1963 – Doctor Who debuts on TV – The longest running science fiction TV show first aired with an episode called An Unearthly Child on the British Broadcasting Channel.
0602 – Byzantine senate elects army officer Phocas Emperor in a mutiny against the reigning Emperor Maurice (who is then killed along with all his family)
0800 – Charlemagne arrives at Rome to examine the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.
1227 – Polish Prince Leszek I the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gsawa.
1248 – Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
1499 – Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
1541 – Queen Catherine Howard. 5th wife of King Henry VIII, stripped of her title and confined in the Syon Abbey in Middlesex, England
1584 – English parliament expels Jesuits
1654 – French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an intense mystical vision that marks him for life.
1765 – Frederick County, MD, refuse to pay British Stamp tax
1783 – Annapolis, Maryland, becomes US capital (until June 1784)
1860 – With the “”Banking Panic”” of 1857 stretching into another decade and showing few signs of lifting, the New York Clearing House moved to offer help: on this day, the Clearing House handed out its first loan, issuing $7.375 million worth of certificates to the nation’s ailing banks.
1867 – The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England for rescuing two Irish men from jail.
1876 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
1885 – Amsterdam police attack meeting of social-democrats united
1889 – The first jukebox made its debut in San Francisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon.
1890 – Princess Wilhelmina became Queen of the Netherlands at the age of 10 when her father William III died.
1895 – The first ever Backyard Brawl rivalry match-up between Pitt Panthers and West Virginia Mountaineers takes place.
1903 – Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners’ strike.
1909 – Wright Brothers form million dollar corporation to manufacture airplanes
1910 – Last person to be executed in Sweden – Johan Alfred Ander was convicted of murdering Victoria Hellsten during a robbery of a currency exchange
1921 – US President Warren G. Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes
1934 – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, which lay well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
1939 – Wearing distinctive armband, “”Judenstern”” (Jewish star) becomes obligatory for all Jews in Central Poland
1943 – 200 German soldiers surrounded the house where British agent Michael Trotobas was hiding. Trotobas shot and killed the Gestapo officer who had come to arrest him, then kept firing until he was gunned down himself
1945 – The U.S. wartime rationing of most foods ended.
1946 – The Workers Party of South Korea is founded.
1955 – The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia.
1961 – The Dominican Republic changed the name of its capital from Ciudad Trujillo to Santo Domingo.
1963 – Doctor Who debuts on TV – The longest running science fiction TV show first aired with an episode called An Unearthly Child on the British Broadcasting Channel.
1970 – Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird discloses the November 21U.S. raid on the North Vietnamese prison camp at Son Tay. The raid was conducted almost flawlessly, but no prisoners of war were found in the camp. They had been moved earlier to other locations.
1971 – The People’s Republic of China was seated in the United Nations Security Council.
1973 – Arab summit conference adopts open and secret resolutions on the use of the oil weapons; embargo extended to Portugal, Rhodesia, and South Africa
1974 – 60 Ethiopia government officials executed
1979 – In Dublin, Ireland, Thomas McMahon was sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of Earl Mountbatten.
1980 – In southern Italy, approximately 4,800 people were killed in a series of earthquakes.
1981 – Iran-Contra Affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1983 – The first Pershing II missiles were deployed in West Germany. In response, the U.S.S.R. broke off International Nuclear Forces (INF) talks in Geneva.
1985 – Larry Wu-tai Chin, a retired CIA analyst, was arrested and accused of spying for China. He committed suicide a year after his conviction.
1989 – Lucia Barrera de Cerna, a housekeeper who claimed she had witnessed the slaying of six Jesuit priests and two other people at the Jose Simeon Canas University in El Salvador, was flown to the U.S.
1991 – Yugoslavia’s rival leaders agreed to a new cease-fire, the 14th of the Balkan civil war.
1994 – About 111 people, mostly women and children, were killed in a stampede after Indian police baton-charged tribal protesters in the western city of Nagpur.
1995 – Charles Rathbun, free-lance photographer, was booked in Hermosa Beach, CA, for investigation of murder in the disappearance of model Linda Sobek. He was later convicted.
1998 – A U.S. federal judge rejected a Virginia county’s effort to block pornography on library computer calling the attempt unconstitutional.
2003 – Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections
2009 – Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines – Considered to be the worst attack on journalists in recorded history, the massacre occurred in the southern Philippines, when 57 citizens and journalists en route to register voters in Esmael Mangudadatu for the upcoming gubernatorial elections, were killed by gunmen and buried. 34 journalists were killed on the day.
2010 – The Bombardment of Yeonpyeong occurs on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. The North Korean artillery attack kills 2 civilians and 2 South Korean marines.
2011 – Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, The Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh Signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
2014 – An adviser to the Kenyan president says the slaughter of 28 people on a bus by the Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabab is intended to create a religious war in the country
2015 – President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia bans “Khatna”, the Islamic ritual practice of genital mutilation of young girls
2018 – Alabama police kill the wrong suspect after a gunman shoots 18-year-old man and 12-year-old girl at Riverchase Galleria Mall in Hoovermall
2019 – Sumatran rhino officially declared extinct in Malaysia after last known specimen, 25-year-old Iman, dies of cancer in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
2021 – Egypt reopens its 3000 year old Avenue of the Sphinxes in Luxor with a grand ceremony
2022 – European Space Agency is the first to announce the inclusion of a disabled person amongst their new class of astronauts – Britain’s John McFall
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
