1855 – Opera “Les Vêpres Sicilenne” is produced (Paris)
1902 – Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland
1918 – Phillies and Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings
1925 – 57th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard American Flag wins in 2:16.8
1940 – Paris evacuates before German advance
1942 – Germany lands 4 saboteurs on Long Island
1950 – South African parliament accept “Groups Area Act”
1978 – Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
2012 – San Francisco Giants’ Matt Cain pitches first perfect game in the franchise’s history against the Houston Astros
2017 – Warriors win 2nd NBA title in 3 years over the Cavaliers (129-120)
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 12th June 2019
1909 – “Shine On, Harvest Moon” by Ada Jones and Billy Murray hits #1
1944 – US troop march into Carentan/Caumont, Normandy
1967 – Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio (300 arrested)
1980 – Ronald Reagan says he will submit to periodic medical tests
1987 – US President Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down” the Berlin wall
1990 – Orioles Cal Ripken plays in his 1,308th consecutive game to move past Everett Scott into 2nd place on the all-time list
1994 – Moshood Abiola declares himself lawful President of Nigeria
1997 – 1st ever baseball inter-league game SF Giants beat Texas Rangers 4-3
2015 – Zimbabwe discards its own currency, offering an exchange of $1 for 35 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars
2016 – Gunman claiming allegiance to the Islamic State opens fire at gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49, injuring 53 – worst mass shooting in the US
Historical Events for 11th June 2019
1788 – Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska
1938 – England declare at 8 for 658 v Australia at Trent Bridge
1963 – Greek government of Karamanlis resigns
1975 – 1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield
1978 – Joseph Freeman Jr is 1st black priest in Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
1988 – “Rooty Toot Toot” by John Cougar Mellencamp peaks at #61
2004 – Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of Phoebe
2009 – The World Health Organization declares H1N1 swine flu to be a global pandemic, the first such incident in over forty years
2012 – 23 people are killed after two villages are attacked in northern Nigeria
2017 – 71st Tony Awards: “Dear Evan Hansen” best musical, “Oslo” best play
Historical Events for 10th June 2019
1540 – Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminster
1692 – The first victim of the Salem witch trials, Bridget Bishop, is hanged for witchcraft in the colony of Massachusetts
1793 – 1st public zoo opens in Paris
1863 – Battle of Brice’s Crossroads, Miss; Nathan Bedford Forrest w/3500 defeats 8000 Feds
1882 – Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans
1917 – 60,000 people of Petrograd Russia welcome Prince Kropotkin (banned 41 years) returning after February Russian Revolution
1968 – KCFW TV channel 9 in Kalispell, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1974 – “Feel Like Makin’ Love” single released by Roberta Flack (Billboard Song of the Year 1974)
1977 – International Labour Organisation and United Nations meet to discuss apartheid in South Africa and potential actions to prevent further violence and state repression.
2017 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Jeļena Ostapenko upsets Simona Halep 4–6, 6–4, 6–3 to claim her 1st Grand Slam title; first Latvian to win a Grand Slam singles title
Historical Events for 9th June 2019
1862 – Battle of Port Republic, last of 5 battles in Jacksons Valley camp
1902 – 1st Automat restaurant opens (818 Chestnut St, Philadelphia)
1930 – Paavo Nurmi runs world record 6 mile (29:36.4)
1962 – 94th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Jaipur wins in 2:28.8
1970 – Harry A Blackmun sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1974 – Supergroup Blind Faith’s (Eric Clapton, Windwood, Baker) 1st concert
1975 – UK House of Commons is broadcast live by radio for first time
1984 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert 6-3, 6-1; 2nd women in Open Era to hold all 4 Grand Slam titles at once
1986 – Angel Don Sutton (298 wins) beats White Sox Tom Seaver (306 wins) 3-0
2013 – French Open Men’s Tennis: Rafael Nadal beats fellow Spaniard David Ferrer 6-3, 6-2, 6-3; first man to win same Grand Slam title 8 times
Historical Events for 8th June 2019
1690 – Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai
1946 – Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia
1946 – “Lute Song” closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 142 performances
1971 – North Vietnam demands US end aid to South Vietnam
1982 – Falklands War: Royal Fleet Auxiliary Sir Gahalad attacked in San Carlos Water (“Bomb Alley”) by Argentine aircraft: 48 soldiers and crewman were killed.
1986 – Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected President of Austria
1991 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Defending champion Monica Seles beats Arantxa Sánchez Vicario of Spain 6-3, 6-4
1996 – Lloyd and Titchard complete 358 stand for 4th wkt Lancs v Essex
2017 – British General Election results in a hung parliament, Prime Minster Theresa May and the Conservative party lose their majority
2018 – World’s most powerful supercomputer, Summit, can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second, launched at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, by IBM and NVidia
Historical Events for 7th June 2019
1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba
1862 – The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade
1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16
1909 – Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens
1913 – 1st verifiable ascent of main summit of Denali (Mt McKinley), North America’s highest mountain led by Hudson Stuck and Harry Karstens
1924 – George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775′ from Everest’s summit
1946 – US Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel
1993 – Cricket’s Graham Gooch dismissed handled the ball vs Australia at Old Trafford
1997 – 129th Belmont: Chris McCarron aboard Touch Gold wins in 2:28.8
2004 – “Live Like You Were Dying” single released by Tim McGraw (Grammy Award Best Country Song 2004, Billboard Song of the Year 2004)
Historical Events for 6th June 2019
1911 – Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
1920 – Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel opens White Russian offensive against red Army
1938 – Sigmund Freud arrives in London
1967 – Israeli troops occupy Gaza during second day of the Six-Day War
1968 – WKHA TV channel 35 in Hazard, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1975 – Nolan Ryan’s bid for 2nd no-hitter broken in 6th inning
1977 – Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws
1983 – Li Xiannian becomes President of the People’s Republic of China and Deng Xiaoping the supreme commander
2004 – Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
2015 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Serena Williams wins her 3rd French title and 20th Grand Slam singles event; beats Lucie Šafářová of Czech Republic 6-3, 6-7, 6-2
Historical Events for 5th June 2019
1863 – Battle of Franklin’s Crossing, Virginia (Deep Run)
1873 – Sultan Bargash bin Said under British pressure closes the infamous slave market of Zanzibar in modern day Tanzania
1875 – Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens in San Francisco
1940 – General Charles De Gaulle becomes French junior minister of Defense
1946 – Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 in Chicago, Illinois
1959 – Bob Dylan graduates from Hibbing High School in Minnesota
1960 – “George Gobel Show” last airs on CBS-TV
1977 – 31st NBA Championship: Port Trailblazers beat Philadelphia 76er, 4 games to 2
1981 – World’s first today in history program with editable data “TODAY”, invented by Michael Butler runs for the first time on a mainframe computer
1993 – 125th Belmont: Julie Krone aboard Colonial Affair wins in 2:29.8
Historical Events for 4th June 2019
1825 – Unseasonable hurricane hits NYC
1875 – Pacific Stock Exchange opens
1892 – Oil City and Titusville, Pennsylvania, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die
1941 – Nazis forbid Jews access to beaches and swimming pools
1964 – LA Dodger Sandy Koufax 3rd no-hitter beats Phil Phillies, 3-0
1967 – Curt Flood’s record 568 straight chances without an error ends (227 straight games)
1978 – “Working” closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 25 performances
1989 – Largest parade in Bronx history honors 350th anniversary
1990 – Dr Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die
1992 – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is signed in New York