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)
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 3rd June 2019
1539 – Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain
1929 – 1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center (electric light)
1932 – MLBs Lou Gehrig is 1st to hit 4 consecutive HRs; Yanks beat A’s 20-13
1937 – Josh Gibson HR’s just 2 feet below rim of Yankee Stadium (580′ drive)
1939 – Beer Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Will Glahe
1976 – Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” goes gold
1979 – “Madwoman of Central Park West” opens on Broadway
2012 – Tiger Woods claims his 73rd PGA tour victory with a 2 stroke win over Andrés Romero and Rory Sabbatini in the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village GC; equals Jack Nicklaus’s record
2013 – 20 people, including 10 children, are killed by a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan
2018 – Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupts killing at least 110, with 332 missing and forcing the evacuation of over 3,100
Historical Events for 2nd June 2019
455 – King Gaiseric and the Vandals sack Rome – Rome looted for 14 days
1916 – German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux
1924 – President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act, declaring all Native Americans to be American citizens
1934 – French Championships Men’s Tennis: Gottfried von Cramm of Germany wins 1st of 2 French titles; beats Australian Jack Crawford 6-4, 7-9, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3
1943 – German assault on Sebastopol, Crimea, begins
1971 – 15th European Cup: Ajax beats Panathinaikos 2-0 at London
1975 – First recorded snowfall in London in June
1985 – 39th Tony Awards: Biloxi Blues and Big River win
1994 – Sharon Stone files $12m lawsuit against her jeweler
1998 – The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan
Historical Events for 1st June 2019
1495 – First written record of Scotch Whisky appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller
1533 – Anne Boleyn crowned Queen of England
1880 – The first pay telephone service in the United States is installed in New Haven, Connecticut
1938 – Protective baseball helmets 1st worn by batters
1940 – Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard
1947 – The development of photosensitive glass, which had occurred ten years previously, is announced publicly
1965 – Coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236
1975 – LPGA Championship, Pine Ridge GC: Kathy Whitworth wins her 3rd LPGA C’ship by 1 stroke from Sandra Haynie
1976 – Great Britain and Iceland end the “cod war”
1990 – Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
Historical Events for 31st May 2019
1744 – French troops conquer Kortrijk
1910 – Union of South Africa declares its independence from the United Kingdom
1940 – Winston Churchill flies to Paris to meet with French Marshal Philippe Pétain who announces he is willing to make a separate peace with Germany
1943 – 42 U-boats sunk by the Allies this month
1947 – 79th Belmont: Ruperto Donoso aboard Phalanx wins in 2:29.6
1962 – “Tell It To Groucho” last airs on CBS-TV
1967 – Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt wins in 3:18:24.211 (243.344 km/h)
1972 – 16th European Cup: Ajax beats Internazionale 2-0 at Rotterdam
1989 – 1st presentation of rock ‘n’ roll Elvis awards
2014 – Psy’s “Gangnam Style” becomes the first video to reach 2 billion views on YouTube
Historical Events for 30th May 2019
1793 – Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public
1908 – Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
1908 – Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
1910 – 44th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Sweep wins in 2:22
1927 – Indianapolis 500: George Souders wins in 5:07:33.022 (156.983 km/h)
1937 – 42nd Women’s French Championships: Hilde Sperling beats Simonne Mathieu (6-2, 6-4)
1964 – 63rd Men’s French Championships: Manuel Santana beats Nicola Pietrangeli (6-3, 6-1, 4-6, 7-5)
1971 – 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice
1976 – Bobby Unser sets world record for fastest pit stop (4 seconds)
1996 – 69th National Spelling Bee: Wendy Guey wins spelling vivisepulture
Historical Events for 29th May 2019
1453 – Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire falls to the Turks under Muhammad II; ends the Byzantine Empire
1790 – Rhode Island becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifying US Constitution
1940 – In WWII, Germans capture Ostend and Ypres in Belgium and Lille in France
1949 – 1st British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): “The Best Years of Our Lives” Best Film
1968 – 12th European Cup: Manchester United beats Benfica 4-1 at London
1972 – The Official IRA announce a ceasefire
1977 – NBC News and Information Service (24 hr news) ends on radio
1979 – Radio’s 1st rock network “Source” premieres
1997 – 70th National Spelling Bee: Rebecca Sealfon wins spelling euonym
1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule