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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 31st May 2024
1417 – Jacoba of Bavaria becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen
1821 – Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, 1st US Catholic cathedral, is dedicated in Baltimore, designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe
1868 – Dr James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parc fde St Cloud, Paris
1891 – Work on Trans-Siberian railway begins
1910 – Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa
1930 – British Amateur Championship, Men’s Golf, St. Andrews Links: Bobby Jones scores a 7 and 6 win over Englishman Roger Wethered for the first leg of his Grand Slam
1961 – US President John F. Kennedy visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris
1980 – “Love Stinks” by J. Geils Band peaks at #38
1990 – 63rd National Spelling Bee: Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne
1992 – 46th Tony Awards: “Dancing at Lughnasa” (play) and “Crazy For You” (musical) win