1683 – Manchu/Chinese Qing Dynasty naval forces under commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
1867 – Amstel Hotel, “the dignified old lady” opens in Amsterdam
1895 – Lancashire batsman Archie MacLaren scores the first-ever quadruple-hundred (424) in first-class cricket against Somerset at Taunton
1909 – MLB Detroit Tigers and Washington Senators play longest scoreless game in AL history – 18 innings at Bennett Field in Detroit, Michigan
1966 – Number of banned persons in South Africa totals 936; the individuals are banned under various laws, most prominently the Suppression of Communism and Riotous Assembly Acts
1973 – During Watergate hearings, Butterfield reveals existence of tapes
1990 – NYC’s Empire State Building catches fire-no fatalities
1994 – Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights
2008 – Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim is arrested on sodomy charges in Malaysia
2015 – Shootings in Chattanooga at a US military recruitment centre and a naval reserve training center kill 5 and injure others
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 15th July 2023
1207 – King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton
1830 – Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk and Fox, sign fourth Treaty of Prairie du Chien giving the US most of Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri
1954 – 110°F (43°C) at Balcony Falls, Virginia (state record)
1956 – Iharos runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
1968 – Commercial air travel begins between US and USSR
1972 – “Honky Chateau” becomes Elton John’s first No. 1 album in the US, includes hit “Rocket Man”
1973 – California Angel Nolan Ryan’s 2nd no-hitter beats Detroit Tigers, 6-0
2005 – “Wedding Crashers”, starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, premieres
2007 – Copa América Final, Maracaibo, Venezuela: Defending champions Brazil win their 8th title with a 3-0 win over Argentina
2015 – Robbie Williams announces he is returning to boy band Take That
Historical Events for 14th July 2023
1865 – The Chickasaw Nation is the last of the Five Tribes to surrender to the Union following the Confederate defeat
1870 – The United States Congress grants Mary Todd Lincoln a life pension in the amount of $3,000 a year
1951 – In his last race, 1948 Triple Crown champion Citation wins the Hollywood Gold Cup by 4 lengths, to become American racing’s first millionaire horse.
1984 – STS 41-D vehicle moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for remanifest of payloads
1986 – US Open Women’s Golf, NCR CC: Jane Geddes wins by 2 strokes in an 18-hole Monday playoff with South African born Sally Little
1987 – Steve Miller’s star is unveiled on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame
2012 – Suicide bomber attacks a wedding reception and kills 22 people and inures 22 in northern Afghanistan
2014 – After 7 days, Israel has struck Gaza 1320 times, while Gaza has fired 940 rockets at Israel
2015 – Arms deal agreed between 6 world powers and Iran limiting Iranian nuclear arms but ending sanctions
2018 – Civilians killed in Afghan war reaches record high with 1,692 killed in first six months of 2018 says UN
Historical Events for 13th July 2023
1558 – Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines
1881 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: William Renshaw beats defending champion John Hartley 6-0, 6-1, 6-1 for first of his 7 Wimbledon singles titles
1926 – Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:20.4)
1930 – David Sarnoff reports in NY Times “TV would be a theater in every home”
1936 – 112°F (44°C), Mio, Michigan (state record)
1976 – 47th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia
1977 – NYC experiences 25 hr black-out
1985 – New York Yankees retire Roger Maris (9) and Elston Howard (32) uniform numbers
1991 – Bob Milacki and 3 other Baltimore Oriole pitchers no-hit A’s 2-0
2013 – Ten people are killed after a bus crash in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Historical Events for 12th July 2023
1878 – Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500
1901 – Striking Canadian salmon fishermen on the Pacific coast, resentful of the non-union Japanese who continue to fish, maroon and imprison 47
1940 – Frederick McKinley Jones receives a patent for an air conditioning unit for trucks, helping to change long-haul carriage of food and blood
1943 – World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka – Russians defeat German forces in one of the largest ever tank battles
1943 – National Committee Freies Deutschland forms
1954 – Major League Baseball Players Association founded
1955 – 22nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 in 12 at County Stad, Milw
1966 – Baltimore Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson voted MLB All Star game MVP
1985 – “Singin’ in the Rain”, musical adaptation of the 1952 film, opens at Gershwin Theater, NYC; runs for 367 performances
2018 – World’s longest fingernails cut off; Shridhar Chillal’s nails measured 909.6cm after growing for 66 years
Historical Events for 11th July 2023
1244 – Khwarezmian Tatars sack Jerusalem, decimating the city’s Christian population and driving out Jews
1893 – A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua
1939 – 7th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Yankee Stadium, New York NY Yankee/AL manager Joe McCarthy starts 6 Yankees players
1943 – US 82nd Airborne division shot at by “friendly fire” in Sicily
1978 – 49th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at San Diego Stadium
1984 – 55th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at Candlestick Park, San Francisco
1987 – Heart’s “Alone” single goes #1 for 3 weeks
1990 – NYC police arrest “Dartman” (stabbed over 50 women with darts)
2019 – Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft lands on the Ryugu asteroid 300m km (185m miles) from earth for a second time to collect samples
2021 – Rare mass anti-government protests across Cuba due to economic hardships and effects of COVID-19 led to widespread arrests
Historical Events for 10th July 2023
1598 – Spanish theater plays “Moros y Los Cristianos” in Rio Grande
1690 – Battle of Beachy Head – French fleet defeat Anglo-Dutch fleet under Cornelis Evertsen
1913 – World’s official highest recorded temperature at Greenland Ranch (now known as Furnace Creek Ranch), Death Valley, California at 134 °F (56.7 °C)
1915 – British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa
1936 – 110°F (43°C) at Runyon, New Jersey (state record)
1944 – “Father of Medicare” Tommy Douglas becomes the 7th Premier of Saskatchewan
1958 – Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed premier of Cambodia
1979 – Chuck Berry begins 4 months term in prison for $200,000 in tax evasion
2018 – Original sketch of Winnie-the-Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood by EH Shepard sells for £430,000 in London, record price for a book illustration
2018 – The final 4 boys and their coach are rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand after being trapped there for 18 days by monsoon flooding
Historical Events for 9th July 2023
1541 – Estevão da Gama departs Massawa, leaving behind 400 matchlock men and 150 slaves under his brother Christovão da Gama, with orders to help the Emperor of Ethiopia defeat Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi who has invaded his Empire
1572 – Death of the Gorcum Martyrs: Calvinist militant force the Watergeuzen (the Sea Beggars) capture and hang 19 Catholic priests in Brielle
1672 – William III inaugurated as viceroy of Holland and Zealand
1810 – Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire
1932 – Yanks’ Ben Chapman hits 2 inside-the-park HRs, tying record
1947 – Engagement of Britain’s Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten
1985 – South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC’er Klaas de Jong
1986 – Padres trade pitcher Tim Stoddard to Yankees for pitcher Ed Whitson
2006 – At least 122 people killed after a Sibir Airlines Airbus A310 passenger jet, carrying 200 passengers veers off the runway while landing at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia in wet conditions
2016 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Serena Williams beats Angelique Kerber 7-5, 6-3, equalling Steffi Graf’s 22 Grand Slam singles tiles
Historical Events for 8th July 2023
1891 – 61°F, highest temperature for July 1891, in Baltimore and Philadelphia
1905 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: May Sutton becomes first American player to win the singles title at Wimbledon; beats Dorothea Chambers 6-3, 6-4
1912 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Anthony Wilding makes it 3 straight Wimbledon singles crowns beating Arthur Gore 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
1949 – Monte Irvin and Hank Thompson, 1st black players for New York Giants, 4-3 loss to Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field
1960 – Fidel Castro ends Havana’s International League team, Sugar Kings move to New Jersey
1961 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: In an all-British final Angela Mortimer wins her 3rd Grand Slam singles title; beats Christine Truman 4–6, 6–4, 7–5
1968 – Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal
1969 – IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer
1973 – NY Mets are 12½ games back in NL and go on to win pennant
1978 – Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus
Historical Events for 7th July 2023
1438 – King Charles VII issues the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges stating that a General Church Council with superior power to the Pope must be held every 10 years
1585 – King Henri III and Duke De Guise signs Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots lose all freedoms
1799 – Ranjit Singh’s men take up their positions outside Lahore
1801 – Toussaint Louverture declares Haitian independence
1868 – Surrey wicket-keeper Ted Pooley completes a then-1st class cricket record 12 dismissals (8 caught, 4 stumped) in a County match against Sussex at The Oval
1923 – University of Delaware invents “junior year abroad” (at Sorbonne)
1993 – Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia
1996 – Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), lands
2002 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Lleyton Hewitt of Australia wins his only Wimbledon singles title beating David Nalbandian of Argentina 6-1, 6-3, 6-2
2019 – Copa América Final, Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro: Home team Brazil win their 9th title, beating Peru, 3-1; first title since 2007