Historic Event
1625 Prince Frederick Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand
- 1633 Prince Frederick Henry conquers fort Rhine at Cologne
- 1676 Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch and Spanish fleet
- 1697 August, Elector of Saxony becomes Catholic
- 1746 Russia and Austria sign agreements
- 1763 Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort
- 1774 Intolerable Acts: Amendment to original Quartering Act enacted, allows governors in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters not provided
- 1780 Anti-Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London
- 1797 Surveyor Charles Brodhead achieves the 1st ascent of Giant Mountain (4,626 feet) in Adirondack, New York, the 1st of any Adirondack High Peak [1]
- 1834 5th national black convention meets (NYC)
Historic Event
1835 P. T. Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US
- 1848 The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
- 1851 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
- 1855 The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine
- 1857 James Gibbs of Virginia, patents the chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
- 1858 Donati Comet 1st seen named after its discoverer
- 1862 Raid at Early's: Maryland towards Washington, D.C.
Historic Event
1862 Robert E. Lee takes command of Confederate armies of North Virginia during the American Civil War
Historic Event
1863 Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves
Historic Event
1875 Alexander Graham Bell makes first sound transmission
Historic Invention
1896 Italian engineer and inventor Guglielmo Marconi applies for the first ever patent for a system of wireless telegraphy in the United Kingdom
Appointment of Interest
1902 British naval officer David Beatty is appointed captain of the cruiser HMS Juno
- 1904 Professor Schron finds microbe that causes photosynthesis
Election of Interest
1909 Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time
- 1910 1st roundtrip flight over English Channel (C S Rolls, England)
- 1910 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
- 1913 1st strike settlement mediated by US Department of Labor - railroad clerks
- 1913 Demonstrations for general voting right in Netherlands
- 1914 Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome
- 1916 Battle of Verdun: German troops, under Lt Rackow, launch attack on Fort Vaux with flamethrowers, forcing French defenders inside. The fort changes hand 16 times during the entire Battle of Verdun.
Historic Event
1917 Canadian ace Billy Bishop undertakes a solo mission behind enemy lines, shooting down three aircraft as they were about to take off and several more on the ground, for which he is awarded the Victoria Cross
- 1919 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)
Historic Event
1920 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon)
- 1922 Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances
Historic Event
1924 President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act (also known as Snyder Act), declaring all Native Americans to be American citizens [1]
Historic Event
1932 German Chancellor Franz von Papen forms his "Cabinet of the Barons"
Miracle of Dunkirk
1940 Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach
- 1943 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy)
- 1943 German assault on Sebastopol, Crimea, begins
Historic Event
1944 Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bernard Montgomery dine in Portsmouth, England
- 1952 650,000 metal workers go on strike in US
- 1952 Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette
Royal Coronation
1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London, England
Historic Event
1957 US TV interviews Nikita Khrushchev
Historic Event
1959 Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid", San Francisco
- 1965 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges River, India)
- 1966 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
- 1967 Race riots in Roxbury suburb of Boston
- 1968 Canadians must get government permission to export silver
- 1969 Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne slices US destroyer USS Frank E Evans in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)
- 1972 Two British soldiers die in an IRA land mine attack near Rosslea, County Fermanagh
- 1974 Mali adopts constitution
- 1974 Malta's constitution goes into effect
- 1975 First recorded snowfall in London in June
- 1975 James A Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)
- 1975 VP Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA
- 1976 East Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation by Indonesia
- 1977 New Jersey allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
Papal Visit
1979 John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a Communist country (Poland)
Historic Event
1979 Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley signs first homosexual rights bill
- 1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-198
- 1983 Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati
- 1984 Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines
- 1985 39th Tony Awards: "Biloxi Blues" and "Big River" win
- 1985 Andreas Papandreou's PASOK-party wins election in Greece
- 1985 RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco
- 1986 NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
- 1986 Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
- 1988 61st National Spell Bee: Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal
- 1988 Consumer Reports calls for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai automobile
Goddess of Democracy
1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, protecting students demonstrating for democracy
- 1989 14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee
- 1990 Seattle's Randy Johnson, no-hits Tigers, 2-0
- 1991 45th Tony Awards: "Lost in Yonkers" & "Will Rogers Follies" win
- 1991 4th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
- 1991 Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin
- 1992 Wilson Phillips release their second album "Shadows & Light"
- 1994 67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian
- 1994 Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland (29 killed)
- 1994 Sharon Stone files $12m lawsuit against her jeweler
- 1995 John Valentin hits 3 HRs
- 1996 50th Tony Awards: "Master Class" & "Rent" win
- 1996 9th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
- 1997 Liberals beat Conservatives in France
Historic Event
1997 Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168
- 1998 The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan
- 2002 56th Tony Awards: "Thoroughly Modern Millie", "The Goat", or Who is Sylvia?" win
- 2003 Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.
- 2009 Switzerland officially enters the global recession
- 2014 Former Liberation Front guerilla fighter Salvador Sánchez Cerén, 69, is sworn in as president in El Salvador
- 2014 Telangana with Hyderabad as it's capital becomes India's 29th state after it is separated from Andhra Pradesh
- 2014 The unity government is sworn into power in Palestine; it agrees to the following: recognition of Israel, compliance to diplomatic agreements, renunciation of violence
- 2015 100 volunteers in Bhutan set a world record for tree planting - 49,672 in 1 hour
Election of Interest
2015 FIFA President Sepp Blatter announces his resignation, 5 days after his re-election, amid FIFA's involvement in a bribery scandal
- 2015 US Congress passes new legislation to reform National Security Agency procedures, restricting gathering of phone records
- 2017 "Wonder Woman" directed by Patty Jenkins released, earns over $100 million in North American in its opening weekend - domestic record for a female director
Historic Event
2018 Socialist Pedro Sánchez is sworn in as Spanish Prime Minister
- 2020 Brazilian death toll passes 30,000 from COVID-19 at 31,199 with 555,383 number of cases confirmed, 2nd only to the US
- 2020 New outbreak of Ebola has killed five people in city of Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo
- 2020 UK death toll from COVID-19 passes 50,000 (50,032) according to its Office of National Statistics
Historic Event
2020 UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet says pandemic exposing "endemic inequalities" around the world, cites death of George Floyd and higher death toll for ethnic minorities
- 2022 Queen Elizabeth II marks her Platinum Jubilee with four days of celebrations starting with a military parade at Buckingham Palace [1]