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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 13th June 2019
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)
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