1552 – Land guardians of Netherlands attack Verdun
1714 – Prussia and Russia sign secret treaty
1889 – 88 people are killed in the Armagh rail disaster, Ireland.
1913 – “Dachshund” by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released
1954 – Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” is originally released
1965 – “I Had a BaIl” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 199 performances
1987 – Central African Republic ex-emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa sentenced to death
1994 – -17] Pope John Paul II visits Spain
1996 – Marge Schott gives up day-to-day operations because of her numerous insensitive comments about Adolf Hitler, working women and Asians
2004 – A 1.3 kilogram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 11th June 2021
1788 – Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska
1892 – The Limelight Department, one of the world’s first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia
1900 – -12] Battle at Diamond Hill: British troops chase General Botha
1921 – Brazil adopts women’s suffrage
1943 – British invades Pantelleria (a tiny island south of Sicily)
1944 – 1st Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of St Sava, NYC
1963 – Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức immolates himself at a Saigon intersection, creating one of the Vietnam War’s most iconic images
1978 – Christa Tybus of London sets record of 24½ hrs of hula-hoop
1992 – Tracy Austin, 29, is youngest inductee of International Tennis Hall of Fame
2016 – 148th Belmont Stakes: Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard Creator wins in 2:28:51
Historical Events for 10th June 2021
1898 – US Marines land in Cuba during Spanish–American War
1915 – British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon
1924 – 1st political convention broadcast on radio-Republicans at Cleveland
1934 – FIFA World Cup Final, Stadio Nazionale PNF, Rome, Italy: Angelo Schiavio scores the winner in extra time as Italy beats Czechoslovakia, 2-1
1940 – French government moves to Bordeaux
1981 – Pete Rose ties Stan Musial’s NL record of 3,630 hits
1989 – “Tales From The Crypt” TV Anthology debuts on HBO
1991 – David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” airs its final episode airs on ABC-TV
2001 – French Open Men’s Tennis: Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil wins his 3rd French title; beats Spaniard Àlex Corretja 6-7, 7-5, 6-2, 6-0
2012 – 66th Tony Awards: Once and Clybourne Park win
Historical Events for 9th June 2021
1789 – Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver Island
1923 – 55th Belmont: Earl Sande riding Zev wins in 2:19
1946 – Bhumibol Adulyadej becomes King of Thailand after the death of his brother King Ananda Mahidol
1954 – Joseph Welch asks US Senator Joseph McCarthy “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” during Senate-Army hearings
1955 – Test Cricket debut of Ken Barrington, v South Africa at Trent Bridge
1972 – 14″ of rain in 6 hrs burst Rapid City SD dam, drowns 237
1978 – Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood
1984 – 116th Belmont: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Swale wins in 2:27.2
2003 – Stanley Cup Final, Meadowlands Arena, East Rutherford, NJ: New Jersey Devils beat Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, 3-0 for 4-3 series win
2017 – Tennis player Venus Williams is involved in a car accident that leads to death of another passenger in Palm Beach, Florida; police later clear her of fault
Historical Events for 8th June 2021
793 – Vikings in long ships from modern-day Norway plunder St Cuthbert’s monastery on Lindisfarne Island, off the northeast coast of England
1869 – Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago patents the 1st vacuum cleaner, calls it a “sweeping machine”
1929 – 61st Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins in 2:32.8
1953 – Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court
1958 – LPGA Championship, Churchill Valley CC: Mickey Wright wins first of 13 major titles by 6 strokes from Fay Crocker
1960 – Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann
1982 – Emmy 9th Daytime Award presentation – Susan Lucci loses for 3rd time
1993 – Drag queen RuPaul releases his debut album “Supermodel of the World”
2008 – LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, Bulle Rock GC: 19-year old tour rookie Yani Tseng of Taiwan wins a 4th hole playoff over Swede Maria Hjorth
2018 – World’s most powerful supercomputer, Summit, can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second, launched at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, by IBM and NVidia
Historical Events for 7th June 2021
1527 – Pope Clement VII surrenders to Emperor Charles V’s armies
1862 – General B. Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed and destroyed US flag on display over New Orleans Mint
1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16
1938 – 1st play telecast with original Broadway cast, “Susan and God”
1967 – NY Yankees draft Ron Blomberg #1
1970 – 22nd Emmy Awards: Marcus Welby, Robert Young and Susan Hampshire win
1977 – Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law
1980 – 112th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Temperence Hill wins in 2:29.8
1998 – French Open Men’s Tennis: In an all-Spanish final Carlos Moya beats Alex Corretja 6-3, 7-5, 6-3 for his lone major title
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 2021
1862 – Skirmish at Harrisonburg, Virginia, sees the Confederates win a minor victory in the Battle of Good’s Farm
1864 – Battle of Lake Chicot, Arkansas (Dutch Bayou)
1925 – French Championships Men’s Tennis: René Lacoste wins 1st of 3 French titles, beating fellow Frenchman Jean Borotra 7-5, 6-1, 6-4
1941 – 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
1942 – Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians
1991 – NBC announces Jay Leno will succeed Johnny Carson as host on “The Tonight Show” on May 25, 1992
1998 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Arantxa Sánchez Vicario of Spain beats Monica Seles 7-6, 0-6, 6-2; her 4th and last career Grand Slam singles title and 3rd French title
2010 – French Open Men’s Tennis: Rafael Nadal wins 5th French title; defeats Robin Söderling of Sweden 6-4, 6-2, 6-4
2015 – 147th Belmont: Victor Espinoza aboard American Pharoah wins in 2:26.65, 1st horse in 37 years to win the Triple Crown
2018 – LeBron James eclipses Michael Jordan’s record (109) for most 30-point games in NBA playoff history in Cleveland Cavaliers’ 110-102 Game 3 Finals loss to Golden State Warriors
Historical Events for 5th June 2021
1288 – Battle of Worringen: Jan I, Duke of Brabant defeats army of Archbishop Siegfried II of Cologne, one of the largest and fiercest battles of the Middle Ages
1941 – Sandor Szabo beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
1944 – German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel goes on leave just before WWII D-Day landings by the Allies
1953 – US Senate rejects China People’s Republic membership to UN
1957 – NY narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes
1977 – Los Angeles Dodgers retire Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman and manager Walter Alston’s #24
1988 – Russian Orthodox Church celebrates its 1,000th anniversary
1989 – Billy Smith, last original NY Islander, retires
1995 – 29th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Reba McEntire
2017 – Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt sever ties with Qatar, citing its support of terrorist groups, Yemen, the Maldives and Libya follow suit
Historical Events for 4th June 2021
1133 – Rome-Innocentius II crowns Lotharius III Roman-German emperor
1870 – 4th Belmont: W Dick aboard Kingfisher wins in 2:59.5
1928 – French Championships Men’s Tennis: Henri Cochet wins his 2nd of 4 home titles; beats countryman René Lacoste 5-7, 6-3, 6-1, 6-3
1932 – 64th Belmont: Tom Malley aboard Faireno wins in 2:32.8
1940 – Winston Churchill’s speech “We shall fight on the seas and oceans”
1962 – Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to US
1986 – Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court
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 – Dr Jack Kevorkian assists an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die
2020 – Thousands ignore a recent ban and mark the anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre in Hong Kong
Historical Events for 3rd June 2021
1083 – Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St Peter’s Cathedral
1098 – After 5-month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch
1876 – Lacrosse introduced in Britain and Canada
1906 – Belgian King Leopold II claims Congo as his private possession
1929 – Chile and Peru sign the Treaty of Lima, finally resolving their border dispute from the War of the Pacific (1879–83). Chile keeps Arica and Peru regains Tacna.
1946 – International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals
1967 – French Championships Men’s Tennis: Roy Emerson beats fellow Australian Tony Roche 6-1, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 for his 12th and final Grand Slam title
1988 – Margo Adams sues Red Sox 3rd baseman Wade Boggs for palimony
2010 – Canadian sportscaster Ron MacLean saves a man from drowning in the Delaware River in Philadelphia
2017 – The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum opens in Springfield, Massachusetts