1879 – Infielder William White plays one game for the Providence Grays with conjecture was the first African-American to play MLB even though he appeared Caucasian
1893 – 1st Ferris wheel opens at Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois
1923 – Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud
1951 – LPGA Western Open Women’s Golf, Whitemarsh Valley CC: Patty Berg defeats Pat O’Sullivan, 2-up in the final
1958 – French franc devalues
1966 – Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam
1970 – Detroit’s Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892
1978 – Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical “Evita”, starring Elaine Page, premieres at the Prince Edward Theatre, London
1987 – US Open Men’s Golf, Olympic Club: Scott Simpson passes and holds off 1982 champion Tom Watson on the Lake Course to win his only major title by 1 stroke
1997 – Women’s National Basketball Association begins as NY Liberty beats LA Sparks
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 20th June 2024
1837 – Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV. She rules for 63 years till 1901.
1864 – Battle of Kinston, North Carolina and Battle of Abingdon, Virginia
1970 – Oriole’s Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run HR
1976 – Disney’s River Country opens at Bay Lake (closed 2001)
1980 – Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard at Olympic Stadium in Montreal by unanimous points decision
1981 – Guitarist Gerry Cott quits Boomtown Rats
1987 – Chuti Tiu, 17, of Wisconsin, crowned America’s Junior Miss
1987 – 1st Rugby World Cup Final, Eden Park, Auckland: New Zealand fly-half Grant Fox lands 4 penalties, a conversion and drop goal as the All Blacks beat France, 29-9
2017 – Tiger Woods checks into a clinic to manage his pain medication and sleep disorder, following his arrest for driving under the influence
2020 – 152nd Belmont Stakes: Tiz the Law with Manuel Franco aboard becomes first New York-bred winner of the event since 1882
Historical Events for 19th June 2024
1306 – The Earl of Pembroke’s army defeats Robert the Bruce’s Scottish army at the Battle of Methven
1963 – Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen
1963 – Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth
1968 – 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People’s Campaign
1973 – “The Rocky Horror Show” stage production first opens in London written by Richard O’Brian and directed by Jim Sharman and starring Tim Curry
1977 – US Open Golf, Southern Hills CC: Hubert Green shoots 2-under 278 to beat Lou Graham by 1 stroke
1978 – Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip
1991 – Two of actress Mia Farrow’s daughters are arrested for shoplifting lingerie
2009 – “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” directed by Michael Bay and starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox is released
2013 – Jerry Sloan returns to the Utah Jazz as an adviser and scouting consultant
Historical Events for 18th June 2024
1894 – Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate
1898 – Steel Pier, 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, New Jersey
1943 – SS Police in Amsterdam sentence 12 resistance fighters to death for the fire-bombing at the census records bureau in March
1944 – Farewell concert of conductor Willem Mengelberg in Paris, France
1948 – National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time
1949 – “Along Fifth Avenue” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 180 performances
1955 – “3 for Tonight” closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 85 performances
1982 – Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
2019 – England cricket captain Eoin Morgan smashes a ODI world record 17 sixes against Afghanistan in his side’s 150-run World Cup victory at Old Trafford; Morgan, 148 from 71 balls
2022 – Attacks in Oromia, western Ethiopia, targeting the Amhara people leave a reported 250 dead, killed by Oromo rebels amid worsening ethnic conflict in the country
Historical Events for 17th June 2024
1397 – Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden and Norway
1824 – US Bureau of Indian Affairs established
1938 – Japan declares war on China
1939 – French Championships Men’s Tennis: American collegiate champion Don McNeill beats countryman Bobby Riggs 7-5, 6-0, 6-3
1943 – Player-manager Joe Cronin of Red Sox hits two 3-run pinch home runs
1953 – Riots in East Germany for reunification
1961 – Billy Barnes’ musical revue “Billy Barnes People”, starting Ken Berry, Dave Ketchum, and Jo Anne Worley, closes at Royale Theater, NYC, after 7 performances
2010 – NBA Finals: Depending champion Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 83-79 in Game 7 for franchise’s 16th NBA title; MVP: Kobe Bryant
2015 – 9 people are shot and killed inside Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a 21-year-old gunman
2021 – US President Joe Biden signs into law the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act making June 19th a federal holiday commemorating emancipation
Historical Events for 16th June 2024
1755 – British capture strategic Fort Beauséjour, eastern Canada, expelling the Acadians and renaming it Fort Cumberland
1858 – Abraham Lincoln says “A house divided against itself cannot stand” accepting Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the Senate
1903 – Ford Motors under Henry Ford incorporates
1961 – Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West at Le Bourget Airport in Paris, France
1962 – 2 US army officers killed in Saigon
1974 – US Open Men’s Golf, Winged Foot GC: Hale Irwin’s score of 287 (+7) is good enough for the first of his 3 Open titles, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Forrest Fezler
1985 – Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58 feet 11 inches) in Indianapolis
1996 – US Open Men’s Golf, Oakland Hills GC: Steve Jones wins his lone major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Tom Lehman and Davis Love III
2016 – Philadelphia is the first US city to pass a tax on sweetened drinks
2022 – NBA Finals: Golden State Warriors beat Boston Celtics, 103-90 for a 4-2 series win; Warriors’ 4th title in 8 years; MVP: Stephen Curry
Historical Events for 15th June 2024
1598 – Battle of San Juan: British forces led by Sir George Clifford attack Spanish-held San Juan, capturing the citadel El Moro and holding for 65 days
1864 – Battle of Petersburg begins as General Ulysses S. Grant assaults the Confederate line at the important Southern rail center of Petersburg
1869 – Mike McCoole (US) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout
1917 – In order to calm troubled relations with Ireland, the British grant amnesty to the Prisoners taken during the Easter Rising of 1916
1929 – 1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch
1943 – Race riot in Beaumont, Texas erupts killing 2
1955 – The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual “Operation Alert” (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA’s preparations for a nuclear attack
1978 – Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days
1988 – Turkish premier Özal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens
1994 – New York Giants cut Super Bowl XXI MVP quarterback Phil Simms after 15 years service with the NFL club
Historical Events for 14th June 2024
1597 – At 4:30 AM Dutch explorer Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya on his third Arctic expedition to return to the Netherlands (dies on the return voyage)
1906 – Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
1919 – 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock and Brown) leaves Newfoundland
1952 – US Open Men’s Golf, Northwood GC: Julius Boros wins 1st of 3 majors by 4 shots from Ed Oliver
1955 – Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty
1972 – Tropical storm (later hurricane) Agnes forms over Yucatán Peninsula
1985 – Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Baltimore Orioles
1985 – Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
2018 – 21st FIFA World Cup opens at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia with British singer Robbie Williams and Russian soprano Aida Garifullina performing
2019 – Swiss women hold a national strike over the country’s slow pace towards equality
Historical Events for 12th June 2024
1792 – British explorer Captain George Vancouver lands on the site of what is now Vancouver, British Columbia
1899 – New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 peoples and injures around 200
1901 – In Cuba, the constitutional convention – knowing that the USA will not withdraw its troops until does so – adopts the Platt Amendment as part of its constitution
1910 – Dutch soccer club PEC forms in Zwolle; renamed FC Zwolle in 1990 and back to PEC Zwolle in 2012
1947 – British Amateur Women’s Golf, Gullane GC: Babe Didrikson becomes first American to win event; beats England’s Jacqueline Gordon 5 and 4
1972 – Apple Records releases John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s political album “Sometime in NYC” in US; includes studio recordings of songs “Woman is the Nigger of the World”, “Attica State” and “Luck of the Irish”; and some live tracks from 1971 concert with Frank Zappa
1977 – Groundbreaking ceremony for John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts; architect I. M. Pei’s design would take over 2 years to build
1996 – Marge Schott gives up day-to-day operations because of her numerous insensitive comments about Adolf Hitler, working women and Asians
2016 – Stanley Cup Final, SAP Center, San Jose, CA: Pittsburgh Penguins defeat San Jose Sharks, 3-1 for a 4-2 series victory; Penguins 4th title
2018 – Battle for key Yemen port of Hudaydah begins with assault by Saudi backed pro-government forces against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels
Historical Events for 11th June 2024
1898 – Emperor De Zong proclaims reforms in Peking
1927 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth hits 19th and 20th homers of MLB season record 60 HRs in New York’s 6-4 win over Cleveland Indians at Yankees Stadium
1938 – French Championships Women’s Tennis: In an all-French final Simonne Mathieu wins first of consecutive titles; beats Nelly Adamson 6-0, 6-3
1941 – 2nd great raid on Jews of Amsterdam
1980 – K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service (San Francisco)
1981 – Cannibal Issei Sagawa kills Dutch student
1984 – US Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally
2006 – 60th Tony Awards: “Jersey Boys” (musical) and “The History Boys” (play) win
2009 – Texas mother hit by lightning while standing in her kitchen in her Texas home. Witnesses say lightning came through a light fixture, struck her chest and exited her foot. Survived after three days in hospital.
2012 – US territory Puerto Rico votes to become a US State