1633 – Galileo Galilei forced to recant his Copernican views that the Earth orbits the Sun by the Pope (Vatican only admits it was wrong on Oct 31, 1992!)
1799 – Britain and Russia decide to invade Batavian Republic
1865 – The CSS Shenandoah fires the last shot of the American Civil War in the Bering Strait to indicate surrender
1931 – RVU, Radio-Volks-University, forms
1940 – France surrenders to Nazi Germany, with the northern half of the country occupied and the south established as the Nazi client state Vichy France
1966 – South African Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, is refused a passport and thus permission to attend an international church conference by the South African government
1984 – Jolande van de Meer swims Dutch record 800 m freestyle (8:39.30)
1990 – Longest game in Toronto, Yanks beat Blue Jays 8-7 in 15 inns
2016 – NHL owners meeting unanimously approves the Las Vegas expansion bid to start play in the 2017-18 season.
2017 – NBA Draft: Washington point guard Markelle Fultz first pick by Philadelphia 76ers
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 21st June 2021
68 – Roman General Vespasian conquers Jericho during the Great Jewish Revolt
1672 – French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Utrecht
1675 – Foundation stone for London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral is laid
1834 – American inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick patents the reaping machine
1907 – E. W. Scripps founds United Press Associations in the US
1921 – HSC ’21 soccer team forms in Haaksbergen
1956 – Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
1970 – FIFA World Cup Final, Estadio Azteca, Mexico City: Brazil and Pelé become first team and player to win World Cup 3 times, beating Italy, 4-1 in front of 107,412
1986 – “Living on Video” by Trans-X peaks at #61
2012 – A boat of 200 asylum seekers headed to Australia capsizes and 110 survivors are rescued
Historical Events for 20th June 2021
1895 – 1st female PhD from an American University, earned by Caroline Willard Baldwin (in Science) at Cornell University
1900 – Baron Von Ketteler, German Minister, decides to go to the Chinese authorities to demand more guards for European protection from Boxers and is killed by Boxers en route
1948 – 20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo
1964 – US Open Men’s Golf, Congressional CC: Ken Venturi wins his only major title, 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Tommy Jacobs
1978 – 1st 6 teams of Women’s Pro Basketball League (WBL) granted-Iowa, NJ, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minnesota and Dayton
1983 – Iran moves into northern Iraq (casualties top 13,800 in ten days)
1987 – Chuti Tiu, 17, of Wisconsin, crowned America’s Junior Miss
1993 – NBA Finals: Chicago Bulls become first team since legendary Boston Celtics of the 1960s to win 3 consecutive titles, with a 99–98 victory in Game 6 over Phoenix Suns; MVP: Michael Jordan for third straight year
2004 – US Open Men’s Golf, Shinnecock Hills GC: Retief Goosen of South Africa wins his second Open title, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up and reigning Masters champion Phil Mickelson
2016 – China’s super computer tally overtakes the US; Chinese 93 petaflop Sunway TaihuLight is world’s No. 1
Historical Events for 19th June 2021
987 – Louis IV, crowned king of France
1862 – Slavery outlawed in US territories
1913 – Natives Land Act, Act No 27, passed in South Africa: confines Africans to hopelessly overcrowded reserves and deprives them of rights to purchase land outside the native reserves
1953 – WCSC TV channel 5 in Charleston, South Carolina (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961 – Charlie Finley, changes A’s manager Joe Gordon (26-33) for Hank Bauer
1978 – Ian Botham takes 8-34 v Pakistan, his best Test cricket bowling
1985 – Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place
1991 – 2 of Mia Farrow’s daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie
1994 – “Sally Marrand Her Escorts” closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 50 performances
2018 – England smash the highest score (481/6) in one day international cricket history in a 242 run defeat of Australia (239) at Trent Bridge
Historical Events for 18th June 2021
1541 – Irish parliament selects Henry VIII of England as King of Ireland
1583 – Richard Martin of London takes out first life insurance policy, on William Gibbons; premium was £383
1847 – American photographer Thomas Martin Easterly takes the earliest known photograph of lightning using the daguerreotype process in St. Louis, Missouri
1947 – Cincinnati Red Ewell Blackwell no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0
1990 – 1st sudden death US Open Golf Championship is won by Hale Irwin
1996 – Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts
2006 – The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched
2014 – Ian McKellen is awarded an honorary degree by Cambridge University, becoming a Doctor of Letters
2017 – US Open Men’s Golf, Erin Hills GC: Brooks Koepka wins his first major title by 4 strokes from Brian Harman and Hideki Matsuyama
2020 – US Supreme Court rules the Obama-era Dreamers Program (DACA), enabling undocumented migrant children ability to study and work, can stay
Historical Events for 17th June 2021
1565 – Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru
1863 – Battle at Middleburg, Virginia
1919 – “Barney Google” cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres
1938 – Japan declares war on China
1944 – Hitler secretly meets with von Rundstedt in Marjival Soissons
1957 – “So Rare” by Jimmy Dorsey Orch peaks at #2
1975 – Voters in Northern Mariana Islands approve commonwealth status with US
1981 – Battle between Muslims and Christians in Cairo, 14 killed
2006 – Sci-Fi author Anne McCaffrey inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame
2018 – Ivan Duque is elected President of Columbia
Historical Events for 16th June 2021
1815 – Battle at Quatre-Bras: allies strike French
1858 – Abraham Lincoln says “A house divided against itself cannot stand” accepting Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the Senate
1882 – 17″ hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa
1884 – 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)
1929 – Otto E Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (NY to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days)
1954 – Ngô Đình Diệm elected Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
1958 – “Flip Top Box” by Dicky Doo and The Don’ts hits #46
1974 – French Open Men’s Tennis: Björn Borg of Sweden wins first career Grand Slam title; beats Manuel Orantes of Spain 2-6, 6-7, 6-0, 6-1, 6-1
1992 – Longest salami is 68’9 and 25 circumference, weighed 1,492lbs/5oz in Flekkefjord, Norway
2016 – British MP (L) Jo Cox is shot and killed outside her constituency surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire
Historical Events for 15th June 2021
1929 – 1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch
1934 – Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated
1940 – World War II: France surrenders to NAZI Germany, German troops occupy Paris
1944 – US forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific
1949 – Phils Eddie Waitkus, shot by Ruth Steinhagen, 19, at Eddgewater Hotel
1968 – “New Faces of 1965” closes at Booth Theater, NYC, after 52 performances
1969 – Mets help their power needs by adding 1st baseman Donn Clendenon
1985 – En route to Halley’s Comet, USSR’s Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
2001 – NBA Finals: Los Angeles Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers, 100-86 in Game 5 to win back-to-back titles; MVP: Shaquille O’Neal for second straight year
2014 – US Open Men’s Golf, Pinehurst Resort: Martin Kaymer of Germany leads wire-to-wire to win his second major title, 8 strokes ahead of runners-up Erik Compton and Rickie Fowler
Historical Events for 14th June 2021
1926 – French Women’s Tennis Championships: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary Kendall Browne 6-1, 6-0
1931 – Reinhard Heydrich’s first meeting with Heinrich Himmler
1936 – Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens in Germany
1951 – 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau
1953 – Elvis Presley graduates from L. C. Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee
1967 – Mariner 5 Launch (Venus Flyby)
1992 – Senior Players Championship Men’s Golf, TPC of Michigan: Dave Stockton wins first of 3 Champions Tour major titles by 1 stroke from J.C. Snead and lee Trevino
1993 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg is nominated to the United States Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton
2018 – 21st FIFA World Cup opens at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia with British singer Robbie Williams and Russian soprano Aida Garifullina performing
2019 – Swiss women hold a national strike over the country’s slow pace towards equality
Historical Events for 13th June 2021
1325 – Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years)
1866 – US House of representatives passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights)
1886 – Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, British Columbia
1957 – Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-HR games in a season
1965 – Vietnam War: Battle of Dong Xoai ends in a Viet Cong victory
1986 – Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta’s triple-play
1988 – 45th time opposing pitchers hit HRs, Mark Davis (Padres)/Mike Krukow
1988 – George Harrison releases “This is Love”
1990 – Nelson and Winnie Mandela welcomed in NYC
1995 – “Jagged Little Pill” 3rd studio album by Alanis Morissette is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1996)