1792 – King Louis XVI was taken into custody by mobs during the French Revolution. He was executed the following January after being put on trial for treason.
1809 – Ecuador began its fight for independence from Spain.
1821 – Missouri became the 24th state to join the Union.
1846 – The Smithsonian Institution was chartered by the U.S. Congress. The “Nation’s Attic” was made possible by $500,000 given by scientist Joseph Smithson.
1859 – In Boston, MA, the first milk inspectors were appointed.
1869 – The motion picture projector was patented by O.B. Brown.
1881 – Thomas Edison’s exhibit opened the Paris Electrical Exhibition.
1885 – The first electric streetcar, to be used commercially, was operated in Baltimore, MD, by Leo Daft.
1914 – Austria-Hungary invaded Russia.
1921 – Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio.
1927 – Mount Rushmore was formally dedicated. The individual faces of the presidents were dedicated later.
1945 – The day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan announced they would surrender. The only condition was that the status of Emperor Hirohito would remain unchanged.
1947 – William Odom completed an around-the-world flight. He set the solo record by completing the flight in 73 hours and 5 minutes.
1948 – On ABC, “Candid Camera” made its TV debut. The original title was “Candid Microphone.”
1954 – Construction began on the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1973 – Arnold Palmer did not make the cut for the final two rounds of the PGA Golf Championship. It was the first time in his career.
1981 – Pete Rose hit a single and broke the National League all-time hit record with his 3,630 hit.
1988 – U.S. President Reagan signed a measure that provided $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were interned by the U.S. government during World War II.
1993 – A massive deficit-reduction bill was signed into law by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
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1994 – U.S. President Clinton claimed presidential immunity when he asked a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones.
1995 – Norma McCorvey, “Jane Roe” of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced that she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
1999 – Near an India-Pakistan border area an Indian fighter jet shot down a Pakistani naval aircraft. Sixteen people were killed.
2003 – Ekaterina Dmitriev and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko were married. Malenchenko was about 240 miles above the earth in the international space station. It was the first-ever marriage from space.
2004 – The iTunes Music Store became the first store to have a catalog of more than one million songs.
2011 – New Zealand’s highest mountain, is renamed Hillary Ridge, after Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to conquer Mt Everest
2011 – Rioting takes place in British cities like Manchester, Liverpool, Salford, Birmingham and Nottingham; Cops from Scotland are called up for help.
2014 – Rory McIlroy wins the PGA Championship marking his fourth major championship
2014 – Fossils of a new species of giant penguin who lived about 40 million years ago and weighed about 250 pounds; called Palaeeudyptesklekowskii, have been found on Seymour Island in Antarctica; the penguins lived about 40 million years ago and likely weighed about 250 pounds
By : Archa Dave
