- 959 Erachus becomes Bishop of Liège
Toluid Civil War
1264 Kublai Khan accepts the surrender of his younger brother Ariq Böke at Xanadu, at the end of the Mongol civil war
Siege of Buda
1541 Ottoman Turks under Suleiman the Magnificent capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom and go on to dominate central Hungary for 158 years until the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz
Tycho Brahe’s Inspiration
1560 Future Danish astronomer 14-year-old Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy after observing a solar eclipse
Event of Interest
1703 Edirne Incident: Turkish army ousts Sultan Mustafa II, replacing him with his brother Ahmed III, reducing the power of the Sultan
- 1760 The church (later cathedral) of “Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagüez” is founded in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, establishing the basis for the city’s foundation
Coup of Gustav III
1772 King Gustav III of Sweden completes a coup d’état by adopting a new constitution and installing himself as an enlightened despot, ending 50 years of parliamentary rule
Battle of Vimeiro
1808 Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War
Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion
1831 Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
- 1841 John Hampton patents the Venetian blind
- 1842 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is declared a city
- 1852 Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory
- 1856 America’s first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda (traditional Japanese date: July 21, 1856)
- 1858 First Lincoln-Douglas debate in Illinois
- 1862 The Vienna Stadtpark, the first public park and garden in Vienna, Austria, opens its gates
Lawrence Massacre
1863 Lawrence Massacre [Quantrill’s raid]: 450 Confederate guerrillas led by William Quantrill, with William T. Anderson and Frank James, attack the Unionist town of Lawrence, Kansas, killing more than 150 unarmed men and boys
- 1864 Battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia, ends with 2,500 casualties
- 1864 Battle of Grubbs Crossroads, Kentucky
- 1864 Battle of Summit Point, Virginia
- 1864 Major General Nathan B. Forrest assaults Memphis, Tennessee
- 1878 American Bar Association organizes in Saratoga, New York
- 1878 Surrey wicket-keeper Ted Pooley completes a first-class cricket record of eight stumpings in a county match against Kent at The Oval
- 1879 The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland
1888 American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine
- 1891 Dutch Mackay government resigns
Stanley Honored
1895 Henry Morton Stanley makes his maiden speech in the UK House of Commons as the Member for North Lambeth in a discussion on Africa
- 1897 Oldsmobile is first manufactured by Olds Motor Vehicle Co. in Lansing, Michigan
- 1901 Baltimore Orioles pitcher Joe McGinnity is suspended from MLB for punching and spitting on umpire Tom Connolly in the previous day’s 5-2 loss to the Detroit Tigers; the lifetime suspension is reduced to 12 days
- 1911 Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Peruggia and recovered in 1913
- 1912 Francis Carter-Cotton is chosen as the first chancellor of the University of British Columbia
- 1914 French offensive along the Sambre River in the Ardennes, Belgium
- 1914 German troops occupy Tamines, Belgium
- 1915 Italy declares war on Turkey in World War I
- 1916 Sir Roger Casement, an Ulster Protestant and ardent Irish nationalist, arrested by the British
- 1925 Dutch football club FC Emmen is formed in the town of Emmen in the northeastern province of Drenthe in the Netherlands
- 1926 Chicago White Sox pitcher Ted Lyons no-hits the Boston Red Sox 6-0 in just 67 minutes at Fenway Park
- 1926 Uprising against Greek President and dictator Pangalos leads to the arrest of Pangalos and the return to power by Kountouriotis
- 1927 Fourth Pan-African Congress meets in New York City
- 1929 Chicago Cardinals become the first professional football team to train out of town
- 1930 Prohibition of Wieringermeer finishes
Ferrell’s 20 Game Record
1932 Cleveland Indians pitcher Wes Ferrell is the first to win 20 games in each of his first four seasons
- 1938 Italy bars all Jewish teachers in public and high schools
- 1939 Attorney Samuel Tucker organizes a peaceful sit-in at the public library in Alexandria, Virginia, in an effort to grant Black patrons equal access; five young men are arrested for disorderly conduct. No trial is ever held, and charges are officially dropped 80 years later, and the community builds a separate facility nearby [1]
- 1942 Transport #22 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
Bambi Released
1942 Walt Disney’s animated movie “Bambi,” based on the book by Felix Salten, is released
- 1942 World War II: German soldiers plant the Nazi flag on Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus
- 1943 Japan leaves Aleutian Islands
- 1943 USSR names Andrei Gromyko as its ambassador to the United States
- 1944 Battle of Falaise, Normandy, led by Polish Armoured Division and First Canadian Army, is the largest encirclement on the Western Front, leading to the surrender and capture of the German 7th Army
- 1944 Germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) in Normandy
- 1944 Grieg, Wright, and Forrest’s musical “Song of Norway” premieres in NYC
- 1944 Raid on Jewish children’s house in Secrétan and St-Mandé
- 1944 US 12th Army Corps occupies Sens
- 1945 US President Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease program
- 1948 Cleveland Indians 47-inning scoreless streak is broken as future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Lemon yields a home run to Aaron Robinson in a 3-2 loss to Chicago White Sox
- 1949 Canada’s largest earthquake since 1700 strikes the Queen Charlotte Fault below Haida Gwaii at 8.1 magnitude, knocking cows off their feet [1]
- 1949 Philadelphia fans cause the A’s to forfeit the game when they riot over a trapped line drive by Richie Ashburn, with the Giants leading 4-2 in the 9th inning, declared winners
Baseball Hires John Norman Lewis
1953 Baseball player representatives Ralph Kiner (NL) and Allie Reynolds (AL) hire labor leader John Norman Lewis for $15,000 to give legal advice to players in negotiations with team owners
- 1953 Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches a record of 25,370 meters
- 1953 Sultan Sidi Mohammed Am Joessoef V of Morocco is deposed
Emmett Till’s Fateful Trip
1955 Chicago teenager Emmett Till arrives in Money, Mississippi, to visit relatives, a week before he is murdered
- 1956 WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1957 First launch of the R-7 “Semyorka” rocket, an intercontinental ballistic missile, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan
- 1957 The Soviet Union successfully tests the world’s first intercontinental ballistic missile, the R-7, which flies over 6,000 km (3,700 mi)
- 1958 KUT-FM in Austin, Texas, begins radio transmissions
- 1959 Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the United States
Crazy
1961 American country singer Patsy Cline records struggling songwriter Willie Nelson’s song “Crazy” in Nashville, Tennessee
Kenyatta Freed from Jail
1961 Kenyan political activist Jomo Kenyatta is released from jail after 9 years, having been imprisoned during the 1952 Mau Mau rebellion with other nationalist leaders by British authorities
- 1962 Verne Gagne defeats Mister M (Doctor X) in Minneapolis to become NWA champion
- 1963 Jerry Lynch’s record 15th pinch-hit home run gives Pirates a 7-6 victory
- 1963 Martial law is declared in South Vietnam following raids on Buddhist pagodas
- 1965 Gemini V launched into orbit, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles “Pete” Conrad [1]
- 1965 Romania adopts a constitution
- 1965 The Crusher beats Mad Dog Vachon in St. Paul to become NWA champion
- 1966 The Beatles headline their second show of the day at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, after playing in the afternoon 341 miles away in Cincinnati, Ohio, following a rainout the night before
- 1967 China reports the downing of two US bombers
- 1967 Liquid gas tanker explodes in Martelange, Belgium, killing 22
- 1967 Mikis Theodorakis is arrested in Greece
- 1967 MLB Kansas City Athletics utility player Ken Harrelson becomes baseball’s first free agent when he is abruptly released by the team after he reportedly refers to team owner Charlie Finley as “a menace to baseball”
- 1968 After five years, the Soviet Union once again jams Voice of America radio
Democratic Convention
1968 Democratic Convention opens in Chicago and goes on to nominate Hubert Humphrey
- 1968 PFC James Anderson Jr. is the first African American Marine to receive the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War
1968 Warsaw Pact forces complete their invasion of Czechoslovakia by arresting Czech leader Alexander Dubček and forcing him to sign the Moscow Protocols
- 1969 Fire in Al-Aqsa-mosque in Jerusalem
- 1969 First Gap clothing store opens on Ocean Avenue, San Francisco
SDLP Established
1970 The Social and Democratic Labour Party (SDLP) is established with Gerry Fitt as the first leader of the party
- 1972 British dock strike ends after dockers accept an amended Jones-Adlington Agreement
- 1972 First hot air balloon flight over the Alps
- 1972 Grace Slick is maced by police when a band official calls cops pigs
- 1972 Republican Convention opens in Miami Beach
- 1972 US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus is launched
- 1975 Rick and Paul Reuschel become the first brothers to pitch a combined shutout
- 1975 The US eases the trade embargo against Cuba
- 1975 Three-truck pile-up kills 10 and injures 26 on French highway
- 1976 Al Bumbry hits 17th inside-the-park home run in Oriole history
- 1976 Battle, East Sussex: Mary Langdon becomes the first British firewoman
- 1976 Operation Paul Bunyan begins in retaliation for the Korean axe murder incident three days prior, deploying 110 troops, 27 helicopters, and three B-52 bombers to the Korean Demilitarized Zone to cut down a poplar blocking the view of UN observers
- 1977 American water skier Donna Patterson Brice sets women’s high speed record 111.11 mph at Long Beach, California
- 1978 Release of first gay-themed telefilm, “Matlovich vs. U.S. Air Force,” based on the true story of Leonard Matlovich, a US Air Force sergeant who is discharged from the Air Force for being gay
- 1979 Mets win a protested game against Astros 5-0
- 1979 Russian Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in New York City, joins the American Ballet Theatre, and works as a film actor
- 1980 British drummer and band co-founder Bill Ward quits Black Sabbath for the first time
- 1980 People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is founded in a basement office in Takoma Park, Maryland
- 1982 Milwaukee Brewers relief pitcher Rollie Fingers becomes the first pitcher to achieve 300 saves
- 1982 Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut
- 1983 110°F (43°C) recorded in Fayetteville, North Carolina (state record)
- 1985 American Mary Decker Slaney runs a mile in a world record time of 4:16.71 in Zurich, Switzerland; it is the third time she holds the record
Agnes of God
1985 Film adaptation of John Pielmeier’s stage drama “Agnes of God,” directed by Norman Jewison and starring Meg Tilly, Anne Bancroft, and Jane Fonda, premieres
- 1985 NY Lotto pays $41 million to three winners (numbers are 14-17-22-23-30-47)
Cricket Record
1986 Ian Botham takes his world-record 356th Test cricket wicket against New Zealand at The Oval
- 1986 Lake Nyos volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases a poisonous cloud of carbon dioxide, killing 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock
- 1986 Red Sox Spike Owen scores 6 runs in a 24-5 rout of the Cleveland Indians
- 1986 Suriname’s Ronnie Brunswijk’s Jungle Commandos kill two government officials
- 1986 With two outs in the sixth inning, the Red Sox score 11 runs
Dirty Dancing
1987 “Dirty Dancing,” a film directed by Emile Ardolino and starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, opens in the US
- 1987 Clayton Lonetree, the first US Marine court-martialed for spying, is convicted
- 1987 Mack Lobell sets harness racing’s trotting mile record (1:52)
- 1987 Silke Hörner swims the women’s world record in the 100m breaststroke (1:07.91)
1989 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of Neptune
Conservative Coup Fails
1991 Conservative coup in the Soviet Union is crushed by popular resistance led by Boris Yeltsin in three days
- 1991 Latvia declares its independence from USSR
- 1992 US Marshals move in on Randy Weaver’s cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, to apprehend him on firearms charges; an 11-day standoff ensues
- 1993 NASA loses contact with Mars Observer
- 1994 Ernesto Zedillo wins the Mexican presidential election
- 1994 Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crashes at Agadir, killing 44
- 1994 The last French troops pull out of Rwanda, ending their highly controversial mission
- 1994 Typhoon Fred ravages Chinese county Zhejiang, killing 700+
- 1995 Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529 crashes near Carrollton, Georgia, killing 9 crew members and passengers
- 1996 In Venezuela, a subsidiary of state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela (PdVSA), Corpoven, signs a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with U.S.-based ARCO
- 1996 Netscape Browser 3.0 is released
- 1997 Typhoon Winnie kills 140 and injures 3,000 in East China
- 1997 US government forces closure of Hudson Foods due to E. coli outbreak
Botha Refuses to Testify
1998 P. W. Botha is found guilty of contempt for repeatedly ignoring subpoenas to testify before South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- 2001 “How You Remind Me” single released by Nickelback (Billboard Song of the Year 2002)
- 2001 NATO decides to send a peacekeeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
- 2001 The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
Phelps Wins 6th Gold
2004 American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins his sixth gold medal of the Athens Olympics even though he doesn’t swim in the final of the men’s 4 x 100 m medley relay; the US wins in a world record time of 3:30.68
- 2004 Belarusian sprinter Yulia Nestsiarenka runs 10.93 to beat American Lauryn Williams and win the 100 m gold medal at the Athens Olympics
- 2004 Nicolás Massú and Fernando González win the men’s doubles tennis at the Athens Olympics, defeating the German pair Nicolas Kiefer and Rainer Schüttler in 5 sets; it is Chile’s first Olympic gold medal
- 2004 South Africa clinches its second Tri Nations Rugby Series on points differential with a 23-19 win over Australia in Durban; the Wallabies score 3 tries to 2, but Percy Montgomery lands 5 goals for the Springboks
- 2004 The archery competition concludes at the Athens Olympics with South Korea dominating by winning 3 out of 4 gold medals; the venue is the Panathenaic Stadium, where the 1896 games were held
- 2004 The Australian women’s 4 x 100 m medley relay team of Giaan Rooney, Leisel Jones, Petria Thomas, and Jodie Henry smash the world record to take gold in 3:57.32 at the Athens Olympics
- 2007 Hurricane Dean, the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5, makes landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico, with winds at 165 mph
- 2008 After winning the event in Athens, Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown wins consecutive 200 m Olympic titles, beating American Allyson Felix by 0.19 seconds in Beijing
- 2008 American pair Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh dominate China’s Tian Jia and Wang Jie 21-18, 21-18 in the beach volleyball final to repeat their gold medal from Athens; they don’t lose a set in the competition
- 2008 An American sweep of the 400 m medals at the Beijing Olympics; LaShawn Merritt wins gold in 43.75 ahead of Jeremy Wariner and David Neville
- 2008 Daniëlle de Bruijn scores a match-winning 7 goals as the Netherlands upsets the United States 9-8 to take the women’s water polo gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
- 2008 Dutch swimmer and cancer survivor Maarten van der Weijden wins inaugural men’s open water marathon (10 km) in 1:51:51.6 at the Beijing Olympics
- 2008 Japan edges the United States 3-1 for the gold medal in the final of the women’s softball tournament at the Beijing Olympics
US Women Win Football Gold
2008 Striker Carli Lloyd scores in extra time as United States beats Brazil 1-0 to win the women’s football gold medal at Beijing Olympics
- 2010 New Zealand clinches their 10th Tri Nations Rugby Series with one match remaining, scoring 2 tries in the last 3 minutes to beat South Africa 29–22 in the first-ever Test at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg
- 2012 Twenty people die from the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 2013 21 people are killed in flash floods in Qinghai province, China
- 2013 37 people are killed and 16 are injured in a bus crash near Chin Swee Temple, Malaysia
- 2014 Israeli airstrike in Rafah kills Mohammed Abu Shammala, Raed al-Atar, and Mohammed Barhoum, three of Hamas’s top commanders
- 2015 European Refugee Crisis: Germany makes it easier for Syrian refugees to claim asylum by suspending their Dublin Regulations
- 2015 First British unmanned drone hits a UK citizen outside a conflict: ISIS fighter Reyaad Khan in Raqqa, Syria
- 2015 Terrorist attack on train between Amsterdam and Paris is thwarted by four passengers overpowering the gunman
- 2016 Brazil wins its third Olympic men’s indoor volleyball gold medal at the Rio Games with a 25–22, 28–26, 26–24 victory over Italy
Kipchoge Wins Marathon
2016 Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge wins the Olympic men’s marathon gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Games in a time of 2:08:44; Feyisa Lilesa (Ethiopia) is second in 2:09:54, and Galen Rupp (US) is third in 2:10:05
US Men Basketball Gold
2016 Kevin Durant scores 30 as the US retains the Olympic men’s basketball title with a comfortable 96-66 win over Serbia at the Rio de Janeiro Games
- 2016 XXXI Summer Olympic Games close at the Estadio Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 2017 Chile’s Constitutional Court approves a bill to ease the country’s total abortion ban
- 2017 Destroyer USS John S. McCain collides with an oil tanker near Singapore, leaving 10 missing and 5 injured
- 2017 Johnson & Johnson is ordered to pay $417 million to a woman who develops ovarian cancer after using their talc-based products
- 2017 London’s Parliament clock, Big Ben, chimes for the last time before a four-year restoration process for its tower begins
- 2017 Total solar eclipse visible from North America
Turnbull Survives
2018 Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull calls for and wins a leadership vote 48-35 over Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton
- 2018 California Representative Duncan Hunter is indicted for using campaign funds for personal expenses, including holidays and a flight for a pet rabbit
Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty
2018 Michael Cohen, President Trump‘s personal lawyer, pleads guilty to charges, including making illegal payments at the direction of Trump to women with whom Trump had affairs
- 2018 Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign chairman, is convicted on eight counts of fraud in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia
- 2018 Water ice is first detected on the Moon by India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft (2008-9) in findings published by scientists
- 2019 74,155 fires caused by land clearing are burning in the Amazon rainforest, the most ever recorded, according to Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research
The Rock Highest Paid Actor
2019 Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is named the highest-paid actor for a second year in a row, earning $89.4 million
- 2019 German Chancellor challenges British PM Boris Johnson to find a solution to a no-deal Brexit in 30 days during their meeting in Berlin
2019 Nigeria goes three years without a case of polio in a landmark step toward the eradication of the disease
- 2019 US President Donald Trump says Danish PM Mette Frederiksen is “nasty” to him over his interest in buying Greenland and cancels his trip to Denmark
- 2020 American actress Lori Loughlin is sentenced to two months in prison along with her husband for her role in the US college admissions bribery scandal
Golf Record
2020 American golfer Scottie Scheffler makes birdies on four of the final five holes to become the 12th player in PGA Tour history to shoot a 59 in the second round of the Northern Trust at TPC Boston
- 2021 Flash flooding in Humphreys County, Middle Tennessee, kills 22, with dozens missing
House of the Dragon
2022 “House of the Dragon”, prequel to “Game of Thrones” premieres on HBO, starring Paddy Considine, Matt Smith and Emma D’Arcy
- 2022 Masai Graham wins funniest joke at Edinburgh Fringe with “I tried to steal spaghetti from the shop, but the female guard saw me and I couldn’t get pasta.” [1]
- 2023 Charles Martinet, the voice of Mario in Nintendo’s video games, retires after 27 years [1]
- 2023 Saudi border guards are accused of killing hundreds of migrants, shooting them as they try to cross into the country from Yemen in a report by Human Rights Watch [1]
Henry Named Manager
2023 Thierry Henry is named the new manager of the France national under-21 team
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