2008 – The Dow Industrial Average lost 777 points. It was the largest one-day decline to date. The drop came after the U.S. House of Representatives had voted down a $700 billion bank bailout plan.
61 BC – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
0219 – Batavian soldiers consecrate altar on Hercules Magusanus Rome
1567 – At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason
1567 – War of Religion breaks out in France – Huguenots try to kidnap King Charles IX
1650 – Henry Robinson opens 1st marriage bureau (England)
1789 – A regular army was established by the U.S. War Department with several hundred men.
1815 – Dutch King William I forms the Dutch Order of the Lion, oldest and highest civilian order of chivalry in the Netherlands
1829 – The first public appearance by London’s re-organized police force was met with jeers from political opponents. The force became known as Scotland Yard.
1885 – First practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England
1898 – Wassoulou Empire leader Samori Ture captured by French troops in West Africa ending his 20 year rule
1904 – 1st monument honoring Spanish–American War erected, in Monroeville, Ohio
1907 – Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral
1911 – Italy declares war on Turkey, starting the Italo-Turkish War
1916 – American oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller becomes the world’s first billionaire
1922 – Benito Mussolini asks the Vatican for support of his fascist party program
1936 – Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign
1941 – Babi Yar massacre, About 33,000 Soviet Jews were killed at the Babi Yar ravine in Kiev by the Nazis in a two-day massacre that started on this day.
1943 – U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marchal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson.
1951 – The first network football game was televised by CBS-TV in color. The game was between the University of California and the University of Pennsylvania.
1953 – US government gives France $385 million for combat in Indo-China
1954 – CERN established, The European Organization for Nuclear Research, popularly known as CERN, was established by 12 European governments.
1957 – An explosion at the Mayak plutonium production plant in the Soviet Union spreads radiation over 20,000 square miles (52,000 km2)
1962 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy nationalized the Mississippi National guard in response to city officials defying federal court orders. The orders had been to enroll James Meredith at the University of Mississippi.
1967 – The International Monetary Fund reformed monetary systems around the world.
1972 – Robert McNamara, former US Secretary of Defense, is almost thrown overboard on a ferry by an artist wanting to confront him on his role in escalating US involvement in the Vietnam war (no charges pressed)
1976 – Syria drives Palestinian guerrillas out of Lebanon
1982 – In Chicago, IL, seven people died after taking capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol that had been laced with cyanide. 264,000 bottles were recalled.
1983 – The War Powers Act was used for the first time by the U.S. Congress when they authorized President Reagan to keep U.S. Marines in Lebanon for 18 more months.
1984 – Irish officials announced that they had intercepted the Marita Anne carrying seven tons of U.S.-purchased weapons. The weapons were intended for the Irish Republican Army.
1988 – The space shuttle Discovery took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It was the first manned space flight since the Challenger disaster.
1990 – The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time
1990 – Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years
1991 – Coup in Haiti, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was deposed in a military coup. Aristide had been elected in a national election held 8 months before the coup.
1993 – Bosnia’s parliament voted overwhelmingly to reject an international peace plan unless Bosnian Serbs returned land that had been taken by force.
1994 – The U.S. House voted to end the practice of lobbyist buying meals and entertainment for members of Congress.
1995 – US space probe Ulyssus completes 2nd passage behind Sun
2001 – The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication
2006 – US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced
2008 – The Dow Industrial Average lost 777 points. It was the largest one-day decline to date. The drop came after the U.S. House of Representatives had voted down a $700 billion bank bailout plan.
2013 – 42 people are killed by Boko Harem in a college attack in Gujba, Nigeria
2017 – Mysterious sonic attacks on US diplomats prompt US to warn citizens not to travel to Cuba and pull some embassy staff
2019 – Houthi rebels from Yemen claim they have killed 500 Saudi soldiers and captured 2,000 along with military a convoy in Najran region, Saudi Arabia
2020 – First debate between US Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden held, widely criticized as chaotic and ill-tempered
2021 – Prison riot between rival drug cartels in Litoral penitentiary, Ecuador, results in 116 deaths, with some beheaded or decapitated
2021 – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declares 23 species of bird, fish and other wildlife extinct, including the ivory-billed woodpecker
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
