1274 – Mongol army lands at Hakata Bay in Japan during their first invasion attempt and are defeated; a typhoon destroys most of their fleet as they withdraw
1493 – Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage
1530 – The Recess document resulting from the Diet of Augsburg signed by Charles V and catholic princes
1581 – Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich dies after being attacked by his father Ivan the Terrible three days earlier
1644 – First protestant ministry society in New England
1794 – 1794 Signing of the Jay Treaty, The treaty, officially known as, Treaty of Amity Commerce and Navigation, between His Britannic Majesty and The United States of America, was signed between representatives of the United States and Britain. It called for the British to surrender northwestern posts to the U.S. and for them to consider the United States as a most favored nation for trade between the two countries.
1835 – A ship carrying 500 armed Maori from Ngati Tama and Ngati Mutunga arrives on the Chatham Islands; those Moriori (indigenous people of the Chatham Islands) that are not killed are enslaved
1850 – The first life insurance policy for a woman was issued. Carolyn Ingraham, 36 years old, bought the policy in Madison, NJ.
1861 – The first petroleum shipment (1,329 barrels) from the U.S. to Europe leaves Philadelphia, USA, for London, England on the Elizabeth Watts
1863 – U.S. President Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
1873 – William Magear Tweed “Boss Tweed”, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment
1893 – The first newspaper color supplement was published in the Sunday New York World.
1895 – The “paper pencil” was patented by Frederick E. Blaisdell.
1903 – Temperance activist Carrie Nation attempts to address the US Senate
1919 – The U.S. Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles with a vote of 55 in favor to 39 against. A two-thirds majority was needed for ratification.
1923 – The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures
1928 – “Time” magazine presented its cover in color for the first time. The subject was Japanese Emperor Hirohito.
1942 – During World War II, Russian forces launched their winter offensive against the Germans along the Don front.
1943 – Janowska camp uprising, The concentration camp in occupied Poland was set up in 1941. In November 1943, in anticipation of the advancement of Soviet troops, the Nazis tried to evacuate the camp and used the inmates to remove traces of executions and mass killings in the past. On this day, the inmates staged an uprising and attempted to escape. Most escapees, however, were recaptured and killed.
1944 – U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1953 – US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business
1959 – Ford Motor Co. announced it was ending the production of the unpopular Edsel.
1959 – “Rocky & His Friends” debuts on ABC
1968 – Military coup in Mali, president Modibo Keita flees
1969 – Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made man’s second landing on the moon.
1970 – Hafiz al-Assad seized power in Syria.
1976 – Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to set foot in Israel on an official visit.
1980 – CBS TV bans Calvin Klein jean ad featuring Brooke Shields
1981 – U.S. Steel agreed to pay $6.3 million for Marathon Oil.
1985 – U.S. President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev met for the first time as they began their summit in Geneva.
1990 – Pop duo Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award after it is learned they did not sing on their award-winning “Girl You Know Its True” album
1990 – NATO and the Warsaw Pact signed a treaty of nonaggression.
1993 – The U.S. Senate approved a sweeping $22.3 billion anti-crime measure.
1994 – The U.N. Security Council authorized NATO to bomb rebel Serb forces striking from neighboring Croatia.
1995 – Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16
1998 – The impeachment inquiry of U.S. President Clinton began.
1999 – In Istanbul, Turkey, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) concluded a two-day summit after adopting a new arms accord. During the conference, Russia was criticized for its military campaign against Chechnya’s separatist movement.
2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush signed the most comprehensive air security bill in U.S. history.
2002 – The oil tanker Prestige broke into two pieces and sank off northwest Spain. The tanker lost about 2 million gallons of fuel oil when it ruptured November 13th and was towed about 150 miles out to sea.
2002 – The U.S. government completed its takeover of security at 424 airports nationwide.
2003 – Eight competing designs for a memorial to the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center were unveiled. One design would be built at the site of the World Trade Center.
2010 – New Zealand suffers its worst mining disaster since 1914 when the first of four explosions occurs at the Pike River Mine; 29 people are killed
2013 – 23 people are killed by a suicide bombing attack on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon
2017 – Oumuamua first detected by scientists, 400 meters long and reddish, first known interstellar object in our solar system, thought to be of possible alien origin (since thought to be slice of small planet)
2017 – Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe refuses to resign in a TV speech after being ousted as leader of ruling ZANU-PF party
2018 – Ivanka Trump sent “hundreds” of emails from her personal account about government business, according to Washington Post report
2020 – Inquiry find “credible evidence” elite Australian troops unlawfully killed 39 Afghan civilians
2021 – US jury clears Kyle Rittenhouse (18) of murder for fatally shooting two people and injuring a third during racial justice protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
