632 – Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era
1745 – British fleet occupies Cape Breton on St Lawrence River
1898 – China’s emperor De Zong (Guang Xu) receives Kang Youwei
1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland
1925 – The Union Government rejects a round-table conference with India on the grounds that it will constitute interference in South African affairs
1932 – Sutcliffe and Holmes make 555 opening cricket stand for Yorkshire v Essex
1977 – Ron Guidry’s 1st complete game, 7-0 over KC Royals
1982 – Britain makes request to Argentina to arrange for return of prisoners
1987 – Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens
2010 – Hockey HOF right wing Cam Neely is named President of his former team, the Boston Bruins
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 15th June 2023
1567 – Republic of Genoa expels Jews from its whole territory
1869 – World’s 1st plastic celluloid is patented by John Wesley Hyatt in Albany, NY
1924 – Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile
1934 – Great Smokey Mountains National Park on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee is dedicated
1978 – Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days
1984 – “Thicke Of The Night” TV Talk Show last airs in syndication
1986 – Amnesty International “Conspiracy of Hope” tour concludes with mega-concert at Giants Stadium in Rutherford, New Jersey; participants include: U2; Sting; Bryan Adams; Peter Gabriel; Lou Reed; Neville Brothers; Joan Baez; Joan Armatrading; Joni Mitchell; The Police; Jackson Browne; Yoko Ono; Miles Davis; Peter, Paul and Mary; and The Hooters
2008 – 62nd Tony Awards: “In the Heights” (musical) and “August: Osage County” (play) win
2019 – Anthony Davis’s opera “The Central Park Five” premieres at the Long Beach Opera Company, California (Pulitzer Prize for Music 2020)
2020 – Philippines journalist and ‘Time Person of the Year’ Maria Ressa found guilty of cyber libel in Manila amid claims charges politically motivated
Historical Events for 14th June 2023
1565 – Catharina de Medici and Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism
1807 – Emperor Napoleon I’s French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Prussia (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending War of the Fourth Coalition
1944 – General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France
1957 – Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz to become NWA wrestling champion
1965 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jim Maloney no-hits New York Mets but loses in 11 innings, 1-0
1973 – 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe
1973 – US President Richard Nixon administration imposes 60-day economy-wide price freeze, superseding Special Rule No. 1 for oil companies
1980 – “Theme From New York, New York” by Frank Sinatra spreads to #32 on the charts
2013 – Hassan Rouhani is elected President of Iran
2019 – Petition to create world’s first “time free zone” on Sommaroy island which has complete daylight for 2 months, delivered to the Norwegian parliament
Historical Events for 13th June 2023
1777 – Marquis de Lafayette lands in the US
1854 – Anthony Faas, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, patents the 1st US accordion, having made improvements to both the keyboard, and to enhance the sound (Patent No. 11,062)
1868 – Oscar Dunn becomes first African American to be elected a Lieutenant Governor, of Louisiana
1927 – Ticker-tape parade welcomes Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
1953 – Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:18:40.2)
1990 – “Les Miserables” opens at S Alberta Jubilee Centre, Calgary
1994 – Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract
2015 – Philae, 1st spacecraft to land on a comet in European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission re-awakes after 7 months
2018 – Volkswagen fined €1 billion (£880m) by German prosecutors over diesel emissions scandal
2019 – Archaeologists announce Scottish crannogs (fortified settlements on artificial islands in lochs) far older than first thought, radiocarbon dated to 3640-3360 BC, older than Stonehenge
Historical Events for 12th June 2023
1534 – Turkish admiral Chaireddin “Barbarossa” allows Giulia Gonzaga to kidnap and plunder in Naples
1918 – 1st aerial bombing raid by an American unit, France
1926 – Brazil leaves League of Nations
1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures’ Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
1948 – “Hold It!” closes at National Theater NYC after 46 performances
1963 – American civil rights activist Medgar Evers is assassinated by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith in Jackson, Mississippi
1973 – Coleraine bombings: six Protestant civilians were killed and 33 wounded by a Provisional Irish Republican Army car bomb in Coleraine, County Londonderry
1981 – Only candidate Hassan Gouled Aptidon wins Djibouti Presidential election
1982 – 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park NYC
2016 – Stanley Cup Final, SAP Center, San Jose, CA: Pittsburgh Penguins defeat San Jose Sharks, 3-1 for a 4-2 series victory; Penguins 4th title
Historical Events for 11th June 2023
1488 – Battle of Sauchieburn, rebellion against the Scottish crown results in death of King James III
1676 – Battle at Öland: Danish and Dutch fleet under CM Tromp beats Sweden
1774 – Jews of Algiers escape attacking Spanish Army
1903 – British Open Men’s Golf, Prestwick GC: Harry Vardon wins his 4th Open title by 6 strokes from younger brother Tom Vardon
1938 – French Championships Men’s Tennis: American Don Budge beats Roderich Menzel of Czechoslovakia 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 for the 2nd leg of his Grand Slam
1967 – Chicago Cubs (7) and NY Mets (4) tie record of 11 HRs in a game
1976 – Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa
1992 – Owners approve sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group
2005 – WLAF World Bowl 13, LTU arena, Düsseldorf: Amsterdam Admirals beat Berlin Thunder, 27-21
2012 – Stanley Cup Final, Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA : LA Kings defeat New Jersey Devils, 6-1 for 4-2 series win; first SC title in Kings’ 45-year history
Historical Events for 10th June 2023
1891 – 25th Belmont: Ed Garrison riding Foxford wins in 2:08.75
1899 – Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati
1964 – Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked
1978 – 110th Belmont: Steve Cauthen wins aboard Affirmed to wrap up the Triple Crown
1979 – Baltimore Orioles pull their 8th triple play (5-4-3 vs Cleveland)
1982 – Iran-Iraq War: Iran recaptures Khorramshahr, Iran from Iraq
1989 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Arantxa Sánchez Vicario of Spain wins her first Grand Slam singles title; beats Steffi Graf 7-6, 3-6, 7-5
1991 – 25th Music City News Country Awards: Ricky Van Shelton wins
1991 – Mother of All Parades – NYC welcomes desert storm troops
2015 – 49th CMT Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, and Luke Bryan win
Historical Events for 9th June 2023
1534 – Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River
1860 – 1st US “dime novel” published: “Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter,” by Mrs Ann Stevens
1898 – China leases Hong Kong’s new territories to the United Kingdom for 99 years
1922 – First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University
1934 – US Open Men’s Golf, Merion Cricket Club: Olin Dutra overcomes an 8-stroke deficit after 36 holes to win his second major title by 1 stroke from Gene Sarazen
1944 – Soviet offensive in Carelia, Finland
1946 – New York Giant Mel Ott becomes first manager in MLB history to be ejected from both games of a doubleheader; Giants lose both games to Pittsburgh Pirates
1958 – Novelty song “The Purple People Eater” by Sheb Wooley hits #1
1978 – Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood
2021 – One of the worst ever plagues of mice in New South Wales, Australia, prompts local government to commit $100 million in support to farmers
Historical Events for 8th June 2023
452 – Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
1761 – British fleet occupies Belle Île off the Brittany Coast
1817 – An uprising involving three hundred workers in the English town of Pentrich begins but is quashed almost immediately
1928 – 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
1961 – Milwaukee sets record of 4 consecutive HRs (Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock and Frank Thomas)
1980 – LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: South African Sally Little wins first of her 2 major titles, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Jane Blalock
1981 – 15th Music City News Country Awards: Mandrell Sisters win
1982 – Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die
2007 – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia is hit by the State’s worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker
2020 – World Bank says the COVID-19 pandemic will shrink the global economy by 5.2% in 2020
Historical Events for 7th June 2023
1665 – Boston’s First Baptist Church, one of the oldest Baptist churches in America, is founded [NS March 1]
1862 – The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade
1957 – Mickey Stewart holds 7 cricket catches for Surrey v Northants
1978 – 32nd NBA championship: Washington Bullets defeat Seattle Supersonics in 7 games
1980 – Jeff Norman runs world record 50k (2:48:06)
2003 – French Open Women’s Tennis: In an all-Belgian final, Justine Henin-Hardenne outclasses Kim Clijsters 6-0, 6-4 for her 1st of 7 Grand Slam singles titles
2004 – “Live Like You Were Dying” single released by Tim McGraw (Grammy Award Best Country Song, 2004; Billboard Song of the Year, 2004)
2008 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Ana Ivanović of Serbia wins her only Grand Slam singles title; beats Russian Dinara Safina 6-4, 6-3
2014 – French Open Women’s Tennis: Maria Sharapova of Russia wins her 5th Grand Slam singles title; beats Romanian Simona Halep 6-4, 6-7, 6-4
2016 – “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”, a play written by Jack Thorne with JK Rowling, premieres in London