1779 – French fleet occupies St Vincent, West Indies
1872 – Woman’s Suffrage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1894 – Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate
1961 – KBMT TV channel 12 in Beaumont, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 – Closing day of the Monterey International Pop Festival, Southern California. First major US appearances of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, and Otis Redding
1972 – BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118
1979 – Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager (2nd time), replacing Bob Lemon
1983 – 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launches Sally Ride as 1st US woman in space
2018 – US President Trump orders US military to set up sixth branch of the military – a space force
2019 – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announces the suspension of the pro-China and highly controversial extradition law, after massive protests in the city
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 17th June 2023
1939 – 44th Women’s French Championships: Simonne Mathieu beats Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (6-3, 8-6)
1947 – Earnest Reuter becomes mayor of Berlin
1956 – Golda Meir begins her term as Israel’s foreign minister
1962 – FIFA World Cup Final, Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile: Brazil go 1-down early but recover to beat Czechoslovakia, 3-1
1968 – Ohio Express’ “Yummy Yummy Yummy” goes gold
1973 – Dolly Parton records her song “I Will Always Love You” (later a huge hit for Whitney Houston) for RCA in Nashville
1978 – Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike-outs
1983 – Ed Warren and Lorraine Warren exorcise a “werewolf demon” from Bill Ramsey, although lack of photo or video evidence has called this claim into question
1985 – 18th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-G): Discovery 5 launches
2020 – American actor Danny Masterson charged with raping three women. after a 3-year investigation
Historical Events for 16th June 2023
632 – Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era
1745 – British fleet occupies Cape Breton on St Lawrence River
1898 – China’s emperor De Zong (Guang Xu) receives Kang Youwei
1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland
1925 – The Union Government rejects a round-table conference with India on the grounds that it will constitute interference in South African affairs
1932 – Sutcliffe and Holmes make 555 opening cricket stand for Yorkshire v Essex
1977 – Ron Guidry’s 1st complete game, 7-0 over KC Royals
1982 – Britain makes request to Argentina to arrange for return of prisoners
1987 – Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens
2010 – Hockey HOF right wing Cam Neely is named President of his former team, the Boston Bruins
Historical Events for 15th June 2023
1567 – Republic of Genoa expels Jews from its whole territory
1869 – World’s 1st plastic celluloid is patented by John Wesley Hyatt in Albany, NY
1924 – Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile
1934 – Great Smokey Mountains National Park on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee is dedicated
1978 – Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days
1984 – “Thicke Of The Night” TV Talk Show last airs in syndication
1986 – Amnesty International “Conspiracy of Hope” tour concludes with mega-concert at Giants Stadium in Rutherford, New Jersey; participants include: U2; Sting; Bryan Adams; Peter Gabriel; Lou Reed; Neville Brothers; Joan Baez; Joan Armatrading; Joni Mitchell; The Police; Jackson Browne; Yoko Ono; Miles Davis; Peter, Paul and Mary; and The Hooters
2008 – 62nd Tony Awards: “In the Heights” (musical) and “August: Osage County” (play) win
2019 – Anthony Davis’s opera “The Central Park Five” premieres at the Long Beach Opera Company, California (Pulitzer Prize for Music 2020)
2020 – Philippines journalist and ‘Time Person of the Year’ Maria Ressa found guilty of cyber libel in Manila amid claims charges politically motivated
Historical Events for 14th June 2023
1565 – Catharina de Medici and Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism
1807 – Emperor Napoleon I’s French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Prussia (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending War of the Fourth Coalition
1944 – General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France
1957 – Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz to become NWA wrestling champion
1965 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jim Maloney no-hits New York Mets but loses in 11 innings, 1-0
1973 – 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe
1973 – US President Richard Nixon administration imposes 60-day economy-wide price freeze, superseding Special Rule No. 1 for oil companies
1980 – “Theme From New York, New York” by Frank Sinatra spreads to #32 on the charts
2013 – Hassan Rouhani is elected President of Iran
2019 – Petition to create world’s first “time free zone” on Sommaroy island which has complete daylight for 2 months, delivered to the Norwegian parliament
Historical Events for 13th June 2023
1777 – Marquis de Lafayette lands in the US
1854 – Anthony Faas, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, patents the 1st US accordion, having made improvements to both the keyboard, and to enhance the sound (Patent No. 11,062)
1868 – Oscar Dunn becomes first African American to be elected a Lieutenant Governor, of Louisiana
1927 – Ticker-tape parade welcomes Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
1953 – Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:18:40.2)
1990 – “Les Miserables” opens at S Alberta Jubilee Centre, Calgary
1994 – Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract
2015 – Philae, 1st spacecraft to land on a comet in European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission re-awakes after 7 months
2018 – Volkswagen fined €1 billion (£880m) by German prosecutors over diesel emissions scandal
2019 – Archaeologists announce Scottish crannogs (fortified settlements on artificial islands in lochs) far older than first thought, radiocarbon dated to 3640-3360 BC, older than Stonehenge
Historical Events for 12th June 2023
1534 – Turkish admiral Chaireddin “Barbarossa” allows Giulia Gonzaga to kidnap and plunder in Naples
1918 – 1st aerial bombing raid by an American unit, France
1926 – Brazil leaves League of Nations
1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures’ Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
1948 – “Hold It!” closes at National Theater NYC after 46 performances
1963 – American civil rights activist Medgar Evers is assassinated by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith in Jackson, Mississippi
1973 – Coleraine bombings: six Protestant civilians were killed and 33 wounded by a Provisional Irish Republican Army car bomb in Coleraine, County Londonderry
1981 – Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti Presidential election
1982 – 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park NYC
2016 – Stanley Cup Final, SAP Center, San Jose, CA: Pittsburgh Penguins defeat San Jose Sharks, 3-1 for a 4-2 series victory; Penguins 4th title
Historical Events for 11th June 2023
1488 – Battle of Sauchieburn, rebellion against the Scottish crown results in death of King James III
1676 – Battle at Öland: Danish and Dutch fleet under CM Tromp beats Sweden
1774 – Jews of Algiers escape attacking Spanish Army
1903 – British Open Men’s Golf, Prestwick GC: Harry Vardon wins his 4th Open title by 6 strokes from younger brother Tom Vardon
1938 – French Championships Men’s Tennis: American Don Budge beats Roderich Menzel of Czechoslovakia 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 for the 2nd leg of his Grand Slam
1967 – Chicago Cubs (7) and NY Mets (4) tie record of 11 HRs in a game
1976 – Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa
1992 – Owners approve sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group
2005 – WLAF World Bowl 13, LTU arena, Düsseldorf: Amsterdam Admirals beat Berlin Thunder, 27-21
2012 – Stanley Cup Final, Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA : LA Kings defeat New Jersey Devils, 6-1 for 4-2 series win; first SC title in Kings’ 45-year history
Historical Events for 10th June 2023
1891 – 25th Belmont: Ed Garrison riding Foxford wins in 2:08.75
1899 – Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati
1964 – Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked
1978 – 110th Belmont: Steve Cauthen wins aboard Affirmed to wrap up the Triple Crown
1979 – Baltimore Orioles pull their 8th triple play (5-4-3 vs Cleveland)
1982 – Iran-Iraq War: Iran recaptures Khorramshahr, Iran from Iraq
1989 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Arantxa Sánchez Vicario of Spain wins her first Grand Slam singles title; beats Steffi Graf 7-6, 3-6, 7-5
1991 – 25th Music City News Country Awards: Ricky Van Shelton wins
1991 – Mother of All Parades – NYC welcomes desert storm troops
2015 – 49th CMT Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, and Luke Bryan win
Historical Events for 9th June 2023
1534 – Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River
1860 – 1st US “dime novel” published: “Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter,” by Mrs Ann Stevens
1898 – China leases Hong Kong’s new territories to the United Kingdom for 99 years
1922 – First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University
1934 – US Open Men’s Golf, Merion Cricket Club: Olin Dutra overcomes an 8-stroke deficit after 36 holes to win his second major title by 1 stroke from Gene Sarazen
1944 – Soviet offensive in Carelia, Finland
1946 – New York Giant Mel Ott becomes first manager in MLB history to be ejected from both games of a doubleheader; Giants lose both games to Pittsburgh Pirates
1958 – Novelty song “The Purple People Eater” by Sheb Wooley hits #1
1978 – Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood
2021 – One of the worst ever plagues of mice in New South Wales, Australia, prompts local government to commit $100 million in support to farmers