923 – Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy
1864 – Capt Mendell begins building 640m long ponton bridge over James River, Virginia
1876 – Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a US presidential convention
1950 – Dutch police seize condoms
1983 – “Black Adder” TV comedy premieres starring Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson and written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson on BBC1
1985 – En route to Halley’s Comet, USSR’s Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
1985 – “Pryor’s Place” children’s show last airs on CBS-TV
1996 – IRA bomb in Manchester wrecks city centre at 11.17am, injuring 200
2018 – Glasgow School of Art, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh burns down, four years after a previous fire
2018 – Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes charged with fraud over company’s blood tests
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 14th June 2022
1645 – Battle of Naseby, Leicestershire: “New Model Army” under Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax beat royalists forces of English King Charles I
1834 – Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont
1900 – The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy
1934 – European despots Adolf Hitler, of Germany, and Benito Mussolini, of Italy, meet in Vienna, Austria
1936 – Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens in Germany
1949 – French-allied State of Vietnam is officially formed during the First Indochina War, Bảo Đại installed as Emperor
1965 – Beatles release album “Beatles VI”
1985 – “Michael Nesmith In Television Parts” premieres on NBC-TV
1988 – Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000, alleges he hit her
2017 – Fire in Grenfell Tower block in London, England kills 79 and injures 37
Historical Events for 13th June 2022
1325 – Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years)
1392 – Assassination attempt on Olivier de Clisson, Constable of France, by Pierre de Craon fails
1908 – Canadian champion Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires of Australia in 8th round at Neuilly Bowling Palace, Paris to retain world heavyweight boxing title
1936 – 2nd Belgian government of Van Zealand forms
1938 – Great Cricket innings of 232 by Stan McCabe v England at Trent Bridge
1962 – Norway named ombudsman
1976 – Canadian Open Golf (Peter Jackson Classic), Cedar Brae CC: Donna Caponi wins in a playoff with Judy Rankin
1980 – Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in “Abscam” investigation
1983 – NASA’s Pioneer 10 becomes the 1st man-made object to leave the solar system
1990 – “Les Miserables” opens at S Alberta Jubilee Centre, Calgary
Historical Events for 12th June 2022
1667 – -13] Michiel de Ruyter destroys English fleet
1838 – Iowa Territory forms with Burlington as its capital
1896 – England cricket spin bowler Jack Hearne sets record for earliest date taking 100 first-class wickets in a season when he captures 9-73 for the MCC in an innings and 18 run drubbing of Australia at Lord’s
1897 – Possibly the most severe quake in history strikes Assam, India, Shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (low mortality rate given size of earthquake, 1,500 casualties).
1903 – The Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University of Michigan School of Music
1910 – Dutch soccer club PEC forms in Zwolle; renamed FC Zwolle in 1990 and back to PEC Zwolle in 2012
1922 – St Louis Cardinals make MLB record 10 straight hits in 6th inning of a 14-8 win over the Phillies at the Baker Bowl, Philadelphia
1933 – Financial and Economy World conference opens (66 countries)
1997 – Shakespeare’s Globe theatre opens in London, England, replica of original Globe theatre (1599-1642) with performance of Henry V, after campaign by Sam Wanamaker
2019 – World’s largest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s Government Pension Fund, worth $1 trillion, gets authorization to drop fossil fuel investments from Norway’s government
Historical Events for 11th June 2022
1797 – Spanish Mission San José founded by Franciscan Padre Fermin Francisco de Lasuen at the Ohlone Village of Oroysom in Alta California (now Freemont, California)
1864 – The Battle of Trevilian Station, the bloodiest and largest all-cavalry battle of the American Civil War, begins in Louisa County, Virginia
1951 – Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal
1966 – French and German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry
1976 – Beatles “Rock and Roll Music” compilation LP is released in USA
1986 – “Blacke’s Magic” last airs on NBC-TV
1996 – Exxon states that it will begin work on its $15-billion Sakhalin I oil and natural gas development in Russia’s Far East
1996 – Bob Dole, (Sen-R-KS), resigns from US senate to run for president
2017 – Japan passes law allowing Emperor Akihito to abdicate
2019 – “The New York Times” reveals an estimated 500,000 song titles, including masters of Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald, lost in 2008 warehouse fire on Universal backlot in Los Angeles
Historical Events for 10th June 2022
1829 – The first Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race takes place
1952 – US President Harry Truman expresses a desire to nationalize the steel industry
1956 – XVI Summer Olympic equestrian events open in Stockholm
1957 – John Diefenbaker (C) elected Prime Minister of Canada
1976 – 49th National Spelling Bee: Tim Kneale wins spelling narcolepsy
1994 – Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg/(237) 2.5 m) at Aarle-Rixtel
1995 – 127th Belmont: Gary Stevens aboard Thunder Gulch wins in 2:32
1995 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 7-5, 4-6, 6-0 with pivotal 32-point game in 3rd set; Graf’s 4th French title
1995 – “Month in the Country” closes at Roundabout Theater NYC after 79 performances
2007 – Novelty dance song “I’m a Gummy Bear” by German band Gummibär released
Historical Events for 9th June 2022
1902 – 1st Automat restaurant opens at 818 Chestnut St, Philadelphia
1922 – First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University
1933 – Walter Johnson takes over as Cleveland manager
1940 – General Charles de Gaulle’s 1st meeting with Winston Churchill
1958 – “Purple People Eater” by Sheb Wooley hits #1
1967 – The Monkees appear at the Hollywood Bowl
1971 – Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan
1984 – 116th Belmont: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Swale wins in 2:27.2
1993 – Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Canadiens beat LA Kings, 4-1 for a 4-1 series win; Canadiens’ 24th SC Championship
1993 – “Ce que femme veut” (1993) premieres in France
Historical Events for 8th June 2022
218 – Elagabalus becomes the emperor of Rome
793 – Vikings in long ships from modern-day Norway plunder St Cuthbert’s monastery on Lindisfarne Island, off the northeast coast of England capturing and killing monks
1941 – British and French troops overthrow pro-German Syria
1944 – General Montgomery lands in Normandy, sets up HQ in Chateau de Creully
1969 – Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones
1979 – Wings release “Back to the Egg” album
1982 – US President Ronald Reagan addresses the British Parliament in his “ash heap of history” speech
1987 – Oliver North’s secretary Fawn Hall testifies at Iran-Contra hearing
1994 – 7.8 earthquake strikes North Bolivia
2017 – Ex-FBI chief James Comey testifies to a US Senate committee that US President Donald Trump told “lies plain and simple”
Historical Events for 7th June 2022
1099 – 1st Crusaders arrive in Jerusalem
1780 – Anti-Catholic riot in London, hundreds die
1860 – Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, San Francisco
1948 – KVP wins Dutch Second-Parliamentary election
1963 – 1st Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars) and release 1st single, “Come On”
1969 – Tommy James and the Shondells release “Crystal Blue Persuasion”
1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public
1978 – Emmy 5th Daytime Award presentation
1979 – Rock ‘n’ roll musician Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion
2001 – BP announces that it will build a new $600-million platform offshore Trinidad that is expected to double the company’s production of natural gas there by 2004
Historical Events for 6th June 2022
1900 – Boxers cut off all railroad links between Peking and Tientsin, main port city of Peking
1932 – The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold
1938 – Sigmund Freud arrives in London
1960 – Roy Orbison releases “Only the Lonely”
1966 – Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with “angry alligator”
1968 – Senator Robert F. Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night
1985 – Body of Nazi concentration camp doctor Dr Josef Mengele located and exhumed
2005 – The United States Supreme Court votes to ban medical marijuana in Gonzales v. Raich.
2015 – Convicted killers Richard Matt and David Sweat break out of Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York
2017 – Scooter Gennet hits four home runs in Cincinnati Reds 13-1 victory at home against St. Louis Cardinals, 17th player to do so