1487 – Battle of Stoke Field, Nottinghamshire: English Tudor King Henry VII defeats the remaining Yorkists led by John de la Pole and Lord Lovell in the last battle of the Wars of the Roses
1883 – 1st baseball “Ladies’ Day” – NY Gothams beat Cleveland Blues 5-2 at the Polo Grounds in NYC
1896 – Temperature hits 127°F at Fort Mojave, California
1916 – MLB Boston Brave’s pitcher Tom Hughes no-hitter beats Pittsburgh, 2-0; at the time it is his 2nd career no-hitter, but a 1991 rule change wiped his 1910 effort
1951 – 83rd Belmont: David Gorman aboard Counterpoint wins in 2:29
1974 – French Open Men’s Tennis: Björn Borg of Sweden wins first career Grand Slam title; beats Manuel Orantes of Spain 2-6, 6-7, 6-0, 6-1, 6-1
1985 – US Open Men’s Golf, Oakland Hills CC: 1978 champion Andy North wins by 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Dave Barr, T C Chen and Denis Watson
1998 – Stanley Cup Final, MCI Center, Washington, D.C.: Detroit Red Wings go back-to-back, defeating debutant finalists Washington Capitals, 4-1 for a 4-0 series sweep
2018 – World Cup: Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology is used for the first time, awarding France a penalty in 2-1 win over Australia in Kazan
2019 – 24 Hours of Le Mans: 2-time World F1 champion Fernando Alonso along with Swiss driver Sébastien Buemi and Japan’s Kazuki Nakajima win back-to-back titles for Toyota Gazoo Racing
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Today in History for 16th June 2025
Historical Events
1624 – Virginia becomes an English crown colony following the bankruptcy of the London Company
1779 – US General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, New York, inflicting heavy losses on the British
1932 – Germany forbids SA/SS-gang fights
1933 – US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created
1944 – King George VI visits General Montgomery’s HQ in Normandy
Famous Birthdays
1139 – Emperor Konoe, 76th emperor of Japan, born in Japan (d. 1155)
1900 – Jan van Tilburg, Dutch politician and Governor of Suriname (PVDA, 1955-62), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1977)
1984 – Steven Whittaker, Scottish soccer defender (31 caps; Hibernian, Rangers, Norwich City), born in Edinburgh, Scotland
1999 – Snail Mail [Linsey Jordan], American indie-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter, born in Ellicott City, Maryland
1999 – Justin Jefferson, American NFL player (Minnesota Vikings), born in St. Rose, Louisiana
Famous Deaths
1397 – Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358)
1812 – Franz Pforr, German painter and cartoonist (Lukasbund), dies at 23
1858 – John Snow, English physician who studied cholera and is considered the ‘Father of modern epidemiology’, dies of a stroke at 45
2012 – Alasdair Fraser, Scottish-born Northern Irish lawyer, director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland, dies at 65
2018 – Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor (Bolshoi Theatre, 1951-61; USSR State Radio, 1961-74; USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony, 1983-91), dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 15th June 2025
1828 – Brizio Petrucci, Italian composer, dies at 91
1858 – Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French Romantic painter, etcher and sculptor, dies at 63
1943 – Cecil Parkin, English cricket spin bowler (10 Tests, 32 wickets, BB 5/38; Durham CCC) and author (Cricket Reminiscences: Humorous and Otherwise), dies at 57
1961 – Tommy Scott, West Indian cricket spin bowler (8 Tests, 22 wickets; Jamaica), dies at 68
1981 – Philip Toynbee, British journalist and writer (Savage Days, Barricade), dies at 64
2007 – Richard Bell, Canadian musician (Full Tilt Boogie Band), dies of multiple myeloma at 61
2010 – Bekim Fehmiu, Yugoslavian actor (Black Sunday, Permission to Kill, Cagliostro), dies of suspected suicide at 74
2014 – Casey Kasem, American radio personality (creator of American Top 40) and the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo, dies from Lewy body dementia at 82
2014 – Jacques Bergerac, French actor (Gigi, Les Girls, Thunder in Sun) and business executive (Revlon), dies at 87
2017 – Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor named a People’s Artist of the USSR (1976) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1989), dies at 88
Historical Events for 15th June 2025
1924 – J. Edgar Hoover assumes leadership of the FBI
1950 – Dutch police seize condoms
1960 – “The Apartment” directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine premieres in New York (Academy Awards Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay 1961)
1961 – Expansion Washington Senators are 30-30, latest date an expansion team will be at .500, Washington will lose their next 10 games
1963 – Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion resigns
1963 – American Leonard “Buddy” Edelen runs world record marathon (2:14:28) at Polytechnic Marathon (from Windsor to Chiswick, England)
1992 – Dan Quayle, relying on faulty card, erroneously instructs Trenton NJ, elementary student to spell “potato,” “potatoe” during spelling bee
2015 – 800 year anniversary of “the birthplace of modern democracy”, the signing of the Magna Carta by King John at Runymede, England
2015 – Stanley Cup Final, United Center, Chicago, IL: Chicago Blackhawks defeat Tampa Bay Lightning, 2-0 for a 4-2 series victory; Blackhawks’ 6th Championship
2017 – New record set for price of a parking lot in Hong Kong – $664,000
Today in History for 15th June 2025
Historical Events
1836 – Arkansas becomes 25th state of the Union
1869 – World’s 1st plastic celluloid is patented by John Wesley Hyatt in Albany, NY
1909 – Representatives from England, Australia, and South Africa meet at Lord’s and form the Imperial Cricket Conference
1947 – US Open Men’s Golf, St. Louis CC: Lew Worsham defeats Sam Snead by 1 stroke in an 18-hole playoff for his only major title
1973 – “Let’s Get It On” single released by Marvin Gaye (Billboard RandB Song of the Year, 1973; No. 4 overall)
Famous Birthdays
1890 – Georg Wüst, German Oceanographer (provided first complete understanding of the temperature, salinity and deep-current structure of the Atlantic Ocean), born in Posen, Germany (d. 1977)
1922 – [Morris] Mo Udall, American politician (Rep-D-AZ, 1961-91), born in St Johns, Arizona (d. 1998)
1933 – Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (“Marianne”), born in Pola, Istria, Italy (now Croatia) (d. 2005)
1946 – Demis Roussos, Greek singer and performer (Aphrodite’s Child), born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 2015)
1970 – Gaëlle Méchaly, French soprano, born in Marseille, France
Famous Deaths
1888 – Frederick III, German Emperor (1888), dies of cancer at 56
1917 – Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian explorer and physicist (nominated 7 times for Nobel Prize), dies at 49
1979 – Ernst Meister, writer, dies at 67
2011 – Bill Haast, American Herpetologist (b. 1910)
2017 – Jacques Charpentier, French organist and composer (72 études karnatiques), dies at 83
Famous Deaths for 14th June 2025
1349 – Günther von Schwarzburg, German anti-king 1349 who gave up his claim to the throne for 20,000 marks of silver, dies at about 44
1916 – João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian writer (b. 1865)
1951 – Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician, dies at 73
1988 – Johnny Farrell, American golfer (US Open 1928), dies of a stroke at 87
1994 – Lionel Grigson, British jazz musician, dies at 52
1995 – Els Aarne, Estonian composer, dies at 78
1995 – Rory Gallagher, Irish rock guitarist (See Here), dies at 47
1999 – Bernie Faloney, American-Canadian professional football player (Hamilton Tiger-Cats), dies at 66
2016 – Henry McCullough, Irish guitarist (Wings), dies at 72
2023 – Charles L. Blockson, American historian, author, bibliophile, and curator (co-founder of the African American Museum in Philadelphia), dies at 89
Historical Events for 14th June 2025
1834 – Sandpaper is patented by Isaac Fischer Jr. in Springfield, Vermont
1876 – California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise
1877 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes 1st African American to graduate from West Point Military Academy
1907 – Norway adopts female suffrage for middle class women only in parliamentary elections
1922 – US President Warren G. Harding is 1st US President to use radio, dedicates the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore
1933 – MLB’s Lou Gehrig and Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn’t, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games
1942 – Anne Frank begins writing her diary, in Dutch, two days after her 13th birthday
1962 – Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler, murders Anna Slesers, his first victim
1966 – Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
1995 – Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win
Today in History for 14th June 2025
Historical Events
1949 – French-allied State of Vietnam is officially formed during the First Indochina War, Bảo Đại installed as Emperor
1953 – Military coup by General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia
1965 – Beatles release album “Beatles VI”
1967 – USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit
2000 – 34th Country Weekly Presents the TNN Music Awards: George Strait and Faith Hill win
Famous Birthdays
1854 – Frederik Rung, Danish composer, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1914)
1918 – LeRoy T. Walker, American sports executive (first black president US Olympic Committee 1992-96), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 2012)
1952 – Pat Summitt, American Basketball HOF coach (8 × NCAA Division I tournament; 18 × NCAA Regional—Final Four; University of Tennessee), born in Clarksville, Tennessee (d. 2016)
1955 – Paul O’Grady, English TV presenter, comedian and drag queen (Lily Savage), born in Tranmere, England (d. 2023)
1988 – Kevin Michael McHale, American singer (NLT) and actor (Glee – “Artie”), born in Plano, Texas
Famous Deaths
1381 – Simon of Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (1375-81) and Chancellor, beheaded during the Peasants’ Revolt
1891 – Nicolò Gabrielli, Italian opera composer, dies at 77
1986 – Marlin Perkins, TV host (Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom), dies at 81
1994 – Lionel Grigson, British jazz musician, dies at 52
2007 – Robin Olds, American fighter pilot, flying ace in WWII and the Vietnam War, dies at 84
Famous Deaths for 13th June 2025
1749 – Jan Frans van Bloemen, Flemish landscape painter, dies at 87
1930 – Henry Segrave, British auto racer (3 x land speed, 1 x water speed record; 2 x F1 GP victories), dies in water speed record attempt accident at 33
1939 – Arthur Coningham, Australian cricketer (one Test for Australia 1894), dies at 75
1976 – Don Bolles, American journalist (against Arizona), dies
1984 – Nathaniel Owings, American architect (Oak Ridge, TN; Sears Tower), dies at 81
2014 – Chuck Noll, American Pro Football HOF coach (Super Bowl 1974, 75, 78, 79; Pittsburgh Steelers 1969-91), dies from Alzheimer’s disease at 82
2017 – Anita Pallenberg, Italian model and actress credited as the muse of the Rolling Stones, dies of complications of hepatitis C. at 75
2018 – Charles Vinci, American weightlifter (Olympic bantamweight gold 1956, 60), dies at 85
2019 – Sean McCann, Canadian character actor (…First Do No Harm; Tommy Boy; Night Heat), dies of heart disease at 83
2021 – Ziona Chana, Indian head of a Christian sect and ‘world’s largest family’ (38 wives, 89 children), dies at 76
Historical Events for 13th June 2025
1721 – England signs Treaty of Madrid
1889 – Two feet of snow accumulates in Rawlins, Wyoming
1890 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Philadelphia Cricket Club: Ellen Roosevelt beats defending champion Bertha Townsend 6-2, 6-2
1924 – Bene Berak, Palestine, founded
1944 – German counterattack on Villers-Bocage, Normandy
1945 – Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead
1960 – Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia
1980 – US Congressman John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in “Abscam” investigation
1997 – Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death
2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch