1793 – 1st American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick
1940 – World War II: First attack of the Italian Air force on the island of Malta
1953 – Test Cricket debut of Alan Davidson at Trent Bridge
1960 – House packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30 (Pakistan)
1963 – Gov Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at University of Alabama
1975 – Greece adopts constitution
1991 – Natalie Cole releases “Unforgettable…with Love”, covering her father’s standards, (Grammy Album of the Year)
2000 – 99th Women’s French Open: Mary Pierce beats Conchita Martinez (6-2, 7-5)
2001 – Saudi Arabia seizes ownership, effective June 7, of the 1.6-million-barrels-per-day IPSA pipeline that had carried Iraqi crude oil to the Saudi Red Sea port of Mu’jiz prior to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait
2012 – Five people are killed after an ambulance hits a roadside bomb in Afghanistan
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 10th June 2018
1805 – First Barbary War: Yussif Karamanli signs a treaty ending hostilities with the United States
1809 – 1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY for Philadelphia
1857 – Britain passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system
1911 – Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam
1915 – British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon
1962 – Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27′ 3½”
1963 – US Equal Pay Act signed into law by President John F. Kennedy
1968 – 4h Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats France 20-2
1991 – David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” airs its final episode airs on ABC-TV
1996 – Stanley Cup: Colo Avalanche sweep Florida Panthers in 4 games
Historical Events for 9th June 2018
721 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse
1864 – Battle of Big Shanty, Georgia
1963 – Barbara Romack wins LPGA Rock City Ladies Golf Open
1977 – 50th National Spelling Bee: John Paola wins spelling cambist
1983 – Zimbabwe win their 1st one-day cricket international, v Australia
1984 – Weird Al Yankovic gives a live performance at Starlight Amphitheater
1985 – 39th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
1989 – “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier” premieres in USA
1991 – 90th Women’s French Open: Monica Seles beats Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (6-3, 6-4)
2007 – 139th Belmont: John Velazquez aboard Rags To Riches wins in 2:28.74
Historical Events for 8th June 2018
1918 – Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler’s nova of 1604, discovered
1948 – “Milton Berle Show” premieres on NBC TV
1950 – Test Cricket debut of Ramadhin and Valentine (8-104 1st inn) v England
1961 – Test Cricket debut of William Morris Lawry, v England at Edgbaston, 57
1965 – US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
1969 – 68th Men’s French Open: Rod Laver beats Ken Rosewall (6-4, 6-3, 6-4)
1988 – Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%
1995 – Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O’Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
1996 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
2013 – NHL Western Conference Finals: Chicago Blackhawks beat Los Angeles Kings, 4 games to 1
Historical Events for 7th June 2018
1494 – Treaty of Tordesillas: Spain and Portugal divide the new world along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa
1628 – English King Charles I ratifies the Petition of Rights
1654 – Louis XIV crowned King of France
1900 – Boer general Christian de Law occupies British rail depot at Roodewal
1917 – The British detonate mines beneath the German-held Messines Ridge, in the Ypres area
1965 – Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
1969 – 101st Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Arts and Letters wins in 2:28.8
1969 – Wash Senators draft Jeff Burroughs #1
1987 – 86th Women’s French Open: Steffi Graf beats Martina Navratilova (6-4, 4-6, 8-6)
1998 – 52nd Tony Awards: “The Lion King” and ‘”Art” win
Historical Events for 6th June 2018
1885 – 19th Belmont: Paul Duffy aboard Tyrant wins in 2:43
1936 – 40th US Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1949 – Orapin Chaiyakan becomes the first Thai woman to be elected to the Parliament of Thailand
1966 – Stokely Carmichael launches “Black Power” movement
1967 – Israeli troops occupy Gaza during second day of the Six-Day War
1974 – 47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte
1983 – 17th Music City News Country Awards: Marty Robbins and Roy Acuff
1985 – Body of Nazi concentration camp doctor Dr Josef Mengele located and exhumed
1992 – WLAF World Bowl 2: Sacramento beats Orlando 21-17 (Montreal)
1999 – 53rd Tony Awards: “Fosse” and “Side Man” win
Historical Events for 5th June 2018
1752 – Prince William of Orange becomes Knight of Garter
1849 – Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
1913 – Dutch Disability laws go into effect
1947 – US Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the “Marshall Plan” to rebuild Western Europe
1956 – Fed court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Constitutional
1977 – LA Dodgers retire Walt Alston’s #24
1980 – Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1988 – 1st Children’s Miracle Network Telethon raises $590,000
1995 – 29th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Reba McEntire
2013 – 47th Country Music Association Award: George Strait, Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton wins
Historical Events for 4th June 2018
1133 – Rome-Innocentius II crowns Lotharius III Roman-German emperor
1756 – Quakers leave assembly of Pennsylvania
1783 – Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public hot-air balloon flight (unmanned), covering 2km and lasting 10 minutes with an estimated altitude of 1,600-2,000m
1859 – Second Italian War of Independence: Battle of Magenta, results in a French-Sardinian victory under Napoleon III over the Austrians under Marshal Ferencz Gyulai
1944 – French general De Gaulle arrives in London
1950 – CVP wins Belgian parliamentary election
1964 – LA Dodger Sandy Koufax 3rd no-hitter beats Phil Phillies, 3-0
1967 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St Louis Women’s Golf Invitational
1970 – Tonga (formerly Friendly Islands) declares independence from UK
2012 – Car bomb kills 26 and injures 190 people in central Baghdad, Iraq
Historical Events for 3rd June 2018
1357 – Peace of Ath signed (in modern Belgium), settles Brabant succession
1861 – 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, West Virginia
1925 – Eddie Collins, is 6th to get 3,000 hits
1956 – Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Pittsburgh Golf Open
1968 – Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times
1973 – 72nd Men’s French Open: Ilie Năstase beats Nikola Pilic (6-3, 6-3, 6-0)
1973 – “Smith” closes at Eden Theater NYC after 17 performances
1980 – Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination
1989 – Leaking pipe in Asha, USSR, causes 2 trains to catch fire; 460 die
2001 – 55th Tony Awards: “The Producers” and “Proof” win
Historical Events for 2nd June 2018
1848 – The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
1934 – 39th Women’s French Championships: Margaret Scriven beats Helen Jacobs (7-5, 4-6, 6-1)
1950 – St Louis Browns pitcher Harry Dorish swipes home vs Washington Senators
1956 – Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow
1958 – Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record
1968 – WBLG (now WTVQ) TV channel 62 in Lexington, KY (ABC) 1st broadcast
1975 – James A Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)
1976 – East Timor People’s Assembly accepts annexation by Indonesia
1989 – 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, protecting students demonstrating for democracy
2015 – 100 volunters in Bhutan set a world record for tree planting – 49,672 in 1 hour