Canonization of Thomas Aquinas
1323 Pope John XXII proclaims theologian Thomas Aquinas a saint in Avignon
1334 Bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by artist Giotto di Bondone
- 1536 Pope’s authority declared void in England
Stadtholder William I of Orange
1572 Provincial States of Holland recognize William I of Orange as Stadtholder of Holland, Friesland and Utrecht at a gathering in Dordrecht
- 1630 Spanish troops occupy Mantua
- 1716 Decree orders all Jews expelled from Brussels
- 1737 Battle at Banja Luka: Turkish army beats Austrians
- 1743 First half-page newspaper ad is published, in the NY Weekly Journal
- 1753 Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slave holder in Framingham, Massachusetts
- 1766 Society of the Dutch Literary forms
- 1768 Boston Gazette publishes “Liberty Song,” America’s first patriotic song
HMS Investigator
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
- 1814 British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisconsin)
- 1817 Selkirk Treaty: Lord Selkirk signs agreement with five chiefs of Sautaux and Cree Nations for land use either side of Red and Assiniboine Rivers – 1st agreement in Western Canada recognizing Indigenous land rights [1]
- 1841 Pedro II, aged 15-years old, formally crowned Emperor of Brazil after a 10-year regency
- 1853 Completion of Grand Trunk Line, trains begin running over 1st North American railroad between Portland, Maine and Montreal
- 1857 Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall’s war against the French
- 1861 Battle of Blackburn’s Ford, Virginia
- 1862 Battle of Newburgh, Indiana – captured by Union forces
- 1863 Battle of Fort Wagner, South Carolina – Second assault
Lincoln Calls for Volunteers
1864 US President Abraham Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service
- 1870 Pope Pius IX and the First Vatican Council officially proclaim the concept of papal infallibility
- 1872 The Ballot Act introduces the secret ballot in elections in Britain; previously, votes were made openly
- 1882 Louisville Tony Mullane is 1st to pitch righty then lefty
- 1892 First human test of a vaccine against cholera; Ukrainian bacteriologist Waldemar Haffkine risks his life by successfully testing it on himself
- 1893 Australian Harry Graham scores 107 on cricket debut Australia v England, Lord’s
- 1896 George Giffen is 1st to complete 1000/100 double, in 30th Test Cricket
- 1896 Indian-born K S Ranjitsinhji completes an unbeaten 154 on Test cricket debut for England in second Test against Australia at Old Trafford
- 1897 Cap Anson is 1st to get 3,000 hits
- 1907 Florenz Ziegfeld’s “Follies of 1907” premieres in NYC
- 1907 French troops occupy Casablanca
- 1912 Chicago Cubs get 21 hits but lose to Philadelphia Phillies in 11 innings
Sports History
1913 MLB New York Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson gives up a walk for the first time in 69 innings
- 1921 Black Sox trial begins in Chicago
- 1923 British House of Lords accepts new divorce law
- 1924 KPD points out Rote Frontkampferbund against Nazi
- 1924 US vice consul Robert Imrie is killed after being attacked by a mob who possibly thought he had poisoned a well in Tehran, Persia, prompting an international incident [1]
Mein Kampf
1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf, original title was the catchy “Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice”
- 1926 The South Africa author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel
- 1930 SHO soccer team forms in Old Beijerland
- 1931 First air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launches
- 1932 Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign Ouchy Convention, a customs treaty
- 1932 US and Canada sign a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway
- 1935 Amsterdam city council accept city growth plan through the year 2000
Spanish Coup of July 1936
1936 Spanish Civil War: General Francisco Franco issues manifesto and leads an uprising in the Spanish army stationed in Morocco
1938 Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan arrives in Ireland after a 28-hour flight, supposedly leaving New York flying for California
- 1941 Nazi SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia
- 1942 1st legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens
- 1942 1st performances of “Chôros No. 6” and “Chôros No. 11” by Heitor Villa-Lobos, with the composer conducting Orquestra Sinfônica do Theatro Municipal, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 1942 Test flight of German Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time
- 1942 World’s first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, Messerschmitt Me 262, makes its first flight with jet engines
- 1943 British assault on Catania, Sicily
- 1943 Giants and Phillies strand record 30 baserunners, NY wins, 10-6
- 1944 7:45 Operation Goodwood: British assault east of Caen
- 1944 Allies air raid railways at Vaires, Paris
- 1944 Arne Andersson runs world record 1 mile (4:01.6)
- 1944 British air raid on German convoy SW of Heligoland
- 1944 British troops occupy Bourquebus hill range, Normandy
- 1944 Polish troops under General Anders occupy Ancona Italy
- 1944 RAF Mosquitos attack Cologne and Berlin
- 1944 US troop march into St Lo
- 1947 British seize “Exodus 1947” ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine
- 1947 Tigers shut out Yanks 2-0, end 19 game winning streak
- 1947 US begins administering Trust Territory of Pacific Islands
- 1947 US President Harry Truman signs Presidential Succession Act
- 1948 Pat Seerey of Chicago White Sox hits 4 HRs in an 11 inning game
Joe Walcott KOs Ezzard Charles
1951 Jersey Joe Walcott KOs Ezzard Charles in 7 rounds, becoming at age 37 the then oldest world heavyweight champion, at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- 1951 Uruguay accepts its constitution
- 1952 KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, Colorado (IND) begins broadcasting
Elvis Records First Demo
1953 Elvis Presley pays $3.98 to make his first demo at Sun Studio in Memphis, recording “My Happiness” and “That’s When Your Heartaches Begin” and reportedly gives the record to his mother as a belated birthday present.
- 1954 Cards losing 8-1 to Phillies begin stalling in 5th, they forfeit game
- 1955 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
- 1955 280 mm rain in Martinstown, Dorset (UK record)
- 1956 Erno Gero succeeds Matyas Rákosi as party leader of Hungary
- 1958 6th British Empire Games and Commonwealth Games open in Cardiff, Wales
The Nun’s Story
1959 “The Nun’s Story” based on the novel by Kathryn Hulme, starring Audrey Hepburn premieres in Los Angeles
- 1959 William ‘Bill’ Wright becomes the 1st African American to win a major golf tournament (U.S. Amateur Public Links Championships)
- 1960 1st UN troops reach Congo
- 1960 Baseball’s NL votes to add Houston and NY franchises
- 1960 Premier Kishi of Japan resigns
Sports History
1961 Commissioner Ford Frick rules Babe Ruth‘s record of 60 HR in 154-game sched in 1927, must be broken in 1st 154 of 162 games
Sports History
1962 Minnesota Twins Bob Allison and Harmon Killebrew hit grand slams in 1st inn & Harmon Killebrew connect in a club-record, 11-run 1st inning
- 1963 Failed military coup in Syria
- 1963 The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid releases its second interim report pressing for international sanctions against South Africa, particularly the supply of arms, ammunition and petroleum
- 1964 Race riot in Harlem, New York City; riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn
- 1965 Zond 3 launches to fly by the Moon and enters solar orbit
- 1967 Silver hits a record $1.87 an ounce in New York
Agreement of Interest
1969 Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL
- 1970 Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily
- 1970 Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time
Baseball Record
1970 San Francisco Giants outfielder Willie Mays becomes 10th baseball player to get 3,000 hits
- 1970 WJCL TV channel 22 in Savannah, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1972 200,000 attend Mt Pocono rock festival in Penns
Russians Ousted
1972 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat throws out 20,000 Russian military aides
Wilson Meets IRA
1972 Leader of the British Labour Party Harold Wilson holds meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army
- 1972 Mike Procter 8-73 with hat-trick, plus 51 and 102, Gloucs v Essex
- 1972 The 100th British soldier to die in the Northern Ireland “troubles” is shot by a sniper in Belfast
- 1974 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
- 1974 World’s tallest structure, a 646-meter Polish radio mast, is completed
- 1975 Jury can’t decide on trial of Dave Forbes of Boston Bruins, the 1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play; criminal charges are not pursued, and a $1M settlement is reached with injured Minnesota North Star Henry Boucha
Nadia Comăneci
1976 Nadia Comăneci (14) becomes the first gymnast in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 score (doing so 7 times) at Montreal Games
- 1976 Stockhausens “Sirius” premieres in NYC
- 1976 Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle’s SRB at Brigham, Ut
- 1977 Hugh Leonard’s “Da” premieres in London
- 1977 Vietnam becomes a member of the UN
- 1978 Egyptian and Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks
- 1979 Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London
- 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
It’s Still Rock ‘n’ Roll to Me
1980 Billy Joel‘s “Glass Houses” album tops US charts, featuring “It’s Still Rock ‘n’ Roll to Me”
- 1980 Failed attack on former Prime Minister of Iran Shapour Bakhtiar in Neuilly, France
- 1980 Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn’t include women
- 1980 Quett Masire installed as President of Botswana
- 1980 Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit
- 1981 Polish communist party expels former party leader Edward Gierek, blaming him for the rise of the Solidarity movement
- 1983 Despite being in 1st place tie in NL East, Philadelphia Phillies (43-42) fire manager Pat Corrales, replacing him with GM Paul Owens, eventually getting to World Series (losing to Baltimore)
- 1984 21 people are killed and 19 are injured in a massacre in a McDonalds restaurant in San Ysidro, California; it ends with the shooting of its perpetrator, James Oliver Huberty
Walter Mondale
1984 Walter Mondale wins the Democratic Party presidential nomination in San Francisco
Baseball Record
1987 New York Yankees Don Mattingly ties record of HRs in 8 consecutive games
Meeting of Interest
1991 Mike Tyson meets Miss Black America contestants
- 1992 The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappear from their university in Lima, Peru
Afghan Leaders Resign
1993 Afghan President Ishaq Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resign
- 1993 Liberal-Democratic Party loses Japan’s parliamentary election
- 1994 Bomb attack on Jewish center AMIA in Buenos Aires, 86 killed
- 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy’s largest collision with Jupiter leaves a black spot 12,000 km across
- 1994 Court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights
- 1994 Crayola announces the introduction of scented crayons
- 1994 Houston Astros tie NL comeback record, trailing 10-0, beat Cards 15-12
- 1994 NY Jets sign USA soccer goalkeeper Tony Miola as a place kicker
Dreams from My Father
1995 “Dreams from My Father,” a memoir by Barack Obama, is published by Times Books
- 1995 DC3 crashes at Antananarivo, Madagascar, 34 die
- 1996 Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Québec’s costliest natural disasters ever
- 1996 The UN approves an Iraqi aid distribution plan, a major step forward in the direction of allowing Iraq to sell oil under Resolution 986
Baseball Record
1999 New York Yankees’ David Cone becomes 15th pitcher to throw a perfect game (6-0 vs Montreal)
Sports History
2001 Chris Sharma completes the first ascent of the route Realization/Biographie in Ceüse, France, the world’s first consensus 9a+ (5.15a) route
- 2008 Billy Joel performs last of two concerts dubbed “The Last Play at Shea”; the final concert event before demolition of the 1964 baseball stadium in Flushing Meadows, Queens, NYC; featured guests include Roger Daltrey, Tony Bennett, Garth Brooks, and Paul McCartney
- 2009 Five members of one family are found murdered at Epping, New South Wales
- 2012 14 people are killed after a bomb explosion at Pakistan’s Orakzai Agency
- 2012 24 people are killed after a ferry sinks off the coast of Zanzibar
- 2012 6 Israeli tourists are killed and 30 injured after a bomb explodes on a tourist bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria
Kim Jong-un
2012 Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People’s Army
- 2012 Syrian suicide bombing kills three high profile government officials, including Syria’s Minister of Defence
- 2012 Violence across Syria results in 97 deaths
- 2013 Detroit, Michigan, files for bankruptcy, becoming the largest US municipal bankruptcy ever at $18.5 billion
- 2014 The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) call 18,000 additional reserves soldiers in campaign against Gaza
- 2015 “The Sun” newspaper in Britain controversially publishes old picture and video of Queen Elizabeth giving Nazi salute in 1933
- 2015 PayPal is spun off from eBay as a separate publicly traded company on the NASDAQ
- 2018 44 Forest fires in Sweden as far north as the Arctic Circle prompt Swedish government to request extra assistance, with drought and warm weather to blame
Cliff Richard vs BBC
2018 Cliff Richard wins privacy case against the BBC, for reporting he was being investigated over historic child sexual assaults
- 2018 Google fined record $5.1 billion by the EU for abusing its power in mobile phone market
Sports History
2018 Kawhi Leonard is traded to the Toronto Raptors in exchange for DeMar DeRozan, Jakob Pöltl, and a protected 2019 first-round draft pick
- 2018 Lava from Kilauea volcano eruption has now destroyed 700 homes and added 700 acres to Big Island confirms Hawaii National Guard
- 2018 New Earth geological age announced, the Meghalayan Age 4,200 years ago to the present, by the International Commission on Stratigraphy
- 2018 Nicaraguan government announces Masaya is back under its control after violent clashes with anti-government protesters
- 2018 Seventeen men charged with the gang-rape of a 12-year-old girl in Chennai, India
- 2018 Turkey ends its two-year State of Emergency
- 2019 Arson attack on animated studio Kyoto Animation Co in Kyoto, Japan, kills at least 33
- 2019 Children’s songs “Baby Shark” and “Raining Tacos” used by City of West Palm Beach, Florida to drive away homeless people from the waterfront
- 2019 June 2019 was the hottest June on record with average worldwide temperature of 61.6°F (16.4°C) according to The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- 2019 One of world’s earliest mosques at 1,200 years old discovered by archaeologists in Israel’s Negev Desert
Chinese Third Plenum
2024 Chinese Third Plenum, a five-yearly decision-making summit, ends with a focus on “Chinese Modernisation” and lays groundwork for an unprecedented fourth term for Xi Jinping [1]
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