1971 – William H Rehnquist & Lewis F Powell nominated to US Supreme Court by Nixon, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan
335 – Roman Emperor Constantine the Great rules that Jews are not allowed to purchase and circumcise Christian slaves
1096 – Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea defeats The People’s Crusade at the Battle of Civetot, only about 3,000 out of 20,000 Crusaders survive
1520 – Explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his fleet reach Cape Virgenes and become the first Europeans to sail into the Pacific Ocean
1774 – First display of the word “Liberty” on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
1789 – French Revolution: The National Assembly declares martial law in France to prevent uprisings
1797 – “Old Ironsides,” the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, was launched in Boston’s harbor.
1805 – Battle of Trafalgar: British Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats combined French and Spanish fleet. Nelson shot and killed during battle.
1849 – The first tattooed man, James F. O’Connell, was put on exhibition at the Franklin Theatre in New York City, NY.
1854 – Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses is sent to the Crimean War
1878 – German chancellor Otto von Bismarck delegates end of “Socialism”
1902 – In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
1917 – 1st Americans to see action on front lines of WWI: US troops enter front lines at Sommervillier under French command
1921 – Former Hungarian King Karl stages a second attempted coup and is arrested
1925 – The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it had fined 29,620 people for prohibition (of alcohol) violations.
1927 – In New York City, construction began on the George Washington Bridge.
1944 – During World War II, the German city of Aachen was captured by U.S. troops.
1945 – Women in France were allowed to vote for the first time.
1948 – UN rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons
1950 – Chinese forces invaded Tibet.
1959 – Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana
1959 – The Guggenheim Museum was opened to the public in New York. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
1966 – 116 children and 28 adults died as a coal waste heap slid and engulfed a school in Aberfan, South Wales
1967 – Thousands of demonstrators marched in Washington, DC, in opposition to the Vietnam War.
1969 – Coup in Somalia, Siad Barre staged a military coup against the government the day after the death of Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, the then president of Somalia.
1971 – William H Rehnquist & Lewis F Powell nominated to US Supreme Court by Nixon, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black & John Harlan
1975 – Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll
1983 – The Pentagon reported that 2,000 Marines were headed to Grenada to protect and evacuate Americans living there.
1986 – Republic of Marshall Islands signs Compact of Free Association with US
1986 – The U.S. ordered 55 Soviet diplomats to leave. The action was in reaction to the Soviet Union expelling five American diplomats.
1991 – Jesse Turner, an American hostage in Lebanon, was released after nearly five years of being imprisoned.
1993 – Failed military coup in Burundi, led by ex-President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, includes assassination President Ndadaye; 525,000 Hutus flee
1994 – North Korea and the U.S. signed an agreement requiring North Korea to halt its nuclear program and agree to inspections.
2003 – North Korea rejected U.S. President George W. Bush’s offer of a written pledge not to attack in exchange for the communist nation agreeing to end its nuclear weapons program.
2015 – German Chancellor Angela Merkel says German view of Holocaust will not change, after Benjamin Netanyahu says idea came from Mufti of Jerusalem
2017 – Spanish government suspends Catalonia’s autonomy in the face of a deepening political crisis over the region’s push for independence
2019 – Australia’s biggest newspapers all blank out their front pages in protest against press restrictions
2019 – Facebook says it has taken down four state-backed disinformation campaigns, three from Iran, one from Russia in addition to dozens earlier this year
2020 – FBI says Iran and Russia have US voter information and are trying to influence outcome of US election
2020 – Parents of 545 children cannot be found that were separated at the US-Mexico border according to American Civil Liberties Union
2021 – Syria’s government says it has executed 24 people for starting devastating wildfires in 2020 that killed three
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
