1962 – James Meredith, a black student, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Governor Ross R. Barnett. Meredith was later admitted.
622 – Islamic Prophet Muhammed/Abu Bakr arrives in Jathrib (Medina)
1187 – Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
1378 – Robert de Geneve, “butcher of Cesena” crowned anti-pope Clemens VII
1519 – Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan left Spain to find a route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Magellan was killed during the trip, but one of his ships eventually made the journey.
1565 – Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Florida & massacre the French
1643 – First Battle of Newbury (English civil war): King Charles I’s forces beaten by a parliamentary army led by the Earl of Essex and Philip Stapleton
1664 – Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women & black men
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 – Battle of Paoli; British forces under Major General Charles Grey attacks Brigadier General Anthony Wayne’s encampment. Claims the British gave no quarter leads to engagement becoming known as the “Paoli Massacre”
1830 – 1st Negro Convention of Free Men agree to boycott slave-produced goods
1850 – Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue
1854 – Battle of the Alma: British, French and Ottoman alliance defeat the Russian Empire in the 1st major battle of the Crimean War
1870 – Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing NY treasury
1873 – Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) NY shut banks for 10 days due to a bank scandal
1881 – Chester A. Arthur became the 21st president of the U.S. President James A. Garfield had died the day before.
1884 – Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for US President and Vice President
1909 – The British Parliament passes the South Africa Act; it calls for union of Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony, and Transvaal; and both English and Dutch as official languages
1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA, started a daily radio newscast. It was one of the first in the U.S.
1926 – Bugs Moran attempts to assassinate Al Capone in a drive-by shooting but fails
1946 – Churchill argues for a ‘United States of Europe’
1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival premiered. The original premier was delayed in 1939 due to World War II.
1951 – Swiss males votes against female suffrage
1954 – 1st FORTRAN computer program run
1958 – Ferhat Abbas forms Algerian government in exile (Cairo)
1962 – James Meredith, a black student, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Governor Ross R. Barnett. Meredith was later admitted. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/james-meredith-shot
1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy proposed a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition to the moon in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly.
1967 – The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) was launched. It went out of service on November 27, 2008.
1970 – Jim Morrison found guilty of “open profanity and indecent exposure” after allegedly exposing himself at a concert in Miami in 1969
1973 – Billie Jean King Wins the Battle of the Sexes
1976 – Playboy releases Jimmy Carter’s interview which includes the quote “I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust.”
1977 – The first of the “boat people” arrived in San Francisco from Southeast Asia under a new U.S. resettlement program.
1979 – Lee Iacocca is elected president of the Chrysler Corporation
1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced that the U.S., France, and Italy were going to send peacekeeping troops back to Beirut.
1984 – Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23
1991 – U.N. weapons inspectors left for Iraq in a renewed search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
1992 – French voters approved the Maastricht Treaty.
1995 – AT&T announced that it would be splitting into three companies. The three companies were AT&T, Lucent Technologies, and NCR Corp.
1995 – The U.S. House of Representatives voted to drop the national speed limit. This allowed the states to decide their own speed limits.
2000 – The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by a Russian-built Mark 22 anti-tank missile.
2001 – American President, George W. Bush Declares War on Terror, The global military campaign against terrorism was first declared in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in the United States. The phrase was used by President Bush in a speech given to the United States Congress.
2011 – The official US military policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell” ends, The policy was instituted by the administration of Bill Clinton in 1994. Under the policy, openly gay personnel were not allowed to serve in the United States military, but they could serve as long as they did not reveal their LGBT status.
2012 – 50 people are killed and dozens injured after a gas station is bombed by the Syrian Army in Ain Issa
2015 – Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, confirms raising the price of toxoplasmosis drug Daraprim by 5,000%
2016 – Black American Keith Lamont Scott is shot dead by a black police officer in Charlotte, North Carolina, provoking violent protests in the city
2017 – US Federal Reserve says it will start to unwind its bond portfolio employed in wake of the financial crisis
2018 – Woman shoots seven people, killing three and herself at a Rite Aid distribution center near Baltimore, Maryland
2019 – Students from 185 countries stage the world’s largest-ever protest on climate change culminating in Manhattan rally led by Greta Thunberg
2020 – FinCEN files leaked – over 2,000 mostly ‘suspicious activity reports’ to the US government showing banks allowed money laundering worth $2 trillion between 2000-17
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
