1641 – Battle at La Marfée Sedan: Earl Soisson beats French government army
1932 – Cubs’ future All Star shortstop Billy Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli; no charges laid
1933 – 1st MLB All Star Game: AL wins 4-2 at Comiskey Park, Chicago, Babe Ruth hits first All Star home run
1945 – Abbott and Costello’s film “The Naughty Nineties” released; features longest version of their “Who’s on First?” routine
1957 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Althea Gibson becomes the first black female athlete to win Wimbledon beating Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2
1969 – Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Curacao
1977 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1984 – New Zealand sisters Liz and Rose Signal become the first twins to play in the same cricket Test match, v England at Headingley
2013 – 3 people are killed and 181 are injured after a Boeing 777 crash lands at San Francisco Airport
2020 – Zoonotic diseases, which jump from animals to humans, are increasing due to unsustainable farming and climate change according to new report by the UN
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 5th July 2023
1750 – Slave revolt on Curacao
1841 – Thomas Cook opens first travel agency
1871 – Trial against Kiowa chief Satanta (White Bear) and Big Tree, begins
1937 – 117°F (47°C), Medicine Lake, Montana (state record)
1946 – British Open Men’s Golf, St Andrews: In first post-WWII Championship, Sam Snead wins his only Open title, 4 strokes clear of runners-up Johnny Bulla and Bobby Locke
1947 – “Barefoot Boy with Cheek” closes at Martin Beck NYC after 108 performances
1969 – Rolling Stones play a free concert in London’s Hyde Park
1981 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1991 – American jockey Ray Sibille wins his 3,000th career race, aboard Sporting Surf at Pleasanton, California
2021 – One of world’s oldest pieces of art, 51,000-year-old deer bone carved by Neanderthals, announced discovered in Harz Mountains, Germany
Historical Events for 4th July 2023
1054 – Brightest known supernova SN 1054 (creates the Crab Nebula) 1st reported by Chinese astronomers
1610 – Battle of Klushino: King Sigismund III’s Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats Russia and Sweden
1754 – George Washington gives Fort Necessity to France
1879 – Africaner Union forms by Rev SJ du Toit at Cape colony
1892 – Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4
1901 – William Howard Taft, former Federal judge, is installed as first governor-general of the Philippines and declares amnesty for all insurgents who take an oath of allegiance
1903 – Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Philippines) opens, President Theodore Roosevelt sends a message
1917 – Troops of the Russian Provisional Government open fire on protesters in Petrograd during the ‘July Days’ of unrest
1973 – Alan Ayckbourn’s “Absurd Person Singular,” premieres in London
2019 – Largest earthquake in California in 20 years 6.4 magnitude near Ridgecrest
Historical Events for 3rd July 2023
324 – Battle of Adrianople: Roman Emperor Constantine I defeats his co-emperor Licinius, who flees to Byzantium
1661 – Portugal gives Tangier and Bombay to English King Charles II
1861 – Colonel Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general
1884 – Dow Jones publishes its 1st stock index, the Dow Jones Transportation Average
1898 – American troops, en route to the Philippines on the SS China, raise the American flag on Wake Island
1936 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Home favourite Fred Perry beats Gottfried von Cramm of Germany 6-1, 6-1, 6-0 for his third straight Wimbledon singles title
1944 – “Double Indemnity” film noir directed by Billy Wilder and starring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck is released in Baltimore, Maryland
1962 – Algerian Revolution against French rule ends (Algeria gains independence on 5th July)
2018 – US Justice and Education Departments rescind Obama affirmative action policies in college admissions
2018 – Souad Abderrahim is elected the first female mayor of Tunis, Tunisia
Historical Events for 2nd July 2023
311 – St Miltiades begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1140 – Hartbert becomes bishop of Utrecht
1864 – General Early and Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Washington, D.C.
1903 – Pitcher Jack Doscher, debuts for the Chicago Cubs, the first son of a major leaguer to play MLB, father Herm 1882-92
1921 – Warren G. Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring the official end of war with Germany
1950 – Cleveland Indians’ pitcher Bob Feller wins his 200th MLB game, 5-3 v Detroit Tigers
1956 – US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1966 – 1st France nuclear test on Mururoa atoll
1969 – Ireland cricketers dismiss West Indies for just 25 (Dougie Goodwin 5 for 6, Alec O’Riordan 4 for 18) to set up a huge upset in Londonderry
2017 – Women’s PGA Championship, Olympia Fields CC: American Danielle Kang scores her first professional win, 1 stroke ahead of defending champion Brooke Henderson of Canada
Historical Events for 1st July 2023
1863 – Slavery abolished in Dutch territories including Sint Maarten, Suriname and the Dutch Antilles, (now marked as Keti Koti Day in Suriname and the Netherlands)
1874 – 1st US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000
1898 – Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
1931 – Ice vending machines introduced in Los Angeles 25 lbs, 15 cents
1937 – Rev Martin Niemöller arrested in Nazi Germany for activities against the State
1947 – Basketball Association of America (BAA), which later became the National Basketball Association (NBA), holds its inaugural college player draft
1948 – NYC subway fare goes to 10 cents, bus fare to 7 cents and combo fare at 12 cents
1963 – ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) Codes are introduced for United States mail
1980 – ‘O Canada’ officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1981 – Radio Shack 3rd release of Model III TRSDOS 1.3
Historical Events for 30th June 2023
1294 – Jews are expelled from Berne, Switzerland
1598 – King Philip II of Spain moves to El Escorial royal palace (dies there three months later)
1851 – Battle of Viervoet: Basotho forces led by Moshoeshoe defeat the British over the British imposed Walden line
1939 – Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde
1956 – Harry Warren, James Lawrence, Ribert E. Lee, and James Hilton’s musical “Shangri-La”, based on Hilton’s novel “Lost Horizon”, and featuring Jack Cassidy and Alice Ghostley, closes at Winter Garden Theater, NYC, after 21 performances
1966 – Vice Admiral William F. Raborn Jr., USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA
1977 – US President Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later “B-1’s the B-52”
1988 – French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church
2014 – Australian entertainer Rolf Harris is convicted of indecent assault in London, England
2022 – Ketanji Brown Jackson (51) sworn in as 104th justice of US Supreme Court, replacing Stephen Breyer (83) upon his retirement; 1st Black woman (6th female, and 3rd Black) to be seated
Historical Events for 29th June 2023
1694 – Dutch fleet attacks French grain transports
1776 – Mission Dolores founded at San Francisco Bay by Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga and Francisco Palóu
1906 – US Open Men’s Golf, Onwentsia GC: Scotsman Alex Smith wins first of his 2 Open titles, 7 strokes ahead of runner-up and younger brother Willie Smith
1931 – 109°F (43°C), Monticello, Florida (state record, until broken in 2015)
1944 – German generals Rommel and von Rundstedt travel to Berchtesgaden
1968 – “Tip-Toe Thru’ The Tulips With Me” by Tiny Tim peaks at #17
1985 – STS 51-F vehicle moves to launch pad
1986 – Richard Branson aboard Virgin Atlantic Challenger II reaches Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly, fastest crossing of Atlantic
1989 – Emmy 16th Daytime Award presentation – Susan Lucci loses for 10th time
2018 – Drake releases his fifth studio album “Scorpion”, a double album with 25 tracks
Historical Events for 28th June 2023
1593 – Earl Mauritius conquers Geertruidenberg
1635 – French colony of Guadeloupe established in the Caribbean
1846 – Saxophone is patented by Antoine-Joseph “Adolfe” Sax
1894 – The Natal Legislature plans to introduce the Indian Franchise Bill, South Africa
1909 – 1st French air show, Concours d’Avation opens
1939 – Joe Louis beats Tony Galento by TKO at 2:29 in round 4 at Yankee Stadium, NYC in his 7th heavyweight boxing title defense
1942 – Col-gen Von Hoth’ 6th Pantser enters Voronezj
1956 – Riots break out in Poznan, Poland, 38 die
1973 – New Zealand ship HMNZS Otago sails for Mururoa nuclear test zone after France’s refusal to accept an International Court of Justice injunction against its atmospheric nuclear testing
1994 – Jonah Lomu becomes the youngest-ever All Black at 19 yrs 45 days playing rugby for New Zealand against France in Christchurch
Historical Events for 27th June 2023
1778 – Liberty Bell returns home to Philadelphia after the British departure
1867 – Bank of California opens doors
1891 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Philadelphia Cricket Club: Mabel Cahill beats defending champion Ellen Roosevelt 6-4, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3
1894 – American Annie Londonderry [Annie Kopchovsky] sets out from Boston to become first woman to bicycle around the world (completes journey September 1895)
1931 – Ryder Cup Golf, Scioto CC: Walter Hagen captains his 2nd victorious American team; US wins, 9-3
1972 – Legendary video game and home computer Atari, Inc. founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in Sunnyvale, California
1974 – US President Nixon visits USSR
1992 – “57 Channels (And Nothin’ On)” by Bruce Springsteen peaks at #68
1993 – Don Henley booed in Milwaukee when he dedicates the song “It’s Not Easy Being Green” to President Clinton
1998 – Opening of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia.