- 350 Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
- 1098 After 5-month siege in First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch (now in modernTurkey)
- 1140 French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy
- 1326 Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark
- 1357 Peace of Ath signed (in modern Belgium), settles Brabant succession
Hernando de Soto's Expedition lands in Florida
1539 Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain
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1540 Hernando de Soto crosses the Appalachian Mountains, 1st European to do so
Hernando de Soto
- 1620 Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
- 1621 Dutch West India Company (WIC) receives charter for The West Indies (The Americas, Caribbean and West Africa)
- 1658 Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France
- 1665 Duke of York (future James II) defeats Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft
- 1748 Amsterdam establishes municipal postal service
- 1752 Moscow houses and churches destroyed by fire
- 1770 Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in California
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1781 Jack Jouett rides to warn Thomas Jefferson of British attack
Thomas Jefferson
- 1784 US army officially established by Congress of the Confederation
- 1789 Explorer Alexander Mackenzie sets out on his first expedition to the Pacific from Fort Chipewyan (finds the Arctic Ocean instead)
- 1818 Maratha Wars between British and Maratha Confederacy in India ends
- 1833 4th national black convention meets (Philadelphia)
- 1851 1st baseball uniforms worn when the NY Knickerbockers wear a uniform of straw hats, white shirts and blue long trousers
- 1856 Cullen Whipple patents a machine for making screws
- 1860 Comanche, Iowa, completely destroyed by one of a series of tornadoes
- 1861 1st American Civil War land battle: Union forces defeat the Confederacy at Philippi in modern-day West Virginia
Victory in Battle
1864 General Robert E. Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor
Robert E. Lee
Event of Interest
1871 Jesse James & his gang robs Obocock Bank (Corydon Iowa), of $15,000
Jesse James
Event of Interest
1896 British naval officer David Beatty is seconded to the Egyptian government and appointed second in command of the river flotilla
David Beatty
Event of Interest
1899 W. G. Grace's last day of Test cricket aged 50 yrs 320 days
W. G. Grace
- 1906 Belgian King Leopold II claims Congo as his private possession
- 1907 Centro Escolar University is established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in Manila, Philippines
- 1911 "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" record by Fred Fisher and Alfred Bryan, sung by Ada Jones and Billy Murray hits #1
- 1913 Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws
- 1915 Austro-German forces recapture Przemysl, a crucial city in southeastern Poland, and the entire Russian front begins to collapse
- 1916 US National Defense Act establishes Reserve Officers Training Corps
- 1918 US Supreme Court in Hammer v. Dagenhart rules child labor laws unconstitutional
- 1919 Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) - first insurance company organized by African Americans formed
- 1921 A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado
- 1924 Gila Wilderness Area established by US Forest Service
Baseball Record
1925 Eddie Collins, is 6th to get 3,000 hits
Eddie Collins
- 1925 Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" makes the first with an enclosed cabin
- 1929 1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center (electric light)
- 1929 Chile and Peru sign the Treaty of Lima, finally resolving their border dispute from the War of the Pacific (1879–83). Chile keeps Arica and Peru regains Tacna.
- 1929 French Championships Men's Tennis: René Lacoste wins his 3rd French title, beating fellow Frenchman Jean Borotra 6-3, 2-6, 6-0, 2-6, 8-6
French Open Women's Tennis
1929 French Championship Women's Tennis: Defending champion Helen Wills Moody beats Simonne Mathieu 6-3, 6-4
Helen Wills Moody
Baseball Record
1932 MLBs Lou Gehrig is 1st to hit 4 consecutive HRs; Yanks beat A's 20-13
Lou Gehrig
Event of Interest
1932 Paul von Hindenburg disbands German Parliament
Paul von Hindenburg
- 1933 A's score 11 runs in 2nd, Yanks score 10 in 5th & win 17-11
- 1933 Pope Pius XI encyclical "On oppression of the Church in Spain"
- 1935 French liner SS Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of four days, three hours and 14 minutes on her maiden voyage
- 1935 One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario
- 1937 Josh Gibson HR's just 2 feet below rim of Yankee Stadium (580' drive)
- 1938 German law on "Entartete Art" legalizes art robbery
- 1939 71st Belmont: James Stout riding Johnstown wins in 2:29.6
- 1939 Beer Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Will Glahe
- 1940 Last British and French troops evacuated from Dunkirk
- 1941 Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol
- 1941 German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports
- 1943 United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration forms
- 1943 A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots
- 1944 76th Belmont: G L Smith riding Bounding Home wins in 2:32.2
- 1944 Generals Giraud & de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution
- 1944 Nazis pull out of Rome
- 1946 1st bikini bathing suit displayed (Paris)
- 1946 International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals
Event of Interest
1947 British Viceroy of India Lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan
Lord Mountbatten
- 1948 The musical "Sleepy Hollow" opens at St James Theater NYC for 12 performances
- 1948 200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory
- 1948 Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore
- 1949 1st African American to graduate from US Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown)
- 1949 Dragnet is 1st broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles)
- 1949 GN Clark becomes 1st female US treasurer
- 1950 French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal
- 1950 French Championships Men's Tennis: Budge Patty wins first of 2 Grand Sam titles that year; beats Jaroslav Drobný 6-1, 6-2, 3-6, 5-7, 7-5
- 1950 French Championships Women's Tennis: Doris Hart beats fellow American Patricia Todd 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 for her 1st of 2 French singles titles
- 1951 50th Men's French Championships: Jaroslav Drobny beats Eric Sturgess (6-3, 6-3, 6-3)
- 1951 50th French Championships Women's Tennis: Shirley Fry beats fellow American Doris Hart 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 for her only French singles title
- 1952 Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president
- 1953 KVOS TV channel 12 in Bellingham/Vancouver, WA (CBS) begins
- 1955 KLFY TV channel 10 in Lafayette, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
Event of Interest
1955 Stan Musial hits his 300th HR
Stan Musial
Historic Communication
1959 US President Eisenhower routes Canadian premier Diefenbaker a message off the Moon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John Diefenbaker
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
- 1962 Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130
Event of Interest
1962 Lee Harvey Oswald arrives by train in Oldenzaal, Netherlands
Lee Harvey Oswald
Event of Interest
1964 Ringo Starr collapses from tonsillitis and pharyngitis
Ringo Starr
- 1964 Rolling Stones begin 1st US tour (with Bobby Goldsboro & Bobby Vee)
- 1965 Gemini 4 launched; 2nd US 2-man flight (McDivitt & White)
- 1966 European DX Council forms in Copenhagen (shortwave listeners)
- 1966 Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)
- 1967 99th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Damascus wins in 2:28.8
#1 in the Charts
1967 Aretha Franklin's "Respect" reaches #1
Aretha Franklin
French Open Men's Tennis
1967 French Championships Men's Tennis: Roy Emerson beats fellow Australian Tony Roche 6-1, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 for his 12th and final Grand Slam title
Roy Emerson
Tony Roche
Assassination Attempt
1968 American radical feminist Valerie Solanas attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times. She is later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and pleads guilty to "reckless assault with intent to harm", serving a 3 year sentence.
Andy Warhol
- 1969 Last episode of Star Trek airs on NBC (Turnabout Intruder)
- 1970 1st artificial gene synthesized
- 1970 Ray Davies of The Kinks travels round trip NY-London to change 1 word in "Lola," (Coca-Cola to Cherry Cola) because of BBC commercial reference ban
- 1971 Chic Cub Ken Holtzman 2nd no-hitter beats Cincinnati Reds, 1-0
Event of Interest
1971 Test Cricket debut of Imran Khan, v Englandl at Edgbaston (5, 0-36, 0-19)
Imran Khan
French Open Women's Tennis
1972 French Open Women's Tennis: American icon Billie Jean King wins her only French singles title; beats Evonne Goolagong of Australia 6-3, 6-3
Billie Jean King
French Open Men's Tennis
1973 French Open Men's Tennis: Ilie Năstase of Romania wins his second Grand Slam singles title; beats Czech star Niki Pilić 6-3, 6-3, 6-0
Ilie Năstase
Event of Interest
1974 Yitzhak Rabin forms a new Israeli government
Yitzhak Rabin
Magna Carta
1976 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
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- 1977 Baltimore Orioles pull their 6th triple play (9-6-4-6-6 vs KC Royals)
- 1977 Belgium government of Tindemans forms
- 1977 US & Cuba talk about diplomatic relations
- 1978 Phillies Dave Johnson is 1st to hit 2 pinch hit grand slams in a year
- 1979 "Madwoman of Central Park West" opens on Broadway
- 1979 33rd Tony Awards: "Elephant Man" and "Sweeny Todd" win
- 1979 Ixtoc I rig in the Gulf of Mexico blows, spilling 3 million barrels of oil in one of the worst oil spills in history
- 1980 "It's So Nice to Be Civilized" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 8 performances
- 1980 Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
- 1980 ESPN begins televising college world series games
Event of Interest
1980 Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination
Jimmy Carter
Event of Interest
1980 NY Mets draft Darryl Strawberry, 18, #1
Darryl Strawberry
Assassination Attempt
1981 Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt
John Paul II
LPGA Championship
1984 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: Defending champion Patty Sheehan finishes 10 strokes ahead of runners-up Pat Bradley and Beth Daniel
- 1984 38th Tony Awards: Real Thing & La Cage Aux Folles win
- 1985 Brewers draft B J Surhoff #1
- 1985 Massive anti-ETA demonstration in Basques
- 1986 Battles in Beirut; 53 killed
- 1987 "Little Shop of Horrors" released in France
- 1987 "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" released in France
- 1987 Cubs & Astro tie Oriole & Ranger record of 3 grand slams in a game
Film Premier
1988 "Big" film directed by Penny Marshall, starring Tom Hanks premieres in US
Tom Hanks
Penny Marshall
- 1988 Margo Adams sues Red Sox 3rd baseman Wade Boggs for palimony
- 1989 Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing
- 1989 Houston Astros beat LA Dodgers, 5-4, in 22 innings (7:14:09)
- 1989 Leaking pipe in Asha, USSR, causes 2 trains to catch fire; 460 die
Event of Interest
1989 Nolan Ryan pitches his 2nd one-hitter this season & 11th overall
Nolan Ryan
Event of Interest
1989 Sportscasting legend Vin Scully broadcasts 23 innings in two different cities on one day
Vin Scully
- 1990 3rd Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $894,560
- 1990 44th Tony Awards: "Grapes of Wrath" and "City of Angels" win
- 1991 Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history
- 1991 MLB Draft: East Carteret HS pitcher Brien Taylor first pick by New York Yankees
- 1991 Thomas Hearns captures WBA light heavyweight title
- 1991 Kuwait asks Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members to produce 800,000 bbl/d (130,000 m3/d) of oil on its behalf
- 1992 Joan Lunden ordered to pay her ex-husband $18,000 a month support
- 1992 World's largest environmental summit opens in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 1993 66th National Spelling Bee: Geoff Hooper wins spelling kamikaze
- 1994 5.9 earthquake/floods SE Java (150+ killed)
- 1994 WIIZ (98.7) FM goes off the air
- 1995 Expos pitcher Pedro Martinez perfect game is broken up in 10th inning as San Diego's Bip Roberts leads off with a double, Mont wins 1-0
- 1995 1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards held at Pantages Theatre, Hollywood
- 1998 Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths
Event of Interest
2001 55th Tony Awards: "The Producers" and "Proof" win
Matthew Broderick
- 2001 Iraq announces that it will halt crude oil exports in response to the UN's resolution that extends the oil-for-food program by only 1 month, instead of the normal 6-month period
Television Premiere
2001 TV drama "Six Feet Under" created by Alan Ball, starring Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall and Frances Conroy premieres on HBO
Jill Soloway
US Women's Golf Open
2001 US Open Women's Golf, Pine Needles Lodge & GC: Defending champion Karrie Webb of Australia repeats by 8 strokes ahead of runner-up Se Ri Pak; largest margin in 21 years
Se Ri Pak
Historic Publication
2003 Danielle Steel’s novel “Sunset in St. Tropez” is published
Danielle Steel
Historic Publication
2005 'The Knight of Sainte-Hermine' by Alexandre Dumas is published in France by Editions Phébus, completed by Claude Schopp, 135 years after the author's death.
Alexandre Dumas
Event of Interest
2010 Canadian sportscaster Ron MacLean saves a man from drowning in the Delaware River in Philadelphia
Ron MacLean
Golf Tournament
2012 Tiger Woods claims his 73rd PGA tour victory with a 2 stroke win over Andrés Romero & Rory Sabbatini in the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village GC; equals Jack Nicklaus's record
Tiger Woods
Jack Nicklaus
- 2014 Hashim Amla becomes the first non-white captain of the South African national cricket team
Event of Interest
2014 President Obama announces his plan for a $1 billion fund to increase deployment of US troops to Europe
Barack Obama
Music Single
2014 Dove Cameron releases a single, “Count Me In"
Dove Cameron
- 2015 200 people are killed by an explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana
- 2015 Dr. Jesse Selber performs the world's first partial-skull and scalp transplant at Houston Methodist Hospital
- 2016 A week of heavy rains in Germany and France leave 10 dead and closing Paris museums along the Seine, including the Louve
- 2017 Terrorist attack in Borough Market, London by three men who drive van into pedestrians then stab and kill 7 and wound 48. Attackers shot dead by British police.
Event of Interest
2017 Largest-ever exhibition of works by Piet Mondrian opens at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, Netherlands to mark centenary of De Stijl movement
Piet Mondrian
Event of Interest
2017 UEFA Champions League Final, Cardiff: Cristiano Ronaldo scores twice as defending champions Real Madrid thrash Juventus, 4-1 for 12th title; Juventus loses 5th consecutive final
Cristiano Ronaldo
