527 – Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire
1021 – Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest
1690 – Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus of Savoy
1836 – As part of their homeward journey on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin returns to Bahia in Brazil
1914 – Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany declares war on his nephew Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in WWI
1943 – Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw
1966 – Yakubu Gowon becomes Nigerian Head of State after a military coup d’état
1968 – The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
1987 – In New Zealand, the Maori Language Act comes into force, making te reo Māori an official language of New Zealand; it can now be used in some legal proceedings
2010 – 200m x 250m photo mosaic commemorating the life of Filipino President Corazon Aquino is unveiled near Quirino Grandstand at the Luneta Park, Manila
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 31st July 2020
1451 – Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France
1658 – Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor
1876 – US Coast Guard officers’ training school established (New Bedford Massachusetts)
1910 – Chic Cub King Cole no-hits St Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game
1948 – American swimmer Wally Ris wins the coveted 100m freestyle gold medal at the London Olympics beating team mate Alan Ford by 0.4 seconds
1987 – Baltimore first baseman Eddie Murray hits his 299th and 300th career home runs to lead Orioles to an 8-4 win over Texas Rangers
1988 – Last Playboy club closes in Lansing, Michigan
1992 – Three world record swims on final night session at the Barcelona Olympics; Australian Kieren Perkins 1,500m (14:43.4); Tamás Darnyi of Hungary 200m backstroke (1:59.36); China’s Yang Wenyi women’s 50m freestyle (24.79)
1994 – Netherlands’ warmest July since 1783 – average 21.4°C
2012 – Michael Phelps becomes the greatest medal winner in Olympic history as part of the winning American 4 x 200m freestyle relay team in London; Phelps’ 19th career Olympic medal and 15th overall gold
Historical Events for 30th July 2020
1715 – Spanish gold and silver fleet disappears off St Lucie, Florida
1825 – Malden Island is discovered in the central Pacific by British warship HMS Blonde
1907 – Starting today, the French bombard Casablanca and land troops to occupy the Atlantic-coast region of Morocco after attacks on foreigners
1914 – Austrian-Hungary and Russia proclaim general mobilization
1948 – Czech distance running legend Emil Zátopek wins the 10,000m at the London Olympics in 29:59.6, an Olympic record
1954 – 5th British Empire Games and Commonwealth Games open in Vancouver, Canada
1964 – US naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam
1969 – Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas
1992 – Yael Arad becomes Israel’s first ever Olympic medalist when she wins silver in the women’s 61kg judo in Barcelona; 20th anniversary of Munich massacre and 500th anniversary of Alhambra Decree
2017 – Hackers reveal they have stolen data from HBO, including episodes and scripts of Games of Thrones
Historical Events for 29th July 2020
1676 – Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians
1914 – Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary
1914 – 1st transcontinental phone link made between New York City and San Francisco
1927 – 1st iron lung installed (Bellevue hospital, NY)
1968 – Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1
1974 – 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee
1984 – Canadian Open Women’s Golf (du Maurier Classic), St. George’s CC: Juli Inkster wins by 1 from Ayako Okamoto of Japan
1994 – Jesse Timmedequas rapes and murders Megan Kanka, 7 (results in Megan’s Law)
2009 – Temperature reaches 103°F in Seattle, Washington, the hottest day on record
2019 – Record for longest run at the top of US singles chart made by country rap single “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X remixed with Billy Ray Cyrus, No. 1 for 17 weeks
Historical Events for 28th July 2020
1148 – Second Crusade: Crusaders abandon their siege of Damascus
1635 – Spanish marshal Piccolomini conquers Schenkenschans
1906 – Yankees turn triple-play, beat Cleveland 6-4
1945 – US Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die
1965 – LBJ sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam (total of 125,000)
1988 – Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years
1991 – Tour de France: Spanish rider Miguel Induráin beats Gianni Bugno of Italy by 3′ 36″ for 1st of 5 consecutive Tour wins; Djamolidine Abdoujaparov points winner
1996 – NY Yankee Darryl Strawberry hits his 300th HR
2014 – Missiles strike near Gaza’s main hospital and a nearby refugee camp Monday, leaving 10 dead and many wounded; Israeli Defence Force say they are not responsible
2018 – Carr Fire reaches Redding, California, with death toll at 5 having burnt 80,000 acres
Historical Events for 27th July 2020
1563 – French army recaptures Le Havre
1839 – Chartist riots break out in Birmingham, England
1920 – 14th Tour de France: Belgian rider Philippe Thys becomes first to win the race 3 times
1944 – Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp
1946 – 45th Women’s French Championships: Margaret Osborne beats Pauline Betz (1-6, 8-6, 7-5)
1963 – Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1967 – LBJ sets up commission to study cause of urban violence
2008 – British Senior Open Men’s Golf, Royal Troon: Bruce Vaughan birdies first extra playoff hole to beat fellow American John Cook by a stroke
2013 – 1,000 inmates escape from a prison in Benghazi, Libya
2017 – Boy Scouts of American chief Michael Surbaugh apologies for politically motivated remarks made by President Donald Trump at rally attended by 30,000 scouts
Historical Events for 26th July 2020
1656 – Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn declares he is insolvent
1822 – Secret meeting of Simón Bolívar and Jose de San Martin
1847 – The Liberian Declaration of Independence is signed making Liberia a sovereign nation, independent from the American Colonization Society
1866 – Canoe Club opens in England
1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation)
1928 – Gene Tunney TKOs Tom Heeney in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1945 – Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva depart Kirtland Army Air Field to transport the plutonium core for the Fat Man bomb (bombing of Nagasaki) to the island of Tinian where the bomb is assembled
1952 – Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer
1991 – CFL assumes ownership of Ottawa Rough Riders
2019 – Australian cricket captain Meg Lanning records T20 International world record individual score of 133 off 63 balls in 93-run win against England at Chelmsford; Southern Stars clinch Women’s Ashes
Historical Events for 25th July 2020
1536 – Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the City of Santiago de Cali
1585 – Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics
1795 – The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid
1814 – Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy’s Lane); Americans defeat British
1860 – 1st US intercollegiate billiard match (Harvard vs Yale)
1956 – Jordan attacks UN Palestine force
1957 – Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic
1985 – Uganda suspends constitution following coup
1992 – Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr Mudd
2018 – Liquid lake found on Mars under its South Pole by European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter reported in “Science”
Historical Events for 24th July 2020
1877 – 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers
1944 – US troops land on Tinian
1950 – V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral
1957 – KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 – Test Cricket debuts against NZ for Dexter, Illingworth and Subba Row
1974 – “Death Wish”, based on the novel by Brian Garfield, directed by Michael Winner and starring Charles Bronson is released in the US
1983 – “Mame” opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 41 performances
1987 – USSR performs underground nuclear Test
2007 – Libya frees all six of the Medics in the HIV trial in Libya
2011 – Copa América Final, River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires: Diego Forlán scores twice as Uruguay beats Paraguay, 3–0 to earn their 15th title
Historical Events for 23rd July 2020
636 – Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire
1949 – Test Cricket debut of England’s Brian Close aged 18 years 149 days
1956 – Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
1973 – US President Richard Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation
1976 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 – Israeli government rejects Sadat’s call for return of 2 Sinai areas
1990 – South Africa workers’ union leader Billy Nair arrested
1994 – Goodwill Games open in St Petersburg
1995 – British Open Men’s Golf, St. Andrews: Controversial American John Daly wins his 2nd major title by 4 strokes in a 4-hole playoff with Costantino Rocca of Italy
2000 – 87th Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified)