976 – Emperor Otto II gives earl Leopold I, East Bavaria
1773 – Pope Clemens XIV bans Jesuits
1949 – US Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 (NATO)
1966 – USSR performs nuclear Test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1975 – NY Met Félix Millán hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays
1980 – Jean-Claude Droyer climbs Eiffel Tower in 2 hrs 18 mins
1995 – Brian Lara completes a pair for West Indians v Kent
1996 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Lytham and St. Annes: American Tom Lehman wins his only major championship by 2 strokes from Mark McCumber and Ernie Els; first American to win at Lytham since Bobby Jones 70 years earlier
2008 – Bosnian Serb politician Radovan Karadžić is arrested in Serbia and indicted by the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia tribunal for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre
2013 – British Open Men’s Golf, Muirfield: Phil Mickelson wins his 5th major, by 3 strokes from Henrik Stenson of Sweden
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 20th July 2024
1864 – Battle at Stephenson’s Depot, Virginia: 200 killed or injured
1869 – Children’s Hospital Boston is founded by Dr. Francis Henry Brown and other Harvard Medical School graduates, as a 20-bed facility in the South End of Boston, Massachusetts
1901 – Morocco signs an agreement with France fixing Morocco’s frontier with Algeria, a French colony
1917 – WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn
1925 – Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France
1948 – US Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested
1956 – Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike-outs
1961 – Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley’s musical “Stop The World – I Want To Get Off” premieres at Queen’s Theater in London’s West End
1984 – Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America due to publication of nude photos of her
2018 – American director James Gunn fired as director of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” by Disney after past offensive tweets surface
Historical Events for 19th July 2024
1195 – Battle at Alarcos: Almohads led by Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur defeats army of Alfonso VIII of Castile
1544 – Italian War of 1542: The Siege of Boulogne begins
1922 – American swimmer Johnny Weissmuller first to break 1 minute barrier for 100m freestyle; swims 58.6s at Alameda, CA
1944 – 1,200+ 8th US Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany
1944 – NY archbishop Spellman flies to Europe
1950 – NY Yankees sign their 1st Black players, Elston Howard and Frank Baines
1955 – Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 and becomes a floating museum
1980 – XXII Summer Olympic Games open in Moscow, Russia; led by United States, 66 nations boycott event because of Soviet-Afghan war
1981 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal St George’s GC: American Bill Rogers wins his only major title, 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Bernhard Langer of Germany
1995 – Teen comedy film “Clueless” is released, loosely based on Jane Austen’s book “Emma” starring Alicia Silverstone, directed by Amy Heckerling
Historical Events for 18th July 2024
1944 – Allies air raid railways at Vaires, Paris
1947 – US President Harry Truman signs Presidential Succession Act
1955 – 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
1962 – Cuba’s Minister of Foreign affairs Raúl Castro meets Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow
1972 – Leader of the British Labour Party Harold Wilson holds meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army
1981 – Polish communist party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek
1986 – Videotapes released showing Titanic’s sunken remains
1992 – The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappear from their university in Lima, Peru
2012 – 24 people are killed after a ferry sinks off the coast of Zanzibar
2013 – 46th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
Historical Events for 17th July 2024
1603 – English explorer Walter Raleigh is arrested by forces of King James I of England
1864 – CSA President Davis replaces General Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood
1867 – 1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
1922 – Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto
1925 – Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits
1959 – Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovers partial skull of a new species of early human ancestor, Zinjanthropus boisei or ‘Zinj’ (now called Paranthropus boisei) lived in Africa almost 2 million years ago
1974 – The Moody Blues open 1st quadrophonic recording studio in UK
1981 – Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23-year-old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta
1996 – Paris-bound flight TWA 800, explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 on board the Boeing 747
2018 – 89th MLB All Star Game, Nationals Park, Washington, D.C.: AL beats NL 8-6, the teams combining for a record 10 home runs accounting for 13 of the 14 total runs
Historical Events for 16th July 2024
1548 – La Paz, Bolivia, is founded
1801 – Pope Pius VII and 1st consul Napoleon sign concord
1935 – First automatic parking meter in the United States is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1965 – Mont Blanc Road tunnel between France and Italy opens
1966 – David Heneker’s musical “Half a Sixpence”, starring Tommy Steels, and based on H.G. Well’s 1905 novel “Kipps”, closes at Broadhurst Theater, NYC, after 511 performances
1988 – San Antonio (Texas League) beats Jackson 1-0 in 26 innings
1988 – Landmark Japanese animated cyberpunk manga film “Akira” released, directed by Katsuhiro Otomo
1995 – Bob Telson, Graciela Daniele and Jim Lewis’s musical “Chronicles of a Death Foretold”, based on Gabriel García Márquez’s 1981 novella, closes at Plymouth Theater, NYC, after 55 performances
2007 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occurs off the Niigata coast, Japan, killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power plant. See 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake.
2017 – US Open Women’s Golf, Trump National GC: Park Sung-hyun wins by 2 shots from fellow South Korean Choi Hye-jin
Historical Events for 15th July 2024
1099 – City of Jerusalem is captured and plundered by Christian forces during the First Crusade
1787 – Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes
1888 – Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for 1st time in 1,000 years
1916 – 22.22″ (56.4 cm) of rain falls in Altapass NC (state record)
1963 – Paul McCartney is fined £17 for speeding
1972 – “Honky Chateau” becomes Elton John’s first No. 1 album in the US, includes hit “Rocket Man”
1973 – MLB San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey becomes 15th to hit 400 HRs, this one at Candlestick Park against Pittsburgh Pirate’s Bob Moose
1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport
2002 – “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony
2018 – FIFA World Cup Final, Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia: Former captain Didier Deschamps becomes only the 3rd man to win the event as a player and coach as France beats Croatia, 4-2
Historical Events for 14th July 2024
1845 – 1st postmasters’ provisional stamps issued, NYC
1876 – British battleship HMS Thunderer boiler explodes during full-power sea trial near Portsmouth, England; 45 sailors killed and 40 injured
1916 – St Louis Brown Ernie Koob pitches all 17 innings for 14 hits in a 0-0 tie vs Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park
1946 – Dr Benjamin Spock’s “Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care” published
1950 – RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
1956 – Boston Red Sox pitcher Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0 at Fenway Park, Boston
1967 – Houston Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th HR, off SF Giant Juan Marichal
1969 – “Easy Rider”, directed by Dennis Hopper, starring himself, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson, is released
1993 – Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow and NY
1997 – Bomb in Algiers kills 21 and wounds 40
Historical Events for 13th July 2024
1865 – P. T. Barnum’s museum in New York burns down, giantess Anna Haining Swan just escapes
1923 – American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews discovers the first recognised dinosaur eggs, in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia
1936 – 112°F (44°C), Mio, Michigan (state record)
1973 – Bobby Murcer’s 3 homers accounted for all RBIs, beating KC 5-0
1987 – Kylie Minogue releases her debut single “Locomotion”
1994 – Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson (charged with murder) gives hair samples for testing
2011 – Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130
2017 – US President Donald Trump arrives in Paris for a 2-day visit with French President Emmanuel Macron
2018 – Large protests in London against US President Donald Trump featuring Trump-like baby blimp as President Trump meets Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle
2019 – After Atlantic League-MLB partnership rule changes, Southern Maryland Blue Crabs’ outfielder Tony Thomas becomes first player in professional baseball history to steal first base in 7-2 win v Lancaster Barnstormers
Historical Events for 12th July 2024
1898 – Jean-Baptiste Marchand hoists French flag in Fashoda, Sudan
1949 – Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die
1949 – 16th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-7 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
1960 – USSR’s Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs
1960 – Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
1968 – Couve de Murville forms government in France
1973 – A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States
1994 – 65th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-8 at Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh
1996 – Start of 1st “Super 8’s” tournament in Kuala Lumpur
2011 – 82nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Chase Field, Phoenix