- 463 Start of Lunar Cycle of Hilarius
- 622 Muslim Era begins - Muhammad begins flight from Mecca to Medina (Hijra)
- 1054 Beginning of the Great Schism between Western and Eastern churches when Roman Cardinal Humbert issues bull of excommunication against Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople, on the altar of the Hagia Sophia, Constantinople
- 1099 Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue & set it afire
- 1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa [Battle of Al-Uqab]: combined Christian army defeats Almohad Muslim force in a turning point for Muslim power on Iberian peninsula
- 1251 The Virgin Mary gives Simon Stock a Brown Scapular (legend)
- 1338 The six Electors of the Holy Roman Empire signed the Agreement of Rhense confirming Emperor Louis IV.
Coronation of Richard II
1377 Richard II aged 10 crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey, succeeding his grandfather Edward III
French History
1429 Joan of Arc and the French army enter the city of Rheims
- 1439 Kissing is banned in England (to stop the Black Death from spreading)
The Protestant Reformation
1519 Public debate between Martin Luther and theologian Johann Eck at Pleissenburg Castle in Liepzig, during which Luther denies the divine right of the Pope
1st European Banknote
1661 1st banknotes in Europe are issued by Bank of Stockholm
- 1683 Manchu/Chinese Qing Dynasty naval forces under commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
- 1683 Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa reach Vienna
John Adams Graduates
1755 John Adams graduates Harvard
1st Mission in California
1769 Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego the 1st mission in California
Abduction from the Seraglio
1782 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera "Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio)" premieres in Vienna with Mozart conducting
Jacques Necker Reinstated
1789 French King Louis XVI reinstates Jacques Necker as finance minister following riots at his dismissal
Event of Interest
1801 Pope Pius VII & 1st consul Napoleon sign concord
- 1809 La Paz, Bolivia declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the Junta Tuitiva led by Pedro Domingo Murillo, the 1st independent government in Spanish America
Russian Antarctic Expedition
1819 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen sets sail to explore Antarctica for Tsar Alexander I
1st US Rear Admiral
1862 David Farragut is 1st Rear Admiral in US Navy
- 1863 Utrecht-Swells railway opens
- 1867 Amstel Hotel, "the dignified old lady" opens in Amsterdam
- 1867 D.R. Averill of Ohio patents ready-mixed paint
- 1867 Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete
- 1880 Dr. Emily Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practise medicine in Canada.
- 1894 Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners
- 1894 Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan & England
- 1895 Lancashire batsman Archie MacLaren scores the first-ever quadruple-hundred (424) in first-class cricket against Somerset at Taunton
- 1896 Indian born K S Ranjitsinhji debuts for England v Australia in 2nd Test at Old Trafford; first Indian to play Test cricket
Report on the Jameson Raid
1897 The South African Committee, investigating the Jameson Raid releases its report finding that it was conducted almost implicitly through the support and encouragement of Cecil Rhodes and the mining houses in the Transvaal
- 1900 A report appears in London that all foreigners in Peking, China, have been massacred. Although soon exposed as false, the report helps mobilize support for relief of foreigners
- 1900 Russia launch an offensive against the Chinese in Manchuria
- 1901 The Fawcett Commission headed by Millicent Fawcett is established as a result of an outcry against the treatment of Afrikaners in concentration camps during the South African War
- 1902 John McGraw officially becomes manager of MLB New York Giants; 30 year tenure begins (1902-32)
- 1904 Islands of Manu'a group (Samoa) ceded to US by their chiefs
- 1909 MLB Detroit Tigers and Washington Senators play longest scoreless game in AL history - 18 innings at Bennett Field in Detroit, Michigan [1]
- 1912 Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B A Fiske
- 1914 Socialist conference in Brussels (Kautsky, Trotski & Rosa Luxemburg)
- 1920 Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief
Greco-Turkish War
1921 Encouraged by the British, King Constantine of Greece launches a drive to take Asia Minor from nationalists under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1924 Conference over German recovery payments begins in London
- 1924 NY Giants George Kelly is 1st to hit HRs in 6 cons games
- 1925 The first parliament in Iraq opened by King Feisal in Baghdad
- 1926 Jaspar government asks authority to save Belgian franc
- 1926 National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos
- 1927 Augusto César Sandino begins 5½ year war against US occupation of Nicaragua
- 1935 First automatic parking meter in the United States is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- 1936 1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, NY
- 1936 NY Giants are 10½ games back in NL, & go on to win pennant
Event of Interest
1940 Adolf Hitler orders preparations for the invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion)
- 1940 NSB'er Woudenberg appointed as NVV-trustee
- 1941 100°F (38°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle, Washington
Sports History
1941 Joe Dimaggio goes 3 for 4, hitting in his 56th straight game
Manhattan Project
1945 1st test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the US Manhattan Project
- 1945 Australian Services win 3rd Victory Test Cricket by 4 wickets
- 1945 Cruiser Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with atom bomb
Event of Interest
1945 J. Robert Oppenheimer is present at the first test of the atomic bomb, Trinity, near Alamogordo, New Mexico
Sports History
1948 MLB manager merry-go-round: Philadelphia Phillies - Ben Chapman out / Eddie Sawyer in; NY Giants - Mel Ott out / Leo Durocher in; Brooklyn Dodgers - Durocher out / Burt Shotton in
- 1950 FIFA World Cup Final, Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Alcides Ghiggia scores a 79th minute winner as Uruguay beats Brazil, 2-1
- 1950 Single day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12)
- 1951 Len Hutton scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire v Surrey at The Oval
- 1951 Leopold III, King of the Belgians, abdicates in favour of his son Boudouin I
Catcher in Rye
1951 Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published by Little Brown and Company
- 1953 KROC (now KTTC) TV channel 10 in Rochester, Minnesota (NBC) 1st broadcast
F1 World Champion
1955 Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina clinches his third Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by finishing 2nd to fellow Mercedes driver Sterling Moss in the British Grand Prix at Aintree
- 1956 Detroit Tigers & Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million
- 1956 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR
- 1956 King Faisal of Iraq begins visit to England
- 1956 Last Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent
Historic Expedition
1957 US Marine Major John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08)
Sports History
1961 Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 2"
- 1963 Amazon river carries 190,000 m3/sec of water (record)
- 1964 Republican convention selects Barry Goldwater as presidential candidate
- 1965 Mont Blanc Road tunnel between France & Italy opens
- 1966 Nigeria becomes the first Anglophone independent state in Africa to become an associate member of European Economic Community
- 1966 Number of banned persons in South Africa totals 936; the individuals are banned under various laws, most prominently the Suppression of Communism and Riotous Assembly Acts
- 1967 American pop-rock group "The Monkees" perform at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, New York, with psychedelic rock Jimi Hendrix Experience as opening act;
- 1967 British rock band "The Who" begin 1st full US tour, appearing at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, California, and then going coast-to-coast opening for Herman's Hermits
Music Concert
1967 Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell makes her Newport Folk Festival debut at a songwriters' workshop performance in Newport, Rhode Island
- 1967 Prison brawl ignites barracks, killing 37 (Jay, Florida)
Apollo 11 Bootprint
1969 Apollo 11 launched, carrying 1st men to land on Moon
- 1970 9th British Commonwealth Games open in Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1970 Iraq's constitution goes into effect
- 1970 Reds spoil Pirates debut in Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium, 3-2
Event of Interest
1971 Franco appoints prince Juan Carlos as deputy in Spain
- 1971 The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) withdraw from Stormont (North Ireland Parliament) after no inquiry is announced into the shooting dead of Seamus Cusack and Desmond Beattie
- 1972 Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes 269th patriarch of Constantinople
Music Concert
1972 Smokey Robinson and the Miracles final live performance, in Washington D.C.
- 1973 During Watergate hearings, Butterfield reveals existence of tapes
Election of Interest
1975 Major League Baseball owners re-elect Commissioner Bowie Kuhn to a 7-year term
- 1976 Rock duo Loggins & Messina break-up after 6 years
Saddam Hussein Becomes President
1979 Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr is succeeded by Saddam Hussein
- 1980 Polish railway workers block railway to Russia
Reagan Nominated
1980 Ronald Reagan nominated for US President by Republicans in Detroit
Secretary of State Shultz
1982 George P. Shultz is sworn in as the 60th US Secretary of State
- 1982 NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth
Event of Interest
1982 Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud
Baseball Record
1987 New York Yankees Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of season & ties AL record of homers in 6 straight games (on way to tie major league record of 8)
- 1987 Said Aouita runs world record 2000m (4:50.81)
Sports History
1988 Carl Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100m in 9.78 sec
- 1988 Florence Joyner runs 100m in women's world record 10.49 seconds
Women's Heptathlete Record
1988 Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women's heptathlete record of 7,215 pts
- 1988 San Antonio (Texas League) beats Jackson 1-0 in 26 innings
- 1989 South Africa's largest labour federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, holds its third annual congress and intensifies its campaign against apartheid
- 1990 400 die in a (7.7) earthquake in the Philippines
- 1990 Civil trial by parents of Suicide victims against Judas Priest begins
- 1990 NYC's Empire State Building catches fire-no fatalities
- 1990 Rick Dee's "Into the Night" premieres on ABC-TV
ANC Report Police Violence
1990 The ANC send a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk and demand an end to "the shocking inhumanity" of police action in rural areas of South Africa
- 1990 Ukraine declares independence
- 1993 President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville
- 1993 S van Ruysdael's "Winter Landscape" sold for £705,500 in London
- 1993 SF outfielder Darren Lewis sets record of 267 consecutive errorless games
The Three Tenors
1994 "The Three Tenors" Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti, perform with Los Angeles Philharmonic and chorus of the Los Angeles Opera, conducted by Zubin Mehta at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California; an estimated 1.3 billion viewers wathc worldwide broadcast
- 1994 Baseball Night in America premieres (no Saturday day games)
- 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy 1st collides with Jupiter (collisions continue until 22 July)
- 1994 Shreveport Pirates lose first CFL home game, 35-34 to the Toronto Argonauts at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana
- 1994 Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights
Plane Crash
1999 John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard; the Piper Saratoga aircraft was piloted by Kennedy
Jurassic Park III
2001 "Jurassic Park III", starring Sam Neill and William H. Macy, premieres in the US
ESPY Awards
2003 11th ESPY Awards: Lance Armstrong, Serena Williams win
Martha Stewart Sentenced
2004 Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison plus five months in home confinement for lying to federal investigators
Millennium Park Opened
2004 Millennium Park, considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the early 21st century for Chicago, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2005 "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", the 6th book in the series by J. K. Rowling, is published worldwide. 9 million copies sell in 24 hrs
- 2006 14th ESPY Awards: Lance Armstrong, Annika Sörenstam win
- 2007 An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occurs off the Niigata coast, Japan, killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power plant. See 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake.
- 2008 Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim is arrested on sodomy charges in Malaysia
- 2011 NASA's Dawn space probe enters orbit around the protoplanet Vesta
The Dark Knight Rises
2012 "The Dark Knight Rises", directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale and Anne Hathaway, premieres in New York
- 2013 27 children are killed and 25 are hospitalized after eating lunch contaminated with insecticide in India
Bashar al-Assad's Rule
2014 Bashar al-Assad is sworn in for a third term as President of Syria
- 2014 Death toll within Gaza surpasses 200 people following air strikes by Israel
- 2014 Hamas and Islamic Jihad offer Israel a 10-year truce with 10 conditions, which include lifting the blockade and the release of prisoners; it is rejected
- 2014 Israel intensifies strikes on Gaza
- 2015 Scientists reveal 1st close-up pictures of Pluto, sent by the New Horizons probe
- 2015 Shootings in Chattanooga at a US military recruitment centre and a naval reserve training center kill 5 and injure others
Trump Names Pence as Running Mate
2016 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announces Indiana governor Mike Pence as his Vice Presidential running mate
- 2017 BBC announces first ever female Doctor Who will be played by Jodie Whittaker
Sports History
2017 Kawhi Leonard re-signs with the San Antonio Spurs to a five-year, $90 million contract
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
2017 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Roger Federer beats Marin Čilić 6-3, 6-1, 6-4 for a record 8th Wimbledon men's title
- 2018 12 new moons discovered orbiting Jupiter bringing planet's moon total to 79, by scientists at Carnegie Institution for Science
- 2018 Historic cemetery (1878-1911) announced discovered near Houston, Texas, containing 95 remains though to be African Americans forced into labour
Helsinki Summit
2018 US President Donald Trump appears to accept the word of Russian President Vladimir Putin over US intelligence services about Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, in an interview after the two leader's Helsinki Summit
- 2023 Highest temperature ever recorded in China of 52.2 C (126 F) at Sanbao township in Xinjiang's Turpan Depression [1]
- 2023 Jam rock band Dead & Company, an outgrowth of the Grateful Dead, plays the final show of its final concert tour, at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California
- 2023 Persian Gulf International Airport on Iran’s southwestern coast hits a heat index high of 152 degrees Fahrenheit (66.7 C) at 12:30 p.m., beyond what humans can endure [1]
Speak Now Debuts at #1
2023 Taylor Swift’s re-recorded "Speak Now" album debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200, her 12th No. 1 album, surpassing Barbra Streisand's record for #1 albums by a female artist [1]
