1509 – An earthquake known as “The Lesser Judgment Day” hits Constantinople.
1547 – The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
1570 – Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
1608 – John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
1776 - George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
1736 – Carter Braxton, US farmer/signer (Declaration of Independence)Born
1813 – The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora
1882 – 1st international conference to promote “anti-semitism” meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)
1897 – Georges Bataille, French writer (d. 1962)Born
1897 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff’s posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
1910 – Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber
1918 – Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners & $1,000 each for the losers
1922 – The Treasury in Washington has released new figures the per capita circulation of money is now $39.93 per person down from $42.99 one year ago. .The total money in circulation is $4,393,506,927 and the total number of people in the US is 110,017,000 The total US dollars believed to be in circulation today is $700 billion
Current US Population 301,139,947
1923 – Irish Free state joins League of Nations
1924 – Leopold & Loeb found guilty of murder
1927 – As the number of Trans Atlantic stunt fliers increases with a larger number lost each month , currently the odds of completing the trip are about 1 in 2 but as more fliers with less experience attempting to cross the Atlantic the number of casualties will continue to grow. It is believed the Governments around the world including the US will put laws in place to stop this foolhardiness. Maybe they will include a pilots license needed to fly a plane.
1929 – Arnold Daniel Palmer, Latrobe PA, PGA golfer (1964 Masters)Born
1930 – “Scarface” Al Capone has taken former rivals into partnership with him to form a giant Co-Operative organization to control the Beer, Vice and Gambling Industries in Chicago. The Syndicate will be run by a cabinet with each member controlling different areas of the business.
1933 – Karl Lagerfeld, Hamburg Germany, German fashion designer (Chanel)Born
1934 – Roger Maris, Hibbing, Minnesota, Yankee, HR champ (61 in 1961, AL MVP 1960, 1961), (d. 1985) Born
1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
1942 – Danny Hutton, Irish-American singer (Three Dog Night) was born.
1942 – Following similar moves in Europe and the rest of the world President Franklin D. Roosevelt starts gasoline rationing in the U.S. as part of the country’s wartime efforts
1943 – German troops occupied Rome & took over the protection of Vatican City
1945 – Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death.
1945 – Jose Feliciano, Lares, Puerto Rican singer/songwriter (Light my Fire) Born
1946 – While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters’ Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her “to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them”. She would become known as Mother Teresa.
1948 – Although the war has ended there are still Gasoline shortages being reported throughout the country , and it is thought that in the next 12 months these shortages will be over allowing the public to use cars more and the auto industry to provide the pent up demand caused by production stopped during war time to concentrate on the munitions needed to win the war.
1948 – Margaret Trudeau, Vancouver BC, former Canadian 1st lady – Born
1949 – Bill O’Reilly, American television host, journalist, and author was birthed
1950 – Don Powell, England, rock drummer (Slade)born
1950 – Joe Perry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Aerosmith and The Joe Perry Project) was born.
1952 – Medea Benjamin, American activist, co-founded Code Pink was born.
1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari.
1963 – Bill Stevenson, American music producer and musician, drummer for Descendents (Labels Orca, New Alliance, SST, Cruz, Epitaph, Fat Wreck Chords, Rise -Associated acts All, Black Flag, the Lemonheads, Only Crime, The Last) BORN
1963 – 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama
1964 – Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms
1965 – Robin Goodridge, English drummer (Bush, Spear of Destiny, and Stone Gods) was born.
1966 – Beatles’ “Revolver,” album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
1968 – Big Daddy Kane, American rapper – Born
1972 – The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
1973 – Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton
1974 – NY Dolls disband
1976 – 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard
1976 – 5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, NY
1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
1979 – 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed
1981 – “Guernica” by Pablo Picasso returns to Spain
1990 – Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas Nevada
1990 – Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq
1993 – Israel & PLO sign joint recognition statements
1998 – The star of the Free Willy movies ( Keiko ) an orca (or killer whale) is back in Iceland where he was captured from in 1979. Keiko has been taken back to Iceland to see if he can adapt back to life in the ocean after Warner Brothers Studio and Craig McCaw set up a foundation plus thousands of children from around the world donated money to the the Free Willy Keiko Foundation. Part of the acclimatization back to the wild included supervised swims in the open ocean and on one such supervised swim on July 11th 2002 Keiko swam off and was not seen again until he turned up in September nearly 1,000 miles away on the coast of Norway. In 2003 having never fully adapted back to life in the wild Keiko died from pneumonia in a Norwegian Fjord aged 27.
2001 – Pentagon admits $2.3 Trillion missing and Rumsfeld calls it a matter of “life and death.”
2001 – Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
2002 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
2007 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland. (see 666 logo below, and recent warnings from Stephen Hawking, “God Particle” could destroy the Universe)