1806 – Buenos Aires captured by British
1906 – The IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) established in London with Lord Kelvin as President to standardize electrical units and terms
1931 – Ryder Cup Golf, Scioto CC: Walter Hagen captains his 2nd victorious American team; US wins, 9-3
1933 – Ryder Cup Golf, Southport and Ainsdale GC: Great Britain wins, 6½-5½; GB’s last Cup victory until 1957
1934 – Federal Savings and Loan Association created
1955 – First automobile seat belt legislation enacted, in Illinois
1963 – Billy J Kramer and Dakotas record Lennon-McCartney song “I Call Your Name”
1984 – Fire destroys a set in “A View to a Kill”
1984 – Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
1991 – Emmy 18th Daytime Award presentation – Susan Lucci loses for 12th time
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 26th June 2025
1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island
1953 – KCTV (now KLST) TV channel 8 in San Angelo, TX (CBS) 1st broadcast
1976 – CN Tower opens in Toronto – at 553 metres (1,815 feet), the tallest freestanding structure in the world (surpassed by Dubai’s Burj Khalifa 2009)
2012 – Animated film “Ice Age: Continental Drift”, directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier with voices by Ray Romano and John Leguizamo premieres in Buenos Aires
2016 – Copa América Final, MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ: Defending champions Chile defeat Argentina, 4-2 on penalty kicks; 0–0 after extra time
2016 – Panama Canal’s third set of locks opens for commercial traffic, doubling the Canal’s capacity at an estimated cost of $5.25 billion
2018 – Quriyat, Oman, registers highest “low” temperature for a day ever recorded of 42.5 degrees
2018 – Polio outbreak confirmed in New Guinea by WHO, 18 years after it was declared free of the disease
2019 – More than 5,000 smuggled turtles discovered in luggage at Kuala Lumpur Airport, Malaysia, bound for India
2020 – New York Times says Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked forces to kill US and coalition troops in Afghanistan
Historical Events for 25th June 2025
1580 – Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published
1749 – General fast because of drought in Massachusetts
1821 – Carl Maria von Weber’s “Konzertstück in f, for Piano and Orchestra” premieres
1920 – League of Nations places Internationall Court of Justice in Hague
1950 – Johnny Pramesa of the Cincinnati Reds and Hank Thompson of the New York Giants each hit inside the park homeruns in 6-4 Reds win at the Polo Grounds, NYC
1962 – İnönü government forms in Turkey
1966 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s 13th Symphony premieres in Leningrad, Russia
2020 – American country music band “The Dixie Chicks” change their name to “The Chicks” to remove connotations of Confederate history, two weeks after band “Antebellum” changed their name to “Lady A”
2021 – Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Aaron Nola ties Tom Seaver’s 51-year old MLB league record of 10 consecutive strike outs, in 2-1 loss to the Mets in New York
2023 – Heatwave across Texas, southern America and northern Mexico enters a third week, with San Angelo hitting record high of 112 degrees Fahrenheit (44 degrees Celsius)
Historical Events for 24th June 2025
474 – Magister Militum of Dalamatia Julius Nepos proclaimed Emperor in Rome – rules only until 475 as the last Western Roman Emperor
1861 – Tennessee becomes the 11th and last state to secede from the Union
1881 – 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla, Mexico
1922 – Adolf Hitler begins a month long prison sentence for paramilitary operations; he rails against the ‘Jewish sell-out’ of Germany to the Bolsheviks
1956 – “The Steve Allen Show” returns on NBC-TV
1972 – Single “Troglodyte (Cave Man)” by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6
1972 – Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of US (US Air Force)
1982 – US Supreme Court rules president can’t be sued for actions in office
2004 – Capital punishment is declared unconstitutional in New York
2022 – Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Billie Eilish, Paul McCartney, and Kendrick Lamar headline; other performers include Crowded House, Robert Plant and Alison Krause, Noel Gallagher, Dianna Ross, Herbie Hancock, Billy Bragg, Angélique Kidjo, Lorde, Ziggy Marley, Suzanne Vega, and Hothouse Flowers
Historical Events for 23rd June 2025
1794 – Russian Empress Catherine II (Catherine the Great) grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev
1909 – Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections
1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam in USA
1928 – Commencement of West Indies cricket’s first ever Test match; England go on to win by an innings and 58 runs at Lord’s
1947 – Compton and Bill Edrich make 370 stand for 3rd wkt v South Africa
1972 – Hurricane Agnes becomes America’s costliest natural disaster, affecting 15 states, with 119 deaths and $3 billion in damage
1979 – Supertramp’s “Breakfast in America” becomes No. 1 album in the US featuring “Take the Long Way Home”
1997 – Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 192.25 points
2013 – 9 tourists and 1 tour guide are killed after gunmen storm a hotel near Nanga Parbat, Pakistan
2021 – Rembrandt’s masterpiece “The Night Watch” seen in its entirety for first time in 300 years after AI used to fill in pieces trimmed at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Historical Events for 22nd June 2025
1812 – Upon learning of plans by the Americans to execute a surprise attack, Laura Secord walks 32 km to warn British troops, results in a British surprise victory at the Battle of Beaver Dams
1868 – Arkansas re-joins the US
1921 – Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:40.2)
1933 – German social-democratic party (SPD) forbidden
1961 – Tony Sheridan and the Beatles, billed as The Beat Brothers, record “My Bonnie” and “The Saints”, produced by Bert Kaempfert, in Hamburg, Germany
1980 – UEFA European Championship Final, Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy: Horst Hrubesch scores a double as Germany beats Belgium, 2-1
1990 – Adam Sandler joins “Saturday Night Live”
1996 – Michael Moorer beats Axel Shultz in 11 for IBF heavyweight boxing title
2014 – US Open Women’s Golf, Pinehurst Resort: Michelle Wie wins by 2 shots from Stacy Lewis for her first major title
2015 – South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley calls for the removal of the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds in wake of killings in a Charleston church
Historical Events for 21st June 2025
1749 – Town of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded by the British – sparks Father Le Loutre’s War
1946 – Federal judge in Seattle rules that club doesn’t have to play returning serviceman
1948 – Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens
1948 – Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy)
1948 – 1st stored computer program runs on Manchester Mark I at a laboratory in Manchester University, England
1948 – HMT Empire Windrush with the first 800 emigrants from the West Indies to the UK arrives at Port of Tilbury near London
1970 – Detroit’s Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892
1994 – German tennis superstar Steffi Graf becomes first defending champion to lose in the 1st round of a major tournament (Wimbledon to American Lorrie McNeal)
2003 – “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” the 5th book of the series by J. K. Rowling is published worldwide in English
2024 – Landmark case in Namibia rules colonial laws banning same-sex between men are unconstitutional
Historical Events for 20th June 2025
1819 – The SS Savannah reaches Cork in Ireland after a 29 day and 11 hour voyage from Savannah, Georgia to become the 1st steamship to cross the Atlantic or any other ocean
1862 – Prime Minister of Romania Barbu Catargiu is assassinated
1894 – French bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin discovers bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague in Hong Kong (Yersinia pestis named in his honor)
1969 – 200,000 attend Newport ’69, then largest-ever pop concert in Northridge, California. Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear
1977 – Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
1977 – Menachem Begin forms Israeli government
1978 – 1st 6 teams of Women’s Pro Basketball League (WBL) granted-Iowa, NJ, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minnesota and Dayton
1997 – Negotiators announce agreement in principle with tobacco industry
2006 – NBA Finals: Miami Heat beat Dallas Mavericks, 95-92 in Game 6 for first title in franchise history; MVP: Dwyane Wade
2024 – MLB St. Louis Cardinals defeat San Francisco Giants, 6-5 at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, the oldest existing professional baseball park in US; the special game served as a tribute to the Negro Leagues of 1920s thru 1950s
Historical Events for 19th June 2025
1825 – Gioachino Rossini’s opera “Il viaggio a Reims” (The Journey to Reims) premieres in celebration of the coronation of French King Charles X
1868 – Major General E. R. S. Canby removes mayor of Columbia, South Carolina
1917 – The British Royal Family, which has had strong German ties since George I, renounces its German names and titles and adopts the name of Windsor
1941 – US President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act – increases the size of US Navy by 70%
1960 – 1st Copa Libertadores Final, Asunción: Luis Cubilla scores 83′ equaliser for Peñarol of Uruguay for 1-1 draw against Olimpia (Paraguay); win 2-1 on aggregate after taking 1st-leg 1-0 in Montevideo
1969 – State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances
1974 – KC Royals pitcher Steve Busby throws his 2nd career no-hitter; beats Milwaukee Brewers, 2-0
1981 – India’s APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched
1997 – “Forever Tango!” opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
2011 – US Open Men’s Golf, Congressional CC: Irishman Rory McIlroy wins by 8 strokes ahead of Australian Jason Day; sets 11 tournament records, including lowest total 72-hole score (268) and lowest total under par (−16)
Historical Events for 18th June 2025
1574 – Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland
1915 – US Open Men’s Golf, Baltusrol GC: 4-time US Amateur champion Jerome Travers captures his only Open title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Tom McNamara
1941 – In his 18th world heavyweight title defence Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13th round in front of a crowd of 54,487 at the Polo Grounds, NYC
1947 – Gene Roddenberry survives plane crash in the Syrian Desert while working for Pan American World Airways
1961 – CBS radio cancels Gunsmoke
1983 – Space shuttle Challenger 2 launches the first American woman into space, astronaut Sally Ride
1991 – Mud storm in Antofagasta Chile, kills 80
2015 – Pope Francis blames human selfishness for global warming in his encyclical, named “Laudato Si (Be Praised), On the Care of Our Common Home”
2019 – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announces the suspension of the pro-China and highly controversial extradition law, after massive protests in the city
2020 – Canadian coronavirus COVID-19 known cases pass 100,000 with 8,361 deaths