1483 – The House of Lords and Commons declares King Edward V of England as illegitimate based on his parent’s alleged bigamous marriage
1788 – Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify US constitution
1950 – Israeli airline El Al begins transatlantic service form Israel to New York City’s Idlewild Airport
1962 – İnönü government forms in Turkey
1978 – First use of the rainbow flag, symbol of gay pride, made by Gilbert Baker at a march in San Francisco
1982 – Greece abolishes headshaving of recruits in the military
1984 – Lydia Garrett, 24, crowned 17th Miss Black America
2018 – Californian Governor Jerry Brown declares State of Emergency for wildfire spread over 8,200 acres in Lake County
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 24th June 2026
1396 – Crusaders under Earl of Nevers reach Vienna
1472 – Byzantine princess Sophia Palaiologina departs Rome with a large entourage for Moscow to marry Ivan III
1497 – John Cabot claims parts of North America for England in what is now Eastern Canada, believing he has found Asia in Newfoundland
1894 – Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated in Lyon by Italian anarchist Sante Geronimo Caserio
1968 – Australia all out for 78 v England at Lord’s
1970 – Bobby Murcer ties record of four consecutive home runs
2004 – Christie’s Auction House in New York City conducts sale of 80 of Eric Clapton and friends’ guitars to benefit Crossroads Centre at Antigua, a drug and alcohol residential rehabilitation facility he co-founded in 1997, raising over $5M; “Blackie”, a 1956-57 composite Fender Stratocaster used as his primary instrument form the mid 70s until 1985 sells for a then record $959,500
2020 – NY Governor Andrew Cuomo announces people arriving from nine states hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic will have to isolate for two weeks
Historical Events for 23rd June 2026
1848 – A bloody workers’ insurrection erupts in Paris as laborers and radicals rise against the newly proclaimed Second Republic after the closure of the National Workshops during the June Days uprising
1919 – Nitti government forms in Italy
1945 – Last organized Japanese defiance broken (Tarakan)
1954 – 122°F (50°C), Overton, Nevada (state record until June 29, 1994)
1992 – Emmy 19th Daytime Award presentation – Susan Lucci loses for 13th time
2011 – NBA Draft: Duke point guard Kyrie Irving first pick Cleveland Cavaliers
2014 – Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is re-elected President of Mauritania
2018 – Explosion at a rally in Addis Ababa after speech by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed kills two and injures 150
Historical Events for 22nd June 2026
1870 – US Congress creates Department of Justice
1936 – Harry Froboess dives 110 meters from an airship into Lake Constance at the foot of the Alps and survives
1938 – Joe Louis scores a stunning 1st round KO of German Max Schmeling at Yankee Stadium, NYC to retain his world heavyweight boxing title
1946 – English cricketer Alec Bedser takes 7-49 v India on 1st day of his 1st Test cricket at Lord’s
1957 – Kansas City stops using streetcars in its transit system
1989 – Business Day reports that SA is about to test an intermediate range ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads
1992 – Supreme Court rules “hate crime” laws violated free-speech rights
2019 – Seven-story building collapses in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, with at least 25 construction workers sleeping inside killed
Historical Events for 21st June 2026
1834 – American inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick patents the reaping machine
1858 – Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe
1923 – Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud
1932 – German champion Max Schmeling loses NYSAC, NBA and lineal heavyweight boxing titles in controversial split points decision to American Jack Sharkey in NYC, New York
1937 – French People’s Popular Front government of Socialist Léon Blum falls
1983 – Tennis ace Arthur Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery
2019 – UK police called to house of leader contender Boris Johnson over alleged altercation with his girlfriend
2021 – New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is the first openly transgender athlete to be selected for the Olympics
Historical Events for 20th June 2026
1789 – French Revolution: The Third Estate of the French Estates-General swears the Tennis Court Oath at the Palace of Versailles, vowing not to disband until a new constitution is formed
1863 – West Virginia admitted as 35th US state of the Union
1944 – Great storm of 1944: Heavy Atlantic storm destroys Mulberry Harbor – allies artificial harbour used during D-Day at Omaha Beach
1949 – Tennis star Gussie Moran shocks Wimbledon by wearing a short dress “to look good and move more freely on the court”
1969 – A constitutional referendum in Rhodesia on declaring a republic is approved by 72% of the voting population
1975 – Film “Jaws,” based on Peter Benchley’s novel, directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Roy Scheider, is released
1980 – Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard at Olympic Stadium in Montreal by unanimous points decision
1990 – Nelson Mandela lands in NYC to begin a tour of US
Historical Events for 19th June 2026
1269 – King Louis IX of France decrees all Jews must wear a yellow badge in public or be fined 10 livres of silver
1778 – George Washington’s Continental Army troops finally leave Valley Forge, their winter encampment
1926 – DeFord Bailey is 1st African American to perform on Nashville’s “Grand Ole Opry”
1937 – Francisco Franco’s Nationalist troops take Bilbao during their victorious Biscay Campaign in the Basques region during the Civil War
1940 – German 7th Armoured division under command of Rommel occupies Cherbourg
1960 – Loretta Lynn records “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl”
1992 – Evander Holyfield beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
2016 – NBA Finals: Cleveland Cavaliers win first title beating defending champion Golden State Warriors, 93-89 in Game 7; first team to overcome 3–1 deficit; MVP: LeBron James
Historical Events for 18th June 2026
1580 – States of Utrecht forbid Catholic worship
1980 – Dutch 2nd Chamber joins oil boycott of South Africa
2003 – Google launches AdSense, a program that enables website publishers to serve ads targeted to the specific content of their individual web pages, many of which like On This Day (then HistoryOrb.com) go on to start their own publishing businesses
2005 – David Tennant’s first appearance as the Tenth Doctor in BBC “Doctor Who” episode “The Parting of the Ways”
2013 – 27 people are killed and 30 are injured by a suicide bomb in Sher Garh, Pakistan
2017 – ICC Men’s Cricket Champions Trophy, The Oval, London: Pakistan wins the competition for the first time with a 180-run victory over India; Player of the Series: Hasan Ali (PAK) 13 wickets
2020 – World record for greatest duration for a single lighting flash of 17.1 seconds during thunderstorm over Uruguay and Argentina according to World Meteorological Organization
2022 – Flooding in Bangladesh and nearby Indian states leave four million stranded and without electricity, with at least 41 dead as monsoon floods become more frequent and extreme
Historical Events for 17th June 2026
1397 – Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden and Norway
1631 – Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal
1789 – French Revolution: During the meeting of the Estates-General, the Third Estate proclaims itself the ‘National Assembly’
1916 – US troops under General Pershing march into Mexico
1990 – US Open Men’s Golf, Medinah CC: Hale Irwin wins his 3rd Open title; defeats Mike Donald at the 91st hole, the first in sudden-death, after tying the 18-hole Monday playoff
2012 – US Open Men’s Golf, Olympic Club, SF: American Webb Simpson wins his first major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Graeme McDowell and Michael Thompson
2020 – First major breakthrough in treating COVID-19 using steroid dexamethasone announced by Oxford University
2024 – NBA Finals: Boston Celtics beat Dallas Mavericks 106-88 in Game 5 to clinch the club’s record 18th Championship; MVP: Boston forward Jaylen Brown
Historical Events for 16th June 2026
1823 – Dutch King William I opens the Fijenoord shipyard at Rotterdam
1913 – South African Government pass the segregationist Native Land Act, which restricts purchase or lease of land by native Africans
1922 – Irish republicans are beaten in a national election; the vote is in favor of the Treaty of London, which leaves the Irish Free State as a dominion within the British Commonwealth
1929 – Otto E. Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (NY to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days)
1985 – US Open Men’s Golf, Oakland Hills CC: 1978 champion Andy North wins by 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Dave Barr, T C Chen and Denis Watson
2000 – Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Shebaa Farms.
2013 – “Despicable Me 2” directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud with voices by Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig premieres at the Champs-Elysées Film Festival
2019 – India imposes retaliatory tariffs on 28 US goods