61 BC Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday
- 219 Batavian soldiers consecrate an altar to Hercules Magusanus in Rome
- 235 St. Pontianus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 440 Pope Leo I the Great is installed
- 855 Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1227 Pope Gregory IX excommunicates German emperor Frederick II
- 1349 People of Krems, Austria, accuse Jews of poisoning wells
- 1364 Battle of Auray: English forces defeat the French in Brittany
- 1564 Robert Dudley becomes Earl of Leicester
- 1567 At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason
Second War of Religion
1567 War of Religion breaks out in France as Huguenots try to kidnap King Charles IX
- 1580 Treaty of Plessis-lez-Tours signed between Duke of Anjou and Dutch Staten-Generaal
- 1608 Captain Christopher Newport arrives in Virginia for the second time with supplies from England for colonists
- 1650 English merchant Henry Robinson opens the first marriage bureau (dating agency) on Threadneedle Street in London
- 1650 Second Fronde: the Fronde of the Princes uprising ends in France
- 1668 English expedition to Hudson Bay led by Frenchman Médard Chouart Des Groseilliers arrives at the Nemiscau (Rupert) River aboard the Nonsuch, beginning of the Hudson’s Bay Company [1]
- 1678 France and Brandenburg sign peace treaty
- 1760 Williamsburg Bray School, the oldest extant building dedicated to the education of Black children in the United States, opens in Williamsburg, Virginia [1]
- 1785 Chasidic sect is excommunicated in Kraków, Poland
- 1789 US War Department establishes a regular army
- 1793 Tennis is first mentioned in the English publication Sporting Magazine
- 1815 Dutch King William I forms the Order of the Netherlands Lion, the oldest and highest civilian order of chivalry in the Netherlands
1829 First units of the London Metropolitan Police appear on the streets of the British capital, the city’s first modern police force
- 1848 Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the War of Independence
- 1849 First passenger train service to Peekskill, New York, operated by the New Haven Railroad
- 1853 Emigrant ship “Annie Jane” sinks off Scotland, drowning 348 people
- 1859 Great auroral display in the US
- 1864 Battle of Chaffin’s Farm and New Market Heights in Henrico County, Virginia
- 1872 Kiowa Chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta and Big Tree
- 1879 NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopts reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to its players
- 1880 First professional baseball game at Polo Grounds, New York Metropolitans beat Washington Nationals 4-2 in 5 innings
- 1885 First practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England
- 1898 Wassoulou Empire leader Samori Ture is captured by French troops in West Africa, ending his 20-year rule
- 1899 American Veterans of Foreign Service, later known as Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), support group is established in Columbus, Ohio, by a group of Spanish-American War veterans
- 1902 Impresario David Belasco opens his first Broadway theater
- 1904 First monument honoring Spanish–American War is erected in Monroeville, Ohio
- 1906 US intervenes in Cuba and ousts dictator Estrada Palma
- 1907 Construction of the Washington National Cathedral begins
- 1908 Calgary Rugby Football Union forms
- 1910 National Urban League founded as Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes by Ruth Standish Baldwin and Dr. George Edmund Haynes in New York City
1911 Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire, starting the Italo-Turkish War
- 1913 MLB Washington Senator Walter Johnson wins his 36th game
- 1913 Shubert Theatre, named after Sam S. Shubert, opens at 225 W 44th St, NYC
- 1913 The Treaty of Constantinople between the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria restores peace as the Turks recover Adrianople and the Maritza River line
- 1914 Boston Braves, who are in last place in mid-July, clinch NL pennant
- 1915 British Army conquers Chilli al Imara, Mesopotamia
- 1915 Dutch Opera’s first performance
- 1915 First transcontinental radio telephone message is sent by U.S. naval radio station at Arlington, Virginia, to naval radio station at Mare Island, San Francisco
- 1915 Herbert/Blossom’s musical “Princess Pat” premieres in New York City
- 1915 Hurricane claims 275 lives in the Mississippi Delta
- 1915 Philadelphia Phillies clinch their first pennant
- 1921 MLB Pittsburgh Pirates drop doubleheader to St. Louis Cardinals, allowing the idle New York Giants to clinch the NL
Mussolini Asks Vatican for Support
1922 Benito Mussolini asks the Vatican for support of his fascist party program
- 1923 British Mandate of Palestine, sanctioned by the League of Nation in 1920, officially begins
- 1923 Steinhart Aquarium opens to public in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California [1]
- 1923 The British Empire reaches its geographical peak, covering a quarter of the globe’s land (nearly 14 million square miles), with the Palestine Mandate coming into force under British control [1]
- 1924 MLB Washington Senators clinch the pennant, finishing 2 games ahead of the New York Yankees
- 1924 Santo Domingo joins League of Nations
- 1925 French General of Morocco, Marshal Lyautey, is dismissed
- 1925 Greek republican constitution is enforced
- 1927 Telephone service between US and Mexico begins
- 1927 Tornado strikes St. Louis, Missouri; 85 die
- 1927 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth ties MLB record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games in New York’s 7-4 win against the Philadelphia A’s and 15-4 rout of the Washington Senators
- 1928 Cardinals win NL pennant with a 3-1 victory in Boston
- 1928 Yankees (17) and Tigers (28) set a 9-inning hit record (45) as Tigers win 19-10
- 1930 Boquerón Battle ends Paraguay border dispute
- 1930 First Canadian football game, Hamilton vs. UBC, played under lights
- 1930 Lowell Thomas makes his debut on CBS Radio, replacing Floyd Gibbons
- 1930 NYC College offers first course in radio advertising
- 1933 Little King, cartoon character by Van Beuren, debuts
- 1936 Radio is used for the first time in a presidential campaign
- 1937 Frans Slaats cycles a world hour record time (45,563 km)
- 1938 First archival course is offered at Columbia University in New York City
- 1940 “Double or Nothing,” a radio quiz show, is first heard on Mutual Radio Net
SS Booker T. Washington
1940 Booker T. Washington, the first US merchant ship commanded by a Black captain (Hugh Mulzac), is launched in Wilmington, Delaware
- 1941 Millions jam downtown Brooklyn to cheer NL champion Dodgers in a parade
- 1941 Nazi massacre at Babi Yar ravine near Kiev, Ukraine, begins; 33,771, mostly Jews, are murdered
- 1942 32°F is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio, in September
- 1942 French government in exile of De Gaulle cancels agreement of Munich
- 1943 First Silbertanne murder by German occupiers in Meppel
- 1943 Zhadov’s 5th Guards Army and Managarov’s 53rd Army reconquer Kremenchuk, Ukraine
- 1944 Browns last in AL attendance; only 6,172 watch them sweep Yankees in doubleheader
- 1944 Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia
- 1945 Chicago Cubs clinch NL pennant with a record of 98–56
- 1946 “Adventures of Sam Spade” debuts on CBS Radio
- 1946 Al Couture knocks out Ralph Walton in Lewiston, Maine, in 10 seconds
- 1946 First time NL pennant ends in a tie (Cardinals and Dodgers)
- 1946 Los Angeles (previously Cleveland) Rams play first NFL game in LA
- 1946 National Party Suriname (NPS) forms
- 1947 Dizzy Gillespie presents his first Carnegie Hall concert in New York City
- 1947 Former New York Yankees manager Joe McCarthy signs to manage Boston Red Sox
Hamlet
1948 “Hamlet,” directed by and starring Laurence Olivier, opens at Park Avenue Cinema (Best Picture 1949)
- 1948 WBAP (now KXAS) TV channel 5 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1948 WSB TV channel 2 in Atlanta, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1949 “Front Page” debuts on CBS-TV
- 1949 “Inside USA With Chevrolet” debuts on CBS-TV
Pinky
1949 Elia Kazan‘s dramatic film “Pinky,” starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, and Ethel Waters, premieres at the Rivoli Theater in New York City
- 1950 “Tin Pan Alley” last airs on ABC TV
- 1950 Telephone answering machine is created by Bell Laboratories
- 1950 Yankees clinch second consecutive pennant under Casey Stengel
- 1951 American astronomer Seth Barnes Nicholson discovers Ananke, the 12th moon of Jupiter, from Mount Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles County, California
- 1951 CBS broadcasts the first football game in color, featuring the University of California against the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
- 1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 20,000 m & 10 mile
- 1952 “Lights Out” last airs on NBC-TV
- 1953 “Buick-Berle Show” debuts on NBC-TV
Make Room for Daddy
1953 “Make Room for Daddy,” starring Danny Thomas, premieres on ABC-TV
- 1953 Baltimore, Maryland, Mayor D’Alesandro buys Veeck’s interest in the Browns for $2,475,000
- 1953 Carson Pirie Scott in Chicago, Illinois, is the first department store to sell insurance
- 1953 US government gives France $385 million for combat in Indochina
Barefoot Contessa
1954 “Barefoot Contessa,” a film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Ava Gardner and Humphrey Bogart, premieres at the Capitol
- 1954 Bennekom (Netherlands) soccer team forms
- 1954 KALB TV channel 5 in Alexandria, LA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
The Catch
1954 NY Giants’ Willie Mays makes a famous over-the-shoulder catch of Cleveland Indians’ Vic Wertz’s 460′ drive during Game One of the World Series at the Polo Grounds in NYC
- 1954 The first remake of “A Star Is Born,” starring Judy Garland and James Mason, premieres at the Pantages Theatre iin Los Angeles
- 1954 The TV game show “Masquerade Party” moves from CBS to ABC for two seasons
- 1955 “Sergeant Preston” debuts on CBS
- 1955 Ali Sastroamidjojo’s PNI wins the election in Indonesia
View From The Bridge
1955 Arthur Miller‘s play “A View from the Bridge” premieres in New York City
- 1956 “Oh! Susanna” debuts on CBS-TV
- 1956 Yankees’ Mickey Mantle hits his 52nd home run of the season
- 1957 “DuPont Show of the Month” debuts on CBS-TV
- 1957 “The Paul Winchell Show” debuts on ABC-TV
- 1957 An explosion at the Mayak plutonium production plant in the Soviet Union spreads radiation over 20,000 square miles (52,000 km²)
Oh Boy!
1957 Buddy Holly & The Crickets release their second single “Oh Boy!”https://www.onthisday.com/”Not Fade Away”
- 1957 NFL NY Giants play their last game at the Polo Grounds, a 9-1 loss to Pittsburgh
- 1957 Passenger train and oil train crash in Gambar, West Pakistan, killing 300
- 1958 “Studio One” TV Anthology Drama last airs on CBS-TV
- 1958 “Texan” debuts on CBS-TV
- 1958 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1959 “Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis” debuts on CBS-TV
- 1959 “Philip Marlowe” debuts on ABC-TV
- 1959 Dodgers win Game 2 of the playoffs, 6-5, and take the NL pennant
- 1959 Little Anthony & the Imperials record “Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop”
- 1959 Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution
- 1960 “Johnny Ringo” TV Western drama last airs on CBS TV
- 1960 “My Three Sons,” starring Fred MacMurray, debuts on ABC-TV
- 1960 “Outlaws” TV Western Drama debuts on NBC-TV
- 1960 “Tell Laura I Love Her” by Ricky Valance peaks at #1 in UK
- 1961 “Detectives” TV Crime Drama moves to NBC-TV
- 1961 Maamun Kuzbari becomes premier of Syria
- 1962 “Green Onions” single by Booker T & MG’s peaks at #3
- 1962 “The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show” musical variety program debuts on ABC-TV; cancelled after 13 episodes
- 1962 Launch of Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, on a US Delta rocket
- 1962 MLB Cleveland Indians and California Angels set an AL record with 40 combined strikeouts in a doubleheader
- 1962 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1963 “My Favorite Martian,” starring Ray Walston, debuts on CBS-TV
- 1963 “The Judy Garland Show” debuts on CBS-TV
Stan Musial Day
1963 Cardinals celebrate Stan Musial Day in St. Louis for Stan Musial’s final game, where he hits his 3,629th and 3,630th total hits (475 home runs)
- 1963 Houston Colt .45s’ John Paciorek goes 3 for 3 in his only game
- 1963 Pope Paul opens “Vatican II,” the second session of Ecumenical council in Rome
1st Rolling Stones Tour
1963 Rolling Stones’ first tour as the opening act for Bo Diddley and the Everly Brothers
- 1964 Greece and Bulgaria close boundaries
- 1965 Phillies catcher Pat Corrales sets a record by reaching base twice on catcher’s interference in one game and six times in one season
- 1965 St. Louis Cardinals’ Charlie Johnson passes for 6 touchdowns against Cleveland (49-13)
- 1965 WLVT TV channel 39 in Allentown, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1966 Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced
- 1966 Sandy Koufax pitches third 300-strikeout season
Griffith vs. Benvenuti
1967 American boxer Emile Griffith regains his world middleweight crown on points in a brawling rematch with Italian Nino Benvenuti at Shea Stadium, NY; the second of a famous trilogy of fights
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
1967 Gladys Knight & the Pips are the first to release Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong’s “I Heard It Through The Grapevine”
- 1967 International Monetary Fund reforms the world monetary system
- 1967 Mickey Hart joins the Grateful Dead for the first time, playing at the Straight Theater in San Francisco, California
- 1967 Rome holds the first bishop synod until October 29
- 1968 Boston Red Sox’s Carl Yastrzemski, with a .301 average, wins his second consecutive batting crown
- 1968 Chuck Latourette sets an NFL record with a 47.7-yard punt return average on 3 punts
- 1969 “Bright Promise” TV Daytime Soap debuts on NBC-TV
- 1969 “Letters To Laugh-In” debuts on NBC-TV
- 1969 “Love American Style” comedy anthology series premieres on ABC-TV
- 1969 “Name Droppers” debuts on NBC-TV
- 1969 “Sale Of Century” debuts on NBC-TV
- 1969 China performs a nuclear test at Lop Nor, China
- 1969 Jackie DeShannon receives a Gold Record for “Put a Little Love in Your Heart”
- 1969 MLB Red Sox player Rico Petrocelli hits a shortstop record 40th home run of the season
- 1970 “NET Festival” last aired
- 1971 “McMillan & Wife” debuts on NBC-TV
- 1971 Cyclone and tidal wave off the Bay of Bengal kill as many as 10,000
- 1971 Orbiting Solar Observatory VII launches
- 1971 Ron Hunt is hit by a pitch for the record 50th time in a season
- 1971 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1972 Japan and People’s Republic of China begin diplomatic relations
1972 Robert McNamara, former US Secretary of Defense, is nearly thrown overboard on a ferry by an artist wanting to confront him about his role in escalating US involvement in the Vietnam War (no charges pressed)
- 1973 “We’re An American Band” by American rock band Grand Funk, produced by Todd Rundgren, peaks at #1
- 1973 Soyuz 12 returns to Earth
- 1975 American television game show “Three for the Money,” hosted by Dick Enberg, debuts on NBC-TV but is cancelled after 8 weeks
- 1975 Sharon Crews (now known as Sharon Dahlonega Bush) becomes American television’s first African-American weathercaster on WPGR-TV in Detroit, Michigan
Wilson Suffers Heart Attack
1975 Soul singer Jackie Wilson suffers a heart attack while singing on stage at the Latin Casino in Cherry Hill, New Jersey; he survives but never fully recovers, spending most of his final eight years in a coma
- 1975 USSR performs an underground nuclear test
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