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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 11th July 2024
1302 – Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) near Kortrijk, Belgium: Flemish coalition defeat the French army of Philip IV
1346 – Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
1656 – The first Quakers to land in America (Boston), Englishwomen Ann Austin and Mary Fisher, are arrested and jailed by the Puritan colonial government. After 5 years imprisonment they are deported back to Barbados
1859 – Big Ben’s second and current bell first chimes from inside the Clock Tower
1863 – Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4
1955 – Congress authorizes all US currency to say “In God We Trust”
1988 – Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor
2000 – 71st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-3 at Turner Field, Atlanta
2012 – Police academy suicide bombing kills 20 in Sana’a, Yemen
2019 – Last models of Volkswagen’s Beetle car are produced in Pueblo, Mexico, ending production worldwide after 80 years
Historical Events for 10th July 2024
988 – The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey
1796 – Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers
1923 – All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy
1928 – Senator Milt Gaston hurls record tying 14-hit shutout
1934 – 1st sitting US President to visit South America, FDR in Colombia
1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee
1990 – All star MVP: Julio Franco (Texas Rangers)
2000 – Coldplay release their debut album “Parachutes” (Grammy Award Best Alternative Album 2002)
2005 – Senior Players Championship Men’s Golf, TPC of Michigan: Peter Jacobsen wins his second Champions Tour major title by 1 stroke from Hale Irwin
2019 – Kawhi Leonard signs with the Los Angeles Clippers to a reported three-year, $103 million contract
Historical Events for 9th July 2024
1386 – Battle at Sempach: Swiss beat Duke Leopold III of Austria
1776 – US Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington’s troops in New York
1939 – A meeting of 6,000 Indians, held at the Indian Sports Ground in Johannesburg South Africa, launch the Passive Resistance Campaign against apartheid and racial policy in South Africa
1957 – 24th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-6 at Sportsman’s Park, St Louis
1963 – 34th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland
1973 – 9th Maccabiah games opens in Tel Aviv, Israel
1975 – The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that paves way for a (albeit highly restricted) multi-party system
1979 – Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter
2006 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Roger Federer wins 4th straight Wimbledon title beating Rafael Nadal of Spain 6-0, 7-6, 6-7, 6-3
2022 – Thousands of Sri Lankan protesters storm the Presidential Palace and set the PM’s house on fire in Colombo, leading to promises both will resign amid continuing economic turmoil
Historical Events for 8th July 2024
1849 – St Paul’s Place in the Bronx named
1902 – Baltimore manager John McGraw is accused by AL President Ban Johnson of trying to wreck the Orioles and Washington Senators; negotiates his release from the Orioles, having already signed with NY Giants
1913 – Alfred Carlton Gilbert’s patent for the Erector Set is issued, it becomes one of the most popular toys of all time
1939 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: American Alice Marble wins her only Wimbledon singles title beating Kay Stammers of England 6-2, 6-0
1943 – Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (Dutch National Socialist Movement) leader Anton Mussert meets with Heinrich Himmler
1944 – British troops march into Caen, Normandy
1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico
1988 – Miami Arena opens in Miami, Florida
2014 – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu instructs his defence forces to “take their gloves off” against Hamas and to take any means necessary to “restore peace” to Israeli citizens
2023 – Airstrike on Sudanese district of Omdurman by the Sudanese army kills at least 22 people including women and children
Historical Events for 7th July 2024
1124 – Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders
1534 – European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick
1892 – Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established leading to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia
1942 – Germany troop march into Woronezj
1949 – Musical revue “Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)” opens at the Broadway Theatre, NYC; runs for 76 performances
1950 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Troon: Bobby Locke of South Africa retains title by 2 strokes from Roberto De Vicenzo of Argentina
1954 – British runner Jim Peters, 17 minutes ahead of any rival, collapses on the final stadium lap of the Commonwealth Games marathon in Vancouver
1973 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Czech Jan Kodeš beats Alex Metreveli of Russia 6-1, 9-8, 6-3 for his 3rd Grand Slam singles success
1980 – Jineane Ford of Arizona replaces Shawn Weatherly (Miss Universe) as the 29th Miss USA
1983 – 11-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR
Historical Events for 6th July 2024
1484 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River
1621 – Dutch governor general John Pieterszoon Coen takes Banda islands, 15,000 die
1853 – National Black convention meets in Rochester NY, ex-slave Frederick Douglass attends
1892 – Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain
1905 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time
1907 – Tom Reece takes 5 weeks to compile the highest recorded billiards break in a match (499,135) in London, his ‘cradle’ cannon method is soon banned
1932 – 1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents
1941 – New York Yankees team unveils a monument to former captain Lou Gehrig in center field at Yankee Stadium; the future Hall of Famer died the previous month
1949 – Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158°F for 2 minutes
1986 – 100th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Germany’s Boris Becker successfully defends his title beating Ivan Lendl 6-4, 6-3, 7-5
Historical Events for 5th July 2024
1803 – The convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king)
1943 – Battle of Gulf of Kula
1961 – KUSD TV channel 2 in Vermillion, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: In an all-Australian final Rod Laver beats John Newcombe 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 for the 3rd leg of his Grand Slam
1989 – Barry Bonds homers in Pittsburgh’s 6-4 loss vs SF Giants, joining father Bobby Bonds as MLB father-son HR record holders (408)
1991 – MLB owners approve Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins as new NL franchises to start play in 1993
1998 – Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Roger Clemens collects his 3,000th career strikeout in 2-1 win vs Tampa Bay (11th to achieve milestone)
2008 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Venus Williams successfully defends her title beating younger sister Serena 7-5, 6-4
2019 – Second stronger earthquake in Southern California at 7.1 magnitude centered near Ridgecrest
2022 – Amid Greater Sydney’s fourth major flood in 18 months, the Australian government declares a natural disaster as 45,000 people threatened with evacuation orders
Historical Events for 4th July 2024
1672 – States of Holland declares “Eternal Edict” void
1782 – William Petty becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain following the death of Charles Watson-Wentworth
1911 – Chicago White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh halts Ty Cobb’s 40-game hitting streak as Cobb goes 0 for 4 in a 7-3 win over Detroit Tigers at Bennett Park
1920 – The provisional government of Siberia’s Maritime Province agrees to hand over parts of the strategic oil- and coal-rich Sakhalin Islands to Japan
1942 – US air offensive against Nazi Germany begins
1942 – 1st American bombing missions over Nazi Germany-occupied Europe (WWII)
1953 – Imre Nagy succeeds Matyas Rákosi as premier of Hungary
1964 – Beachboys’ “I Get Around” reaches #1
1992 – John Phillips, rocker (Mamas and Papas), undergoes a liver transplant
2006 – Richard Branson sells Virgin Mobile to NTL for £962.4 million