1925 – NY Yankees buy future Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop Leo Durocher from Hartford Senators (Eastern League)
1937 – US Senate rejects FDR’s proposal to enlarge Supreme Court
1950 – Frank Worrell completes 261 v England at Trent Bridge
1958 – US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1965 – Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Home as leader of the British Conservative party
1969 – USSR launches Sputnik 50 and Molniya 1-12 communications satellite
1981 – Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome, Italy court to life
1990 – British Open Men’s Golf, St Andrews: Englishman Nick Faldo wins the 2nd of his 3 Open Championships by 5 strokes from runners-up Mark McNulty and Payne Stewart
1994 – 23rd and last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (since July 16th)
2014 – News broadcaster Al Jazeera claim that its office in Gaza is under attack by the Israeli Defence Force
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 21st July 2020
285 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler
1940 – VARA-management accepts Rost of Tonningens demands
1960 – Country of Katanga forms in Africa
1961 – Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom
1974 – US House Judiciary approves two Articles of Impeachment against President Richard Nixon
1978 – “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” film, based on the Beatles’ album of the same name, premieres in NYC
1996 – “The Daily Show” hosted by Craig Kilborn premieres on Comedy Central in the US
2002 – British Open Men’s Golf, Muirfield: Ernie Els of South Africa wins first of 2 Open titles in a playoff from Australians Stuart Appleby and Steve Elkington, and Frenchman Thomas Levet
2019 – Puerto Rico’s governor Ricardo Rosselló says he won’t seek re-election after widespread protests over misogynistic and homophobic comments in his leaked online chats
2019 – Marvel announces 10 new superhero films at Comic Con including Blade with Mahershala Ali, Natalie Portman as a female Thor and first Asian American super hero film Shang-Chi
Historical Events for 20th July 2020
1304 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle – King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold of the war
1749 – Earl of Chesterfield says “Idleness is only refuge of weak minds”
1907 – A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy more
1944 – General Eisenhower visits Montgomery’s headquarter in Normandy
1961 – French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte
1968 – Iron Butterfly’s “In-a-gadda-da-vida” becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117
1989 – 93°F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix Arizona
1998 – Two hundred aid workers from CARE International, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and other aid groups leave Afghanistan on orders of the Taliban
2001 – “Spirited Away ” written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki is released in Japan (Academy Award Best Animated Feature 2003)
2015 – British Open Men’s Golf, St. Andrews: American Zach Johnson wins in a 4-hole play-off with Australian Marc Leishman and Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa
Historical Events for 19th July 2020
1551 – Treaty of Karlsburg: arch duke Ferdinand of Austria recognized as King of Hungary/Transsylvania
1909 – Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball completes the first modern MLB unassisted triple play in the Indians’ 6-1 win over the Boston Red Sox
1944 – Danish resistance fails in assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen
1971 – Sudan military coup under maj Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees
1975 – Apollo and Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate
1990 – Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, California
1991 – Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant (Desiree Washington)
1992 – “Price” closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 47 performances
2001 – 34th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
2013 – 20 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Diyala, Iraq
Historical Events for 18th July 2020
1323 – Pope John XXII proclaims theologian Thomas Aquinas a saint in Avignon
1896 – Indian born K S Ranjitsinhji completes an unbeaten 154 on Test cricket debut for England in 2nd Test against Australia at Old Trafford
1921 – Babe Ruth achieves 139 home runs and becomes the all-time home run leader in Major League Baseball, taking the title from Roger Connor
1930 – SHO soccer team forms in Old Beijerland
1944 – British troops occupy Bourquebus hill range, Normandy
1947 – King George VI signs Indian Independence Act
1960 – Premier Kishi of Japan resigns
1975 – Jury can’t decide on trial of Dave Forbes of Boston Bruins (1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play)
1980 – Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn’t include women
2012 – Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People’s Army
Historical Events for 17th July 2020
1712 – Great Britain, Portugal and France sign ceasefire [or 19th]
1791 – Members of the French National Guard under command of General Lafayette open fire on crowd of radical Jacobins at Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing up to 50 people
1864 – CSA President Davis replaces General Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood
1922 – Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto
1936 – Spanish generals Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola lead a right-wing uprising, starting the Spanish Civil War
1980 – Bolivian military coup; General Garcia Meza becomes president
1981 – Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut
1993 – Graeme Obree breaks the world hour cycling record, riding 51.596km on Old Faithful at the Hamar velodrome in Norway
2004 – Former South African President Nelson Mandela calls for commitment by the world to take action against AIDS
2007 – TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo. Brazil’s deadliest aviation accident to date with estimated 199 deaths.
Historical Events for 16th July 2020
1661 – 1st banknotes in Europe are issued by Bank of Stockholm
1867 – Amstel Hotel, “the dignified old lady” opens in Amsterdam
1950 – Single day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12)
1955 – Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina clinches his third Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by finishing 2nd to fellow Mercedes driver Sterling Moss in the British Grand Prix at Aintree
1976 – Rock duo Loggins and Messina break-up after 6 years
1980 – Ronald Reagan nominated for US President by Republicans in Detroit
1982 – Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud
1990 – Ukraine declares independence
2008 – 79th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Yankee Stadium, New York
2018 – 12 new moons discovered orbiting Jupiter bringing planet’s moon total to 79, by scientists at Carnegie Institution for Science
Historical Events for 15th July 2020
1864 – Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 and injuring 109 of 955 aboard
1870 – Hudson’s Bay and Northwest Territories transferred to Canada
1900 – President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin
1928 – 22nd Tour de France: Defending champion Nicolas Frantz of Luxembourg holds yellow jersey from start to finish; his Alcyon team has all 3 podium positions
1953 – ANC members, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe leave South Africa and go overseas under false names
1961 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: Arnold Palmer wins the first of 2 consecutive Open Championships, a stroke ahead of Welshman Dai Rees
1962 – Algeria becomes member of Arab League
1994 – NJ Nets Derrek Coleman accused of rape in Detroit
2002 – Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl
2012 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Indianwood G andCC: Englishman Roger Chapman wins by 2 strokes ahead of Bernhard Langer, Fred Funk, Corey Pavin and Tom Lehman
Historical Events for 14th July 2020
1822 – Date planned for the slave revolt in Charleston, South Carolina by Denmark Vesey and Peter Poyas (plot already uncovered in June)
1853 – US President Franklin Pierce opens World Fair – Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York
1914 – Robert Goddard is granted the first patent for liquid-fueled rocket design
1932 – Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders
1959 – USS Long Beach, first nuclear powered cruiser launched at Quincy, Mass
1968 – WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1997 – Bomb in Algiers kills 21 and wounds 40
2015 – Arms deal agreed between 6 world powers and Iran limiting Iranian nuclear arms but ending sanctions
2018 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Angelique Kerber becomes the first German since Steffi Graf (1996) to win Wimbledon beating Serena Williams 6-3, 6-3
2019 – Cricket World Cup, Lord’s: England beats New Zealand on count back after scores tied at 241 after 50 overs and 15 in Super Over; Player of Series: NZ captain Kane Williamson
Historical Events for 13th July 2020
1573 – Haarlem surrenders after 7 months to Spanish army
1854 – In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon
1882 – 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia
1885 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: 5 straight Wimbledon titles for William Renshaw; for second consecutive year he beats Herbert Lawford 7-5, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5
1895 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Wilfred Baddeley beats Wilberforce Eaves 4-6, 2-6, 8-6, 6-2, 6-3 for his third Wimbledon singles title
1934 – Babe Ruth hits 700th career home run against Detroit
1944 – Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated
1960 – US Democratic convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate
1976 – Court martial begins in USSR for Valery Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct)
2018 – Outline of 5,000 year-old henge discovered at New Grange, Ireland through drought and drone footage