1760 – Battle of Landshut Silesia: Austria beats Prussia
1906 – 20th U.S. Women’s National Championship: Helen Homans beats Maud Barger-Wallach (6-4, 6-3)
1933 – Don McNeill’s Pepper Pot (Breakfast Club) begins 35½ year run on NBC
1958 – Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers
1963 – US Open Golf, The Country Club: Julius Boros wins his second Open title in an 18-hole playoff with Arnold Palmer and Jacky Cupit
1972 – US President Nixon and his Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
1979 – Charlie Daniels Band releases “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”
1980 – South African Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that confrontation will be inevitable if his proposed President’s Council fails
1980 – West German wins European soccer title (2-1 against Belgium)
1990 – Police find marijuana at Chuck Berry’s home
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 22nd June 2019
1497 – Antitax insurrection in Cornwall suppressed at Blackheath
1633 – Galileo Galilei forced to recant his Copernican views that the Earth orbits the Sun by the Pope (Vatican only admits it was wrong on Oct 31, 1992!)
1807 – British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812
1889 – Louisville Colonels set ML baseball record with 26th consecutive loss
1944 – US President Franklin Roosevelt signs “GI Bill of Rights” (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act)
1944 – Boston Brave Jim Tobin 2nd no-hitter of yr beats Phils, 7-0 in 5 inn
1949 – Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for National Boxing Association world heavyweight title
1959 – Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to SF voyage
1965 – Freddie Trueman ends his Test cricket career, v NZ at Lord’s
1983 – 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle
Historical Events for 21st June 2019
1684 – King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter
1869 – William James passes his medical examination
1900 – Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers
1904 – The US Republican Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for President, but not without opposition from those whom he calls ‘malefactors of great wealth’
1941 – After winning 20 straight at Fenway, Lefty Grove loses to Browns
1956 – Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
1971 – Indians Ken Harrelson retires from baseball to play pro golf
1997 – “Defending the Caveman” closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 671 performances
2005 – Billy Corgan releases “TheFutureEmbrace”, his first solo album
2018 – EU imposes tariffs on US goods worth $3.2 billion in response to US tariffs
Historical Events for 20th June 2019
1633 – Charter for Maryland is given to Lord Cecil Baltimore
1919 – Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria
1942 – German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa
1948 – “Toast of the Town” hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV
1960 – Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1973 – Chicago’s Cy Acosta is 1st AL pitcher to bat since DH rule (strikeout)
1982 – Pete Rose is 5th to appear in 3,000 games (Cobb, Musial, Aaron, Yaz)
1988 – Price is Right model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera
1994 – US Fairchild Hospital Air Force Base massacre, former gunman kills 5 and injures 22
2017 – British actor Daniel Day-Lewis announces his retirement from acting
Historical Events for 19th June 2019
1825 – Gioacchino Rossini’s “Il viaggio a Reims” premieres
1862 – Slavery outlawed in US territories
1881 – Muhammad Ahmad becomes Mahdi of Sudan
1922 – Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:28.2)
1936 – Dutch Premier Colijn denies relation with German call-girl
1970 – Jim Bouton’s controversial “Ball Four” is published
1972 – A Catholic civilian is shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the Cracked Cup Social Club, Belfast
1972 – -29] Tropical storm Agnes upgraded to a hurricane, makes landfall in Panama City (would kill 128)
1984 – 1st live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger (Nightline)
1993 – David Boon completes 15th Test cricket century, 164* v England at Lord’s
Historical Events for 18th June 2019
1580 – States of Utrecht forbid catholic worship
1898 – 12th U.S. Women’s National Championship: Juliette Atkinson beats Marion Jones (6-3, 5-7, 6-4, 2-6, 7-5)
1943 – SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau
1954 – 4th Berlin International Film Festival: “Hobson’s Choice” wins Golden Bear (audience vote)
1970 – Edward Heath’s Conservative Party win the General Election in UK, replacing the Labour Party
1972 – US Open Men’s Golf, Pebble Beach GL: Jack Nicklaus captures his 3rd Open title, 3 strokes ahead of Bruce Crampton of Australia
1981 – Kimberley Ann Smith, of NC, 17, crowned America’s Junior Miss
1989 – US Open Men’s Golf, Oak Hill CC: Curtis Strange wins by 3 from Scott Simpson for first back-to-back Open titles since Ben Hogan 1950-51
2005 – David Tennant’s first appearance as the Tenth Doctor in BBC “Doctor Who” episode “The Parting of the Ways”
2016 – Soyuz capsule returns to Earth 1st British International Space Station astronaut Tim Peake, Russian Yuri Malenchenko and American Timothy Kopra after 186 days
Historical Events for 17th June 2019
1789 – French Revolution: During the meeting of the Estates-General, the Third Estate proclaims itself the ‘National Assembly’
1864 – -18] Confederate troops pull back out Solves/lost Mt, Georgia
1885 – Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC aboard French ship `Isere’
1930 – Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games
1947 – Earnest Reuter becomes mayor of Berlin
1958 – The Wooden Roller Coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada opened, and is still open to this day
1972 – Five men arrested after trying to bug Democratic National Committee office in Watergate Complex, Washington
1973 – US Open Men’s Golf, Oakmont CC: Johnny Miller fires a record final round 63 (-8) to win his first major championship, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up John Schlee
2006 – Sci-Fi author Anne McCaffrey inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame
2018 – World electric speed record broken by Jaguar Vector V20E in battery-powered boat at 88.61 mph (142.60 kph) Coniston Water, English Lake District
Historical Events for 16th June 2019
1898 – China’s emperor De Zong (Guang Xu) receives Kang Youwei
1903 – Ford Motors under Henry Ford incorporates
1915 – The foundation of the British Women’s Institute
1957 – White Sox reliever Dixie Howell hits 2 HRs to beat Washington Senators 8-6
1964 – Quake strikes Niigata, Japan
1970 – Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ
1975 – Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD
1977 – Ron Guidry’s 1st complete game, 7-0 over KC Royals
1987 – Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens
1991 – With 3 runs in 9th, Balt ends Twins 15 game win streak 6-5
Historical Events for 15th June 2019
1246 – Battle at Leitha: Hungary-Austrian
1667 – 1st fully documented human blood transfusion is performed by French physician, Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys, when a small amount of sheep blood is transfused into a 15-year old boy, who survives the procedure
1741 – Captain Vitus Bering leaves Petropavlovsk, sailing to America
1864 – Robert E. Lee’s home area (Arlington, Virginia) becomes a military cemetery
1920 – De Zweef soccer team forms in Nijverdal
1940 – 38 Italian Fiat bombers bomb Luc-en-Province
1970 – LPGA Championship, Pleasant Valley CC: Shirley Englehorn wins her only major title; beats 1967 champion Kathy Whitworth by 4 strokes in an 18-hole playoff
1972 – The Social Democratic and Labour Party meet Secretary of State for Northern Ireland W Whitelaw, to present the IRA’s conditions for a meeting
1985 – “Pryor’s Place” children’s show last airs on CBS-TV
2012 – Five Dutch banks, including ING, receive credit rating downgrades of one or two notches
Historical Events for 14th June 2019
1922 – Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament
1934 – WOQ-AM in Kansas City Missouri goes off the air
1934 – Max Baer KO’s Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City
1946 – Canadian Library Association established
1952 – General strike in Tunisia
1972 – Members of the NI Social Democratic and Labour Party hold a meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army in Derry; the IRA representatives outline their conditions for talks with the British Government
1996 – Karl Krikken out handled the ball for Derbyshire v Indians
2000 – Greg Maddux makes his 387th putout, breaking Jack Morris’ career record
2013 – The US government charges NSA leaker Edward Snowden with violating the Espionage Act and theft of government property
2017 – US Senate approves new sanctions against Russia as punishment for meddling in the 2016 election