68 Roman General Vespasian conquers Jericho during the Great Jewish Revolt
1307 Külüg Khan is enthroned as Emperor of China and seventh Great Khan after defeating rival factions and succeeding his uncle Temür Khan
1498 Jews are expelled from Nuremberg, Bavaria, by Emperor Maximillian
1547 Great fire in Moscow, a third of the largely wooden city destroyed and 2-3,000 killed
1607 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established at Jamestown
1675 Foundation stone for London's St. Paul’s Cathedral is laid
1734 In Montreal, New France (Quebec), black slave Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony
1749 Town of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded by the British - sparks Father Le Loutre's War
1768 1st medical diploma in America is granted to Dr John Archer from the College of Philadelphia
1788 US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it
1805 Great Stone Face, aka The Old Man of the Mountain or the Profile, found on the Cannon Mountain in Franconia, New Hampshire
1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC)
1834 American inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick patents the reaping machine
1853 Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes in Worcester, Massachusetts
1869 William James 'the Father of American Psychology' passes his medical examination at Harvard Medical School
1877 The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons as a result of battles between the Coal Companies and Unions.
1879 Frank Winfield Woolworth opens his 1st successful "Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store" on North Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1893 1st Ferris wheel opens at Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois
1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
1898 US captures Guam from Spain during the Spanish–American War
1900 In the Philippines, General Arthur McArthur, US military governor of the Philippines, issues an amnesty proclamation to those Filipinos who will renounce the insurgent movement and accept US sovereignty
1907 E. W. Scripps founds United Press Associations in the US
1913 American Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane
1915 The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens
1917 Hawaiian Red Cross forms
1933 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans
1940 The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia
1946 10 die in an explosion and fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas, Texas
1946 Federal judge in Seattle rules that baseball clubs don’t have to play returning serviceman
1948 1st stored computer program runs on Manchester Mark I at a laboratory in Manchester University, England
1948 Columbia Records unveil the 33-1/3 rpm LP phonograph record invented by Peter Carl Goldmark, allowing up to 20 minutes per side (available in 10 and 12 inch diameters), at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, NYC; over the next decade its popularity and profitability push the 78 rpm out of production
1952 Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce; later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines
1956 Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
1964 Byron De La Beckwith arrested for the murder of civil rights activist Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later
1964 Three civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, disappear after being released from a Mississippi jail, later found murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan
1981 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000
1982 John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity
1985 American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
1989 Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression
1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham
1993 STS-57 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
2000 US Senator Daniel K. Inouye and 19 other Japanese-American WWII veterans of the 442nd Regiment belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor by President Bill Clinton
2001 A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen
2001 Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is the 1st Hispanic woman to be honored on a US postage stamp
Painter Frida Kahlo
2003 "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" the 5th book of the series by J. K. Rowling is published worldwide in English
2012 Moody's downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe
2014 Qhapaq Ñan, the Andean Road System of the Inca Empire, 30,000km long (18,600 miles) through six countries, granted World Heritage status by UNESCO
2020 New archaeological discovery announced near Stonehenge of a large circle of shafts surrounding a village 2500 BC, largest prehistoric structure in Britain
2022 Law enforcement's response to the Uvalde school shooting was an "abject failure" says Texas's public safety chief Steven McCraw in testimony at a Senate hearing
2022 South Korea successfully launches its first satellites into orbit with its homegrown rocket Nuri, from Naro Space Center
2023 US approves chicken made from animal cells - the country's first lab-grown meat, aimed at reducing harm to animals and the environment
