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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 16th July 2023
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
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