On this day in the year 1661 of the common era (CE), on the twelfth anniversary of the execution of King Charles I by forces under the command of Oliver Cromwell, which was intended to bring about the end of the Monarchy and the beginning of the short-lived Commonwealth of Free States (otherwise known as the Puritan Republic of England, Ireland and Scottland), the body of Cromwell was exhumed from Westminster Abbey. Cromwell, the onetime Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, was subjected to a mock trial and execution at Tyburn, where his corpse was beheaded and hung in chains outside of Westminster Hall, where it remained for over twenty years with his severed head on a pole...a symbol of the monarchy restored.
On this day in the year 1815 CE the United States Library of Congress is re-established after being destroyed by fire, with the donation of Thomas Jefferson's 6,500 volumes from his personal estate; twenty years later Richard Lawrence misfires while attempting to assassinate president Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C.; it is the first attempted assassination of a United States president.
On this day in 1862 CE the U.S.S. Monitor is launched; it is the United States Navy's first ironclad warship.
In 1873 CE, Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, is published in France by Pierre-Jules Hetzel; sixteen years later, according to written notes, the Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, kills his mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera, and then himself in a murder/suicide pact.
In 1894 CE the Pneumatic Hammer is patented by Charles King of Detroit, Michigan.
In 1933 CE President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor of Germany who forms a government with Franz von Papen, after which, Hindenburg’s former colleague General Erich Ludendorff sends him a letter stating that Hitler, "this accursed man, will cast our Reich into the abyss and bring our nation to inconceivable misery;" six year years later Hitler threatens Jews during his speech to the German Reichstag and the fire of the holocaust were list.
In 1956 CE the home of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. is bombed; five years later, I Fall to Pieces, is released by Patsy Cline, becoming Billboard’s “Song of the Year.” Fourteen years after that Ernő Rubik patents his Magic Cube, later to be marketed as the Rubik's Cube.
In 2025 CE, global planetary defense procedures were triggered for the first time after the 100-meter asteroid named: 2024 YR4 is found to have a 1.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032 CE.
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