65 – Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem
218 – Opellius Macrinus, emperor of Rome (217-8), dies in battle at 54
452 – Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina and is succeeded by Abu Bakr who becomes the first caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
793 – Vikings plunder St Cuthbert’s monastery on Lindisfarne
1042 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.
1191 – Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine) thus beginning his crusade.
1625 – Giovanni D Cassini, Perinaldo, France, discoverer (4 moons of Saturn) Born
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
1783 – Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.
1794 – Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution’s new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
1795 – Louis XVII of France (b. 1785) died.
1809 – Thomas Paine, English/American writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72
1812 – Robert Schumann, Zwickau Germany, composer (Neue Zeitschrift fuer Musik) Born
1845 – Andrew Jackson, American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States, Enemy of Central Bankers… (b. 1767) died.
1856 – A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee votes to secede from the Union.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys – Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, Richland Center Wisc, master builder (Guggenheim) Born
1871 – Satank, Kiowa Indian chief, shot to death
1874 – Cochise, Apache leader, dies
1876 – George Sand, French author (Indiana, Consuelo), dies at 71
1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’ – his punched card calculator.
1896 – 1st car is stolen
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1916 – Francis Crick, English molecular biologist who co-discovered DNA’s structure and Nobel laureate (1962) Born
1918 – Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler’s nova of 1604, discovered
1921 – Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, & held in jail until 4 PM
1925 – Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States was birthed.
1927 – Jerry Stiller, Brooklyn New York, American comedian (Frank Constanza-Seinfeld) born
1933 – Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and television host (d. 2014) was birthed.
1940 – World War II: the completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign.
1940 – Nancy Sinatra, Jersey City, singer (Boots are Made for Walkin’) and daughter of Frank Sinatra, born
1940 – Sherman Garnes, rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers) born
1941 – Clarence “Fuzzy” Haskins, US pop singer (Funkadelic-Knee Deep) born
1941 – World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
1942 – Chuck Negron, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Three Dog Night) was born.
1943 – Colin Baker, English actor, sixth Doctor Who, was born.
1943 – William Calley, American war criminal (Mi Lai), birthed
1944 – Boz Scaggs, [William Royce], Dallas Tx, rocker (Steve Miller Band) born
1944 – Annie Haslam, English singer-songwriter and painter (Renaissance and Nevada) was born.
1947 – Mick Box, rock guitarist (Uriah Heep) Born
1948 – Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
1949 – The celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
1949 – George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons. (Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court)
1954 – Greg Ginn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Black Flag, Gone, Mojack, and Confront James) was born.
1955 – Tim Berners-Lee, English-American computer scientist and engineer, invented the World Wide Web was born.
1959 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
1960 – Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann
1962 – Nick Rhodes, English keyboard player and producer (Duran Duran, Arcadia, and The Devils) was born.
1957 – Scott Raymond Adams, Catskill NY, cartoonist (Dilbert) Born
1958 – Keenan Ivory Wayans, comedian (In Living Color), born in NYC, New York
1965 – US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
1966 – Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an “F5″ on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171
1967 – Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
1968 – James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., captured
1968 – Rolling Stones release “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”
1968 – The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
1969 – Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired (I was there-BTG)
1969 – Nixon says 25,000 US troops would leave Vietnam by end of August (cough)
1969 – Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones
1971 – General Officer Commanding the British Army Harry Tuzo, then claims that a permanent military solution to the ‘troubles’ in Northern Ireland could not be achieved
1972 – Vietnam War: The Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
1972 – Jimmy Rushing, US blues singer, dies at 68
1974 – US & Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract
1975 – USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing
1978 – Nevada jury rules Howard Hughes “Mormon Will” is a forgery
1979 – “The Source,” 1st computer public information service, goes on-line
1979 – Derek Trucks, American guitarist and songwriter (The Allman Brothers Band, The Derek Trucks Band, and Tedeschi Trucks Band) was born.
1979 – Rob Holliday, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Marilyn Manson, The Mission and The Prodigy) was born.
1982 – Falklands War: Royal Fleet Auxiliary Sir Gahalad (False Flag) attacked in San Carlos Water (“Bomb Alley”) by Argentine aircraft: 48 soldiers and crewman were killed
1982 – US President Ronald Reagan addresses the British Parliament in his “ash heap of history” speech
1982 – [Leroy] Satchel Paige, US baseball pitcher, dies at 75
1983 – “Trading Places”, “Ghostbusters” & “Gremlins” premiere
1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
1986 – Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria
1987 – Oliver North’s secretary Fawn Hall tesifies at Iran-Contra hearing
1987 – Yogi Horton, drummer (Luther Vandross), commits suicide at 33
1987 – New Zealand’s Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels in NZ. Only nation to legislate against nuclear power
1988 – Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%
1991 – Mary Bacon, jockey, dying of cancer, commits suicide by gun at 43
1992 – The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1992 – Farag Foeda, Egyptian writer/publicist, murdered
1992 – William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82
1994 – Mass murderer Joe Rifkind sentenced to 27 years
1995 – The downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O’Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
1996 – Revival of the legendary procession of Lady Godiva (Godgifu) naked through Coventry, England
2007 – Jazz legend Oscar Peterson is forced to cancel his appearance at the Carnegie Hall all-star performance (held in his honour), owing to illness
2009 – Two American “journalists” are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.