1870 – A Woman casts her Vote in the US for the first time, Louisa Ann Swain voted during state elections in the state of Wyoming. Although women weren’t extended the right to vote in the US until 1920, the governor of Wyoming, John A. Campbell, had signed a bill that gave women the right to vote on December 13, 1869. This meant that women could vote in local and state elections, but not country-wide elections.
3114 BC – Date Maya/Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar starts dating from (as corresponds to the Julian Calendar).
1492 – Christopher Columbus’ fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands
1522 – Ferdinand Magellan’s Spanish expedition aboard the Vitoria returns to Spain without their captain. First to circumnavigate the earth.
1620 – The Pilgrims left on the Mayflower from Plymouth, England to settle in the New World.
1622 – Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die
1628 – Puritans from Massachusetts Bay Colony land at Salem
1651 – King Charles II of England spends a day hiding in an oak tree during his escape after losing the Battle of Worcester
1666 – After St Paul’s Cathedral and much of the city had been burned down over four days, the Great Fire of London is finally extinguished.
1716 – 1st lighthouse built in north America (Boston)
1776 – 1st (failed) submarine attack: David Bushnell’s “Turtle” attacks British sailboat “Eagle” in Bay of NY
1776 – Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing more than 6,000.
1839 – Cherokee Nation unites and ratifies constitution at Tahlequah, Oklahoma
1863 – After 59 day siege Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner SC (1700 casualties)
1870 – A Woman casts her Vote in the US for the first time, Louisa Ann Swain voted during state elections in the state of Wyoming. Although women weren’t extended the right to vote in the US until 1920, the governor of Wyoming, John A. Campbell, had signed a bill that gave women the right to vote on December 13, 1869. This meant that women could vote in local and state elections, but not country-wide elections.
1876 – Race riot in Charleston, South Carolina
1876 – The Southern Pacific rail line from Los Angeles to San Francisco was completed.
1899 – Carnation processed its first can of evaporated milk.
1901 – U.S. President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded (he died eight days later) by Leon Czolgosz. Czolgosz, an American anarchist, was executed the following October.
1909 – New York Times headline announces American explorer Robert Peary had discovered the North Pole 5 months earlier
1916 – 1st true supermarket, the “Piggly Wiggly” is opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee
1924 – Assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails
1939 – South Africa declared war on Germany.
1941 – Jews in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear the Star of David with the word “Jew” inscribed. The order only applied to Jews over the age of 6.
1944 – During World War II, the British government relaxed blackout restrictions and suspended compulsory training for the Home Guard.
1948 – Queen Juliana of the Netherlands was crowned.
1949 – Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes in Camden, New Jersey
1966 – Race riot in Atlanta, Georgia
1968 – Swaziland Gains Independence From the British
1972 – Summer Olympics resume in Munich, Germany after massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by Black September Palestinian terrorist organization
1982 – Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
1983 – Soviet Union admits that it shot down the South Korean airliner KAL 007 on September 1st
1987 – Conjoined twins Benjamin & Patrick Binder separated at Johns Hopkins Hospital
1989 – Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution
1990 – Iraq warned that anyone trying to flee the country without permission would be put in prison for life.
1991 – The State Council of the Soviet Union recognized the independence of the Baltic states.
1991 – The name St. Petersburg was restored to Russia’s second largest city. The city was founded in 1703 by Peter the Great. The name has been changed to Petrograd (1914) and to Leningrad (1924).
1992 – A 35-year old man died ten weeks after receiving a transplanted baboon liver.
1995 – U.S. Senator Bob Packwood was expelled by the Senate Ethics Committee.
1999 – Suai Church Massacre, More than 200 people who had found refuge in a church in Suai, East Timor were killed by pro-Indonesia militia after the results of an independence referendum came out.
2001 – Ebay Inc. was found not liable for copyright infringement because bootleg copies of a Charles Manson documentary had been sold on their site.
2002 – In New York, the U.S. Congress convened at Federal Hall for a rare special session. The session was held in New York to express the nation’s mourning for the loss on September 11, 2001 and unity in the war against terrorism
2007 – Israel Conducts Operation Orchard, The military operation was conducted by the Israeli air force to destroy a suspected nuclear reactor in the Deir el-Zor region of Syria.
2008 – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced that Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) would be placed in government conservatorship.
2012 – 61 illegal immigrants die after a fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Turkey
2013 – 20 people are killed by Islamist militants in villages in northeast Nigeria
2015 – German police confirm more than 13,000 refugees have arrived in Southern Germany in last 2 days fleeing conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan
2016 – Minnesota man Danny Heinrich admits to kidnapping and murdering 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling on October 22, 1989
2018 – New York and New Jersey state attorneys launch investigations into sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy, bring to six the number of states investigating
2020 – Strain of Bacteria nicknamed “Conan the Bacterium’ survives three years attached to the International Space Station in open space
2020 – 100,000 people demonstrate in Minsk against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, amid month-long protests against his re-election
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
