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
Category: Historical Events
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.
Historical Events for 11th June 2018
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
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