907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang Dynasty after nearly three hundred years of rule.
1215 – English barons serve ultimatum on King John; leads to Magna Carta
1510 – The Prince of Anhua rebellion begins when Zhu Zhifan kills all the officials invited to a banquet and declares his intent on ousting the powerful Ming Dynasty eunuch Liu Jin during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.
1588 – French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs.
1641 – Thomas Wentworth, English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded at 48
1689 – England & Netherlands form League of Augsburg
1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
1820 – Florence Nightingale, Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War) Born
1864 – American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in “the Bloody Angle”.
1865 – American Civil War: the Battle of Palmito Ranch: the first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
1870 – The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
1876 – Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary, brutally killed by the Turks (b. 1843)
1885 – North-West Rebellion: the four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
1889 – Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman and holocaust survivor (d. 1980) was born.
1908 – Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield
1918 – Julius Rosenberg, American spy (d. 1953) was born.
1921 – Farley Mowat, Canadian environmentalist and author (d. 2014) was born
1925 – Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, Executor of Rhodes Agenda… dies at 71
Carroll Quigley’s research concerned the role of the Rhodes-Milner Secret Societies in Britain from 1891 through World War II. His major work, Tragedy and Hope, first appeared in 1966, while Clinton was one of Quigley’s students at Georgetown. It contains scattered references to Quigley’s twenty years of research in this area:
“I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies, but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known.”
1928 – Benito Mussolini ends women’s rights in Italy
1928 – Burt Bacharach, KC Mo, composer (I’ll Never Fall in Love Again)Born
1932 – Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Jr., is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs’ home.
1933 – The Agricultural Adjustment Act is enacted to restrict agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies.
1936 – Tom Snyder, Milwaukee Wisc, newscaster (Tomorrow, NBC Weekend News)Born
1937 – The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at a ceremony in Westminster Abbey.
1937 – George Carlin, American comedian, actor, and author (d. 2008) was born.
1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world’s first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
1942 – World War II: The U.S. tanker Virginia was torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German U-Boat U-507.
1942 – David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine
1942 – Ian Dury, Upminster Essex, rocker (Blockheads)/actor (Judge Dredd) Born
1944 – Crimea purged of Nazi troops
1948 – Steve Winwood, England, rock bassist (A Higher Love) Born
1949 – The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state: the Federal Republic of Germany.
1950 – Billy Squier, Mass, heavy metal guitarist (Don’t Say No) Born
1950 – Bruce Boxleitner, Elgin Ill, actor (Scarecrow & Mrs King, Babylon 5) Born
1950 – Gabriel Byrne, Dublin Ireland, actor (Hello Again, Cool World) Born
1950 – Jocko Marcellino, rocker (Sha Na Na) Born
1951 – 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll
1955 – Austria regains its independence as the Allied occupation following World War II ends.
1956 – Homer Simpson, fictional character from the long running television show “The Simpsons” – Born
1958 – Eric Singer, American drummer and songwriter (Kiss, Avantasia, Badlands, and Eric Singer Project) was born.
1958 – A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
1961 – Billy Duffy, English guitarist and songwriter (The Cult, Theatre of Hate, and The Nosebleeds) was born.
1962 – Emilio Estevez, NYC, actor (Breakfast Club, Young Guns, Mighty Ducks)Born
1962 – Brett Gurewitz, American songwriter and record producer (Bad Religion) (Epitaph) Born
1963 – Bob Dylan walks out of the “Ed Sullivan Show”
The song that caused the flap was “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues,” a satirical talking-blues number skewering the ultra-conservative John Birch Society and its tendency to see covert members of an international Communist conspiracy behind every tree. Dylan had auditioned “John Birch” days earlier and had run through it for Ed Sullivan himself without any concern being raised. But during dress rehearsal on the day of the show, an executive from the CBS Standards and Practices department informed the show’s producers that they could not allow Dylan to go forward singing “John Birch.” While many of the song’s lyrics about hunting down “reds” were merely humorous—”Looked up my chimney hole/Looked down deep inside my toilet bowl/They got away!”—others that equated the John Birch Society’s views with those of Adolf Hitler raised the fear of a defamation lawsuit in the minds of CBS’s lawyers. Rather than choose a new number to perform or change his song’s lyrics—as the Rolling Stones and the Doors would famously do in the years to come—Dylan stormed off the set in angry protest.
1963 – Race riot in Birmingham, Alabama
1968 – Tony Hawk, American skateboarder and actor was born.
1968 – Catherine Tate, English actress and screenwriter was born.
1968 – “March of Poor” under Rev Abernathy reach Washington, DC
1968 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral, east of Lai Khe in South Vietnam on the night of 12/13 May, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides and beginning the Battle of Coral–Balmoral.
1973 – The Pentagon Papers trial which was focussed on THE FIRST AMENDMENT and The Governments Authority to control information and the Public’s access to that information has now ended and with a verdict of NOT GUILTY for the defendants Daniel Ellsburg and Anthony J Russo Jr , but many of the answers given by defendants and testimony by witnesses raise many more questions concerning the Watergate Affair. ( This eventually led to Impeachment proceedings against President Nixon ) Daniel Ellsberg was a contributor but gave most of the Pentagon Papers to New York Times reporter Neil Sheehan, with Ellsberg’s friend Anthony Russo assisting in their copying
1975 – Mayagüez incident: the Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
1977 – 1st quadrophonic concert (Pink Floyd in London)
1981 – Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners.
1982 – During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan María Fernández y Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an “agent of Moscow”.
1986 – NBC debuts the current well-known peacock (owl + sun) as seen in the NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration.
1990 – Nora Dunn & Sinead O’Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew “Dice” Clay’s hosting
1992 – Robert Reed, actor (Brady Bunch), dies of AIDs at 59
1998 – Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto
2001 – Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)Dies
2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro’s 1959 revolution.
2003 – The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by “Al Qaeda”, kill 26. (Halliburton Prior Knowledge?)
Seizing on a new opportunity to advance their never-ending “war on terrorism,” administration officials made sure to claim a link to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network, even before an investigation began.
Secretary of State Colin Powell–already scheduled to arrive in Riyadh the day after the bombing for a meeting to promote a new Middle East “peace” plan–rushed out to the site and declared: “These are people who were determined to penetrate places like this just for the purpose of killing people in their sleep, killing innocent people, killing people who had tried to help others.”
The Vinnell compound is named after Vinnell Corp., a U.S. defense contractor hired to train the brutal Saudi National Guard. Vinnell, whose employees are made up of former U.S. military personnel, has worked for the Saudi kingdom for more than 25 years.
2003 – Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan.
2008 – Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b. 1925)Dies
2008 – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
2008 – 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people
2012 – The discovery of a missing Mayan calender piece disproves 2012 Armageddon