- 322 BC Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great
- 626 Battle at Constantinople: Slavic, Persians and Avar siege of Constantinople fails, keeping the Byzantine Empire intact
- 659 Forces from the Mayan city of Palenque, under its leader Pakal, defeat nearby Santa Elena and take its ruler captive
- 768 Stephen III [IV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 936 Otto I the Great crowned King of Germany (East Francia)
- 1409 Council of Pisa, an attempt to end the Western Schism in the Catholic Church with two opposing popes, closes after electing a third, Alexander V
1420 Construction begins on the dome of Florence Cathedral, designed by Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi
Battle of Guinegate
1479 Battle of Guinegate: Burgundians led by Archduke of Austria Maximilian I defeat the army of King of France Louis XI
Drake’s Fleet Returns
1573 Francis Drake‘s fleet returns to Plymouth after a year spent raiding for Spanish treasure
- 1575 Spanish troops conquer and plunder Oudewater in the Netherlands during the Dutch revolt, killing almost all its inhabitants
1588 English set alight eight fireships with pitch, brimstone, gunpowder, and tar and cast them downwind towards the closely anchored vessels of the Spanish Armada, scattering the Armada
Macbeth Performed
1606 Possible first performance of Shakespeare‘s tragedy “Macbeth” takes place in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace for King James I
Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou
1620 Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII defeats his mother Marie de Medici
Washington Creates Military Awards
1782 Commander of the Continental Army, George Washington, creates two Honorary Badges of Distinction and a Badge of Military Merit (now the Purple Heart). First time military awards are presented to common soldiers.
- 1789 US Congress creates the Department of War and the United States Lighthouse Establishment
- 1819 Battle of Boyacá: Bolívar defeats the Spanish in Colombia
- 1820 First potatoes are planted in Hawaii
- 1864 Battle of Moorefield, West Virginia: Surprise Union raid kills 400 Confederates and captures 400 horses, badly damaging Confederate cavalry in the Shenandoah Valley
- 1879 Opening of the Openshaw Citadel, the “Poor Man’s Palace,” by the Salvation Army in Manchester
- 1882 Hatfields of southwest West Virginia and McCoys of eastern Kentucky feud, with 100 wounded or dead
- 1884 Germany annexes Angra Pequena / German South West Africa (modern Namibia)
- 1885 Five German warships anchor off Zanzibar
- 1888 Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia patents revolving door
- 1893 53rd US Congress (1893-95) convenes with a continued Democratic majority
- 1896 New Jersey fishermen George Harbo and Frank Samuelson are the first to row across the Atlantic, arriving in Le Havre after leaving Manhattan on June 6 [1]
- 1900 Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike
- 1903 Tommy Corcoran sets an MLB record for shortstops by recording 14 assists in Cincinnati’s 4-2 win against the St. Louis Cardinals
- 1904 Train derails on a bridge in Eden, Colorado, due to a flash flood, killing 96 people
Walter Johnson’s 1st Win
1907 MLB Washington Senators’ legendary pitcher Walter Johnson wins the first of his 417 career games in a 7-2 victory against Cleveland
- 1908 The first train to travel the length of New Zealand’s North Island main trunk line, the “Parliament Special,” leaves Wellington for Auckland to greet the US Navy’s “Great White Fleet”; passengers include Prime Minister Sir Joseph Ward and members of Parliament, and the trip takes 20.5 hours
- 1909 Alice Ramsey (22) and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental automobile trip [1]
Theodore Roosevelt Nominated
1912 Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for US President
- 1914 Battle of Mulhouse: First attack on Germany by French troops under General Bonneau on Germany in attempt to retake Alsace
- 1914 Engagement between British cruiser HMS Gloucester and German cruisers SMS Breslau and SMS Goeben off Greece
- 1914 French government awards King Albert of Belgium the Great Cross
- 1914 German army occupies city of Liege, Belgium
- 1914 Russia invades East Prussia
- 1915 Dario Resta, driving a Peugeot, wins the first Champ Car race to average over 100 mph at a 100-mile race in Chicago with an average speed of 101.8 mph
- 1915 WWI: Assault against Russell’s Top at Gallipolis, Turkey, killing 232 Australians
Moeskops Wins 1st Sprint Championship
1921 Dutch cyclist Piet Moeskops wins the first of four consecutive and five total world sprint championships when he beats defending champion Bob Spears of Australia in Copenhagen
- 1925 League of Nations advises against the Turkish/Iraqi division of the Mosul region
- 1927 Peace Bridge over the Niagara River between the US and Canada is dedicated to commemorate 100 years of peace between the two countries
- 1927 US rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills three people
- 1929 Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch government
- 1930 A large mob estimated at 2,000 people lynches two young Black men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, in Marion, Indiana
- 1933 Iraqi government forces slaughter over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele in northern Iraq, commemorated as Assyrian Martyrs’ Day
Courts Strike Down Ulysses Ban
1934 US Court of Appeals upholds lower court ruling striking down government’s attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel “Ulysses”
- 1935 60% of voters agree to Nazism in Danzig (Gdańsk)
- 1936 A Finnish quinella in the 5,000 m final at the Berlin Olympics: Gunnar Höckert runs an Olympic record to beat teammate Lauri Lehtinen
- 1936 Argentina wins the polo gold medal, beating Great Britain 11-0 in the final at the Berlin Olympics, the last time the sport is contested at the Olympics
2,000th Brooklyn Dodgers HR
1938 Legendary shortstop Leo Durocher hits the 2,000th Brooklyn Dodgers home run off Reds pitcher Peaches Davis in the eighth inning of a 6-3 victory
- 1938 Nazis close the theological department of Innsbruck University
Hughes Congressional Medal
1939 Millionaire Howard Hughes is presented with a Congressional Gold Medal
- 1940 Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II
- 1940 Churchill recognizes De Gaulle’s French government in exile
- 1940 Largest amount paid for a stamp: $9.48 million for a 1856 British Guiana
- 1941 551 Jews are shot in the Chișinău ghetto in Romania
- 1942 Dutch resistance bombs Rotterdam railway
- 1942 First American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Island
- 1942 Transport 16 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany
- 1943 Red Army recaptures Bogodukhov
- 1944 Anton de Kom is arrested as a Surinamese resistance fighter
- 1944 IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I)
- 1944 Trial for surviving “20 July Plot” (attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler) participants begins in the courtroom of Nazi Judge Roland Freisler in Berlin, Germany
- 1944 WWII: German counterattack at Avranches in France fails
- 1944 WWII: US Third Army reaches the suburbs of Brest, Brittany
1st Coin of African American
1946 First US commemorative coin featuring an African American, Booker T. Washington (half dollar)
- 1947 The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST)
Kon-Tiki Strikes French Polynesia
1947 Thor Heyerdahl and the crew of the Kon-Tiki crash into a reef in the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia, after 101 days crossing the Pacific Ocean
- 1948 American Alice Coachman becomes the first Black woman from any country to win an Olympic gold medal when she wins the high jump at the London Games
- 1948 American swimmer Jimmy McLane wins the 1,500 m for his second gold medal at the London Olympics (4 x 200 m freestyle relay) a US clean sweep of every men’s swimming gold medal at the Games
- 1948 Delfo Cabrera of Argentina wins a dramatic marathon in 2:34:51.6 at the London Olympics
- 1948 Fanny Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands wins her fourth track and field gold medal at the London Olympics as part of the Dutch 4 x 100 m relay team in 47.5 seconds
- 1948 First Dutch government of Beel resigns
- 1948 Swedish race walker John Mikaelsson wins the gold medal in the 10 km event by 30.6 seconds from teammate Ingemar Johansson at the London Olympics
- 1950 Police bar white players Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, and Frank Dyle from playing in the Negro League
- 1951 Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 km/h (1,237.77 mph)
- 1951 The US Viking rocket reaches a height of 210 km, setting a record
- 1953 Eastern Airlines enters the jet age, using the Electra prop-jet
- 1954 Charles Mahoney becomes the first Black American to serve as a full UN delegate
Sports History
1954 Englishman Roger Bannister beats Australia’s John Landy in the mile at the Empire Games in Vancouver, the first time two men run a sub-4-minute mile in the same race
- 1955 Bar-Ilan University is founded in Israel
- 1955 KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NE (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1955 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan
Williams Fined for Spitting
1956 Boston Red Sox fine slugger Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at heckling Boston fans in the third incident in three weeks
- 1956 British government sends three aircraft carriers to Egypt
- 1956 Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia, killing about 1,200 people
- 1957 US Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1957
- 1957 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1959 Explorer 6 transmits the first TV photo of Earth from space
- 1960 Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) gains independence from France
- 1960 Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
- 1961 Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
Khrushchev’s Prediction
1961 Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts USSR economy will surpass US
- 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
First Lady Gives Birth
1963 Jacqueline Kennedy becomes the first presiding US First Lady to give birth (Patrick Kennedy) since Frances Cleveland in 1895; the infant dies three days later
- 1964 31st NFL Chicago College All-Star Game at Soldier Field: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 (65,000 attendees)
- 1964 Turkey begins an air attack on Greek Cypriots
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1964 US Congress approves the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, granting US President Lyndon Johnson the authority to assist any Southeast Asian nation facing “communist aggression”; he uses it to openly bring the US into the Vietnam conflict
Separation Agreement Signed
1965 Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore, signs a separation agreement with Malaysia after two years of political union
- 1966 Race riot in Lansing, Michigan
Album Release
1969 Fantasy Records releases “Green River”, the third studio album by the American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, featuring the title track and “Bad Moon Rising”, and “Lodi”
McVie Joins Fleetwood Mac
1970 British keyboard playing singer-songwriter Christine McVie (née Perfect) joins rock band Fleetwood Mac
- 1970 First all-computer chess championship is conducted in New York and won by CHESS 3.0 (CDC 6400), a program written by Slate, Atkin, and Gorlen at Northwestern University
- 1970 Shootout at Marin Courthouse in San Rafael, California, kills four, including the presiding judge
- 1970 WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1971 A Catholic man is shot dead by a British soldier in Belfast
- 1971 Apollo 15 returns to Earth
- 1974 French Philippe Petit walks a tightrope strung between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City at a height of 1,350 feet (411.5 meters)
- 1976 Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars
- 1976 Viking 2 enters Martian orbit after an 11-month flight from Earth
- 1977 Mount Usu volcano in Hokkaido, Japan erupts for the first time in over 30 years
- 1978 Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, and Larry MacPhail are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York
Double Fantasy
1980 John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin recording sessions for their “Double Fantasy” album at the Hit Factory, NYC
Waitz Wins Marathon
1983 Grete Waitz of Norway wins inaugural women’s marathon at the first World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland
- 1983 Some 675,000 AT&T employees strike
- 1984 Harmonica Frank Floyd, an American blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, dies of lung cancer and complications from diabetes at 75
- 1984 Japan beats US, 6-3 in the final of the Los Angeles Olympic baseball demonstration event
- 1984 The US collects its first Olympic gold medal in women’s basketball history with a 85-55 win over South Korea in the final at the LA Games
Churches Meet with Botha
1985 A delegation of the South African Council of Churches meets with President P. W. Botha, following calls by the church for urgent discussions on the causes of unrest, forced removals and the emergency regulations in the country
- 1985 Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri, and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan’s first astronauts
- 1986 Dan Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel, and Anne Knabe begin a cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Argentina
- 1987 Five Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala
- 1987 Javed Miandad becomes the first to score 6,000 Test runs for Pakistan as he scores 260 in the drawn fifth Test against England at The Oval
- 1987 Lynne Cox becomes the first woman to swim from the US to the Soviet Union, 4.3 km across the Bering Sea in water temperatures averaging 43-44°F (6-7°C)
- 1988 Future Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Delahoussaye wins his 4,000th career race aboard 2-year-old filly Fawn and Hahn in the fourth race at Del Mar
- 1988 Riots in New York City’s Tompkins Square Park
- 1988 Writers Guild of America ends its six-month strike
- 1989 U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia
1990 US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia, beginning Operation Desert Shield
Americans Set Relay Record
1991 American team of Carl Lewis, Mike Marsh, Leroy Burrell, and Dennis Mitchell sets a 4 x 100 m relay world record of 37.67 seconds in Zürich, Switzerland
Noriega’s Secret Documents
1991 Courts rules Manuel Noriega may access some secret US documents
- 1991 Manhattan Cable’s final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes
- 1992 San Francisco Giants announce the sale of the MLB franchise to a group of Tampa Bay investors, but the move is blocked by other investors
- 1992 Taking advantage of six months of training on their hometown Terrassa pitch, Spain wins its first hockey gold medal by beating Germany 2-1 in the women’s final at the Barcelona Olympics
Garth Brooks’ Plays Central Park
1997 Garth Brooks performs a free concert in NYC’s Central Park for HBO, later releasing it as Garth: Live from Central Park
- 1997 STS-85 (Discovery 23) launches into orbit
- 1997 Ung Huot is appointed Cambodia’s first premier
Wade Boggs Record HR
1999 Tampa Bay third baseman Wade Boggs becomes the first MLB player to hit a home run for his 3,000th hit in the Devil Rays’ 15-10 loss to the Cleveland Indians
Gore Picks Running Mate
2000 Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore picks Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman as his running mate, making him the first Jewish person to run for the nation’s second-highest office
Jerry West Retires
2000 Los Angeles Lakers announce the retirement of former star player and Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations Jerry West and name Mitch Kupchak to succeed him
Greg Maddux
2004 Cubs pitcher Greg Maddux enters the history books with his 300th career win in Chicago’s 8-4 triumph over San Francisco at SBC Park
- 2005 In one of cricket history’s closest Tests, and despite a brave unbeaten 43 from Australian tail-ender Brett Lee, England sneaks a 2-run win in the series-turning 2nd Test at Edgbaston
Eclipse
2007 “Eclipse,” the third book in Stephenie Meyer‘s “Twilight Saga,” is published by Little, Brown with an initial print run of 1 million copies
Bonds Breaks Aaron Record
2007 San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to break Hank Aaron’s long-standing MLB record
- 2008 Russo-Georgian War: Georgia moves troops into the Russian-supported self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia in response to aggression; first European war of the 21st century
- 2010 Hampered by a back injury, Indian cricket batsman VVS Laxman scores a brave, unbeaten 103 to guide India to a five-wicket win against Sri Lanka in Colombo, drawing the series
2010 Jerry Rice, Emmitt Smith, John Randle, Russ Grimm, Rickey Jackson, Floyd Little, and Dick LeBeau are inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Trump on Megyn Kelly
2015 US Presidential candidate Donald Trump says in a CNN interview that news anchor Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever”
Katie Ledecky Wins Record Gold
2016 American swimmer Katie Ledecky sets a new world record with a time of 3:56.46 to win the gold medal in the women’s 400 m freestyle at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
Adam Peaty’s Gold Record
2016 British swimmer Adam Peaty sets a world record of 57.13 to win the gold medal in the men’s 100 m breaststroke at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
Suzuki Joins 3,000 Club
2016 Miami Marlins veteran Japanese outfielder Ichiro Suzuki becomes the 30th member of the 3,000-hit club in a 10-7 win against the Rockies
- 2016 Sarah Sjöström of Sweden breaks the world record with a time of 55.48 to win the gold medal in the women’s 100 m butterfly at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
Phelps Record 19th Gold
2016 United States men’s 4 × 100 m freestyle relay team wins the final in 3:09.92 at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, earning Michael Phelps his record 19th Olympic gold medal
- 2017 England breaks a 19-year drought in a home Test cricket series against South Africa, beating the Proteas by 177 runs in the 4th Test at Old Trafford; Moeen Ali scores 75 not out and takes 5/69
Crazy Rich Asians
2018 “Crazy Rich Asians,” the first Hollywood film with an all-Asian cast, starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, and Michelle Yeoh, premieres in Los Angeles
- 2018 Australia’s population reaches 25 million according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics
China Bans Winnie the Pooh
2018 China bans the release of the Winnie the Pooh movie “Christopher Robin” after the character is used to mock Chinese President Xi Jinping
- 2018 CW Network announces that Ruby Rose is cast as the lesbian superhero Batwoman
Jason Mraz – Have It All
2018 Jason Mraz partners with Fathom Events for the release of “Jason Mraz – Have It All The Movie”
- 2018 Mendocino Fire becomes the largest recorded fire in California’s history at 290,600 acres, overtaking the 2017 Thomas Fire
- 2018 Swedish furniture brand Ikea opens its first store in India in Hyderabad
- 2019 Bodies of two teenagers at the center of a huge manhunt and suspected of killing three people on remote British Columbia roads are found after apparent suicides
- 2019 Largest single-state immigration raid in Mississippi as nearly 700 people are arrested
- 2019 Wanda Vázquez becomes Puerto Rico’s third governor in a week after her predecessor Pedro Pierluisi is removed by the Supreme Court
- 2021 As part of the winning American 4 × 400 m relay team in Tokyo, Allyson Felix takes her total to 11 Olympic medals and becomes the most decorated female Olympian in track and field history
- 2021 Dutch athlete Sifan Hassan wins the 10,000 m gold medal in 29:55.32 at the Tokyo Olympics to claim the 5/10 km double
- 2021 Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra makes history by winning his country’s first-ever Olympic track and field gold with a throw of 87.58 m in Tokyo
USA Win Men’s Basketball
2021 Kevin Durant, with 29 points, leads the USA to his third and the team’s fourth consecutive Olympic men’s basketball gold medal with an 87-82 win over France in Tokyo
Event of Interest
2022 Brandon Sanderson‘s Kickstarter for the “Cosmere RPG” game becomes the most successfully funded game in Kickstarter history, raising $41.7 million [1]
- 2022 Ceasefire comes into effect in Gaza after 43 people are killed in three days of violence between the Israeli military and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants [1]
- 2022 US Senate passes sweeping Inflation Reduction Act, an economic package designed to combat climate change, address health care costs and tax large corporations [1]
- 2024 MLB Philadelphia Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber ties career highs with three home runs and seven RBIs in a 9-4 win over the Dodgers in Los Angeles
- 2024 Panipak Wongpattanakit of Thailand successfully defends her Olympic 49 kg title, defeating Guo Qing of China 6-3, 2-3, 6-2 in the final at the Paris Games
- 2024 Thailand’s Constitutional Court outlaws the Reformist Party, barring it from forming a government in 2023, along with politicians including Pita Limjaroenrat [1]
- 2024 Thousands of peaceful counter-protesters hold rallies around England in response to the previous week’s violent anti-immigrant protests [1]
Swift Cancels Concerts
2024 Three Taylor Swift “Eras Tour” concerts in Vienna, Austria, are canceled after authorities uncover a planned terrorist attack and arrest three people [1]
- 2024 WHO confirms a deadlier strain of the mpox virus (formerly Monkeypox) has spread to four neighboring countries of the Democratic Republic of Congo: Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Kenya [1]
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