1942 – Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now Czech Republic) which had been implicated in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi controller of Bohemia and Moravia, to “teach the Czechs a final lesson of subservience and humility”; over 170 adult men were executed by firing squad on site, women and children were sent to concentration camp gas chambers, and the village was burned down and plowed under
1954 – KQED TV channel 9 in San Francisco, California (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 – John Diefenbaker (C) elected Prime Minister of Canada
1966 – The Beatles release single “Paperback Writer” / “Rain” in UK; “Rain” featured experimental studio tricks of slowed down bass and drums tracks, and backwards vocals in the fade out
1967 – 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival, California
1967 – American pole vaulter Bob Seagren sets a world record mark of 17’7″ in San Diego, California
1974 – “Feel Like Makin’ Love” single released by Roberta Flack (Billboard Song of the Year 1974)
1991 – David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” final episode airs on ABC-TV
2013 – Superman film “Man of Steel” directed by Zack Snyder, starring Henry Cavill and Amy Adams premieres in New York City
2019 – New DNA research on grapes shows one French wine Savagnin Blanc has been grown for 900 years in Jura published in “Nature Plants”
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 9th June 2024
1772 – 1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, Rhode Island
1803 – British explorer Matthew Flinders arrives in Sydney becoming the first person to circumnavigate Australia, proving it is one continent
1902 – 1st Automat restaurant opens at 818 Chestnut St, Philadelphia
1931 – First rocket-powered aircraft design patented by Robert Goddard
1942 – Adipatie Ario Soejono becomes minister in Gerbrandy government
1988 – “Bloodsport (1987)” premieres in Germany
2010 – 9th CMT Video Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, and Keith Urban win
2016 – Elizabeth Warren formally endorses Hillary Clinton for president
2019 – 95 people killed in attack on Dogon village Sobame Da in central Mali by suspected Fulani group
2021 – US President Joe Biden begins his first foreign trip, arriving in the UK to attend a G7 summit
Historical Events for 8th June 2024
1929 – 61st Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins in 2:32.8
1963 – American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes
1965 – USSR launches Luna 6; it missed the Moon by 99,000 miles
1974 – US and Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract
1979 – “The Source,” 1st computer public information service, goes on-line
1982 – Falklands War: Royal Fleet Auxiliary Sir Gahalad attacked in San Carlos Water (“Bomb Alley”) by Argentine aircraft: 48 soldiers and crewman were killed.
1982 – Emmy 9th Daytime Award presentation – Susan Lucci loses for 3rd time
1985 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Chris Evert beats Martina Navratilova 6-3, 6-7, 7-5 for her 17th Grand Slam title and 6th French singles crown
1996 – PBA National Championship Won by Butch Soper
2018 – World’s most powerful supercomputer, Summit, can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second, launched at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, by IBM and NVidia
Historical Events for 7th June 2024
1665 – Boston’s First Baptist Church, one of the oldest Baptist churches in America, is founded [NS March 1]
1866 – 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec
1875 – California Rifle and Pistol Association founded
1906 – Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches
1936 – Yanks beat Indians 5-4 in 16; longest game without a strikeout
1941 – Chemists Archer John Porter Martin and Richard L. M. Synge give the first demonstration of partition chromatography (separation of mixtures) at a meeting of the Biochemical Society held at the National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead
1959 – KLX-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KEWB (now KNEW)
1967 – 2 Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of minors
1973 – Rangers draft Texas high school pitcher David Clyde #1
1987 – Andy Van Slyke HRs off R McDowell in both ends of double header
Historical Events for 6th June 2024
1896 – Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo leave NY harbor to row across Atlantic; their 55 day record for rowing was not broken for 114 years
1933 – US Employment Service created
1936 – Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro, New Jersey
1958 – French Prime Minister Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French
1971 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear for an unannounced performance, joining Frank Zappa on stage at Fillmore East in NYC
1982 – Bernard Glassman installed as abbot of Zen Center of NY
1992 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Yugoslavian star Monica Seles retains title; outlasts Steffi Graf of Germany 6-2, 3-6, 10-8
2002 – “The Bourne Identity” directed by Doug Liman and starring Matt Damon premieres in Los Angeles, California
2007 – Stanley Cup Final, Honda Center, Anaheim, CA: Anaheim Ducks defeat Ottawa Senators, 6-2 for a 4-1 series win; Ducks’ first Championship
2019 – Amir Ohana becomes the first openly gay minister in Israel as acting justice minister
Historical Events for 5th June 2024
1752 – Prince William of Orange becomes Knight of Garter
1799 – Naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland set sail in the Pizarro from A Coruña, Spain, beginning their 5 year expedition to Latin American
1879 – 13th Belmont: George Evans riding Spendthrift wins in 2:42.75
1944 – Allied forces march into Rome
1948 – “(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend” single released by Stan Jones
1975 – United Kingdom electorate votes 67% to 33% in a referendum to remain part of the European Common Market
1995 – 29th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Reba killedwin
2010 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Francesca Schiavone of Italy wins her first and only Grand Slam title; beats Samantha Stosur of Australia 6-4, 7-6
2013 – 12th CMT Video Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert. and Blake Shelton win
2019 – Ohio doctor William Husel charged with 25 counts of murder for prescribing potentially fatal doses of opioids in Franklin County
Historical Events for 4th June 2024
1070 – Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France
1889 – Boston Beaneaters MLB pitcher John Clarkson is first to throw an “immaculate inning” (strikes out 3 batters on 9 pitches) in a 4-2 win over Philadelphia Quakers at South End Grounds
1950 – Dutch cyclist Wim van Est wins Bordeaux-Paris (586 km in 17:25)
1969 – 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hr flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft
1978 – “Working” closes at 46th St Theater, NYC, after 25 performances
1985 – Supreme Court strikes down Alabama “moment of silence” law
1988 – 42nd Tony Awards: “M. Butterfly” (play) and “The Phantom of the Opera” (musical) win
2002 – Canadian singer Avril Lavigne releases debut album, “Let Go”
2014 – 10 Nigerian generals and five other senior military officers are court-martialed for providing arms and information to jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram
2019 – Movement in Japan to end compulsory wearing of high heels in work places trends with hashtag #KuToo
Historical Events for 3rd June 2024
1860 – Comanche, Iowa, completely destroyed by one of a series of tornadoes
1876 – Lacrosse introduced in Britain and Canada
1950 – French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal
1977 – Baltimore Orioles pull their 6th triple play (9-6-4-6-6 vs KC Royals)
1985 – Brewers draft B J Surhoff #1
1995 – 1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards held at Pantages Theatre, Hollywood
2012 – Plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, kills all 152 passengers and 40 people on the ground
2014 – Dove Cameron releases single “Count Me In”
2017 – Largest-ever exhibition of works by Piet Mondrian opens at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, Netherlands to mark centenary of De Stijl movement
2019 – Jay-Z named the world’s first billionaire rapper by Forbes magazine
Historical Events for 2nd June 2024
1863 – Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves
1942 – Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a US Navy aviator
1958 – Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record
1979 – John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a Communist country (Poland)
1984 – Flight readiness firing of Discovery’s main engines
1984 – Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy
1984 – “Welcome To Fun Zone” hosted by Dr Demento airs on NBC-TV
1985 – RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco
1987 – Mariners draft Ken Griffey Jr. #1
2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated television game show “Jeopardy!”
Historical Events for 1st June 2024
1543 – Flemish physician Andreas Vesalius publishes “De humani corporis fabrica (On the fabric of the human body in seven books)” a major step forward in understanding human anatomy [date is representative as exact date of publication unknown]
1888 – California gets its 1st seismograph
1890 – US census at 62,622,250
1920 – Dutch soccer club RKSV forms in Volendam; merges with FC Volendam in 1977
1945 – WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minn changes call letters to KUOM
1979 – Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
1989 – 62nd National Spelling Bee: Scott Isaacs wins spelling spoliator
1994 – Indiana guard Reggie Miller drills an NBA Playoff record 5 three-pointers in the 4th quarter of the Pacers’ 93-86 win over host New York Knicks in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals
1997 – Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia.
2007 – Jack Kevorkian is released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for the 1998 second-degree murder of Thomas Youk