1779 – US General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, New York, inflicting heavy losses on the British
1864 – Skirmish at Golgotha, Georgia
1925 – The Union Government rejects a round-table conference with India on the grounds that it will constitute interference in South African affairs
1931 – Austrian government of Ender falls
1935 – US Congress accepts FDR’s “New Deal”
1941 – 1st US federally owned airport opened Washington, D.C.
1944 – US bombs Kyushu Japan
1962 – 2 US army officers killed in Saigon
1992 – Longest salami is 68’9 and 25 circumference, weighed 1,492lbs/5oz in Flekkefjord, Norway
2018 – World Cup: Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology is used for the first time, awarding France a penalty in 2-1 win over Australia in Kazan
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 15th June 2020
1094 – Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar [El Cid] occupies Valencia on the Moren
1580 – Phillip II of Spain declares William the Silent to be an outlaw.
1860 – 1st White settlement in Idaho (Franklin)
1898 – US House of Representatives passes resolution to annex Hawaii
1919 – 1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock and Brown) lands in Ireland
1955 – The International Olympic Committee votes to award Rome the rights to host the 1960 Summer Olympic Games
1957 – 89th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Gallant Man wins in 2:26.6
1963 – Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion resigns
1992 – Erie Sailors (Fla Marlin farm team) 1st game beat Jamestown 6-5 in 13
2002 – Near earth asteroid 2002 MN missed the Earth by 75,000 miles (120,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon
Historical Events for 14th June 2020
1863 – Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia
1872 – Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
1898 – France signs Niger Convention
1923 – Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)
1979 – Canada all out for 45 runs in Cricket World Cup v England, in 40.3 overs
1987 – Senior Tournament Players Championship Men’s Golf, Sawgrass CC: South African Gary Player wins by 1 stroke from Bruce Crampton and Chi-Chi Rodriguez
1990 – Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional
1991 – Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands
1995 – Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win
2003 – WLAF World Bowl 11, Hampden Park, Glasgow: Frankfurt Galaxy beats Rhein Fire, 35-16
Historical Events for 13th June 2020
1792 – King Louis XVI dissmisses French government
1942 – Germany lands 4 saboteurs on Long Island
1945 – Heerjansdam soccer team forms
1951 – UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea
1956 – “Shangri-La” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 21 performances
1969 – Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band and joins The Rolling Stones
1970 – Beatles’ “Let It Be” album goes #1 and stays #1 for 4 weeks
1990 – Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term
2011 – Christchurch, New Zealand is hit by another strong earthquake measuring magnitude 6.3
2017 – Warriors win 2nd NBA title in 3 years over the Cavaliers (129-120)
Historical Events for 12th June 2020
28 – Roman General Gaius Carrinas’ triumphant procession through Rome, awarded for fighting in Gaul
1665 – England installs a municipal government in New York City
1849 – Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett (Louisville, Kentucky)
1897 – Possibly the most severe quake in history strikes Assam, India, Shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (low mortality rate given size of earthquake, 1,500 casualties).
1901 – In Cuba, the constitutional convention – knowing that the USA will not withdraw its troops until does so – adopts the Platt Amendment as part of its constitution
1947 – British Amateur Women’s Golf, Gullane GC: Babe Didrikson becomes first American to win event; beats England’s Jacqueline Gordon 5 and 4
1968 – U.S. premiere of horror film “Rosemary’s Baby”, based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Ira Levin
1978 – US House of Representatives allows live radio coverage
1988 – The Republic of Ireland beats England 1-0 at Euro88 thanks to a headed goal by Ray Houghton. This is Ireland’s first competitive match at a major football tournament.
2013 – Russia passes a law banning gay propaganda
Historical Events for 11th June 2020
631 – Emperor Taizong of Tang of China, sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk for the release of Chinese prisoners captured during transition from Sui to Tang from northern frontier; succeeds in freeing 80,000
1825 – The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City
1898 – Emperor De Zong proclaims reforms in Peking
1900 – David Beatty and 150 men from HMS Barfleur land as part of a force of 2,400 defending Tientsin from 15,000 Chinese troops plus Boxers
1907 – George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket
1911 – The Greek national assembly adopts a more liberal constitution
1937 – Marx Brothers’ “A Day At The Races”, directed by Sam Wood, is released in the US
1940 – British Premier Winston Churchill flies to Orleans
1967 – Mexico becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
1986 – “Blacke’s Magic” last airs on NBC-TV
Historical Events for 10th June 2020
1719 – Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel.
1794 – Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia forms
1865 – Richard Wagner’s opera “Tristan und Isolde” premieres in Munich, Germany
1916 – Great Arab Revolt begins against ruling Ottoman turks
1933 – Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker flip their car into a ravine. Parker suffers serious third degree burns from the accident which would affect her for the rest of her life.
1968 – “Danny Thomas Hour” last airs on NBC-TV
1987 – Discovery’s SRBs and External Tank are mated
1990 – Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers for 1st time since 1974 in Portland
1990 – French Open Men’s Tennis: Andres Gomez of Ecuador wins his 1st and only career Grand Slam title; beats American Andre Agassi 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4
1990 – “Meet Me in St Louis” closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 253 performances
Historical Events for 9th June 2020
1534 – Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River
1892 – 26th Belmont: W Hayward aboard Patron wins in 2:12
1899 – American boxer James J. Jeffries KOs defending champion Bob Fitzsimmons of England in 11th round in Brooklyn, New York to win the lineal World Heavyweight title
1940 – General Charles de Gaulle’s 1st meeting with Winston Churchill
1966 – 5 Minnesota Twins (Rich Rollins, Zolio Versailes, Tony Oliva, Don Michner, and Harmon Killebrew) all homer in 7th inning to beat A’s 9-4
1967 – The Monkees appear at the Hollywood Bowl
1979 – Willie Horton is honored at Seattle’s Kingdome
1985 – 39th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
2012 – Burma (Myanmar) riots kill 20 people and burn down 300 houses
2019 – 95 people killed in attack on Dogon village Sobame Da in central Mali by suspected Fulani group
Historical Events for 8th June 2020
1624 – Earthquake strikes Peru
1921 – Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, and held in jail until 4 PM
1948 – “Texaco Star Theater” premieres on NBC-TV, with “Mr. Television” Milton Berle being made the permanent emcee in September of the same year
1965 – USSR launches Luna 6; it missed the Moon by 99,000 miles
1969 – Nixon says 25,000 US troops would leave Vietnam by end of August
1984 – “Ghostbusters”, American supernatural comedy film, directed and produced by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murrary and Dan Aykroyd is released
1985 – 117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27
1991 – Former NY Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds
2008 – The Akihabara massacre took place on the Sunday-pedestrian-zoned Chūōdōri street. A man killed seven in an attack on a crowd using a truck and a dagger.
2017 – British General Election results in a hung parliament, Prime Minster Theresa May and the Conservative party lose their majority
Historical Events for 7th June 2020
1557 – England declares war on France
1672 – Battle by Solebay: Dutch admiral M de Ruyter beats French/English fleet
1769 – Daniel Boone begins exploring Bluegrass, State of Kentucky
1863 – Mexico City captured by French troops
1929 – Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st British female cabinet minister (Labour)
1976 – NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor and David Brinkley, premieres
1978 – Emmy 5th Daytime Award presentation
1980 – “Billy Bishop Goes to War” closes at Morosco NYC after 12 performances
1989 – For one second this morning, the time is 01:23:45, 6-7-89
2013 – NHL Eastern Conference Finals: Boston Bruins beat Pittsburgh Penguins, 4 games to 0