In the Byzantine-Arab Wars, Byzantine troops stormed city of Aleppo and recovered the tattered tunic of John the Baptist. (962 AD)
Philip of Moscow, leader of the Russian Church, was martyred for speaking out against Ivan the Terrible’s mass executions. (1569)
Robert Barclay, Scottish Quaker theologian, was born. (1648)
John Cotton, minister in colonial Massachusetts and father of New England Congregationalism, died. (1652)
King James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, fled to France from William of Orange. (1688)
English astronomer John Flamsteed observed Uranus without realizing it’s undiscovered. (1690)
American Revolutionary War: Thomas Paine wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls.” (1776)
American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold was court-martialed for improper conduct. (1779)
American Revolutionary War: General George Washington resigned his military commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army to Congress. (1783)
Maryland voted to cede a 10 sqaure mile area for District of Columbia. (1788)
Jean Francois Champollion was born. He was the founder of modern Egyptology and man who successfully decoded the hieroglyphics of the Rosetta Stone. (1790)
Emma By Jane Austen was published. (1815)
Visit from St Nicholas by Clement Moore was published. (1823)
US Civil War: Union General Ben “Beast” Butler was proclaimed a “felon, outlaw & common enemy of mankind” by Jefferson Davis. (1862)
Women of Hillsboro, Ohio marched to the places that served liquor in town and by appeals and prayer shut most of them down. Within fifty days, saloons in two hundred and fifty Ohio cities were also shut down. (1873)
Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear with a razor and sent it to a prostitute for safe keeping. (1888)
First all-steel passengar railroad coach was completed in Altoona, Pennsylvania. (1907)
First Keystone Kops film, Hoffmeyer’s Legacy, premiered. (1912)
Alice H Parker patented a gas heating furnace. (1919)
Government of Ireland Act, also known as the Home Rule Act, passed, partitioning Ireland. (1920)
BBC Radio began daily newscasts. (1922)
Edith Warner’s remains were laid to rest. She had been a missionary for thirty-three years in Niger and explored areas never before seen by a white person. (1925)
Bette Davis arrived in Hollywood under contract to Universal Studios. (1930)
WW2: The execution of Eddie Slovik was authorized by General Eisenhower. He was the first man executed for desertion since the Civil War. (1944)
WW2: In Japan, Hideki Tojo, former Japanese premier and chief of the Kwantung Army, and six others were executed for their war crimes. (1948)
The African Queen, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, was released. (1951)
The first human kidney transplant was performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. (1954)
First US case of space motion sickness was reported. (1968)
Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders became the first men to orbit the Moon. (1968)
Four women were ordained priests in Jamaica for the first time in Anglican history. (1996)
Terry Nichols was found guilty of manslaughter in Oklahoma City bombing. (1997)
A MQ-1 Predator was shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25. It was the first time in history that an aircraft and an unmanned drone had engaged in combat. (2002)
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