1965 – The Red Baron made his first appearance in the “Peanuts” comic strip.
0354 – Roman Emperor Constantius gives grand circus and theater shows to mark 30th year of his reign as Caesar in Arles
0680 – Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Shi’a Muslims as Aashurah
0732 – Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is killed during the battle
1471 – Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark
1684 – Advisement to view a rhinoceros in a tavern in Ludgate Hill, London published – 1st rhinoceros in Europe since 1515
1695 – King William III escapes South Netherlands, back to England
1733 – France declares war on Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI
1787 – Amsterdam surrenders to Prussian invasion army
1845 – In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors
1846 – Neptune’s moon Triton discovered by William Lassell
1860 – The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennesse
1868 – Carlos Cspedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba’s independence
1874 – Fiji becomes a British possession
1886 – The tuxedo dinner jacket made its U.S. debut in New York City.
1887 – Thomas Edison organized the Edison Phonograph Company.
1902 – American outlaw Tom Horn’s murder trial begins, and he is eventually found guilty and sentenced to death
1911 – China’s Manchu dynasty was overthrown by revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen.
1913 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike that ended the construction of the Panama Canal. Atlantic & Pacific waters mix completing the Panama Canal
1933 – Dreft, the first synthetic detergent, went on sale.
1935 – League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia
1938 – Nazi Germany completed its annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland.
1941 – The resienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia is established.
1943 – Chaing Kai-shek took the oath of office as the president of China.
1944 – Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are systematically murdered at Auschwitz death camp.
1954 – Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after withdrawal of French troops
1957 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, the finance minister of Ghana, after the official had been refused service in a Dover, DE, restaurant.
1960 – 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo
1963 – A dam burst in Italy killing 3,000 people.
1965 – The Red Baron made his first appearance in the “Peanuts” comic strip.
1967 – The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, enters into force.
1970 – In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
1971 – Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, the London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
1973 – VP Spiro T Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns
1974 – US general George Brown’s speech deplores Jewish influence in US over his treatment during the 1973 World Series
1978 – The U.S. bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar was signed by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
1982 – Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint
1984 – The U.S. Congress passed the 2nd Boland Amendment which outlawed solicitation of 3rd-party countries to support the Contras. The amendment barred the use of funds available to CIA, defense, or intelligence agencies for “supporting, directly or indirectly, military or paramilitary operations in Nicaragua by any nation, group, organization or individual.”
1985 – US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody
1991 – A former US postal worker Joseph Harris shoots two workers at the post office in Ridgewood, New Jersey
1994 – Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras resigned as Haiti’s commander-in-chief of the army and pledged to leave the country.
1995 – Israel begins West Bank pullback, frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
1997 – The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, opened to the public. Architect Frank Gehry designed the 450 ft. long and 98 ft. wide building.
2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush presented a list of 22 most wanted terrorists.
2003 – Rush Limbaugh announced that he was addicted to painkillers and that he was going to check into a rehab center.
2008 – Singapore becomes the first Asian country to slip into a recession since the credit crisis began: growth has faltered as a result of less demand for exports, a reduction in tourism, and the end of the real-estate boom
2009 – After closed borders for nearly two hundred years, Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich to open their borders
2010 – The Country of Netherlands Antilles is Dissolved
2019 – 3,500 women are the first to be allowed to attend a football match in Iran for a World Cup qualifier in Tehran, since the Islamic revolution
2021 – Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen says country won’t bow to Chinese pressure in defiant speech on Taiwanese National Day, day after Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to “fulfil reunification”
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
