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
Category: Historical Events
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.
Historical Events for 26th June 2023
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
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