1822 – Secret meeting of Simón Bolívar and Jose de San Martin
1897 – 37.5 cm rainfall at Jewell, Maryland (state record)
1944 – Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam
1944 – Soviet troops arrive in Weichsel
1950 – Dodgers’ Jim Russell is 1st to switch-hits HRs twice in a game
1957 – USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile
1962 – Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets HR record of 31 by a pitcher
1963 – Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+
1977 – USSR performs underground nuclear Test
2018 – Sir Paul McCartney performs a “secret” gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles began
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 25th July 2023
1901 – Emily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps during the South African War
1907 – Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan
1942 – German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja
1943 – 1st warship named after an African American launched – USS Leonard Roy Harmon, a Buckley class destroyer
1964 – Race riot in Rochester, NY
1966 – Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1970 – Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s song “(They Long to Be) Close to You” as sung by the Carpenters reaches #1
1993 – US Open Women’s Golf, Crooked Stick GC: Lauri Merten fires a final round 68 (−4) to win her lone major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Donna Andrews and Helen Alfredsson
1997 – Carroll O’Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian
2018 – Liquid lake found on Mars under its South Pole by European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter reported in “Science”
Historical Events for 24th July 2023
1701 – French trade rand soldier Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, later becomes the city of Detroit
1905 – International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: Laurence Doherty and Reggie Doherty beat Holcombe Ward and Beals Wright 8-10, 6-2, 6-2, 4-6, 8-6 to give British Isles an unassailable 3-0 lead over US (ends 5-0)
1927 – The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres
1929 – NY to San Francisco foot race ends (2½ months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde
1946 – 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League) die in a bus crash
1949 – 36th Tour de France won by Fausto Coppi of Italy
1974 – American newscaster Christine Chubbuck is the first person to commit suicide during a live TV broadcast at WXLT-TV
1979 – US President Jimmy Carter names Paul Volcker as Chairman of the Federal Reserve
1994 – Bodo kills 37 Muslims in Bashbari NE India
2013 – 80 people are killed and 140 are injured after a high-speed train derails in Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Historical Events for 23rd July 2023
636 – Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire
1558 – Battle of Grevelingen: Lamoraal, Count of Egmont beat France
1902 – Dutch Excelsior soccer club is established in Rotterdam (Eerste Divisie winners 1973-4, 78-79, 2005-06)
1960 – US Open Women’s Golf, Worcester CC: Betsy Rawls wins her 4th Open title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Joyce Ziske
1962 – The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed
1967 – -27] 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)
1974 – Greek military dictatorship collapses
1994 – American dancer, actor, and director Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke
2018 – Japan records its highest ever temperature at 41.1 degrees (105.98F) in Kumagaya
2019 – At least 36 people killed by a mud landslide in Shuicheng county, Guizhou province, China
Historical Events for 22nd July 2023
1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair – a 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany’s brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured
1515 – First Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire – rise of the Habsburgs influence
1835 – Smolny Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia is consecrated, originally commissioned by Elizabeth of Russia
1933 – Wiley Post completes the 1st solo flight round the world, takes 7 days and 19 hours
1942 – 4th Soviet army forms with 80 tanks
1954 – WTHI TV channel 10 in Terre Haute, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1984 – 71st Tour de France won by Laurent Fignon of France
2018 – Lone gunman shooting kills 3 including gunman and injures 13 in Toronto, Canada
2019 – US President Donald Trump says US could win war in Afghanistan in a week “I just don’t want to kill 10 million people. If I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth”
2022 – Droupadi Murmu is the first tribal politician to be elected President of India (head of state, without executive powers)
Historical Events for 21st July 2023
1545 – The first landing of French troops onto the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion
1853 – Central Park in New York created when New York State Legislature puts aside more than 750 acres of land on Manhattan Island
1865 – In market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first true western showdown
1944 – British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery
1952 – 7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed
1954 – Geneva Accords for Indochina signed, dividing French colonial territories into the countries of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), the State of Vietnam (South Vietnam), Cambodia, and Laos
1969 – Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
1973 – France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific
1975 – Soyuz 19 returns to Earth
1997 – NY Yank Mike Whiton held in Milwaukee on charges of sexual assault
Historical Events for 20th July 2023
1858 – Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18)
1878 – 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii
1944 – US 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen
1975 – India expels three reporters from “The Times”, “The Daily Telegraph”, and “Newsweek” because they refuse to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship
1982 – Hyde Park and Regent’s Park bombings: 11 British soldiers and 7 military horses killed in Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb attacks during military ceremonies in London
2002 – Bartenders doing tricks with fire start a major fire in a night club in Lima, Peru that kills 25 and injures 100
2005 – Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent
2008 – 16th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Candace Parker win
2014 – The Israeli Defence Force enter Shuja’iyya, a populous neighbourhood of Gaza City, as part of their ground offensive focused on destroying tunnels crossing the Israel border
2020 – Announcement that a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) is able to trigger immune response and antibodies
Historical Events for 19th July 2023
1864 – Third Battle of Winchester, Virginia (Stephenson’s Depot) [->JUL 20]
1941 – British PM Winston Churchill launches his “V for Victory” campaign
1952 – Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford
1955 – 1st performance of Gerald Finzi’s Cello Concerto, his last major work; John Barbirolli leading the Hallé Orchestra, with soloist Christopher Bunting at Cheltenham Music Festival in Gloucestershire, England
1967 – 1st air conditioned NYC subway car (R-38 on the F line)
1978 – New York Yankees start historic 14 game comeback with 2-0 win over the Minnesota Twins at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, MN
1990 – Dave Righetti pitches in his 499th game as a NY Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most appearances as a NY Yankee
1992 – 30th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1)
2009 – The Wesley Impact: black spot the size of Earth discovered on Jupiter after unknown object crashed onto the planet
2021 – UK lifts most COVID-19 restrictions on so-called “Freedom Day” despite 50,000 new daily infections
Historical Events for 18th July 2023
1334 – Bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by artist Giotto di Bondone
1801 – HMS Investigator sets off on a voyage to determine if New Holland (Australia) is one island or two, under command of Matthew Flinders, with botanist Robert Brown and artists Ferdinand Bauer and William Westall aboard
1896 – George Giffen is 1st to complete 1000/100 double, in 30th Test Cricket
1951 – Uruguay accepts its constitution
1959 – 46th Tour de France won by Federico Bahamontes of Spain
1970 – Willie Mays becomes 10th baseball player to get 3,000 hits
1977 – Hugh Leonard’s “Da” premieres in London
1982 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Troon: American Tom Watson wins his 4th Open Championship, 1 stroke clear of Peter Oosterhuis and Nick Price
2012 – Syrian suicide bombing kills three high profile government officials, including Syria’s Minister of Defence
2015 – “The Sun” newspaper in Britain controversially publishes old picture and video of Queen Elizabeth giving Nazi salute in 1933
Historical Events for 17th July 2023
1912 – IAF (Intl Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden
1951 – Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts, is chartered
1959 – “North by Northwest” directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint premieres in Los Angeles
1962 – Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft)
1966 – Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)
1976 – Indonesian president Suharto annexes East Timor
1981 – Humber Estuary Bridge in UK opens, world’s longest span (1.4 km)
2005 – 13th ESPY Awards: Lance Armstrong, Annika Sörenstam win
2015 – Suicide bomber in Khan Bani Saad, Iraq, kills 120, ISIS claims responsibility
2021 – 73rd Cannes Film Festival: Titane wins Palme d’Or, its director Frenchwoman Julie Ducournau only 2nd woman to win