1381 – Peasants’ Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath (London).
1418 – An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
1665 – England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).
1683 – Rye House plot against English king Charles II uncovered
1775 – American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
1778 – Philip Livingston, American merchant (signed Declaration of Independance), dies at 62
1792 – George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver BC
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
1859 – Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered
1860 – The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
1861 – Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers to stop Federates from taking over his state
1864 – American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
1885 – Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France
1898 – Filipino revolutionary forces under General Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed the sovereignty and independence of the Philippine Islands from the colonial rule of Spain
1915 – David Rockefeller, American banker and businessman (Chase Manhattan Bank… Citi, JP Morgan Chase) was birthed. 100!
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1916 – Irwin Allen, director (Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure), born in NYC, New York
1917 – Secret Service extends protection of president to his family
1922 – At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded: The Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
1923 – Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in NYC
1924 – George H. W. Bush, American lieutenant and politician, 41st President of the United States was birthed.
1929 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch author and alleged Holocaust memoirist and victim (d. 1945) was born.
1931 – Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition & perjury
1932 – Jim Nabors, Sylacauga Al, actor/singer (Gomer Pyle) Born
1934 – Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] & United Air Lines
1935 – Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15½ hours in Senate’s longest speech on record (150,000 words)
1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures’ Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
1939 – Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY
1940 – World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux
1941 – Chick Corea, Chelsea Mass, jazz pianist (Delhpi I, Toy Dance) Born
1941 – Reg[inald] Presley, [Ball], rock vocalist (Troggs-Wild Thing), (d. 2013) born
1941 – Marv Albert, “Yes!” sportscaster (NBC-TV)/back biter, birthed in NYC, New York
1942 – Anne Frank allegedly receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
1943 – Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city’s old Jewish graveyard and shot.
1944 – American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan.
1946 – John Steinbeck IV, New York NY, American journalist, author and son of John Steinbeck, born
1948 – “William Tell Overture” by Spike Jones peaks at #6
1951 – Bun E Carlos, [Brad Carlson], rock drummer (Cheap Trick-Dream Police) Born
1951 – Brad Delp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Boston, RTZ, and Beatlejuice) (d. 2007) was born.
1952 – Dale Krantz, singer (Rossington-Collins Band) Born
1952 – Pete Farndon, English musician (The Pretenders) (d. 1983) Born
1953 – Grace Jones, Kingston Jamacia (she claims but actually 5/19/48) Born
1953 – Rocky Burnette, rock vocalist (Towing the Line), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1954 – Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” is originally released
1957 – James F “Jimmy” Dorsey, US orchestra leader, dies at 53
1963 – Medgar Evers, NAACP official, shot in Jackson Miss at 37
1958 – Meredith Brooks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist was born.
1961 – Jim Goad, American author Born
1962 – Ally Sheedy, [Alexandria], actress (Wargames, Breakfast Club), born in NYC, New York
1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
1965 – Beatles are awarded MBE
1965 – Big Bang theory of creation of universe is supported by announcement of discovery of new celestial bodies know as blue galaxies
1967 – Felix Griffin, American Rock Drummer (DRI) Born
1967 – Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio (300 arrested)
1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
1967 – Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet’s atmosphere and successfully return data).
1968 – Bobby Sheehan, American bass player and songwriter (Blues Traveler) (d. 1999) was born.
1971 – Mark Henry, American weightlifter and wrestler was born.
1972 – The fast food restaurant chain Popeyes is founded in Arabi, Louisiana.
1972 – John Lennon’s political “Sometime in NYC” released including “Woman is the Nigger of the World” “Attica State” “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” & “Luck of the Irish”
1972 – Saul David Alinsky, radical writer (John L Lewis), dies at 63
1977 – Kenny Wayne Shepherd, American blues-rock guitarist, born
1978 – David Berkowitz, the alleged “Son of Sam” killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
1978 – US House of Representatives allows live radio coverage
1980 – Ronald Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests
1983 – Norma Shearer, actress (Escape, Romeo & Juliet), dies at 82
1985 – Kendra Wilkinson, American Playboy bunny/Playmate/Television Personality, born
1985 – Edmund Perry, 17 and newly graduated from N.H. prep. high school, shot and killed in Manhattan by NYPD undercover officer Lee Vanhouten, who claimed Perry tried to rob him
1987 – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1990 – Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
1991 – Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic.
1993 – “Three Little Pigs” by Green Jelly hits #17
1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in wrongful death civil suit.
1996 – In Philadelphia, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.
1996 – Marge Schott gives up day-to-day operations (MLB Reds) because of her numerous insensitive comments about Adolf Hitler, working women & Asians
1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
1999 – Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
2002 – Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b. 1922) dies
2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor (To Kill a Mockingbird) (b. 1916) Dies
2004 – A 1.3 kilogram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries.
2007 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation for his humanitarian work by President Putin
2008 – Ireland rejects the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum, thus putting into question the reform programme of the European Union.
2009 – Protests in Iran following the presidential election.
2009 – TSC: All television broadcasts in the United States switch from analog NTSC to digital ATSC transmission.
2012 – The chemical compound NOTT-202, which is capable of selectively absorbing carbon dioxide, is created
2012 – An Australian coroner’s report rules that a dingo was responsible for the death of a baby in 1980
2012 – The World Health Organization concludes that diesel exhaust causes cancer
2012 – Henry Hill Jr., American mobster and FBI informant, dies from a heart condition at 69
2013 – Russia passes a law banning gay propaganda
2014 – Israeli leadership blames Hamas after 3 Israeli teenagers are kidnapped in the West Bank (Turned out to be untrue)