1960 – World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski becomes the first person to end a World Series with a home run, as the Pirates beat the New York Yankees, four games to three.
0054 – Nero succeeds Claudius as Roman Emperor
0409 – Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees and appeared in Hispania.
1307 – French King Philip IV has Grand Master Jacques de Molay and Knights Templar arrested and charged with idolatry and corruption
1483 – Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on the Bible
1536 – Pilgrimage of Grace begins in Northern England, a protest against King Henry VIII’s break with the Pope and the dissolution of the monasteries
1629 – Dutch West Indies Co grants religious freedom in West Indies
1773 – The Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by Charles Messier
1775 – The U.S. Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.
1792 – The cornerstone of the Executive Mansion was laid in Washington, DC. The building became known as the White House in 1818.
1812 – American forces were defeated at the Battle of Queenstown Heights. The British victory effectively ended an further U.S. invasion of Canada.
1843 – B’nai B’rith, the Jewish organization, was founded by Henry Jones and eleven others in New York City, NY.
1845 – A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution, that if accepted by the U.S. Congress, will make Texas a U.S. state
1881 – Revival of the Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations.
1902 – US President Theodore Roosevelt threatens to start using army troops to work coal mines struck since 12 may; this brings the owners to agree to abide by a Commission of Arbitration
1917 – 70,000 people gather to see ‘Miracle of the Sun’, solar visions reportedly by the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal after prophecies by local children
1918 – Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I
1924 – Mecca falls without struggle to Saudi forces led by Abdulaziz Ibn Saud
1941 – Nazis kill 11,000 Jewish children and old people, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine; additional murders continue on the 14th
1943 – During World War II, Italy signed an armistice with the Allies and declared war on Germany.
1944 – American troops entered Aachen, Germany, during World War II.
1951 – In Atlanta, GA, a football with a rubber covering was used for the first time. Georgia Tech beat Louisiana State 25-7.
1957 – Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra introduced the Ford Edsel on an hour long special.
1958 – Paddington Bear Makes His Debut
1960 – World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski becomes the first person to end a World Series with a home run, as the Pirates beat the New York Yankees, four games to three.
1967 – The first game of the new American Basketball Association was played. Anaheim Amigos lose to the Oakland Oaks 134-129
1972 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains, in between the borders of Argentina and Chile. By December 23, 1972 only 16 out of 45 people lived long enough to be rescued
1976 – The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle was obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C.
1977 – Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.
1980 – Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, NY
1981 – Egyptian voters elected Vice President Hosni Mubarak as the new president one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
1987 – First military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)
1989 – U.S. President George H.W. Bush called for an overthrow of the Panamanian ruler Manuel Antonio Noriega.
1990 – End of the Lebanese war. Syrian forces launch an attack on the free areas of Lebanon removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
1992 – A commercial flight record was set by an Air France supersonic jetliner for circling the Earth in 33 hours and one minute.
1995 – Walt Disney World Resort admitted its 500-millionth guest.
1998 – The National Basketball Association (NBA) canceled regular season games, due to work stoppage, for first time in its 51-year history.
1999 – The U.S. Senate rejected the ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
2008 – HM Treasury infused £37 billion ($64 billion, 47 billion euros) of new capital-bailout into Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Lloyds TSB and HBOS Plc, to avert a financial sector collapse.
2010 – Near Copiapó, Chile, 33 miners were trapped underground in San José Mine. The miners were rescued after 69 days underground.
2012 – Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was shot at and injured. Oficial reports suggest that he was mistakenly shot by the military.
2013 – 109 people are killed in a stampede on a bridge in Datia district, Madhya Pradesh, India
2017 – Archaeologists announce the discovery of Arabic characters “Allah” and “Ali” on Viking funeral costumes from a grave in Gamla Uppsala, Sweden
2018 – Pope Francis defrocks two Chilean bishops for alleged sexual abuse of minors
2019 – Kurdish forces make a deal with Syrian army for them to patrol border areas in north east Syria to combat Turkish offensive after US President Donald Trump pulls out US forces
2021 – Bow and arrow terrorist attack kills five and injuries two in Kongsberg, Norway
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
