1719 – Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel.
1794 – Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia forms
1865 – Richard Wagner’s opera “Tristan und Isolde” premieres in Munich, Germany
1916 – Great Arab Revolt begins against ruling Ottoman turks
1933 – Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker flip their car into a ravine. Parker suffers serious third degree burns from the accident which would affect her for the rest of her life.
1968 – “Danny Thomas Hour” last airs on NBC-TV
1987 – Discovery’s SRBs and External Tank are mated
1990 – Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers for 1st time since 1974 in Portland
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
1990 – “Meet Me in St Louis” closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 253 performances
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Today in History for 10th June 2020
Historical Events
1639 – 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)
1957 – John Diefenbacker (C) elected Prime Minister of Canada
1959 – Rocky Colovito hits 4 consecutive HRs in 1 game
1967 – 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival, California
1985 – Coca Cola announces they’re bringing back their 99-year-old formula
1986 – A. Bartlett Giamatti succeeds Chub Feeney as President of baseball’s National League
Famous Birthdays
1832 – Nikolaus Otto, German engineer (gas motor, otto motor), born in Holzhausen an der Haide, Nassau (d. 1891)
1861 – Joseph Cuypers, Dutch architect (St Bavo, Haarlem), born in Roermond, the Netherlands (d. 1949)
1925 – Nat Hentoff, columnist/novelist (Village Voice, The Cold Society)
1959 – Timothy Van Patten, American actor (White Shadow, Master), born in Brooklyn, New York
1961 – Maxi Priest, [Max Elliott], Jamaican/English singer (Wild World)
1976 – Hadi Saei Bonehkohal, Persian taekwondoka
Famous Deaths
1560 – Mary of Guise [Mary of Lorraine], pro-French Queen of Scots (1538-42) and Regent of Scotland (1554-60), dies of dropsy at 44
1836 – André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
1944 – Johan Limpers, Dutch sculptor and resistance fighter, executed at 28
1949 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1994 – Edward Kienholz, US sculptor (Back seat of a ’38 Dodge), dies at 66
1998 – Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
Famous Deaths for 9th June 2020
1820 – Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (1767-1806), dies at 68
1892 – Taiso Yoshitoshi, Japanese woodblock artist and painter, dies at 53
1892 – Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, German musician and composer, dies at 59
1897 – Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (Sirius B), dies 3 weeks after 1st use of Yerkes 40″ lens at 64
1922 – Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 56
1939 – Owen Moore, Irish actor (She Done Him Wrong), commits suicide at 52
1973 – Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
1977 – Bill Merritt, cricketer (6 Tests of leg-spin for NZ, 12 wkts), dies
1980 – Leonhard Huizinga, Dutch journalist and writer (Olivier and Adrian), dies at 73
1996 – Walter Pardon, carpenter/traditional singer, dies at 81
Historical Events for 9th June 2020
1534 – Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River
1892 – 26th Belmont: W Hayward aboard Patron wins in 2:12
1899 – American boxer James J. Jeffries KOs defending champion Bob Fitzsimmons of England in 11th round in Brooklyn, New York to win the lineal World Heavyweight title
1940 – General Charles de Gaulle’s 1st meeting with Winston Churchill
1966 – 5 Minnesota Twins (Rich Rollins, Zolio Versailes, Tony Oliva, Don Michner, and Harmon Killebrew) all homer in 7th inning to beat A’s 9-4
1967 – The Monkees appear at the Hollywood Bowl
1979 – Willie Horton is honored at Seattle’s Kingdome
1985 – 39th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
2012 – Burma (Myanmar) riots kill 20 people and burn down 300 houses
2019 – 95 people killed in attack on Dogon village Sobame Da in central Mali by suspected Fulani group
Today in History for 9th June 2020
Historical Events
68 – Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging
1860 – 1st US “dime novel” published: “Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter,” by Mrs Ann Stevens
1943 – “Pay-as-you-go” (withholding) US income tax deductions authorized
1967 – Israeli troops reach Suez Canal
1984 – 116th Belmont: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Swale wins in 2:27.2
2001 – 133rd Belmont: Gary Stevens aboard Point Given wins in 2:26.80
Famous Birthdays
1918 – Rob de Vries, actor and director (Ciske de Rat, Silent Raid), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1969)
1925 – Keith Laumer [Anthony LeBaron], American sci-fi author (Retief’s War), born in Syracuse, New York (d. 1993)
1929 – Robert Badham, American politician (Rep-R-CA, 1977-89), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2005)
1934 – Paul Karolyi, Hungarian composer, born in Budapest (d. 2015)
1971 – Roderick Lewis, NFL tight end (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1986 – Kary Ng, Hong Kong singer and actress
Famous Deaths
1954 – Alain LeRoy Locke, African-American writer and philosopher “Father of the Harlem Renaissance”, dies at 68
1961 – Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
1967 – Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski, composer, dies at 64
1976 – Paul Rodenko, Dutch poet and writer (Never Marry a Witch), dies at 55
1992 – Clarence Miller, blues/jazz vocalist, dies at 69 of a heart attack
1998 – Lois Mailou Jones, American painter (Peasants on Parade), dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 8th June 2020
1794 – G A Borger, writer, dies
1924 – George Mallory, English mountain climber (“because it is there”), dies in a climbing accident at 37
1965 – Edmondo Rossoni, Italian fascist (b. 1884)
1969 – Robert Taylor, American actor (Waterloo Bridge, Quo Vadis, Death Valley Days), dies of lung cancer at 57
1984 – Gordon Jacob, British composer, dies at 88
1992 – William McGowan, entrepreneur (MCI), dies at 64
1995 – Juan Carlos Ongania, President of Argentina (1966-70), dies
1995 – Jürgen Rausch, German philosopher and author (End of the Playboys), dies at 85
1996 – Barry Linehan, actor (Bullseye, Dark Places, Witchcraft), dies at 70
2013 – Paul Cellucci, American politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts and former United States Ambassador to Canada, dies from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 65
Historical Events for 8th June 2020
1624 – Earthquake strikes Peru
1921 – Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, and held in jail until 4 PM
1948 – “Texaco Star Theater” premieres on NBC-TV, with “Mr. Television” Milton Berle being made the permanent emcee in September of the same year
1965 – USSR launches Luna 6; it missed the Moon by 99,000 miles
1969 – Nixon says 25,000 US troops would leave Vietnam by end of August
1984 – “Ghostbusters”, American supernatural comedy film, directed and produced by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murrary and Dan Aykroyd is released
1985 – 117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27
1991 – Former NY Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds
2008 – The Akihabara massacre took place on the Sunday-pedestrian-zoned Chūōdōri street. A man killed seven in an attack on a crowd using a truck and a dagger.
2017 – British General Election results in a hung parliament, Prime Minster Theresa May and the Conservative party lose their majority
Today in History for 8th June 2020
Historical Events
1663 – Battle at Amegical: English and Portuguese fleet beats Spanish
1916 – Battle of Verdun: Germans capture Fort Vaux after several days of intense fighting
1969 – Brian Jones is asked to leave the Rolling Stones
1969 – Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones
1974 – Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group “Yes”
1982 – 36th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers, 4 games to 2
Famous Birthdays
1757 – Ercole Consalvi, Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1824)
1918 – John D. Roberts, American chemist, received American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (2013), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2016)
1930 – Dana Wynter, German-English actress (Airport, Invasion of the Body Snatchers), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2011)
1950 – Elmar Oliveira, American violinist (Naumburg 1978), born in Waterbury, Connecticut
1962 – Kristine W [Weitz], American musician ranked by Billboard as the 8th Greatest Dance Artist of all-time (The Advocate), born in Pasco, Washington
1971 – Tom Nutten, CFL/NFL centers (Hamilton Tiger Cats, Buffalo Bills)
Famous Deaths
1383 – Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English Crusader (b. 1338)
1661 – John Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 39
1768 – Johann Winckelmann, German archaeologist (History of Ancient Art), dies at 50
1876 – George Sand [Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dudevant], French author (Indiana, Consuelo), dies at 71
1980 – Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (b. 1900)
1992 – William McGowan, entrepreneur (MCI), dies at 64
Famous Deaths for 7th June 2020
1394 – Anne of Bohemia, Queen of England and wife of Richard II, dies at 28
1840 – Frederik Willem III, King of Prussia (1797-1840), dies at 69
1877 – Winand Staring, Dutch geologist (Bottom of Netherlands), dies at 68
1964 – Charlie Llewellyn, South African cricketer (544 runs in 15 Tests for South Africa), dies at 87
1973 – Christine Lavant, Austrian poet and writer (Das Kind), dies at 57
1974 – Émilie Charmy, French avant-garde artist, dies at 96
1989 – Milton van Embricqs, Suriname/Dutch publicist, dies
1993 – Drazen Petrovic, NBA player (NJ Nets), dies in auto-accident at 28
1994 – Vincent Nsengijumva, Rwandan archbishop of Kigali, murdered
2009 – Kenny Rankin, American singer (b. 1940)
Historical Events for 7th June 2020
1557 – England declares war on France
1672 – Battle by Solebay: Dutch admiral M de Ruyter beats French/English fleet
1769 – Daniel Boone begins exploring Bluegrass, State of Kentucky
1863 – Mexico City captured by French troops
1929 – Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st British female cabinet minister (Labour)
1976 – NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor and David Brinkley, premieres
1978 – Emmy 5th Daytime Award presentation
1980 – “Billy Bishop Goes to War” closes at Morosco NYC after 12 performances
1989 – For one second this morning, the time is 01:23:45, 6-7-89
2013 – NHL Eastern Conference Finals: Boston Bruins beat Pittsburgh Penguins, 4 games to 0