1850 – Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts establishment of Provincial States
1951 – Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero, Illinois
1960 – USSR’s Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs
1973 – A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States
1979 – “Disco Demolition Night” at Comiskey Park: fans go wild destroying disco records and cause the White Sox to forfeit second game of a doubleheader to the Detroit Tigers
1987 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Brooklawn CC: South African Gary Player wins by a record 6 strokes ahead of Doug Sanders
1987 – Canadian Open Women’s Golf (du Maurier Classic), Islesmere GC: Jody Rosenthal wins by 2 from Ayako Okamoto of Japan
1988 – USSR launches Phobos II for Martian orbit
1989 – NY Yankee pitching great Ron Guidry retires (170-91 .651, 3.29 ERA)
2006 – Hezbollah initiates Operation True Promise.
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 11th July 2020
1798 – US Marine Corps established by an act of Congress
1848 – Edmund Hickly gets 1st known 10 wicket innings (Kent v England)
1893 – A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua
1955 – New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado with 300 cadets
1974 – House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
1986 – Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara
1990 – NYC police arrest “Dartman” (stabbed over 50 women with darts)
1991 – Nigeria Airways DC-8 crashes at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 261 passengers and crew on board
1995 – 66th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 at Ballpark at Arlington Tx
2004 – Canadian Open Women’s Golf, Legends on the Niagara GC: Meg Mallon wins by 4 strokes from Beth Daniel
Historical Events for 10th July 2020
1598 – Spanish theater plays “Moros y Los Cristianos” in Rio Grande
1934 – Carl Hubbell strikes out Ruth, Gehrig and Foxx in All star game
1962 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1971 – Failed assassination attempt on King Hassan II of Morocco, 101 killed
1981 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 – All star MVP: Julio Franco (Texas Rangers)
1991 – Foreign Minister R.F. Botha of South Africa signs accession to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty on behalf of South Africa
1993 – Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi President, Sylvie Kinigi Prime Minister
2000 – EADS, the world’s second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA
2002 – 10th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Venus Williams win
Historical Events for 9th July 2020
1755 – British General Edward Braddock mortally wounded during French and Indian War
1863 – John Hunt Morgan’s cavalry aid into Indiana [->JUL 13]
1893 – Daniel Hale Williams III repairs the torn pericardium of a knife wound patient, James Cornish, without penicillin or blood transfusion
1914 – Boston Red Sox purchase future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth’s contract from minor league Baltimore Orioles
1947 – Spain votes for Franco monarchy
1949 – Benjamin Britten’s Jump Symphony premieres
1969 – Tom Seaver’s no-hit bid against Cubs ends with 1 out in 9th
1980 – 7 die in a stampede to see Pope John Paul II in Brazil
1988 – Chris Speier hits for the cycle and Ernest Riles hits 10,000th Giant HR
1989 – Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others
Historical Events for 8th July 2020
1836 – Charles Darwin reaches Saint Helena in HMS Beagle and takes up lodgings near the tomb of Napoleon
1892 – American Psychological Association organized in Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
1933 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: American Helen Wills Moody successfully defends her title beating local favourite Dorothy Round 6-4, 6-8, 6-3
1949 – The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 prohibiting marriage or a sexual relationship between White people and people of other race groups is passed in South Africa
1957 – Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn Féin leaders
1970 – SF Giant Jim Ray Hart is 8th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
1994 – Sonia O’Sullivan runs female 2K world record (5:25.36)
1994 – Space shuttle STS-65 (Columbia 17), launches
1994 – St Maarten “Godfather” Claude Wathey sentenced to 1½ years
2017 – British Lions tie 15-15 with New Zealand All Blacks in their 3rd rugby match to tie the series
Historical Events for 7th July 2020
1777 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton
1801 – Toussaint L’Ouverture declares Haitian independence
1878 – Social-Democratic United forms in Amsterdam
1911 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Dorothea Chambers becomes first player not to concede a game in a final beating Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0
1941 – Nazis execute 5,000 Jews in Kovono, Lithuania
1944 – RAF Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France
1944 – Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan
1969 – Canada’s House of Commons approves equality of French-English language
1974 – Milwaukee’s Don Money sets MLB record for consecutive errorless games at 3rd base (78) in Brewers 8-5 win v Twins
1978 – Solomon Islands declares independence from UK
Historical Events for 6th July 2020
1189 – Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England, upon the death of King Henry II
1348 – Papal bull of Pope Clement VI issued during the Black Death stating Jews not to blame and urging their protection
1560 – England and Scotland sign Treaty of Edinburgh
1853 – William Wells Brown publishes “Clotel”, 1st novel by an African American
1905 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time
1954 – Tunisian government of M’zali, resigns
1975 – Dmitri Shostakovich completes Sonate for alto opus 147
1985 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 for her 6th Wimbledon singles title
1987 – 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India
2010 – Brandon Boyd announces the release of his debut solo album, “The Wild Trapeze”
Historical Events for 5th July 2020
1295 – Scotland and France form an alliance, the beginnings of the Auld Alliance, against England
1922 – Women 1st vote in Dutch elections, Christian parties win
1939 – Flash floods kill 79 in Northeast Kentucky
1943 – Liberator bombers sink U-535 in Gulf of Biskaye
1947 – Cleveland Indians rookie Larry Doby becomes 1st black player in AL when he strikes out in 6-5 loss vs Chicago WS
1952 – “Of Thee I Sing” closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 72 performances
1962 – Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule
1970 – 20th Berlin International Film Festival cancelled due to controversy surrounding the participation of Michael Verhoeven’s anti-war film “o.k.”
1975 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Arthur Ashe becomes first African-American to win Wimbledon, beats countryman Jimmy Connors 6-1, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4
1990 – Steffi Graf’s record run of 13 consecutive tennis Grand Slam singles finals ends, beaten in Wimbledon semi-finals 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 by American Zina Garrison
Historical Events for 4th July 2020
1845 – Henry David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
1879 – Battle at Ulundi: Lord Chelmsford beats Zulu King Cetshwayo
1891 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Wilfred Baddeley wins first of 3 Wimbledon singles championships; beats Joshua Pim 6-4, 1-6, 7-5, 6-0
1900 – Williams Jennings Bryan nominated as Democratic Party presidential candidate, USA
1907 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Australian Norman Brookes becomes the first non-Englishman and left-hander to win Wimbledon beating Arthur Gore 6-4, 6-2, 6-2
1914 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Dorothea Chambers wins her 7th and last Wimbledon singles title beating Ethel Larcombe 7-5, 6-4
1930 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Helen Moody wins 4th straight Wimbledon singles beating fellow American Elizabeth Ryan 6-2, 6-2
1942 – 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WWII)
1969 – The Ohio Fireworks Derecho kills 18 Ohioans and destroys over 100 boats on Lake Erie.
2015 – Super Rugby Final, Westpac Stadium, Wellington: Otago Highlanders beat Wellington Hurricanes 21-14 for their first title
Historical Events for 3rd July 2020
1767 – Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret
1852 – Congress authorizes US’s 2nd mint (San Francisco, California)
1925 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen of France takes her 6th Wimbledon singles title with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Briton Joan Fry
1929 – Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber
1937 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Dorothy Round of England beats Poland’s Jadwiga Jędrzejowska 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 for her second Wimbledon title
1942 – German troops march into Sebastopol, Crimea
1963 – In New Zealand, a National Airways Corporation Dakota DC-3 crashes in the Kaimai Ranges; all 23 passengers and crew are killed in New Zealand’s worst internal civil aviation accident
1982 – Riot at building Stopera Amsterdam (damages Ÿ1 million)
1991 – Gateway Board of Trustees approve a 20-year lease for the Cleveland Indians to play MLB at Jacobs Field
2006 – Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies 432,308 km (268,624 miles) by Earth.