70 – Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem
1875 – Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens in San Francisco
1927 – Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard and 200-yard free-style swim record
1956 – “Milton Berle Show” last airs on NBC-TV
1977 – 31st Tony Awards: Shadow Box and Annie win
1980 – Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1995 – The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created
2000 – Armed conflict between Rwanda and Uganda erupts in Kinsangani, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2001 – Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
2003 – A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 4th June 2022
1784 – Madame Elizabeth Thible becomes the first female balloonist
1958 – French Prime Minister Charles de Gaulle arrives in Algiers
1967 – Curt Flood’s record 568 straight chances without an error ends (227 straight games)
1985 – STS 51-G vehicle moves to launch pad
1987 – American hurdler Edwin Moses’ 122 race winning streak which extends to nearly 10 years ends when he is beaten by countryman Danny Harris in Madrid, Spain
1990 – NY Telephone company announces that it wants Bronx area code 917
1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing
2012 – US drone attack kills 15 militants in Pakistan, including high ranking al-Qaeda official, Abu Yahya al-Libi
2018 – US President Donald Trump tweets “I have the absolute right to PARDON myself”
2021 – Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli makes a desperate plea for vaccines amid his country’s devastating COVID-19 second wave, reporting nearly 9,000 daily cases late May
Historical Events for 3rd June 2022
1911 – “Come Josephine in My Flying Machine” record by Fred Fisher and Alfred Bryan, sung by Ada Jones and Billy Murray hits #1
1944 – 76th Belmont: G. L. Smith riding Bounding Home wins in 2:32.2
1949 – Dragnet is 1st broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles)
1969 – Last episode of Star Trek airs on NBC (Turnabout Intruder)
1981 – Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt
1984 – 38th Tony Awards: Real Thing and La Cage Aux Folles win
1989 – Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing
2012 – Tiger Woods claims his 73rd PGA tour victory with a 2 stroke win over Andrés Romero and Rory Sabbatini in the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village GC; equals Jack Nicklaus’s record
2013 – 119 people are killed in a poultry farm fire in Jilin Province, China
2021 – NASA launches 128 baby squid and 5,000 microscopic animals, to study effects of spaceflight, to the International Space Station aboard Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket
Historical Events for 2nd June 2022
1780 – Anti-Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London
1862 – Robert E. Lee takes command of Confederate armies of North Virginia during the American Civil War
1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time
1933 – WNJ-AM in Newark NJ goes off the air
1944 – Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bernard Montgomery dine in Portsmouth, England
1958 – Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record
1968 – Canadians must get government permission to export silver
1975 – James A Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)
1994 – Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland (29 killed)
2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
Historical Events for 1st June 2022
1794 – Glorious First of June; first naval battle between Britain (under Admiral Lord Howe) and France (Vice-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse) during French Revolutionary Wars. Britain gains tactical win.
1796 – Tennessee admitted as 16th US state
1872 – 6th Belmont: James Roe aboard Joe Daniels wins in 2:58.25
1909 – Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
1972 – Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa
1979 – Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
1993 – Melchior Ndadaye elected President of Burundi
1996 – H. D. Deve Gowda becomes Prime Minister of India
2001 – Nepalese Royal Massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal slaughters his parents, two siblings, and five other family members during dinner at the Narayanhiti Palace, in Katmandu
2019 – UEFA Champions League Final, Madrid: Liverpool beats Tottenham, 2-0 for Reds’ 6th title
Historical Events for 31st May 2022
1899 – -June 5] Conference of Bloemfontein fails
1910 – Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to NYC
1927 – Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play
1928 – Charlie Hallows scores his 1,000th run of Cricket season
1928 – 1st aerial crossing of Pacific takes off from Oakland
1929 – Atlantic City Convention Center opens
1930 – Don Bradman batting for Australia v Hampshire at Southampton is 47 not out at stumps, bringing his aggregate to 1,001 runs, the first cricket touring overseas batsman to complete 1,000 runs by end of May
1943 – “Archie” comic strip 1st broadcast on radio
1953 – WSUN TV channel 38 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
1999 – NHL Eastern Conference Final: Buffalo Sabres beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1
Historical Events for 30th May 2022
1431 – Hundred Years’ War: 19 year old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal in Rouen, France
1848 – Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo between US and Mexico comes into force, giving New Mexico, California and parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Colorado to the US in return for $15 million
1879 – 92°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May
1921 – Lord Dunsany’s “If” premieres in London
1947 – Indianapolis 500: Mauri Rose leads for final 8 laps after confused pit messages with teammate Bill Holland to take the controversial victory; race marred by a 41st lap crash that claims life of Shorty Cantlon
1957 – Test Cricket debut for Rohan Kanhai v England at Edgbaston
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
1980 – Tiger reliever John Hiller, 37, (who had a 1971 heart attack), retires
2014 – Former military chief al-Sisi wins 93 percent of the vote in Egypt’s presidential election
2021 – Tens of thousands of people march in Brazilian cities against President Jair Bolsonaro and his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic
Historical Events for 29th May 2022
1138 – Anti-Pope Victor IV (Gregorio) submits himself to Pope Innocentius II
1945 – US 1st Marine division conquers Shuri Castle, Okinawa
1950 – The Carter Family debut on the Grand Ole Opry with Chet Atkins
1970 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
1979 – Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe’s 1st black Prime Minister
1982 – Pentagon plans 1st strategy to fight a nuclear war
1990 – An earthquake hits Peru, killing over 200
1990 – Boris Yeltsin is elected President of the Russian Republic
2016 – IPL Cricket Final, M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore: Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 8 runs; David Warner 69 (38)
2019 – Israel’s Knesset calls a snap election after Benjamin Netanyahu fails to form a government
Historical Events for 28th May 2022
1918 – The Armenian National Council declares Armenia independent from the Russian Empire
1940 – Irving Berlin’s musical “Louisiana Purchase” premieres in NYC
1940 – Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up
1957 – WPSD TV channel 6 in Paducah, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1963 – Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed
1979 – European Market accepts Greece as member
1995 – Indianapolis 500: Canadian driver Jacques Villeneuve wins as race leader Scott Goodyear is controversially black flagged on lap 195
2000 – Indianapolis 500: reigning CART champion Juan Pablo Montoya leads for 167 laps to cruise to victory; first rookie winner since Graham Hill 1966
2004 – The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, to become Prime Minister of Iraq’s interim government
2005 – Super Rugby Final, Christchurch: Canterbury Crusaders claim their 5th title with a 35-25 win over the NSW Waratahs; Dan Carter lands 3 conversions and 2 penalties for the winners
Historical Events for 27th May 2022
1878 – 6th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:41.75
1917 – Race riot in East St Louis Illinois, 1 black killed
1935 – Supreme Court declares FDR’s National Recovery Act unconstitutional
1942 – Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim
1944 – Japanese advance in Hangkhou China
1967 – “Sherry!” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 65 performances
1972 – “Applause” closes at Palace Theater NYC after 900 performances
1979 – Indianapolis 500: Polesitter Rick Mears takes lead for the final time with 18 laps to go, to win his first of four Indy 500 races
1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: South Korean airborne and army troops retake city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 possibly many more
2020 – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Hong Kong no longer has autonomy from China, doesn’t merit special trade relationship, in note to Congress