1622: First American Indian (Powhatan) massacre of Europeans around Jamestown, Virginia, 347 killed

1765: First direct British tax on American colonists, the Stamp Act, is passed by the British Parliament led by Prime Minister George Grenville

1784: The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand

1832: British Parliament, led by Charles Grey, passes the Reform Act, introducing wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales, increasing the electorate from about 500,000 voters to 813,000

1933: First Nazi concentration camp, Dachau, opens as a camp for political prisoners [1]

1954: Northland Center, the world’s largest shopping mall at the time, opens in Oak Park, Michigan

1965: US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong

2018: US President Donald Trump imposes $60 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese imports

Source: Onthisday.com