1505 – After an encounter with a violent thunderstorm, Martin Luther declares that he will become a monk
1582 – Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide
1787 – Marquis de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered
1861 – Battle of Hoke’s Run, WV – small Union victory
1930 – Chicago outfielder Carl Reynolds becomes only the 2nd player in MLB history to hit home runs in 3 consecutive innings in 15-4 White Sox victory at Yankee Stadium
1937 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Don Budge beats Germany’s Gottfried von Cramm 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 for first of back-to-back titles
1970 – NY Yankees infielder Horace Clarke breaks up a potential no-hitter in the 9th inning for 3rd time in 28 days
1971 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
1993 – Royals Stadium is renamed Kauffman Stadium shortly before the death of Kansas City Royals owner Ewing Kauffman
2000 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Saucon Valley CC: Hale Irwin wins by 3 strokes ahead of Bruce Fleischer for his second US Senior title
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 1st July 2020
1916 – 1st of 4 fatal Jersey Shore shark attacks occur at Beach Haven when Charles Vansant (25) bled to death, challenging previous scientific belief that sharks never hurt humans, and sparking popular fear over sharks which persists today
1944 – Graf (Count) Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel
1969 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono are admitted to hospital after a car crash
1987 – New York City radio station WFAN-AM commences first 24 hour all sports radio format
1987 – WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WFAN (now WEVD) replacing WHN’s country music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format
1990 – In Victoria, Australia, helmetless bike riding becomes illegal
1995 – All NBA business apart from the Draft is suspended until a new collective bargaining agreement made with the players – no games lost
1997 – United Kingdom returns Hong Kong and the New Territories to the People’s Republic of China
1999 – The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth on the day powers are transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh
2000 – The Oresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, opens for traffic
Historical Events for 30th June 2020
1861 – CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade
1934 – “Night of Long Knives” – Adolf Hitler stages a bloody purge of the Nazi party
1937 – The world’s first emergency call telephone service is launched in London using the number 999
1950 – US General MacArthur visits front in South Korea/asks for US troops
1962 – LA Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits NY Mets, 5-0
1970 – Cincinnati’s Riverfront Stadium opens, Braves beat Reds 8-2
1978 – Giants’ Willie McCovey becomes 12th to hit 500 HRs
1981 – Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa, is detained
2009 – Yemenia Flight 626 crashes off the coast of Moroni, Comoros killing 152 people and leaving 1 survivor
2009 – Turkey records its fastest contraction of 13.8% in the first quarter of 2009 compared to 2008, leading the country into recession; this is Turkey’s biggest economic slump since 1945
Historical Events for 29th June 2020
1694 – Dutch fleet attacks French grain transports
1943 – US forces landed at Nassau Bay, near Salamaua, New Guinea
1946 – “Billion Dollar Baby” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 219 performances
1957 – Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganowitsj and Sjepilov leave USSR communist party
1961 – SF outfielder Willie Mays becomes the 4th player in MLB history with 3 or more home runs twice in one season with a 10th inning blast in Giants 8-7 win over the Phillies in Philadelphia
1977 – Willie Stargell hits his 400th career HR
1981 – Hu Yaobang succeeds Hua Guofeng as Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
1992 – “Salome” opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 9 performances
1997 – Progress M-35 Soyuz Launch (Russia)
2016 – US Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter lifts Pentagon’s ban on transgender people serving in the US armed forces
Historical Events for 28th June 2020
1833 – Three missionaries of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society obtain permission from Chief Moshoeshoe (Moshesh) to found a mission station in Basutoland (now Lesotho)
1928 – Alfred E Smith (NY-Governor) nominated for US President at Democratic Convention
1941 – German troops occupy Galicia, Poland
1956 – 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates (Chicago Illinois)
1965 – 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Lyndon B. Johnson
1976 – 1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado
1978 – UNICEF chooses rock group Kansas as ambassadors of goodwill
1987 – Don Baylor sets career hit-by-pitch mark at 244 (Pitcher Rick Rhoden)
1993 – Jacques Lemaire is named NJ Devils 8th Head Coach
2006 – NBA Draft: Benetton Treviso (Italy) power forward Andrea Bargnani first pick by Toronto Raptors
Historical Events for 27th June 2020
678 – St Agatho begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1915 – 100°F (38°C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record)
1947 – 98°F (36.8°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1953 – Joseph Laniel appointed French premier
1971 – US Open Women’s Golf, Kahwa GC: JoAnne Carner wins by 7 strokes from Kathy Whitworth
1972 – Legendary video game and home computer Atari, Inc. founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in Sunnyvale, California
1984 – UEFA European Championship Final, Parc des Princes, Paris, France: Michel Platini and Bruno Bellone score as France beats Spain, 2-0
1993 – “Falsettos” closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 487 performances
1994 – Aerosmith become first major band to let fans download a full new track free from the internet
2017 – African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina wins the World Food Prize
Historical Events for 26th June 2020
1894 – Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto
1948 – US begin airlift “Operation Vittles” to West Berlin
1960 – British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
1963 – Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian government
1977 – 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
1983 – “Loving” premieres on TV
1985 – Portugal’s Socialist Prime Minister Mário Soares resigns amid predictions that Parliament would be dissolved and elections called
1987 – Losing 9-0 to Red Sox, Yanks score 11 in 3rd and win 12-11 in 10 inn
1989 – Supreme Court rules 16 year olds can receive death penalty
2018 – Polio outbreak confirmed in New Guinea by WHO, 18 years after it was declared free of the disease
Historical Events for 25th June 2020
1298 – Rindfleisch Persecutions, 250 Jews killed in Rothenburg, Germany
1864 – Battle of Petersburg: Union forces begin digging tunnels under Confederate lines
1918 – Baku-Turkish communist party forms
1919 – Revolt of Spartacus in Hamburg
1966 – Beatles’ “Paperback Writer” single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
1973 – Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m
1983 – “Evita” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 1568 performances
1983 – Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m
1989 – 1st US postmark dedicated to Lesbian and Gay Pride (Stonewall, NYC)
1996 – “Independence Day” directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum premieres in Westwood, California
Historical Events for 24th June 2020
1374 – Sudden outbreak of St. John’s Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion
1497 – John Cabot claims Eastern Canada for England (believes he has found Asia in Nova Scotia)
1813 – Battle of Beaver Dams – British and native forces defeat US forces (War of 1812)
1843 – Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside ghetto in Italy
1905 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Elisabeth Moore wins her 4th US singles title; beats Helen Homans 6-4, 5-7, 6-1
1970 – Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs
1972 – Yvonne Brathwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair of a Democratic convention
2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history
2009 – Mike Babcock is named head coach of Team Canada for the 2010 Winter Olympics (they would win the gold medal)
2010 – NBA Draft: Kentucky point guard John Wall first pick by Washington Wizards
Historical Events for 23rd June 2020
1658 – Dutch troops occupy last Portuguese Fort at Jafnapatnam in Ceylon
1932 – Lou Gehrig plays 1,103rd successive game in a NY uniform, equaling Joe Sewell’s record with one team (Cleveland)
1940 – After conquering France, Adolf Hitler visits Paris and views the Eiffel Tower and the grave of Napoleon Bonaparte
1951 – Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage and $14M property-Kansas)
1959 – A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people
1972 – US President Nixon and his Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
1973 – Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game HR in which he pitched
1979 – Supertramp’s “Breakfast in America” becomes No. 1 album in the US featuring “Take the Long Way Home”
1991 – “Odd Couple” opens and closes at Belasco Theater NYC
1993 – Lorena Gallo Bobbitt amputates husband’s John Wayne Bobbitt’s penis