946 – King Edmund I of England is murdered by a thief whom he personally attacks while celebrating St Augustine’s Mass Day.
1637 – Pequot War: A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under the English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans.
1647 – Alse Young, hanged in Hartford, Connecticut, becomes the first person executed as a witch in the British American colonies.
1651 – Jeane Gardiner, English woman executed for witchcraft.
1783 – A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut, celebrated end of fighting in American Revolution.
1818 – Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza, Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader (b. 1785) died.
1830 – The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
1864 – Montana is organized as a United States territory.
1865 – American Civil War: the Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
1869 – Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
1879 – Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
1896 – Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia. In 1917, the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seize power from Czar Nicholas II and set about establishing the world’s first communist state.
1896 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1897 – Dracula, a novel by the Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
1907 – John Wayne, American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 1979) was born.
1908 – At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
1916 – Moondog, American drummer, composer, and poet (d. 1999) was born.
1918 – The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
1922 – Troy Smith, American businessman, founded Sonic Drive-In (d. 2009) was born.
1926 – Miles Davis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (Miles Davis Quintet) (d. 1991) was born.
1936 – In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for 10 hours.
1938 – In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
1940 – Levon Helm, American singer-songwriter, drummer, producer, and actor (d. 2012) was born.
1945 – Garry Peterson, Canadian-American drummer (The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive) was born.
1948 – The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 80-557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
1948 – Stevie Nicks, American singer-songwriter (Fleetwood Mac) was born.
1949 – Hank Williams, Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist was born.
1950 – After 11 years petrol rationing finally ends in Great Britain and the British People tear up petrol rationing books which have been in use since the beginning of World War II in 1939
1966 – British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
1966 – Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (b. 1894) died.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
1969 – Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer, co-founded the Lockheed Corporation (b. 1889) died.
1969 – Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono stage a public ‘bed in’ for world peace – staying in bed for a week in a hotel in Montreal.
1971 – Matt Stone, American actor, animator, screenwriter, producer, and composer was born.
1972 – The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1975 – Secretary of State Henry Kissinger today outlined a trillion dollar programme to save oil consuming nations from being held hostage by the worlds oil producing nations including the increased use of Nuclear Power and funding to find alternative forms of energy. This is in response to the oil producing nations saying a sixth increase in oil prices can be expected later this year
1981 – Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
1981 – An EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68), killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others.
1986 – The European Community adopts the European flag.
1992 – The blockade of Dubrovnik is broken. Following this, the siege of Dubrovnik ends in the next months.
1998 – The first “National Sorry Day” was held in Australia, and reconciliation events were held nationally, and attended by over a million people.
2004 – United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
2008 – Following the devastating earthquake in the Chengdu area the “Chengdu Population and Family Planning Committee” will allow couples whose only child was killed or severely injured during the earthquake to have one more child. The single child rule was bought in during the 1970s when population growth in China caused concerns in the Chinese Government over over population.