Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date

1848

The Oregon Territory was established.

1900

International forces, including U.S. Marines, entered Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreigners.

1935

President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, creating unemployment insurance and pension plans for the elderly.

1941

President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter, a statement of principles that renounced aggression.

1945

President Truman announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II.

1947

Pakistan became independent of British rule.

1969

British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland as political and sectarian violence breaks out, marking the start of the 37-year Operation Banner.

1971

Bahrain declares independence from Britain.

1973

The U.S. bombing of Cambodia came to a halt.

1980

Lech Walesa leads strikes at the Gdansk, Poland shipyards.

1995

Shannon Faulkner became the first female cadet in the history of The Citadel, South Carolina's state military college. She quit the school less than a week later.

1996

The Republican National Convention in San Diego nominated Bob Dole for president and Jack Kemp for vice president.

1996

Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.

1997

An unrepentant Timothy McVeigh was formally sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.

2003

A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.

2005

Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.

2006

A ceasefire takes effect three days after the United Nations Security Council's approval of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, formally ending hostilities between Lebanon and Israel.

2006

Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike.

2013

Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.

2013

UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board.

2015

The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba-United States relations were broken off.

2021

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis.

2022

An explosion destroys a market in Armenia, killing six people and injuring dozens.

2023

Former U.S. President Donald Trump is charged in Georgia along with 18 others in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that state, his fourth indictment of 2023.

1987

Tim Tebow, American football and baseball player and sportscaster.

1852

Margaret Taylor, First Lady of the United States (b. 1788)

1890

Michael J. McGivney, American priest, founded the Knights of Columbus (b. 1852)

1951

Newspaper publisher and politician William Randolph Hearst died in Beverly Hills, California. Founded the Hearst Corporation (b. 1863)

1980

Dorothy Stratten, Canadian-American model and actress (b. 1960)

1988

Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and businessman, founded Ferrari (b. 1898)

2018

Jill Janus, American singer who was the lead vocalist of heavy metal bands Huntress, The Starbreakers and Chelsea Girls. (b. 1975)