1942 – Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now Czech Republic) which had been implicated in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi controller of Bohemia and Moravia, to “teach the Czechs a final lesson of subservience and humility”; over 170 adult men were executed by firing squad on site, women and children were sent to concentration camp gas chambers, and the village was burned down and plowed under
1954 – KQED TV channel 9 in San Francisco, California (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 – John Diefenbaker (C) elected Prime Minister of Canada
1966 – The Beatles release single “Paperback Writer” / “Rain” in UK; “Rain” featured experimental studio tricks of slowed down bass and drums tracks, and backwards vocals in the fade out
1967 – 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival, California
1967 – American pole vaulter Bob Seagren sets a world record mark of 17’7″ in San Diego, California
1974 – “Feel Like Makin’ Love” single released by Roberta Flack (Billboard Song of the Year 1974)
1991 – David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” final episode airs on ABC-TV
2013 – Superman film “Man of Steel” directed by Zack Snyder, starring Henry Cavill and Amy Adams premieres in New York City
2019 – New DNA research on grapes shows one French wine Savagnin Blanc has been grown for 900 years in Jura published in “Nature Plants”
Author: gil7
Today in History for 10th June 2024
Historical Events
1865 – Richard Wagner’s opera “Tristan und Isolde” premieres in Munich, Germany
1916 – Great Arab Revolt begins against ruling Ottoman turks
1990 – French Open Men’s Tennis: Andres Gomez of Ecuador wins his 1st and only career Grand Slam title; beats American Andre Agassi 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
1995 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 7-5, 4-6, 6-0 with pivotal 32-point game in 3rd set; Graf’s 4th French title
1996 – 30th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson wins
2018 – Actor Vince Vaughn arrested for drunk driving and resisting arrest near Los Angeles
Famous Birthdays
1861 – Pierre Duhem, French naturalist, philosopher and historian, born in Paris (d. 1916)
1861 – Joseph Cuypers, Dutch architect (St Bavo, Haarlem), born in Roermond, the Netherlands (d. 1949)
1863 – Louis Couperus, Dutch poet and writer (Eline Vere), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1923)
1929 – Edward O. Wilson, American sociobiologist, world’s leading authority on ants, born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 2021)
1934 – Nicolas Roussakis, American composer, born in Athens, Greece (d. 1994)
1979 – Lee Brice, American country singer and songwriter (Love Like Crazy, Hard to Love), born in Sumter, South Carolina
Famous Deaths
1247 – Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Spanish Archbishop of Toledo and advisor to Alfonso VIII, dies (b. c. 1170)
1967 – Frank Butler, American actor and screenwriter (Road to Bali, China), dies at 76
1986 – Merle Miller, American biographer (b. 1919)
2008 – Dieuwke de Graaff-Nauta, Dutch politician (State Secretary for the Interior 1986-94), dies at 78
2009 – Norma Shaw, English lawn bowler (World Outdoor C’ship gold 1981; Indoor C’ship gold 1997), dies at 72
2021 – Neno, Portuguese soccer goalkeeper (9 caps; Vitória de Guimarães, Benfica), dies from a heart attack at 59
Famous Deaths for 9th June 2024
1870 – Charles Dickens, English writer (Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol), dies of stroke at 58
1900 – Birsa Munda, Indian tribal freedom fighter, religious leader and folk hero of the Munda tribe who led an uprising in Bengal against the British Raj, dies in jail awaiting trial at 24
1964 – [William Maxwell] Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian British newspaper owner (Leatherhead), dies at 85
1978 – Chief Tahachee [Jeff Davis Tahchee Cypert], Cherokee stage and film actor, dies from a heart attack at 74
1991 – Charles Loloma, painter/sculptor, dies
1994 – Dhirendra Bhramachari [Flying Swami], hindu leader, dies at 70
2001 – David Sheinfeld, American violinist and composer, dies at 94
2014 – Bob Welch, American baseball pitcher (AL Cy Young Award 1990; Oakland A’s; World Series 1981, 89, 2001), dies from a broken neck at 57
2018 – Lorraine Gordon [Stein], American jazz music advocate and owner of Village Vanguard jazz club, dies at 95
2022 – Oleg Moliboga, Ukrainian volleyball player (Olympic gold USSR 1980, silver 1976; World C’ship gold 1978, 82), dies at 69
Historical Events for 9th June 2024
1772 – 1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, Rhode Island
1803 – British explorer Matthew Flinders arrives in Sydney becoming the first person to circumnavigate Australia, proving it is one continent
1902 – 1st Automat restaurant opens at 818 Chestnut St, Philadelphia
1931 – First rocket-powered aircraft design patented by Robert Goddard
1942 – Adipatie Ario Soejono becomes minister in Gerbrandy government
1988 – “Bloodsport (1987)” premieres in Germany
2010 – 9th CMT Video Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, and Keith Urban win
2016 – Elizabeth Warren formally endorses Hillary Clinton for president
2019 – 95 people killed in attack on Dogon village Sobame Da in central Mali by suspected Fulani group
2021 – US President Joe Biden begins his first foreign trip, arriving in the UK to attend a G7 summit
Today in History for 9th June 2024
Historical Events
1908 – King Edward VII of Great Britain visits Tsar Nicholas II at Reval, Russia, where the two discuss the growing power of Germany and British plans for reform in Macedonia
1960 – Roy Orbison releases single “Only the Lonely”; it becomes his 1st major hit – peaking at #2 in the US and topping the UK charts
1975 – Tony Orlando and Dawn receives gold record for “He Don’t Love You”
1984 – Jurgen Hingsen of West Germany sets record for decathlon, 8,798 pts
1984 – NASA suffers a launch vehicle failure launching Intelsat 509
2013 – The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf, Shoal Creek GandCC: David Frost of South Africa wins his lone career major title by 1 stroke from Fred Couples
Famous Birthdays
1898 – Luigi Fagioli, Italian auto racer (oldest to win F1 race at 53), born in Osimo, Ancona, Italy (d. 1952)
1901 – George Price, American cartoonist (The New Yorker), born in Fort Lee, New Jersey (d. 1995)
1938 – Gary Starkweather, American engineer and inventor of the laser printer, born in Lansing, Michigan (d. 2019)
1942 – Ossie Clark, British fashion designer of the Swinging Sixties, born in Oswaldtwistle, England (d. 1996)
1973 – Orlondo Steinauer, American CFL cornerback (Hamilton Tiger Cats) and coach, born in Seattle, Washington
1973 – Tedy Bruschi, American linebacker (New England Patriots), born in San Francisco, California
Famous Deaths
1825 – Pauline Bonaparte, Corsican duchess of Parma and Guastalla, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, dies at 44
1892 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian-British explorer and adventurer with leading role controversial African expeditions, dies of malaria at 28
1960 – René Maran, French writer (Batouala, 1st black writer to win Prix Goncourt), dies at 72
1976 – Sybil Thorndike, English actress (Melba, Major Barbara), dies at 93
1996 – Edward Morris Bernstein, American economist (US negotiator at Bretton Woods conference and establishment of IMF), dies at 91
2019 – Gerlind Reinshagen, German novelist, children’s book author, and playwright (Himmel und Erde (Heaven and Earth)), dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 8th June 2024
1383 – Thomas Ros, 4th Baron de Ros of Helmsley, English Crusader, dies at 49
1714 – Sophia of Hanover, Princess Palatine and Electress of Saxony, dies at 83
1771 – George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman, dies at 54
1831 – Sarah Kemble Siddons, English tragic actress (Fatal Marriage, Lady Macbeth), dies at 75
1993 – René Bousquet, French Vichy-police chief (deported Jews), dies at 84
1998 – Sani Abacha, de facto President of Nigeria (1993-98), dies at 54
2000 – (Abram) “Abe” Lincoln, American sweet jazz trombonist (Paul Whiteman; Ozzie Nelson), and Dixieland jazz revivalist, dies at 93
2018 – Eunice Gayson, British actress and 1st Bond Girl (Sylvia Trench- “Dr. No” and “From Russia With Love”), dies at 90
2022 – Julio Jiménez, Spanish road cyclist (King of the Mountains: Tour de France 1965, 66, 67 and Vuelta a España 1963, 64, 65), dies at 87
2022 – Aarno Turpeinen, Finnish soccer defender (16 caps; HJK 225 games), dies at 51
Historical Events for 8th June 2024
1929 – 61st Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins in 2:32.8
1963 – American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes
1965 – USSR launches Luna 6; it missed the Moon by 99,000 miles
1974 – US and Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract
1979 – “The Source,” 1st computer public information service, goes on-line
1982 – Falklands War: Royal Fleet Auxiliary Sir Gahalad attacked in San Carlos Water (“Bomb Alley”) by Argentine aircraft: 48 soldiers and crewman were killed.
1982 – Emmy 9th Daytime Award presentation – Susan Lucci loses for 3rd time
1985 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Chris Evert beats Martina Navratilova 6-3, 6-7, 7-5 for her 17th Grand Slam title and 6th French singles crown
1996 – PBA National Championship Won by Butch Soper
2018 – World’s most powerful supercomputer, Summit, can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second, launched at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, by IBM and NVidia
Today in History for 8th June 2024
Historical Events
1647 – England parliament bans Christmas, Easter and Whitsun festivities, services and celebrations, including in the home, with fines for non-compliance – proves unpopular
1817 – An uprising involving three hundred workers in the English town of Pentrich begins but is quashed almost immediately
1935 – 67th Belmont: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:30.6
1953 – Cluster of 6 tornadoes touches down in Flint, Michigan killing 113
1963 – American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes
1983 – East German sprinter Marlies Göhr sets world record for 100m (10.81) in Berlin, Germany
Famous Birthdays
1745 – Caspar Wessel, Danish-Norwegian mathematician, born in Vestby, Norway (d. 1818)
1903 – Ralph Webster Yarborough, American politician, U.S. Senator from Texas (1957-71), born in Chandler, Texas (d. 1996)
1923 – Malcolm Boyd, American Episcopal Priest, author and civil rights activist, born in Buffalo, New York (d. 2015)
1952 – Martin Taylor, CEO (Barclays Bank)
1970 – “Seu” Jorge [da Silva], Brazilian musical artist, songwriter, singer, and actor (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou), born in Belford Roxo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1982 – Irina Lazareanu, Romanian-Canadian model
Famous Deaths
1948 – Sammy Carter, Australian cricket wicketkeeper (28 Tests, 65 dismissals; NSWCA), dies at 70
1956 – Marie Laurencin, French painter, dies at 72
2010 – Crispian St. Peters [Robin Peter Smith], British pop singer (The Pied Piper; No No No), dies at 71
2013 – Paul Cellucci, American politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts and former United States Ambassador to Canada, dies from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 65
2018 – Danny Kirwan, British musician, singer and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac – “Albatross”), dies at 68
2022 – Julio Jiménez, Spanish road cyclist (King of the Mountains: Tour de France 1965, 66, 67 and Vuelta a España 1963, 64, 65), dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 7th June 2024
1549 – Eelke Fouckens, Frisian anabaptist, beheaded
1916 – Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
1927 – Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered
1979 – Forrest [Asa Earl] Carter, American author and segregationist speech writer, dies at 53
1980 – Henry Miller, American writer (Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn), dies of circulatory complications at 88
1988 – Joe Partridge, cricketer (South African pace bowler 1963-65), commits suicide
1995 – “Sheikh” Imam [Eissa], Egyptian folk and protest singer-songwriter, dies at 76
2009 – Kenny Rankin, American singer-songwriter (“Peaceful”), dies of lung cancer at 69
2011 – Paul Dickson, American football player and coach (b. 1937)
2011 – Hubert Du Plessis, South African pianist and composer, dies at 88
Historical Events for 7th June 2024
1665 – Boston’s First Baptist Church, one of the oldest Baptist churches in America, is founded [NS March 1]
1866 – 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec
1875 – California Rifle and Pistol Association founded
1906 – Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches
1936 – Yanks beat Indians 5-4 in 16; longest game without a strikeout
1941 – Chemists Archer John Porter Martin and Richard L. M. Synge give the first demonstration of partition chromatography (separation of mixtures) at a meeting of the Biochemical Society held at the National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead
1959 – KLX-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KEWB (now KNEW)
1967 – 2 Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of minors
1973 – Rangers draft Texas high school pitcher David Clyde #1
1987 – Andy Van Slyke HRs off R McDowell in both ends of double header