1318 Edward Bruce (died), Irish king (born 1280)
1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1586 Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
1644 William Penn (born), English businessman, founder of Pennsylvania (died 1718)
1656 Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
1773 Just before the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, several of the British East India Company’s tea ships are set ablaze at the old seaport of Annapolis, Maryland.
1884 The American inventor, George Eastman, receives a U.S. patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
1888 Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
1890 Dwight D. Eisenhower (born), American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (died 1969)
1910 The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C..
1912 While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech.
1916 C. Everett Koop (born), American surgeon and public health administrator, 13th United States Surgeon General (died 2013)
1926 The children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
1946 Craig Venter (born), American biologist
1947 Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound – over the highdesert of Southern California – and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.
1958 The American Atomic Energy Commission carries out an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site, just north of Las Vegas, Nevada.
1958 The District of Columbia’s Bar Association accepts African-Americans as member attorneys.
1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba.
1964 Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies – such as Alexei Kosygin – the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), ousting the former monolithic leader Nikita Khrushchev, and sending him into retirement as a nonperson in the USSR.
1967 The Vietnam War: The folk singer Joan Baez is arrested at a physical blockade of the U.S. Army’s induction center in Oakland, California.
1968 Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called “ten-second barrier” in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds.
1968 The first live telecast from a manned spacecraft, the Apollo 7, launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the U.S.A.
1977 Bing Crosby (died), American singer and actor (The Rhythm Boys) (born 1903)
1979 The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands “an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people”, and draws 200,000 people.
1982 U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
1990 Leonard Bernstein, American composer, conductor, and pianist (born 1918)
1994 The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of the future Palestinian Self Government.
1998 Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
2006 The college football brawl between University of Miami and Florida International University leads to suspensions of 31 players of both teams.
2012 Felix Baumgartner breaks the record of the highest freefall jump, at an altitude of 39,068 meters (128,18 ft)
EO Smith
Latest posts by EO Smith (see all)
- Patriotism - 4 July, 2017
- The Super Sucker Bowl - 10 February, 2017
- Alternative Facts and Science - 24 January, 2017