754 – Friezen robbers murder Bishop Boniface (later Saint) and over 50 companions near Dokkum
1909 – Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, home of the Indy 500, holds its first competition – a hot air balloon race
1927 – French Championships Men’s Tennis: Hometown favourite Rene Lacoste wins 2nd of 3 French titles; beats Bill Tilden 6-4, 4-6, 5-7, 6-3, 11-9
1945 – Benjamin Britten’s opera “Peter Grimes” premieres in London
1953 – US Senate rejects China People’s Republic membership to UN
1956 – “Milton Berle Show” last airs on NBC-TV
1993 – Somali warlord Aidids murders 23 Pakistani
1994 – French Open Men’s Tennis: In an all-Spanish final Sergi Bruguera beats Alberto Berasategui 6-3, 7-5, 2-6, 6-1 for his second French title
2003 – A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region
2017 – Puerto Rico declares its Zika virus epidemic over
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 4th June 2025
1917 – Most Excellent Order of British Empire inaugurated by King George V to recognise the efforts of his people in WWI
1932 – Chilean coup led by Colonel Marmaduke Grove against President Juan Esteban Montero
1947 – US House of Representatives approves Taft-Hartley act
1964 – Test Cricket debut of Geoff Boycott v Australia at Trent Bridge, 48
1973 – A patent for the ATM is granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain
1988 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Steffi Graf dominates Natalia Zvereva of Belarus 6-0, 6-0; shortest women’s singles Grand Slam final in Open Era; 32 minutes
1989 – Eastern Europe’s first partial free elections in 40 years held in Poland, Solidarity Party comes to power
2018 – “Ocean’s 8” film premieres, directed by Gary Ross starring Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway and Rihanna
2020 – UN report criticizing human rights violations in the Philippines, including deaths of 8,000 during its war on drugs, a day after county’s House of Representatives passed new anti-terrorism law
2023 – Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Zippel’s musical “Bad Cinderella” closes at Imperial Theatre, NYC, after 85 performances; 1st time in 43 years that Webber is without a show on Broadway
Historical Events for 3rd June 2025
1098 – Crusaders seize Antioch after a five-month siege during the First Crusade
1539 – Spanish conquistador Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain
1944 – Generals Giraud and de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution
1949 – Dragnet is 1st broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles)
1956 – KGUN TV channel 9 in Tucson, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting
1961 – “Wildcat” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 172 performances
1965 – Gemini 4 launches; second US two-man flight (McDivitt and White); mission includes first US spacewalk
1972 – French Open Women’s Tennis: American icon Billie Jean King wins her only French singles title; beats Evonne Goolagong of Australia 6-3, 6-3
2007 – USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) engages with pirates after they board Danish ship Danica White off the coast of Somalia
2018 – Golden State guard Stephen Curry breaks Ray Allen’s NBA Finals record for most 3-pointers with 9 in the Warriors 122-103 Game 2 win over Cleveland Cavaliers
Historical Events for 2nd June 2025
1855 – The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine
1875 – Alexander Graham Bell makes first sound transmission
1901 – Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday (NY)
1934 – French Championship Women’s Tennis: England’s defending champion Margaret Scriven beats American Helen Jacobs 7-5, 4-6, 6-1
1947 – Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns
1952 – 650,000 metalworkers go on strike in US
1953 – Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London, England
1985 – LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: Nancy Lopez wins by 8 shots from fellow American Alice Miller
2018 – Ringo Starr’s thirteenth All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include: Steve Lukather, Gregg Rolie, Colin Hay, Graham Gouldman, Gregg Bissonette, and Warren Ham
2020 – UK death toll from COVID-19 passes 50,000 (50,032) according to its Office of National Statistics
Historical Events for 1st June 2025
1935 – Compulsory driving tests and license plates introduced in the United Kingdom
1940 – Major General Bernard Montgomery returns to London
1951 – International Cheese treaty signed
1957 – French Championships Men’s Tennis: Sven Davidson becomes first Swede to win a Grand Slam title; beats American Herbert Flam 6-3, 6-4, 6-4
1965 – Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson at Bell Labs detect 3°K primordial background radiation – helping confirm The Big Bang theory (1978 Nobel Prize)
1970 – Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days
1984 – KWK-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD
1990 – Dow Jones Industrial Average hits a record high of 2,900.97
1995 – Texas Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers’ scoreless inning streak ends at 39 in a 6-3 win over the Minnesota Twins
2019 – Price of a movie ticket rises in Japan for the first time in 26 years from ¥1,800 to ¥1,900, while some cinemas keep the price the same
Historical Events for 31st May 2025
1665 – Jerusalem’s rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah
1790 – Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca (now the international border between Canada and the US)
1847 – Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens
1916 – HMS Invincible explodes after taking fire during the Battle of Jutland, killing 1026 officers including Rear-Admiral Hood – only 6 crew members survive
1919 – NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic
1921 – Boston Red Sox 1st baseman John “Stuffy” McInnis begins an errorless string of 1,700 chances
1937 – German warships bombard Almeria, Spain
1970 – Cathedral of Brasília, designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer is dedicated in the Brazilian capital Brasília
1990 – BPAA US Women’s Bowling Open won by Dana Miller-Mackie
2021 – Tulsa, Oklahoma, marks 100 year anniversary of the massacre of hundreds of black residents by a white mob in the Greenwood neighborhood
Historical Events for 30th May 2025
1642 – All honours granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament
1907 – 41st Belmont Stakes: George Mountain aboard 3-year-old stallion Peter Pan wins
1917 – Jazz standard “Dark Town Strutters Ball” by Shelton Brooks recorded by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band
1927 – Walter Johnson records 110th and final shutout of his Baseball HOF career, the most in MLB history; Washington Senators score 3-0 win over Boston Red Sox
1956 – Mickey Mantle misses by 18 inches hitting 1st home run out of Yankee Stadium in the first game of a doubleheader against the Washington Senators
1957 – Test Cricket debut for Rohan Kanhai v England at Edgbaston
1959 – The Auckland Harbour Bridge is officially opened in Auckland, New Zealand.
1966 – Indianapolis 500: English 1962 F1 World Champion Graham Hill wins after leading for a total of only 10 laps; first rookie winner since 1927
1972 – 3 Japanese PFL terrorists kills 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv’s Lod Intl airport
1986 – Indianapolis 500: Bobby Rahal becomes first driver in race history to complete the 500 miles (800 km) in less than 3 hours; average speed 170.722 mph (274.750 km/h)
Historical Events for 29th May 2025
1138 – Anti-Pope Victor IV (Gregorio) submits himself to Pope Innocentius II
1900 – Trademark “Escalator” registered by Otis Elevator Co.
1916 – NY Giants win 17th consecutive road game
1924 – AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks
1928 – Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car
1973 – Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records
1973 – Thomas Bradley elected 1st African American mayor of Los Angeles, California
1983 – Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m
2015 – Heat wave in India centered in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states is reported to have killed 1800 people in a week
2019 – World’s smallest surviving baby, a girl, discharged from Sharp March Birch Hospital in San Diego after being born at 23 weeks weighing 8.6 ounces (245 grams)
Historical Events for 28th May 2025
1521 – Pope Leo X signs treaty with Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
1941 – 1st night game at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C. (NY Yankees pip the Senators 6-5)
1955 – Indianapolis 500: Bob Sweikert wins; defending champion Bill Vukovich killed in a crash while seemingly on his way to an unprecedented third consecutive Indy 500
1956 – Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus
1972 – Four Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and four civilians killed when a bomb they were preparing exploded prematurely at a house in Belfast
1984 – George Soros founds the Soros Foundation Budapest to help countries free themselves from communism
1991 – Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa
1995 – White Sox (5) and Tigers (7) combine for record 12 HRs at Tiger Stadium
2011 – UEFA Champions League Final, London: FC Barcelona beats Manchester United, 3-1; 4th title for Barça
2022 – At least 31 people, mostly children, die in a stampede during a church giveaway event in Port Harcourt, southern Nigeria
Historical Events for 27th May 2025
1660 – Denmark and Sweden sign the Treaty of Copenhagen, ending the Second Northern War
1864 – Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw’s Shop), Virginia
1910 – Reform of Prussian three-class voting system fails
1916 – Groundbreaking begins on Hugh J. Grant Circle, a park in the Bronx, named for the youngest mayor of New York City (1899-92)
1933 – Austrian communist party banned
1942 – Dorie Miller awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor
1966 – Six French fighter jets crash over Spain
1975 – Stanley Cup Final, The Aud, Buffalo, NY: Philadelphia Flyers win back-to-back titles; shutting out Buffalo Sabres, 2-0 for a 4-2 series win; goaltender Bernie Parent wins 2nd consecutive Conn Smyth trophy as playoff MVP
2005 – DreamWorks releases computer-animated film “Madagascar” with voices by Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, and Jada Pinkett-Smith
2019 – Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz removed from office after a no-confidence vote in parliament, Vice Chancellor Hartwig Löger appointed interim chancellor