2019 – Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s acting chief of staff says the White House withheld nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine to further Trump’s own political interests https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-whistleblower/white-house-acknowledges-strings-attached-in-trump-withholding-ukraine-aid-idUSKBN1WW1BG
0079 – Mt. Vesuvius erupts, burying the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae and killing thousands. New research in 2018 suggests the eruption occurred on or after this date not the previously used 24 August. [1] [2]
0415 – Jewish autonomy in Palestine ended by the Romans and Raban Gamliel forced from office
1346 – Battle of Neville’s Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England at Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years
1651 – Future King Charles II flees from England
1660 – Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered, another is hanged.
1739 – Thomas Coram was granted a Royal Charter from George II so a “hospital for the maintenance and education of exposed and deserted young children” in Londond, England.
1740 – Ivan VI becomes Tsar of Russia
1777 – American troops defeated British forces in Saratoga, NY. It was the turning point in the American Revolutionary War.
1787 – Boston African Americans petition legislature for equal school facilities
1808 – Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw
1814 – London Beer Flood, Vats of beer at the Meux and Company Brewery burst, flooding city streets with 610,000 liters of beer. The almost 15 feet tall wave of porter killed 8 people, some of whom were gathered for a funeral.
1855 – Bessemer steelmaking process patented
1861 – Cullin-la-Ringo Massacre, In what is thought to be the largest massacre of white settlers by Australian aborigines, the killings occurred after a group of settlers from Victoria led by politician Horatio Wills, set up a camp at Cullin-la-Ringo, which is located in present-day Central Queensland. 19 people were killed during the massacre.
1871 – US President Ulysses S. Grant suspends habeas corpus in parts of South Carolina during prosecutions against Ku Klux Klan
1894 – Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man
1922 – Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow on London
1931 – Al Capone was convicted on income tax evasion and was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released in 1939.
1933 – “News-Week” appeared for the first time at newsstands. The name was later changed to “Newsweek.”
1933 – Dr. Albert Einstein moved to Princeton, NJ, after leaving Germany.
1943 – Burma railway completed, built by Allied POWs and Asian laborers for use of the Japanese army
1945 – Loyalty Day in Argentina, mass demonstrations held to release Juan Perón
1961 – Battle of Paris-police kill 210 Algerians
1971 – It is estimated today that approximately 16,000 households were withholding rent and rates for council houses as part of the campaign of civil disobedience against internment organised by the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Northern Ireland
1973 – The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) began an oil-embargo against several countries including the U.S. and Great Britain. The incident stemmed from Western support of Israel when Egypt and Syria attacked the nation on October 6, 1973. The embargo lasted until March of 1974.
1975 – UN passes resolution saying “Zionism is a form of racism”
1977 – West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages & killing 3 of 4 hijackers
1978 – U.S. President Carter signed a bill that restored full U.S. citizenship rights to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
1986 – US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982
1987 – U.S. First Lady Nancy Reagan underwent a modified radical mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.
1994 – Israel and Jordan initialed a draft peace treaty.
1994 – The Angolan government and rebels agreed to a peace treaty that ended their 19 years of civil war.
1997 – The remains of revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara were laid to rest in his adopted Cuba, 30 years after his execution in Bolivia.
1998 – At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline.
2001 – Israel’s tourism minister was killed. A radical Palestinian faction claimed that it had carried out the assassination to avenge the killing of its leader by Israel 2 months earlier.
2001 – Pakistan placed its armed forces on high alert because of troop movements by India in the disputed territory of Kashmir. India said that the movements were part of a normal troop rotation.
2001 – Italian priest Giuseppe “Beppe” Pierantoni was kidnapped by the terrorist group the “Pentagon.” He was released on April 8, 2002.
2003 – In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration approved a drug, known as memantine, to help people with Alzheimer’s symptoms.
2012 – Lance Armstrong loses a host of endorsements in the wake of his doping scandal
2013 – 59 people are killed in a wave of attacks on Shia Muslims in Iraq
2017 – Islamic State headquarters Raqqa declared under full control of US-led alliance by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesman Talal Sello after 4 months of fighting
2018 – Student shoots and detonates a bomb killing 20 with 40 injured at Kerch polytechnic college, Crimea
2019 – Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s acting chief of staff says the White House withheld nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine to further Trump’s own political interests White House acknowledges strings attached in Trump withholding Ukraine aid | Reuters
2019 – The ‘Blob’, mysterious yellow slime organism (physarum polycephalum) with 720 sexes, moves and can solve problems to go on display at the Paris Zoological Park
2019 – UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces new Brexit deal with the EU, removes the Northern Ireland backstop clause
2019 – US adults identifying as Christian falls 12% in a decade to 2/3 according to the Pew Research Center, born-again Protestants falls to 16%
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
