1189 – Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England, upon the death of King Henry II
1348 – Papal bull of Pope Clement VI issued during the Black Death stating Jews not to blame and urging their protection
1560 – England and Scotland sign Treaty of Edinburgh
1853 – William Wells Brown publishes “Clotel”, 1st novel by an African American
1905 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time
1954 – Tunisian government of M’zali, resigns
1975 – Dmitri Shostakovich completes Sonate for alto opus 147
1985 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 for her 6th Wimbledon singles title
1987 – 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India
2010 – Brandon Boyd announces the release of his debut solo album, “The Wild Trapeze”
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 5th July 2020
1295 – Scotland and France form an alliance, the beginnings of the Auld Alliance, against England
1922 – Women 1st vote in Dutch elections, Christian parties win
1939 – Flash floods kill 79 in Northeast Kentucky
1943 – Liberator bombers sink U-535 in Gulf of Biskaye
1947 – Cleveland Indians rookie Larry Doby becomes 1st black player in AL when he strikes out in 6-5 loss vs Chicago WS
1952 – “Of Thee I Sing” closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 72 performances
1962 – Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule
1970 – 20th Berlin International Film Festival cancelled due to controversy surrounding the participation of Michael Verhoeven’s anti-war film “o.k.”
1975 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Arthur Ashe becomes first African-American to win Wimbledon, beats countryman Jimmy Connors 6-1, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4
1990 – Steffi Graf’s record run of 13 consecutive tennis Grand Slam singles finals ends, beaten in Wimbledon semi-finals 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 by American Zina Garrison
Historical Events for 4th July 2020
1845 – Henry David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
1879 – Battle at Ulundi: Lord Chelmsford beats Zulu King Cetshwayo
1891 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Wilfred Baddeley wins first of 3 Wimbledon singles championships; beats Joshua Pim 6-4, 1-6, 7-5, 6-0
1900 – Williams Jennings Bryan nominated as Democratic Party presidential candidate, USA
1907 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Australian Norman Brookes becomes the first non-Englishman and left-hander to win Wimbledon beating Arthur Gore 6-4, 6-2, 6-2
1914 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Dorothea Chambers wins her 7th and last Wimbledon singles title beating Ethel Larcombe 7-5, 6-4
1930 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Helen Moody wins 4th straight Wimbledon singles beating fellow American Elizabeth Ryan 6-2, 6-2
1942 – 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WWII)
1969 – The Ohio Fireworks Derecho kills 18 Ohioans and destroys over 100 boats on Lake Erie.
2015 – Super Rugby Final, Westpac Stadium, Wellington: Otago Highlanders beat Wellington Hurricanes 21-14 for their first title
Historical Events for 3rd July 2020
1767 – Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret
1852 – Congress authorizes US’s 2nd mint (San Francisco, California)
1925 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen of France takes her 6th Wimbledon singles title with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Briton Joan Fry
1929 – Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber
1937 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Dorothy Round of England beats Poland’s Jadwiga Jędrzejowska 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 for her second Wimbledon title
1942 – German troops march into Sebastopol, Crimea
1963 – In New Zealand, a National Airways Corporation Dakota DC-3 crashes in the Kaimai Ranges; all 23 passengers and crew are killed in New Zealand’s worst internal civil aviation accident
1982 – Riot at building Stopera Amsterdam (damages Ÿ1 million)
1991 – Gateway Board of Trustees approve a 20-year lease for the Cleveland Indians to play MLB at Jacobs Field
2006 – Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies 432,308 km (268,624 miles) by Earth.
Historical Events for 2nd July 2020
1505 – After an encounter with a violent thunderstorm, Martin Luther declares that he will become a monk
1582 – Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide
1787 – Marquis de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered
1861 – Battle of Hoke’s Run, WV – small Union victory
1930 – Chicago outfielder Carl Reynolds becomes only the 2nd player in MLB history to hit home runs in 3 consecutive innings in 15-4 White Sox victory at Yankee Stadium
1937 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Don Budge beats Germany’s Gottfried von Cramm 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 for first of back-to-back titles
1970 – NY Yankees infielder Horace Clarke breaks up a potential no-hitter in the 9th inning for 3rd time in 28 days
1971 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
1993 – Royals Stadium is renamed Kauffman Stadium shortly before the death of Kansas City Royals owner Ewing Kauffman
2000 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Saucon Valley CC: Hale Irwin wins by 3 strokes ahead of Bruce Fleischer for his second US Senior title
Historical Events for 1st July 2020
1916 – 1st of 4 fatal Jersey Shore shark attacks occur at Beach Haven when Charles Vansant (25) bled to death, challenging previous scientific belief that sharks never hurt humans, and sparking popular fear over sharks which persists today
1944 – Graf (Count) Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel
1969 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono are admitted to hospital after a car crash
1987 – New York City radio station WFAN-AM commences first 24 hour all sports radio format
1987 – WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WFAN (now WEVD) replacing WHN’s country music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format
1990 – In Victoria, Australia, helmetless bike riding becomes illegal
1995 – All NBA business apart from the Draft is suspended until a new collective bargaining agreement made with the players – no games lost
1997 – United Kingdom returns Hong Kong and the New Territories to the People’s Republic of China
1999 – The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth on the day powers are transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh
2000 – The Oresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, opens for traffic
Historical Events for 30th June 2020
1861 – CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade
1934 – “Night of Long Knives” – Adolf Hitler stages a bloody purge of the Nazi party
1937 – The world’s first emergency call telephone service is launched in London using the number 999
1950 – US General MacArthur visits front in South Korea/asks for US troops
1962 – LA Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits NY Mets, 5-0
1970 – Cincinnati’s Riverfront Stadium opens, Braves beat Reds 8-2
1978 – Giants’ Willie McCovey becomes 12th to hit 500 HRs
1981 – Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa, is detained
2009 – Yemenia Flight 626 crashes off the coast of Moroni, Comoros killing 152 people and leaving 1 survivor
2009 – Turkey records its fastest contraction of 13.8% in the first quarter of 2009 compared to 2008, leading the country into recession; this is Turkey’s biggest economic slump since 1945
Historical Events for 29th June 2020
1694 – Dutch fleet attacks French grain transports
1943 – US forces landed at Nassau Bay, near Salamaua, New Guinea
1946 – “Billion Dollar Baby” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 219 performances
1957 – Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganowitsj and Sjepilov leave USSR communist party
1961 – SF outfielder Willie Mays becomes the 4th player in MLB history with 3 or more home runs twice in one season with a 10th inning blast in Giants 8-7 win over the Phillies in Philadelphia
1977 – Willie Stargell hits his 400th career HR
1981 – Hu Yaobang succeeds Hua Guofeng as Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
1992 – “Salome” opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 9 performances
1997 – Progress M-35 Soyuz Launch (Russia)
2016 – US Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter lifts Pentagon’s ban on transgender people serving in the US armed forces
Historical Events for 28th June 2020
1833 – Three missionaries of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society obtain permission from Chief Moshoeshoe (Moshesh) to found a mission station in Basutoland (now Lesotho)
1928 – Alfred E Smith (NY-Governor) nominated for US President at Democratic Convention
1941 – German troops occupy Galicia, Poland
1956 – 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates (Chicago Illinois)
1965 – 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Lyndon B. Johnson
1976 – 1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado
1978 – UNICEF chooses rock group Kansas as ambassadors of goodwill
1987 – Don Baylor sets career hit-by-pitch mark at 244 (Pitcher Rick Rhoden)
1993 – Jacques Lemaire is named NJ Devils 8th Head Coach
2006 – NBA Draft: Benetton Treviso (Italy) power forward Andrea Bargnani first pick by Toronto Raptors
Historical Events for 27th June 2020
678 – St Agatho begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1915 – 100°F (38°C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record)
1947 – 98°F (36.8°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1953 – Joseph Laniel appointed French premier
1971 – US Open Women’s Golf, Kahwa GC: JoAnne Carner wins by 7 strokes from Kathy Whitworth
1972 – Legendary video game and home computer Atari, Inc. founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in Sunnyvale, California
1984 – UEFA European Championship Final, Parc des Princes, Paris, France: Michel Platini and Bruno Bellone score as France beats Spain, 2-0
1993 – “Falsettos” closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 487 performances
1994 – Aerosmith become first major band to let fans download a full new track free from the internet
2017 – African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina wins the World Food Prize