- 524 Godomar, King of the Burgundians, defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce
Event of Interest
1307 Külüg Khan is enthroned as Emperor of China and seventh Great Khan after defeating rival factions and succeeding his uncle Temür Khan
Temür Khan
- 1498 Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian
Event of Interest
1529 Queen Catherine Of England [Catherine of Aragon] speaks against her marriage's annulment at the Blackfriars Legatine Court
Catherine of Aragon
Henry VIII
- 1529 Battle of Landriano: Imperial-Spanish forces under Don Antonio de Leyva, Duke of Terranova, beat a French army under Francis de Bourbon, Comte de St. Pol
- 1547 Great fire in Moscow, 2-3,000 killed
- 1572 Garrison under Adrian of Swieten conquers Gouda
- 1582 The Incident at Honnō-ji takes place in Kyoto, Japan
- 1607 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established at Jamestown
- 1661 Treaty of Kardis: Russia & Sweden sign peace treaty
- 1667 Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England
- 1672 Dutch pension advisor Johan de Witt seriously wounded
Event of Interest
1684 King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter
Charles II
- 1734 In Montreal, New France (Quebec), black slave Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony
- 1749 Pieter Steyn installed as pension advisor of Netherlands
- 1749 Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded
- 1768 1st medical diploma in America is granted to Dr John Archer from the College of Philadelphia
Constitution of the United States
1788 US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it
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- 1788 The population of Vizille, France, demands local parliament
- 1792 Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil & Mexicana off Vancouver, British Columbia
- 1805 Great Stone Face, or the Profile found in New Hampshire
- 1813 Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria
- 1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC)
- 1822 Slave revolt leaders Denmark Vesey and Peter Poyas arrested in South Carolina
- 1824 Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea
- 1826 Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas
Historic Invention
1834 American inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick patents the reaping machine
Cyrus McCormick
- 1849 Battle at Waghausel: Prussian troops beat Baden rebels
- 1854 First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands (Crimean War)
- 1858 Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe
- 1863 Battle at Upperville, Virginia, 389 casualities
- 1864 New Zealand Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends
- 1868 Wagner's opera "Meistersinger von Nuernberg" premieres in Munich
Event of Interest
1869 William James passes his medical examination
William James
- 1877 The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons
- 1879 Frank W. Woolworth opens his 1st successful "F. W. Woolworth Great Five Cent Store" on North Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- 1879 Infielder William White plays one game for the Providence Grays with conjecture was the first African-American to play MLB even though he appeared Caucasian
Event of Interest
1887 Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria
- 1893 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)
- 1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
- 1895 British Roseberry government falls
- 1898 US captures Guam from Spain during the Spanish-American War
- 1900 Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers
- 1900 In the Philippines, General Arthur McArthur, US military governor of the Philippines, issues an amnesty proclamation to those Filipinos who will renounce the insurgent movement and accept US sovereignty
- 1904 Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," 1st known reference to NY club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913)
Presidential Convention
1904 The US Republican Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for President, but not without opposition from those whom he calls 'malefactors of great wealth'
Theodore Roosevelt
- 1907 US Open Men's Golf, Philadelphia Cricket Club: Alec Ross of Scotland posts 4 sub-80 rounds to win his only major title, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Gilbert Nicholls
- 1907 E W Scripps founded United Press
- 1907 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: Frenchman Arnaud Massy wins by 2 strokes from J.H. Taylor; first non-Briton to win Open Championship
- 1913 Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane
- 1915 Anti-British revolt in South Africa ends with arrest of General De Law
- 1915 The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens
- 1916 Boston Rube Forster no-hits NY Yankees, 2-0
- 1916 Mexican troops defeat US expeditionary force under Gen. Pershing
- 1917 Hawaiian Red Cross forms
- 1919 Bauer forms German government
- 1919 The German Navy, feeling betrayed by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, scuttles most of its ships interned at Great Britain's Scapa Flow Naval base in the Orkney Islands
- 1921 HSC '21 soccer team forms in Haaksbergen
- 1921 The UK, the Dominions, and India, become the British Commonwealth of Nations
Event of Interest
1923 Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud
Marcus Garvey
- 1924 NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms
- 1930 Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7
- 1932 German champion Max Schmeling loses world heavyweight title in split points decision to Jack Sharkey in New York
- 1933 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans
- 1937 French People's front government-Blum falls
- 1938 Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit
Donald Bradman
Event of Interest
1939 NY Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement after doctors reveal he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Lou Gehrig
- 1940 German occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State
- 1940 The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia
- 1941 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria
- 1941 After winning 20 straight at Fenway, Lefty Grove loses to Browns
- 1942 129°F (54°C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record)
Event of Interest
1942 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrive in Washington, D.C.
Winston Churchill
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Erwin Rommel
- 1942 Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m)
- 1943 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit; 30 dead
- 1944 Very heavy bombing on Berlin
- 1945 US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa
- 1946 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas Texas
- 1946 Bill Veeck buys Indians for $2.2 million
- 1946 Federal judge in Seattle rules that club doesn't have to play returning serviceman
- 1948 1st stored computer program runs on Manchester Mark I at a laboratory in Manchester University, England
- 1948 33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced and 78's planned to be phased out (Dr Peter Goldmark-Columbia Records)
Event of Interest
1948 Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy)
Lord Mountbatten
Baseball Record
1950 Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit
Joe DiMaggio
- 1951 "17" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 180 performances
- 1951 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Whitemarsh Valley CC: Patty Berg defeats Pat O'Sullivan, 2-up in the final
- 1952 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Skokie CC: Betsy Rawls defeats Betty Jameson, 1 up in the final
- 1952 Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce; later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines
- 1954 John Landy runs world record mile (3:58.0)
Event of Interest
1955 Johnny Cash debuts Top 10 country song "Cry! Cry! Cry!"
Johnny Cash
Event of Interest
1957 Louis St. Laurent resigns as Prime Minister of Canada, ending the longest uninterrupted run at the federal level in Canadian history
Louis St. Laurent
- 1963 13th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Devil" and "Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai" win the Golden Bear (tie)
- 1964 Byron De La Beckwith arrested for the murder of civil rights activist Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later
- 1964 Phillies Jim Bunning pitches perfect game (Mets) on Fathers day, in 2nd game of DH, Mets get 3 hits, 3 being fewest hits in NL DH
- 1964 Three civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, disappear after being released from a Mississippi jail, later found murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan
- 1964 UEFA European Championship Final, Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid, Spain: Marcelino scores the winner as Spain beats Soviet Union, 2-1
US Golf Open
1965 US Open Men's Golf, Bellerive CC: Gary Player of South Africa beats Australian Kel Nagle by 3 strokes in an 18-hole playoff to win his only US Open title; completes his career Grand Slam at age 29
Gary Player
- 1966 Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam
Film Release
1966 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", directed by Mike Nichols and based on the 1962 play of the same name, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released (Academy Awards Best Actress 1967)
Virginia Woolf
Elizabeth Taylor
- 1967 Yanks take 5-3 lead in 11th & lose 6-5, in 2nd game Red Sox lead 3-2 in 9th & Yanks beat them 6-3
Event of Interest
1968 Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns
Earl Warren
Music Premiere
1969 Dmitri Shostakovich's 14th Symphony premieres in Moscow
Dmitri Shostakovich
FIFA World Cup
1970 FIFA World Cup Final, Estadio Azteca, Mexico City: Brazil and Pelé become first team and player to win World Cup 3 times, beating Italy, 4-1 in front of 107,412
Pele
- 1970 Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892
- 1971 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea Louisiana
- 1971 US Open Men's Golf, Merion GC: Lee Trevino wins his 2nd Open by 3 strokes in a Monday 18-hole playoff with Jack Nicklaus
- 1971 Indians Ken Harrelson retires from baseball to play pro golf
- 1971 International Court of Justice asks South Africa to pull out of Namibia
- 1974 24th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" wins the Golden Bear
Event of Interest
1975 Elton John, The Eagles and The Beach Boys play Wembley Stadium
Elton John
Event of Interest
1975 Ritchie Blackmore quits Deep Purple, forms Rainbow
Ritchie Blackmore
- 1975 Soyuz 19 returns to Earth
- 1975 Cricket World Cup, Lord's, London: Player of the Match Clive Lloyd scores 102 as West Indies beats Australia by 17 runs; first major limited overs One Day International (ODI) tournament
- 1975 Ruffian leads all the way to win the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont and clinch American thoroughbred racing's Triple Tiara for fillies
- 1976 Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy
- 1977 Former White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman enters prison
Event of Interest
1977 Menachem Begin (Likud) becomes Israel's 6th Prime Minister
Menachem Begin
- 1977 Bülent Ecevit forms a minority government in Turkey which lasts only 1 month
Music Premiere
1978 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical "Evita" premieres in London
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Tim Rice
- 1978 The British Army shoots dead 3 Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a passing Ulster Volunteer Force member at a postal depot on Ballysillan Road, Belfast; it is claimed that the PIRA volunteers were about to launch a bomb attack
- 1979 Sri Lanka beat Canada by 60 runs to win the 1st ICC Trophy
- 1981 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000
- 1981 US Open Men's Golf, Merion GC: David Graham wins his second major title and becomes the first Australian to win the US Open, 3 strokes ahead of runners-up George Burns and Bill Rogers
Event of Interest
1981 Don Fagan and Walter Becker quit rock group Steely Dan
Walter Becker
Donald Fagen
Event of Interest
1982 Paul McCartney releases "Take it Away"
Paul McCartney
Ronald Reagan is Shot
1982 John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity
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- 1983 Stephanie Kay Ashmore, of Alabama, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss
Event of Interest
1983 Tennis ace Arthur Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery
Arthur Ashe
- 1985 American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
- 1986 "Living on Video" by Trans-X peaks at #61
- 1986 "Vienna Calling" by Falco peaks at #18
- 1986 1985 Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson, signs 3-year contract to play baseball with the Kansas City Royals
- 1986 Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record)
Event of Interest
1986 President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments
Ronald Reagan
- 1987 US Open Men's Golf, Olympic Club: Scott Simpson passes and holds off 1982 champion Tom Watson on the Lake Course to win his only major title by 1 stroke
- 1987 Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vandenberg AFB
Event of Interest
1987 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendant
Mike Tyson
- 1988 42nd NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Detroit Pistons, 4 games to 3
- 1988 Many killed at demonstration against General Ne Win in Rangoon
- 1988 Rascals begin 1st tour in 20 years
- 1989 Carlton Fisk becomes AL catcher HR hitter, 307th at Yankee stadium
- 1989 Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression
Event of Interest
1989 Yankees trade Rickey Henderson to A's for Plunk, Cadaret & Polonia
Rickey Henderson
- 1990 7.7 Manjil-Rudbar Earthquake with hundreds of aftershocks hits Iran; killing about 50,000
- 1990 Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
- 1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham
- 1990 Parliaments of W & E Germany recognize Oder-Neissegrens
- 1990 US House of Representatives votes 254-177 to stop US flag burning, doesn't pass
- 1990 At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a NY Yankee baseball cap and proclaims "I am a Yankee!"
- 1991 Jirg Haider resigns as premier of Austrian province of Karinthia
Hall of Fame
1991 NY Islanders Denis Potvin and Mike Bossy are elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame
Denis Potvin
Mike Bossy
Event of Interest
1992 Last day of test cricket for Ian Botham and Allan Lamb
Ian Botham
Event of Interest
1994 German tennis superstar Steffi Graf becomes first defending champion to lose in the 1st round of a major tournament (Wimbledon to American Lorrie McNeal)
Steffi Graf
- 1997 "Defending the Caveman" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 671 performances
Event of Interest
1997 NHL Draft: Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL) center Joe Thornton first pick by Boston Bruins
Joe Thornton
- 1997 Women's National Basketball Association begins as NY Liberty beats LA Sparks
- 1998 US Open Men's Golf, Olympic Club, SF: Lee Janzen recovers from 7 stroke deficit to win his second Open title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Payne Stewart
- 1998 "Don't Be Cruel" 2nd studio album by Bobby Brown is released (Grammy Award Best Male R&B Vocal Performance 1990)
- 2000 Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote
- 2001 Total solar eclipse in Madagascar-Indian Ocean (4m56s)
- 2001 A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen
Event of Interest
2001 Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is the 1st Hispanic woman to be honored on a US postage stamp
Frida Kahlo
Boxing Title Fight
2002 Lennox Lewis retains boxing's WBC world Heavyweight crown with an eight round knockout over Mike Tyson
Lennox Lewis
Mike Tyson
Historic Publication
2003 "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" the 5th book of the series by J. K. Rowling is published worldwide in English
J. K. Rowling
- 2004 SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight
Album Release
2005 Billy Corgan releases "TheFutureEmbrace", his first solo album
Billy Corgan
