1961 – “The Bullwinkle Show” premiered in prime time on NBC-TV. The show was originally on ABC in the afternoon as “Rocky and His Friends.”
1180 – Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.
1493 – Christopher Columbus embarks on his second expedition to the New World, setting sail with a fleet of 17 ships
1529 – Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his Ottoman troops arrive in Vienna, beginning of the siege
1657 – 1st autopsy and coroner’s jury verdict is recorded in Maryland
1664 – Dutch Fort Orange (New Netherland) in present day Albany NY surrenders to the English
1683 – King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America
1786 – African American slave and poet Jupiter Hammon makes his “Address to the Negroes of the State of New York” speech advocating emancipation at meeting of African Society in NY
1789 – The U.S. Congress passed the First Judiciary Act. The act provided for an Attorney General and a lower federal courts.
1841 – British adventurer James Brooke obtains lands around the Sarawak river from the Sultan of Brunei
1862 – Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
1869 – Black Friday in the United States, A group of speculators headed by James Fisk and Jay Gould started hoarding gold, which led to high gold prices. The US Treasury under the orders of President Ulysses S. Grant sold a large amount of gold leading to a plummet in gold prices within the span of minutes.
1890 – The President of the Latter-day Saints Wilford Woodruff issues a manifesto advising members that the teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned
1929 – Lt James Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in 1st all-instrument flight
1948 – Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally), an American broadcaster employed by the Third Reich in Nazi Germany to proliferate propaganda during World War II, pleads not guilty to eight chargs of treason in Washington, D.C.
1948 – Honda Motor Company is founded by Soichiro Honda
1950 – Operation Magic Carpet concludes after having transported 45,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel
1952 – American fast food restaurant chain “KFC” [Kentucky Fried Chicken] opens its first franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah
1955 – U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver, CO.
1960 – The first nuclear powered aircraft carrier was launched. The USS Enterprise set out from Newport News, VA.
1961 – “The Bullwinkle Show” premiered in prime time on NBC-TV. The show was originally on ABC in the afternoon as “Rocky and His Friends.”
1963 – The U.S. Senate ratified a treaty that limited nuclear testing. The treaty was between the U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union.
1968 – “60 Minutes” premieres on CBS-TV
1969 – Trial of “Chicago 8” (protesters at Dem National Conv) begins
1971 – 90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying
1973 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence, Guinea-Bissau declared its independence from Portugal. The declaration was recognized almost a year later on September 10, 1974.
1975 – OPEC announces a 15% increase in government per barrel revenues
1976 – Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by US President Jimmy Carter
1979 – CompuServe begins offering a dial-up online information service to consumers, marketed as MicroNET
1990 – East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact
1990 – Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn
1990 – Iraq invades the French and Dutch missions in Kuwait; French President François Mitterrand calls the action a violation of international law; US warship boards an Iraqi-flagged tanker bound for the port of Basrah
1995 – Three decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities ended with the signing of a pact by Israel and the PLO.
1996 – The United States, represented by President Clinton, and the world’s other major nuclear powers signed a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.
2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush froze the assets of 27 suspected terrorists and terrorist groups.
2001 – Crude oil and petroleum products futures fall to their lowest levels in nearly two years amid fears that a recession will reduce energy demand
2007 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives a controversial speech on the campus of Columbia University.
2013 – 515 people are killed by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Balochistan, Pakistan
2015 – Stampede of people during the Hajj kills 717 people during symbolic stoning of the devil at Mina, near Mecca, Saudi Arabia
2015 – Pope Francis becomes the 1st pope to address the US Congress. Names Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day as his American heroes.
2016 – US National Museum of African American History and Culture opens in Washington D.C. (established by Act of Congress 2003)
2017 – NFL players kneal, lock arms or stay in their dressing room during the anthem in protests against comments made by President Donald Trump
2018 – Ebola virus has caused 69 deaths and sickened 150 people according to Ministry of Heath in Democratic Republic of Congo
2019 – Nancy Pelosi announces formal impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump, arguing that he tried to enlist a foreign power for his own political gain
2019 – Spain’s Supreme Court rules body of dictator Francisco Franco can be removed from state mausoleum, the Valley of the Fallen, to municipal cemetery
2019 – Protests outside Indonesian parliament and elsewhere over proposed new laws banning sex before marriage, abortion and insulting the president
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
