- 1124 Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders
- 1438 King Charles VII issues the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges stating that a General Church Council with superior power to the Pope must be held every 10 years
Event of Interest
1456 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death
Joan of Arc
Victory in Battle
1520 Battle of Otumba, Mexico: Hernán Cortés and the Tlaxcalans defeat a numerically superior Aztec force
Hernán Cortés
- 1534 European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick
- 1543 French troops invade Luxembourg
- 1550 Traditional date Chocolate thought to have been introduced to Europe
- 1585 King Henri III and Duke De Guise signs Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots lose all freedoms
- 1647 People's uprising against high prices and Spanish rule in Naples
Event of Interest
1668 Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
Isaac Newton
Music Premiere
1713 1st performance of George Frideric Handel's "Te Deum" & "Jubilate"
George Frideric Handel
- 1753 British parliament grants Jews citizenship
- 1754 Kings College in NYC opens (renamed Columbia College)
- 1768 Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel
- 1777 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton
- 1798 Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war'
- 1799 Ranjit Singh's men take up their positions outside Lahore
- 1801 Toussaint L'Ouverture declares Haitian independence
- 1802 1st comic book "The Wasp" is published in Hudson, New York criticizing Republican politicians
Napoleon Meets the Tsar
1807 First Treaty of Tilsit signed by Napoleon I of France, and Alexander I of Russia
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- 1814 Walter Scott's "Waverley" published
- 1838 Central American federation is dissolved
- 1850 Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, Western Australia
- 1861 Battle of Laurel Hill, Virginia
- 1862 Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land
- 1863 1st military draft by US (exemptions cost $100)
Event of Interest
1863 Orders barring Jews from serving under US General Ulysses S. Grant are revoked
Ulysses S. Grant
Event of Interest
1875 Jesse James robs train in Otterville, Missouri
Jesse James
- 1876 Hamburg massacre: white farmers attack a black militia in Hamburg, South Carolina with 7 killed
- 1878 Social-Democratic United forms in Amsterdam
- 1887 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: 3-time runner-up Herbert Lawford wins his only Wimbledon title beating Ernest Renshaw 1-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
- 1890 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Irishman Willoughby Hamilton wins his only Wimbledon title beating 7-time champion William Renshaw 6-8, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, 6-1
- 1891 Marcellus F. Berry, an American Express employee is granted four copyrights for what he called "the travelers cheque"
- 1892 Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established leading to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia
- 1892 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Bingley-Hillyard for a 4th time in a Wimbledon final 6-1, 6-1
- 1898 US President McKinley signs the Organic Act to annex Hawaii
- 1900 Boston Beaneaters pitcher Kid Nichols notches his 300th career MLB victory with an 11-4 win over Chicago Orphans
- 1905 127°F (53°C), Parker Ariz (state record)
Great White Fleet
1908 Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay
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Presidential Convention
1908 The Democratic Party meets in Denver at the start of their convention; William Jennings Bryan is nominated as presidential nominee
William Jennings Bryan
- 1911 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Dorothea Chambers becomes first player not to concede a game in a final beating Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0
Olympic Gold
1912 American athlete Jim Thorpe wins 4 of 5 events to win the Pentathlon gold medal at the Stockholm Olympics, medal stripped 1913 (played pro baseball), reinstated 1982
Jim Thorpe
Event of Interest
1914 Baltimore Orioles owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore & Ben Egan for $10k to Connie Mack (Philadelphia A's), refuses pleading poverty
Connie Mack
- 1915 A Great Gorge and International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15
- 1916 The New Zealand Labour party is formed
- 1919 Philadelphia Phillies tie MLB record of 8 steals in an innings (9th) in a 10-5 loss vs NY Giants
- 1919 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: In the first all-Australian final Gerald Patterson beats Norman Brookes 6-3, 7-5, 6-2
- 1923 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bill Johnston beats fellow American Frank Hunter 6-0, 6-3, 6-1 for his only Wimbledon title
- 1923 Cleveland Indians set an AL record 27 runs including 13 in the 6th in 27-3 win v Boston Red Sox
- 1923 University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)
- 1924 American Robert LeGendre sets then long jump world record at 25' 5½" in Paris, France
- 1928 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Helen Moody wins 2nd of 4 consecutive Wimbledon singles titles beating Lilí Álvarez 6-2, 6-3
- 1928 American Edward Hamm sets then long jump world record at 25' 11" at Cambridge, Massachusetts
Historic Invention
1928 Sliced bread sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company, Missouri, using a machine invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder. Described as the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped.
Otto Frederick Rohwedder
- 1929 Romania & Vatican sign concord
Herbert Hoover
Event of Interest
1932 Australian cricket batsman supreme Don Bradman scores a double century during a Goodwill Tour in Montreal, Canada
Donald Bradman
- 1933 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Australian Jack Crawford wins his only Wimbledon singles title beating American Ellsworth Vines 4-6, 11-9, 6-2, 2-6, 6-4
- 1934 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Dorothy Round Little of England beats American Helen Jacobs 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 for her first Wimbledon singles title
- 1936 4th MLB All Star Game, Braves Field, Boston: After losing the first 3 AS Games, NL wins 4-3, 4 different Cubs players score the runs
- 1936 RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show and monologue from Tobacco Road & comedy)
Event of Interest
1937 5th MLB All Star Game, Griffin Stadium, Washington: AL wins 8-3, Lou Gehrig drives in 4 runs with HR & double
Lou Gehrig
- 1937 Japanese and Chinese troops clash at the Marco Polo Bridge, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
1939 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bobby Riggs beats fellow American Elwood Cooke 2-6, 8-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 for Wimbledon sweep, also won doubles & mixed doubles titles
Bobby Riggs
- 1939 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: In the last Open played for 7 years, due to WWII, England's Dick Burton wins by 2 strokes from American Johnny Bulla
- 1939 "The Rules of the Game", French film directed by Jean Renoir, starring Nora Gregor and Paulette Dubost, premieres in Paris
- 1941 Nazis execute 5,000 Jews in Kovono, Lithuania
- 1941 US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
- 1941 World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops
- 1942 Germany troop march into Woronezj
- 1942 Milt all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all stars 5-0
Knighthood
1942 John Maynard Keynes takes his seat in the British House Of Lords as Baron Keynes of Tilton after being knighted
John Maynard Keynes
Event of Interest
1943 -10] Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java
Hideki Tojo
- 1943 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova
- 1943 Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk
- 1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-517
- 1943 German Submarine U-951 sunk by depth charges, off Cape St. Vincent in the North Atlantic
- 1944 RAF Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France
- 1944 Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan
- 1946 Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
- 1947 Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident
- 1948 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular US Navy
- 1948 Cleveland Indians stun MLB by signing 42 year old veteran Negro Leagues pitcher Satchel Paige
- 1949 "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" opens at Broadway NYC for 76 performances
- 1949 "Dragnet" premieres on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 & 1967
- 1950 Korean War: UN Security Council establishes the United Nations Command to combat North Korean forces
- 1950 1st Farnborough airshow held
- 1950 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: American Budge Patty wins his only Wimbledon singles title 6-1, 8-10, 6-2, 6-3 over Australian Frank Sedgman
- 1950 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Troon: Bobby Locke of South Africa retains title by 2 strokes from Roberto De Vicenzo of Argentina
- 1951 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Doris Hart outclasses fellow American Shirley Fry 6-1, 6-0 for her only Wimbledon singles title
- 1952 SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40
- 1953 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Birmingham CC: Walter Burkemo wins 2 & 1 from Felize Torza in the Tuesday final; his lone major title
Event of Interest
1953 Che Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador
Che Guevara
- 1954 Formation of the TANU party (Tanganyika African National Union ) in Tanzania
- 1956 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: American Shirley Fry beats Angela Buxton of England 6-3, 6-1 for her only Wimbledon singles title
- 1956 Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres
- 1956 Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
Television Premiere
1956 "Hancock's Half Hour" premieres as a TV show starring Tony Hancock and Sid James, written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson
Tony Hancock
Event of Interest
1958 President Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1958 William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows NY
Event of Interest
1959 26th MLB All Star Game, Forbes Field, Pittsburgh: Willy Mays triples to score Hank Aaron as NL wins 5-4
Hank Aaron
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
1961 75th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Rod Laver of Australia beats American Chuck McKinley 6-3, 6-1, 6-4 for his 1st of 4 Wimbledon singles titles
Rod Laver
Chuck McKinley
- 1961 James R Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters
- 1962 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: American Karen Susman beats Věra Suková of Czechoslovakia 6-4, 6-4 for her only Grand Slam singles title
- 1962 Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 American thoroughbred races
- 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1964 35th MLB All Star Game, Shea Stadium, New York: NL wins 7-4 on the back of Johnny Callison's 3-run 9th inning homer
Music Recording
1965 Otis Redding records "Respect"
Otis Redding
Event of Interest
1966 Obscenity ban for "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs overturned by the Massachusetts Supreme Court after testimony by Allen Ginsberg and Norman Mailer
US Women's Golf Open
1968 US Open Women's Golf, Moselem Springs GC: Susie Maxwell Berning beats Mickey Wright by 3 strokes
Mickey Wright
- 1968 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- 1968 Rock group "Yardbirds" disband
- 1969 Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English language
- 1969 German newspaper Der Spiegel reveals Bishop Defregger of Munich is a war criminal
- 1971 MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn announces that Negro League players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame to be given full membership in the Museum
- 1972 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley & Joanne E Pierce)
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
1972 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King earns her 8th Grand Slam singles title beating Evonne Goolagong of Australia 6-3, 6-3
Billie Jean King
- 1972 Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage
- 1972 Secret Talks Between IRA and British Government: Gerry Adams is part of a delegation to London for talks with the British Government
- 1972 7 people are killed in separate incidents across Northern Ireland
- 1973 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India)
- 1973 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert 6-0, 7-5 for her 10th career Grand Slam singles title
- 1973 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Czech Jan Kodeš beats Alex Metreveli of Russia 6-1, 9-8, 6-3 for his 3rd Grand Slam singles success
- 1973 All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels
- 1973 Shoelace Park in the Bronx named
- 1974 Milwaukee's Don Money sets MLB record for consecutive errorless games at 3rd base (78) in Brewers 8-5 win v Twins
- 1974 FIFA World Cup Final, Olympiastadion, Munich, Germany: Striker Gerd Müller scores 43rd minute winner as West Germany beats the Netherlands, 2-1
- 1974 New Zealand imposes a blanket ban on sports teams from South Africa
- 1975 TV soap opera "Ryan's Hope" premieres
- 1976 119 women joined the Corps of Cadets, establishing the first class of women in the US Military Academy at West Point
- 1976 Lt General Vernon A Walters, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA; succeeded by E Henry Knoche
- 1977 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City
Film Premier
1977 "The Spy Who Loved Me", 10th James Bond film starring Roger Moore and Barbara Bach, premieres in London
Barbara Bach
Roger Moore
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
1978 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova wins her first Grand Slam singles title beating Chris Evert 2-6, 6-4, 7-5
Martina Navratilova
Chris Evert
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
1979 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Björn Borg beats American Roscoe Tanner 6-7, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 for his 4th consecutive Wimbledon title
Björn Borg
Roscoe Tanner
Boxing Title Fight
1980 American boxer Larry Holmes scores a 7th round TKO of Scott LeDoux in Bloomington, Minnesota in defence of his WBC heavyweight title
Larry Holmes
- 1980 Shawn Weatherly, of USA, crowned 29th Miss Universe
- 1980 Jineane Ford of Arizona replaces Shawn Weatherly (Miss Universe) as the 29th Miss USA
- 1980 Institution of Sharia law in Iran
- 1980 The Safra massacre in Lebanon
- 1981 The solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, successfully completes a 163 mile flight across the English Channel
- 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court
Event of Interest
1981 England cricket captain Ian Botham resigned after no wins in 12 matches under his reign and a pair in the 2nd Test v Australia at Lord's
Ian Botham
- 1982 English athlete David Moorcroft beats Kenyan Henry Rono's 5000m world record by nearly 5 seconds, 13:00.41 in Oslo, Norway
- 1983 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR
- 1984 5 die in a train crash in Williston, Vermont
- 1984 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert 7-6, 6-2 for her 26th Grand Slam title
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
1985 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Boris Becker beats South African Kevin Curren 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 to become the youngest man (17) to win a Wimbledon singles title
Boris Becker
- 1986 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released
Event of Interest
1986 It is reported that Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction
Boy George
Event of Interest
1986 Soviet General and spy for the US Dmitri Polyakov arrested in retirement in Russia (executed 1988)
Dmitri Polyakov
- 1986 American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets world heptathlon record of 7,148 points in the inaugural Goodwill Games at Moscow
- 1987 Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women
- 1987 Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North begins public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing
- 1988 Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful)
- 1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1988 Five prominent anti-apartheid activists are released in Cape Town, South Africa after being detained for up to two years under the Internal Security Act
- 1990 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova wins her record 9th Wimbledon singles title beating American Zina Garrison 6-4, 6-1
- 1990 New Jersey Devils sign star Russian defensemen Viacheslav Fetisov & Sergei Starikov to NHL contracts despite criticism they are taking North American jobs
Music Concert
1990 First Three Tenors concert featuring Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti at Baths of Caracalla in Rome - recording of is world's best-selling classical record
Luciano Pavarotti
- 1991 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: In the first ever all-German final Michael Stich beats Boris Becker 6-4, 7-6, 6-4
- 1992 South Africa beats Cameroon 1-0 in Durban in first FIFA sanctioned match after nearly 20 years international isolation, apartheid
Event of Interest
1992 After undergoing the traditional five-year waiting procedure, Czech tennis star Ivan Lendl officially becomes a US citizen
Ivan Lendl
- 1993 Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia
- 1993 Lenny Dykstra hits bases loaded 2-run double to end Phillies 7, LA Dodgers 6 in 20 innings in Philadelphia
- 1993 Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers
- 1994 North Yemenite troops occupy Aden
- 1995 Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL home game (vs BC Lions)
- 1995 Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), lands
- 1996 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Richard Krajicek becomes first Dutchman to win a Grand Slam singles title beating American MaliVai Washington 6-3, 6-4, 6-3
US Senior Golf Open
1996 US Open Senior Golf, Canterbury GC: Dave Stockton wins by 2 strokes from Hale Irwin for his 3rd Champions Tour major title
Dave Stockton
- 1996 Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), lands
Event of Interest
1996 Nelson Mandela steps down as President of South Africa
Nelson Mandela
- 1997 Tower, Minnesota temperature dips to 24°F
- 1998 69th MLB All Star Game, Coors Field, Denver: In the highest scoring AS Game in history, AL wins 13-8
- 2001 Australian cricketer Karen Rolton smashes an unbeaten 209 to set a new world record for highest score in a women's Test in Australia's 9 wicket win v England at Headingley
- 2001 In his first appearance at Daytona since the death of father Dale Earnhardt Sr., Dale Jr. wins Pepsi 400 coming from 7th with 9 laps remaining to beat teammate Michael Waltrip
- 2002 A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, supposed European Al Qaeda leader
- 2002 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Lleyton Hewitt of Australia wins his only Wimbledon singles title beating David Nalbandian of Argentina 6-1, 6-3, 6-2
- 2002 US Open Women's Golf, Prairie Dunes CC: Juli Inkster wins her second US title, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Annika Sörenstam; Inkster's 7th and final major victory
- 2003 Tour de France: After 2nd stage, Australians are in possession of both yellow & green jerseys for the first time, Brad McGee overall leader & Robbie McEwen sprint leader
- 2003 The United Communist Party of Armenia is formed
- 2003 US Open Women's Golf, Pumpkin Ridge GC: Hilary Lunke wins in a playoff with Kelly Robbins & Angela Stanford for her only career LPGA tournament victory
