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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 10th June 2024
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”