1848 – Statue of prince William the Silent, Prince of Orange by Lodewyk Royer unveiled in The Hague’s Het Plein
1976 – 108th Belmont Stakes: Puerto Rican jockey Ángel Cordero Jr., riding Bold Forbes wins his only Belmont classic
1988 – Longest champagne cork flight is 177 feet 9 inches in New York
1993 – Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah murders 23 UN peacekeepers from Pakistan
2000 – Armed conflict between Rwanda and Uganda erupts in Kinsangani, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2001 – Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston, causing $5.5 billion in damages, the then costliest tropical storm in US history
2003 – A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region
2024 – World’s only surviving wild horse, the Przewalski’s Horse, is returned to the Golden Steppe of Kazakhstan for the first time in over 200 years
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 4th June 2026
1647 – English Parliamentary army under Cornet George Joyce takes King Charles I as a prisoner during Second Civil War
1824 – First free press (without government approval) founded in Australia – the Hobart Town Gazette by ex-convict Andrew Bent
1942 – “Mrs Miniver” based on the novel by Jan Struther, directed by William Wyler and starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon is released in the US (Best Picture 1943)
1962 – Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam aboard the SS Maasdam for the US
1979 – South African President John Vorster resigns due to a scandal
2012 – US drone attack kills 15 militants in Pakistan, including high ranking al-Qaeda official, Abu Yahya al-Libi
2014 – 10 Nigerian generals and five other senior military officers are court-martialed for providing arms and information to jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram
2020 – Memorial for George Floyd led by Rev. Al Sharpton, killed in police custody, in Minneapolis, as 10th night of protests at his death held around the country
Historical Events for 3rd June 2026
1935 – French liner SS Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of four days, three hours and 14 minutes on her maiden voyage
1937 – Josh Gibson hits a home run just 2 feet below the rim of Yankee Stadium (580′ drive)
1939 – “Beer Barrel Polka” by Will Glahe hits #1 on the pop singles chart
1944 – 76th Belmont: G. L. Smith riding Bounding Home wins in 2:32.2
1964 – Ringo Starr collapses from tonsillitis and pharyngitis, just before the Beatles embark on a World Tour
1987 – “Little Shop of Horrors” released in France
2019 – US federal government departments and Congress begin anti-trust investigations into large tech companies including Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon
2025 – IPL Cricket Final, Ahmedabad: Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat Punjab Kings by 6 runs for their first title; Player of the Match: Krunal Pandya (RCB) 2/17
Historical Events for 2nd June 2026
193 – Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated 66 days into his reign
1619 – England and the Netherlands sign treaty about trading in the Indies
1858 – Donati Comet 1st seen named after its discoverer
1913 – 1st strike settlement mediated by US Department of Labor – railroad clerks
1946 – Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)
1950 – St Louis Browns pitcher Harry Dorish swipes home vs Washington Senators
1971 – European Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London: Ajax beats Panathinaikos, 2-0; Dutch champions begin 3-year period of domination
2002 – 56th Tony Awards: “Thoroughly Modern Millie” (musical) and “The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?” (play) win
Historical Events for 1st June 2026
1862 – General Robert E. Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at Seven Pines
1913 – The Serbian government concludes a ten-year treaty with Greece against Bulgaria; Serbia wishes to pursue Macedonian aspirations with Greece’s help
1955 – Tunisian nationalist leader Habib Bourguiba returns to Tunisia after imprisonment and exile in France
1970 – MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn reprimands Houston Astros pitcher Jim Bouton for writing the memoir *Ball Four*, a candid season-long diary that Kuhn deems “detrimental to baseball”
1975 – John Kander and Fred Ebb’s musical “Chicago” opens at 46th St Theater, NYC; runs for 947 performances
1987 – Cleveland Indians pitcher Phil Niekro beats Detroit Tigers, 9-6 for his 314th MLB victory; combines with Joe Niekro (216) for most combined wins by brothers in baseball history (530)
2007 – Jack Kevorkian is released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for the 1998 second-degree murder of Thomas Youk
2018 – Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy forced out of office by a no-confidence vote in parliament, filed by Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez
Historical Events for 31st May 2026
1913 – US 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified
1937 – Indianapolis 500: Wilbur Shaw and riding mechanic ‘Jigger’ Johnson win race from Ralph Hepburn by 2.16 seconds, closest finish to that point; Johnson last winning riding mechanic
1949 – 31st PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Hermitage CC: Sam Snead beats fellow American Johnny Palmer, 3 and 2; first time reigning Masters champion wins PGA Championship in the same calendar year.
1961 – Arthur Michael Ramsey appointed the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury
1970 – Cathedral of Brasília, designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer is dedicated in the Brazilian capital Brasília
1970 – 7.75 Ancash earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 66,000-70,000 people and triggers the world’s deadliest avalanche
2005 – Mark Felt, former FBI high ranking official revealed as “Deep Throat” source during Watergate investigations in “Vanity Fair” article
2015 – 5th Critics’ Choice Television Awards: Silicon Valley wins Best Comedy Series, The Americans win Best Drama Series
Historical Events for 30th May 2026
1832 – Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31)
1923 – Howard Hanson’s 1st Symphony “Nordic” premieres
1963 – Indianapolis 500: Parnelli Jones takes his only Indy 500 win despite his car spewing oil from a cracked overflow tank for many laps
1967 – King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo
1997 – Former Montreal Canadiens goaltender Ken Dryden becomes president of NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs
2005 – Gordon Ramsay first appears on US television in cooking competition show “Hell’s Kitchen” on Fox
2009 – Super Rugby Final, Pretoria: Morné Steyn kicks 5 conversions and 2 penalties as the Bulls thump the Chiefs (Waikato, NZ), 61-17
2015 – English FA Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London (89,283): Arsenal beats Aston Villa, 4-0; Gunners’ 12th title
Historical Events for 29th May 2026
1328 – French King Philip VI of Valois crowned at the Cathedral in Reims, France
1592 – The Korean navy, led by Admiral Yi Sun-sin, repels a Japanese fleet in the Battle of Sacheon, the first use of a Korean Turtle Ship
1943 – Algiers Allied Planning Conference between Winston Churchill, George C. Marshall and General Dwight D. Eisenhower finalizes the plan for the Italian Campaign
1954 – British runner Diane Leather becomes first woman to run the mile in under 5 minutes; 4:59.6 at Alexander Sports Ground in Birmingham, England
1954 – French Championships Women’s Tennis: Maureen Connolly retains her title; beats Ginette Bucaille of France 6-4, 6-1
1982 – Pentagon plans first strategy to fight a nuclear war
2004 – World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
2012 – Thousands march in protest in Johannesburg against Brett Murray’s controversial painting “The Spear”, part of the artist’s Hail to the Thief II exhibition that criticizes South Africa’s ruling party
Historical Events for 28th May 2026
1731 – All Hebrew books in the Vatican Papal States are confiscated
1892 – Sierra Club formed by John Muir and others in San Francisco, for conservation of nature
1906 – Julian Edwards, Alfred E. Aarons, Ren Shields, and Will D. Cobb’s musical “His Honor, the Mayor” opens at New York Theatre and runs for 104 performances
1926 – Military coup by General Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal
1964 – Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Delhi
1995 – White Sox (5) and Tigers (7) combine for record 12 HRs at Tiger Stadium
2019 – Johnson and Johnson go on trial in Oklahoma accused of deceptively marketing painkillers and downplaying risks of addiction helping create “opioid epidemic”; first of 2,000 cases against US pharmaceutical firms
2023 – Surgeons complete the world’s first whole eyeball transplant with a partial facial transplant for a US veteran lineman injured in an accident at NYU Langone Health
Historical Events for 27th May 2026
1896 – Tornado hit St Louis, killing 255, leaving thousands homeless
1950 – Morton Gould and Dorothy Field’s colonial-era musical “Arms and the Girl”, starring Nanette Fabray and Pearl Bailey, closes at 46th St Theater, NYC, after 134 performances
1984 – Indianapolis 500: 1979 champion Rick Mears wins second Indy 500 two laps ahead of the field after contenders Tom Sneva and Mario Andretti drop out in second half of the race
1984 – Manuela Maleeva of Bulgaria wins three singles tennis matches in one day at the Italian Open, defeating Virginia Ruzici, Carling Bassett, and Chris Evert in the final, 6-3, 6-3; she becomes only the seventh player to defeat Evert on clay
1985 – Bands from across the US parade for President Reagan during his inauguration, filling the route with music, precision, and patriotic pageantry
1985 – Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1997 – Major league revenue sharing begins, NY Yankees pay out most $28M
2006 – Super Rugby Final, Christchurch: Canterbury Crusaders retain the title with a 19-12 win over the Wellington Hurricanes; Dan Carter kicks four penalties and a conversion for the winners