1965 – Small ads in Daily Variety and Hollywood Reporter attract 437 young men interested in forming the world’s first manufactured boy band, “The Monkees” – 3 are chosen with Davey Jones already having been cast
1264 – The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland.
1380 – Battle on Kulikovo: Moscow’s great monarch Dimitri defeats the Mongols beginning the decline of the Tatars
1545 – English Earl of Hertford leads retaliatory mission against Scotland
1563 – Maximilian chosen king of Hungary
1565 – A Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St. Augustine, FL.
1664 – The Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who then renamed it New York.
1727 – A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
1756 – Kittanning Expedition:s 30-40 Lenape Indians killed by Pennsylvania Provincial troops during French and Indian War
1831 – William IV is crowned King of Great Britain, then aged 64 the oldest person to assume the British throne
1858 – Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech “You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time”
1866 – The first recorded birth of sextuplets took place in Chicago, IL. The parents were James and Jennie Bushnell.
1892 – An early version of “The Pledge of Allegiance” appeared in “The Youth’s Companion.” https://www.ushistory.org/documents/pledge.htm
1893 – In New Zealand, the Electoral Act 1893 was passed by the Legislative Council. It was consented by the governor on September 19 giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
1900 – 6,000 killed when a hurricane & tidal wave strikes Galveston, Texas
1914 – Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during WW1
1916 – US President Woodrow Wilson signs the Emergency Revenue Act, doubling the rate of income tax and adding inheritance and munitions profits tax
1930 – NYC public schools begin teaching Hebrew
1935 – U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, “The Kingfish” of Louisiana politics, was shot and mortally wounded. He died two days later.
1939 – FDR declares “limited national emergency” due to war in Europe
1941 – Siege of Leningrad by German, Finnish, and eventually Spanish troops begins; battle lasted over 28 months, as Russia repels the invasion
1941 – Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania, is exterminated
1951 – A peace treaty with Japan was signed by 48 other nations in San Francisco, CA.
1952 – Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Old Man & the Sea” published
1960 – German Democratic Republic limits access to East-Berlin for West Berliners
1960 – NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, was dedicated by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The facility had been activated in July earlier that year.
1965 – Small ads in Daily Variety and Hollywood Reporter attract 437 young men interested in forming the world’s first manufactured boy band, “The Monkees” – 3 are chosen with Davey Jones already having been cast
1967 – Uganda abolishes traditional tribal kingdoms, becomes a republic
1974 – U.S. President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former U.S. President Nixon.
1974 – Evil Knievel attempts to jump the Snake River Canyon in Idaho but fails, escaping with minor injuries
1975 – In Boston, MA, public schools began their court-ordered citywide busing program amid scattered incidents of violence.
1978 – Iranian army fires on Khomeini followers in Tehran, 100s killed
1991 – The republic of Macedonia Declares its Independence From Yugoslavia
1999 – US Attorney General Janet Reno names former Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation of the 1993 fire at the Branch Davidian church near Waco, Texas in response to revelations in the film “Waco The Rules of Engagement”
1999 – Russia’s Mission Control switched off the Mir space station’s central computer and other systems to save energy during a planned six months of unmanned flights.
2004 – The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
2005 – Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
2012 – 6 people are killed by a Taliban suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan
2015 – Pope Francis announces moves to streamline the annulment process within the Catholic Church
2015 – British researchers announced that evidence of a larger version of Stonehenge had been located about 2 miles from the Stonehenge location. There were 90 buried stones that had been found by ground penetrating radar.
2018 – Egypt sentences over 700 people, including 75 death sentences for 2013 pro-Muslim Brotherhood sit-in at Rabaa al-Adawiya square
2019 – Brazil’s Supreme Court rules Marvel comic depicting two men kissing can be sold after mayor of Rio de Janeiro attempted to ban it
2020 – Two ex-Myanmar soldiers testify they were ordered to rape and kill Muslim Rohingya villagers, 1st public confession of army-directed crimes against Rohingya
2021 – US Biden administration releases blueprint calling for 44% of American electricity to come from the sun by 2050 (currently 3%)
2021 – Large statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee removed from plinth on Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
