1952 – Richard Nixon gave his “Checkers Speech” defending the gift of a cocker spaniel to his daughters. At the time he was a candidate for U.S. vice-president.
1387 – One of the most extravagant medieval English feasts ever recorded held for Richard II and John of Gaunt in London. Included 14 salted oxen, 120 sheep, 1200 pigeons and 11,000 eggs
1459 – Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, 1st major battle of the English Wars of the Roses
1561 – King Philip II of Spain forbids Spanish settlements in Florida
1642 – The first commencement at Harvard College, in Cambridge, MA, was held.
1779 – John Paul Jones, commander of the American warship Bon Homme, was quoted as saying “I have not yet begun to fight!”
1780 – John Andre, a British spy, was captured with papers revealing that Benedict Arnold was going to surrender West Point, NY, to the British.
1806 – The Corps of Discovery, the Lewis and Clark expedition, reached St. Louis, MO, and ended the trip to the Pacific Northwest.
1821 – Fall of Tripolitsa, Greek forces massacre 30,000 Turks during Greek War of Independence
1845 – The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York was formed by Alexander Joy Cartwright. It was the first baseball team in America.
1846 – Astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune.
1857 – Russian warship Leffort disappears in a storm in the Gulf of Finland; 826 die
1875 – Billy the Kid is arrested for the 1st time and jailed after receiving clothing stolen from a Chinese laundry. Escapes two days later.
1891 – Vocational school Troop College, later California Institute of Technology (CalTech) established in Pasadena, California
1913 – Women protests take place in the Free State, South Africa, led by Charlotte Maxeke, resisting government attempts to impose passes on women; passes are burnt in front of the municipal offices
1932 – The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is Founded, The Middle Eastern country was created by merging the kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd by Ibn Saud, the king of the House of Saud. The day is celebrated as Saudi National Day in the Kingdom.
1941 – The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz. concentration camp
1944 – Proclamation No. 30 was issued, declaring the existence of a state of war between the Philippines and the United States and the United Kingdom
1950 – US Air Force Mustangs accidentally bomb British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed
1951 – The first transcontinental telecast was received on the west coast. The show “Crusade for Freedom” was broadcast by CBS-TV from New York.
1952 – The first Pay Television sporting event took place. The Marciano-Walcott fight was seen in 49 theaters in 31 cities.
1952 – Richard Nixon gave his “Checkers Speech” defending the gift of a cocker spaniel to his daughters. At the time he was a candidate for U.S. vice-president. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCkPXzkne-U
1955 – All white jury finds Roy Brant and John William Milam not guilty of the brutal murder of black teenager Emmett Till in Sumner, Mississippi, in landmark case that would help inspire civil rights movement in the US
1957 – Nine black students withdrew from Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas due to the white mob outside.
1957 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower orders US troops to support integration of nine black students at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas
1962 – “The Jetsons” premiered on ABC-TV. It was the first program on the network to be carried in color.
1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War comes to an end after a UN-mandated ceasefire
1971 – 2 members of the Official Irish Republican Army are killed in a premature bomb explosion
1973 – Overthrown Argentine president Juan Peron was returned to power. He had been overthrown in 1955. His wife, Eva Duarte, was the subject of the musical “Evita.”
1981 – The Reagan administration announced its plans for what became known as Radio Marti.
1986 – Japanese newspapers quoted Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone as saying that minorities lowered the “intelligence level” of America.
1986 – Congress selects the rose as US national flower
1990 – Iraq publicly threatened to destroy Middle East oil fields and to attack Israel if any nation tried to force it from Kuwait.
1991 – U.N. weapons inspectors find documents detailing Iraq’s secret nuclear weapons program. The find in Baghdad triggered a standoff with authorities in Iraq.
1993 – The Israeli parliament ratified the Israel-PLO accord.
1993 – Blacks were allowed a role in the South African government after a parliamentary vote.
1999 – Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm. While some passengers only received minor injuries, it is still the worst crash in Qantas’s history to date.
2012 – 20 Iranian US Visas are denied, including diplomats and two ministers, ahead of the UN general assembly meeting in New York
2012 – Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer
2017 – US President Donald Trump withdraws invitation to the White House for NBA champions Golden State Warriors after Stephen Curry says he doesn’t want to attend
2018 – Japan’s space agency is the first to place two robotic explorers on an asteroid – Ryugu, from its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft
2018 – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches “Modicare”, free heathcare for 500 million, world’s biggest healthcare program
2019 – Haitian Senator Jean-Marie Ralph Féthière opens fire hitting a journalist leaving parliament in Port-au-Prince
2019 – US police officer fired after arresting two six-year-olds at a school on charges of misdemeanour battery in Florida
2021 – Biden administration and EPA introduce first regulation against greenhouse gases, reduction of hydrofluorocarbons by 85% in 15 years
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
