66 – Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica
1499 – Switzerland became an independent state.
1598 – English playwright Ben Jonson kills an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
1692 – Last (8) people hanged for witchcraft in US (Salem Mass) 20 hanged overall
1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
1784 – Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, AK
1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
1792 – French First Republic formed by the National Convention, stripping French King of his powers
1823 – Joseph Smith states he found the Golden plates on this date after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
1862 – Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
1882 – Wilhelm Keitel, German fieldmarshal born
1885 – Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
1893 – 1st auto built in US (by Duryea brothers) runs in Springfield
1895 – Paul Muni, actor (Acad Award 1936-Angel on My Shoulder, Juarez, Scarface) Born
1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
1902 – John Houseman, Bucharest Romania, actor (Kingsfield-Paper Chase) Born
1919 – The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
1920 – Eric Baker, English activist, co-founded Amnesty International (d. 1976) was born.
1920 – Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series
1927 – Jack Dempsey loses the “Long Count” boxing match to Gene Tunney.
1927 – Tom Lasorda [Thomas], Norristown, Pennsylvania, baseball manager (LA Dodgers)Born
1939 – Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
1941 – Jeremiah Wright, American pastor (Of Obamas) Born
1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
1943 – Toni Basil, American singer Born
Oswald GF Judyth Baker and RA Kris Millegan.
1949 – RA (Kris) Millegan – Whistle Blower, Publisher of Trine Day Books
1949 – Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist and author (d. 1999)Born
1951 – David Coverdale, English singer-songwriter (Whitesnake, Deep Purple, and Coverdale and Page) was born.
1955 – In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
1957 – Johnette Napolitano, rocker (Concrete Blonde) Born
1957 – Pete Jones, Punk rocker (Public Image Ltd) Born
1957 – Nick Cave, Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australian singer/songwriter (Birthday Party, Bad Seeds-Murder Ballads)Born
1958 – Neil Cavuto, American television commentator Born
1960 – Joan Jett, Phila, singer (Blackhearts-I Love Rock ‘n Roll)Born
1960 – Scott Baio, Bkln, (Joanie Loves Chachi, Charles in Charge, Zapped)Born
1960 – Mali (formerly French Sudan) declares independence from France
1961 – Tom Hansen – Seattle Musician ( Guitarist – The Fartz, Crisis Party…) Author (American Junkie, This is What We Do) born: Tom’s Website HERE
1962 – Bob Dylan plays NYC Carnegie Hall
1964 – “Man from U.N.C.L.E,” premieres on NBC-TV
1968 – Iraq adopts constitution
1969 – Matt Sharp, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Weezer, The Rentals, and Goldenboy) was born.
1970 – Pres Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses
1972 – Dictator Idi Amin expels 8,000 Asians from Uganda
1973 – Henry Kissinger, sworn in as America’s 1st Jewish Secretary of State
1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in SF, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
1979 – The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
(1979 – Israel performs nuclear test at Indian Ocean)
1980 – Iraq invades Iran in an attempt to control the Shatt al-Arab waterway
1985 – Rock and country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Illinois
1987 – Dan Rowan, actor (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-in), dies at 65
1987 – John F “Jaco” Pastorius, rock guitarist (Weather Report), dies at 35
1989 – Irving Berlin, composer (God Bless America), dies at 101
1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
1993 – Supreme Soviet dismisses president Boris Yeltsin
1996 – Dorothy Lamour, actress (Road to Bali, Road to Rio), dies at 81
1997 – Elton John releases Diana tribute “Candle in the Wind 1997″
1997 – Marv Albert pleads not guilty to sexual charges
1999 – George C. Scott, American actor (Dr. Strangelove, Pattton), dies of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm at 71
2003 – David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.
2006 – The F-14 Tomcat retires from the United States Navy.
2006 – Hezbollah claims “Divine Victory” over Israel in a massive demonstration in Beirut.
2007 – Albert Windsor, descendant of British monarch – Birthed
2010 – Eddie Fisher, American singer (b. 1928)Dies
2011 – CERN scientists announce their discovery of neutrinos breaking the speed of light