- 526 St Felix IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1109 Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli
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1442 King Alfonso V of Aragon becomes King of Naples
Victory in Battle
1537 Battle of Albancay: Diego de Almagro defeated by army led by Alonso de Alvarado on behalf of Francisco Pizarro
Diego de Almagro
Francisco Pizarro
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1627 English fleet under George Villiers lands on the Rhe [NS=June 22]
George Villiers
- 1630 New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, later known as Ellis Island
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1679 Britain's King Charles II ratifies Habeas Corpus Act allowing prisoners right to be imprisoned to be examined by a court
Charles II
Gregory Conquers Julius Caesar
1700 Gelderland accepts Gregorian calendar; yesterday is June 30, 1700
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1745 Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlie's frigate Doutelle [NS]
Bonnie Prince Charlie
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1771 James Cook sails Endeavour back to Downs, England
James Cook
Joseph Banks
- 1774 Citizens of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, pass a symbolic declaration of independence
- 1774 Cossack leader Emilian Pugachevs army occupies Kazan
- 1776 Captain James Cook departs with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean
- 1785 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands
- 1790 French Revolution: The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted, putting the Catholic Church in France under the control of the state
- 1801 Second Battle of Algeciras: British fleet beats French and Spanish (six days after losing the 1st Battle of Algeciras)
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1804 Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a pistol duel by Vice President Aaron Burr
Alexander Hamilton
Aaron Burr
Event of Interest
1843 Mormon leader Joseph Smith says God allows polygamy
Joseph Smith
Event of Interest
1861 Wild Bill Hickok reputed to have shot and killed David McCanles, possibly his first kill. Hickok later acquitted after found he acted in self defense.
Wild Bill Hickok
- 1862 US Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
- 1862 Federal troops occupy Helena, Arkansas
- 1863 In New Zealand, British forces invade Waikato, home of the Maori King Movement, beginning a new phase of the wars between Maori and Colonial British
- 1874 Ontario Agricultural College founded
- 1878 Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500
- 1879 Agricultural and industrial tariffs are introduced in Germany
- 1882 1st ocean pier in US completed, Washington, D.C.
- 1898 Jean-Baptiste Marchand hoists French flag in Fashoda, Sudan
- 1900 114°F (46°C), Basin, Wyoming (state record)
- 1901 Striking Canadian salmon fishermen on the Pacific coast, resentful of the non-union Japanese who continue to fish, maroon and imprison 47
- 1901 In Germany a group of 104 aristocrats present a deceleration against dueling, though the tradition will go on
- 1902 Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage
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1902 Arthur Balfour succeeds Lord Salisbury, who retired as British Prime Minister on 11 July
Arthur Balfour
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
- 1905 The British and Japanese renew their alliance (of January 1902) for 10 years and agree to provide mutual support if attacked by other power
- 1906 Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France
- 1909 16th Amendment was passed by congress (power to tax incomes)
- 1912 1st foreign feature film exhibited in US - "Queen Elizabeth" in NYC
- 1913 150,000 Ulstermen gather and resolve to resist Irish Home Rule by force of arms; since the British Liberals have promised the Irish nationalists Home Rule, civil war appears imminent
- 1916 3rd and 4th of 4 fatal Jersey Shore shark attacks occurs at Matawan Creek when epileptic Lester Stilwell (11) is dragged into a creek and Watson Fisher (24), believing Silwell had a seizure, is bitten while retreiving the body and subsequently bleeds to death
- 1916 Joseph Dunn (14) is attacked by a shark, suffering non-fatal wounds in New Jersey, the final episode in a spate of shark attacks along the Jersey coast where 4 people died over 12 days
- 1917 The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona
- 1918 Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed
- 1920 Lithuania and USSR sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent republic
World Record
1926 Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:26.2)
Paavo Nurmi
US Golf Open
1930 US Open Men's Golf, Interlachen CC: Defending champion Bobby Jones wins record-tying 4th US Open title by 2 strokes from Macdonald Smith; third consecutive major title
Bobby Jones
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1930 Bradman out for 334 in test cricket at Headingley for Australia, 383 mins, 46 fours
Donald Bradman
- 1931 45,715 fans in 35,000 seat Sportsman Park St Louis, help cause many ground ruled doubles, 11 in 1st game & 21 in 2nd game for 32
- 1932 Hedley Verity establishes a first-class cricket record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm
- 1933 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
- 1934 US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned
- 1934 Willy de Supervise swims world record 400m (5:16.0)
- 1935 Belgium recognizes Soviet Union
- 1937 -13) Tupolev ANT-25 non-stop flight Moscow to San Jacinto, California
- 1940 Frederick McKinley Jones receives a patent for an air conditioning unit for trucks, helping to change long-haul carriage of food and blood
- 1943 Battle of Kolombangara (Second Battle of Gulf of Kula)
- 1943 National Committee Freies Deutschland forms
- 1943 Pope Pius XII receives German ambassador baron von Weizsacker
- 1943 Soviet offensive at Orel
- 1943 World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka - Russians defeat German forces in one of the largest ever tank battles
- 1944 Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased
- 1944 US government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle
- 1945 Cubs stop Braves Tommy Holmes modern-day NL hitting streak at 37 games
- 1946 Benjamin Britten's "Rape of Lucretia" premieres at Glyndebourne Opera Festival
- 1946 Vance Dinges hits only Phillie pinch hit inside-the-park HR
- 1948 1st jets to fly across Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires)
- 1949 16th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-7 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
- 1949 Baseball owners agree to erect warning paths before each fence
- 1949 Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die
- 1949 LA Rams sign Norm Van Brocklin
- 1950 ILTF re-admit Germany and Japan in Davis Cup, Poland & Hungary withdraws
- 1950 Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death
- 1951 Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero, Illinois
- 1951 NY Yankees Allie Reynolds no-hits Cleveland Indians, 8-0
- 1952 East German SED decides to form German DR army
- 1953 KTVB TV channel 7 in Boise, ID (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1954 Major League Baseball Players Association founded
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1954 President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1954 ANC President Albert Luthuli banned by South African Minister of Justice from attending public gatherings and confined to the magisterial district of Lower Tugela, Natal
- 1955 22nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 in 12 at County Stad, Milw
- 1955 Christian Democratic Party forms in Argentina
- 1957 1st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower
- 1957 US Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
- 1958 "Li'l Abner" closes at St James Theater NYC after 693 performances
- 1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
- 1959 NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during Yankee-Red Sox game
- 1960 Congo, Chad and Central African Republic declare independence
- 1960 USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs
- 1960 XEWT TV channel 12 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
- 1960 Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
- 1962 1st time 2 manned crafts in space (USSR)
- 1962 Rolling Stones 1st performance (Marquee Club, London)
US Women's Golf Open
1964 US Open Women's Golf, San Diego CC: Mickey Wright wins her 4th Open in a playoff with Ruth Jessen
Mickey Wright
- 1966 10.51" (26.70 cm) of rainfall, Sandusky Ohio (state record)
- 1966 37th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 10 at Busch Stad, St Louis
- 1966 Baltimore Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson voted MLB All Star game MVP
- 1966 Start of 3 day race riot in Chicago, looting brings out National Guardsmen
- 1966 US Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia and Denver mints
- 1967 5th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-0
- 1967 Race riot in Newark, New Jersey, 26 killed, 1,500 injured & over 1,000 arrested
- 1967 Greek regime deprives 480 Greeks of their citizenship
- 1968 Couve de Murville forms government in France
- 1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1969 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Lytham & St Annes GC: Tony Jacklin wins the first of his 2 major titles, 2 strokes ahead of Bob Charles of New Zealand; first Briton to win The Open since 1951
- 1969 As the 'marching season' reaches its height there is serious rioting in Derry, Belfast and Dungiven; many familles in Belfast are forced to move from their homes
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1970 Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Atlantic ocean on the raft Ra II, arrives in Barbados from Morocco after 57 days
Thor Heyerdahl
British Golf Open
1970 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Jack Nicklaus beats Doug Sanders by 1 stroke in event's first 18-hole playoff to win the 2nd of his 3 Open Championships
Jack Nicklaus
- 1970 Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway
- 1971 Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders
- 1972 Democrats nominated George McGovern for US president in Miami, Florida
- 1972 Twelve years after the banning of the ANC and Pan Africanist Congress, a new political movement, the Black People Convention is formed after a three day long conference in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
- 1973 A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States
- 1974 John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights
- 1975 British Open Men's Golf, Carnoustie: American Tom Watson wins 18-hole playoff by 1 stroke over Jack Newton of Australia; first of 8 major titles; first of 5 Open Championships
- 1975 Bob Taylor catches 7 in an innings, Derbyshire v Yorkshire
- 1975 Sao Tomé e Príncipe gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
- 1976 Ian Dury & Kilburns disband
- 1976 1st "Family Feud" game show debuts on ABC hosted by Richard Dawson
- 1977 John Edrich scores his 100th 100, Surrey v Derbyshire at The Oval
- 1978 Sun Bank Building opens
- 1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1979 Ian Paice joins Whitesnake
- 1979 Kiribati (formerly Gilbert Islands) declares independence from UK
Down With Disco!
1979 "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park: fans go wild destroying disco records and cause the White Sox to forfeit second game of a doubleheader to the Detroit Tigers
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Event of Interest
1981 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: Arnold Palmer comfortably wins 18-hole playoff against Billy Casper and Bob Stone
Arnold Palmer
- 1982 Britain announces it is returning 593 Argentine POWs
- 1982 FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail
- 1983 Chad government troops reconquer Abéché
- 1984 Geraldine Ferraro becomes 1st US female major-party VP candidate
- 1984 A car bomb set off by the military wing of the ANC, explodes in Durban South Africa killing 5 and injuring 27 people
- 1985 "Singin' in the Rain" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 367 performances
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1985 Doctors discover a cancerous growth in President Reagan's colon
Ronald Reagan
- 1985 STS 51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown
- 1986 Steven McDonald, New York City Police Department patrolman, is shot and paralyzed by Shavod Jones
- 1987 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Islesmere GC: Jody Rosenthal wins by 2 from Ayako Okamoto of Japan
- 1987 1st time in 20 years a delegation from USSR lands in Israel
- 1987 50 white South Africans meets ANCers in Dakar
US Senior Golf Open
1987 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Brooklawn CC: South African Gary Player wins by a record 6 strokes ahead of Doug Sanders
Gary Player
- 1987 Phillies Kent Tekulve pitches his 900th game in relief
- 1988 59th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin
- 1988 All star MVP: Terry Steinbach (Oakland A's)
- 1988 Margo Adams alleges Red Sox Wade Bogg's had an affair with her
- 1988 USSR launches Phobos II for Martian orbit
- 1989 NY Yankee pitching great Ron Guidry retires (170-91 .651, 3.29 ERA)
- 1990 "Les Miserables," opens at National Theatre, Washington
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1990 Boris Yeltsin quits the Soviet Communist Party
Boris Yeltsin
- 1990 Chicago White Sox Melido Perez no-hits Yankees 8-0 in a rain shortened 6 inning game at Yankee Stadium (7th no-hitter of 1990)
- 1990 In Soweto, South Africa, Shanty town women strip to the waist and confront bulldozers sent by authorities to demolish their homes
- 1992 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Saucon Valley CC: Larry Laoretti wins by 4 strokes ahead of Jim Colbert for his lone professional victory
- 1992 Axl Rose arrested on riot charges in St Louis of Jul 2, 1991 concert
- 1993 7.8 earthquake hits Hokkaido Japan, 160 killed
Music Premiere
1993 Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Sunset Promenade" opens in London
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Album Release
1995 Enrique Iglesias releases his first album, "Enrique Iglesias"
Enrique Iglesias
Event of Interest
1996 Kirby Puckett retires from Minnesota Twins
Kirby Puckett
Contract of Interest
1996 Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million
Michael Jordan
- 1996 Start of 1st "Super 8's" tournament in Kuala Lumpur
- 1997 Cubs play in their 5,000th consecutive game without being no-hit
- 1997 Pirates Francisco Cordova & Ricardo Rincon no-hit Astros 3-0 in 10 inn
- 1998 FIFA World Cup Final, Stade de France, Saint-Denis: Zinadine Zidane scores twice as France wins first World Cup beating Brazil, 3-0
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1998 South African President Nelson Mandela accompanies Queen Elizabeth II on a coach drive through the streets of London
Nelson Mandela
Elizabeth II
- 1998 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC of Michigan: Gil Morgan wins his 3rd Champions Tour major title by 3 strokes from Hale Irwin
Film Premier
2002 Hindi film "Devdas" premieres directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and starring Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit (Best Film Filmfare Awards)
Aishwarya Rai
Shah Rukh Khan
- 2005 76th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-5 at Comerica Park, Detroit
- 2006 Hezbollah initiates Operation True Promise.
- 2008 Canadian harness racer John Campbell wins his 10,000th race as a driver by guiding 'Share the Delight' to victory in the 6th race at Meadowlands Racetrack
- 2009 US Open Women's Golf, Saucon Valley CC: Eun-Hee Ji of South Korea wins her lone major title, 1 stroke ahead of American runner-up Candie Kung
- 2011 82nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Chase Field, Phoenix
- 2012 200 people are killed by the Syrian army in Tremseh
- 2012 90-155 people are killed after an oil tanker crashes and explodes in Okogbe, Rivers State, Nigeria
- 2012 45th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
- 2013 8 people are killed after a commuter train derails in Paris
United Nations Speech
2013 Malala Yousafzai addresses the United Nations and calls for worldwide access to education
Malala Yousafzai
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
2015 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković successfully defends his title for 3rd Wimbledon crown; beats Roger Federer 7-6, 6-7, 6-4, 6-3
Novak Đoković
Roger Federer
- 2015 US Open Women's Golf, Lancaster CC: Chun In-gee of South Korea wins her first major title by 1 stroke from compatriot Amy Yang
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2016 Bernie Sanders endorses fellow Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a speech in New Hampshire
Bernie Sanders
Hillary Clinton
