1667 – The first fully documented human blood transfusion is performed by French physician Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys when a small amount of sheep blood is transfused into a 15-year-old boy, who survives the procedure
1894 – Phillies beat Cincinnati Reds, 21-8
1957 – US Open Men’s Golf, Inverness Club: Dick Mayer defeats defending champion Cary Middlecoff by 7 strokes in an 18-hole playoff to win his only major title
1965 – South Africa begins economic boycott of Dutch products
1980 – Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game
2014 – NBA Finals: San Antonio Spurs beat Miami Heat, 104-87 in Game 5 for 5th NBA Championship in franchise history; MVP: Kawhi Leonard
2019 – Anthony Davis’s opera “The Central Park Five” premieres at the Long Beach Opera Company, California (Pulitzer Prize for Music 2020)
2021 – US death toll from COVID-19 tops 600,000 (Johns Hopkins), with 65% of adults vaccinated with at least one dose
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 14th June 2026
1876 – George Hall of the Philadelphia Athletics becomes first MLB player to hit for cycle (single, double, triple, and home run), in 20-5 win over Cincinnati Reds at the Jefferson Street Grounds, Philadelphia
1877 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes 1st African American to graduate from West Point Military Academy
1952 – British runner Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2)
1965 – John Lennon’s second book “A Spaniard in the Works” is published
1968 – “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” second studio album by Iron Butterfly is released
1975 – Janis Ian releases “At Seventeen”
1981 – No Nukes concert at Hollywood Bowl
1993 – Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth
Historical Events for 13th June 2026
1727 – Spain underwrites Preliminairy of Paris
1895 – British Open Men’s Golf, St Andrews: Englishman J.H. Taylor retains title; beats Sandy Herd of Scotland by 4 shots
1925 – 57th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard American Flag wins in 2:16.8
1925 – American William DeHart Hubbard sets men’s long jump world record at 7.89m (25 ft 10 3⁄4 in) in Chicago, Illinois
1937 – Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns
1953 – English Cricketer Alec Bedser takes 14-99 (7-55 and 7-44) vs Australia
1962 – Norway named ombudsman
1988 – Fed jury finds Liggett liable in death of NJ woman of lung cancer
Historical Events for 12th June 2026
1775 – 1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (US) captures Margaretta (Br)
1939 – Baseball Hall of Fame is dedicated in Cooperstown, New York
1942 – Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1950 – The first of two Air France DC-4 aircraft flying the same route from Saigon to Paris crashes near Bahrain, killing 46 passengers and crew, while 6 survive; a second DC-4 on the same route crashes two days later a few miles away under similar circumstances
1978 – David Berkowitz sentenced in NY Supreme Court to 25 yrs to life
1993 – “Three Little Pigs” by Green Jelly hits #17
2011 – 65th Tony Awards: “The Book of Mormon” (musical) and “War Horse” (play) win
2017 – Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny sentenced to 30 days administrative arrest for organizing rallies
Historical Events for 11th June 2026
1231 – Harderwijk (Netherlands) becomes a city
1905 – Pennsylvania Railroad debuts the fastest train in the world, capable of traveling from NY to Chicago in 18 hours
1921 – Brazil adopts women’s suffrage
1938 – French Championships Men’s Tennis: American Don Budge beats Roderich Menzel of Czechoslovakia 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 for the 2nd leg of his Grand Slam
1951 – NY Times reports the NYC subway will auction off unclaimed items left behind on the trains
1988 – 120th Belmont Stakes: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 2:26.6
1992 – US Olympic baseball team plays 1st exhibition game, beat Venezuela 20-0
2006 – French Open Men’s Tennis: Rafael Nadal of Spain wins his 2nd straight French title; beats Roger Federer 1-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6
Historical Events for 10th June 2026
1768 – Riot breaks out in Boston after customs officials seize sloop owned by John Hancock for alleged customs violation
1876 – 10th Belmont: William Donohue aboard Algerine wins in 2:40.5
1956 – Due to Australia’s strict quarantine regulations, the XVI Summer Olympic equestrian events open in Stockholm, Sweden, five months early
1974 – Philadelphia Phillies slugger Mike Schmidt hits a ball off public address speaker hanging from Houston Astrodome roof
1981 – Seven Brothers Square in Bronx named honoring 7 Santini Bro Moving Co
1996 – Intel releases 200 MHz Pentium chip
2003 – Stephen Schwartz’ musical “Wicked”, starring Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, officially opens at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco, California
2007 – LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, Bulle Rock GC: Suzann Pettersen of Norway wins her first major title by 1 stroke ahead of Australian Karrie Webb
Historical Events for 9th June 2026
1720 – Sweden and Denmark signs 3rd Treaty of Stockholm
1784 – John Carroll appointed supervisor of US Catholic Missions
1868 – First meeting of the Board of Regents of the University of California
1898 – British Open Men’s Golf, Prestwick GC: Harry Vardon of Jersey wins 2nd title by 1 stroke from dual champion Willie Park Jr
1943 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Current Tax Payment Act into law, requiring taxes to be withheld from workers’ wages and paid directly to the federal government
1945 – Warner Bros. cartoon “A Gruesome Twosome” starring Tweety premieres in the US
1986 – 20th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers and Loretta Lynn win
2024 – French Open Men’s Tennis: Carlos Alcaraz becomes the youngest man to win grand slams on all three surfaces, coming back to beat Alexander Zverev 6-3, 2-6, 5-7, 6-1, 6-2 in a final lasting 4 hours 15 minutes
Historical Events for 8th June 2026
68 – Roman Senate accepts Emperor Galba
979 – Louis V is crowned King of West Francia, co-reigning with his father Lothair until 986
1191 – King Richard I of England arrives at Acre in modern-day Israel to join the Siege of Acre during the Third Crusade
1493 – Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III’s left leg is amputated at his court in Linz, the most famous record of surgery in the Middle Ages – he survives until August 19
1959 – 1st official “missile mail” lands (Jacksonville, Florida)
1981 – 15th Music City News Country Awards: Mandrell Sisters win
2014 – 68th Tony Awards: “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” (musical) and “All The Way” (play) win
2023 – US Supreme Court upholds Voting Rights Act ruling 5-4 that Republican-drawn congressional districts in Alabama had weakened Black voting by creating just one district where they were a majority
Historical Events for 7th June 2026
1898 – Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chicago
1924 – George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775′ from Everest’s summit
1942 – Germany Army marches into Sebastopol, Russia
1962 – NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m
1980 – 112th Belmont Stakes: Eddie Maple aboard Temperence Hill wins in 2:29.8
1987 – Andy Van Slyke HRs off R McDowell in both ends of double header
1989 – For one second this morning, the time is 01:23:45, 6-7-89
2018 – Mars Curiosity Rover finds organic matter, including methane, on Mars in studies published in journal “Science”
Historical Events for 6th June 2026
1875 – Netherlands joins the gold standard
1903 – President Emile Loubet of France and Minister of Foreign Affairs Theophile Declasse visit London, furthering the cause of Entente Cordiale between Britain and France
1942 – First nylon parachute jump is made by American parachute tester Adeline Gray at Brainard Field, an airport near Hartford, Connecticut; DuPont teams with the Pioneer Parachute Company to develop an alternative to silk
1978 – Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%
1983 – Minnesota Twins select pitcher Tim Belcher #1 in the 1983 MLB Draft
1985 – Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1993 – 47th Tony Awards: “Angels in America: Millennium Approaches” (play) and “Kiss of the Spider Woman” (musical) win
2021 – US Open Women’s Golf, Olympic GC Lake Course: Yuka Saso of the Philippines sinks 10-foot birdie putt on 3rd playoff hole to edge Japan’s Nasa Hataoka; becomes 2nd teenager to win the event