1552 – Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion
1921 – After 3 hours deliberation a Chicago jury acquits 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal, next day banned from organised baseball for life
1931 – Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status
1941 – Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia
1943 – Sunderland seaplanes sink U-706 and U-106
1979 – Washington, D.C. trial attorney Edward Bennett Williams buys MLB’s Baltimore Orioles from Jerold Hoffberger for reported $12.3 million
1982 – Roger Ebert’s “Movie News” premieres on ABC FM network
1985 – 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo
1986 – American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee beats her own world heptathlon record by 13 points (7,161) in Houston
1988 – System Enhancement Association settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC)
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 1st August 2019
1485 – Henry Tudor’s army sails to England (future Henry VII)
1780 – Sweden declares neutrality
1947 – “Medium and The Telephone” opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 211 performances
1961 – Australian cricket captain Richie Benaud takes 6 for 70 in England’s 2nd innings for a 54 run 4th Test win at Old Trafford
1963 – Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale
1976 – Seattle Seahawks take the field for the first time in pre-season game v SF 49ers at the newly constructed Kingdome in Seattle
1977 – San Francisco Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th MLB career grand slam
1978 – Atlanta Braves trounce Cincinnati Reds, 16-4 and halt Pete Rose’s NL record hitting streak at 44 games
1996 – American athlete Michael Johnson wins 200m at the Atlanta Olympics in a world record 19.32 seconds to become the first man to complete the 200m-400m double
2012 – Typhoon Saola kills 82 people and displaces over 150,000 in the Philippines, Taiwan and China
Historical Events for 31st July 2019
1667 – Peace of Breda: 2nd English war-Suriname vs New-Netherlands ends
1948 – US President Harry Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (now Kennedy Airport), NY
1963 – Arturo Illia elected President of Argentina
1966 – Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon’s anti-Jesus remark
1973 – Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 5 months later
1976 – Seychelles Independence (Independence day)
1977 – John F. Blake promoted from acting to deputy director of CIA
1979 – “But Never Jam Today” opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 7 performances
1990 – Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence
1994 – 102.7°F (39.3°C) in Pleschen, East-Germany
Historical Events for 30th July 2019
1870 – Staten Island ferry “Westfield” burns, killing 100
1907 – Starting today, the French bombard Casablanca and land troops to occupy the Atlantic-coast region of Morocco after attacks on foreigners
1959 – In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4
1965 – Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to the Giants
1988 – Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m
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
1997 – Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia
2004 – “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle”, starring Kal Penn and John Cho, is released
2016 – Air balloon crashes into power lines near Lockhart, Texas, killing all 16 on board
2017 – Venezuelan voting for a new assembly disrupted by violent protests, at least 3 people killed
Historical Events for 29th July 2019
904 – Thessalonica is sacked by Saracen pirates led by renegade Leo of Tripoli
1858 – Treaty of Amity and Commerce/Harris Treaty signed between US and Japan opening Japanese ports to trade
1928 – Test footage first created for Walt Disney’s “Steamboat Willie” with Mickey Mouse
1952 – 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
1966 – Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock NY
1969 – Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
1990 – 28th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats USSR in Atlanta Georgia (2-1)
1995 – Monica Seles beats Martina Navratilova in her return to tennis
2013 – 44 people are killed in a wave of car bombings in Iraq
2015 – Microsoft launches Windows 10
Historical Events for 28th July 2019
1708 – Monarch Amengkurat II [Sunan Mas] of Mataram gives himself up to VOC
1868 – US Secretary of State William H. Seward announces 14th Amendment ratified by states, grants citizenship to ex-slaves
1930 – 114°F (46°C), Greensburg, Kentucky (state record)
1945 – US Senate ratifies United Nations charter 89-2
1951 – Walt Disney’s animated musical film “Alice In Wonderland” released
1957 – Jerry Lee Lewis makes his 1st TV appearance (Steve Allen Show)
1962 – Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean
1994 – Last steel beam is placed on Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
2002 – 89th Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified)
2017 – General John Kelly appointed new Chief of Staff by US President Donald Trump
Historical Events for 27th July 2019
1586 – Walter Raleigh brings the 1st tobacco to England from Virginia
1944 – Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp
1956 – Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia’s 1st innings at Manchester
1970 – Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game
1973 – Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners
1986 – Iraqi jets attack central Iranian city of Arak; Iran threatens missile attack of gulf states supporting Iraq
1990 – White-Russia declares independence
1996 – David Sales makes 210 on 1st class cricket debut for Northants v Worcs
2003 – 90th Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified)
2012 – Queen Elizabeth II opens the 30th Olympics in London, United Kingdom (with some help from 007)
Historical Events for 26th July 2019
1579 – Francis Drake leaves San Francisco to cross Pacific Ocean
1790 – US passes Assumption bill making US responsible for state debts
1945 – After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes British Prime Minister
1987 – Catfish Hunter Billy Williams and Ray Dandridge inducted in Baseball Hall of Fame
1990 – General Hospital records its 7,000th episode
1992 – Tour de France: Miguel Induráin of Spain defends his title by 4′ 35″ from Italian Claudio Chiappucci; Laurent Jalabert points winner
1998 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Riviera CC: Hale Irwin wins by 1 stroke ahead of Vicente Fernández of Argentina
1999 – Fighting ceases between India and Pakistan in the Kargil War, Kashmir, after two months of fighting
2013 – 57 people are killed in a market bombing in Parachinar, Pakistan
2014 – While Israel reject long-term ceasefire that does not include destroying the Hamas tunnels, they agree to 12 hour ceasefire; Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip now exceeds 1000
Historical Events for 25th July 2019
1792 – The Brunswick Manifesto issued to population of Paris promising vengeance if French Royal Family harmed
1814 – English engineer George Stephenson introduces his first steam locomotive, a travelling engine designed for hauling coal on the Killingworth wagonway named Blücher
1901 – Emily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps during the South African War
1902 – James J. Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1913 – A meeting in Johannesburg, called by the South African Native National Congress, now African National Congress, is attended by a large number of people from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland
1964 – Race riot in Rochester, NY
1980 – Train crash at Winsum, 9 die
1981 – Anti-apartheid protesters in Hamilton, New Zealand, force the cancellation of a rugby test between New Zealand’s All Blacks and South Africa’s Springboks by invading the pitch during the game
1990 – Roseanne Barr sings the National Anthem at Cincinnati Reds-San Diego Padres game
2000 – Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.
Historical Events for 24th July 2019
1847 – Rotary-type printing press patents received by Richard March Hoe, NYC
1866 – Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union
1956 – Brendan Behan’s “Quare Fellow” premieres in London
1961 – Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show
1967 – PGA Championship, Columbine CC: Don January wins his only major title in 18-hole playoff with Don Messengale (69-71)
1983 – “Mame” opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 41 performances
1992 – Shankar Dayal Sharma is elected ninth Indian President
1994 – 32nd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
2002 – James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1
2017 – Polish President Andrzej Duda vetoes 2 laws to put Polish courts under political control