1498 – Toothbrush invented in China using boar bristles
1723 – After a lasting siege and bombardment by cannons, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
1941 – Lithuanian fascists massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno
1953 – KCTV (now KLST) TV channel 8 in San Angelo, TX (CBS) 1st broadcast
1967 – Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals including Karol Józef Wojtyła, the Archbishop of Cracow and future Pope John Paul II
2013 – Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Arctic Monkeys, The Rolling Stones, and Mumford and Sons headline; other performers include Elvis Costello, Vampire Weekend, The Lumineers, Billy Bragg, Kenny Rogers, and Rufus Wainwright
2014 – Luis Suárez is expelled from the 2014 FIFA World Cup following his biting incident
2015 – US President Barack Obama sings “Amazing Grace” as part of his eulogy for Reverend Clementa Pinckney and 8 church members killed during a bible study in Charleston, South Carolina
2015 – Gunman opens fire at beach resort in Sousse, Tunisia, killing 38. Isis claims responsibility.
2019 – Former Gambian beauty queen Fatou “Toufah” Jallow says she was raped by former President Yahya Jammeh as part of a Human Rights Watch and Trial International report
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 25th June 2023
1096 – 1st Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen, Germany
1912 – British Open Men’s Golf, Muirfield: Ted Ray wins wire-to-wire by 4 shots from defending champion Harry Vardon
1921 – British Open Men’s Golf, St Andrews: former local Jock Hutchison (resident in US) wins his only Open Championship by 9 strokes in a 36-hole playoff over amateur Roger Wethered
1961 – Iraq Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim demands dominion over Kuwait the end of the British protectorate
1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington
1982 – US Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr. resigns, replaced by George P. Shultz
1990 – “Dave Thomas Comedy Show” last airs on CBS-TV
2004 – Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Oasis, Paul McCartney, and Muse headline; other performers include Wilco, The Black-Eyed Peas, James Brown, Damien Rice, Toots and The Maytals, and The Rutles
2021 – WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus confirms the COVID-19 Delta variant is the most transmissible to date, now present in 85 countries and spreading rapidly
2022 – US President Joe Biden signs the “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act” into law, creating greater background checks for gun purchasers, funding for mental health programs and the closure of some existing seller loopholes
Historical Events for 24th June 2023
451 – 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet
1806 – British under Commodore Popham and Colonel Beresford reach Buenos Aires
1913 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: Englishman J H Taylor wins Championship for a 5th and final time, 8 strokes ahead of defending champion Ted Ray
1955 – 5th Berlin International Film Festival: “The Rats” wins Golden Bear (audience vote)
1968 – Joe Frazier stops Mexican challenger Manuel Ramos in 2nd round TKO at NYC’s Madison Square Garden in his first heavyweight boxing title defense
1987 – CFL’s Montreal Alouettes fold
1988 – Red Sox begin AL record 23rd consecutive home win streak
1994 – Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Levellers, Elvis Costello, and Peter Gabriel headline; other performers include Spin Doctors, Johnny Cash, Meshell Ndegeocello, Dwight Yoakam, Lucky Dube, Oasis, and Iris Dement
1995 – 3rd Rugby World Cup, Ellis Park, Johannesburg: Springboks fly-half Joel Stransky lands the winning drop goal in extra time as South Africa beats New Zealand, 15-12
2015 – Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Kanye West, and The Who headline; other performers include Lionel Richie, Motörhead, Burt Bacharach, The Libertines, and Pharrell Williams
Historical Events for 23rd June 2023
1295 – Pope Boniface VIII enters Rome
1794 – Russian Empress Catherine II (Catherine the Great) grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev
1860 – US Congress establishes Government Printing Office
1938 – Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) established
1972 – 45 countries leave the Sterling Area, allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the British Pound
1975 – US Open Men’s Golf, Medinah CC: Lou Graham defeats John Mahaffey by 2 strokes in an 18-hole Monday playoff to win his only major championship
1982 – Himmy, of Australia, weighs in at domestic cat record 20.7 kg (45 lb)
1991 – A peace summit, brokered by the clergy and business and attended by all major political parties, but boycotted by the Conservative Party, is held to end the violence in South Africa
2003 – Barry Bonds steals second base against the LA Dodgers, becoming the first player in MLB history to have 500 career homers and 500 steals
2021 – 1st ICC World Test Championship final, Southampton: New Zealand dismisses India for meagre 170; completes tricky chase of 139 on 6th day to win inaugural cricket title
Historical Events for 22nd June 2023
1936 – Virgin Islands receives a constitution from US (Organic Act)
1944 – British 14th Army frees Imphal, Assam from the Japanese
1959 – Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to SF voyage
1970 – Supreme Court ruled juries of less than 12 are constitutional
1973 – George Harrison releases his fourth studio album “Living in the Material World” in the UK
1982 – Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales take their first new-born son Prince William home from hospital
1984 – Jolande van de Meer swims Dutch record 800 m freestyle (8:39.30)
1990 – Florida passes a law which prohibits wearing a thong bathing suit
2012 – Two Baghdad market bombings kill 14 people and injure 106
2022 – 6.1 magnitude earthquake, Afghanistan’s deadliest in twenty years, strikes near Khost, in the south-east, killing at least 1000 and injuring 1500
Historical Events for 21st June 2023
1734 – In Montreal, New France (Quebec), black slave Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony
1813 – Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria results in a victory for a Spanish, Portuguese and British alliance against the French
1938 – Bradman scores 101* in 77 minutes, Australia v Lancashire
1948 – Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy)
1962 – USAF Major Robert M. White takes X-15 to 75,190 m
1974 – 24th Berlin International Film Festival: “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz” wins the Golden Bear
1977 – Bülent Ecevit forms a minority government in Turkey which lasts only 1 month
1981 – US Open Men’s Golf, Merion GC: David Graham wins his second major title and becomes the first Australian to win the US Open, 3 strokes ahead of runners-up George Burns and Bill Rogers
2003 – “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” the 5th book of the series by J. K. Rowling is published worldwide in English
2020 – Kurt Cobain’s guitar during Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged show sells for a record $6 million
Historical Events for 20th June 2023
1582 – Bishop Domingo de Salazar of Manila suppresses the Philippines
1855 – Commissioners appointed to lay out San Francisco streets west of Larkin
1909 – 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham and Eleanor Waring)
1950 – Joe Dimaggio’s 2,000th hit, Yanks beat Indians 8-2
1968 – Austin Currie, then Nationalist Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont, and other Irish civil rights activists, protest discrimination in the allocation of housing by ‘squatting’ (illegally occupying) in a house in Caledon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
1973 – Juan Perón returns from exile to Argentina after 18 years
1973 – SF Giants Bobby Bonds sets NL record with 22 lead off HRs
1981 – Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 55 days for infection
1983 – New York Yankees 5-time MLB All Star outfielder Bobby Murcer retires
2020 – Historic dust cloud from the Sahara desert reaches the Caribbean, largest for half a century
Historical Events for 19th June 2023
936 – Louis IV [Louis of Overseas], crowned King of France
1938 – “Olympian Flyer” express train crashes in Montana, killing 47
1953 – WTPA (now WHTM) TV channel 27 in Harrisburg, PA (ABC) 1st broadcast
1963 – 2 Russian space missions return to Earth
1964 – Cambuur Leeuwarden BVO soccer team forms in Leeuwarden
1972 – Secretary of State for Northern Ireland William Whitelaw concedes ‘special category’ status, or ‘political status’ for paramilitary prisoners in Northern Ireland
1977 – US Open Golf, Southern Hills CC: Hubert Green shoots 2-under 278 to beat Lou Graham by 1 stroke
1988 – 32 divers finish cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins
1989 – Mets Dwight Gooden wins his 100th game (100-37)
2022 – US Center for Disease Control recommends Covid-19 vaccines for kids aged 6-months to 5 years
Historical Events for 18th June 2023
1779 – French fleet occupies St Vincent, West Indies
1872 – Woman’s Suffrage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1894 – Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate
1961 – KBMT TV channel 12 in Beaumont, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 – Closing day of the Monterey International Pop Festival, Southern California. First major US appearances of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, and Otis Redding
1972 – BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118
1979 – Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager (2nd time), replacing Bob Lemon
1983 – 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launches Sally Ride as 1st US woman in space
2018 – US President Trump orders US military to set up sixth branch of the military – a space force
2019 – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announces the suspension of the pro-China and highly controversial extradition law, after massive protests in the city
Historical Events for 17th June 2023
1939 – 44th Women’s French Championships: Simonne Mathieu beats Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (6-3, 8-6)
1947 – Earnest Reuter becomes mayor of Berlin
1956 – Golda Meir begins her term as Israel’s foreign minister
1962 – FIFA World Cup Final, Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile: Brazil go 1-down early but recover to beat Czechoslovakia, 3-1
1968 – Ohio Express’ “Yummy Yummy Yummy” goes gold
1973 – Dolly Parton records her song “I Will Always Love You” (later a huge hit for Whitney Houston) for RCA in Nashville
1978 – Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike-outs
1983 – Ed Warren and Lorraine Warren exorcise a “werewolf demon” from Bill Ramsey, although lack of photo or video evidence has called this claim into question
1985 – 18th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-G): Discovery 5 launches
2020 – American actor Danny Masterson charged with raping three women. after a 3-year investigation