- 1084 Anti-pope Clemens crowns German King Hendrik IV as Holy Roman Emperor
- 1146 Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
Event of Interest
1492 Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon issue the Alhambra Decree which expels Jews from their kingdoms
Isabella I of Castile
Ferdinand II of Aragon
- 1504 France & Spain sign truce
Event of Interest
1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St Lazarus, Philippines
Ferdinand Magellan
- 1521 The first Mass in the Philippines is generally believed to have been held on the Island of Limasawa, but may also have taken place on Masao in Butuan
Event of Interest
1657 English Parliament makes the Humble Petition to Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell offering him the crown: he declines
Oliver Cromwell
- 1667 France & England sign anti-Dutch military accord
- 1683 Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I and King John III Sobieski of Poland sign a covenant against Turkey, beginning of the Holy League
- 1717 A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy
- 1736 Bellevue Hospital founded in a New York City almshouse - 1st public hospital in the US
- 1745 Jews are expelled from Prague
Appointment of Interest
1770 Immanuel Kant is appointed Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Königsberg
Immanuel Kant
Event of Interest
1796 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Egmont" premieres in Weimar
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 1808 French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names
Napoléon Bonaparte
- 1822 Massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following a rebellion attempt, (later depicted by artist Eugène Delacroix)
- 1831 Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends
- 1831 Quebec & Montreal incorporated
- 1841 1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B
- 1849 Colonel John W Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of San Francisco
- 1850 US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%))
- 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa: Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to US
- 1861 Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans (US Civil War)
- 1862 Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River
- 1863 Battle of Grand Gulf, Mississippi and Dinwiddie Court House, Virginia
- 1865 Battle of Boydton, Virginia (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie C H)
- 1865 General Pickett moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Petersburg
- 1866 The Spanish navy bombards the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile
- 1868 Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
- 1870 Thomas Mundy Peterson of Perth Amboy, New Jersey is the first African American to vote in the US (in a local election on town's charter)
- 1877 British High Commissioner Sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown
Event of Interest
1877 Test Cricket debut of feared Australian fast bowler Fred "The Demon" Spofforth; Australia loses 2nd Test by 4 wickets vs England at Melbourne Cricket Ground
Fred Spofforth
- 1877 The family with samurai antecedents who responded to the Saigo army in Ōita Nakatsu rebels.
- 1880 1st town to claim to be completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash, Indiana)
- 1883 1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Le Chasseur Maudit"
- 1883 Utrecht begins water pipe system
- 1885 Great Britain declares Bechuanaland a protectorate
Eiffel Tower Opens
1889 Eiffel Tower officially opens in Paris. Built for the Exposition Universelle, at 300m high it retains the record for the tallest man made structure for 41 years.
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Event of Interest
1905 Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany visits Tangier, Morocco and proclaims Germany's support of Moroccan independence and equal opportunity for all powers to trade there
Wilhelm II
- 1905 67th Grand National: Frank Mason victorious aboard Kirkland; first Welsh-trained horse to win the event
- 1906 GB Shaw's German version of "Caesar & Cleopatra" premieres in Berlin
- 1906 Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States is founded to set rules in amateur sports; becomes the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1910
- 1907 Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt
- 1909 National Baseball Commission rules players who jump contracts to be suspended for 5 years; players joining outlaw organizations suspended for 3 years
- 1909 Gustav Mahler conducts NY Philharmonic for his 1st time
- 1909 In a diplomatic note to Austria, Serbia recognizes the Bosnian annexation and promises to maintain friendly relations with Austria
- 1916 Dutch government ends all military engagements
- 1917 The Danish West Indies are officially ceded to the US for $25 million and renamed the Virgin Islands
- 1918 1st daylight savings time in US goes into effect
- 1919 Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann
- 1920 British parliament accepts Irish Home Rule law
- 1921 British coal miners goes on strike
- 1922 KFI-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
- 1922 Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam
- 1923 First dance marathon in New York City; Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hours with 6 different partners
- 1923 French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die
- 1923 Stanley Cup Final, Denman Arena, Vancouver, BC: Ottawa Senators (NHL) edge Edmonton Eskimos (WCHL), 1-0 for a 2-0 series sweep
- 1924 Croydon Airport, London: Imperial Airways established
- 1924 London public transport strike ends
- 1925 WOWO-AM, Ft Wayne Indiana begins radio transmission (500 watts)
- 1926 German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands
- 1930 The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next 38 years
- 1931 Brilliant Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne (43) is killed with 7 others when light plane crashes on trip from Kansas City to Los Angeles; record 105-12-5 @ .881 remains best ever
- 1932 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall
- 1932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine
- 1933 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Ga)
- 1933 Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps
- 1934 Netherlands Indies BC Ltd begins radio transmission (Indonesia)
- 1939 Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany
Film Release
1939 "The Hound of Baskervilles" first of 14 films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson is released
Basil Rathbone
- 1940 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956)
- 1941 Ground broken for Union Square Garage, San Francisco
- 1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" premieres in NYC
- 1943 US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326
- 1944 Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars
- 1945 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine
- 1945 Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen
Event of Interest
1945 Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie" premieres in NYC
Tennessee Williams
- 1945 US artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa
- 1946 Belgian government of Spaak resigns - shortest ever Belgian government
- 1946 Belgian government of Acker forms
- 1946 First election is held in Greece after World War II
- 1948 US Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe
- 1949 Newfoundland becomes Canada's 10th province
- 1951 US tanks exceed 38° of latitude in Korea
- 1953 US Department of Health, Education & Welfare established
- 1953 UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjöld for Secretary-General
- 1954 USSR offers to join NATO
- 1955 Merger of Chase National Bank (3rd largest bank) and Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) forms Chase Manhattan
- 1955 West Indies cricket all-rounder Collie Smith scores 104 in his Test debut in a 9 wicket 1st Test defeat to Australia in Kingston, Jamaica
- 1958 US Navy forms atomic submarine division
- 1958 USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US & Britain to do same
- 1960 Gore Vidal's "Best Man" premieres in NYC
- 1961 Aklilou Habtewold becomes 1st premier of Ethiopia
- 1961 8th National Film Awards (India): "Anuradha" wins the Golden Lotus
- 1962 116th Grand National: Fred Winter aboard 28/1 shot Kilmore wins by 10 lengths from Wyndburgh
- 1963 LA ends streetcar service after 90 years
- 1964 President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military
- 1965 Iberia Airlines Convair 440 crashes into the sea on approach to Tangier killing 47 of 51 occupants
- 1966 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in NYC
Election of Interest
1966 Labour Party under Harold Wilson win British parliamentary election
Harold Wilson
- 1966 USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter
Event of Interest
1967 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)
Jimi Hendrix
Event of Interest
1968 US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces in an address to the nation that he will not seek re-election
Lyndon B. Johnson
- 1968 Pirate Radio Station Pegaus (NZ) begins transmitting
- 1968 Seattle's AL club is named Pilots
- 1968 US President Lyndon B. Johnson authorizes a troop surge in Vietnam, bringing the total number of US soldiers to a peak of 549,500
Event of Interest
1969 George Harrison & Patti Boyd are fined £250 each for illegal drugs
George Harrison
Event of Interest
1969 "The New York Times" reviews "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut on its publication saying ""you'll either love it, or push it back in the science-fiction corner"
Kurt Vonnegut
- 1970 Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee
- 1970 Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit
- 1970 Following an Orange Order parade, intense riots erupt on the Springfield Road in Belfast; violence lasts for three days, and the British Army use CS gas for the first time in large quantities
- 1971 South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion
- 1971 William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre
- 1972 Official Beatles Fan Club closes down
- 1973 Philadelphia Flyers score an NHL record tying 8 goals from an astounding 60 shots in the 2nd period of a 10-2 win over New York Islanders
Event of Interest
1973 Muhammad Ali suffers a broken jaw in a shock split-points decision loss to Ken Norton over 12 rounds in San Diego; Ali wins rematch in another controversial split decision
Muhammad Ali
- 1973 127th Grand National: Brian Fletcher wins aboard 9/1 co-favourite Red Rum; recovers from 15 lengths behind at final fence; first of Red Rum's record 3 GN victories
Event of Interest
1973 American tennis star Billie Jean King ends Australian Margaret Court's 57-match winning streak 6-7, 7-6, 6-3 in semi finals of the WTA event in Indianapolis, IN
Billie Jean King
- 1974 American golfer Lee Trevino goes bogey-free for the full 4 rounds as he wins the Greater New Orleans Open by 8 strokes from Bobby Cole and Ben Crenshaw
- 1975 37th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Kentucky, 92-85; 10th title under coach John Wooden who had announced his retirement 2 days earlier
- 1976 Cleveland Cavaliers beat Jazz, 110-101 in New Orleans to clinch club's first ever NBA playoff berth
- 1976 NJ Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator
- 1977 Michael Cristofer's "Shadow Box" premieres in NYC
- 1978 USSR launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite
- 1978 Wings release "London Town" album
- 1979 Montreal Canadiens beat visiting Pittsburgh Penguins, 5-3 to become just the 2nd team in NHL history to win 50 (or more) games for 4 straight years
- 1979 The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
- 1979 133rd Grand National: Maurice Barnes victorious aboard Rubstic; first Scottish-trained horse to win the event
- 1979 24th Eurovision Song Contest: Gali Atari and Milk and Honey for Israel wins singing "Hallelujah" in Jerusalem
Boxing Title Fight
1980 Almost concurrent heavyweight boxing championship fights: Larry Holmes TKOs Leroy Jones in 8 for WBC title in Las Vegas, NV whilst Mike Weaver KOs John Tate in 15 for WBA belt in Knoxville, TN
Larry Holmes
Mike Weaver
Event of Interest
1980 President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry
Jimmy Carter
Academy Awards
1981 53rd Academy Awards: "Ordinary People", Robert De Niro & Sissy Spacek win
Robert De Niro
Sissy Spacek
- 1982 Arkas tanker at Montz La, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil
- 1982 Rock group Doobie Brothers split up
- 1982 NBA and Players Association reach a 4-year agreement that includes a 53% revenue-sharing plan in return for minimum & maximum payrolls; first of its kind in team sports
- 1983 Popayán Earthquake (5.5 Mw Depth) in Colombia kills 267 people, injuring some 7,500
- 1983 Marsha Norman's "'night, Mother" premieres in NYC
Event of Interest
1983 "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life," is released in the US
John Cleese
Michael Palin
Event of Interest
1984 Mike Bossy becomes first player in NHL history to record 7 straight 50 goal seasons; scores 50th and 51st of the year in a 3-1 New York Islanders' win at Washington
Mike Bossy
WrestleMania
1985 WrestleMania I, Madison Square Garden, NYC: Hulk Hogan & Mr T beat Roddy Piper & Paul Orndorf
Hulk Hogan
Mr. T
- 1985 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Calvin Peete shoots final round 66 to win by 3 strokes from D. A. Weibring; Peete only player to break par in all 4 rounds
- 1986 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes
- 1986 48th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats Duke, 72-69; first tournament to use a shot clock (initially set at 45 seconds)
- 1986 English Hampton Court palace badly damaged by fire, 1 dead
- 1986 Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
- 1987 49th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Syracuse, 74-73; Hoosiers' guard Keith Smart hits game-winner in final seconds, intercepts full court pass at the last second
- 1988 Last East Limburg coal mine closes in Gent Belgium
Event of Interest
1988 New York Islanders celebrate defenseman Denis Potvin's 1,000 points and 1,000 NHL games at tribute night at Nassau Coliseum
Denis Potvin
Event of Interest
1988 Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for her novel "Beloved"
Toni Morrison
Event of Interest
1989 Donald Trump purchases Eastern's Northeast Shuttle
Donald Trump
- 1990 "Carol & Company" starring Carol Burnett premieres on NBC-TV
- 1990 Dionisio Castro cycles world record 20km (57:18.4)
- 1990 Major riots occur in London and other British towns in protest against the new Community Charge poll tax laws
- 1991 10th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Virginia, 70-67; first overtime win in the NCAA's 10-year history
- 1991 Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years
- 1991 Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix, Arizona
- 1991 Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union
- 1991 Musical "Will Rogers Follies" premieres in NYC
- 1991 Soviet Rep of Georgia endorsed independence; Warsaw Pact dissolves
Event of Interest
1991 St. Louis Blues' future Hockey Hall of Fame right wing Brett Hull scores his 86th goal of the season in a 2-1 win over Minnesota North Stars; 3rd best total in NHL history
Brett Hull
- 1991 The Establishment of Islamic Constitutional Movement - Hadas in Kuwait.
PGA Players Championship
1991 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Australian Steve Elkington birdies final hole to win by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Fuzzy Zoeller
Steve Elkington
- 1991 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Amy Alcott breaks her own scoring record to win her 3rd DS by 8 strokes over Dottie Pepper; her 5th major title, and 29th & final LPGA Tour win
- 1992 Ranji Trophy Cricket Final, Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi: Delhi (Ajay Sharma 175 in 532) beats Tamil Nadu (449) on 1st innings
- 1992 UN Security Council voted to ban flights & arms sales to Libya
- 1992 Phoenix coach Cotton Fitzsimmons guides the Suns to a 128-111 home win over Portland to become the 6th coach in NBA history to record 800 career wins
- 1994 James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking ex-girl Tina Sinatra
- 1994 Walkway from Cleveland's Tower City to Jacobs Field officially opens
- 1994 The Journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull
Event of Interest
1994 Chicago White Sox assigns former NBA superstar Michael Jordan to the Birmingham Barons of Class AA Southern League; returns to NBA after one season
Michael Jordan
Davis Cup
1995 Second time in tennis history, world #1 and #2 ranked players play in the same Davis Cup team; Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi score victories in US quarter-final win against Italy in Palermo
Pete Sampras
Andre Agassi
- 1995 Ranji Trophy Cricket Final, Wankhede Stadium, Bombay: Bombay (Sanjay Manjrekar 224 in 6/690) beats Punjab (Vikram Rathour 177 in 372) on 1st innings
- 1995 Federal judge Sonia Sotomayor of US District Court in NYC issues an injunction against Major League Baseball owners in move that effectively ends 232-day strike
- 1996 "Getting Away With Murder" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 17 performances
- 1996 "A Midsummer Night's Dream" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 66 performances
- 1996 15th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Georgia, 83-65; 3 Volunteers in All-Tournament team: Michelle Marciniak, Chamique Holdsclaw, Tiffani Johnson
- 1996 First time in MLB history, the regular season opens in March with Seattle Mariners beating Chicago White Sox, 3-2 in 12 innings at the Kingdome, Seattle
- 1996 Ranji Trophy Cricket Final, MA Chidambaram Stadium, Madras: Karnataka (Vijay Bharadwaj 146 of 8/620) beats Tamil Nadu (370) on 1st innings
- 1996 Radio Canada International's final shortwave broadcast
- 1996 Space Shuttle STS 76 (Atlantis 16), lands
- 1996 WrestleMania XII, Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, CA - Shawn Michaels beats Bret Hart for WWF Heavyweight title
- 1996 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Fred Couples shoots a final round 64 to win his 2nd PC title, 4 strokes ahead of runners-up Colin Montgomerie and Tommy Tolles
Golf Major
1996 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Patty Sheehan wIns by 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Meg Mallon, Kelly Robbins and Annika Sörenstam
Meg Mallon
Patty Sheehan
