1712 – Great Britain, Portugal and France sign ceasefire [or 19th]
1912 – International Amateur Athletic Federation forms in Stockholm, Sweden (now known as World Athletics)
1925 – Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits
1944 – WWII: Port Chicago Disaster – explosion during munition loading kills 322 and, injures nearly 400, destroys three ships and a pier at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California; conditions inspire the Port Chicago Mutiny later that summer
1954 – Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany
1958 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands
1970 – 30,000 attend Randall’s Island Rock Festival, NYC
1974 – Bob Gibson becomes second pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters (Cesar Geronimo)
1997 – STS 94 (Columbia 23) lands
2016 – 17 works by Swiss architect Le Corbusier included in UNESCO World Heritage sites list as “an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement”
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 16th July 2025
1857 – Sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore
1888 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: 3-time runner-up Ernest Renshaw wins his lone major title; beats defending champion Herbert Lawford 6-3, 7-5, 6-0
1902 – John McGraw officially becomes manager of MLB New York Giants; 30 year tenure begins (1902-32)
1950 – FIFA World Cup Final, Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Alcides Ghiggia scores a 79th minute winner as Uruguay beats Brazil, 2-1
1956 – Detroit Tigers and Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million
1961 – Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27′ 2″
1970 – Cincinnati Reds spoil Pirates debut in Pittsburgh’s new Three Rivers Stadium, 3-2
1988 – San Antonio (Texas League) beats Jackson 1-0 in 26 innings
1990 – The ANC send a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk and demand an end to “the shocking inhumanity” of police action in rural areas of South Africa
1993 – President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville
Historical Events for 15th July 2025
1240 – A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva
1901 – NY Giant Christy Mathewson no-hits St Louis, 5-0
1939 – Clara Adams is the first woman to complete a commercial round-the-world flight from New York, lasting 16 days and 19 hours
1944 – Greenwich Royal Observatory in London damaged by WW II flying bomb
1954 – 110°F (43°C) at Balcony Falls, Virginia (state record)
1957 – Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die
1969 – Cincinnati Red Lee May hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
1972 – British Open Men’s Golf, Muirfield: Lee Trevino claims his second straight Claret Jug; first to successfully defend his title since Arnold Palmer in 1962; wins by 1 stroke from Jack Nicklaus
1983 – Film version of “The Pirates of Penzance”, starring Kevin Kline, Linda Ronstadt, and Angela Lansbury premieres in US
2014 – 85th MLB All-Star Game: AL wins 5-3 at Target Field, Minnesota
Historical Events for 14th July 2025
1911 – 46″ of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Philippines
1941 – Cease fire of Joan of Arc (ends combat in Lebanon and Syria)
1946 – Cleveland’s Lou Boudreau hits 4 doubles and HR, but Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted Williams 3 HR with 8 RBIs
1960 – Fire rages through a Guatemala City insane asylum killing 225 and severely injuring 300
1965 – Israeli Jordanian border fights
1969 – A 67-year-old Catholic civilian dies after being attacked by RUC officers in Dungiven; many consider this the first death of ‘the Troubles’
1986 – 10 killed and 60 injured at ETA-bomb attack in Madrid
2019 – Senior Players Championship Men’s Golf, Firestone CC: Retief Goosen of South Africa birdies final 2 holes to secure his first Champions Tour win by 2 strokes from Jay Haas and Tim Petrovic
2019 – First Ebola case on Goma, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, city of 1 million, as toll of outbreak reaches 1600 victims
2024 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: At just 21, Carlos Alcaraz wins his fourth major title beating 7-time champion Novak Djokovic 6-2, 6-2, 7-6
Historical Events for 13th July 2025
1868 – Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
1878 – Congress of Berlin ends, redrawing the terms of Treaty of San Stefano to give Russia less influence in old Ottoman Empire
1911 – Great Britain and Japan renew their alliance of 1902 for another four years; the reason Japan joins WWI on the Allies side
1969 – Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon
1985 – New York Yankees retire Roger Maris (9) and Elston Howard (32) uniform numbers
1993 – 64th MLB All-Star Game: AL wins 9-3 at Camden Yards, Baltimore; MVP: Kirby Puckett (Minnesota Twins)
1996 – Cigar wins a record 16th consecutive race, tying Citation’s record from 1940
1999 – 70th MLB All-Star Game: AL wins 4-1 at Fenway Park, Boston
2005 – TV police procedural “The Closer” debuts on TNT starring Kyra Sedgwick
2014 – British Open Women’s Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: American Mo Martin wins her first major title, 1 shot ahead of runners-up Shanshan Feng and Suzann Pettersen
Historical Events for 12th July 2025
1191 – Third Crusade: City of Acre surrenders to English King Richard I the Lionheart and the Crusaders after a siege of nearly two years
1785 – First manned flight in Netherlands: Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard lifts off in his gas balloon from Noordeinde Palace in The Hague
1790 – French Revolution: The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted, putting the Catholic Church in France under the control of the state
1943 – 8th day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Kutuzov (Soviet counter-offensive begins
1948 – First jets to fly across Atlantic (six RAF de Havilland Vampires)
1949 – Baseball owners agree to erect warning paths before each fence
1971 – Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders
1975 – England cricket wicketkeeper Bob Taylor catches 7 in an innings for Derbyshire v Yorkshire at Queen’s Park, Chesterfield
2011 – 82nd MLB All-Star Game: NL wins 5-1 at Chase Field, Phoenix
2013 – 8 people are killed after a commuter train derails in Paris
Historical Events for 11th July 2025
1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens in Los Angeles
1969 – Rolling Stones release “Honky Tonk Woman”
1984 – US Government mandates that all cars must be equipped with airbags or seatbelts by 1989
1987 – Heart’s “Alone” single goes to #1 for three weeks
2004 – Senior Players Championship Men’s Golf, TPC of Michigan: Englishman Mark James wins his lone career major title by one stroke from José Maria Cañizares of Spain
2010 – FIFA World Cup Final, Soccer City, Johannesburg, South Africa: Andrés Iniesta scores an extra-time winner as Spain beats the Netherlands, 1-0 for first World Cup title
2012 – Twentieth ESPY Awards: LeBron James and Brittney Griner win
2013 – “Orange Is the New Black” premieres on Netflix, starring Taylor Schilling, as the first series to be nominated for comedy and drama Emmy awards
2015 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Serena Williams becomes oldest winner in Open era (33) beating Garbiñe Muguruza 6-4, 6-4
2023 – Heavy rains in northern India result in 20 deaths, with Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand states experiencing landslides and flash floods, closing over 700 roads
Historical Events for 10th July 2025
1553 – Lady Jane Grey, daughter of the Duke of Suffolk, is proclaimed Queen of England, succeeding Edward VI, who declares his half-sisters illegitimate, and reigns for 9 days
1863 – Battle of Jackson, Mississippi – captured by Federals [->Jul 16]
1884 – First day of Test Cricket at Old Trafford, Manchester (1st Test, England v Australia) is washed out
1922 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Australian Gerald Patterson wins his second Wimbledon title; beats Randolph Lycett 6-3, 6-4, 6-2
1943 – US, British, and Canadian forces invade Sicily in WWII (Operation Husky)
1956 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Atoll
1964 – British Open Men’s Golf, St Andrews: Tony Lema wins his only major title, five strokes clear of runner-up and fellow American Jack Nicklaus
1964 – Jesús Alou is the first San Francisco Giant in 40 years to get six hits in a game in a 10-3 win over the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field
1965 – Beatles’ “VI” album goes to number 1 and stays at number 1 for 6 weeks
1971 – 100th British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Birkdale: Lee Trevino wins the first of his consecutive Open Championships, a stroke ahead of Lu Liang-Huan of Taiwan
Historical Events for 9th July 2025
1815 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord takes office as the first Prime Minister of France
1914 – First US duplicate auction bridge championship held in Lake Placid, NY
1917 – British battleship HMS Vanguard explodes at Scapa Flow due to an internal explosion caused by faulty cordite, killing 804 crew members
1933 – Philadelphia-based NFL team Frankford Yellow Jackets is sold and rebranded as Philadelphia Eagles
1953 – Phillies Robin Roberts ends streak of 28 consecutive complete games
1957 – Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced by an international team at Nobel Institute of Physics in Stockholm, named after Alfred Nobel
1966 – British Open Men’s Golf, Muirfield: Jack Nicklaus beats Doug Sanders and Dave Thomas by 1 stroke to become only 4th in history to win all 4 majors
1970 – In Atlanta, Chief-No-ka-homa is joined by cousin Chief Round-the-Horn
1979 – Dr Walter Massey named director of Argonne National Laboratory
1989 – Wimbledon men’s tennis: Boris Becker of Germany beats Sweden’s Stefan Edberg 6-0, 7-6, 6-4 for his third and last Wimbledon title
Historical Events for 8th July 2025
1778 – George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army
1874 – The Mounties (North West Mounted Police) begin their March West from Fort Dufferin
1935 – 3rd MLB All-Star Game: AL wins 4-1 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland
1956 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll
1989 – Carlos Saul Menum becomes President of Argentina
1991 – Pitts Pirate President Carl Barger becomes 1st President of Florida Marlins
1999 – Allen Lee Davis is executed by electrocution by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric chair for capital punishment in Florida
2007 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Whistling Straits: Brad Bryant wins by 3 strokes from Ben Crenshaw
2014 – FIFA World Cup: Germany defeat Brazil by a record 7-1 in the semi-finals to make it to the final; Miroslav Klose of Germany breaks the World Cup goal scoring record with 16 goals
2022 – Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzō Abe assassinated while giving a speech in Nara, Japan