1856 – Natal forms as a British colony separate from Cape Colony
1953 – ANC members, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe leave South Africa and go overseas under false names
1956 – Iharos runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
1970 – Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship
1975 – All star MVP: Bill Madlock (Pittsburgh Pirates) and John Matlock (NY Mets)
1976 – 36-hr kidnap of 26 school children and their bus driver in California
1979 – US Open Women’s Golf, Brooklawn CC: Jerilyn Britz wins her first LPGA Tour event (and only major), 2 shots ahead of runners-up Debbie Massey and Sandra Palmer
1980 – Billy Carter, the brother of US President Jimmy Carter, registers as a foreign agent of the Libyan government after it was revealed they paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars
1980 – Johnny Bench hits his 314th HR as a catcher which breaks Yogi Berra’s record
2017 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Garbiñe Muguruza of Spain beats Venus Williams 7-5, 6-0 for her 2nd Grand Slam title
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 14th July 2022
1936 – 116°F (47°C), Collegeville, Indiana (state record)
1944 – US assault on Coutances Cotentin
1958 – General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq overthrowing the monarchy
1966 – 53rd Tour de France won by Lucien Aimar of France
1979 – USSR performs nuclear Test
1983 – Mario Bros. is first released by Nintendo in Japan as an arcade game about an Italian-American plumber
1987 – Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
1988 – 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorporation of Nagorno-Karabak
1991 – US Open Women’s Golf, Colonial CC: Meg Mallon shoots final round 67 (−4) to finish 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Pat Bradley
2015 – Arms deal agreed between 6 world powers and Iran limiting Iranian nuclear arms but ending sanctions
Historical Events for 13th July 2022
1657 – Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert
1832 – Source of Mississippi River discovered by American geographer Henry Schoolcraft
1878 – Congress of Berlin ends, redrawing the terms of Treaty of San Stefano to give Russia less influence in old Ottoman Empire
1942 – German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages
1943 – Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia’s defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 lost by Germany
1954 – 21st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-9 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland
1955 – Industrialist Cyrus Eaton first offers to host a conference on dangers of nuclear weapons in Pugwash, Nova Scotia
1962 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Troon: Arnold Palmer wins his 2nd consecutive Open, 6 strokes clear of runner-up Kel Nagle of Australia
1971 – 42nd MLB All Star Game, Tiger Stadium, Detroit, MI: AL beats NL, 6-4; MVP: Frank Robinson, Baltimore Orioles, OF
1982 – 53rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Olympic Stadium, Montreal
Historical Events for 12th July 2022
1691 – Battle of Aughrim (Aghrim) Ireland, William III beats James II
1776 – Captain James Cook departs Plymouth, England helming HMS Resolution, beginning his 3rd and final trip to the Pacific
1926 – Guomindangleger draws against warlord Wu Peifu
1944 – Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased
1967 – Race riot in Newark, New Jersey, 26 killed, 1,500 injured and over 1,000 arrested
1970 – British Open Men’s Golf, St Andrews: Jack Nicklaus beats Doug Sanders by 1 stroke in event’s first 18-hole playoff to win the 2nd of his 3 Open Championships
1973 – A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States
1993 – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Sunset Boulevard”, based on Billy Wilder’s 1950 film, starring Patti Lupone and Daniel Benzali, opens at the Adelphi Theatre, London
2015 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Novak Đoković successfully defends his title for 3rd Wimbledon crown; beats Roger Federer 7-6, 6-7, 6-4, 6-3
2018 – US President Donald Trump arrives in the UK for a four-day visit amid protests
Historical Events for 11th July 2022
1750 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is almost completely destroyed by fire.
1848 – Edmund Hickly gets 1st known 10 wicket innings (Kent v England)
1985 – Refurbished space shuttle Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to Dryden
1989 – 60th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim All star MVP: Bo Jackson (KC Royals)
1989 – President Ronald Reagan sportscasts All Star Game
1990 – NYC police arrest “Dartman” (stabbed over 50 women with darts)
1991 – Calumet Farm, home to 8 Kentucky Derby winners, files bankruptcy
1991 – Nigeria Airways DC-8 crashes at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 261 passengers and crew on board
1993 – Mike Smith aboard Sky Beauty wins the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont to clinch thoroughbred racing’s Triple Tiara for fillies
2010 – FIFA World Cup Final, Soccer City, Johannesburg, South Africa: Andrés Iniesta scores an extra time winner as Spain beats the Netherlands, 1-0 for first World Cup title
Historical Events for 10th July 2022
1873 – French poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol
1940 – Battle of Britain begins as Nazi forces attack shipping convoys in the English Channel
1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee
1956 – 650,000 US steel workers go on strike
1956 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1965 – Rolling Stones score their 1st US #1 single “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
1971 – National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC) founded in US by women including Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Myrlie Evers-Williams and Gloria Steinem
1973 – Bahamas declares Independence from UK and adopts constitution
1977 – “Happy End” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 75 performances
1991 – L’Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13
Historical Events for 9th July 2022
1572 – 19 Catholic priests hanged in Gorcum
1893 – Daniel Williams repairs the torn pericardium of a knife wound patient, James Cornish, without penicillin or blood transfusion
1914 – 1st US duplicate auction bridge championship held, Lake Placid, NY
1949 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal St.George’s GC: South African Bobby Locke wins a 36-hole playoff by 12 strokes from Irishman Harry Bradshaw
1950 – 13.15″ (33.40 cm) of rainfall, York, Nebraska (state 24-hour record)
1968 – Wilt Chamberlain becomes the first reigning NBA MVP to be traded the next season when he moves from Philadelphia 76’ers to LA Lakers
1968 – 15.68″ (39.83 cm) of rainfall, Columbus, Mississippi (state 24-hour record)
1971 – Henry Kissinger visits the People’s Republic of China to negotiate a detente between the US and China
1989 – Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others
2018 – Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki and Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed officially end the “no war, no peace” peace deal made in 2000 in Eritrea’s capital, Asmara
Historical Events for 8th July 2022
1776 – Colonel John Nixon gives the 1st public reading of the Declaration of Independence to an assemblage of citizens in Philadelphia
1896 – Charles Tupper resigns as Prime Minister of Canada after losing the June 23rd election, his 69-day term the shortest in Canadian history
1898 – Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Red Donahue no-hits Boston Beaneaters, 5-0 at the Baker Bowl
1961 – Portuguese steamer “Save” breaks up off Mozambique, 227 die
1963 – Reports of Charlie Finley’s intention to move KC A’s to Oakland
1969 – US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam
1994 – Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try O.J. Simpson
2007 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Whistling Straits: Brad Bryant wins by 3 strokes from Ben Crenshaw
2014 – FIFA World Cup: Germany defeat Brazil by a record 7-1 in the semi-finals to make it to the final; Miroslav Klose of Germany breaks the World Cup goal scoring record with 16 goals
2021 – Zaila Avant-garde, American student, age 14, from Harvey, Louisiana, wins Scripps National Spelling Bee title
Historical Events for 7th July 2022
1495 – King Ferdinand II returns to Naples
1753 – British parliament grants Jews citizenship
1814 – Walter Scott’s novel “Waverley” published
1865 – Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold and George Atzerodt are executed for their role in the conspiracy to assassinate US President Abraham Lincoln
1939 – “The Rules of the Game”, French film directed by Jean Renoir, starring Nora Gregor and Paulette Dubost, premieres in Paris
1968 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1972 – 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley and Joanne E Pierce)
1990 – 1st ‘Three Tenors’ concert featuring Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti at Baths of Caracalla in Rome; recording becomes world’s best-selling classical record
2007 – Pope Benedict XVI issues the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum, removing restrictions on celebrating the old Tridentine Mass
2012 – Floods in the Krasnodar region, Russia, kill 140 people
Historical Events for 6th July 2022
1776 – American Declaration of Independence announced on front page of “PA Evening Gazette”
1894 – Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike
1934 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Home favourite Fred Perry beats Australian Jack Crawford 6-3, 6-0, 7-5 for the first of 3 straight Wimbledon titles
1956 – MLB Commissioner Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award, to honour baseball’s outstanding pitcher of the season
1969 – Filming begins on “Ned Kelly” starring Mick Jagger
1975 – Argentine government falls
1994 – “Forrest Gump”, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Gary Sinise, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1995)
1998 – England cricket spin bowler Robert Croft saves England from defeat with a famous unbeaten 37 in 190 minutes on day 5 of 2nd Test v South Africa at Old Trafford, Manchester
2009 – Jadranka Kosor became first female prime minister of Croatia
2017 – Illinois State Senate votes to override Governor Bruce Rauner’s veto to approve 1st budget in more than two years, longest-lasting such dispute of any state