1861 – Battle of Fort McRee, Florida
1899 – -23] Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army)
1918 – King Albert I’s triumphant procession through Brussels
1960 – French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
1963 – Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as the 36th US President after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
1965 – In his second title defense, Muhammad Ali scores 12th-round KO of Floyd Patterson at Las Vegas Convention Center to retain his world heavyweight boxing championship
1974 – Lake Buena Vista Club opens
1987 – Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) ends his NBA free throw streak of 51 games
1989 – Eastern Airlines pilots and flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired
2017 – Uber admits hackers stole personal information affecting 57 million people worldwide and paid $100,00 to keep quiet
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 14th November 2024
1524 – Francisco Pizarro begins his 1st great expedition, near Colombia
1851 – “Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville first published by Harper and Brothers in the US
1927 – World’s largest gas tank in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, explodes; 28 die
1952 – First regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express
1976 – “Don’t Step on My Olive Branch” closes at Playhouse NYC after 16 performances
1980 – Guinea-Bissau Vice President João Bernardo “Nino” Vieira, overthrows President Luis Cabral in a military coup
1990 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
1990 – Doug Drabek (22-6) wins NL Cy Young Award
1993 – Don Shula becomes the coach with the most wins in NFL history
2023 – Liberia General Election: Joseph Boakai defeats sitting President George Weah by just 1% in closest runoff in Liberia’s history
Historical Events for 9th November 2024
1821 – 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia
1864 – Sherman issues preliminary plans for his “March to the Sea”
1950 – Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer selected as Manager of Year
1955 – UN disapproves of South Africa’s apartheid politics
1961 – The X-15 rocket plane under USAF Major Robert M White achieved a world record speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet (30,970 m or over 19 miles) altitude
1976 – UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
1984 – 1st-class cricket debut for Brian McMillan, Transvaal B vs. Northern Transvaal B
2004 – 38th Country Music Association Awards: Kenny Chesney, Martina McBride and Keith Urban win
2005 – Suicide bombers attack three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people
2021 – EU accuses Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko of “inhuman, gangster-style approach” to thousands of migrants massing on their border with Poland in freezing conditions
Historical Events for 6th November 2024
1865 – Maastricht-Venlo railway opens in Netherlands
1919 – 1st Dutch radio program: Soirée Musicale with “Turf in you(r) ransel” is broadcast
1932 – German election – KPD defeats NSDAP
1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected US President
1981 – Larry Holmes TKOs Renaldo Snipes in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1986 – President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
1993 – Actor Howard Rollins arrested for drunk driving
1993 – Evander Holyfield beats Riddick Bowe in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
2006 – 40th Country Music Association Awards: Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban win
2013 – 15 people are killed after a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
Historical Events for 2nd November 2024
1907 – Ottawa Mint Proclamation is published
1917 – In WWI the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat: James Gresham, Thomas Enright and Merle Hay
1944 – Canadian troops occupy Knokke in Belgium
1959 – Charles Van Doren confesses during a congressional investigation that TV quiz show “Twenty-One” was fixed
1976 – Democrat candidate Jimmy Carter is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford; Walter Mondale elected vice president
1990 – First regular season game played outside North America by any major professional sports league the NBA’s Phoenix Suns beat the Utah Jazz, 119-96 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Japan
1993 – Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of New Jersey
1996 – Miami Heat’s Pat Riley becomes eighth coach to win 800 games in 97-95 win at Indiana; milestone accomplished 2 weeks shy of his 15th coaching anniversary, faster than any coach in NBA history
2017 – On This Day and Xiaomi launch a content partnership to display today in history content in Xiaomi’s calendar app to users in India
2021 – Jihadist gunman ambush and kill 69 people, including a local mayor in south-west Niger, adding to the 530 killed in 2021 to date
Historical Events for 18th October 2024
1572 – Spanish troops attack Maastricht
1805 – 45 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee’s home in Wiscasset, Maine, organizes Female Charitable Society, one of the earliest women’s clubs in America
1967 – Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to German-American nuclear physicist Hans Bethe
1978 – NY Islanders 1st scoreless tie, vs LA Kings
1980 – Bernard Slade’s stage comedy “Romantic Comedy”, closes at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC, after for 396 performances
1984 – USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1999 – MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 1
2009 – British Mercedes driver Jenson Button finishes 5th in Brazilian Grand Prix at Autódromo José Carlos Pace to clinch his first F1 World Drivers Championship
2017 – 19th Chinese Communist Party congress opens in Beijing with President Xi Jinping delivering 3hr 23min speech heralding “new era”
2019 – The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the World Economic Forum, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation co-host “Event 201”, a table-top panel exercise on dealing with aa fictional high-level pandemic exercise in New York City
Historical Events for 10th October 2024
1631 – Saxon army occupies Prague
1854 – US Assay Office in NYC, New York opens
1916 – In Game 3, Charlie Ebbets becomes the 1st owner to raise the price of World Series grandstand seats to $5-up from $3
1947 – Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s musical “Allegro” opens at Majestic Theater, NYC; runs for 318 performances
1971 – 5th Country Music Association Awards: Charlie Pride wins
1979 – Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone)
1985 – US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody
1994 – Value of Russian ruble decreases, 3081 rubles per dollar
2021 – Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen says country won’t bow to Chinese pressure in defiant speech on Taiwanese National Day, day after Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to “fulfil reunification”
2023 – Revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical “Merrily We Roll Along”, based on George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s play, starring Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe, opens at Hudson Theater, NYC; wins 4 Tony Awards
Historical Events for 4th October 2024
1636 – Battle at Wittstock, Brandenburg: Sweden beat Ferdinand III
1824 – Mexico becomes a republic
1921 – League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians
1959 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 premieres at the Large Hall of the Leningrad Conservatory with the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
1964 – LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, Stardust CC; Mary Mills shoots final round 69 to win first of her 2 LPGA C’ships, 2 strokes ahead of defending champion Mickey Wright
1971 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.
2004 – SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight
2009 – Senior Players Championship Men’s Golf, Baltimore CC: Jay Haas wins his third and final Champions Tour major title by 1 stroke from Tom Watson
2017 – Chinese pianist Lang Lang plays Carneige Hall one-handed due to injury with 14 year-old Maxim Lando playing his left hand for Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”
Historical Events for 16th September 2024
1873 – German troops leave France
1915 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia adjourns 4th Duma
1922 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Germantown CC, Philadelphia: Bill Tilden wins third straight US singles title; beats fellow American Bill Johnston 4-6, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4
1950 – Viet Minh offensive against French bases in Vietnam
1964 – “Shindig” premieres on ABC-TV
1974 – US General Alexander Haig, Jr. becomes NATO supreme commander in Europe
1977 – 90 minute pilot of “Logan’s Run” premieres on TV
1984 – 1st broadcast of “Miami Vice” on NBC-TV
1996 – 1st one-day international in Canada, India v Pakistan at Toronto
2012 – Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, seeks a court order to resolve a week long teachers strike
Historical Events for 9th September 2024
1583 – Sinking of the English ship Squirrel off the Azores with explorer and founder of Newfoundland, Humphrey Gilbert, on board
1767 – Colegio de San Ignacio de Loyola Vizcaínas – the oldest continuously operating educational institution in Mexico, opens for the education of girls and women in Mexico City
1914 – First fully mechanized unit in the British Army created – the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade (WWI)
1915 – Association for the Study of Negro Life and History formed in Chicago by Carter G. Woodson and others. Now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
1932 – Steamboat SS Observation explodes in NYC East River with 71 killed
1972 – Connection found between Mammoth Cave Ridge and Flint cave systems in Kentucky, joining 144 miles of passages – making it the world’s longest known cave system (later mapped at 420 miles)
1978 – 3rd game of Boston Massacre; NY Yankees beat Red Sox, 7-0
1983 – Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas
2000 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Venus Williams wins her first US title; beats fellow American Lindsay Davenport 6-4, 7-5
2013 – 44 people are killed and 45 are injured after a bus crashes into a ravine in Northern Guatemala