1661 – 1st banknotes in Europe are issued by Bank of Stockholm
1867 – Amstel Hotel, “the dignified old lady” opens in Amsterdam
1950 – Single day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12)
1955 – Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina clinches his third Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by finishing 2nd to fellow Mercedes driver Sterling Moss in the British Grand Prix at Aintree
1976 – Rock duo Loggins and Messina break-up after 6 years
1980 – Ronald Reagan nominated for US President by Republicans in Detroit
1982 – Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud
1990 – Ukraine declares independence
2008 – 79th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Yankee Stadium, New York
2018 – 12 new moons discovered orbiting Jupiter bringing planet’s moon total to 79, by scientists at Carnegie Institution for Science
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 15th July 2020
1864 – Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 and injuring 109 of 955 aboard
1870 – Hudson’s Bay and Northwest Territories transferred to Canada
1900 – President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin
1928 – 22nd Tour de France: Defending champion Nicolas Frantz of Luxembourg holds yellow jersey from start to finish; his Alcyon team has all 3 podium positions
1953 – ANC members, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe leave South Africa and go overseas under false names
1961 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: Arnold Palmer wins the first of 2 consecutive Open Championships, a stroke ahead of Welshman Dai Rees
1962 – Algeria becomes member of Arab League
1994 – NJ Nets Derrek Coleman accused of rape in Detroit
2002 – Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl
2012 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Indianwood G andCC: Englishman Roger Chapman wins by 2 strokes ahead of Bernhard Langer, Fred Funk, Corey Pavin and Tom Lehman
Historical Events for 14th July 2020
1822 – Date planned for the slave revolt in Charleston, South Carolina by Denmark Vesey and Peter Poyas (plot already uncovered in June)
1853 – US President Franklin Pierce opens World Fair – Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York
1914 – Robert Goddard is granted the first patent for liquid-fueled rocket design
1932 – Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders
1959 – USS Long Beach, first nuclear powered cruiser launched at Quincy, Mass
1968 – WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1997 – Bomb in Algiers kills 21 and wounds 40
2015 – Arms deal agreed between 6 world powers and Iran limiting Iranian nuclear arms but ending sanctions
2018 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Angelique Kerber becomes the first German since Steffi Graf (1996) to win Wimbledon beating Serena Williams 6-3, 6-3
2019 – Cricket World Cup, Lord’s: England beats New Zealand on count back after scores tied at 241 after 50 overs and 15 in Super Over; Player of Series: NZ captain Kane Williamson
Historical Events for 13th July 2020
1573 – Haarlem surrenders after 7 months to Spanish army
1854 – In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon
1882 – 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia
1885 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: 5 straight Wimbledon titles for William Renshaw; for second consecutive year he beats Herbert Lawford 7-5, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5
1895 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Wilfred Baddeley beats Wilberforce Eaves 4-6, 2-6, 8-6, 6-2, 6-3 for his third Wimbledon singles title
1934 – Babe Ruth hits 700th career home run against Detroit
1944 – Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated
1960 – US Democratic convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate
1976 – Court martial begins in USSR for Valery Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct)
2018 – Outline of 5,000 year-old henge discovered at New Grange, Ireland through drought and drone footage
Historical Events for 12th July 2020
1850 – Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts establishment of Provincial States
1951 – Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero, Illinois
1960 – USSR’s Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs
1973 – A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States
1979 – “Disco Demolition Night” at Comiskey Park: fans go wild destroying disco records and cause the White Sox to forfeit second game of a doubleheader to the Detroit Tigers
1987 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Brooklawn CC: South African Gary Player wins by a record 6 strokes ahead of Doug Sanders
1987 – Canadian Open Women’s Golf (du Maurier Classic), Islesmere GC: Jody Rosenthal wins by 2 from Ayako Okamoto of Japan
1988 – USSR launches Phobos II for Martian orbit
1989 – NY Yankee pitching great Ron Guidry retires (170-91 .651, 3.29 ERA)
2006 – Hezbollah initiates Operation True Promise.
Historical Events for 11th July 2020
1798 – US Marine Corps established by an act of Congress
1848 – Edmund Hickly gets 1st known 10 wicket innings (Kent v England)
1893 – A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua
1955 – New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado with 300 cadets
1974 – House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
1986 – Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara
1990 – NYC police arrest “Dartman” (stabbed over 50 women with darts)
1991 – Nigeria Airways DC-8 crashes at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 261 passengers and crew on board
1995 – 66th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 at Ballpark at Arlington Tx
2004 – Canadian Open Women’s Golf, Legends on the Niagara GC: Meg Mallon wins by 4 strokes from Beth Daniel
Historical Events for 10th July 2020
1598 – Spanish theater plays “Moros y Los Cristianos” in Rio Grande
1934 – Carl Hubbell strikes out Ruth, Gehrig and Foxx in All star game
1962 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1971 – Failed assassination attempt on King Hassan II of Morocco, 101 killed
1981 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 – All star MVP: Julio Franco (Texas Rangers)
1991 – Foreign Minister R.F. Botha of South Africa signs accession to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty on behalf of South Africa
1993 – Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi President, Sylvie Kinigi Prime Minister
2000 – EADS, the world’s second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA
2002 – 10th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Venus Williams win
Historical Events for 9th July 2020
1755 – British General Edward Braddock mortally wounded during French and Indian War
1863 – John Hunt Morgan’s cavalry aid into Indiana [->JUL 13]
1893 – Daniel Hale Williams III repairs the torn pericardium of a knife wound patient, James Cornish, without penicillin or blood transfusion
1914 – Boston Red Sox purchase future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth’s contract from minor league Baltimore Orioles
1947 – Spain votes for Franco monarchy
1949 – Benjamin Britten’s Jump Symphony premieres
1969 – Tom Seaver’s no-hit bid against Cubs ends with 1 out in 9th
1980 – 7 die in a stampede to see Pope John Paul II in Brazil
1988 – Chris Speier hits for the cycle and Ernest Riles hits 10,000th Giant HR
1989 – Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others
Historical Events for 8th July 2020
1836 – Charles Darwin reaches Saint Helena in HMS Beagle and takes up lodgings near the tomb of Napoleon
1892 – American Psychological Association organized in Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
1933 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: American Helen Wills Moody successfully defends her title beating local favourite Dorothy Round 6-4, 6-8, 6-3
1949 – The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 prohibiting marriage or a sexual relationship between White people and people of other race groups is passed in South Africa
1957 – Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn Féin leaders
1970 – SF Giant Jim Ray Hart is 8th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
1994 – Sonia O’Sullivan runs female 2K world record (5:25.36)
1994 – Space shuttle STS-65 (Columbia 17), launches
1994 – St Maarten “Godfather” Claude Wathey sentenced to 1½ years
2017 – British Lions tie 15-15 with New Zealand All Blacks in their 3rd rugby match to tie the series
Historical Events for 7th July 2020
1777 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton
1801 – Toussaint L’Ouverture declares Haitian independence
1878 – Social-Democratic United forms in Amsterdam
1911 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Dorothea Chambers becomes first player not to concede a game in a final beating Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0
1941 – Nazis execute 5,000 Jews in Kovono, Lithuania
1944 – RAF Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France
1944 – Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan
1969 – Canada’s House of Commons approves equality of French-English language
1974 – Milwaukee’s Don Money sets MLB record for consecutive errorless games at 3rd base (78) in Brewers 8-5 win v Twins
1978 – Solomon Islands declares independence from UK