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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 16th July 2018
1782 – Mozart’s opera “Das Entfuhrung aus dem Serail” premieres in Vienna
1883 – 7th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: William Renshaw beats E Renshaw (2-6 6-3 6-3 4-6 6-3)
1900 – A report appears in London that all foreigners in Peking, China, have been massacred. Although soon exposed as false, the report helps mobilize support for relief of foreigners
1951 – Len Hutton scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire v Surrey at The Oval
1961 – Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27′ 2″
1971 – The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) withdraw from Stormont (North Ireland Parliament) after no inquiry is announced into the shooting dead of Seamus Cusack and Desmond Beattie
1976 – Rock duo Loggins and Messina break-up after 6 years
1988 – Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women’s heptathlete record of 7,215 pts
1990 – NYC’s Empire State Building catches fire-no fatalities
2005 – “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, the 6th book in the series by J. K. Rowling, is published worldwide. 9 million copies sell in 24 hrs
Historical Events for 15th July 2018
1240 – A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva
1954 – WBOC TV channel 16 in Salisbury, MD (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 – 110°F (43°C) at Balcony Falls, Virginia (state record)
1956 – Beverly Hanson/Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Hot Springs Golf Invitational
1963 – KAIT TV channel 8 in Jonesboro, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 – “One Life to Live”, American soap opera, premieres on TV
1971 – US President Richard Nixon announces he will visit the People’s Republic of China
1973 – Willie McCovey becomes 15th to hit 400 HRs
1991 – Sandhi Ortiz-DelValle is 1st woman to officiate a men’s pro basketball (USBL) game, game between New Haven Skyhawks and Philadelphia Spirit
2002 – Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl
Historical Events for 14th July 2018
1942 – 1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork
1951 – Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races
1957 – Soviet steamer “Eshghbad” sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
1965 – US Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km)
1968 – Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes-out 18, beats Reds 6-1
1985 – Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24
1986 – Motley Crue’s Vince Neil begins 30 day sentence for vehicular homicide
1986 – US Open Women’s Golf, NCR CC: Jane Geddes wins in a playoff with Sally Little
1986 – NASA’s plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission
2007 – Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Historical Events for 13th July 2018
1962 – 500 Indonesian parachutist land on New-Guinea
1963 – Indian government announces it will cut last remaining links with South Africa by refusing landing facilities to South African aircraft
1966 – Richard Speck murders 8 nurses in Chicago
1968 – French government-Couve de Murville forms
1971 – 42nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-4 at Tiger Stadium, Detroit
1974 – 103rd British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 282 at Royal Lytham
1978 – Russian dissidents Ginsburg, Piatkus and Sjtsjaranki sentenced to work camps
1982 – Iran launches first attack into Iraq
2012 – Financially troubled Scottish football club, Rangers, is voted into the third division
2014 – FIFA World Cup Final: Mario Götze scores an extra time winner as Germany beats Argentina 1-0 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Historical Events for 12th July 2018
1930 – 34th US Golf Open: Robert T “Bobby” Jones wins
1930 – Bradman out for 334 in test cricket at Headingley for Australia, 383 mins, 46 fours
1948 – 1st jets to fly across Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires)
1954 – ANC President Albert Luthuli banned by South African Minister of Justice from attending public gatherings and confined to the magisterial district of Lower Tugela, Natal
1958 – “Li’l Abner” closes at St James Theater NYC after 693 performances
1966 – All star MVP: Brooks Robinson (Balt Orioles)
1969 – 98th British Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 280 at Royal Lytham
1975 – 104th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 279 at Carnoustie
1993 – Don Imus begins broadcasting to Boston on WEEI (590 AM)
1995 – Enrique Iglesias releases his first album, “Enrique Iglesias”
Historical Events for 11th July 2018
1244 – Khwarezmian Tatars sack Jerusalem, decimating the city’s Christian population and driving out Jews
1423 – Arnold van Egmont becomes Duke of Gelre
1740 – Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Tsarina Anne
1864 – Battle of Fort Stevens, DC (Early’s Raid, Tennallytown, Maryland)
1889 – Tijuana in Mexico becomes a city
1954 – 1st White Citizens Council organizes in Indianola, Mississippi
1971 – The Irish Republican Army set off a number of bombs in the centre of Belfast injuring a number of people
1974 – World Football League plays 1st games
2011 – Neptune completes its first orbit since its discovery on September 23, 1846
2012 – 20th ESPY Awards: LeBron James, Brittney Griner win
Historical Events for 10th July 2018
1553 – Lady Jane Grey, daughter of the Duke of Suffolk, proclaimed Queen of England, succeeds Edward VI, who proclaimed his half-sisters illegitimate. Reigns for nine days.
1645 – Battle at Langport, Somerset: Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army beats Royalists
1877 – The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain
1905 – Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court
1934 – 1st sitting US President to visit South America, FDR in Colombia
1934 – 2nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-7 at Polo Grounds, New York
1985 – French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand to prevent it interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira is killed.
1992 – Spaceship Giotto (Halley 1986) approaches comet Grigg-Skjellerup
1994 – Sonia O’Sullivan runs female world record 2K (5:25.36)
2014 – Yair Lapid warns of Israeli Defense Force ground operation if Gazan rocket fire do not stop
Historical Events for 9th July 2018
1846 – The territory of the District of Columbia south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100 km²) is returned to Virginia through an Act of Congress
1864 – Battle of Monocacy, Maryland, confederate forces led by Lieutenant General Jubal Early
1908 – CHU (Christian Historic Union) Dutch political party forms
1943 – 5th day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje
1955 – The Russell-Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London on the need to avoid nuclear war
1965 – John Edrich completes 310* v NZ in 532 minutes, 52 fours 5 sixes
1976 – England all out for 71 v WI at Old Trafford, Holding 14 5-7-17-5
1982 – Michael Fagan breaks into Buckingham Palace and enters the Queen’s bedroom in Buckingham Palace, London
1996 – All star MVP: Mike Piazza (LA Dodgers)
1997 – Baseball’s triple A American Association (formed in 1902) votes to disband