Battle of Crécy
1346 Battle of Crécy: Edward III‘s English longbows defeat Philip VI’s army south of Calais in northern France; cannons are used for the first time in battle
- 1466 A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered
Pietà Commissioned
1498 Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà sculpture by French Cardinal Jean de Bilhères
- 1545 Pope Paul III names his son Pierluigi Farnese as Duke of Parma
- 1629 Cambridge Agreement: Massachusetts Bay Company stockholders agree to emigrate
- 1641 West India Company conquers Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola
- 1648 Fronde uprising against Anne of Austria and Chief Minister Cardinal Mazarin in France
- 1652 Battle of Plymouth: General-at-Sea George Ayscue of the Commonwealth of England attacks a convoy of the Dutch Republic commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter; Dutch victory
Halley Observes his Comet
1682 English astronomer Edmond Halley first observes the comet named after him
A Tale of Mother Goose
1691 Charles Perrault‘s poem “The Marquise of Salusses or the Patience of Griselidis” is read aloud at the French Academy and later attached to his “Tales of Mother Goose” (1697)
- 1748 First Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1778 First recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia, by Balthasar Hacquet
- 1789 The National Constituent Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen at the beginning of the French Revolution
- 1791 John Fitch granted US patent for his working steamboat
- 1843 American inventor Charles Thurber patents a typewriter
Mendelssohn’s Elijah
1846 Felix Mendelssohn‘s oratorio “Elijah” premieres at the Birmingham Festival in England
- 1846 W. A. Bartlett is appointed the first US mayor of Yerba Buena, San Francisco
- 1863 Battle of Rocky Gap, West Virginia (White Sulphur Springs): Colonel George S. Patton’s Confederate forces defeat a Union brigade advance
First Free US Kindergarten
1873 The first free kindergarten in the United States is started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri
- 1874 Sixteen Blacks are kidnapped from Gibson County Jail and lynched in Trenton, Tennessee
- 1894 Netherlands Social-Democratic Worker’s party (SDAP) forms
- 1895 Electric generator at Niagara Falls produces its first power
- 1896 Armenian Revolutionary Federation assaults Ottoman Bank in Constantinople to draw attention to mass pogroms and massacres of Armenians instigated by Ottoman Sultan Abdul-Hamid II
- 1903 Phillies walk 17 Dodgers in a game
Underwater Escape
1907 Harry Houdini escapes from chains underwater in 57 seconds at Aquatic Park in San Francisco, California
- 1909 Australian cricket all-rounder Frank Tarrant scores 145 and takes 13-67 in a county game for Middlesex as they beat Gloucestershire by an innings and 31 runs in a single day
- 1912 MLB pitcher Walter Johnson‘s 16-game winning streak ends
Battle of Tannenberg
1914 Battle of Tannenberg begins (WWI): 8th German army defeats Russian Second army
- 1914 Russian army attacks Austrian army in Galicia
- 1915 German troops overrun Brest-Litovsk, Russia
- 1916 Philadelphia Athletics’ Bullet Joe Bush no-hits Cleveland 5-0
- 1918 Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon’s comedic play “Lightnin'” premieres in New York City
- 1920 Surrey cricket all-rounder Percy Fender scores 100 in 35 minutes (113 not out) in a county match against Northamptonshire at the County Ground, Northampton
- 1922 Japanese cruiser Niitaka is driven onto rocks in a storm at Kamchatka, resulting in 284 deaths
Nationalists Take Santander
1937 General Franco‘s Nationalist troops conquer Santander during the Spanish Civil War
- 1937 Pumping to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay finishes
- 1938 British leaders and Arabs fight in Palestine
- 1938 Montreal Maroons are dropped from NHL
- 1939 Croatia gets autonomous status
- 1939 First major league baseball telecast on W2XBS: Cincinnati Reds defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
- 1939 WWII: Belgium mobilizes
- 1940 Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France’s first black colonial governor
- 1940 RKC soccer team forms in Waalwijk, Netherlands
- 1942 7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy France
- 1942 Japanese troops land at Milne Bay, New Guinea
- 1942 Soviet counteroffensive begins in Moscow
- 1942 Transport #24 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany
- 1944 Bulgaria announces withdrawal, and German troops are to be disarmed
1944 French General Leclerc’s 2nd Armored Division and Charles de Gaulle parade down the Champs-Élysées in Paris after the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation
- 1944 French General Leclerc‘s 2nd Armored Division and Charles de Gaulle parade down the Champs-Élysées in Paris after the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation
- 1944 US 12th Army Corps crosses the River Seine east of Paris
- 1945 Japanese diplomats board USS Missouri to receive instructions on Japan’s surrender at the end of WWII
- 1947 Dodgers’ Dan Bankhead, MLB’s first African-American pitcher, hits a home run in his first MLB at-bat in a 16-3 loss to Pittsburgh at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, NYC
- 1951 Dutch professor Jacob Jongbloed demonstrates an artificial heart in Paris
An American In Paris
1951 The film “An American in Paris,” with music by George Gershwin, directed by Vincente Minnelli, and starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, premieres in London (Academy Award for Best Picture, 1952)
- 1952 Fluoridation of San Francisco water begins
- 1955 “Pather Panchali,” an Indian film directed by Satyajit Ray and starring Subir Banerjee, Kanu Banerjee, and Karuna Banerjee, is released
- 1956 KREY TV channel 10 in Montrose, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1956 Yankees announce the purchase of outfielder Enos Slaughter from Kansas City
- 1957 USSR announces successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile
1959 British Motor Corporation introduces the Morris Mini-Minor, designed by Alec Issigonis; it is only 10 feet long yet seats four passengers
LJB Nominated
1964 US President Lyndon Baines Johnson is nominated to run at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey
- 1966 Baltimore Orioles’ Roznovsky and B. Powell are the fourth to hit consecutive pinch home runs
- 1966 KLOC (now KCSO) Channel 42 in Charlotte, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1967 Dean Chance pitches a 2-1 no-hitter, and the Twins sweep Cleveland
- 1967 Dutch Second Chamber demands US stop bombing North Vietnam
Dutch Royals Visit Indonesian
1971 Dutch Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard visit Indonesia, the first Dutch royal visit since Indonesia gained independence from the Netherlands
- 1971 MLB Baltimore Orioles’ Don Buford strikes out five times in a game
- 1971 The New York Giants football team announces they are leaving the Bronx for New Jersey in 1975
- 1972 Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Houston Astros
- 1972 NY Cosmos beat St. Louis Stars 2-1 to win the NASL championship
- 1972 The USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeastern Kazakhstan
- 1972 XX Summer Olympic Games open in Munich, West Germany
- 1973 David Eisenhower writes his final sports column
- 1973 Ten-year-old Mary Boitano is the first woman to win the 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, CA, beating a field of 1,500 runners
- 1973 The University of Texas at Arlington is the first accredited school to offer belly dancing
- 1974 Soyuz 15 carries two cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
- 1977 Frank Martinus Arion forms the Surinamese Writers Group ’77
- 1977 Ian Dury releases the single “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll”
- 1978 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I
- 1978 Soyuz 31 carries two cosmonauts, including one East German, to space station Salyut 6
- 1980 John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey’s Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada
- 1980 Pete Comita replaces Tom Peterson as bassist of American rock band Cheap Trick
- 1981 Space Shuttle vehicle moves to Launch Complex 39A for the STS-2 mission
1981 Voyager 2 takes photos of Saturn’s moon Titan
- 1982 NASA launches the Telesat-F satellite
- 1983 Floods destroy most of the old town of Bilbao, Spain
- 1984 Czech Zdenka Silhava sets a world record in the women’s discus with a throw of 74.55 m
- 1984 Tatyana Kazankina of the USSR sets the women’s 3,000-meter record (8:22.62) in Leningrad
- 1985 Baltimore Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game against the California Angels
1985 French government denies knowledge of bombing of Greenpeace flagship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland, New Zealand
- 1986 Robert Chambers, the “Preppie Killer,” murders Jennifer Levin in New York City’s Central Park and later claims “rough sex” as the motive
- 1986 Rosa Mota of Portugal wins the women’s Stuttgart marathon in 2:28:38
- 1987 Paul Molitor goes 0-for-4, ending his hitting streak at 39 consecutive games
- 1988 Iranian refugee Mehran Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Roissy-en-France, France, and stays for almost 18 years, inspiring director Steven Spielberg to make the film “The Terminal” about his life
- 1989 Trumbull, Conn., is the first US team since 1983 to win the Little League World Series
- 1990 Bo Jackson hits the fourth of four consecutive home runs
- 1990 Two murdered college students are found in Gainesville, Florida
- 1991 Royal Brett Saberhagen no-hits White Sox 7-0
- 1992 Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Louisiana as a Category 3 storm after causing deaths and severe damage in Florida
Interim National Government
1993 Ernest Shonekan is appointed interim president of Nigeria by General Ibrahim Babangida
Welfare Reform
1996 US President Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing a major shift in welfare policy
- 1997 Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people are killed
- 1999 Michael Johnson breaks the 400 m world record with a time of 43.18 seconds
- 2000 Australia clinches its first Tri Nations Rugby Series with a 19-18 win over South Africa in Durban; Wallabies center Stirling Mortlock lands four penalties and a conversion
- 2002 Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2003 The Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final report on the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
US Dominates 200m
2004 An American 1-2-3 in the 200 m medals at the Athens Olympics; Shawn Crawford wins gold in 19.79 ahead of Bernard Williams and Justin Gatlin
- 2004 Félix Sánchez wins the men’s 400 m hurdles in 47.63 seconds in Athens, earning the Dominican Republic’s first-ever Olympic gold medal
- 2004 Germany wins its first-ever Olympic women’s field hockey gold medal with a 2-1 victory against the Netherlands in Athens
- 2004 Hamish Carter of New Zealand wins the men’s gold medal ahead of teammate Bevan Docherty, while Kate Allen of Austria wins the women’s triathlon at the Athens Olympics
US Women Win Gold
2004 Lindsay Tarpley and Abby Wambach score as the US beat Brazil 2-1, maintaining an undefeated record to win the women’s football gold medal at the Athens Olympics
Ray Charles Station
2005 US Postal Service christens a Los Angeles facility as “Ray Charles Station”
Live in Gdańsk
2006 David Gilmour performs with his band and the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra before a crowd of 50,000 at Gdańsk Shipyard, Poland
- 2006 New Zealand retains the Tri Nations Rugby Series with a 45-26 win over South Africa in Pretoria; All Blacks flyhalf Dan Carter lands 4 penalties and 4 conversions
Rolling Stones Tour Ends
2007 The Rolling Stones close their two-year, 147-concert “A Bigger Bang” tour at the O2 Arena in London, England; the box office gross of the tour exceeds $558 million, a record at the time
- 2008 Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of the former Georgian breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, prompting the Georgian government to sever diplomatic relations with Russia
- 2011 The 787 Dreamliner, Boeing’s all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA
- 2012 Legionella outbreak in Quebec City, Canada, kills 8 and infects 104
- 2012 Seventeen villagers in Afghanistan’s Kajaki district are beheaded by an unknown organization
- 2012 Thirty-six people are killed in a bus crash in Yan’an, China
- 2013 All 25,000 applicants to the University of Liberia fail their university entrance examination
Burger King Buys Tim Hortons
2014 Burger King agrees to purchase Canadian donut chain Tim Hortons for $11.4 billion
- 2014 Democratic Republic of Congo’s health ministry informs the WHO of an outbreak of Ebola; later confirmed as a different strain to that affecting west Africa
- 2014 Israel and Hamas accept another ceasefire
- 2015 WDBJ TV reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward are fatally shot live on TV by an ex-colleague in Moneta, Virginia
- 2017 Half a million people take part in a peace march in Barcelona, Spain, following terrorist attacks
- 2017 Hurricane Harvey is downgraded to a tropical storm as the National Hurricane Center warns of a “multiday rainfall disaster”
Man City Starts Record
2017 Manchester City secures a 2-1 win at Bournemouth to begin an EPL record 18-game winning streak; Raheem Sterling scores for City but is sent off with two yellow cards in injury time
- 2017 Violent clashes after the conviction of spiritual leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh kill 31 in Panchkula, with 120 admitted to the hospital
- 2017 Women’s Rugby World Cup: New Zealand Black Ferns defeat England 41-32 in the final in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Claims Made Against Pope
2018 Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former US Vatican Ambassador, claims Pope Francis knows of and ignores sexual abuse allegations against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick
- 2018 Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop resigns after losing the Liberal Party leadership contest
- 2018 Boxing match between YouTubers KSI and Logan Paul ends in a draw in Manchester, England
- 2018 Danny Boyle pulls out of directing the next James Bond film due to “creative differences”
- 2018 Gamer at a Madden NFL 19 gaming tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, loses, then returns to shoot two dead and wound nine
- 2018 Moroccan pop singer Saad Lamjarred is arrested in Saint-Tropez, France, on a rape allegation
- 2018 Pope Francis asks for forgiveness in a speech on child abuse in Dublin during his first official visit to Ireland since 1979
Proposal to Move Indonesian Capital
2019 Indonesian President Joko Widodo proposes moving the country’s sinking and over-crowded capital from Jakarta to the island of Borneo (Kalimantan)
- 2019 Johnson & Johnson is ordered to pay the state of Oklahoma $572 million in the first trial against an opioid manufacturer
- 2019 Leonardo DiCaprio’s environmental organization, Earth Alliance, donates $5 million to fight fires in the Amazon
- 2019 Meeting of the G7 agrees on a $20 million aid package to fight fires in the Amazon in Biarritz
- 2020 At least 100 people are killed in flash floods in the city of Charikar, Afghanistan, with 500 houses destroyed
- 2020 Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (29) is the youngest to win the International Booker Prize for her debut novel “The Discomfort of Evening”
Milwaukee Bucks Forfeit
2020 The Milwaukee Bucks forfeit their NBA playoff game after the shooting of Jacob Blake, leading to the NBA postponing more games
- 2021 Two bomb blasts from suicide bombers at Kabul Airport, Afghanistan, kill at least 60 civilians and 13 US soldiers amid international efforts to evacuate citizens from the country
- 2023 The longest alligator ever recorded in Mississippi at 14 ft 3 in (4.3 m) is captured in the Sunflower River, weighing 802.5 pounds (364 kilograms) [1]
- 2023 Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa, known as “The Crocodile,” is elected to a second term amid claims of vote-rigging [1]
- 2024 Boston Red Sox catcher Danny Jansen becomes the first MLB player to play for both teams in the same game; the game against the Toronto Blue Jays on June 26 is suspended due to weather, and he is traded prior to the resumption
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