2010 – Oil rig Deepwater Horizon is declared sealed after a 5-month long spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Thought to be one of the biggest accidents in the oil and gas industry, the Deepwater Horizon spill or the BP oil spill began on April 20, 2010, when an explosion destroyed the rig and killed 11 people.
335 – Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.
634 – Muslim forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus, 1st major city of Eastern Roman Empire taken by the Rashidun Caliphate
1356 – The Battle of Poitiers was fought between England and France. Edward “the Black Prince” captured France’s King John.
1559 – Five Spanish ships sink in storm off Tampa, about 600 die
1676 – Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown, Virginia on fire
1777 – The Battle of Saratoga was won by American soldiers during the Revolutionary War.
1778 – The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
1796 – U.S. President Washington’s farewell address was published.
1819 – John Keats wrote “Ode to Autumn.”
1863 – Battle of Chickamauga, GA (near Chattanooga) begins; Union forces retreat after a couple days of fighting
1870 – Siege of Paris by Prussian Forces begins (lasts until January 28 1871)
1893 – In New Zealand, the Electoral Act 1893 was consented to giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
1896 – Beginning of the Bombay plague epidemic when Dr.Acacio Gabriel Viegas detects the first case in Mandvi. Goes on to spread and kill 12 million in India.
1922 – Queen Wilhelmina assumes Dutch throne with 119 word speech
1926 – 80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague
1934 – Bruno Haptmann arrested for kidnapping Lindbergh baby
1940 – Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes
1940 – Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance
1941 – Nazis force German Jews, 6 & over to wear Jewish stars
1944 – Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War)
1952 – The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England
1955 – Argentina President Juan Peron was ousted after a revolt by the army and navy.
1957 – The U.S. conducted its first underground nuclear test. The test took place in the Nevada desert.
1959 – Nikita Khruschev was not allowed to visit Disneyland due to security reasons. Khrushchev reacted angrily.
1960 – Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in New York to visit the United Nations, checked out of the Shelburne Hotel angrily after a dispute with the management.
1961 – Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
1968 – Nigerian federal army begins the “final offensive” against the secessionist state of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War
1972 – A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
1973 – Carl XVI Gustaf succeeds his grandfather King Gustaf VI Adolf as the King of Sweden
1974 – The KGB begin a large-scale operation to discredit Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and cut his communications with Soviet dissidents
1982 – Scott Fahlman became the first person to use 🙂 in an online message.
1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis gain their Independence from the British Crown
1983 – Lebanese army units defending Souk el-Gharb were supported in their effort by two U.S. Navy ships off Beirut.
1984 – China and Britain completed a draft agreement transferring Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule by 1997.
1986 – U.S. health officials announced that AZT, though an experimental drug, would be made available to AIDS patients.
1988 – Israel successfully launched the Horizon-I test satellite.
1990 – Iraq began confiscating foreign assets of countries that were imposing sanctions against the Iraqi government.
1992 – The U.N. Security Council recommended suspending Yugoslavia due to its role in the Bosnian civil war.
1994 – U.S. troops entered Haiti peacefully to enforce the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1995 – The U.S. Senate passed a welfare overhaul bill.
1995 – The commander of American forces in Japan and the U.S. ambassador apologized for the rape of a schoolgirl committed by three U.S. servicemen.
1996 – The government of Guatemala and leftist rebels signed a peace treaty to end their long war.
2002 – In Ivory Coast, around 750 rebel soldiers attempted to overthrow the government. U.S. troops landed on September 25th to help move foreigners, including Americans, to safer areas.
2006 – Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
2010 – Oil rig Deepwater Horizon is declared sealed after a 5-month long spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Thought to be one of the biggest accidents in the oil and gas industry, the Deepwater Horizon spill or the BP oil spill began on April 20, 2010, when an explosion destroyed the rig and killed 11 people.
2012 – 9 people are killed and 20 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Afghanistan
2017 – US President Donald Trump addresses the United Nations vowing to “totally destroy North Korea” if threatens the US
2018 – Korean joint summit in Pyongyang agrees to limit North Korea’s weapons programme and to South Korea economic cooperation
2019 – Taliban suicide truck bombing kills 22 and injures 90 at a hospital in Zabul Province, southern Afghanistan
2021 – US apologizes for an Afghan airstrike that killed 10 civilians, including seven children
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
