1920 – A bomb explodes on Wall Street, New York killing 38 people, The Wall Street Bombing, as the incident is known, was the deadliest such act on American soil to that date. It is still not known who was responsible for the bombing.
1400 – Owain Glyndwr was proclaimed Prince of Wales after rebelling against English rule. He was the last Welsh-born Prince of Wales.
1620 – The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England, with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World
1630 – The village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.
1668 – King John II Casimir of Poland resigns, flees to France
1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart “The Old Pretender”, becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland on the death of his father James II
1782 – The Great Seal of the United States was impressed on document to negotiate a prisoner of war agreement with the British. It was the first official use of the impression.
1795 – British capture Capetown, South Africa, from the Dutch
1810 – The Mexicans began a revolt against Spanish rule. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest of Spanish descent, declared Mexico’s independence from Spain in the small town of Dolores.
1848 – Slavery abolished in all French territories
1859 – Lake Nyasa, which forms Malawi’s boundary with Tanzania & Mozambique discovered by British explorer David Livingstone
1893 – The “Cherokee Strip” in Oklahoma was swarmed by hundreds of thousands of settlers.
1906 – Douglas Mawson, Edgeworth David and Alistair Mackay claim to have discovered the Magnetic South Pole in Antarctica
1913 – Thousands of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage
1920 – A bomb explodes on Wall Street, New York killing 38 people, The Wall Street Bombing, as the incident is known, was the deadliest such act on American soil to that date. It is still not known who was responsible for the bombing.
1940 – U.S. President Roosevelt signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act, which set up the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history.
1941 – Adolf Hitler orders that for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavs should be killed
1950 – Viet Minh offensive against French bases in Vietnam
1963 – Malaysia is created, The Federation of Malaya united with Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore to create Malaysia. Singapore left the arrangement two years later.
1968 – Richard Nixon appears on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-in”
1971 – 6 Ku Klux Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses
1974 – U.S. President Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for draft-evaders and deserters during the Vietnam War.
1976 – The Episcopal Church formally approved women to be ordained as priests and bishops.
1977 – 90 minute pilot of “Logan’s Run” premieres on TV
1979 – The families of Peter Strelzyk and Gunter Wetzel arrive in West Germany from Communist East Germany in a hot air balloon
1982 – In west Beirut, the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children began in refugee camps of the Lebanese Christian militiamen.
1985 – The Communist Party in China announced changes in leadership that were designed to bring younger officials into power.
1987 – The Montreal Protocol was signed by 24 countries in an effort to save the Earth’s ozone layer by reducing emissions of harmful chemicals by the year 2000.
1990 – An eight-minute videotape of an address by U.S. President George H.W. Bush was shown on Iraqi television. The message warned that action of Saddam Hussein could plunge them into a war “against the world.”
1992 – “Black Wednesday” UK government is forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism after unable keep it above agreed lowest limit
1994 – Exxon Corporation was ordered by federal jury to pay $5 billion in punitive damages to the people harmed by the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill.
1997 – Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs interim CEO
2012 – Anti-Japanese protesters set fire to Panasonic plant in Qingdao, China
2012 – Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, seeks a court order to resolve a week long teachers strike
2013 – 12 people are killed after a gunman opens fire at a naval yard in Washington, D.C.
2015 – 700 million malaria cases prevented in Africa since 2000 in report by University of Oxford in “Nature” journal
2015 – Military coup in Burkina Faso, President Michel Kafando and other officials seized by presidential guards
2018 – Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and wife Lynne Benioff announce purchase of Time magazine for $190 million
2018 – US Supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh accused of sexual assault in the 1980s in “The Washington Post”
2019 – Study puts prices on value of “thoughts and prayers”, average Christian willing to pay US$4 for a prayer, average atheists would pay US$3 not to receive one, published in “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences”
2019 – Guantánamo Bay is the world’s most expensive prison at US$13 million per prisoner according to investigation by “The New York Times”
2020 – Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley announces the country’s intention to remove Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and become a republic
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
