1672 – Dutch pension advisor Johan de Witt seriously wounded
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
1915 – Anti-British revolt in South Africa ends with arrest of General De Law
1938 – Bradman scores 101* in 77 minutes, Australia v Lancashire
1948 – Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens
1951 – “17” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 180 performances
1986 – Bo Jackson, Heisman Trophy winner, signs with KC Royals
1986 – Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women’s record)
2001 – Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is the 1st Hispanic woman to be honored on a US postage stamp
2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 20th June 2018
1866 – Italy declares war on Austria beginning the Third Italian War of Independence
1919 – 33rd U.S. Women’s National Championship: Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman beats Marion Zinderstein (6-1, 6-2)
1926 – Mordecai W Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University
1943 – German round up Jews in Amsterdam
1958 – NZ all out 47 v England at Lord’s, Laker 4-13, Lock 5-17
1977 – Menachem Begin forms Israeli government
1983 – Iran moves into northern Iraq (casualties top 13,800 in ten days)
1986 – Jim Fregosi replaces Tony La Russa as White Sox manager
1988 – WABC officially becomes the NJ Devils new home radio
2016 – Rome elects its first female Mayor Virginia Raggi (Five Star Movement) and its youngest at 37
Historical Events for 19th June 2018
1778 – Washington’s troops finally leave Valley Forge
1889 – Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “Man with the Twisted Lip”
1938 – Reds Johnny Vander Meer extends his string of hitless baseball innings to 21 2/3 before Debs Garms singles for Boston in 4th
1960 – Loretta Lynn records “Honky Tonk Girl”
1964 – Cambuur Leeuwarden BVO soccer team forms in Leeuwarden
1978 – Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip
1979 – In NYC 36,211 show up to witness return of Billy Martin as manager of the New York Yankees
1985 – Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place
1988 – Shirley Furlong wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
2012 – Antonis Samaras, the leader of the New Democracy party in Greece, forms a coalition government
Historical Events for 18th June 2018
1538 – Treaty of Nice: ends war between Emperor Charles V and King French I
1779 – French fleet occupies St Vincent
1949 – “Along Fifth Avenue” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 180 performances
1951 – Charles De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election
1976 – A Joseph William Turner watercolor auctioned for £340,000
1977 – Space Shuttle test model “Enterprise” carries a crew aloft for 1st time, it was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
1989 – Laura Davies wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1991 – SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky’s cancerous left arm is amputated
1995 – Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
2013 – Russia passes a law banning foreign same-sex couples from adopting children
Historical Events for 17th June 2018
1580 – Battle at Hardenberg: Spanish troops beat rebels
1734 – French troops occupy Philipsburg at Rhine
1824 – US Bureau of Indian Affairs established
1882 – Tornado kills 130 in Iowa
1946 – SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis
1957 – Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores)
1983 – Ed Warren and Lorraine Warren exorcise a “werewolf demon” from Bill Ramsey, although the lack of photo or video evidence has called this claim into question
1990 – “Zoya’s Apartment” closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 45 performances
1993 – Indians’ Carlos Baerga hits 3 home runs against Detroit
1996 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Syracuse NY on WAQX 95.7 FM
Historical Events for 16th June 2018
1903 – Ford Motors under Henry Ford incorporates
1915 – The foundation of the British Women’s Institute
1947 – 1st network news-Dumont’s “News from Washington”
1953 – Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak and also ending St Louis Brown 14 game losing streak
1955 – Pope Pius XII ex-communicates Argentine President Juan Perón
1967 – 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival
1978 – Ringo releases “Bad Boy” album; Wings releases “I’ve Had Enough”
1989 – Funeral for Imre Nagy, leader of Hungarian uprising in 1956
1991 – Boris Yeltsin elected President of Russian SSR
1992 – Caspar Weinberger (Sec of Def 1981-87), indicted on Iran-contra charge
Historical Events for 15th June 2018
1876 – Tsunamis after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000
1894 – Phillies beat Cincinnati Reds, 21-8
1904 – Side-wheeler passenger paddlesteamer “General Slocum” burns in NY’s East River (1,031 die)
1984 – “Thicke Of The Night” TV Talk Show last airs in syndication
1986 – Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1990 – “Dick Tracy” with Warren Beatty and Madonna premieres
1991 – Climactic eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines, the second-largest volcanic eruption on Earth of the 20th century
1992 – Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport (NYC)
1997 – “Little Foxes” closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 56 performances
2015 – Remains of a 2,000 year old women dubbed “the sleeping beauty” are announced discovered in Northern Ethiopia from ancient kingdom of Aksum
Historical Events for 14th June 2018
1906 – Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
1917 – 1st German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East London
1926 – 31st Women’s French Championships: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary Kendall Browne (6-1, 6-0)
1934 – Max Baer KO’s Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City
1938 – Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)
1969 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on David Frost’s British TV Show
1979 – Canada all out for 45 runs in Cricket World Cup v England, in 40.3 overs
1983 – 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx
1987 – 41st NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
2005 – Asafa Powell of Jamaica sets a new Men’s 100 meters world record of 9.77 at the Athens Olympic Stadium
Historical Events for 13th June 2018
1908 – Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1914 – 28th U.S. Women’s National Championship: Mary Browne beats Marie Wagner (6-2, 1-6, 6-1)
1917 – World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children with 432 injuries
1922 – Longest recorded attack of hiccups begins: Charlie Osborne gets the hiccups and continues for 68 years, dies 11 months after it stops
1924 – Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier
1937 – Stalin executes Russian officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna and Uberevitch
1938 – Great Cricket innings of 232 by Stan McCabe v England at Trent Bridge
1966 – US Supreme Court’s Miranda decision; suspects must be informed of rights
1997 – 51st NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz 4, games to 2
2001 – 35th TNN and CMT Country Weekly Music Awards: George Strait, Faith Hill and Alan Jackson wins
Historical Events for 12th June 2018
1909 – “Shine On, Harvest Moon” by Ada Jones and Billy Murray hits #1
1923 – Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in NYC
1948 – 80th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro wins aboard Citation to claim his second Triple Crown
1960 – Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1962 – USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m
1977 – “Pippin” closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1944 performances
1983 – Winston Davis takes 7-51 in Cricket World Cup match v Australia
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 – 48th Tony Awards: Angels in America: Perestroika and Passion win
2008 – Ireland rejects the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum, thus putting into question the reform programme of the European Union.