574 – John III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1174 – William I of Scotland, key rebel in Revolt of 1173-1174, captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England
1882 – 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia
1955 – The last execution of a woman in Britain, Ruth Ellis, takes place at Holloway Prison, London
1963 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Early Wynn, wins his 300th and last MLB game at 43
1971 – 42nd MLB All Star Game, Tiger Stadium, Detroit, MI: AL beats NL, 6-4; MVP: Frank Robinson, Baltimore Orioles, OF
1977 – NYC experiences 25 hr black-out
1979 – George Harrison releases single “Faster”
2004 – 75th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Minute Maid Park, Houston
2012 – 19-30 people are killed after a train collides with a truck in Malelane, South Africa
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 12th July 2019
1812 – US forces led by General Hull invade Canada (War of 1812)
1900 – 114°F (46°C), Basin, Wyoming (state record)
1940 – Frederick McKinley Jones receives a patent for an air conditioning unit for trucks, helping to change long-haul carriage of food and blood
1955 – Christian Democratic Party forms in Argentina
1990 – Boris Yeltsin quits the Soviet Communist Party
1992 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Saucon Valley CC: Larry Laoretti wins by 4 strokes ahead of Jim Colbert for his lone professional victory
1996 – Kirby Puckett retires from Minnesota Twins
2009 – US Open Women’s Golf, Saucon Valley CC: Eun-Hee Ji of South Korea wins her lone major title, 1 stroke ahead of American runner-up Candie Kung
2012 – 90-155 people are killed after an oil tanker crashes and explodes in Okogbe, Rivers State, Nigeria
2018 – Sandra Oh is the first woman to be nominated for an Emmy award in a leading role for “Killing Eve”
Historical Events for 11th July 2019
138 – Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrian as Emperor of Rome
1798 – US Marine Corps established by an act of Congress
1862 – Lincoln appoints General Halleck general-in-chief
1877 – Kate Edger becomes New Zealand’s first woman graduate and first woman in the British Empire to earn a Bachelor of Arts
1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto
1941 – German troops attack Dnjepr
1960 – Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution
1971 – Chilean parliament nationalizes American copper mines
1982 – FIFA World Cup Final, Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid, Spain: Italy beats West Germany, 3-1 in front of 90,000
1991 – Nigeria Airways DC-8 crashes at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 261 passengers and crew on board
Historical Events for 10th July 2019
1866 – Indelible pencil patented by Edson P. Clark, Northampton, Massachusetts
1934 – 1st sitting US President to visit South America, FDR in Colombia
1936 – Phillies Chuck Klein becomes 4th to hit 4 HRs in a game
1938 – “Yankee Clipper” completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic
1949 – WJAR TV channel 10 in Providence, RI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1964 – Moïse Tshombé, leader of the Confederation of Tribal Associations of Katanga, becomes Prime Minister of the Congo
1965 – Beatles’ “VI” album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks
1992 – US Major Soccer League folds after 14 seasons
1993 – Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi President, Sylvie Kinigi Prime Minister
1993 – Yobes Ondieki runs world record 10km (26:58.38)
Historical Events for 9th July 2019
455 – Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire
1815 – 1st natural gas well in US is discovered
1876 – Black landowner murdered in Hamburg South Carolina
1900 – The Commonwealth of Australia is established by the British House of Commons
1926 – Coup under General Sinel de Cordes in Portugal
1932 – Yanks’ Ben Chapman hits 2 inside-the-park HRs, tying record
1972 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: American Stan Smith beats Ilie Năstase of Romania 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 for his only Wimbledon title
1980 – 7 die in a stampede to see Pope John Paul II in Brazil
1984 – Yvonne Ryding of Sweden crowned 33rd Miss Universe
2015 – 48th San Diego Comic-Con begins (till 12th) – includes preview of new Star Wars film by J.J. Abrams
Historical Events for 8th July 2019
1797 – 1st US senator (William Blount of Tennessee) expelled by impeachment
1889 – John L Sullivan KOs Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds (last bare-knuckle bout)
1905 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: May Sutton becomes first American player to win the singles title at Wimbledon; beats Dorothea Chambers 6-3, 6-4
1946 – Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary
1961 – Portuguese steamer “Save” breaks up off Mozambique, 227 die
1963 – Reports of Charlie Finley’s intention to move KC A’s to Oakland
1979 – Don Martina’s MAN party wins election in Dutch Antilles
1994 – Sonia O’Sullivan runs female 2K world record (5:25.36)
2010 – During 1st round of the John Deere Classic, Paul Goydos becomes the 4th, and oldest player in PGA Tour history to shoot 59; round included 12 birdies and 6 pars
2014 – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu instructs his defence forces to “take their gloves off” against Hamas and to take any means necessary to “restore peace” to Israeli citizens
Historical Events for 7th July 2019
1768 – Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann’s novel
1914 – Baltimore Orioles owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore and Ben Egan for $10k to Connie Mack (Philadelphia A’s), refuses pleading poverty
1941 – Nazis execute 5,000 Jews in Kovono, Lithuania
1942 – John Maynard Keynes takes his seat in the British House Of Lords as Baron Keynes of Tilton after being knighted
1959 – 26th MLB All Star Game, Forbes Field, Pittsburgh: Willy Mays triples to score Hank Aaron as NL wins 5-4
1960 – US cemetery officially opens at Margraten, Netherlands
1969 – German newspaper Der Spiegel reveals Bishop Defregger of Munich is a war criminal
1980 – Institution of Sharia law in Iran
2007 – Sprint-Nextel and NASCAR announce NASCAR Nextel Cup Series renamed the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in 2008
2011 – Roof of a stand in De Grolsch Veste Stadium in Enschede which was under construction collapses, one killed and 14 injured.
Historical Events for 6th July 2019
1798 – US law makes aliens “liable to be apprehended, restrained, … and removed as alien enemies”
1935 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Helen Wills Moody wins her 7th of 8 Wimbledon singles titles beating Helen Jacobs 6-3, 3-6, 7-5
1947 – The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union
1960 – Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC
1971 – White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks
1992 – Fay Vincent institutes plans to realign NL
2000 – West Ham United FC pays a record £1.8 million for the late Bobby Moore’s collection of memorabilia; 79 items including his 1966 World Cup winner’s medal
2013 – 42 people are killed and 5 missing after a freight train carrying crude oil derailed and set of fires in Lac-Megantic, Quebec
2017 – France announces it will ban petrol and diesel cars by 2040
2018 – Floods and landslides begin in south-western Japan, killing at least 200 people with more missing. Evacuation orders for nearly 2 million.
Historical Events for 5th July 2019
1626 – Battle at Lenz: Rebel Austrian Boers defeated
1933 – German party Catholic Center disbands
1935 – 1st “Hawaii Calls” radio program is broadcast
1942 – 1st performance of Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Choros 6/9/11
1951 – Dr William Shockley invents the junction transistor (Murray Hill, NJ)
1958 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: American Althea Gibson beats Angela Mortimer of England 8-6, 6-2 to successfully defend her title
1969 – Rolling Stones play a free concert in London’s Hyde Park
1970 – Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto’s airport killing 109
1987 – A’s 1st baseman Mark McGwire becomes first rookie to hit 30 HRs before the MLB All-Star Game as Oakland beats Red Sox, 6-2
2006 – Emergency United Nations Security Council meeting at the U.N in New York City because of North Korean missile tests that day
Historical Events for 4th July 2019
1774 – Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament’s Coercive Acts
1829 – The first London bus “omnibus”, operated by George Shillibeer, begins service between Marylebone Road and Bank Junction
1838 – Huskar Colliery Mining Disaster in Silkstone England: mining pit floods drown 26 children, leads to 1842 ‘Mines and Collieries Act’ bans women and children working underground
1838 – Iowa Territory is organised from Wisconsin Territory, lasting until 1846
1845 – Texas Congress votes for annexation to US
1914 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Dorothea Chambers wins her 7th and last Wimbledon singles title beating Ethel Larcombe 7-5, 6-4
1944 – Allied assault on Carpiquet airport at Caen
1946 – Philippines gains independence from US
1987 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Martina Navratilova earns 8th Wimbledon singles title with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Steffi Graf
2015 – Chile wins football’s Copa América for the first time beating Argentina 4-1 on penalties, 0-0 a.e.t. in Santiago