1901 – U.S. President William McKinley died of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, at age 42, succeeded him.
0081 – Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus
0786 – Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi
1515 – Battle at Marignano ends after two days in a French and Venetian victory over a Swiss army
1607 – Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
1687 – French officer Louis-Armand de Lom d’Arce, baron Lahontan arrives at Fort Saint-Joseph (modern Detroit) as its new commander (a year later abandons and razes to the ground)
1807 – Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr was acquitted of a misdemeanor charge. Two weeks earlier Burr had been found innocent of treason.
1812 – Moscow was set on fire by Russians after Napoleon Bonaparte’s troops invaded.
1829 – Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish Wa
1847 – U.S. forces took control of Mexico City under the leadership of General Winfield Scott.
1848 – Alexander Stewart opens the 1st US department store, “The Marble Palace” in downtown New York City
1867 – Karl Marx publishes “Das Kapital” Volume 1, his theory of the Capitalist system and how it is doomed to destroy itself
1901 – U.S. President William McKinley died of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, at age 42, succeeded him.
1911 – Russian Prime Minister Peter Stolypin is assassinated in Kiev; his regime had been characterized by harsh measures to control dissidents
1917 – Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.
1923 – Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain
1930 – After stormtroopers terrorize political opponents, Nazi seats in Reichstag rise from 12 to 107
1936 – 1st prefrontal lobotomy in America performed by Walter Freeman and James W. Watts at George Washington University Hospital in Washington D.C.
1937 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt bans US ships from trading arms with China or Japan
1938 – The VS-300 made its first flight. The craft was based on the helicopter technology patented by Igor Sikorsky.
1940 – The Selective Service Act was passed by the U.S. Congress providing the first peacetime draft in the United States.
1944 – United States troops arrive at the German border and proceed, with the British and Canadians, to launch an offensive to reach the Rhine
1948 – In New York, a groundbreaking ceremony took place at the site of the United Nations’ world headquarters.
1956 – IBM 305 RAMAC is Released, The 350 RAMAC was the first computer with a disk drive and was primarily targeted towards business that did real-time transactions
1957 – UN resolution deplores and condemns USSR invasion of Hungary
1958 – WTAE TV channel 4 in Pittsburgh, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 – WQEX TV channel 16 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 – The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded. The core members were Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.
1963 – Mary Ann Fischer gave birth to America’s first surviving quintuplets.
1973 – Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s
1974 – Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter
1975 – Pope Paul VI declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint.
1979 – The Afghan President is assassinated, Nur Muhammad Taraki had taken office less than a year ago when he was killed by gunfire at the behest of Hafizullah Amin. Amin took the seat of the president after the assassination and ruled for only 3 months before he was killed by the Soviets during Operation Storm-333.
1982 – President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
1983 – The U.S. House of Representatives voted 416-0 in a resolution condemning the Soviet Union for the shooting down of a Korean jet on September 1.
1989 – Joseph T. Wesbecker shot and killed eight people and wounded twelve others at a printing plant in Louisville, KY. Wesbecker, 47 years old, was on disability for mental illness. He took his own life after the incident.
1994 – It was announced that the season was over for the National Baseball League on the 34th day of the players strike. The final days of the regular season were canceled.
1998 – Israel announced that they had successfully tested its Arrow-2 missile defense system. The system successfully destroyed a simulated target.
1999 – Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations
2001 – The FBI released the names of the 19 suspected hijackers that had taken part in the September 11 terror attacks on the U.S.
2003 – Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum
2008 – U.S. regulators make it clear there will be no government bailout for Lehman Bothers and fearing the fallout from Lehman failure Merrill Lynch & Co. arranges a hasty deal to be bought by Bank of America Corp.
2009 – Greyhound UK began operations as an hourly service between London and Portsmouth or Southampton.
2015 – 14 yr old Texan Ahmed Mohamed arrested at school when home-made clock assumed to be a bomb – Mark Zuckerberg and US President Barack Obama send supportive tweets
2017 – Fire at a religious school in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, kills 23
2018 – Former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort pleads guilty to conspiracy charges and agrees to co-operative with Government investigations
2019 – Drone attack on Abqaiq oil plant in Saudi Arabia takes out half of country’s oil production and 5% of the world’s. Yemen Houthi rebels claim responsibility.
2021 – US records lowest level of people living in poverty since records began in 1967 (9.1% vs 11.8% in 2019), due to increase in government aid
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
