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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 23rd June 2019
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
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