452 – Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
1761 – British fleet occupies Belle Île off the Brittany Coast
1817 – An uprising involving three hundred workers in the English town of Pentrich begins but is quashed almost immediately
1928 – 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
1961 – Milwaukee sets record of 4 consecutive HRs (Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock and Frank Thomas)
1980 – LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: South African Sally Little wins first of her 2 major titles, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Jane Blalock
1981 – 15th Music City News Country Awards: Mandrell Sisters win
1982 – Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die
2007 – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia is hit by the State’s worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker
2020 – World Bank says the COVID-19 pandemic will shrink the global economy by 5.2% in 2020
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 7th June 2023
1665 – Boston’s First Baptist Church, one of the oldest Baptist churches in America, is founded [NS March 1]
1862 – The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade
1957 – Mickey Stewart holds 7 cricket catches for Surrey v Northants
1978 – 32nd NBA championship: Washington Bullets defeat Seattle Supersonics in 7 games
1980 – Jeff Norman runs world record 50k (2:48:06)
2003 – French Open Women’s Tennis: In an all-Belgian final, Justine Henin-Hardenne outclasses Kim Clijsters 6-0, 6-4 for her 1st of 7 Grand Slam singles titles
2004 – “Live Like You Were Dying” single released by Tim McGraw (Grammy Award Best Country Song, 2004; Billboard Song of the Year, 2004)
2008 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Ana Ivanović of Serbia wins her only Grand Slam singles title; beats Russian Dinara Safina 6-4, 6-3
2014 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Maria Sharapova of Russia wins her 5th Grand Slam singles title; beats Romanian Simona Halep 6-4, 6-7, 6-4
2016 – “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”, a play written by Jack Thorne with JK Rowling, premieres in London
Historical Events for 6th June 2023
1536 – Mexico begins its inquisition
1848 – New York Yacht Club holds its first annual regatta; won by the schooner Carnelia
1882 – Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay, India) drowns 100,000 (disputed event)
1924 – US Open Men’s Golf, Oakland Hills CC: Unknown Englishman Cyril Walker wins his only major title, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up and defending champion Bobby Jones
1937 – Philadelphia Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game
1939 – NY Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning
1942 – Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
1944 – World War II: All Major League Baseball games are cancelled in honor of the D-Day landings in northern France
1969 – Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar
1993 – French Open Men’s Tennis: Spaniard Sergi Bruguera prevents Jim Courier French three-peat; beats American 6-4, 2-6, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
Historical Events for 5th June 2023
1873 – Sultan Bargash bin Said under British pressure closes the infamous slave market of Zanzibar in modern day Tanzania
1917 – 10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I
1933 – US drops the Gold Standard when Congress enacts a joint resolution nullifying creditors right to demand payment in gold
1937 – Henry Ford initiates a 32 hour work week
1956 – “Milton Berle Show” last airs on NBC-TV
1981 – George Harrison releases “Somewhere in England”, his ninth studio album, includes John Lennon tribute “All Those Years Ago” (Featuring Paul and Ringo)
1993 – Somali warlord Aidids murders 23 Pakistani
2000 – Armed conflict between Rwanda and Uganda erupts in Kinsangani, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2017 – Puerto Rico declares its Zika virus epidemic over
2019 – Ohio doctor William Husel charged with 25 counts of murder for prescribing potentially fatal doses of opioids in Franklin County
Historical Events for 4th June 2023
1934 – Dr Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted
1941 – Nazis forbid Jews access to beaches and swimming pools
1961 – US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet at the Vienna Summit in Austria
1963 – 1st broadcast of “Pop Go the Beatles” on BBC radio
1968 – Don Drysdale pitches his 6th straight shutout, en route to 58 innings
1975 – Oldest animal fossils in US discovered in North Carolina
1979 – Sri Lanka forfeit ICC Trophy game vs Israel for political reasons
1988 – Revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb’s “Cabaret” closes at Imperial Theater, NYC, after 262 performances
2011 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Li Na becomes first Chinese player to win a Grand Slam singles title; beats Italian defending champion Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 7-6
2019 – SF MLB manager Bruce Bochy reaches 1,000 win mark with the club as Giants beat Mets, 9-3 in NYC; second after legendary John McGraw to reach milestone
Historical Events for 3rd June 2023
1140 – French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy
1896 – British naval officer David Beatty is seconded to the Egyptian government and appointed second in command of the river flotilla
1907 – Centro Escolar University is established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in Manila, Philippines
1925 – Baseball player Eddie Collins becomes the 6th to get 3,000 hits
1925 – Goodyear airship “Pilgrim” is the first to have an enclosed cabin
1944 – Nazis pull out of Rome
1944 – Generals Giraud and de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution
1963 – A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101
1967 – French Championships Women’s Tennis: Local favourite Françoise Dürr beats Lesley Turner of Australia, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
2021 – Devon Conway becomes 7th batsman in cricket history to score a double century in his Test debut; run out for 200 for New Zealand in 1st Test against England at Lord’s
Historical Events for 2nd June 2023
657 – St Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1615 – First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France
1619 – England and the Netherlands sign treaty about trading in the Indies
1625 – Prince Frederick Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand
1930 – Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati
1933 – WNJ-AM in Newark NJ goes off the air
1952 – Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette
1973 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Margaret Court of Australia beats American teenager Chris Evert 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 for her 5th and last French singles crown
1995 – John Valentin hits 3 HRs
2018 – Socialist Pedro Sánchez is sworn in as Spanish Prime Minister
Historical Events for 1st June 2023
193 – Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated
1808 – 1st US land-grant university founded as Ohio University in Athens, Ohio
1861 – US and Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
1941 – 12.59″ (31.98 cm) rainfall, in Burlington, Kansas (state 24-hr record)
1945 – WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minn changes call letters to KUOM
1947 – OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands
1952 – French Championships Women’s Tennis: Doris Hart beats fellow American Shirley Fry 6-4, 6-4 for her 2nd French singles title
1970 – “Everything Is Beautiful” by Ray Stevens hits #1
1997 – Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia.
1998 – European Central Bank is founded in Brussels to define and execute the European Union’s monetary policy
Historical Events for 31st May 2023
1659 – Netherlands, England and France sign Treaty of The Hague
1902 – Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal
1931 – French Championships Men’s Tennis: Jean Borotra wins his only home title; beats fellow Frenchman Christian Boussus 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4
1934 – The Barmen Declaration is published by a group of
church leaders in Germany including Karl Barth to help Christians withstand the challenges of the Nazi party
1935 – 7.7 magnitude earthquake destroys Quetta in Balochistan, British India (now Pakistan) killing an estimated 40,000 people
1937 – Second largest crowd in Polo Grounds history (61,756) sees Brooklyn Dodgers beat NY Giants, 10-3, ending Carl Hubbell’s record consecutive-game winning streak at 24
1941 – German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach and swimming pools
1967 – Bayern Munchen of West Germany wins 7th European Cup Winner’s Cup against Rangers of Scotland 1-0 in Nuremberg
1982 – “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” opens at Eugene O’Neill Theater NYC for 63 performances
2018 – Uganda’s parliament imposes tax on social media to stop gossip
Historical Events for 30th May 2023
1848 – William G Young patents ice cream freezer
1908 – Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
1924 – Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
1938 – New York Yankees sweep arch rival Boston Red Sox, 10-0 and 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium
1949 – NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname
1958 – Indianapolis 500: Jimmy Bryan wins a race best known for a massive first-lap, 15-car pileup that results in death of fan-favourite driver Pat O’Connor
1962 – 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)
1987 – Tony Tucker TKOs Buster Douglas in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 – North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video
1999 – Super Rugby Final, Carisbrook, Dunedin: Canterbury Crusaders retain title with a 24-19 win over Otago Highlanders; flyhalf Andrew Mehrtens kicks 3 penalties, a conversion and dropped goal for the winners