- 1237 Treaty of York is signed between Kings Henry III of England and Alexander II of Scotland, establishing a boundary between the two countries that remains mostly unchanged in modern times
- 1340 England and France sign a disarmament treaty
- 1396 Battle of Nicopolis: forces of Ottoman Sultan Bajezid I defeat a combined Crusades army in northern Bulgaria
- 1513 Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crosses the Isthmus of Panama, becoming the first European to see the Pacific Ocean
- 1555 Freedom of religion in Augsburg
- 1639 First printing press in America set up in Cambridge under the guaranty of Harvard College
- 1639 Suzuki Shosan, Samurai monk of Zen Buddhism, found awakening
- 1654 England and Denmark sign a trade agreement
- 1663 Austrian Fort Neuhausl surrenders to invading Turkish army
- 1690 Publick Occurrences, the first newspaper in the American colonies (Boston), publishes its first and last edition because the publisher did not obtain a license to print
Ethan Allen Captured
1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen is captured
- 1781 Joan Derks scatters “On the People of the Netherlands” pamphlets
1789 The First U.S. Congress proposes the Bill of Rights, a set of amendments to the constitution guaranteeing essential liberties including freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the right to peaceful assemble
- 1804 Twelfth Amendment to the US Constitution, establishing the procedure for electing the President and Vice President, becomes effective
- 1820 French Physicist François Arago announces electromagnetism in his discovery that a copper wire between the poles of a voltaic cell could laterally attract iron filings to itself
- 1836 HMS Beagle anchors at St. Michael
- 1844 Canada defeats the USA by 23 runs in the first international cricket match at the grounds of St. George’s Cricket Club in Manhattan, New York
- 1846 US troops under General Zachary Taylor occupy Monterrey, Mexico, during the Mexican–American War
- 1857 Relief of Lucknow by Havelock and Outram begins
- 1861 Secretary of the US Navy authorizes the enlistment of slaves
- 1862 Skirmish at Davis’s Bridge, Tennessee
- 1866 Jerome Park opens in the Bronx for horse racing
- 1867 Congress creates the first all-black university, Howard University, in Washington, D.C.
- 1868 The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia
Billy the Kid Escapes
1875 Billy the Kid escapes jail in Silver City, New Mexico, by climbing out of a chimney and becomes a fugitive
- 1878 British physician Dr. Charles Drysdale warns against the use of tobacco in a letter to The Times newspaper in one of the earliest public health announcements on the dangers of smoking
- 1882 First baseball doubleheader (Providence and Worcester)
- 1886 Comedy opera “Dorothy” is first produced in London
- 1888 Royal Court Theatre in London opens
Sequoia National Park
1890 Sequoia National Park is established by US President Benjamin Harrison as California’s first national park and the country’s second
- 1897 First British bus service opens
- 1904 Charles Follis becomes the first African American man contracted to play professional football on an integrated team when he signs with the Shelby Blues of the Ohio League
- 1906 John Galsworthy’s “Silver Box” premieres in London
- 1906 Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the Telekino in Bilbao before a large crowd, guiding a boat from the shore, considered the birth of remote control
Symphony No. 3
1907 Jean Sibelius‘ 3rd Symphony premieres with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society, conducted by the composer
- 1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in New York
- 1911 French battleship Liberté explodes at Toulon Harbor, killing 285
- 1911 Groundbreaking for Fenway Park begins in Boston
- 1912 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City
- 1915 Battle of Loos commences and lasts until 14th October; chlorine gas deployed by the British is blown back into their own trenches, resulting in 59,000 British and 26,000 German casualties
- 1915 The Second Battle of Champagne begins with a French offensive against the German army and ends with a French retreat on 6 November
Wilson’s Breakdown
1919 US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a breakdown in Pueblo, Colorado; his health never recovers
40-Hour Work Week
1926 Henry Ford announces an 8-hour, 5-day workweek for workers at Ford Motor Company
- 1926 International Slavery Convention is signed by 20 states
- 1926 NHL grants franchises to the Chicago Blackhawks and the Detroit Red Wings
- 1926 Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch the AL pennant
- 1930 Austrian government of Vaugoin forms
- 1930 Zoe Akins’ “The Greeks Had a Word for It” premieres in New York City
- 1932 Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th home run in the last game of the season
- 1932 Poona Pact signed by Madan Mohan Malaviya and B. R. Ambedkar in India, reserving legislative seats for depressed classes (untouchables)
- 1933 First state poorhouse opens in Smyrna, Georgia
- 1933 The fifth “extermination campaign” begins against communists in Nanjing and Jiangxi Province, China
The Distaff Side
1934 John Van Druten‘s comedy play “The Distaff Side” premieres in New York City
Gehrig’s 1,500th Game
1934 Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,500th consecutive game
- 1934 Rainbow (USA) beats Endeavour (UK) in the 16th America’s Cup
- 1936 Joe Medwick sets a National League record with his 64th double
- 1937 Battle of Pingxingguan Pass: Chinese forces defeat the Japanese army in a key battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War
- 1937 Il Duce visits Berlin, named the Führer to Corporal First Class
- 1939 Andorra and Germany sign a treaty ending World War I, as the Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra
- 1939 German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with incendiary bombs
Quisling Government
1940 The German High Commissioner in Norway sets up the Vidkun Quisling government
1947 Second Cannes Film Festival ends with six different awards presented, including Best Musical for Vincente Minnelli’s “Ziegfeld Follies” and Best Animation for Walt Disney‘s “Dumbo”
- 1949 Despite 71 injuries, the Yankees have been in first place all season until the Red Sox move into a tie for first place
Billy Graham’s Crusade
1949 Evangelist Billy Graham begins his “Los Angeles Crusade” in a circus tent erected in a parking lot
- 1952 Hal Newhouser of the Tigers wins his 200th game
Haitian Presidential Election
1954 François “Doc” Duvalier wins the Haitian presidential election
- 1954 Indians win an AL-record 111 games
- 1954 WCBD TV channel 2 in Charleston, South Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1955 The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded
- 1956 Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits the Philadelphia Phillies 5-0
- 1956 Transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation from Newfoundland to Oban
- 1957 18th Venice Film Festival: Influential Indian film “Aparajito,” directed by Satyajit Ray, is the first film to win both the Golden Lion and the Critics’ Award
- 1957 300 US Army troops guard nine Black students returning to Central High School in Arkansas
- 1957 Great Britain performs a nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia
- 1957 Soviet Seven-Year Plan (1959-1965) is announced
- 1960 For the first time since 1927, the Pirates clinch the NL pennant
- 1960 Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday losses
- 1960 The New York Yankees clinch the AL pennant
- 1961 “The Hustler,” directed by Robert Rossen and starring Paul Newman, premieres in Washington, D.C.
- 1961 KTPS TV channel 62 in Tacoma, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1962 “New Painting of Common Objects” exhibition at Pasadena Art Museum opens, becoming the first show on American Pop Art
- 1962 A Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon, Georgia
Liston KOs Patterson
1962 Challenger Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson at 2:06 of round 1 at Comiskey Park, Chicago, to win the world heavyweight boxing title
- 1962 USSR performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
- 1962 Weatherly (US) beats Gretel (AUS) in the 19th running of the America’s Cup
- 1962 Yankees clinch the AL pennant
- 1964 Jens Otto Krag forms minority government in Denmark
- 1965 Beatles cartoon show begins in US
- 1965 Children find a trunk with a corpse in an Amsterdam canal
- 1965 Sixty-year-old Satchel Paige of the Kansas City Athletics pitches three scoreless innings
- 1966 413 spectators, the smallest Yankee Stadium crowd, watch the White Sox win 4-1
Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 2
1966 Dmitri Shostakovich‘s Cello Concerto No. 2 premieres in Moscow at the composer’s 60th birthday concert
- 1967 WGBX TV channel 44 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
Beaucoups of Blues
1970 Ringo Starr releases his second solo album “Beaucoups of Blues,” a collection of country music recorded in Nashville, Tennessee
- 1972 Dutch Air Force drives away Russian Tupolev bomber
- 1972 KAVT (now KSMQ) TV channel 15 in Austin, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1972 Norway votes to join the European Common Market
- 1973 The New York Mets beat the Montreal Expos 2-1 on “Willie Mays Night” at Shea Stadium in New York City
- 1973 Three-man crew of Skylab 3 makes a safe splashdown in the Pacific Ocean after 59 days
- 1974 Scientists first report that freon gases from aerosol sprays are destroying the ozone layer
- 1974 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
U2 Forms
1976 Bono, David Evans, his brother Dik, and Adam Clayton respond to an advertisement on a bulletin board at Mount Temple posted by fellow student Larry Mullen Jr. to form a rock band, which becomes U2
Chevy Chase Defamation Suit
1980 Comedian Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on the “Tomorrow” show; a $10 million defamation lawsuit follows and is settled out of court for an undisclosed sum
- 1980 Jerry Mumphrey joins Ozzie Smith and Gene Richards to steal 50 bases this year for MLB San Diego Padres
- 1980 The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan is held in Kabul
- 1980 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1980 USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeastern Kazakhstan
- 1981 The Rolling Stones begin their sixth US tour at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia
- 1982 Keke Rosberg becomes the first Finn to win the Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship when he finishes 5th in the season-ending Caesars Palace Grand Prix in Las Vegas, winning by 5 points over Didier Pironi
- 1982 Northwestern ends a 34-game football losing streak, beating Northern Illinois 31-6
- 1982 Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 people, including five of his own children
- 1982 USSR performs an underground nuclear test
1983 35th Emmy Awards: “Hill Street Blues”, “Cheers”, Ed Flanders & Shelley Long win
- 1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
- 1984 Egypt and Jordan regain diplomatic relations
- 1984 First London performance of the musical “Stepping Out” is presented
- 1984 New York Mets’ Rusty Staub joins Ty Cobb, who hit home runs as a teen and in his 40s
- 1985 Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India
- 1985 MLB New York Yankees outfielder Rickey Henderson steals a franchise-record 75th base of the season
- 1985 Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors in Larnaca, Cyprus
- 1986 Antonin Scalia is appointed to the US Supreme Court
- 1986 Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits the SF Giants, 2-0
Second Fijian Coup
1987 Major General Sitiveni Rabuka stages a second Fijian coup and declares Fiji a republic
- 1988 American sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner wins the women’s 100m in an Olympic record of 10.54 seconds, beating teammate Evelyn Ashford by 0.29 seconds; first leg of the sprint double at the Seoul Games
Lewis Wins Long Jump
1988 Americans sweep the medals in the long jump at the Seoul Olympics as Carl Lewis wins his second gold of the Games with a leap of 8.72 m, ahead of teammates Mike Powell and Larry Myricks
- 1988 East German swimmer Kristin Otto swims an Olympic record of 25.49 to win the 50 m freestyle gold at the Seoul Olympics, her sixth gold medal of the Games
- 1988 Hungarian swimmer Tamás Darnyi wins the 200 m individual medley gold medal at the Seoul Olympics with a world record time of 2:00.17 and wraps up the medley double at the Games
- 1988 Phoebe Mills finishes third in the balance beam at the Seoul Olympics, becoming the first American female gymnast to win a medal at a fully attended Games
- 1988 Romanian gymnast Daniela Silivaș wins three gold medals in one day at the Seoul Olympics in the balance beam, floor exercise, and uneven bars events, recording a record-equalling seven perfect scores of 10
- 1988 Super swimmer Matt Biondi wins his fifth gold medal of the Seoul Olympics, anchoring the victorious American 4 x 100 m medley relay team
- 1989 Archaeologists open the grave of Titus of Rhine in Amsterdam
- 1989 Boston Red Sox’s Wade Boggs is the first to achieve 200 hits and 100 walks in four consecutive seasons
- 1989 Ronald Harwood’s play “Another Time” premieres in London
- 1990 First eight New York Yankees hit safely against Baltimore Orioles to tie record
- 1990 Oakland A’s clinch third consecutive AL West title
- 1990 UN Security Council votes 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq
- 1991 “Good & Evil” premieres on ABC TV
- 1991 Paramount at Madison Square Garden in New York City opens
Barry Manilow’s Showstoppers
1992 “Barry Manilow‘s Showstoppers” opens at Paramount in New York City
- 1992 12-year-old Gregory Kingsley wins the right to divorce his parents and live with his foster parents; he takes the name Shawn Russ
- 1992 China performs a nuclear test at Lop Nor, China
- 1992 Mars Observer launches from a space shuttle
- 1992 Opening of the Main-Danube Canal (North Sea-Black Sea)
- 1992 Sparky Anderson ties Hughie Jennings as the Detroit Tigers’ winningest manager
Outside
1995 Virgin Records releases David Bowie‘s 20th studio album “Outside”
- 1996 Last of the Magdalene laundry asylums for “fallen women” closes in Dublin, Ireland
- 1997 American sportscaster Marv Albert pleads guilty in his sexual assault case
- 1997 Britain’s Andy Green sets a jet-powered car record of 714 mph
- 1997 Medical drama “ER” is performed live on TV
- 1997 STS-86 (Atlantis 20) launches into orbit
- 1997 WNBA announces it will add Detroit and Washington, D.C. franchises
Freaks and Geeks
1999 “Freaks and Geeks” premieres on NBC; Paul Feig and Judd Apatow’s short-lived adolescent sitcom’s cast includes future stars Seth Rogen, James Franco, and Jason Segel
- 2000 American basketball player Vince Carter steals the ball and jumps over 7 foot 2 inch Frédéric Weis at the 2000 Summer Olympics, known in France as “le dunk de la mort” (the dunk of death)
- 2002 Possible bolide meteor impact causes the Vitim event in Siberia, Russia
- 2003 Magnitude 8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaidō, Japan
- 2004 ICC Men’s Cricket Champions Trophy, The Oval, London: West Indies beat England by 2 wickets; Player of the Series: Ramnaresh Sarwan, WI, 166 runs
2005 Spanish Renault driver Fernando Alonso takes 3rd place in the Brazilian Grand Prix at Autódromo José Carlos Pace to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship
- 2007 Bungie Studios releases Halo 3 for Xbox 360
Magic
2007 Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen‘s 15th studio album “Magic”, made with the E Street Band
Shine
2007 Hear Music/Universal Records release “Shine,” Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell‘s 19th studio album
- 2008 China launches its third human spaceflight, the spacecraft Shenzhou 7
- 2008 The “Celtic Tiger” slides into recession for the first time in over two decades, recording a 0.5% fall in second-quarter GDP following a 0.3% decline in the first quarter
- 2012 50 Taiwanese ships clash with the Japan Coast Guard in waters off the Senkaku Islands
- 2012 Anouchka van Miltenburg is elected President of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands
An America’s Cup Comeback for the Ages
2013 Oracle Team USA defeats Team New Zealand 9-8 to complete a stunning comeback after being 1-8 behind and defend the America’s Cup
Jenner Changes Name
2015 Caitlyn Jenner officially changes her name from Bruce and her gender to female
- 2015 Singapore closes schools due to hazardous levels of air pollution from fires in Indonesia
- 2016 World’s largest radio telescope, called Tianyan or FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope), has first light in Guizhou Province, China
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