1894 – Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto
1948 – US begin airlift “Operation Vittles” to West Berlin
1960 – British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
1963 – Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian government
1977 – 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
1983 – “Loving” premieres on TV
1985 – Portugal’s Socialist Prime Minister Mário Soares resigns amid predictions that Parliament would be dissolved and elections called
1987 – Losing 9-0 to Red Sox, Yanks score 11 in 3rd and win 12-11 in 10 inn
1989 – Supreme Court rules 16 year olds can receive death penalty
2018 – Polio outbreak confirmed in New Guinea by WHO, 18 years after it was declared free of the disease
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 25th June 2020
1298 – Rindfleisch Persecutions, 250 Jews killed in Rothenburg, Germany
1864 – Battle of Petersburg: Union forces begin digging tunnels under Confederate lines
1918 – Baku-Turkish communist party forms
1919 – Revolt of Spartacus in Hamburg
1966 – Beatles’ “Paperback Writer” single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
1973 – Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m
1983 – “Evita” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 1568 performances
1983 – Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m
1989 – 1st US postmark dedicated to Lesbian and Gay Pride (Stonewall, NYC)
1996 – “Independence Day” directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum premieres in Westwood, California
Historical Events for 24th June 2020
1374 – Sudden outbreak of St. John’s Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion
1497 – John Cabot claims Eastern Canada for England (believes he has found Asia in Nova Scotia)
1813 – Battle of Beaver Dams – British and native forces defeat US forces (War of 1812)
1843 – Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside ghetto in Italy
1905 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Elisabeth Moore wins her 4th US singles title; beats Helen Homans 6-4, 5-7, 6-1
1970 – Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs
1972 – Yvonne Brathwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair of a Democratic convention
2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history
2009 – Mike Babcock is named head coach of Team Canada for the 2010 Winter Olympics (they would win the gold medal)
2010 – NBA Draft: Kentucky point guard John Wall first pick by Washington Wizards
Historical Events for 23rd June 2020
1658 – Dutch troops occupy last Portuguese Fort at Jafnapatnam in Ceylon
1932 – Lou Gehrig plays 1,103rd successive game in a NY uniform, equaling Joe Sewell’s record with one team (Cleveland)
1940 – After conquering France, Adolf Hitler visits Paris and views the Eiffel Tower and the grave of Napoleon Bonaparte
1951 – Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage and $14M property-Kansas)
1959 – A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people
1972 – US President Nixon and his Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
1973 – Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game HR in which he pitched
1979 – Supertramp’s “Breakfast in America” becomes No. 1 album in the US featuring “Take the Long Way Home”
1991 – “Odd Couple” opens and closes at Belasco Theater NYC
1993 – Lorena Gallo Bobbitt amputates husband’s John Wayne Bobbitt’s penis
Historical Events for 22nd June 2020
1535 – Cardinal John Fisher is beheaded on Tower Hill, London, for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the Church of England
1774 – British parliament accepts Quebec Act, which extends the province’s territory and restores French civil law
1848 – Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for President
1874 – Dr Andrew T Still, discovers the science of osteopathy
1947 – 12″ rain in 42 mins (Holt, MO)
1961 – Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints Go Marching In, Why, Nobody’s Child and My Bonnie, in Hamburg
1990 – Adam Sandler joins “Saturday Night Live”
2002 – WLAF World Bowl 10, Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf: Berlin Thunder beats Rhein Fire, 26-20
2016 – NHL owners meeting unanimously approves the Las Vegas expansion bid to start play in the 2017-18 season.
2018 – President Trump spokesperson Sarah Sanders is asked to leave Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington, Virginia over her support of Trump’s policies, igniting debate
Historical Events for 21st June 2020
1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Emperor of China and seventh Great Khan after defeating rival factions and succeeding his uncle Temür Khan
1667 – Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England
1826 – Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas
1907 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: Frenchman Arnaud Massy wins by 2 strokes from J.H. Taylor; first non-Briton to win Open Championship
1916 – Mexican troops defeat US expeditionary force under Gen. Pershing
1956 – Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
1963 – Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII
1978 – The British Army shoots dead 3 Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a passing Ulster Volunteer Force member at a postal depot on Ballysillan Road, Belfast; it is claimed that the PIRA volunteers were about to launch a bomb attack
1981 – Don Fagan and Walter Becker quit rock group Steely Dan
1992 – Last day of test cricket for Ian Botham and Allan Lamb
Historical Events for 20th June 2020
1675 – Abenaki, Massachusetts, Mohegan and Wampanoag Native Americans form anti-English front under Metacom
1825 – Coronation of Charles X, the last Bourbon King of France
1855 – Commissioners appointed to lay out San Francisco streets west of Larkin
1864 – Battle of Kinston, North Carolina and Battle of Abingdon, Virginia
1871 – Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford, Mississippi
1948 – 20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo
1983 – US Open Men’s Golf, Oakmont CC: Larry Nelson wins by 1 shot from Tom Watson in a storm affected Monday finish
2018 – US President Donald Trump signs Executive Order ending family separation at the border for illegal immigrants
2018 – Hungarian government passes legislation that criminalizes aiding undocumented migrants
2018 – FIFA World Cup: Portugal superstar Cristiano Renaldo heads a goal against Morocco to become the all-time leading European goalscorer (85) in international competition
Historical Events for 19th June 2020
1910 – 1st airship in service “Germany”
1940 – Hermann Goering orders seizure of Dutch horses, car, buses and ships
1944 – French troops free Elba
1955 – Phils beat Cubs 1-0 in 15, ties longest shut out in Phillies history
1961 – “Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)” by Coasters peaks at #23
1961 – US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland’s constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God
1987 – Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation
1992 – Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa is shot twice in NYC
2017 – First full genetic study of cats published in “Nature Ecology and Evolution”, reveals domesticated 9,000 years ago, descended from one species (African wildcat)
2019 – Oklahoma writer Joy Harjo is named the first Native American US Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress
Historical Events for 18th June 2020
618 – Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty’s rule over China
1639 – Treaty of Berwick: Ends the First Bishops’ War between England and Scotland
1682 – William Penn founds Philadelphia, US
1892 – Macadamia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
1967 – Houston Don Wilson no-hits Atlanta Braves, 2-0
1972 – BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118
1981 – Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O’Connor, 1st woman on US Supreme Court)
1986 – Heike Friedrich swims female world record 200m freestyle (1:57.55)
1987 – Charles Glass, ABC journalist, kidnapped in Lebanon
1996 – Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts
Historical Events for 17th June 2020
1850 – Paddle-wheeler “G P Griffith” burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die)
1864 – 640m long ponton bridge over James River, Virginia finished
1916 – US troops under General Pershing march into Mexico
1939 – Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre
1940 – Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland
1953 – Riots in East Germany for reunification
1965 – Kinks arrive in NYC beginning their 1st US tour
1974 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army bombs the Houses of Parliament in London, injuring 11 people and causing extensive damage
1976 – ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets and Spurs) merges into NBA
1991 – Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78