1409 – Council of Pisa selects Petros Philargi as 3rd Pope: Alexander V
1630 – Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf lands at Peenemunde
1902 – Aga Khan III is appointed Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire
1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island
1971 – Angels suspend Alex Johnson (after 5 benchings and 29 fines)
1973 – On Plesetsk Cosmodrome, USSR, 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
1994 – Donna Andrews wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1994 – FIFA World Cup: US loses to Romania 1-0
2008 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the ban on handguns in the District of Columbia is unconstitutional.
2014 – Canadian Andrew Wiggins is selected as the No.1 draft pick in the NBA by the Cleveland Cavaliers
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 25th June 2018
1580 – Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published
1955 – “Imogene Coca Show” last airs on NBC-TV
1961 – Baltimore and California use a record 16 pitchers in a game (8 each) in 14 inns
1964 – WMCA (NYC) plays Beatles’ Hard Days Night Album (10 days prior to its scheduled release date), they decide to release it June 26th
1967 – Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
1988 – Roger Rabbit Cartoon Character debuts in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”
1989 – Betsy King wins LPGA McDonald’s Golf Championship
1990 – African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets with President George H. W. Bush at the White House
1992 – “Les Miserables” opens at Vinorhady Theatre, Prague
1997 – NHL approves franchises in Nashville, Atlanta, Columbus, and Minnesota-St Paul
Historical Events for 24th June 2018
1619 – Tsar Michail’s father Filaret becomes patriarch of Moscow
1861 – Tennessee becomes 11th (and last) state to secede from Union
1914 – King Peter I of Serbia names son Alexander the Prince-regent
1946 – 11.72″ (29.77 cm) of rainfall at Mellen, Wisconsin (state 24-hr record)
1956 – 2nd LPGA Championship won by Marlene Hagge
1960 – Geoff Griffin takes a hat-trick South Africa v England Lord’s
1961 – Iraq demands dominion over Kuwait
1968 – 14th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Post
1988 – Cleve pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves
1997 – USAF reports Roswell ‘space aliens’ were dummies
Historical Events for 23rd June 2018
1863 – Tullahoma campaign, Tennessee
1930 – Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 21-8
1932 – Lou Gehrig plays 1,103rd successive game in a NY uniform, equaling Joe Sewell’s record with one team (Cleveland)
1963 – US President John F. Kennedy tours Western Europe
1973 – “Cyrano” closes at Palace Theater NYC after 49 performances
1980 – South African Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that confrontation will be inevitable if his proposed President’s Council fails
1981 – French government of Mauroy forms, with 4 communists
1986 – Tip O’Neill refuses to let President Reagan address House
1994 – Moshood Abiola is accused of treason and arrested after declaring himself president of Nigeria
2016 – Storms and widespread flooding in West Virginia leave at least 24 dead
Historical Events for 22nd June 2018
1931 – RVU, Radio-Volks-University, forms
1940 – France surrenders to Nazi Germany, with the northern half of the country occupied and the south established as the Nazi client state Vichy France
1941 – Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation
1947 – 12″ rain in 42 mins (Holt, MO)
1966 – South African Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, is refused a passport and thus permission to attend an international church conference by the South African government
1980 – Pope John Paul II beatifies Kateri Tekakwitha, making her the 1st Native American to be beatified
1982 – Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes
1986 – Spain’s premier Gonzalez’ Socialist Party wins elections
1994 – 48th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 3
2010 – Danielle Steel’s novel “Family Ties” is published
Historical Events for 21st June 2018
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
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