1910 – US Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
1910 – Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “The Firebird” for the Ballets Russes premieres at the Opéra de Paris, Paris
1941 – -26] Soviet counter attack at Rovno, Ukraine
1941 – James F. Byrnes is admitted to the US Supreme Court
1976 – Supernatural horror film “The Omen” starring Gregory Peck and Lee Remick premieres in the US
1983 – Cricket World Cup, Lord’s, London: India upsets West Indies by 43 runs to win first title; Mohinder Amarnath 3/12 off 7 overs, Player of the Match
1990 – “Dave Thomas Comedy Show” last airs on CBS-TV
2015 – NBA Draft: Kentucky center Karl-Anthony Towns first pick by Minnesota Timberwolves
2018 – Motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson announces it plans to move some production abroad in response to EU retaliatory tariffs
2021 – Former US police officer Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22 years and six months for the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 24th June 2022
1298 – Rindfleisch Persecutions – Jews of Ifhauben, Austria massacred
1793 – 1st republican constitution in France adopted
1853 – US President Franklin Pierce signs the Gadsden Purchase, buying 29,670 square-miles (76,800 square km) from Mexico for $10 million (now southern Arizona and New Mexico)
1881 – 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla, Mexico
1901 – Jewish National Fund starts
1948 – Soviet Union begins the West Berlin Blockade by stopping access by road, rail and water
1960 – Geoff Griffin takes a hat-trick South Africa v England Lord’s
2010 – In the longest match in tennis history, American John Isner defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon after 11 hours, 5 minutes of play over 3 days
2011 – Italian economist Mario Draghi is confirmed as new President of the European Central Bank
2019 – Mysterious sickness affects 718 children with 152 deaths around Indian city of Muzaffarpur, previously thought due to lychee fruit but now unknown
Historical Events for 23rd June 2022
1784 – 1st US balloon flight (13 year old Edward Warren)
1909 – Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections
1919 – Nitti government forms in Italy
1946 – In South Africa, a group of white men attack and assault Indian Passive Resisters
1979 – West Indies beat England by 92 runs to win Cricket World Cup
1981 – French government of Mauroy forms, with 4 communists
1994 – Opération Turquoise: 2,500 French troops head into Rwanda to protect civilians under the mandate of the United Nations
1996 – “Tartuffe: Born Again” closes at Circle in Sq NYC after 29 performances
2004 – Bob Dylan accepts honorary doctorate of music degree from the University of St Andrews, Scotland’s oldest university
2016 – Amy Schumer announces her first world tour during a sold-out performance at Madison Square Garden
Historical Events for 22nd June 2022
1848 – Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for President
1944 – US troops occupy Biak during Battle of Biak, New Guinea
1954 – Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands
1956 – 6th Berlin International Film Festival: “Invitation to the Dance” wins Golden Bear
1959 – “Class” the first hit by Chubby Checker peaks at #38 in the US
1978 – Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois
1981 – 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2
1984 – Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Weather Report, The Smiths, and Black Uhuru headline; other performers include: Ian Dury, Joan Baez, The Waterboys, Fela Kuti, General Public, Dr. John, Fairport Convention, Christy Moore, Brass Construction, The Staple Singers, Billy Bragg, and Amazulu,
1990 – Nelson Mandela addresses the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in New York, saying that nothing has occurred in South Africa to reverse the ANC’s position
2009 – Two Metro subway trains collide in Washington, D.C., killing 9 and injuring over 80
Historical Events for 21st June 2022
1853 – Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes in Worcester, Massachusetts
1858 – Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe
1898 – US captures Guam from Spain during the Spanish–American War
1907 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: Frenchman Arnaud Massy wins by 2 strokes from J.H. Taylor; first non-Briton to win Open Championship
1919 – Social Democrat Gustav Bauer forms a German government
1938 – Baseball’s Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit
1962 – USAF Major Robert M. White takes X-15 to 75,190 m
1986 – Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women’s record)
2009 – ICC Women’s Cricket T20 World Cup, Lord’s: England 86/4 win inaugural event; beat New Zealand 85; England’s Katherine Brunt takes 3 for 6
2015 – 94 people die and 45 are hospitalized after drinking moonshine in Mumbai, India
Historical Events for 20th June 2022
1221 – Foundation stone laid for Burgos Cathedral in the presence of Ferdinand III of Castile (made a UNESCO World Heritage Site 1984)
1871 – Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford, Mississippi
1921 – 11.5″ (29.2 cm) of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record)
1944 – Heavy storm hits the Channel
1944 – Nazis begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz
1951 – Cleveland Indian Bobby Avila hits 3 HRs, double and single vs Red Sox
1967 – Phillies Larry Jackson beats NY Mets for 18th straight time
1988 – Coup in Haiti: Henri Namphy overthrows Leslie Manigat, general assembly dissolved
1988 – US Open Men’s Golf, The Country Club: Curtis Strange wins a Monday 18-hole playoff by 4 strokes from Englishman Nick Faldo
1992 – Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Washington Capitals to the Detroit Red Wings
Historical Events for 19th June 2022
1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson’s Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba
1821 – Decisive defeat of the Greek revolutionary society Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia)
1829 – Robert Peel introduces the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 into Parliament to establish a unified police force for London, world’s 1st modern police force
1908 – British Open Men’s Golf, Prestwick GC: Scotsman James Braid wins his 4th Championship by 8 strokes from Tom Ball
1953 – Albert W Dent elected president of US National Health Council
1969 – State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances
1972 – -29] Tropical storm Agnes upgraded to a hurricane, makes landfall in Panama City (would kill 128)
1993 – David Boon completes 15th Test cricket century, 164* v England at Lord’s
2015 – Actress Shannen Doherty reveals that she has breast cancer
2019 – Oklahoma writer Joy Harjo is named the first Native American US Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress
Historical Events for 18th June 2022
1155 – Pope Adrian IV crowns Frederick I Barbarossa Roman-German Emperor
1574 – Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland
1580 – States of Utrecht forbid Catholic worship
1583 – Richard Martin of London takes out first life insurance policy, on William Gibbons; premium was £383
1946 – Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim
1977 – Space Shuttle test model “Enterprise” carries a crew aloft for 1st time, it was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
1987 – Charles Glass, ABC journalist, kidnapped in Lebanon
2001 – Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India
2014 – King Juan Carlos I of Spain abdicates the Spanish throne to make way for his son Felipe VI
2021 – Jurist and conservative Ebrahim Raisi elected President of Iran on a low turn out
Historical Events for 17th June 2022
656 – Ali ibn Abu Talib elected the 4th Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate
1397 – Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden and Norway
1583 – Brabant: Duke of Parma beats French mercenaries
1839 – King of Hawaii Kamehameha III issues Edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is later established
1850 – Paddle-wheeler “G P Griffith” burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die)
1885 – Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC aboard French ship `Isere’
1901 – US Open Men’s Golf, Myopia Hunt GC: Willie Anderson of Scotland wins first of his 4 Open titles by 1 stroke in an 18-hole playoff with Alex Smith
1961 – Billy Barnes’ musical revue “Billy Barnes People”, starting Ken Berry, Dave Ketchum, and Jo Anne Worley, closes at Royale Theater, NYC, after 7 performances
2003 – Moneyball, a book about the 2003 Oakland Athletics baseball team and GM Billy Beane’s sabermetric approach, inspired by Bill James, is published
2018 – Historic deal signed between Greece and Macedonia to end dispute over Macedonia’s name – changing to North Macedonia
Historical Events for 16th June 2022
1746 – Battle at Piacenza: Austria and Sardinia beat Spanish and French army
1896 – Temperature hits 127°F at Fort Mojave, California
1900 – In China, a fire is set by Boxers, virtually destroying the Western Quarter and spreading to engulf many Chinese landmarks
1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland
1957 – French offensive in Algeria
1961 – Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West at Le Bourget Airport in Paris
1971 – Racial disturbance in Jacksonville, Florida
1988 – Boston Red Sox Barrett steals home
1993 – Ken Griffey Jr. slugs his 100th career home run in Seattle
2020 – Support from Manchester United player Marcus Rashford and others forces UK Government to make U-turn on summer school meal vouchers