1588 – English Admiral John Hawkins knighted for his actions against the Armada
1803 – The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world’s first public railway, opens in south London
1835 – 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
1947 – 46th Men’s French Championships: Jozsef Asboth beats Eric Sturgess (8-6, 7-5, 6-4)
1963 – US Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1987 – 74th Tour de France won by Stephen Roche of Ireland
1991 – Expo’s Mark Gardner no hits Dodgers for 9 innings, but loses in 10th
2013 – 57 people are killed in a market bombing in Parachinar, Pakistan
2017 – Great Britain announces it will ban gasoline and diesel cars by 2040
2017 – US President Donald Trump announces policy to ban transgendered people from the military, overturning Obama era changes
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 25th July 2018
1547 – Henry II of France is crowned
1593 – France’s Protestant King Henry IV converts to Roman Catholic faith
1868 – US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah and Idaho)
1938 – Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany
1957 – Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic
1958 – The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
1960 – Companie Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels
1964 – “Here’s Love” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 338 performances
1965 – Bob Dylan is booed by sections of the crowd at the Newport Folk Festival for performing with an electric guitar, beginning of folk-rock
1993 – Tour de France: Spaniard Miguel Induráin makes it 3 straight Tour titles; Djamolidine Abdoujaparov points winner
Historical Events for 24th July 2018
1534 – Jacques Cartier lands in Canada, claims it for France
1909 – Bkln Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates
1940 – Linthorst Homan, de Quay and Einthoven form Dutch Union
1952 – US President Harry Truman settles 53-day steel strike
1957 – US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 – Test Cricket debuts against NZ for Dexter, Illingworth and Subba Row
1990 – Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus
1993 – NY Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight
2012 – John Dramani becomes President of Ghana after the death of President John Atta Mills
2017 – Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner says he did not collude with Russia after meeting with Senate investigators
Historical Events for 23rd July 2018
1929 – The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words
1937 – Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)
1943 – Battle of Koersk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks)
1965 – The Beatles’ “Help” is released in UK
1967 – First successful liver transplant, on 19 month old Julie Rodriguez by Dr Starzl at the University of Colorado
1975 – LA Dodgers W Crawford and Lee Lacy are 5th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1978 – Phillies Steve Carlton becomes 78th pitcher to win 200
1980 – River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter
1989 – Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith, Arkansas
1994 – Dancer Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke
Historical Events for 22nd July 2018
1912 – 5th Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden closes
1942 – 4th Soviet army forms with 80 tanks
1943 – US forces led by General George Patton liberate Palermo, Sicily
1961 – WBNB TV channel 10 in Charlotte Amaile, VI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1972 – 59th Tour de France won by Eddy Merckx of Belgium
1973 – US Open Women’s Golf, CC of Rochester: Susie Maxwell Berning wins by 5 from Gloria Ehret and Shelley Hamlin for her third national title
1987 – Said Aouita of Morocco sets 5k record (12:58.39) in Rome
1990 – 119th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots 270 at St Andrews Scotland
2004 – 37th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
2014 – News broadcaster Al Jazeera claim that its office in Gaza is under attack by the Israeli Defence Force
Historical Events for 21st July 2018
905 – Holy Roman Catholic emperor Louis III captured
1730 – States of Holland put death penalty on “sodomy”
1941 – Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp
1957 – Marilynn Smith/Fay Crocker wins Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1961 – Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom
1964 – Last Dutch whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan
1974 – US Open Women’s Golf, La Grange CC: Sandra Haynie wins by 1 shot from Beth Stone and Carol Mann
1983 – Polish government ends 19 months of martial law
1989 – Eastern Airlines submits a reorganization plan to creditors
1996 – 125th British Golf Open: Tom Lehman shoots a 271 at Royal Lytham
Historical Events for 20th July 2018
1876 – 1st US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins
1878 – 2nd Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Frank Hadow beats S Gore (7-5- 6-1 9-7)
1910 – Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption
1922 – French and British Togoland made seperate mandates within League of Nations
1942 – Legion of Merit Medal authorized by US congress
1944 – Canadian Cameron Highlanders conquer St Andre
1958 – King Hussein of Jordan breaks off diplomatic relations with UAR
1975 – India expels three reporters from “The Times”, “The Daily Telegraph”, and “Newsweek” because they refuse to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship
1982 – Hyde Park and Regent’s Park bombings: 11 British soldiers and 7 military horses killed in Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb attacks during military ceremonies in London
1985 – Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
Historical Events for 19th July 2018
64 – Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire
1760 – The formal request to found the later city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is filed by its founders
1848 – 1st US women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
1923 – WRC-AM in Washington, D.C. begins radio transmissions
1966 – Governor James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
1977 – Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kill 76
1979 – 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 tons of oil spill
1989 – United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112
1990 – Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, California
2017 – US Senator John McCain diagnosed with brain cancer
Historical Events for 18th July 2018
1536 – Pope’s authority declared void in England
1768 – Boston Gazette publishes “Liberty Song”, America’s 1st patriotic song
1893 – Australian Harry Graham scores 107 on cricket debut Australia v England, Lord’s
1896 – 2nd US Golf Open: James Foulis shoots a 152 at Shinnecock Hills NY
1907 – French troops occupy Casablanca
1947 – US President Harry Truman signs Presidential Succession Act
1948 – “Marinka” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 168 performances
1970 – Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time
1992 – The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappear from their university in Lima, Peru
2012 – Violence across Syria results in 97 deaths
Historical Events for 17th July 2018
180 – 6 inhabitants of Carthage, North Africa executed for being Christians. Earliest record of Christianity in this part of the world.
1774 – Captain James Cook arrives in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
1934 – Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland
1950 – Suppression of Communism Act comes into force in South Africa
1952 – Shah of Persia Mohammed Reza Pahlavi names Ghavam Sultaneh premier
1954 – Construction of Disneyland commences
1959 – River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana)
1960 – 47th Tour de France won by Gastone Nencini of Italy
1967 – Race riots in Cairo Illinois
1970 – 30,000 attend Randall’s Island Rock Festival, NYC