Historic Event
1625 Prince Frederick Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand
- 1633 Prince Frederick Henry conquers fort Rhine at Cologne
- 1676 Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch and Spanish fleet
- 1697 August, Elector of Saxony becomes Catholic
- 1746 Russia and Austria sign agreements
- 1763 Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort
Music History
1771 "Armida", an operatic 'dramma per musica' by Antonio Salieri debuts at the Vienna Burgtheater
- 1774 Intolerable Acts: Amendment to original Quartering Act enacted, allows governors in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters not provided
- 1780 Anti-Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London
- 1797 Surveyor Charles Brodhead achieves the 1st ascent of Giant Mountain (4,626 feet) in Adirondack, New York, the 1st of any Adirondack High Peak [1]
- 1834 5th national black convention meets (NYC)
Historic Event
1835 P. T. Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US
Historic Event
1862 Robert E. Lee takes command of Confederate armies of North Virginia during the American Civil War
- 1862 Raid at Early's: Maryland towards Washington, D.C.
Historic Event
1863 Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves
- 1864 Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2
- 1865 At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders Trans-Mississippi Dept
- 1866 Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces
- 1869 Cleveland's Forest City play their 1st game (vs Cincinnati Red Stockings)
- 1873 Construction begins on Clay St (San Francisco) for world's 1st cable railroad
- 1875 James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US
Historic Event
1875 Alexander Graham Bell makes first sound transmission
- 1876 Hristo Botev, a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary, is killed in Stara Planina
- 1881 Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens
- 1882 Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris
- 1883 1st night baseball under lights, Fort Wayne Indiana
- 1883 Chicago's "El" opens to traffic
- 1896 30th Belmont: Henry Griffin aboard Hastings wins in 2:24.5
Historic Invention
1896 Italian engineer and inventor Guglielmo Marconi applies for the first ever patent for a system of wireless telegraphy in the United Kingdom
Appointment of Interest
1902 British naval officer David Beatty is appointed captain of the cruiser HMS Juno
- 1904 Professor Schron finds microbe that causes photosynthesis
- 1908 33rd Preakness: Eddie Dugan riding Royal Tourist wins in 1:46.4
- 1909 43rd Belmont: Eddie Dugan riding Joe Madden wins in 2:21.6
- 1909 Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time
- 1910 1st roundtrip flight over English Channel (C S Rolls, England)
- 1910 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
- 1913 1st strike settlement mediated by US Department of Labor - railroad clerks
- 1913 Demonstrations for general voting right in Netherlands
- 1914 Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome
- 1916 Battle of Verdun: German troops, under Lt Rackow, launch attack on Fort Vaux with flamethrowers, forcing French defenders inside. The fort changes hand 16 times during the entire Battle of Verdun.
Historic Event
1917 Canadian ace Billy Bishop undertakes a solo mission behind enemy lines, shooting down three aircraft as they were about to take off and several more on the ground, for which he is awarded the Victoria Cross
- 1919 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)
Historic Event
1920 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon)
- 1922 Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances
Historic Event
1924 President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act (also known as Snyder Act), declaring all Native Americans to be American citizens [1]
Historic Event
1932 German Chancellor Franz von Papen forms his "Cabinet of the Barons"
- 1932 Fisherman George W. Perry catches the world record largemouth bass, weighing in at 22 pounds, 4 ounces, at Lake Montgomery, Georgia
- 1933 WNJ-AM in Newark NJ goes off the air
- 1934 French Championships Men's Tennis: Gottfried von Cramm of Germany wins 1st of 2 French titles; beats Australian Jack Crawford 6-4, 7-9, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3
- 1934 French Championship Women's Tennis: England's defending champion Margaret Scriven beats American Helen Jacobs 7-5, 4-6, 6-1
- 1935 French Championships Men's Tennis: Englishman Fred Perry wins his only French title, beating Gottfried von Cramm of Germany 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3
- 1935 40th Women's French Championships: Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling beats Simonne Mathieu (6-2, 6-1)
- 1936 General Anastasio Somoza García takes over as dictator of Nicaragua
Miracle of Dunkirk
1940 Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach
Sports History
1942 Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a US Navy aviator
Historic Event
1944 Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bernard Montgomery dine in Portsmouth, England
- 1944 Herzogenbusch concentration camp near Vught, Netherlands, is disbanded by Allied forces, one of two SS-run camps outside Germany
- 1946 Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)
- 1947 Monte Carlo and Alma Sanders' musical "Louisiana Lady" opens at Century Theater, NYC; runs for 4 performances
- 1947 Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns
- 1950 St Louis Browns pitcher Harry Dorish swipes home vs Washington Senators
Royal Coronation
1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London, England
Historic Event
1957 US TV interviews Nikita Khrushchev
- 1958 Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio
Sports History
1958 Brooks Robinson hits into 1st of record 4 triple plays
Baseball Record
1958 Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record
Historic Event
1959 Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid", San Francisco
- 1960 Broadway theaters close (labor dispute between owners & Actors Equity)
French Open Men's Tennis
1962 French Championships Men's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 9-7, 6-2; 2nd leg of Laver's 1st Grand Slam
- 1962 French Championships Women's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Margaret Smith beats doubles partner Lesley Turner 6-3, 3-6, 7-5
#1 in the Charts
1962 Ray Charles' cover of Don Gibson's "I Can't Stop Loving You", from his influential crossover album "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music" hits #1 on Billboard
- 1964 "Folies Bergère" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances
- 1965 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges River, India)
- 1966 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
- 1967 Race riots in Roxbury suburb of Boston
- 1967 Capitol Records releases The Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in the US; it is their first album with identical track listings in US and UK, and goes to number one for 15 weeks in US, 22 weeks in UK
- 1968 Canadians must get government permission to export silver
- 1968 WBLG (now WTVQ) TV channel 62 in Lexington, KY (ABC) 1st broadcast
- 1969 Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne slices US destroyer USS Frank E Evans in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)
- 1971 European Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London: Ajax beats Panathinaikos, 2-0; Dutch champions begin 3-year period of domination
- 1972 Two British soldiers die in an IRA land mine attack near Rosslea, County Fermanagh
- 1973 "Nash at Nine" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 21 performances
French Open Women's Tennis
1973 French Open Women's Tennis: Margaret Court of Australia beats American teenager Chris Evert 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 for her 5th and last French singles crown
- 1974 Mali adopts constitution
- 1974 Malta's constitution goes into effect
- 1975 First recorded snowfall in London in June
- 1975 James A Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)
- 1975 VP Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA
- 1976 East Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation by Indonesia
- 1977 New Jersey allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
Album Release
1978 Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen fourth studio album "Darkness on the Edge of Town"
Papal Visit
1979 John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a Communist country (Poland)
- 1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-198
Historic Event
1979 Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley signs first homosexual rights bill
- 1980 "Your Arm's Too Short To Box With God" opens at Ambassador NYC for 149 performances
Film & TV History
1981 Barbara Walters famously asks Katharine Hepburn “If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?”
- 1982 "Blues in the Night" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 53 performances
- 1983 1980 movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" released in Germany
- 1983 Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati
- 1984 "Welcome To Fun Zone" hosted by Dr Demento airs on NBC-TV
- 1984 Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy
- 1984 Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines
LPGA Championship
1985 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: Nancy Lopez wins by 8 shots from fellow American Alice Miller
Sports History
1987 Mariners draft Ken Griffey Jr. #1
Film Premiere
1989 "Dead Poets Society" film starring Robin Williams premieres
Goddess of Democracy
1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, protecting students demonstrating for democracy
- 1990 "Turtle Power" by Partners In Kryme hits #13
- 1990 Seattle's Randy Johnson, no-hits Tigers, 2-0
- 1991 45th Tony Awards: "Lost in Yonkers" & "Will Rogers Follies" win
- 1991 4th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
- 1991 Seppo Raty of Finland improves his world javelin record to 318' 1"
- 1991 Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin
Sports History
1992 Former NFL NY Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgery
- 1992 Wilson Phillips release their second album "Shadows & Light"
Music Concert
1992 Ringo Starr's second All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include Joe Walsh, Dave Edmunds, Todd Rundgren, Burton Cummings, Timothy B. Schmit, Zak Starkey, and Timmy Capello
Film & TV History
1994 Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List"
US Women's Golf Open
1996 US Open Women's Golf, Pine Needles GC: Annika Sörenstam retains her title by 6 shots from Kris Tschetter
Historic Event
1997 Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168
Television Debut
2002 Crime drama "The Wire" created by David Simon and starring Idris Elba and Dominic West debuts on HBO
- 2003 Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.
Film & TV History
2004 Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated television game show "Jeopardy!"
- 2009 Switzerland officially enters the global recession
- 2014 The unity government is sworn into power in Palestine; it agrees to the following: recognition of Israel, compliance to diplomatic agreements, renunciation of violence
- 2014 Former Liberation Front guerilla fighter Salvador Sánchez Cerén, 69, is sworn in as president in El Salvador
- 2014 Telangana with Hyderabad as it's capital becomes India's 29th state after it is separated from Andhra Pradesh
- 2015 US Congress passes new legislation to reform National Security Agency procedures, restricting gathering of phone records
- 2015 FIFA President Sepp Blatter announces his resignation, 5 days after his re-election, amid FIFA's involvement in a bribery scandal
- 2015 100 volunteers in Bhutan set a world record for tree planting - 49,672 in 1 hour
- 2017 "Wonder Woman" directed by Patty Jenkins released, earns over $100 million in North American in its opening weekend - domestic record for a female director
Historic Event
2018 Socialist Pedro Sánchez is sworn in as Spanish Prime Minister
- 2019 US Open Women's Golf, CC of Charleston: Lee Jeong-eun of South Korea wins her first major title; beats runners-up Lexi Thompson, Agel Yin and Ryu So-yeon by 2 strokes
- 2020 New outbreak of Ebola has killed five people in city of Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo
- 2020 Brazilian death toll passes 30,000 from COVID-19 at 31,199 with 555,383 number of cases confirmed, 2nd only to the US
Historic Event
2020 UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet says pandemic exposing "endemic inequalities" around the world, cites death of George Floyd and higher death toll for ethnic minorities
- 2020 UK death toll from COVID-19 passes 50,000 (50,032) according to its Office of National Statistics
- 2022 Queen Elizabeth II marks her Platinum Jubilee with four days of celebrations starting with a military parade at Buckingham Palace [1]
Film & TV History
2022 Jury in defamation case brought by Johnny Depp against ex-wife Amber Heard awards Depp $15 million in damages and compensation and Heard $2 million in damages in Fairfax, Virginia [1]
