1829 – HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
1832 – The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis Philippe.
1837 – Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
1849 – Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
1850 – Pat Garrett, American sheriff (d. 1908) was born.
1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
1878 – Pancho Villa, Mexican general (d. 1923) was born.
1895 – William Boyd, American actor and producer (d. 1972) was born.
1915 – Denmark amends its constitution to allow women’s suffrage.
1916 – Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
1917 – World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as “Army registration day”.
1922 – The Supreme Court decides that Union organizations are liable for damage or injury caused during strikes. The decision was regarded as one of the biggest blows to labor unions.
1933 – The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States’ use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
1945 – The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
1951 – Suze Orman, American financial adviser, author, and television host was born.
1956 – Richard Butler, English singer-songwriter (The Psychedelic Furs and Love Spit Love) was born.
1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, “Hound Dog”, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1963 – The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the Profumo affair.
1963 – Movement of 15 Khordad: Protests against the arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
1967 – The Six-Day War begins: Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian air-fields in response to the mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.
1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, (allegedly) by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day.
Key witness to RFK assassination says Sirhan Sirhan didn’t act alone
1969 – The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
1971 – Mark Wahlberg, American model, actor, producer, and rapper (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch) was born.
1975 – The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
1975 – The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC). (Now known as the EU)
1976 – The collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, in the United States.
1981 – The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
1989 – The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1998 – A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven weeks.
2002 – Dee Dee Ramone, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Ramones) (b. 1951) died.
2002 – Elizabeth Smart a 14 yr old girl is kidnapped from her bedroom in her family’s Salt Lake City home. She was found alive on March 12th , 2003 in Sandy, Utah, just a few from her home. She had been kidnapped by Brian David Mitchell who had been a handyman the family had employed for one day the previous year. Brian David Mitchell and his accomplice are declared mentally incompetent to stand trial and are currently held in the Utah State Hospital (mental health institution).
2004 – Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911) died.
2009 – After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.