Constitution.
1806 – Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop that became known as Pikes Peak.
1811 – José Miguel Carrera takes control of the Chilean government in a coup d’état becoming the country’s first President
1827 – Creek-indians lose all their property in US
1864 – Union Gen. William T. Sherman and his troops began their “March to the Sea” during the U.S. Civil War.
1881 – American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)
1889 – Brazil’s monarchy was overthrown.
1901 – Miller Reese patented an electrical hearing aid.
1902 – Anarchist Gennaro Rubin failed in his attempt to murder King Leopold II of Belgium.
1914 – Italian socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il Populo d’Italia
1919 – US Senate 1st invokes the Cloture Rule to end a filibuster, passes Versailles Treaty
1920 – The League of Nations met for the first time in Geneva, Switzerland.
1936 – Nazi-Germany & Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact
1939 – U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC.
1939 – Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
1939 – The first unemployment compensation law, under the Social Security Act, that of the District of Columbia, was approved for grants by the Social Security Board
1940 – The first 75,000 men were called to Armed Forces duty under peacetime conscription.
1946 – House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) interrogates astronomer Harlow Shapley
1949 – Assassins of MK Gandhi Executed in India, Nathuram Godse, Narayan Apte and 6 other co-conspirators of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi were hanged at the Ambala jail. On January 30, 1948, Godse who was unhappy about Gandhi’s accommodation of India’s Muslims shot Gandhi while he was out for his evening prayers.
1957 – US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years & $3,000
1965 – The Soviet probe, Venera 3, was launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. On March 1, 1966, it became the first unmanned spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet when it crashed on Venus.
1969 – In Washington, DC, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the Vietnam War.
1974 – International Energy Agency formed in Paris within OECD framework in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis
1976 – Syrian army conquers Beirut
1977 – US President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
1979 – A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing
1979 – In Parliament Sir Anthony Blunt, art advisor to the Queen, exposed as 4th man in Soviet spy ring. He was then stripped of his knighthood and fellowship of Trinity College, Cambridge
1979 – Iran cancels all contracts with U.S. oil companies
1985 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes
1985 – Britain and Ireland signed an accord giving Dublin an official consultative role in governing Northern Ireland.
1986 – A government tribunal in Nicaragua convicted American Eugene Hasenfus of charges related to his role in delivering arms to Contra rebels. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison and was pardoned a month later.
1986 – Ivan F. Boesky, reputed to be the highest-paid person on Wall Street, faced penalties of $100 million for insider stock trading. It was the highest penalty ever imposed by the SEC.
1988 – The Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the PLO, proclaimed the establishment of an independent Palestinian state at the close of a four-day conference in Algiers.
1990 – US President George H. W. Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990
1993 – A judge in Mineola, NY, sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher. Fisher was serving a prison sentence for shooting and wounding Buttafuoco’s wife, Mary Jo.
1995 – Texaco agreed to pay $176 million to settle a race-discrimination lawsuit.
1999 – Representatives from China and the United States signed a major trade agreement that involved China’s membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO).
2000 – Three police officers from the Rampart division of the Los Angeles police department were convicted on several counts of conspiracy to obstruct justice. One other officer was acquitted. The case was the first major case against the anti-gang unit.
2003 – First day of the Istanbul Bombings takes place, followed by additional bombings on November 20th
2006 – Al Jazeera English launched, The English language 24-hour news channel is owned and run by Al Jazeera Media Network based in Doha, Qatar.
2012 – At least 95 people are killed in Syrian conflicts
2012 – Deep Horizon Oil Spill: BP settles for $4.5 Billion
2015 – France launches air strikes on Isis stronghold Raqqa in Syria in wake of terror attack on Paris
2017 – 3 UCLA basketball players suspended after admitting shoplifting in China, only released at President Trump’s request
2017 – The Zimbabwean Army detains Robert Mugabe and the first family and appoints sacked Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa as interim president
2018 – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani confirms more than 28,000 of the country’s military and police have been killed since 2015
2019 – Iran shuts down its internet for five days to suppress news of national protests against higher gas prices – beginning of the worst unrest for 40 years in the country
2019 – Pakistan becomes the 1st country to introduce a vaccine against typhoid, targeting 10 million children
2020 – Treaty establishing world’s largest trade bloc between 15 Asian Pacific countries signed at virtual ASEAN meeting
2020 – US President Donald Trump tweets [Biden] “won because the election was rigged,” while still refusing to concede the election
2021 – Former Trump aide Stephen Bannon turns himself in after being found in contempt of US Congress by a federal grand jury, after refusing to comply with investigation into Jan 6
2021 – US President Joe Biden signs a ‘once in a generation’ $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
