- 711 Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic
- 1195 Battle at Alarcos: Almohaden beats Alfons VIII of Castilia
- 1380 Thomas of Buckingham's invasion army lands on Calais
- 1425 Duke John VI of Brabant pledges Holland/Zealand to Philip the Good
- 1510 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin, Prussia
- 1524 Peasants' War begins in Germany's Black Forest
- 1525 Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau
- 1544 Italian War of 1542: The Siege of Boulogne begins
Event of Interest
1545 King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die
Henry VIII
Event of Interest
1569 Albert Frederick becomes Duke of Prussia
Albert Frederick
Event of Interest
1595 Astronomer Johannes Kepler has an epiphany and develops his theory of the geometrical basis of the universe while teaching in Graz
Johannes Kepler
Event of Interest
1674 Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes, Spinoza and Meyer
Thomas Hobbes
- 1688 Soldiers killed governor of Aerssen in Paramaribo
Salem Witch Trials
1692 5 more people are hanged for witchcraft (20 in all) in Salem, Massachusetts
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1836 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin arrives in Ascension Island
Charles Darwin
SS Great Britain
1843 The steamship SS Great Britain is launched, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, is the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and the largest vessel afloat in the world
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- 1845 Fire in NYC destroys 1,000 homes and kills many
Conference of Interest
1848 1st US women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Event of Interest
1867 US Congress passes 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto
Andrew Johnson
- 1867 Dutch Red Cross forms
Event of Interest
1869 Louis Riel speaks at a meeting of Metis residents about rights, setting in motion the events now referred to as the Red River Rebellion
Louis Riel
Event of Interest
1879 Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon
Doc Holliday
- 1880 San Francisco Public Library starts lending books
- 1884 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maud Watson becomes inaugural female champion by beating her sister Lillian Watson 6–8, 6–3, 6–3
- 1899 National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers forms
- 1900 Michel Théato wins 2nd olympics marathon (2:59:45.0-40,260k)
- 1902 NY Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw
- 1903 1st Tour de France: French rider Maurice Garin wins inaugural event
- 1904 Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber
- 1907 Under pressure from the Japanese, the Emperor of Korea abdicates in favor of his son, a figurehead
- 1908 Feyenoord soccer team forms in Rotterdam
- 1909 Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play
- 1912 A meteorite of estimated 190kg mass explodes over Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona, causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town
- 1913 Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs" Malinda's Wedding Day is #1
- 1914 Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in NL
- 1915 Dutch accidents at sea law enforced
- 1915 The Washington Senators set a MLB record 8 stolen bases in an innings (1st) in 11-4 win v Cleveland
- 1918 World War I: German armies retreat across Marne River in France
- 1918 Wash catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Secretary of War Newton D Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt
- 1919 Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall.
- 1922 American swimmer Johnny Weissmuller first to break 1 minute barrier for 100m freestyle; swims 58.6s at Alameda, CA
- 1923 WRC-AM in Washington, D.C. begins radio transmissions
- 1925 19th Tour de France won by Ottavio Bottecchia of Italy
- 1926 2nd French government of Herriot, forms
- 1928 King Fuad of Egypt siezes power and disbands parliament
- 1930 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Acacia CC: Lucia Mida beats June Beebe 6 & 5 to win the inaugural event and first women's major championship ever played
Historic Expedition
1930 Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould, and their polar expedition team return to the United States following the first exploration of the interior of Antarctica
Richard E. Byrd
- 1933 1st time in MLB 2 brothers on opposite teams hit homers in same game - Rick Ferrell (Red Sox) and Wes Ferrell (Cleveland Indians)
- 1936 Indians' Bob Feller makes his major league debut in relief
- 1936 Spanish premier Casares Quiroga succeeded by Jose Giral
- 1937 Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich
- 1937 Joris Ivens' "Spanish Earth" premieres in Hollywood
- 1939 Dr Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures
Event of Interest
1940 Adolf Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender
Adolf Hitler
Event of Interest
1941 BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) ("...-" in Morse code) (opening of Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th symphony)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Event of Interest
1941 British PM Winston Churchill launches his "V for Victory" campaign
Winston Churchill
Event of Interest
1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints the Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Event of Interest
1941 Tom and Jerry first appear under their own names in cartoon "The Midnight Snack" by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
Joseph Barbera
William Hanna
Music Premiere
1942 US première of Dmitri Shostakovich' 7th Symphony in NYC by the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini in a concert broadcast nationwide on NBC radio
Dmitri Shostakovich
- 1942 German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam and The Hague
- 1943 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II
- 1944 1,200+ 8th US Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany
- 1944 500 15th US Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity
- 1944 Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen
- 1944 Danish resistance fails in assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen
- 1944 Democratic convention opens in Chicago, goes on to nominate President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1944 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem
Event of Interest
1944 US general Omar Bradley flies to England
Omar Bradley
Meeting of Interest
1944 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann
- 1945 USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue
- 1947 Prime Minister of shadow Burma government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members assassinated by armed paramilitaries
- 1948 French government of Schuman resigns
- 1949 Laos becomes associated state within French Union
- 1950 French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh
- 1950 NY Yanks obtain their 1st black players, Elston Howard and Frank Barnes
- 1950 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Summi maeroris
- 1951 "2 in the Aisle" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 276 performances
- 1952 "Paint Your Wagon" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 289 performances
- 1952 XV Summer Olympic Games open in Helsinki, Finland
- 1952 Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford
- 1952 India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day
- 1952 39th Tour de France won by Fausto Coppi of Italy
- 1953 KIMA TV channel 29 in Yakima, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1953 WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1955 Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum
- 1955 Yarkon Water Project opens to supply water to Negev desert in Israel
- 1956 US refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
- 1957 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
- 1957 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
- 1958 "Oh, Captain!" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 192 performances
- 1958 45th Tour de France won by Charly Gaul of Luxembourg
- 1960 Italian government of Tambroni resigns
- 1960 SF Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies
- 1961 1st in-flight movie shown on TWA
- 1962 Hungarian communist party expels Rákosi & Gero
- 1963 NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km
- 1963 Philadelphia Phillies Roy Siever hits HR # 300
PGA Championship
1964 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Columbus CC: Bobby Nichols wins his only major title by 3 strokes from 'Big-2' Jack Nicklaus & Arnold Palmer; leads wire-to-wire
Jack Nicklaus
Arnold Palmer
- 1964 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
- 1966 France performs nuclear Test at Fangataufa Island
- 1966 Governor James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
- 1967 1st air conditioned NYC subway car (R-38 on the F line)
- 1967 Race riots in Durham, North Carolina
- 1967 US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)
Apollo 11 Bootprint
1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
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Event of Interest
1973 Willie Mays named to NL all star team for 24th time (ties Musial)
Willie Mays
- 1974 Cleveland Indian Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland A's, 4-0
Event of Interest
1974 David Bowie's "Diamond Dog" tour ends in NYC
David Bowie
- 1974 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 14 lands back on earth
- 1975 Apollo and Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate
- 1975 NY Yankee catcher Thurman Munson's 1st-inning single & RBI are nullified because tar on his bat handle exceeds 18" limit
- 1976 Rock group Deep Purple disbands
- 1976 Allman Brother's roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman's testimony
- 1976 Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
- 1977 48th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-5 at Yankee Stadium, NY
- 1977 All star MVP: Don Sutton (LA Dodgers)
- 1977 Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kill 76
- 1978 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- 1978 Yanks start 14 game comeback with 2-0 win
- 1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 tons of oil spill
- 1979 Maritza Sayalero, 18, of Venezuela, crowned 28th Miss Universe
- 1979 Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Anastasio Somoza Debayle
- 1979 Patricia Harris becomes sect of HEW
- 1980 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US and others boycott
- 1980 David Bowie appears in role of "Elephant Man" in Denver
- 1980 USSR's Walter Polovchak is placed in US custody at 12 after his asylum application
British Golf Open
1981 British Open Men's Golf, Royal St George's GC: American Bill Rogers wins his only major title, 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Bernhard Langer of Germany
Bernhard Langer
- 1981 68th Tour de France won by Bernard Hinault of France
- 1982 1st Old Timer's All star classic - AL wins 7-2 in Washington, D.C.
- 1982 Bolivian government resigns
- 1982 David S Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon
- 1982 1st annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot HR off Warren Spahn, AL beats NL 7-2
- 1983 The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
- 1984 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
- 1984 Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), wins Democratic VP nomination
- 1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen as 1st school teacher to fly aboard the space shuttle
- 1985 The Val di Stava Dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
- 1986 Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with
Boxing Title Fight
1986 Tim Witherspoon KOs Frank Bruno in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
Frank Bruno
- 1987 British Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Briton Nick Faldo wins his first major title, by 1 shot from Paul Azinger and Rodger Davis
- 1987 Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games
- 1989 NFL owners vote unanimously to form World League of American Football - operated 1991-2007
Event of Interest
1989 Cleveland Indians Joe Carter has his 4th 3 HR game
Joe Carter
- 1990 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, California
Event of Interest
1990 Dave Raghetti pitches in his 499th game as a NY Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most appearances as a NY Yankee
Whitey Ford
Event of Interest
1991 Cal Ripken plays in his 1,500th consecutive game
Cal Ripken Jr
Event of Interest
1991 Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant (Desiree Washington)
Mike Tyson
- 1991 With NY Yankee victory, 10 of 14 AL teams are at .500 or better
- 1992 "Price" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 47 performances
- 1992 30th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1)
- 1992 NYC ballet dancer Peter Martins is arrested for beating his wife
- 1992 Ebony P Warren, crowned 24th Miss Black America
- 1992 British Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Englishman Nick Faldo wins his 3rd Open title, by 1 stroke from American John Cook
Federation Cup
1992 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Frankfurt, Germany: Germany wins 2nd title with 2-1 win over Spain; Steffi Graf clinches final 6-4, 6-2 against Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Steffi Graf
- 1993 Glen Chapple (Lancs) scores fastest F-C century, 21 minutes
Event of Interest
1993 Last day of 1st-class cricket for Ian Botham
Ian Botham
Event of Interest
1993 President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions
Bill Clinton
- 1994 1st game ever cancelled at Seattle Kingdome (falling tiles)
- 1994 Bomb explosion in Alas Airlines at Colon Panama, 21 killed
- 1994 Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president
- 1996 Jason Gallian scores 312 in 683 mins for Lancashire v Derbyshire
- 1996 26th Olympic Games open in Atlanta, Georgia
- 1998 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: Mark O'Meara wins his 2nd major championship of the year (Masters) and first Open title by 2 in a 4-hole aggregate playoff with fellow American Brian Watts
- 2001 Michael Brunet discovers the skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis in the Djurab Desert, Chad. One of the oldest known species in the human family tree, 6-7 million years ago years old
- 2001 34th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
Event of Interest
2007 TV drama "Mad Men" debuts starring Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss and Vincent Kartheiser on cable network AMC
Jon Hamm
Elisabeth Moss
- 2009 British Open Men's Golf, Turnberry: American Stewart Cink wins his only major championship by 6 strokes in a 4-hole playoff with 5-time champion Tom Watson
- 2009 The Wesley Impact: black spot the size of Earth discovered on Jupiter after unknown object crashed onto the planet
