456 – Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire.
1355 – Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death
1555 – Hugh Latimer, English bishop and royal chaplain, burned at the stake as one of the Oxford Martyrs at 80
1555 – Nicholas Ridley, English theologist/bishop of Rochester, burned at the stake as an Oxford martyr
1570 – Baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered
1775 – Portland, Maine burned by British
1793 – Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1814 – London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing eight.
1834 – Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
1847 – Charlotte Bronte’s book “Jane Eyre” published
1848 – 1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania
1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1900) was born.
1859 – John Brown leads 21 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper’s Ferry, Va
1886 – David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (1948-53, 55) Birthed
1890 – Michael Collins, Sam’s Cross County Cork, Irish revolutionary leader – Born
1909 – William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold a summit, a first between a U.S. and a Mexican president, and they only narrowly escape assassination.
1916 – In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
From Margaret Sanger to Melinda Gates: Population Control Continues
Bill Gates’ father, William H. Gates Sr., has long been involved with the eugenics group Planned Parenthood, a rebranded organization birthed out of the American Eugenics Society. In a 2003 interview with PBS‘ Bill Moyers, Bill Gates admitted that his father used to be the head of Planned Parenthood, which was founded on the concept that most human beings are just “reckless breeders” and “human weeds” in need of culling (http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_gates.html).’
1916 – T E Lawrence (of Arabia) meets with Fasal Hoessein
1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
1925 – Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution
1926 – Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1200 killed
1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
1939 – World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
1940 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
1940 - American men are registering for draft and signing up at a rate of 1 million or more an hour.
1943 – Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens city’s new subway system
1943 – C Fred Turner, rock bassist/vocalist (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) Born
1944 – Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker’s first steady foil, was debuted at the The Beach Nut, a Walter Lantz’s cartoon.
1945 – The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada.
1946 – Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:
- Hans Frank, German lawyer and politician (b. 1900)
- Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Minister of the Interior (b. 1877)
- Alfred Jodl, German general (b. 1890)
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903)
- Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (b. 1882)
- Alfred Rosenberg, Estonian architect and politician (b. 1893)
- Fritz Sauckel, German sailor and politician (b. 1894)
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian lawyer and politician, 16th Federal Chancellor of Austria (b. 1892)
- Julius Streicher, German journalist (b. 1887)
- Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany (b. 1893)
1946 – Suzanne Somers, San Bruno California, actress (3’s Company, Step by Step) Born
1947 – Bob Weir, American singer-songwriter, and guitarist (Grateful Dead, The Other Ones, Bobby and the Midnites, Kingfish, RatDog, Furthur, and The Dead) was born.
1947 – Great Britain has told the United Nations that unless a UN force is agreed quickly to help with the problems in Palestine between fighting Jews and Arabs Britain will pull out completely. Current proposals include creating a partition in the area with United Nations forces controlling the border area.
1958 – Tim Robbins, West Covina CA, actor (Bull Durham, Shawshank Redemption)Born
1962 - Cuban missile crisis begins as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
1962 – Flea, Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor (Red Hot Chili Peppers, What Is This?, Atoms for Peace, and Fear) was born.
1964 – China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
1966 – Joean Baez & 123 other anti-draft protestors arrested in Oakland
1967 – Jason Everman, Guitarist and bassist (Nirvana and Soundgarden) was born.
1967 – Protest rallies and demonstrations across America have taken place in 30 US cities, from Boston to Atlanta, in protest against the continuing war in Vietnam. During a sit in at a military induction centre in Oakland, California the folk singer Joan Baez is arrested together with a number of anti war supporters.
1968 – United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
1968 – Following the Jamaican government decision to ban Guyanese university lecturer Dr. Walter Rodney from returning to his teaching position at the University of the West Indies ( UWI ), students from UWI, begin a demonstration closing down the campus. later while marching to the parliament building in Kingston more demonstrators joined in and as the day progressed the March turned from a peaceful protest into a full scale riot spreading across the city causing millions of dollars in property damages and the death of several innocent bystanders.
1970 – In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
1973 – Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1975 – The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
1977 – John Mayer, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (John Mayer Trio) was born.
1981 – Moshe Dayan, Israel’s general/minister of Defense, dies at 66
1981 – William Holden, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 63
1984 – Baboon heart transplanted into a 15-day-old baby girl
1984 – Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1988 – Orel Hirsheiser, 1st to pitch shutout in playoff & World Series
1990 – Art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), dies of cancer at 71
1991 – Luby’s shooting: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby’s Cafeteria.
1991 – Ole Beich, Danish bass player (Guns N’ Roses and L.A. Guns) (b. 1955) died.
1993 – Anti-Nazism riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.
1995 – The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
1996 – Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
1996 – Following the Dunblane Massacre where Thomas Hamilton walked into the gym at the local primary school and killed 16 young children and their teacher the British Government has announced plans to outlaw almost all handguns .
1997 – James Michener, American writer (b. 1907) Dies
1998 – Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
2002 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
2003 – Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler and trainer (b. 1915) died.
2004 – Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy’s White House Press Secretary (b. 1925) Dies
2007 – Barbara West, English survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (b. 1911) died.
2011 – Dan Wheldon, English auto racer (b. 1978) Dies in crash