1982 – Scott Fahlman became the first person to use 🙂 in an online message.
0451 – According to some sources, this was the date of the Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius’ victory over Attila the Hun.
0634 – Muslim forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus, 1st major city of Eastern Roman Empire taken by the Rashidun Caliphate
1187 – Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
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
1633 – Galileo Galilei is tried before the Inquisition for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun
1676 – Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown, Virginia, on fire
1737 – Runner Edward Marshall completes his journey in the Walking Purchase forcing the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony
1777 – The Battle of Saratoga was won by American soldiers during the Revolutionary War.
1795 – Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned
1796 – U.S. President Washington’s farewell address was published.
1819 – John Keats wrote “Ode to Autumn.”
1835 – Farroupilha’s Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
1848 – Hyperion, moon of Saturn – the first non-round moon – discovered by William Cranch Bond, his son George Phillips Bond and William Lassell
1854 – Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea
1857 – The Indian Mutiny ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
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.
1903 – King Leopold II denies Belgian cruelty in Congo
1911 – Red Tuesday; 20,000 Spanish protest for universal rights
1934 – Bruno Hauptmann arrested for kidnapping the Linbergh baby
1937 – Seven convicts take Folsom Prison Warden Clarence Larkin hostage in escape attempt, the warden, a guard, and 2 inmates are killed in ensuing stand-off; 5 remaining prisoners convicted of murder and executed by newly introduced gas chamber in California
1940 – Genevieve Grotjan completes the decryption of the Japanese Purple code
1942 – The first advertisement to announce Little Golden Books appeared in Publishers Weekly.
1944 – The Moscow Armistice ends the Continuation War, The peace treaty was signed between the Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and Finland. It put an end to the conflict between the USSR and Finland between 1941 and 1944.
1945 – Kim Il-sung arrives in the harbor of Wonsan, Korea, after 26 years in exile in the Soviet Union
1952 – “Adventures of Superman” TV series starring George Reeves premieres in syndication in the US
1954 – New Zealand’s Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents reports just ten days after concluding hearings.
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.
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
1970 – Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen. The Jordanians knock out 30 of the Syrian tanks.
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
1979 – A coup d’état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I
1980 – US Titan II Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile explodes in its storage silo near Damascus, Arkansas; 1 person killed and over 20 injured, but safety features prevented thermonuclear detonation
1982 – Scott Fahlman became the first person to use 🙂 in an online message.
1983 – Lebanese army units defending Souk el-Gharb were supported in their effort by two U.S. Navy ships off Beirut.
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.
1991 – Otzi the Iceman is discovered by a couple of German tourists.
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 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.
2000 – The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building was attacked by a Russian-built Mark 22 anti-tank missile
2001 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American People president George W. Bush declares “war on terror”
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.
2003 – It was reported that AOL Time Warner was going to drop “AOL” from its name and be known as Time Warner Inc. The company had announced its merger and name change on January 10, 2000.
2006 – A Military coup overthrows the elected government in Thailand
2007 – The government raises the debt portfolio limits for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two public companies that together administer about 50% of the nation’s mortgage loans, by more than 2 percent annually
2008 – The Bush Administrator develops a plan to buy bad mortgages and other forms of toxic debt that have been dragging down the U.S. financial companies at a cost of $700 billion
2010 – Oil rig Deepwater Horizon is declared sealed after a 5-month long spill in the Gulf of Mexico
2016 – Aid convoy into Urum al-Kubra, Syria attacked by air strikes, UN denounces as a war crime
2017 – US President Donald Trump addresses the United Nations vowing to “totally destroy North Korea” if threatens the US
2019 – North America has lost 3 billion birds (29%) since 1970 according to analysis published in “Science”
2020 – US President Donald Trump vows to swear in a new Supreme Court judge, despite the election being only 45 days away
2021 – US apologizes for an Afghan airstrike that killed 10 civilians, including seven children
2022 – Banks in Lebanon close for three days after a series of hold-ups by people trying to obtain their own money, frozen amid the country’s economic crisis
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
