1334 – The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone
1864 – US President Abraham Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service
1896 – Ranjitsinhji completes 154* on Test Cricket debut v Aust, Old Trafford
1948 – Pat Seerey of Chicago White Sox hits 4 HRs in an 11 inning game
1986 – British Open Golf, Turnberry: Australian Greg Norman wins his first major championship at even-par, 5 strokes clear of runner-up Gordon J. Brand
1988 – Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on cruise ship City of Poros
1988 – British Open Golf, Royal Lytham and St. Annes: Spaniard Seve Ballesteros wins his 3rd Open title by 2 shots from Nick Price of Zimbabwe
1993 – Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (51,596 K)
1994 – Court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights
1999 – British Open Golf, Carnoustie: Scotsman Paul Lawrie wins his only major title by 3 strokes in 4-hole aggregate playoff with Jean van de Velde and Justin Leonard; recovers from 10 shots behind after 3rd round for biggest comeback in major championship history; van de Velde famously triple-bogies last hole
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 17th July 2019
1882 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Defending champion William Renshaw beats twin brother Ernest Renshaw 6-1, 2-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
1885 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Defending champion Maud Watson defeats Blanche Bingley 6–1, 7–5
1911 – Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army
1924 – St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
1942 – Transport #6 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1983 – 1st USFL championship (Mich Panthers beats Philadelphia Stars 24-22)
1988 – Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103°F (39°C)
2001 – Craig David releases “Born to Do It” in the United States
2007 – TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo. Brazil’s deadliest aviation accident to date with estimated 199 deaths.
2017 – The Muppets Studio in firing the voice of Kermit the Frog, Steve Whitmire, blame his “unacceptable business conduct”
Historical Events for 16th July 2019
1465 – Battle at Montlhéry between Louis XI and the League of the Public Weal
1926 – National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos
1941 – 100°F (38°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle, Washington
1942 – Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp
1977 – Janelle Commissiong, of Trinidad and Tobago crowned 26th Miss Universe
1981 – India performs nuclear Test
1988 – Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women’s heptathlete record of 7,215 pts
1993 – S van Ruysdael’s “Winter Landscape” sold for £705,500 in London
1994 – Shreveport Pirates lose first CFL home game, 35-34 to the Toronto Argonauts at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana
2018 – Historic cemetery (1878-1911) announced discovered near Houston, Texas, containing 95 remains though to be African Americans forced into labour
Historical Events for 15th July 2019
1787 – Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes
1879 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: John Hartley beats Vere St. Leger Goold 6-2, 6-4, 6-2
1895 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Charlotte Cooper beats Helen Jackson 7-5, 8-6 for her first of 5 Wimbledon singles titles
1942 – 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz
1954 – 1st commercial jet transport plane built in US tested (Boeing 707)
1958 – President Eisenhower sends US troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months
1986 – 57th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-2 at Astrodome, Houston
1994 – Gyula Horn sworn in as premier of Hungary
2014 – 20 people are killed and 100 are injured after a train derails in Moscow
2018 – 8-year-old girl finds pre-Viking-era sword in Vidostern lake, Sweden, internet proclaims her Queen of Sweden
Historical Events for 14th July 2019
1223 – Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II
1823 – Switzerland signs boundaries for fugitives
1933 – Germany begins mandatory sterilization of people with hereditary illnesses
1940 – Lithuania becomes Lithuanian SSR
1951 – George Washington Carver monument unveiled
1967 – Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Juan Marichal
1979 – USSR performs nuclear Test
1986 – Shalamar’s Howard Hewett acquitted in Miami of drug charges
1997 – Bomb in Algiers kills 21 and wounds 40
2018 – Haitian Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigns after violent protests against fuel price rises
Historical Events for 13th July 2019
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
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