14 – Tiberius is confirmed as Roman Emperor by the Roman Senate following the natural death of Augustus
31 – Sejanus, Roman head of praetorian guard, executed
96 – Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
324 – Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine’s sole control over the Roman Empire.
1679 – New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1714 – George I arrives in Great Britain for the first time since becoming king on August 1st.
1789 – 1st loan is made to pay salaries of the presidents & Congress
* 1793 – US President George Washington lays Masonic cornerstone of Capitol building
1793 – The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
1810 – Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1812 – The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
1837 – Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a “stationery and fancy goods emporium”.
1838 – The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
1850 – The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
1851 – New York Times starts publishing (2 cents a copy)
1873 – Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.
1882 – The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
1895 – Booker T. Washington delivers the “Atlanta Compromise” address.
1910 – In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
1914 – The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
1919 – The Netherlands gives women the right to vote
1924 – J. D. Tippit, American police officer (d. 1963) was born.
1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
1932 – Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter “H” in the Hollywood sign.
1934 – The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations.
1939 – The Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting.
1940 – The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
1943 – World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
1943 – World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.
1945 – John McAfee, Scottish-American computer programmer, founded McAfee was born.
1945 – General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
1945 – “Blind” Willie Johnson American blues/spiritual singer and guitarist (b. 1897) Dies
1947 – The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States armed forces.
1947 – The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator’s term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
1951 – Dee Dee Ramone, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Ramones) (d. 2002) was born.
1955 – Keith Morris, American singer-songwriter (Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and Off!) was born.
1956 – Chris Hedges, American journalist and author was born.
1960 – Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
1961 – Mark Olson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Jayhawks and Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers) was born.
1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1961 – James Gandolfini, American actor, (d. 2013)Born
1962 – Joanne Catherall, Sheffield England, rock vocalist (Human League)Born
1962 – John Mann, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Spirit of the West) was born.
1962 – Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
1970 – Jimi Hendrix died in London of a suspected drug overdose but the actual cause of death was he had asphyxiated in his own vomit, mainly red wine. Many do not realize that Hendrix did not make it his home country ( Born in Seattle, Washington, USA ) until he had made it internationally specifically in England and Europe. Only when he appeared at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967 did he gain a following in the US. Amongst the many accolades Hendrix has received Rolling Stone Magazine named Hendrix the Greatest Guitarist of All Time in 2003
1971 – Lance Armstrong, American cyclist and activist, founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation was born.
1972 – Adam Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Low Millions) was born
1973 – Future President Jimmy Carter files a report with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), claiming he had seen an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) in October
1973 – The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
1975 – Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst is arrested in a San Francisco apartment and arrested for armed robbery. She had been kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California on February 4, 1974 but in April she sent letters to the media saying she was joining the SLA of her own free will and later that month, a surveillance camera took a photo of her participating in an armed robbery of a San Francisco bank making her a wanted criminal by the FBI.
1976 – Mao Zedong’s funeral takes place in Beijing.
1977 – Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
1982 – Christian militia begin killing six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.
1985 – President Reagan has stated that the Strategic Defense Weapons ( SDI / Star Wars ) which will only be used to destroy weapons will not part of negotiations on reducing offensive nuclear weapons in the upcoming talks in Geneva. The Russians have responded by stating the US is militarizing space.
1988 – End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students), are killed by the Tatmadaw.
1997 – Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) in a referendum on Welsh autonomy.
1997 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates USD 1 billion to the United Nations.
1998 – ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ) is formed.
2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2007 – Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
2007 – Ukraine announces plans to build a large steel covering over the radioactive site of the Chernobyl disaster, the world’s largest nuclear disaster. The cover is to be built by a French company and will cost $1.4 billion over five years. It is now more than 20 years since the disaster and levels of radiation still make the area uninhabitable by Humans .
2007 – Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
2012 – Louis Simpson, a Pulitzer prize winning poet died at the age of eighty-nine at his home in New York. Simpson was known for making poetry that chronicled the darker side of suburban life.
2012 – Steve Sabol, American filmmaker (NFL Films), dies from brain cancer at 69
2013 – Ken Norton, American heavyweight boxer, dies at 70
2014 – Scottish independence referendum