Victory in Battle
322 BC Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great
- 626 Battle at Constantinople: Slavic/Persians/Avarenvloot defeated
- 768 Stephen III [IV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 936 Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany
- 1409 Council of Pisa closes
- 1428 Valais witch trial proceedings begin in Valais Canton, Switzerland, first organized witch trials
- 1461 Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor
- 1479 Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI
- 1485 Henry Tudor's (Henry VII to be) army lands in Milford Haven, South Wales
Event of Interest
1573 Francis Drake's fleet returns to Plymouth after a year spent raiding for Spanish treasure
Francis Drake
- 1575 Spanish troops conquer Oudewater, almost all inhabitants died
Event of Interest
1606 Possible first performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, performed in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace for King James I
William Shakespeare
James I and VI
Event of Interest
1620 Johannes Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft
Johannes Kepler
- 1620 Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici
- 1710 Sidney, 1st Earl of Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance
- 1714 The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy during the Great Northern War against Sweden
- 1750 Slave uprising on Curacao
- 1760 Ft Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians
Event of Interest
1782 George Washington creates the Purple Heart medal (original name Badge of Military Merit) as commander of the Continental Army
George Washington
- 1789 US Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service
Napoléon Bonaparte
- 1814 Pope Pius VII reinstates the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
- 1819 Battle of Boyacá; Bolívar defeats Spanish in Colombia
- 1820 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
- 1864 Battle of Moorefield, West Virginia
- 1879 The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester.
- 1882 Hatfields of south West Virginia and McCoys of east Kentucky feud, 100 wounded or die
- 1884 Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa)
- 1885 Five German warships anchor off Zanzibar
- 1888 Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia patents revolving door
- 1893 53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes
- 1900 Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike
- 1904 Train derails on bridge in Eden, Colorado, during a flash flood, kills 96
Event of Interest
1907 Walter Johnson wins 1st of his 416 wins, 7-2 over Cleveland
Walter Johnson
Presidential Convention
1912 Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for US President
Theodore Roosevelt
Event of Interest
1914 Lord Kitchener says "Your country needs you" poster spreads over UK
Horatio Kitchener
- 1914 Russia invades East Prussia
- 1915 WWI: Assault against Russell's Top at Gallipolis, Turkey - 232 Australians are killed
- 1915 St Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Bkln rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside and Card runner scores
- 1921 Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champ sprinter
- 1925 League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied
- 1927 Peace Bridge between US and Canada dedicated
- 1927 US rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3
- 1929 Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch government
- 1930 A large mob estimated at 2,000, lynch two young black men Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana
Election of Interest
1930 Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King loses the election to Richard Bedford Bennett of the Conservative Party
Richard Bedford Bennett
Mackenzie King
- 1933 The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.
Event of Interest
1934 US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses"
James Joyce
- 1935 60% of voters agrees to nazism in Danzig (Gdansk)
Baseball Record
1938 Leo Durocher, hits 2,000th Dodger home run
Leo Durocher
- 1938 Nazis close theologic department of Innsbruck university
Event of Interest
1939 Millionaire Howard Hughes is presented with a Congressional Gold Medal
Howard Hughes
- 1940 Churchill recognizes De Gaulle's French government in exile
- 1940 Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 1856 British Guiana)
- 1940 Alsace Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich (Germany) during World War II
- 1941 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania
- 1942 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Island
- 1942 Dutch resistance bombs Rotterdam railway
- 1942 Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
- 1943 Red Army recaptures Bogodukov
- 1944 Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter
- 1944 Canada/Polish offensive direction Falaise: Total Cooperation
- 1944 German counter attack at Avranches fails
- 1944 July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins
- 1944 US 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest, Brittany
- 1944 IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I)
Event of Interest
1946 1st US commemorative coin of an African American, Booker T. Washington (half dollar)
Booker T. Washington
- 1947 The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST)
Event of Interest
1947 Thor Heyerdahl and his crew of the Kon-Tiki crash into a reef in the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia after 101 days crossing the Pacific Ocean
Thor Heyerdahl
- 1948 1st Dutch government of Beel resigns
- 1948 Delfo Cabrera wins 11th Olympic marathon (2:34:51.6)
- 1949 "All after Love" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 121 performances
- 1950 Police bar white players-Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko and Frank Dyle, from playing in Negro League
- 1950 37th Tour de France won by Ferdi Kübler of Switzerland
- 1951 Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph
- 1951 US Viking rocket reaches 210 km height (record)
- 1953 Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet
- 1954 "Golden Apple" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 125 performances
- 1954 Charles Mahoney becomes 1st US black to serve as a full UN delegate
- 1954 5th British Empire Games and Commonwealth Games close in Vancouver, Canada
- 1955 Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel
- 1955 KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NB (CBS/NBC) begins
- 1955 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan
Event of Interest
1956 Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans
Ted Williams
- 1956 British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt
- 1956 Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die
- 1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1959 Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space
- 1959 The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design
- 1960 Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) gains independence from France
- 1960 Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
- 1960 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
- 1961 Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
Event of Interest
1961 Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts USSR economy will surpass US
Nikita Khrushchev
- 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Event of Interest
1963 Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st US First Lady to give birth (Patrick Kennedy) since Mrs Cleveland
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Agreement of Interest
1965 Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore signs a separation agreement with Malaysia, after 2 years of political union
Lee Kuan Yew
- 1966 Race riot in Lansing Michigan
- 1970 1st computer chess tournament
- 1970 Christine Perfect (McVie) joins Fleetwood Mac
- 1970 WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1970 Shootout at Marin Courthouse in San Rafael, California, kills 4, including the presiding judge
- 1971 Apollo 15 returns to Earth
- 1971 A Catholic man is shot dead by a British soldier in Belfast
- 1972 Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez and Early Wynn
- 1974 Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers
- 1976 Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Colgate-European Golf Open
- 1976 US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth
- 1976 Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars
- 1977 "Shenandoah" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 1,050 performances
- 1978 Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, & Larry MacPhail inducted to Hall of Fame
- 1978 Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI
- 1980 Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 killed
- 1981 "The Washington Star" ceases all operations after 128 years of publication
- 1983 "Merlin" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 199 performances
- 1983 1st World Track & Field Championships
- 1983 65th PGA Championship: Hal Sutton shoots a 274 at Riviera CC LA
- 1983 Bobby Murcer Day at Yankee Stadium
- 1983 Grete Waitz of Norway wins 1st all-women Marathon (Helsinki, Finland)
- 1983 Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
- 1983 Some 675,000 AT&T employees strike
- 1983 1st World Championships in Athletics open at Helsinki, Finland
- 1984 David Rabe's "Hurlyburly" premieres in NYC
- 1984 Japan beats US for olympic gold medal in baseball
- 1984 Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing Yankee
Music Recording
1985 Barbra Streisand records "Broadway Album"
Barbra Streisand
- 1985 Baseball players end a 2 day strike
- 1985 Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts
- 1985 A delegation of the South African Council of Churches meets with SA President P W Botha, following calls by the church for urgent discussions on the causes of unrest, forced removals and the emergency regulations in the country
- 1986 "Honky Tonk Nights" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 4 performances
- 1986 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina
- 1987 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala
- 1987 Javed Miandad scores 260 v England at The Oval, 28 fours 1 six
- 1987 Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from US to USSR in 39°F (4°C) Bering Sea
- 1988 Martha Nause wins Planters Pat Bradley International Golf Tournament
- 1988 Writers guild ends its 6 months strike
- 1988 Rioting in New York City's Tompkins Square Park.
- 1988 Angola, Cuba and South Africa allegedly signed a cease fire treaty
- 1989 U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
- 1990 Operation Desert Shield begins - US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia
- 1990 NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th HR in 1st 92 at bats & becomes 21st to hit a ball into 3rd deck of Seattle's Kingdome
- 1991 Charles Austin breaks US high jump record at 7'10½"
Event of Interest
1991 Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret US documents
Manuel Noriega
- 1991 Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league HR
- 1991 Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes
- 1991 US sets 400m relay record at 37.67 seconds
- 1992 Cleveland Indians turn a triple play
- 1992 Tampa Bay group purchases SF Giants
- 1993 "Camelot" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 56 performances
- 1993 Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, 118 killed
- 1994 "Hedda Gabler" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 33 performances
- 1994 1st telephone link between Israel & Jordan
- 1994 Carolyn Hill wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain
- 1994 Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia
- 1997 STS 85 (Discovery 23) launches into orbit
- 1997 Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier
- 2005 10th World Championships in Athletics: Justin Gatlin wins 100m
Baseball Record
2007 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run.
Barry Bonds
Historic Publication
2007 "Eclipse" 3rd book in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight Saga" is published by Little Brown - initial print run 1 million copies
Stephenie Meyer
Hall of Fame
2010 Jerry Rice is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Jerry Rice
Event of Interest
2015 US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump says in a CNN interview that news anchor Mergyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever”
Donald Trump