1192 – Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.
1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
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1758 – James Monroe, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831) was born.
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
1796 – The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King s toof Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.d1865 – Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist (d. 1940) was born.
1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.
1902 – Using the ISO 8601 standard Year Zero definition for the Gregorian calendar preceded by the Julian calendar, the one billionth minute since the start of January 1, Year Zero occurs at 10:40 AM on this date.
1914 – 181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles, West Virginia
1916 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian businessman, created Lamborghini (d. 1993) was born.
1924 – 119 die in Benwood West Virginia coal mine disaster
1926 – Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857) Dies
1926 – Harper Lee, American author was born.
1930 – James Baker, American lawyer and politician, 61st United States Secretary of State was birthed.
1932 – A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
1934 – FDR signs Home Owners Loan Act (The Home Owners Loan Act of 1933 (HOLA), which was substantially amended in 1989 by the Financial Institutions Regulation, Recovery & Reform Act (FIRREA), was one of the principal cornerstones of New Deal banking reform legislation, creating a system for the chartering and regulation of federal savings associations to facilitate consumer savings and home construction and purchases through affordable mortgage lending. The broad language of HOLA still looms as precedent for continued preemption (abuse) of state law.
1937 – 1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am
1937 – Saddam Hussein, [At-Takriti], Al-Awja, President of Iraq (1979-2003) Birthed
1940 – Glenn Miller records “Pennsylvania 6-5000″
1942 – “WW II” titled so, as result of Gallup Poll
1942 – Nightly “dim-out” begins along US East Coast
1944 – World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
1944 – Frank Knox, American journalist and politician, 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1874) died.
1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
1949 – Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others are also killed.
1950 – Jay Leno, American comedian, talk show host, and producer was born.
1953 – Kim Gordon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sonic Youth, Ciccone Youth, and Free Kitten) was born.
1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
1952 – Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends as the Treaty of San Francisco, ratified September 8, 1951, comes into force.
1955 – Eddie Jobson, rock violinist (Zappa, UK, Roxy Music-For Your Pleasure) Born
1965 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to “forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship” and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
1966 – John Daly, Carmichael California, American golfer (1991 PGA Championship, 1995 Open Championship) Born
1967 – Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title
1968 – Scott Putesky, (AKA: Daisy Berkowitz) American guitarist (Marilyn Manson and Jack Off Jill) was born.
1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
1969 – King Crimson with Greg Lake & Ian McDonald debuts
1970 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
1972 – Violent J, American rapper, producer, wrestler, and actor (Insane Clown Posse, Dark Lotus, and Psychopathic Rydas) was born.
1973 – Over 6000 Mk. 82 500 pound bombs detonate over 18 hrs in a railyard in northern California. 5500 structures damaged, town of Antelope destroyed, with every building reduced to foundations. Leads to Transportation Safety Act (1974)
1975 – General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.
1977 – The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
1977 – The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
1977 – Christopher Boyce convicted for selling secrets (Falcon and the Snowman)
1977 – Ricardo Cortez, American actor and director (The Maltese Falcon), dies at 76
1978 – President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
1981 – Jessica Alba, American model and actress was born.
1985 – Fernando Valenzuela sets record of 41 scoreless innings to start season
1986 – Soviet TV news program Vremya annouces a nuclear accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station, 2 days after the event
High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.
1987 – American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
1988 – Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle “C.B.” Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane’s fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
1989 – Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money
1989 – Iran protests sale of “Satanic Verses” by Salman Rushdie
1990 – Boston Celtics score most points in a playoff, beat NY Knicks 157-128
1991 – Ken Curtis, actor (Festus-Gunsmoke), dies at 74
1992 – Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns
1992 – Iceberg Slim, American writer (b. 1918) Dies
1993 – Jim Valvano, basketball coach (NC State), dies of cancer at 47
1994 – 1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days]
1994 – Aldrich Ames, former CIA officer & wife Rosario plead guilty to spying /
Former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
1996 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
1996 – William E Colby, director of CIA (1973-76), dies (Murdered)
2001 – Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world’s first space tourist.
2005 – The Patent Law Treaty goes into effect. (The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is a patent law multilateral treaty concluded on 1 June 2000 in Geneva, Switzerland, by 53 States and the European Patent Organisation (an intergovernmental organization). Its aim is to harmonize formal procedures such as the requirements to obtain a filing date for a patent application, the form and content of a patent application, and representation.
As of February 2014, the PLT has 36 contracting states, while 59 states and the European Patent Organisation have signed the treaty)
2005 – Percy Heath, American jazz bassist (Modern Jazz Quartet) (b. 1923) Dies
2012 – Tent collapse in St Louis, Missouri, kills one and injures 110 people
2014 – Jack Ramsay, American Hall of Fame basketball coach, dies from cancer at 89