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)
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 17th June 2025
1812 – Cannon duel fought between the British fort of Rusteburg and the kraton (palace) of Yogyakarta on the island of Java
1863 – Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta
1906 – International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: Laurence Doherty and Reginald Doherty beat Raymond Little and Holcombe Ward 3-6, 11-9, 9-7, 6-1 to give British Isles an unassailable 3-0 lead over US (ends 5-0)
1963 – British House of Commons debates Profumo-Christine Keeler affair
1968 – Belgium government of Eyskens-Merlot forms
1973 – US Open Men’s Golf, Oakmont CC: Johnny Miller fires a record final round 63 (-8) to win his first major championship, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up John Schlee
1978 – “Cheeseburger In Paradise” by Jimmy Buffett peaks at #32
1979 – “Sarava” closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 140 performances
1982 – President of Argentina Leopoldo Galtieri resigns as commander in chief of the army and as president after leading Argentina to a disastrous defeat against the British in the Falkland Islands War
1991 – The body of the 12th US President, Zachary Taylor, is exhumed to test how he died; rumors had persisted since his death in 1850 of arsenic poisoning – no evidence of this was found
Historical Events for 16th June 2025
1487 – Battle of Stoke Field, Nottinghamshire: English Tudor King Henry VII defeats the remaining Yorkists led by John de la Pole and Lord Lovell in the last battle of the Wars of the Roses
1883 – 1st baseball “Ladies’ Day” – NY Gothams beat Cleveland Blues 5-2 at the Polo Grounds in NYC
1896 – Temperature hits 127°F at Fort Mojave, California
1916 – MLB Boston Brave’s pitcher Tom Hughes no-hitter beats Pittsburgh, 2-0; at the time it is his 2nd career no-hitter, but a 1991 rule change wiped his 1910 effort
1951 – 83rd Belmont: David Gorman aboard Counterpoint wins in 2:29
1974 – French Open Men’s Tennis: Björn Borg of Sweden wins first career Grand Slam title; beats Manuel Orantes of Spain 2-6, 6-7, 6-0, 6-1, 6-1
1985 – US Open Men’s Golf, Oakland Hills CC: 1978 champion Andy North wins by 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Dave Barr, T C Chen and Denis Watson
1998 – Stanley Cup Final, MCI Center, Washington, D.C.: Detroit Red Wings go back-to-back, defeating debutant finalists Washington Capitals, 4-1 for a 4-0 series sweep
2018 – World Cup: Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology is used for the first time, awarding France a penalty in 2-1 win over Australia in Kazan
2019 – 24 Hours of Le Mans: 2-time World F1 champion Fernando Alonso along with Swiss driver Sébastien Buemi and Japan’s Kazuki Nakajima win back-to-back titles for Toyota Gazoo Racing