1985 – Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
0096 – Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
0324 – Roman Emperor Constantine the Great decisively defeats rival Emperor Licinius at Chrysopolis
0335 – Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.
1180 – Philip Augustus becomes king of France.
1437 – Peasant uprising in Transsylvania
1544 – Peace of Crépy signed by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V & French King Francis I ending the Fourth Hapsburg-Valois War
1679 – New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1692 – Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
1739 – Treaty of Belgrade-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks
1759 – The French formally surrendered Quebec to the British.
1769 – It was reported, by the Boston Gazette, that the first piano had been built in North America. The instrument was named the spinet and was made by John Harris.
1789 – Alexander Hamilton negotiated and secured the first loan for the United States. The Temporary Loan of 1789 was repaid on June 8, 1790 at the sum of $191,608.81.
1793 – U.S. President George Washington laid the actual cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.
1810 – Chile declared its independence from Spain.
1812 – Fire of Moscow (1812) fades down after destroying more than three quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from Petrovsky Palace to Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
1830 – The “Tom Thumb”, the first locomotive built in America, raced a horse on a nine-mile course. The horse won when the locomotive had some mechanical difficulties.
1837 – Tiffany & Co. was founeded in New York City.
1850 – The Fugitive Slave Act was declared by the U.S. Congress. The act allowed slave owners to claim slaves that had escaped into other states.
1851 – The first issue of “The New York Times” was published.
1885 – Riots break out in Montreal to protest compulsory smallpox vaccination.
1891 – Harriet Maxwell Converse became the first white woman to ever be named chief of an Indian tribe. The tribe was the Six Nations Tribe at Towanda Reservation in New York.
1900 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid commit their first robbery together.
1914 – The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
1927 – Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System made its debut with its network broadcast over 16 radio stations. The name was later changed to CBS.
1928 – Walt Disney releases “”Steamboat Willie””, the best known of the early short films to feature Mickey Mouse
1931 – To create a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria, China, a railway explosion is faked by the Japanese
1942 – Holocaust in Brody, western Ukraine: About 2,500 Brody Jews are deported by German Gestapo to the extermination camp in Belzec
1943 – World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibr.
1945 – 1000 whites walk out of Gary Ind schools to protest integration
1946 – Mound Metalcraft was founded in Mound, MN. On November 23, 1955, the company changed its name to Tonka Toys Incorporated.
1947 – President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947, establishing the US Air Force as an independent service – USA
1952 – The US bars Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country after a trip to England.
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland.
1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1964 – North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
1972 – A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
1975 – Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
1981 – A museum honoring former U.S. President Ford was dedicated in Grand Rapids, MI.
1983 – Rock band Kiss unmasks for the first time in an appearance on MTV to coincide with the release of new album Lick It Up.
1984 – The 39th session of the U.N. General Assembly was opened with an appeal to the U.S. and Soviet Union to resume arms negotiations.
1985 – Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
1988 – Burma suspends its constitution. Military begins deadly offensive against pro-democracy demonstrators, killing thousands of people across the country
1991 – U.S. President George H.W. Bush said that he would send warplanes to escort U.N. helicopters that were searching for hidden Iraqi weapons if it became necessary.
1994 – Haiti’s military leaders agreed to depart on October 15th. This action averted a U.S.-led invasion to force them out of power.
1997 – Ted Turner, U.S. Media magnate, announced that over the next ten years he would give $1 billion to the United Nations.
1998 – The U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted to release to videotape of President Clinton’s grand jury testimony from August 17.
1998 – The FDA approved a once-a-day easier-to-swallow medication for AIDS patients.
2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2006 – Right wing protesters riot the building of the Hungarian Television in Budapest, Hungary, one day after an audio tape was made public, on which Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsny admitted he and his party lied during the 2006 general elections.
2008 – Both the Federal Reserve and central banks in Europe and Asia pump up to $180 billion into money markets in the hope to free up a lending freeze between banks
2012 – 10 Turkish soldiers are killed and 70 injured in missile attack by Kurdish militants in Bingol, Turkey
2014 – Scotland votes to stay a member of the United Kingdom in an independence referendum
2018 – China announces new $60 billion tariffs on US imports, a day after the US imposes $200 billion worth of new tariffs on Chinese goods
2019 – Indian government proposes a ban on e-cigarettes
2021 – US authorities begin moving, to repatriate, more than 10,000 mostly Haitian migrants living under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
