1282: On or about this day, at Inverkeithing, Fife, a parish priest named John parades a “wooden image of the male members of generation” accompanied by young women, urging them “to licentious actions by his no less licentious language”; obviously he is celebrating Something on a Stick Day
1834: The US Senate votes to censure President Andrew Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States
1898: The US Supreme Court rules that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants is a US citizen and cannot be deported under the terms of the Chinese Exclusion Act
1930: Istanbul was Constantinople, now it’s Istanbul (not Constantinople)
1979: A partial meltdown occurs at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania