324 – Battle of Adrianople: Roman Emperor Constantine I defeats his co-emperor Licinius, who flees to Byzantium
1915 – After exploding a bomb in US Senate reception room previous day, Erich Muenter, a German instructor at Cornell University, shoots JP Morgan for representing the British government in war contract negotiations
1953 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: American Vic Seixas wins his only Wimbledon singles title with a 9-7, 6-3, 6-4 over Dane Kurt Nielsen
1972 – The Ulster Defence Association and the British Army come into conflict about a ‘no-go’ area at Ainsworth Avenue, Belfast
1982 – Riot at building Stopera Amsterdam (damages Ÿ1 million)
1982 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert 6-1, 3-6, 6-2 for the first of 6-straight Wimbledon singles titles
1983 – Canadian Open Women’s Golf (Peter Jackson Classic), Beaconsfield GC: Hollis Stacy wins by 2 strokes from JoAnn Carner and Alice Miller
2001 – A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people
2004 – Official opening of Bangkok’s subway system.
2018 – Souad Abderrahim is elected the first female mayor of Tunis, Tunisia
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 2nd July 2019
1847 – Envelope bearing 1st US 10 cent stamps used (still exists today)
1906 – Yanks win by forfeit for the 1st time
1907 – US National Women’s Tennis Championship: Evelyn Sears beats fellow American Carrie Neely 6-3, 6-2 for her only major singles title
1928 – The Jenkins Television Corporation (owned by Charles Jenkins) goes on air with W3XK, the first television broadcasting station in the USA
1944 – German Field Marshal Günther von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt
1970 – 1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam and Brussels
1986 – General strike against Pinochet regime in Chile
1993 – Muslim fundamentalists in Sivas, Turkey, set hotel on fire, kill 36
2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
2018 – British divers discover 12 boys and their coach alive in Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand after being trapped for 9 days by monsoon flooding
Historical Events for 1st July 2019
1600 – Prince Maurits’ army occupies Newport Flanders Netherlands
1820 – 1st edition of newspaper “Courrier de la Meuse” published
1896 – Wilfrid Laurier sworn in as 1st French speaking Prime Minister of Canada
1916 – First day of the Battle of the Somme: the British Army suffers its worst day, losing 19,240 men (WWI)
1925 – SDAP wins 4 chairs in Second-Parliamentary election
1950 – “Lost in the Stars” by Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill, based on the novel “Cry the Beloved Country” by Alan Paton closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 281 performances
1963 – ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) Codes are introduced for United States mail
1972 – “Hair” closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 1750 performances
1982 – Cal Ripken Jr. makes the first of his record 2,216 consecutive MLB starts at shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles.
2015 – Greek Credit Crisis: Greece becomes 1st developed country to default on debt to the International Monetary Fund (1.7 billion)
Historical Events for 30th June 2019
1596 – English and Dutch fleet reach Cadiz
1916 – US Open Men’s Golf, Minikahda GC: Amateur Chick Evans leads wire-to-wire to set new Open scoring record and win his only Open title, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Jock Hutchison
1921 – The South African Reserve Bank is established
1927 – US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes
1933 – 50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war
1952 – Hussein Sirri Pasha forms Egyptian government
1979 – Johnny Rotten and Joan Collins appear together on BBC TV’s “Juke Box Jury”
1989 – Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl
1994 – Airbus A330 crash at Toulouse France (7 killed)
2013 – 19 fire fighters are killed controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona
Historical Events for 29th June 2019
1933 – Primo Carnera KOs Jack Sharkey in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1936 – Pope Pius XI encyclical to US bishops “On motion pictures”
1939 – Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe
1941 – DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler’s record
1991 – With a world ranking of 591, Englishman Nick Brown upsets 10th-seeded (and 2001 champion) Goran Ivanišević 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 in the 2nd round at Wimbledon
1991 – 6.0 earthquake hits southern Calif
1992 – NHL decides Eric Lindross goes to Flyers instead of Rangers
1992 – A’s Dennis Eckersley sets record of 26th straight save of season
1992 – 2 earthquakes including 7.4 hits southern Calif
1992 – “Salome” opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 9 performances
Historical Events for 28th June 2019
1245 – 1st Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens
1807 – British troops land at Ensenada, Argentina
1895 – French painter Paul Gauguin leaves France for Tahiti for the second time
1909 – 1st French air show, Concours d’Avation opens
1956 – Riots break out in Poznan, Poland, 38 die
1958 – Brazil becomes world soccer champ in Sweden
1965 – Dutch Princess Beatrice and Claus von Amsberg announce their engagement
1965 – 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Lyndon B. Johnson
2003 – “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl”, directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom, premieres at Disneyland
2016 – Suicide bombings and gun attacks at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport kill 42 and wound more than 200
Historical Events for 27th June 2019
1580 – Duke of Alva’s army occupies Portugal
1909 – Etten-Leur 1st airplane flight in Neth (Belgium count De Lambert)
1942 – PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk
1959 – “West Side Story” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 734 performances
1980 – Dodgers’ Jerry Reuss no-hits SF Giants 8-0
1986 – South African Journalist and founder of the ‘New Nation’ newspaper, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted; he was released 721 days later on 2 December 1988
1999 – ATB go to No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘9pm, Till I Come’
1999 – LPGA Championship, DuPont CC: Juli Inkster shoots final round 65 to win by 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Liselotte Neumann; completes career grand slam
2017 – Petya malware cyber-attack affects organisations in more than 64 countries
2017 – Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook has reached 2 billion monthly users
Historical Events for 26th June 2019
1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island
1937 – Test cricket debut of Len Hutton v NZ at Lord’s, scores 0 and 1
1938 – Cincinnati Red Lonny Frey hits 8 doubles in a doubleheader
1945 – England win the second Victory test cricket at Bramall Lane by 41 runs
1959 – 9th Berlin International Film Festival: “The Cousins” wins Golden Bear
1964 – Blacks and Whites riot over racial segregation in St Augustine
1977 – 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
1991 – NBA Draft: UNLV power forward Larry Johnson first pick by Charlotte Hornets
1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
2015 – NHL Draft: Erie Otters (OHL) center Connor McDavid first pick by the Edmonton Oilers
Historical Events for 25th June 2019
253 – St Lucius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1298 – Rindfleisch Persecutions, 250 Jews killed in Rothenburg, Germany
1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as “Custer’s Last Stand”
1934 – Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times
1942 – British premier Winston Churchill travels from US to London
1945 – Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa
1948 – Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1963 – Curnick Ndlovu, South African Trade Unionist and African National Congress Leader, is arrested
1981 – Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional
1997 – Jamaica issues a warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop
Historical Events for 24th June 2019
1497 – Cornish traitors Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London
1648 – Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews and 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine
1932 – Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand
1950 – French government led by prime Minister Georges Bidault resigns
1972 – Yvonne Brathwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair of a Democratic convention
1979 – Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland and steals his 1st base
1982 – 1st spacionaut Jean-Loup Chrétien and 2 Soviet cosmonauts, lift off aboard Soyuz T-16
1985 – Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F
2007 – The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours
2012 – Female athletes will be allowed to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics for the first time