1920 – The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J.P.Morgan building in New York City – 38 are killed with 400 injured.
1400 – Owain Glyndwr was proclaimed Prince of Wales after rebelling against English rule. He was the last Welsh-born Prince of Wales.
1575 – King Johan Casimir of Palts promises military aid to the Huguenots
1630 – The village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.
1662 – Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, first known astronomical observation
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
1702 – Emperor Leopold I declares war on France, Cologne & Bavaria
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.
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.
1830 – Oliver Wendell Holmes writes poem “Old Ironsides” as tribute to the 18th-century USS Constitution
1848 – Slavery abolished in all French territories
1863 – Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist
1893 – The “Cherokee Strip” in Oklahoma was swarmed by hundreds of thousands of settlers.
1908 – General Motors was founded by William Crapo “Billy” Durant. The company was formed by merging the Buick and Olds car companies.
1913 – Thousands of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage
1915 – US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years
1919 – American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress
1920 – The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J.P.Morgan building in New York City – 38 are killed with 400 injured.
1929 – Police shoot at strikers in Maastricht, 2 killed
1932 – British actress Peg Entwistle (24) commits suicide by jumping from the letter “H” in the “Hollywoodland” (now “Hollywood”) sign in Los Angeles, California
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 – Concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia was about to align his petroleum-rich country with Germany during World War II, the United Kingdom and the USSR occupy Iran and forced him to resign in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1953 – The St. Louis Browns of the American League were given permission to move to Baltimore, MD, where they became the Baltimore Orioles.
1955 – Juan Peron is deposed in Argentina.
1957 – Coup in Thailand deposes Premier Songgram
1963 – Malaysia is formed from Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak.
1968 – Richard Nixon appears on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-in”
1971 – Six 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.
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: the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the Deutschmark.
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.
2008 – The Government announces an $85 billion emergency loan to rescue AIG in return for owning a 79.9% equity stake in the company
2012 – 14 people are killed and 7 wounded by a roadside bomb Jandol, Turkey
2013 – 12 people are killed after a gunman opens fire at a naval yard in Washington, D.C.
2015 – Military coup in Burkina Faso, President Michel Kafando and other officials seized by presidential guards
2018 – US Supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh accused of sexual assault in the 1980s in “The Washington Post”
2019 – 50,000 workers at General Motors go on strike in the US over pay and factory closings
2021 – French President Emmanuel Macron says France has killed leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
