1787 – Franklin College founded, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Now part of Franklin and Marshall College.
1882 – Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay, India) drowns 100,000 (disputed event)
1919 – Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910
1965 – Rolling Stones release single “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
1989 – Mets turn their 1st triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4
1990 – For 2nd time this season, Cecil Fielder belts 3 home runs in a game
1994 – 28th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Ray Stevens
2002 – A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. Resulting explosion estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
2017 – Scooter Gennet hits four home runs in Cincinnati Reds 13-1 victory against at home against St. Louis Cardinals, 17th player to do so
2018 – MLB Draft: Auburn pitcher Casey Mize first pick by Detroit Tigers
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 5th June 2020
1632 – Prince Frederick Henry conquers Roermond
1849 – Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
1861 – Federal marshals seize arms and gunpower at Du Pont works DE
1876 – Bananas become popular in US, at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia
1945 – USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany
1948 – Phillies Richie Ashburn sets NL rookie consecut hitting streak at 23
1954 – “Your Show Of Shows” last airs on NBC-TV
1975 – The California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (CALRA), which establishes collective bargaining for farmworkers, becomes law
1988 – French Open Men’s Tennis: Mats Wilander of Sweden wins 3rd French title; beats home favourite Henri Leconte 7-5, 6-2, 6-1
1999 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Steffi Graf of Germany wins her 22nd and final Grand Slam title; beats Martina Hingis 4-6, 7-5, 6-2; Graf’s 6th French singles crown
Historical Events for 4th June 2020
1878 – Cyprus ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes
1916 – General Aleksei Brusilov begins a massive Russian offensive on the Eastern Front (WWI)
1920 – Peace of Trianon between Allies and Hungary
1940 – Winston Churchill’s speech “We shall fight on the seas and oceans”
1946 – Largest solar prominence (300,000 mi/500,000 km) observed
1967 – Curt Flood’s record 568 straight chances without an error ends (227 straight games)
1977 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Mima Jaušovec of Yugoslavia wins her lone Grand Slam singles title; beats Florența Mihai of Romania 6-2, 6-7, 6-1
1985 – Supreme Court strikes down Alabama “moment of silence” law
1990 – Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy
2018 – Jordanian Prime Minister Hani Mulki resigns amid huge protests against tax and price increases. King Abdullah appoints Omar Razzaz to replace him.
Historical Events for 3rd June 2020
1889 – The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast
1939 – Beer Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Will Glahe
1944 – 76th Belmont: G L Smith riding Bounding Home wins in 2:32.2
1953 – KVOS TV channel 12 in Bellingham/Vancouver, WA (CBS) begins
1989 – Houston Astros beat LA Dodgers, 5-4, in 22 innings (7:14:09)
1989 – Nolan Ryan pitches his 2nd one-hitter this season and 11th overall
2015 – 200 people are killed by an explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana
2018 – Dead whale found with 17 pounds (80 pieces) of plastic in its stomach in Songkhla province, Thailand
2019 – MLB Draft: Oregon State catcher Adley Rutschman first pick by Baltimore Orioles
2019 – Canadian government inquiry find deaths of over 1,000 indigenous women and girls over decades who have been murdered or are missing a “national genocide”
Historical Events for 2nd June 2020
1619 – England and the Netherlands sign treaty about trading in the Indies
1771 – “Armida”, an operatic ‘dramma per musica’ by Antonio Salieri debuts at the Vienna Burgtheater
1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus begin 1st tour of US
1920 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O’Neill (Beyond the Horizon)
1932 – German Chancellor Franz von Papen forms his “Cabinet of the Barons”
1935 – French Championships Men’s Tennis: Englishman Fred Perry wins his only French title, beating Gottfried von Cramm of Germany 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3
1946 – Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)
1956 – Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow
1958 – Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio
1997 – Liberals beat Conservatives in France
Historical Events for 1st June 2020
1861 – US and Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
1868 – Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico
1917 – Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WWI
1918 – Canadian ace Billy Bishop downs 6 aircrafts over a three-day span, including German ace Paul Bilik, reclaiming his top scoring title from James McCudden
1919 – Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden
1975 – California Angels pitcher Nolan Ryan records his record equalling 4th MLB career no-hitter in beating the Baltimore Orioles, 1-0
1979 – Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier
1980 – ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa
2000 – The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
2017 – “Beren and Lúthien,” compiled and edited by Christopher Tolkien from his father J.R.R. Tolkien’s archives is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Historical Events for 31st May 2020
1861 – Mint at New Orleans closes
1900 – US troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion
1921 – Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700
1931 – 7.1 magnitude Earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan: 40,000 dead.
1941 – German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach and swimming pools
1967 – Bayern Munchen of West Germany wins 7th European Cup Winner’s Cup against Rangers of Scotland 1-0 in Nuremberg
2002 – NHL Western Conference Final: Detroit Red Wings beat Colorado Avalanche, 4 games to 3
2004 – Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Valhalla GC: Hale Irwin wins his 4th title in the event by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Jay Haas
2012 – Egypt formally ends its 31 year state of emergency
2017 – Kenya’s Madaraka Express, a Chinese-built high speed railway from Mombassa to Nairobi is opened by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta
Historical Events for 30th May 2020
1510 – Portuguese forces under Afonso de Albuquerque abandon Goa after its former ruler Yusuf Adil Shah, the Muslim King of Bijapur reconquers the city
1842 – John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria
1896 – 1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hits a cyclist in NYC
1943 – French general Charles De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
1954 – Hector Villa-Lobos’ “Odisseia de Uma Raca” premieres
1956 – US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1959 – Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact (Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom)
1964 – “Beyond the Fringe” closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 673 performances
1979 – Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack’s TRS-80
1984 – 28th European Cup: Liverpool beats Roma (1-1, 4-2 on penalties) at Rome
Historical Events for 29th May 2020
1902 – Dutch State Mine law forms
1940 – Arthur Seyss-Inquart installed as Reich commissar of The Hague, Netherlands
1954 – French Championships Men’s Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Art Larsen 6-4, 7-5, 6-1 for first of 2 straight French singles titles
1976 – “One Piece At A Time” by Johnny Cash hits #29
1980 – JMW Turner’s “Juliet and Her Nurse” sold for $6,400,000 in NYC
1983 – Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m
1993 – Neo-Nazis kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen, Germany
2005 – Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Laurel Valley GC: Mike Reid wins his first of 2 Champions Tour major titles with a birdie on the first playoff hole against Jerry Pate and Dana Quigley
2011 – Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Valhalla GC: Tom Watson wins his 6th and final Champions Tour major title with a birdie on the first playoff hole against David Eger
2014 – NHL Eastern Conference Final: New York Rangers beat Montreal Canadians, 4 games to 2
Historical Events for 28th May 2020
1349 – 60 Jews murdered in Breslau, Silesia
1953 – Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-“Melody”
1964 – Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli
1964 – Palestine National Congress forms the PLO in Jerusalem
1973 – Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland Indians, 6-3, in 21 innings (game started 5/26)
1975 – Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is established by the Treaty of Lagos
1977 – Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Southgate, Kentucky kills 168
1979 – European Market accepts Greece as member
1985 – Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-G
1996 – Pavlo Lazarenko becomes Prime Minister of Ukraine