1267 – Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps
1554 – Battle at London: Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated and his rebellion against Queen Mary crushed
1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake for heresy
1567 – Henry Stuart, earl of Darnley/Consort of Mary Queen of Scots, murdered
1583 – Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake
1737 – Thomas Paine, English-American philosopher, author, and activist (d. 1809) was born. (Thomas Paine’s Influence on the American Revolution)
1773 – William Henry Harrison, American general and politician, 9th President of the United States (d. 1841) was born.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
1822 – Haiti invades the newly founded Dominican Republic.
1825 – House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president (After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.)
1849 – Roman Republic declared in Rome replacing following flight of Pope Pius IX
1857 – Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798) Born
1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
1870 – US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
1881 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (Crime & Punishment), dies at 59
1885 – 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii
1886 – US President Grover Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence
1889 – US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
1893 – Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prison for fraud
1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
1909 – 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium)
1913 – A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
1914 – Ernest Tubb, Tx, guitarist/singer (I’m Walking the Floor over You) Born
1914 – Gypsy Rose Lee, stripper (or 0109 or 0208), born in Seattle, Washington Born
1914 – Max Manus, Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II. born
1916 – Britain’s military service act enforced (conscription)
1922 – The World War Foreign Debt Commission is established by Congress to settle the problem of Allied war and postwar loans
1923 – Brendan Behan, Dublin Ireland, author/poet (Hostage) Born
1926 – Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools
1942 – World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
1942 – Carole King, [Klein], Brooklyn NY, pianist/singer (Tapestry) Born
1943 – FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
1943 – Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents
1943 – Joe Pesci, Newark NJ, actor (Half Nelson, Goodfellas) Born
1943 – Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel laureate, World Bank Whistle Blower! – Born
1944 – Alice Walker, US, novelist (Color Purple, Meridian) Born
1945 – Mia [Maria] Farrow, LA, actress (Rosemary’s Baby, Purple Rose of Cairo) Born
1946 – Jim Webb, United States Senator from Virginia, Born
1947 – Joe Ely, Amarillo Tx, country vocalist (Honky Tonk Masquerade) Born
1947 – Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia
1950 – Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being “infested with 205 communists”
1951 – Korean War: Geochang massacre
1953 – General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA ( CIA Coup in Iran begins immediately)
1955 – US federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO
1962 – Jamaica signs agreement to become independent
1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a “record-busting” audience of 73 million viewers across the USA.
1965 – Vietnam War: The first United States troops with a combat mission, a Marine Corps Hawk air defense missile battalion, are sent to South Vietnam.
1969 – [George] Gabby Hayes, actor (Albuquerque, Colorado), dies at 83
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.
1971 – Probably 1st gay theme TV episode – All in the Family
1971 – Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 64 & causes over $½B damage
1971 – Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball HOF
1973 – Max Yasgur, American farmer, owned the site of the Woodstock Festival (b. 1919) died.
1974 – Amber Valletta, Phoenix, Arizona, American actress and model (Hitch, Revenge) Born
1978 – Kimberly Leach, killed by Ted Bundy in Lake City Fla at 12
1981 – The Rev, American singer-songwriter and drummer (Avenged Sevenfold, Pinkly Smooth, and Suburban Legends) (d. 2009) was born.
1981 – John Walker Lindh, American Taliban fighter, Born
1981 – Bill Haley, vocalist (Rock Around Clock), dies of heart attack at 55
1986 – Halley’s Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System. ( Halley’s Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
1987 – Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide
1993 – Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma
1994 – Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO’s Yasser Arafat
1995 – J William Fulbright, (Sen-D-Ark)/anti-Vietnam War, dies at 89
1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London’s Canary Wharf.
1997 – Fox cartoon series “Simpsons” airs 167th episode the longest-running animated series in cartoon history
1998 – Failed assassination attempt on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze
2001 – American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School; nine the Ehime-Maru’s crew members were killed, including four high school students.
2008 – Scott Halpin, a one time drummer of The Who. Dies
2010 – Phil Harris, American fisherman from Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch (b. 1956) Dies (I grew up with Fishermen in Seattle so please allow us this – Jack)
2014 – Protest erupt in Sarajevo and other cities in Bosnia-Herzegovina; the unemployment rate remains at 40% (57% for youth)