1261 – Constantinople recaptured by Nicaean forces under Alexios Strategopoulos for Emperor Michael VIII, re-establishing Byzantine Empire
1567 – Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela
1900 – Gloucestershire captain Gilbert Jessop hits his second century (139 in 95 minutes) before lunch in same County Cricket match (104 previous day); Yorkshire wins by 40 runs
1913 – Pittsburgh Pirates future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Max Carey scores 5 runs without a hit, reaching first base on an error and 4 walks, as the Bucs beat Philadelphia Phillies, 12-2
1913 – A meeting in Johannesburg, called by the South African Native National Congress, now African National Congress, is attended by a large number of people from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland
1923 – German mark devalued to 600,000 Mark=$1
1993 – The St James’ Church massacre in Kenilworth, Cape Town by Azanian Peoples’ Liberation Army
2010 – 97th Tour de France won by Andy Schleck of Luxembourg
2012 – The UK economy returns to recession with a fall of 0.2% in GDP in the first quarter of 2012 following a fall of 0.3% in the last quarter of 2011
2017 – Wildfires on France’s Mediterranean coast near Bormes-les-Mimosas prompts evacuation of 12,000 people
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 24th July 2022
1673 – Edmund Halley enters The Queen’s College, Oxford, as an undergraduate
1683 – 1st settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard Concord
1833 – HMS Beagle departs Maldonado, Uruguay
1911 – Cleve’s League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss’ family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3
1935 – The world’s first children’s railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR
1963 – Dutch government of Marijnen forms
1979 – Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR
1985 – Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi signs a peace accord with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai to settle the three-year Punjab crisis
2012 – John Dramani becomes President of Ghana after the death of President John Atta Mills
2019 – 10th million Mini car produced during its 60th anniversary year in Oxford, England
Historical Events for 23rd July 2022
1764 – James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation
1851 – Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians and US
1964 – Egyptian munition ship “Star of Alexandria” explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage
1968 – Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt
1978 – MLB Philadelphia Phillies Steve Carlton becomes 78th MLB pitcher to win 200
1978 – Franklin Bradshaw is murdered in Salt Lake City by his grandson Marc Schreuder at the instigation of his mother Frances Schreuder
1981 – 14th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at El Cortez Hotel
1989 – FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC and CBS for 1st time (America’s Most Wanted)
2019 – BHP becomes the first mining company to tackle pollution, says it will invest $400 million to reduce emissions
2020 – China launches its first mission to Mars, Tianwen-1, a combined orbiter, lander and rover, from Wenchang Launch Site, Hainan Island
Historical Events for 22nd July 2022
1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada
1912 – In the face of ever-increasing German naval power, the British Admiralty decides to recall British warships from the Mediterranean and base them in the North Sea
1916 – A bomb explodes during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco killing 10
1922 – Cards enter 1st place, marks 1st time both St Louis teams are on top
1942 – Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka Extermination Camp
1946 – Militant Zionist organization Irgun bombs the British administrative headquarters for Palestine in southern wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people of various nationalities injuring 46
1960 – Cuba nationalizes all US-owned sugar factories
1972 – 59th Tour de France: Eddy Merckx of Belgium takes 4th consecutive general classification title as well as points and combination events
1973 – 60th Tour de France won by Luis Ocana of Spain
1984 – 22nd Federation Cup Women’s Tennis, São Paulo, Brazil: Czech pair Hana Mandlíková and Helena Suková beat Australians Elizabeth Sayers and Wendy Turnbull 6-2, 6-2 for a 2-1 victory
Historical Events for 21st July 2022
1588 – First engagement between the English fleet and the Spanish Armada off the Eddystone Rocks
1825 – Java princess Dipo Negoro/Mangkubumi declare war on all non-islamics
1888 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Lottie Dod retains her title beating Blanche Bingley-Hillyard 6-3, 6-3
1913 – The Egyptian government announces a new constitutional system and electoral law
1918 – U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts
1933 – Haifa Harbor in Palestine opens
1944 – British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery
1964 – Last Dutch whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan
1973 – France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific
2018 – Re-boot of TV show “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” announced with creator Joss Whedon as executive producer
Historical Events for 20th July 2022
514 – St Hormisdas elected as Pope succeeding Pope Sympowerus
1894 – 2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike
1920 – Dutch soccer club Sportclub Heerenveen is formed; initially known as Athleta; KNVB Cup Champions 2008–09
1928 – The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place, subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other Hungarians
1932 – Franz von Papen launches a coup against the Prussian government
1933 – Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets
1933 – Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Adolf Hitler
1948 – Lou Thesz beats Bill Longson, to become NWA wrestling champion
1985 – Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
2020 – Announcement that a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) is able to trigger immune response and antibodies
Historical Events for 19th July 2022
1674 – Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes, Spinoza and Meyer
1914 – Boston Braves begin drive from last to the NL pennant with a 3-2 win against the 2nd placed Cincinnati Reds
1940 – Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid anti-nazi films
1940 – Adolf Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender – they decline
1941 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints the Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC)
1953 – WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1975 – New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson’s 1st-inning single and RBI are nullified because tar on his bat handle exceeds 18″ limit; Minnesota Twins win, 2-1
1977 – Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kill 76
1992 – British Open Men’s Golf, Muirfield: Englishman Nick Faldo wins his 3rd Open title, by 1 stroke from American John Cook
2019 – UK oil tanker Stena Impero seized by Iranian Revolutionary Guard in the Strait of Hormuz
Historical Events for 18th July 2022
1290 – King Edward I orders expulsion of Jews from England, this edict will remain in place for 350 years
1896 – US Open Men’s Golf, Shinnecock Hills: American-based Scot James Foulis wins by 3 strokes ahead of Englishman Horace Rawlins
1923 – British House of Lords accepts new divorce law
1943 – Giants and Phillies strand record 30 baserunners, NY wins, 10-6
1954 – Cards losing 8-1 to Phillies begin stalling in 5th, they forfeit game
1972 – The 100th British soldier to die in the Northern Ireland “troubles” is shot by a sniper in Belfast
1979 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 – Failed attack on Iran ex-premier Bakhtiar in Neuilly, France
1988 – Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on cruise ship City of Poros
2019 – Arson attack on animated studio Kyoto Animation Co in Kyoto, Japan, kills at least 33
Historical Events for 17th July 2022
1203 – Siege of Constantinople begins during the fourth Crusade; Roman Catholic Crusaders aboard a Venetian fleet attack the city
1862 – United army officially divides corps
1882 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Defending champion William Renshaw beats twin brother Ernest Renshaw 6-1, 2-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
1903 – The Russian Social Democratic Workers Party meets, first in Brussels and then London because their leaders have been forced into exile by the Russian Government
1934 – Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland
1941 – NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland
1979 – Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo
1997 – STS 94 (Columbia 23), lands
2005 – British Open Golf, St. Andrews: Tiger Woods wins his 10th major title wire-to-wire by 5 shots from Scotsman Colin Montgomerie
2018 – Barack Obama gives speech honoring Nelson Mandela and warning of “strongman politics” in Johannesburg, South Africa
Historical Events for 16th July 2022
1683 – Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa reach Vienna
1861 – Manassas Campaign [->JUL 22]
1883 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: William Renshaw wins third straight Wimbledon title; beats twin brother Ernest Renshaw 2-6, 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
1897 – The South African Committee, investigating the Jameson Raid releases its report finding that it was conducted almost implicitly through the support and encouragement of Cecil Rhodes and the mining houses in the Transvaal
1914 – Socialist conference in Brussels (Kautsky, Trotski and Rosa Luxemburg)
1950 – Single day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12)
1957 – US Marine Major John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08)
1982 – NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth
1982 – CDC report on AIDS symptoms in three hemophiliacs
1990 – Bridgette LeAnn Wilson, 17, of Oregon, 8th crowned Miss Teen USA