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
Category: Historical Events
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
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