33 – Christ, crucified (according to astronomer Humphreys & Waddington)
628 – Chosroes II, emperor of Persia (579..628), murdered by his son
1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
1312 – 2nd council of Vienna
1513 – Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claims Florida for Spain, 1st known European to reach Florida
1680 – Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, founder of the Maratha Empire, India (b. 1630)
1776 – George Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
1783 – Washington Irving, American writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow), born in NYC, New York
1822 – Edward Everett Hale, US, clergyman/author (Man without a Country) Born
1834 – The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.
1865 – American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
1882 – American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
1888 – The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
1895 – The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1898 – Henry R Luce (Skull & Bones), Tengchow China, publisher (Time, Fortune, Life) Birthed
1919 – Austria expels all Habsburgers
1922 – Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1923 – 2 “Black Sox” sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary
1924 – Doris Day, Cincinnati Oh, “girl next door” actress (Pillow Talk) Born
1924 – Marlon Brando, actor (Superman, Godfather,”A Streetcar Named Desire”, “Viva Zapata!”, “Julius Caesar”, “The Wild One”, “Reflections in a Golden Eye”, “Last Tango in Paris” and “Apocalypse Now”.), born in Omaha, Nebraska
1925 – Great Britain goes back to gold standard
1926 – 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard
1926 – Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions
1930 – Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1929 – RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
1933 – 1st airplane flight over Mt Everest
1934 – Jane Goodall, English primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist was born.
1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the (Alleged) kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
1939 – Paul Craig Roberts, American economist was born.
1941 – Jan Berry, American rock and roll vocalist (Jan and Dean-Dead Man’s Curve), born in Los Angeles, California
1942 – Wayne Newton, American singer Born
1943 – Richard Manuel, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist (The Band and The Revols) (d. 1986) was born.
1944 – Barry Pritchard, rock guitarist (Fortunes) Born
1944 – Tony Orlando, singer (& Dawn-Tie a Yellow Ribbon), born in NYC, New York
1946 – Masaharu Homma, Lt Gen (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed
1946 – Dee Murray, rocker (Elton John Band) Born
1948 – President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
1949 – Richard Thompson, vocalist/guitarist (Shoot Out the Lights) Born
1949 – North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) signed by US, Britain, France & Canada
1951 – Mel Schacher, MI, bassist (Grand Funk Railroad-Some Kind of Wonderful) Born
1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg’s book Howl against obscenity charges.
1955 – Mick Mars, guitarist (Motley Crue) Born
1957 – Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” premieres in London
1958 – Alec Baldwin, Amityville NY, actor (Joshua-Knots Landing, Beetlejuice) Born
1958 – Fidel Castro’s rebels attacked Havana
1961 – Eddie Murphy, Brooklyn New York, American actor (SNL, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, Raw) Born
1962 – Benny “Kid” Paret, US welterweight boxer, dies after fight, at 24
1962 – Mike Ness, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Social Distortion) was born.
1964 – Nigel Farage, British politician and head of UKIP party, Born
1965 – 1st atomic powered spacecraft (snap) launched
1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech.
1967 – 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum
1968 – N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks
1968 – Sebastian Philip Clerk Bach, Bahamas, rock (Skid Row-Psycho Love) Born
1968 – “Planet of the Apes” United States wide premiere
1969 – Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to “Vietnamize” the war effort.
1970 – As part of a new ‘get tough’ policy in Northern Ireland, Ian Freeland of the British Army, warned that those throwing petrol bombs could be shot dead
1971 – Joseph Valachi, US gangster, dies at 66
1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, though it took ten years for the DynaTAC 8000X to become the first such phone to be commercially released.
1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
1977 – Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat’s 1st meeting with US President Jimmy Carter
1978 – European market & China signs trade agreement
1981 – Race riots in London’s Brixton area
1986 – US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
1988 – Mario Lemieux wins NHL scoring title, stopping Gretzky’s 7 year streak
1990 – Sarah Vaughn, jazz singer, dies of lung cancer at 66
1991 – Graham Greene, Brit writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana), dies at 86
1991 – “Penn & Teller – Refrigerator Tour” opens at Eugene O’Neill Theater NYC
1991 – UN Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution
1996 – Suspected “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his cabin in Montana, United States.
1996 – A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board.
1997 – Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
2000 – Terence McKenna, American writer and philosopher (b. 1946) Dies
2000 – United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping “an oppressive thumb” on its competitors.
2003 – Michael Kelly, American journalist (b. 1957) Dies
2004 – Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and “kill themselves”.
2008 – Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS’s YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be removed and taken into state custody.
2009 – Australia formally adopts the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
2009 – Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at an American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, NY, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.
2012 – Spanish unemployment reaches record high, youth unemployment stands at 50%
2014 – Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith, American guitarist, fiddler, and composer (b. 1921) died.
2014 – Freda Kida, American cartoonist, dies at 93