1924 – J. Edgar Hoover assumes leadership of the FBI
1950 – Dutch police seize condoms
1960 – “The Apartment” directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine premieres in New York (Academy Awards Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay 1961)
1961 – Expansion Washington Senators are 30-30, latest date an expansion team will be at .500, Washington will lose their next 10 games
1963 – Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion resigns
1963 – American Leonard “Buddy” Edelen runs world record marathon (2:14:28) at Polytechnic Marathon (from Windsor to Chiswick, England)
1992 – Dan Quayle, relying on faulty card, erroneously instructs Trenton NJ, elementary student to spell “potato,” “potatoe” during spelling bee
2015 – 800 year anniversary of “the birthplace of modern democracy”, the signing of the Magna Carta by King John at Runymede, England
2015 – Stanley Cup Final, United Center, Chicago, IL: Chicago Blackhawks defeat Tampa Bay Lightning, 2-0 for a 4-2 series victory; Blackhawks’ 6th Championship
2017 – New record set for price of a parking lot in Hong Kong – $664,000
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 14th June 2025
1834 – Sandpaper is patented by Isaac Fischer Jr. in Springfield, Vermont
1876 – California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise
1877 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes 1st African American to graduate from West Point Military Academy
1907 – Norway adopts female suffrage for middle class women only in parliamentary elections
1922 – US President Warren G. Harding is 1st US President to use radio, dedicates the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore
1933 – MLB’s Lou Gehrig and Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn’t, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games
1942 – Anne Frank begins writing her diary, in Dutch, two days after her 13th birthday
1962 – Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler, murders Anna Slesers, his first victim
1966 – Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
1995 – Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win
Historical Events for 13th June 2025
1721 – England signs Treaty of Madrid
1889 – Two feet of snow accumulates in Rawlins, Wyoming
1890 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Philadelphia Cricket Club: Ellen Roosevelt beats defending champion Bertha Townsend 6-2, 6-2
1924 – Bene Berak, Palestine, founded
1944 – German counterattack on Villers-Bocage, Normandy
1945 – Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead
1960 – Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia
1980 – US Congressman John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in “Abscam” investigation
1997 – Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death
2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch
Historical Events for 12th June 2025
1667 – Raid on the Medway: Dutch fleet sails up the Medway destroying British naval ships and capturing the flagship HMS Royal Charles
1851 – Abass I of Egypt signs a contract with Robert Louis Stevenson to build a railway in Egypt, first stage opens 1854 between Alexandria and Kafer Eassa – first railway in Africa
1916 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Molla Bjurstedt outclasses Louise Hammond Raymond 6-0, 6-1
1948 – George Lessner, Russell Maloney and Miriam Battista’s musical adaptation of Washington Irving’s “Sleepy Hollow” closes at St James Theater, NYC, after 12 performances
1948 – In his farewell Ashes Tour, Australian cricket batting maestro Don Bradman scores 138 in 1st Test against England at Trent Bridge
1988 – Soviet Union holds its 1st beauty content in Moscow, 16-year-old Maria Kalinina crowned the winner
1996 – Cincinnati Reds CEO Marge Schott gives up day-to-day operations due to numerous insensitive comments about Adolf Hitler, working women and Asians
1997 – Shakespeare’s Globe theatre opens in London, England, replica of original Globe theatre (1599-1642) with performance of Henry V, after campaign by Sam Wanamaker
2002 – 1st CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards: Dixie Chicks, Martina McBride, and Kenny Chesney win
2019 – World’s largest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s Government Pension Fund, worth $1 trillion, gets authorization to drop fossil fuel investments from Norway’s government
Historical Events for 11th June 2025
1742 – Benjamin Franklin invents his Franklin stove
1788 – Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska
1907 – George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket
1907 – Northants all out for 12 v Gloucestershire
1950 – 50th US Open Men’s Golf, Merion GC: 16 months after being severely injured in an auto accident, Ben Hogan beats Lloyd Mangrum by 4 shots and George Fazio by 6 in an 18-hole playoff; the “Miracle at Merion”
1953 – “Amos ‘n Andy” TV Comedy, also radio from ’29; last aired on CBS
1959 – Charlie Sifford becomes the 1st African American to play in a US Golf Open
1977 – Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland
1978 – Joseph Freeman Jr is 1st black priest in Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
2012 – Stanley Cup Final, Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA : LA Kings defeat New Jersey Devils, 6-1 for 4-2 series win; first SC title in Kings’ 45-year history
Historical Events for 10th June 2025
1944 – Nazi forces carry out a massacre of 642 civilians in the French village Oradour-sur-Glane
1962 – A one-day record 54 home runs hit in baseball
1968 – KCFW TV channel 9 in Kalispell, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1972 – Hank Aaron’s grandslammer (14) ties him for NL lead with Gil Hodges and moves him ahead of Willie Mays as #2 HR hitter (649)
1974 – Rumor’s government in Italy resigns
1977 – James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King’s killer) escapes from prison
1981 – Seven Brothers Square in Bronx named honoring 7 Santini Bro Moving Co
1994 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1994 – Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg/(237) 2.5 m) at Aarle-Rixtel
1995 – 127th Belmont Stakes: Gary Stevens aboard Thunder Gulch wins in 2:32
Historical Events for 9th June 2025
1970 – Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton University
1971 – Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan
1973 – 105th Belmont: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 2:24, becoming the 1st Triple Crown winner in 25 years
1980 – Phillies and SF Giants end their game at 3:11 AM
1980 – Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth
1983 – Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party wins British parliamentary election
1984 – Polygram’s Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD
1984 – “Laserphonic Fantasy” premieres
1985 – USSR’s Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus
2020 – US Senate unanimously confirms General Charles Q. Brown (58) as Air Force Chief of Staff, 1st African American to lead a US armed forces branch
Historical Events for 8th June 2025
1880 – Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky delivers an emotional speech at the unveiling of a monument to Pushkin in Moscow
1940 – 72nd Belmont: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 2:29.6
1955 – MLB Brooklyn Dodgers option pitcher (and future Baseball Hall of Fame manager) Tommy Lasorda to make room on roster for future Hall of Famer, pitcher Sandy Koufax
1956 – Richard B. Fitzgibbon, Jr. killed by another USAF airman in Vietnam, becoming the first American killed in the Vietnam War
1965 – US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
1973 – Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain
1981 – MLB Seattle Mariners draft Mike Moore #1
1992 – NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for 7th time
2008 – Akihabara massacre takes place on the crowded Sunday pedestrian-zoned Chūōdōri street in Tokyo, Japan, when a man uses a truck and dagger to kill seven people and injure 11
2023 – British PM Rishi Sunak meets US President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington announcing an economic partnership, to investigate dangers of A.I. and re-stating their long-term support for Ukraine
Historical Events for 7th June 2025
1628 – English King Charles I ratifies the Petition of Rights
1898 – Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chicago
1919 – Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four are killed.
1962 – NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m
1968 – The body of assassinated US Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York
1969 – Washington Senators draft Jeff Burroughs #1
1970 – French Open Men’s Tennis: Czech star Jan Kodeš wins his first major title; beats Željko Franulović of Yugoslavia 6-2, 6-4, 6-
1986 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Chris Evert beats Martina Navratilova 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 for her 18th and final Grand Slam title and record 7th French singles crown
2015 – -8 41st G7 summit held in Schloss Elmau, Bavaria
2021 – UN International Labor Director says global impact of the pandemic four times worse than 2008 Economic Crisis, pushed 100 million workers into poverty
Historical Events for 6th June 2025
1919 – Finland declares war on bolsheviks
1958 – French Prime Minister Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French
1970 – 102nd Belmont: John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34
1971 – Final broadcast of “The Ed Sullivan Show” (a repeat from 7 February) on CBS-TV
1985 – Body of Nazi concentration camp doctor Dr Josef Mengele located and exhumed
1999 – French Open Men’s Tennis: Andre Agassi wins his 1st and only French title; beats Andrei Medvedev of Ukraine 1-6, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4
2004 – Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
2009 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Svetlana Kuznetsova beats fellow Russian and World #1 Dinara Safina 6-4, 6-2
2010 – 56th British Academy Television Awards: “The Armstrong and Miller Show” Best Comedy, “Misfits” Best Drama
2019 – German serial killer nurse Niels Hoegel jailed for a second life sentence for the murder of 85 more people (previously convicted for six). Germany’s worst post-war serial killer.