- 754 Friezen robbers murder Bishop Boniface (later Saint) and over 50 companions near Dokkum
- 1257 Kraków, Poland, receives city rights.
When The Bells Rang Out For Freedom
1284 Charles of Salerno is captured by Roger of Lauria during a naval battle in the Gulf of Naples, part of the Sicilian Vespers uprising
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Victory in Battle
1632 Prince Frederick Henry conquers Roermond
Frederick Henry
Event of Interest
1661 Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge
Isaac Newton
Historic Expedition
1799 Naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland set sail in the Pizarro from A Coruña and begin their 5 year Latin American expedition
Alexander von Humboldt
- 1805 1st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois)
- 1806 1st trotter to break 3 minute mile (Yankee)
- 1806 Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland
- 1827 Turks capture the Acropolis and take Athens during Greek War of Independence
- 1829 HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba
- 1832 Anti-monarchist forces launch an uprising in Paris, starting the unsuccessful June Rebellion
Meeting of Interest
1833 Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
Ada Lovelace
Charles Babbage
Historic Publication
1851 Anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in serial form in "The National Era"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 1855 Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention
- 1857 Walter Woodbury and James Page open photo studio in Batavia (Jakarta)
- 1861 Federal marshals seize arms and gunpower at Du Pont works DE
- 1863 Battle of Franklin's Crossing, Virginia (Deep Run)
- 1863 CSS Alabama captures "Talisman" in the Mid Atlantic
- 1864 Battle of Piedmont, Virginia (Augusta City)
- 1869 3rd Belmont: C Miller aboard Fenian wins in 3:04.25
- 1870 Constantinople fire; 900 die
- 1872 Republican National Convention meets (Philadelphia)
- 1873 Sultan Bargash bin Said under British pressure closes the infamous slave market of Zanzibar in modern day Tanzania
- 1875 Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens in San Francisco
- 1876 Bananas become popular in US, at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia
- 1879 13th Belmont: George Evans riding Spendthrift wins in 2:42.75
- 1882 Storm & floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die
- 1884 William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated & will not serve if elected"
- 1886 20th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Inspector B wins in 2:41
Event of Interest
1888 US Democrats nominate Grover Cleveland for president
Grover Cleveland
- 1888 The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
Event of Interest
1899 Alfred Dreyfus acquitted
Alfred Dreyfus
- 1900 Pretoria, capital of the Boer Republic of South Africa, falls to the British led by General Buller
Event of Interest
1902 Emperor Wilhelm II responds to growing demands from Polish and other Slavic peoples living within German territory by calling for more 'Germanization' of the Slavs
Wilhelm II
- 1902 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: Scotsman Sandy Herd wins by 1 stroke from James Braid and Harry Vardon
- 1906 Determined to keep pace with Britain as a major naval power, the German Reichstag passes new navy legislation, increasing the total tonnage in Germany's fleet
- 1911 Red Sox Joe Wood strikes out 3 pinch hitters in 9th for 5-4 win
- 1912 US marines invade Caimanera, Cuba
- 1913 Dutch Disability laws go into effect
- 1915 47th Belmont: George Byrne aboard The Finn wins in 2:18.6
- 1915 Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage
- 1916 The Sherif Hussein proclaims a revolt of the Arabs in the province of Hejaz, an action that undermines the Turkish Empire
- 1917 10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I
Event of Interest
1920 1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell in San Francisco (later Bank of America)
Amadeo Giannini
US Golf Open
1925 US Open Men's Golf, Worcester CC: Scotsman Willie Macfarlane beats Bobby Jones by 1 stroke in a second 18-hole playoff for his only major title
Bobby Jones
- 1926 Indians triple-play Yankees & win 15-3
- 1927 Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard & 200-yard free-style swim record
- 1927 French Championships Men's Tennis: Hometown favourite Rene Lacoste wins 2nd of 3 French titles; beats Bill Tilden 6-4, 4-6, 5-7, 6-3, 11-9
- 1927 32nd Women's French Championships: Kornelia Bouman beats Irene Peacock (6-2, 6-4)
- 1929 Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour government in Britain
- 1931 Jules Renkin becomes premier of Belgium
- 1931 British Open Men's Golf, Carnoustie: American based Scotsman Tommy Armour outlasts José Jurado of Argentina by 1 stroke to win his only Open title and his 3rd and final major championship
- 1933 US drops the Gold Standard when Congress enacts a joint resolution nullifying creditors right to demand payment in gold
- 1933 French Championships Men's Tennis: Australian Jack Crawford wins his first and only French title; beats home favourite Henri Cochet 8-6, 6-1, 6-3
- 1933 French Championship Women's Tennis: England's Margaret Scriven is first woman from that country to win the singles title in Paris; beats Simonne Mathieu 6-2, 4-6, 6-4
- 1934 1st formal meeting of Baker Street Irregulars (NYC)
- 1937 69th Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 2:28.6
Event of Interest
1937 Henry Ford initiates a 32 hour work week
Henry Ford
Event of Interest
1940 General Charles de Gaulle becomes French junior minister of Defense
Charles de Gaulle
Event of Interest
1941 Sandor Szabo beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
Bronko Nagurski
- 1941 World War II: At least 4,000 people who hid in a tunnel die after a Japanese air attack on the Chinese city of Chongqing
- 1942 British offensive in North Africa under General Ritchie
- 1942 An explosion at the Joliet Army Ammunition Plant kills 48 people
- 1942 USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania
- 1943 75th Belmont: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:28.2
- 1943 German occupiers arrest Louvain University's chancellor
- 1943 Philippine President José P. Laurel survives assassination attempt after being shot 4 times with a 45 caliber pistol while playing golf at Wack Wack Golf Course in Mandaluyong
- 1944 1st B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure
D-Day
1944 As part of Operation Tonga, the 1st British gliders touch down on French soil to prepare for the D-Day invasion
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- 1944 Allies march into Rome
Event of Interest
1944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel goes on leave just before WWII D-Day landings by the Allies
Erwin Rommel
Event of Interest
1944 After receiving favorable weather reports, General Eisenhower decides to proceed with the D-Day invasion on June 6
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Music Premiere
1945 Benjamin Britten's opera "Peter Grimes" premieres in London
Benjamin Britten
Event of Interest
1947 US Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the "Marshall Plan" to rebuild Western Europe
George Marshall
Baseball Record
1948 Phillies Richie Ashburn sets NL rookie consecut hitting streak at 23
Richie Ashburn
- 1948 "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" single released by Stan Jones
Event of Interest
1949 Enid Blyton's wooden toy character Noddy first appears in the "Sunday Graphic"
Enid Blyton
Boxing Title Fight
1952 Jersey Joe Walcott beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
Jersey Joe
Ezzard Charles
Event of Interest
1955 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550' HR off Chicago Billy Pierce
Mickey Mantle
- 1956 "Milton Berle Show" last airs on NBC-TV
- 1956 Fed court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Constitutional
- 1957 NY narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes
- 1959 Bob Dylan graduates from Hibbing High School in Minnesota
Event of Interest
1959 The first independent government of the State of Singapore is sworn in with Lee Kuan Yew as Prime Minister
Lee Kuan Yew
Event of Interest
1963 State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested
Ayatollah Khomeini
Event of Interest
1964 Davie Jones & King Bees debut "I Can't Help Thinking About Me"; group disbands but Davie Jones goes on to success as David Bowie
David Bowie
French Open Men's Tennis
1966 French Championships Men's Tennis: Australian Tony Roche wins his first and only Grand Slam title; beats István Gulyás of Hungary 6-1, 6-4, 7-5
Tony Roche
French Open Women's Tennis
1966 French Championships Women's Tennis: Ann Haydon-Jones of England beats American Nancy Richey 6-3, 6-1 for her 2nd French singles crown
Nancy Richey
- 1967 Six-day war begins between Israel and the neighboring Arab states of Egypt, Jordan and Syria
- 1967 Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair
- 1967 WSBE TV channel 36 in Providence, RI (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1967 Royal Canadian Mint ordered to start converting 10 cent & 25 cent coins to pure nickel as soon as possible
Bobby Kennedy Gunned Down on Campaign Trail
1968 Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan shoots Robert F. Kennedy three times, who dies the next day and wounds 5 others at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California
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- 1969 Dutch Antilles government of Kroon resigns
- 1969 Race riot in Hartford, Connecticut
- 1969 The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
- 1970 KPAX TV channel 8 in Missoula, Montana (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1970 Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
- 1970 The Falls Road curfew in North Ireland, imposed by the British Army while searching for IRA weapons, is lifted after a march by women breaches the British Army cordon
- 1971 103rd Belmont: Walter Blum aboard Pass Catcher wins in 2:30.6
- 1971 French Open Women's Tennis: Evonne Goolagong wins her first career Grand Slam singles title; beats fellow Australian Helen Gourlay 6-3, 7-5
- 1972 "If You Had Wings" opens
- 1972 UN Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm
Josip Broz Tito
Event of Interest
1974 As' Reggie Jackson and Bill North engage in clubhouse fight at Detroit
Reggie Jackson
Event of Interest
1975 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967)
Anwar Sadat
Event of Interest
1976 108th Belmont: Puerto Rican jockey Ángel Cordero Jr., riding Bold Forbes wins his only Belmont classic
Ángel Cordero Jr.
- 1976 Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage (14 die)
- 1976 After a suspected republican bombing kills 2 Protestant civilians in a pub, the Ulster Volunteer Force kill 5 civilians in a gun and bomb attack at the Chlorane Bar, North Ireland
- 1977 31st NBA Championship: Port Trailblazers beat Philadelphia 76er, 4 games to 2
- 1977 31st Tony Awards: Shadow Box & Annie win
- 1977 Coup in Seychelles (National Day)
- 1977 Los Angeles Dodgers retire Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman and manager Walter Alston's #24
French Open Men's Tennis
1977 French Open Men's Tennis: Guillermo Vilas of Argentina wins first career Grand Slam event; outclasses American Brian Gottfried 6-0, 6-3, 6-0
Guillermo Vilas
Event of Interest
1977 National Council of Women of Kenya led by Wangari Maathai march to Kamukunji Park, Nairobi, and plant seven trees - beginning of the Green Belt Movement
Wangari Maathai
Event of Interest
1981 Astro's Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as all-time walk leader (1,777)
Nolan Ryan
- 1981 AIDS Epidemic officially begins when US Centers for Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting five homosexual men in Los Angeles
Event of Interest
1981 George Harrison releases "Somewhere in England"
George Harrison
- 1981 World's first today in history program with editable data "TODAY", invented by Michael Butler runs for the first time on a mainframe computer
- 1982 "Murphy's Law" by Cheri hits #39
- 1982 114th Belmont: Laffit Pincay Jr.aboard Conquistador Cielo wins in 2:28
- 1982 Waterfront streetcar begins operating in Seattle
French Open Women's Tennis
1982 French Open Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats American teenager Andrea Jaeger 7-6, 6-1 for her first French singles crown
Martina Navratilova
- 1983 37th Tony Awards: "Torch Song Trilogy" and "Cats" win
French Open Men's Tennis
1983 French Open: Home town favourite Yannick Noah wins his 1st and only career Grand Slam title; beats defending champion Mats Wilander of Sweden 6-2, 7-5, 7-6
Yannick Noah
Mats Wilander
Event of Interest
1984 Indira Gandhi orders an attack on Sikh's holiest site, the Golden Temple in Amritsar
Indira Gandhi
- 1985 Steve Cauthen wins aboard Slip Anchor at Epsom Downs to become the only jockey to win both the Kentucky Derby (1978) and The Derby
- 1986 SD Padre Steve Garvey ejected for 1st time
- 1987 "Nightline" presents its 1st "Town Meeting" the subject is AIDS & the show runs until 3:47 AM
Event of Interest
1987 Dwight Gooden returns from drug rehabilitation & allows wins game
Dwight Gooden
French Open Men's Tennis
1988 French Open Men's Tennis: Mats Wilander of Sweden wins 3rd French title; beats home favourite Henri Leconte 7-5, 6-2, 6-1
Mats Wilander
Henri Leconte
Event of Interest
1989 23rd Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton & Randy Travis
Randy Travis
- 1989 Billy Smith, last original NY Islander, retires
Event of Interest
1989 Paul McCartney releases "Flowers in the Dirt"
Paul McCartney
- 1989 Toronto Blue Jays Skydome stadium opens, Milwaukee Brewers win 5-3
Event of Interest
1990 South African troops plunder Nelson Mandela's home
Nelson Mandela
- 1991 Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.
Nobel Prize
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize
Mikhail Gorbachev
French Open Women's Tennis
1993 French Open Women's Tennis: Germany's Steffi Graf wins her 3rd of 6 French singles titles; beats Mary Joe Fernández of the US 4-6, 6-2, 6-4
Steffi Graf
Event of Interest
1995 29th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire
Event of Interest
1995 The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created
Albert Einstein
Film Release
1998 "The Truman Show", starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, and Ed Harris, is released
Jim Carrey
Ed Harris
