1998 – It was announced that 5.9 million people read The Starr Report on the Internet. 606,000 people read the White House defense of U.S. President Clinton.
668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
921 – Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin
1616 – First non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy
1683 – Germantown in Pennsylvania is founded by 13 immigrant families
1762 – Battle of Signal Hill, the last battle of the North American theatre of the Seven Years’ War
1775 – An early and unofficial American flag was raised by Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Mott after the seizing of Fort Johnson from the British. The flag was dark blue with the white word “Liberty” spelled on it.
1776 – British forces occupied New York City during the American Revolution.
1789 – The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs was renamed the Department of State.
1821 – Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador proclaimed independence.
1853 – Reverend Antoinette Brown Blackwell was ordained becoming first female minister in the United States.
1858 – The first mail service begins to the Pacific Coast of the U.S. under government contract. Coaches from the Butterfield Overland Mail Company took 12 days to make the journey between Tipton, MO and San Francisco, CA.
1894 – Battle of Pyongyang ends with decisive Japanese victory, The battle was a major land battle took place between the forces of Meiji Japan and Qing China during the First Sino-Japanese War.
1903 – Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers “criminals”
1909 – A New York judge rule that Ford Motor Company had infringed on George Seldon’s patent for the “Road Engine.” The ruling was later overturned.
1909 – Charles F. Kettering applied for a patent on his ignition system. His company Delco (Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company) later became a subsidiary of General Motors.
1916 – During the Battle of the Somme, in France, tanks were first used in warfare when the British rolled them onto the battlefields.
1917 – Alexander Kerensky proclaimed Russia to be a republic.
1923 – Oklahoma was placed under martial law by Gov. John Calloway Walton due to terrorist activity by the Ku Klux Klan. After this declaration national newspapers began to expose the Klan and its criminal activities.
1928 – Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin in the mold Penicillium notatum.
1935 – The Nuremberg Laws were enacted by Nazi Germany. The act stripped all German Jews of their civil rights and the swastika was made the official symbol of Nazi Germany.
1940 – The German Luftwaffe suffered the loss of 185 planes in the Battle of Britain. The change in tide forced Hitler to abandon his plans for invading Britain.
1941 – Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil, Lithuania
1943 – Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy
1950 – U.N. forces landed at Inchon, Korea in an attempt to relieve South Korean forces and recapture Seoul.
1958 – Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 in Elizabethport, New Jersey
1959 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrived in the U.S. to begin a 13-day visit.
1961 – The U.S. resumed underground testing of nuclear weapons.
1963 – Church bombing in Birmingham Alabama, kills 4 African-American girls
1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to the United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
1972 – An SAS domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm was hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.
1973 – OPEC supports price hikes and designates six Gulf countries to negotiate collectively with companies over prices; other members to negotiate individually
1981 – US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O’Connor for the US Supreme Court
1982 – The first issue of “USA Today” was published.
1983 – Police officers beat Michael Stewart to death for graffiting NYC subway
1989 – The U.S. Congress recognizes Terry Anderson’s continued captivity in Beirut.
1990 – France announced that it would send an additional 4,000 soldiers to the Persian Gulf. They also expelled Iraqi military attaches in Paris.
1993 – The FBI announced a new national campaign concerning the crime of carjacking.
1994 – U.S. President Clinton told Haiti’s military leaders “Your time is up. Leave now or we will force you from power.”
1994 – Muslim fundamentalists kidnap & behead 16 citizens in Algeria
1995 – The U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing.
1998 – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the Iranian military to be on full alert and massed troops on its border with Afghanistan.
1998 – It was announced that 5.9 million people read The Starr Report on the Internet. 606,000 people read the White House defense of U.S. President Clinton.
1999 – The United Nations approved the deployment of a multinational peacekeeping force in East Timor.
2008 – Lehman Brothers file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection. This was the largest bankruptcy in US history.
2012 – Japan announces that it will phase out nuclear energy by the 2030s
2013 – 21 people are killed in a series of bombings in Baghdad and Shia provinces, Iraq
2014 – President Obama announces the US will send 3,000 troops to help combat spread of the Ebola virus
2017 – Terrorist bomb only partially explodes in attack at Parsons Green tube station, London, injuring 29
2019 – Hong Kong police fire water cannons and tear gas at thousands of protesters outside the British embassy, as protests continue in the city
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
