Event of Interest
1059 Henri I crowns his son King Philip I (called the Amorous) of France
King Philip I
Event of Interest
1430 Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne and sold to the English
Joan of Arc
Event of Interest
1576 Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory
Tycho Brahe
- 1609 Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place
- 1611 Matthias von Habsburg chosen King of Bohemia
- 1618 Second Defenestration of Prague: Two Catholic Lords Regent and their secretary are thrown out of a window and amazingly are not seriously injured by the 70 foot (21m) fall. Triggers the Thirty Years' War.
- 1644 Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists
- 1647 Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland
Event of Interest
1660 King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England
Charles II
- 1667 King Afonso VI of Portugal flees
Execution
1701 Captain William Kidd is hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and the murder of William Moore
William Kidd
Historic Invention
1785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
Benjamin Franklin
Constitution of the United States
1788 South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution
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Event of Interest
1813 South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator")
Simón Bolívar
Event of Interest
1862 Valley Campaign: Stonewall Jackson takes Fort Royal, Virginia
Stonewall Jackson
Event of Interest
1867 Jesse James gang robs bank in Richmond, Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken)
Jesse James
- 1873 1st Preakness Stakes: G. Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43 at Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore, Maryland
- 1873 Canada's North West Mounted Police Force forms (it didn't get the "Royal" until 1904)
- 1873 Postal cards sold in San Francisco for 1st time
- 1876 1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston)
- 1878 Attorney John Henry Smyth named US minister to Liberia
- 1882 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa
- 1883 9th Kentucky Derby: William Donohue aboard Leonatus wins in 2:43
- 1883 Baseball game between one-armed and one-legged players at Recreation Park, Philadelphia, Snorkeys defeat the Hoppers 33-17
- 1884 12th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Knight of Ellerslie wins in 2:39.5
- 1887 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, British Columbia
- 1894 William Love hosts groundbreaking ceremonies for Love Canal
- 1898 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco
- 1900 Associated Press News Service forms in NY
- 1900 William Harvey Carney becomes the first African-American soldier awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Civil War at the Battle of Fort Wagner
- 1901 35th Belmont: H Spencer aboard Commando wins in 2:21
- 1901 Indians score 9 runs after 2 outs in 9th to beat Senators 14-13
- 1901 Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent
Victory in Battle
1901 US captures leader of Filipino rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo
Emilio Aguinaldo
- 1903 1st automobile trip across US leaves San Francisco for New York, (arrives July 26)
- 1903 1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin
- 1907 The single chamber Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
- 1908 Dirigible explodes over San Francisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none killed
Great White Fleet
1908 Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Washington
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Event of Interest
1911 NY Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft
William Howard Taft
- 1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary during WW I
- 1917 Dutch 2nd Chamber approves 1908 conscription draft
- 1918 King Oil/Shell refinery on Curacao officially opens
- 1920 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei
- 1921 "Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC
- 1922 "Abie's Irish Rose" 1st of over 2,500 performances
- 1922 Harry Greb gives Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat
Event of Interest
1922 Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
Walt Disney
- 1923 Launch of Belgium's SABENA airline: first flight from Brussels to Lympne, England
- 1926 Hack Wilson is 1st to hit a home run off Wrigley Field scoreboard
- 1926 Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate
- 1928 Bomb attack on Italian embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die
- 1931 Whipsnade Zoo opens in Bedfordshire, England
- 1932 Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hr record of 860 mi, 367 yds
Event of Interest
1934 American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow - Bonnie and Clyde - are killed by police in an ambush near Sailes, Louisiana
Clyde Barrow
Bonnie Parker
Event of Interest
1939 Dmitri Shostakovich appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad
Dmitri Shostakovich
Event of Interest
1939 Adolf Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland
Adolf Hitler
Event of Interest
1943 Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus
Thomas Mann
Event of Interest
1945 The Allies arrest the members of the Nazi Flensburg government, including Admiral Karl Donitz, formally dissolving Nazi Germany
Karl Dönitz
Baseball Record
1948 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs
Joe DiMaggio
- 1948 Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel
- 1949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany created out of the American, British and French occupation zones
- 1951 Peter Ustinov's "Love of Four Colonels" premieres in London
- 1951 Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet signed in Beijing, formally establishes Chinese sovereignty over Tibet
- 1953 78th Preakness: Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 1:57.8
- 1953 WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1956 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Francisco
- 1958 US schools 1st use Cliff's Notes
Event of Interest
1958 Mao Zedong starts the "Great Leap Forward" movement in China
Mao Zedong
'The Banality of Evil'
1960 Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
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Baseball Record
1962 Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio)
Joe Pepitone
- 1962 OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life
- 1962 Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7
- 1962 15th Cannes Film Festival: "Keeper of Promises" directed by Anselmo Duarte wins the Palme d'Or
- 1963 NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000
- 1963 16th Cannes Film Festival: "The Leopard" directed by Luchino Visconti wins the Palme d'Or
- 1964 Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45)
- 1965 Franz Jonas elected President of Austria
- 1965 Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River, Malawi, kills 150
- 1966 The Beatles release "Paperback Writer"
- 1967 Government bans submarines near South Africa
- 1968 AC Milan of Italy win 8th European Cup Winner's Cup against Hamburger SV of West Germany 2-0 in Rotterdam
- 1968 Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London
Event of Interest
1969 BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
Michael Palin
John Cleese
- 1969 Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes
- 1969 The Who release rock opera "Tommy"
- 1969 22nd Cannes Film Festival: "If..." directed by Lindsay Anderson wins the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
- 1970 Grateful Dead's 1st performance outside US (England)
- 1970 San Diego Padres beat SF Giants 17-16 in 15 innings
- 1970 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
- 1970 A fire breaks out in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales contributing to its partial destruction and causing approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage
- 1971 Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands
- 1974 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1974 Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed
- 1975 28th Cannes Film Festival: "Chronicle of the Years of Fire" directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina wins the Palme d'Or
- 1977 Benin adopts its constitution
- 1977 US Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell
- 1977 Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren & 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Neth, children released May 27, siege ends June 11
- 1978 AL approves transfer of Red Sox to Jean Yawkey for $15M
- 1978 General strike in Peru
- 1979 1st edition of "Wisden Cricket Monthly"
- 1979 Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy
- 1979 West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president
- 1980 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Neil Burton
Event of Interest
1980 33rd Cannes Film Festival: "All That Jazz" directed by Bob Fosse and "Kagemusha" directed by Akira Kurosawa jointly awarded the Palme d'Or
Akira Kurosawa
Film Release
1980 Horror film "The Shining" released directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall, based on book by Stephen King
- 1981 Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage
- 1981 NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 501
- 1981 Puerto Rican boxer Wilfred Benítez (22) becomes the youngest 3-division world champion in history by knocking out WBC World Super Welterweight champion Maurice Hope in 12 rounds in Las Vegas
- 1982 BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina
- 1982 Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles
Canonization
1982 Pope John Paul II declares "Peerke" Donders a saint
John Paul II
Film Release
1984 "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", 2nd in the film series, directed by Stephen Spielberg, produced by George Lucas and starring Harrison Ford, opens in the US
- 1984 37th Cannes Film Festival: "Paris, Texas" directed by Wim Wenders wins the Palme d'Or
Film Premier
1984 Crime epic film "Once Upon a Time in America" directed by Sergio Leone starring Robert De Niro and James Woods premieres at Cannes
Robert De Niro
James Woods
Event of Interest
1985 President Ronald Reagan awards Jimmy Stewart the Presidential Medal of Freedom and promotes him to Major General on the Retired List
James Stewart
Ronald Reagan
- 1986 US & Western Europe veto heavier sanctions against South Africa
- 1988 Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990
- 1988 41st Cannes Film Festival: "Pelle erobreren" directed by Bille August wins the Palme d'Or
- 1989 3rd American Comedy Award: Paula Poundstone
- 1989 Angela Visser, 22, of Holland, crowned 38th Miss Universe
- 1989 Lincoln Square in Bronx named
- 1989 Cleve loses & drop to 21-22, this is the latest a sub .500 team is in 1st place (AL East)
Event of Interest
1989 42nd Cannes Film Festival: "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" directed by Steven Soderbergh wins the Palme d'Or
Steven Soderbergh
- 1990 Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion
- 1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,856.26
- 1990 NY Yankees hit 6 home runs to beat Minnesota Twins 12-0
- 1990 34th European Cup: Milan beats Benfica 1-0 at Vienna
- 1991 Last Cubans troops leave Angola
- 1991 Phillie Tommy Greene no-hits Mont Expos, 2-0
- 1991 San Diego Sockers win 4th consecutive Major Soccer League championship
- 1991 US Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion
- 1992 NY Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game
Event of Interest
1992 US President George H. W. Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees
George H. W. Bush
Event of Interest
1994 47th Cannes Film Festival: "Pulp Fiction" directed by Quentin Tarantino wins the Palme d'Or
- 1995 47th time opposing pitchers hit HRs, K Foster (Cubs)/M Freeman (Rocks)
- 1996 Fred Norris of the Howard Stern show changes his name legally to Eric
- 1997 "King David" closes at New Amsterdam Theater NYC
- 1997 Mel Karmazin replaces Peter Lund as CEO of CBS TV
- 1998 The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes.
- 1999 52nd Cannes Film Festival: "Rosetta" directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne wins the Palme d'Or
- 2001 9th UEFA Champions League Final: Bayern Munich beats Valencia (1-1, 5-4 on penalties) at Milan
- 2001 Marco Siffredi becomes the first person to snowboard down Mount Everest via the Norton Couloir (some share record accreditation with Stefan Gatt)
- 2002 The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland
- 2003 The Euro exceeds its initial trading value as it hits $1.18 for the first time since its introduction in 1999
- 2003 NHL Eastern Conference Final: New Jersey Devils beat Ottawa Senators, 4 games to 3
- 2004 Part of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.
- 2006 41st Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Chesney, Sara Evans and Keith Urban win
- 2007 UEFA Champions League Final, Athens: Filippo Inzaghi scores twice as AC Milan beats Liverpool, 2-1 for 7th title
- 2008 The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.
- 2010 NHL Western Conference Finals: Chicago Black Hawks beat San Jose Sharks, 4 games to 0
