1794 – Second Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria
1839 – Slaves aboard a Spanish schooner La Amistad revolt to secure their freedom while being transported from one Cuban port to another
1849 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins hunger strike in Rome
1921 – In boxing’s first million dollar gate ($1.7m), world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey KOs Frenchman Georges Carpentier in round 4 of his 3rd title defence; crowd 91,000 at Boyle’s Thirty Acres in Jersey City, New Jersey
1921 – Warren G. Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring the official end of war with Germany
1955 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Louise Brough beats fellow American Beverly Fleitz 7-5, 8-6 for her 4th Wimbledon singles title
1964 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law
1972 – Two Catholic civilians are shot and killed in Belfast by Loyalist paramilitaries, probably the Ulster Defence Association (UDA)
2005 – 10 Live 8 concerts held around the world organised by Bob Geldof to raise awareness of poverty
2017 – World Health Organization declares Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo over (4 deaths)
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 1st July 2021
649 – Pope Martinus I elected to succeed Theodore I
1543 – England and Scotland sign peace treaty of Greenwich
1847 – 1st US postage stamps go on sale, 5 cent Franklin and 10 cent Washington, NYC
1862 – Battle at Booneville Mississippi: Confederate superior power driven out
1863 – Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Lee’s northward advance halted
1943 – “Pay-as-you-go” – 1st withholding tax from paychecks
1992 – Fox broadcasting adds Wednesday night TV programming
1993 – Russian manned space craft TM-17, launches into orbit
1993 – 1 second is added to the clock
1994 – Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-19 launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Historical Events for 30th June 2021
296 – St Marcellinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1700 – Gelderland goes on Gregorian calendar (tomorrow is 12/7/1700)
1909 – Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to a no decision in 6 rounds at Duquesne Gardens, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to retain his heavyweight boxing title
1921 – The South African Reserve Bank is established
1962 – US Open Women’s Golf, Dunes Golf and Beach Club: Murle Lindstrom wins her first LPGA Tour victory, 2 strokes ahead of runners-up Ruth Jessen and Jo Ann Prentice
1963 – Ciaculli massacre: A car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police and military officers near Palermo
1964 – Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit
1997 – Leap Second to synchronize atomic clocks
2002 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Caves Valley GC: Don Pooley wins by 1 stroke in a playoff with Tom Watson
2015 – Hercules transporter plane crashes minutes after take-off in Medan, Indonesia killing 116
Historical Events for 29th June 2021
1377 – French raid at Rye, England
1850 – British ex-Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel falls off his horse; dies three days later
1895 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis: Juliette Atkinson beats defending champion Helen Hellwig 6-4, 6-2, 6-1
1941 – DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler’s record
1979 – San Diego Chicken reborn at Jack Murphy Stadium
1985 – STS 51-F vehicle moves to launch pad
1986 – FIFA World Cup Final, Estadio Azteca, Mexico City: Argentina beats West Germany, 3-2 in front of 114,600
1986 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Scioto CC: Dale Douglass wins by 1 stroke ahead of Gary Player for his lone Champions Tour major title
2012 – 16 Naxalite Maoist insurgents in India are killed by police
2017 – Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner apologize and remove t-shirts from sale featuring Tupac Shakur and others, after accused of exploiting their legacies
Historical Events for 28th June 2021
1675 – Battle at Fehrbellin: Brandenburg army beats Sweden
1770 – Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia
1778 – Mary Ludwig Hayes “Molly Pitcher” aids American patriots
1841 – The Théâtre de l’Académie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle
1897 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: England’s Blanche Bingley-Hillyard wins her 4th title beating Charlotte Cooper 5-7, 7-5, 6-2
1902 – US Congress authorizes Louisiana Purchase Expo $1 gold coin
1965 – 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Lyndon B. Johnson
1997 – Kandor and Ebb’s musical “Steel Pier” closes at Richard Rodgers Theater, NYC after 76 performances
2012 – NBA Draft: Kentucky center Anthony Davis first pick New Orleans Pelicans
2015 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Del Paso CC: Jeff Maggert shoots final round 65 (-5) to win by 2 strokes from defending champion Colin Montgomerie of Scotland
Historical Events for 27th June 2021
1862 – -28] Battle at Garnett’s/Golding’s Farms, Virginia
1893 – Great stock crash on NY stock exchange
1934 – Federal Savings and Loan Association created
1974 – “Flip Wilson Show” last airs on NBC-TV
1980 – Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81
1981 – Ali Khamenei narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, when a bomb concealed in a tape recorder, explodes on a desk in front of him
1986 – Ibrahim Babangida’s regime in Nigeria launches the ‘Structural Adjustment Program” to restructure the Nigerian economy via deregulation and privatization with the support of the IMF and the World Bank
2005 – “Bad Day” single is released by Daniel Powter, 1st song to sell 2 million digital copies in the US (Billboard Song of the Year 2006)
2018 – President Salva Kiir of South Sudan and former Vice President Riek MacharSouth sign peace deal to end four-year civil war
2018 – Malaysian police announce seizure of goods linked to former prime minister Najib Razak, worth $273 million, biggest in the country’s history, including 567 handbags and 14 tiaras
Historical Events for 26th June 2021
1848 – End of the June Days uprising in Paris by French workers
1857 – The first 62 recipients are awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean war by Queen Victoria
1916 – Cleveland Indians experiment with numbers on their jerseys (one game)
1934 – FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions
1955 – LPGA Western Open Women’s Golf, Maple Bluff CC: Patty Berg wins her 5th WO title by 2 strokes from Louise Suggs and Fay Croker; first WO played at stroke play
1963 – US President John F. Kennedy gives his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” (intended to mean “I am a Berliner”, but may actually mean “I am a doughnut”) speech in West Berlin
1990 – 8 KS and OK radio stations boycott k d lang, due to her anti-meat ad
1991 – ANC leader Nelson Mandela addresses congress
1993 – The U.S. launches a cruise missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H. W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
2017 – America’s Cup: Emirates Team New Zealand defeat Oracle Team USA 7-1 in Bermuda, Peter Burling (26) youngest ever helmsman
Historical Events for 25th June 2021
1080 – Wibbert of Ravenna chosen as anti-pope Clemens III
1621 – French government army occupies Fort St Jean d’Angély at La Rochelle
1835 – 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now San Francisco)
1862 – Battle of Oak Grove, Virginia (Orchard, Henrico, French’s Field) (Kings’s Schoolhouse) Day 1 of 7 Days
1953 – 86°F in Anchorage, Alaska
1967 – First global satellite television programme “Our World” broadcast featuring 19 acts representing 19 nations including The Beatles singing “All You Need is Love”
1985 – Thurman v City of Torrington decides in favor of Tracey Thurman, 1st woman to sue a police department for violating her civil rights (not protecting against abusive husband)
1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen
1997 – Galileo, 2nd Callisto Flyby (Orbit 9)
2020 – American country music band “The Dixie Chicks” change their name to “The Chicks” to remove connotations of Confederate history, two weeks after band “Antebellum” changed their name to “Lady A”
Historical Events for 24th June 2021
1529 – Zürich and Catholic cantons sign Peace of Kappel
1540 – English King Henry VIII commands his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves, to leave the court
1885 – British government of Salisbury forms
1976 – 1975 movie “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” released in Germany
1977 – Josiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira is the first African to be elected president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF)
1984 – Joe Morgan sets career HR mark for 2nd basemen with #265
1988 – Cleve pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves
1992 – Billy Joel gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville High School at 43
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
2019 – Greek Cypriot army officer Nicos Metaxas given seven life sentences for the murder of five women and two children in Nicosia
Historical Events for 23rd June 2021
1757 – Robert Clive defeats army led by Suraja Dowlaat Plassey, wins control of Bengal
1917 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Two-time defending champion Molla Bjurstedt beats Marion Vanderhoef 4-6, 6-0, 6-2
1950 – Indians’ Luke Easter hits longest ball in Cleveland Stadium history, 477 feet, into upper deck, Section 4
1956 – “Transfusion” by Nervous Norvous peaks at #8
1962 – Suvanna Phuma forms government in Laos
1963 – NY Mets Jimmy Piersall hits his 100th HR, he circles bases backwards
1970 – Rocker and singer Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession
1974 – 1st extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space
2010 – Glastonbury Festival 2010 in Pilton, England opens: Gorillaz, Muse, and Stevie Wonder headline; other performers include Vampire Weekend, Snoop Dogg; Shakira, Willie Nelson, Ray Davies and The Pet Shop Boys
2019 – Women’s PGA Championship, Hazeltine National GC: Australian Hannah Green leads wire-to-wire to win her first LPGA event by 1 stroke ahead of Park Sung-hyun