70 – Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
754 – Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary, is killed by a band of pagans at Dokkum in Frisia.
1723 – Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy Scotland, economist (Wealth of Nations) (baptized) Born
1794 – US Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces (Like NATO?)
1798 – The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread the United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
1833 – Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
1837 – Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
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.
1855 – Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party’s 1st convention
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.
1868 – James Connolly, Scottish-Irish socialist (Irish Citizen Army) and rebel (Easter Rising) (d. 1916) was born.
1876 – Bananas become popular in US, at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia
1878 – Pancho Villa, Mexican general (d. 1923) was born.
1883 – The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
1883 – John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge England, economist/math/journalist – Birthed
1884 – William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying “I will not accept if nominated & will not serve if elected”
1893 – Mary Ann Shadd [Cary], American/Canadian Publisher and anti-slavery campaigner (1st African American Publisher), dies at 69
1898 – Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, poet/dramatist (Blood Wedding) Born
García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of ’27. He was executed by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. (Police reports released by radio station Cadena Ser in April 2015 conclude that Lorca was executed by fascist forces) In 2008, a Spanish judge opened an investigation into Lorca’s death. The García Lorca family eventually dropped objections to the excavation of a potential gravesite near Alfacar, but no human remains were found.
“Then I realized I had been murdered.
They looked for me in cafes, cemeteries and churches
…. but they did not find me.
They never found me?
No. They never found me.”
From “The Fable And Round of the Three Friends”,
Poet in New York (1929), Garcia Lorca
1900 – Pretoria, capital of the Boer Republic of South Africa, falls to the British led by General Buller
German Emperor and King of Prussia
1900 – Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28
1902 – Emperor Wilhelm II responds to growing demands from Polish and other Slavic peoples living within German territory by calling for more ‘Germanization’ of the slavs
1902 – Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassins of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842) Dies
1902 – Arthur Powell Davies, American minister, author, and activist (d. 1957) was born.
1906 – Determined to keep pace with Britain as a major naval power, the German Reichstag passes new navy legislation, increasing the total tonnage in Germany’s fleet
1910 – O. Henry, American author (b. 1862) Dies
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”. (10 million US men begin registering for draft)
1922 – The Banker’s committee of the Reparations Commission refuses an international loan to Germany
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.
1934 – Bill Moyers, American journalist, 13th White House Press Secretary was born.
1937 – Henry Ford initiates 32 hour work week
1940 – World War II: After a brief lull in the Battle of France, the Germans renew the offensive against the remaining French divisions south of the River Somme in Operation Fall Rot (“Case Red”).
1941 – World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
1941 – Robert Kraft, Brookline Massachusetts, American owner of the New England Patriots, born
1943 – President Laurel (Second Philippine Republic) was shot around 4 times with a 45 caliber pistol while playing golf at the Wack Wack Golf Course in Mandaluyong
1944 – German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel goes on leave just before WWII D-Day landings by the Allies
1944 – General Eisenhower decides invasion set for June 6
1944 – World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
1945 – The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
1946 – A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.
1946 – John Du Cann, English guitarist (Atomic Rooster, Hard Stuff, The Attack, and Andromeda (d. 2001) was born.
1951 – Suze Orman, American financial adviser, author, and television host was birthed.
1952 – Jersey Joe Walcott beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for heavy weight boxing title
1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, “Hound Dog”, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements. 1956 – “Milton Berle Show” last airs on NBC-TV
1957 – NY narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes
1961 – Teri Nunn, California, rock vocalist (Berlin- Metro, You Take my Breathe Away) Born
1962 – Jeff Garlin, American comedian, Born
1963 – State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini “arrested”
1964 – Davie Jones & King Bees debut “I Can’t Help Thinking About Me”; group disbands but Davie Jones goes on to success as David Bowie
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.
1969 – Race riot in Hartford, Connecticut
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. (Egypt president Anwar Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967)
1975 – The California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (CALRA), which establishes collective bargaining for farmworkers, becomes law
1975 – The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC) later to be announced as the EU.
1976 – After a suspected (MI5 False flag) republican bombing kills 2 Protestant civilians in a pub, the Ulster Volunteer Force kill 5 civilians in a gun and bomb attack at the Chlorane Bar, North Ireland
1976 – The Teton Dam in Idaho, United States, collapses.
1981 – Sébastien Lefebvre, Canadian singer and guitarist (Simple Plan) was born.
1981 – The “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report” of the Centers for Disease Control (Creation) 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.
1982 – Waterfront streetcar begins operating in Seattle
1984 – The Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
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.
1993 – Conway Twitty, country star (Linda on My Mind), dies in surgery at 59
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.
1998 – “The Truman Show”, starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, and Ed Harris, is released
1999 – Mel Tormé, American singer (“The Velvet Fog”), composer, and actor (b. 1925) Dies
2001 – U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party.
2001 – Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
2002 – Dee Dee Ramone, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Ramones) (b. 1951) died.
2004 – Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911) died.
2012 – Ray Bradbury, American author, dies at 91
2013 – Nawaz Sharif is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan
2013 – The first article based on NSA leaked documents by Edward Snowden are published by the Guardian Newspaper in the UK