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.
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 3rd July 2019
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
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