Stadtholder Frederick Henry
1625 Prince Frederick Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand
- 1633 Prince Frederick Henry conquers fort Rhine at Cologne
Historic Expedition
1639 Secret Dutch expedition to find the Gold and Silver Islands departs Batavia, led by Mathijs Hendrikszoon Quast and Abel Tasman, thought to lie east of Japan, never found [1]
- 1676 Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch and Spanish fleet
- 1697 August, Elector of Saxony becomes Catholic
- 1746 Russia and Austria sign agreements
- 1763 Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort
Armida
1771 "Armida", an operatic 'dramma per musica' by Antonio Salieri debuts at the Vienna Burgtheater
- 1774 Intolerable Acts: Amendment to original Quartering Act enacted, allows governors in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters not provided
- 1780 Anti-Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London
- 1797 Surveyor Charles Brodhead achieves the 1st ascent of Giant Mountain (4,626 feet) in Adirondack, New York, the 1st of any Adirondack High Peak [1]
- 1834 5th national black convention meets (NYC)
P.T. Barnum Circus
1835 P. T. Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US
- 1848 The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
- 1851 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
- 1855 The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine
- 1857 James Gibbs of Virginia, patents the chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
- 1858 Donati Comet 1st seen named after its discoverer
- 1862 Raid at Early's: Maryland towards Washington, D.C.
General Robert E. Lee
1862 Robert E. Lee takes command of Confederate armies of North Virginia during the American Civil War
Tubman Frees Slaves
1863 Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves
- 1864 Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2
- 1865 Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith surrenders his Trans-Mississippi Department to Union forces at Galveston, Texas; he then flees to Mexico to avoid charges of treason
- 1866 Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces
- 1869 Cleveland's Forest City play their 1st baseball game, against the Cincinnati Red Stockings
- 1873 Construction begins on Clay St (San Francisco) for world's 1st cable railroad
1st Sound Transmission
1875 Alexander Graham Bell makes first sound transmission
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza Returns Home
1882 Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza returns from his travels in the Congo and Gabon to a great welcome in France
Marconi's Wireless Patent
1896 Italian engineer and inventor Guglielmo Marconi applies for the first ever patent for a system of wireless telegraphy in the United Kingdom
Beatty Appointed Captain
1902 British naval officer David Beatty is appointed captain of the cruiser HMS Juno
Alfred Deakin Prime Minister
1909 Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time
- 1910 1st roundtrip flight over English Channel (C S Rolls, England)
- 1910 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
- 1913 1st strike settlement mediated by US Department of Labor - railroad clerks
- 1913 Demonstrations for general voting right in Netherlands
- 1914 Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome
- 1916 Battle of Verdun: German troops, under Lt Rackow, launch attack on Fort Vaux with flamethrowers, forcing French defenders inside. The fort changes hand 16 times during the entire Battle of Verdun.
Bill Bishop's Victoria Cross
1917 Canadian ace Billy Bishop undertakes a solo mission behind enemy lines, shooting down three aircraft as they were about to take off and several more on the ground, for which he is awarded the Victoria Cross
- 1919 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)
O'Neill Play Wins Pulitzer
1920 Pulitzer Prize for Drama awarded to Eugene O'Neill for his play Beyond the Horizon
- 1922 MLB first baseman Stuffy McInnis ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances, while playing for the Boston red Sox (1921) and Cleveland Indians (1922)
Indian Citizenship Act
1924 President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act (also known as Snyder Act), declaring all Native Americans to be American citizens [1]
Cabinet of the Barons
1932 German Chancellor Franz von Papen forms his "Cabinet of the Barons"
- 1933 WNJ-AM in Newark NJ goes off the air
- 1936 General Anastasio Somoza García takes over as dictator of Nicaragua
Miracle of Dunkirk
1940 Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach
- 1941 WWII: British Royal Navy captures U-110, its 1st German U-boat; after gathering valuable code machinery, they sink the vessel
Red Sox Star Enlists
1942 Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a US Navy aviator
- 1943 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy)
- 1943 German assault on Sebastopol, Crimea, begins
Eisenhower, Montgomery Dinner
1944 Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bernard Montgomery dine in Portsmouth, England
- 1944 Herzogenbusch concentration camp near Vught, Netherlands, is disbanded by Allied forces, one of two SS-run camps outside Germany
- 1946 Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)
Event of Interest
1947 Billy Rose appears on the cover of Time magazine
- 1947 Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns
- 1950 St Louis Browns pitcher Harry Dorish swipes home vs Washington Senators
- 1952 650,000 metalworkers go on strike in US
- 1952 Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette
Coronation of Elizabeth II
1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London, England
Interview with Khrushchev
1957 US TV interviews Nikita Khrushchev
- 1958 Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio
Sports History
1958 Brooks Robinson hits into 1st of record 4 triple plays
Baseball Record
1958 Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record
Event of Interest
1959 Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid", San Francisco
- 1960 Broadway theaters close (labor dispute between owners & Actors Equity)
#1 in the Charts
1962 Ray Charles' cover of Don Gibson's "I Can't Stop Loving You", from his influential crossover album "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music" hits #1 on Billboard
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1967 Capitol Records releases The Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in the US; it is their first album with identical track listings in US and UK, and goes to number one for 15 weeks in US, 22 weeks in UK
- 1967 Race riots in Roxbury suburb of Boston
- 1968 Canadians must get government permission to export silver
- 1968 WBLG (now WTVQ) TV channel 62 in Lexington, KY (ABC) 1st broadcast
- 1969 Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne slices US destroyer USS Frank E Evans in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)
- 1972 Two British soldiers die in an IRA land mine attack near Rosslea, County Fermanagh
- 1974 Mali adopts constitution
- 1974 Malta's constitution goes into effect
- 1975 First recorded snowfall in London in June
- 1975 James A Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)
- 1975 VP Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA
- 1976 East Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation by Indonesia
- 1977 New Jersey allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
Darkness on the Edge of Town
1978 Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen fourth studio album "Darkness on the Edge of Town"
Papal Visit
1979 John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a Communist country (Poland)
Event of Interest
1979 Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley signs first homosexual rights bill
- 1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-198
Film & TV History
1981 Barbara Walters famously asks Katharine Hepburn “If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?”
- 1983 1980 movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" released in Germany
- 1983 Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati
- 1984 "Welcome To Fun Zone" hosted by Dr Demento airs on NBC-TV
- 1984 Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy
- 1984 Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines
- 1985 39th Tony Awards: "Biloxi Blues" (play) and "Big River" (musical) win
- 1985 Andreas Papandreou's PASOK-party wins election in Greece
- 1985 RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco
- 1986 NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
- 1986 Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
Sports History
1987 Mariners draft Ken Griffey Jr. #1
- 1988 61st National Spell Bee: Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal
- 1988 Consumer Reports calls for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai automobile
Dead Poets Society
1989 "Dead Poets Society" film starring Robin Williams premieres
Goddess of Democracy
1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, protecting students demonstrating for democracy
- 1989 14-year-old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee
- 1989 Cincinnati Red Eric Davis hits for cycle
- 1990 "Turtle Power" by Partners In Kryme hits #13
- 1990 Seattle's Randy Johnson, no-hits Tigers, 2-0
- 1991 45th Tony Awards: "Lost in Yonkers" (play) & "The Will Rogers Follies" (musical) win
- 1991 4th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
- 1991 Seppo Raty of Finland improves his world javelin record to 318' 1"
- 1991 Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin
Sports History
1992 Former NFL NY Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgery
Music Concert
1992 Ringo Starr's second All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include Joe Walsh, Dave Edmunds, Todd Rundgren, Burton Cummings, Timothy B. Schmit, Zak Starkey, and Timmy Capello
- 1992 Wilson Phillips release their second album "Shadows & Light"
- 1994 67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian
- 1994 Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland (29 killed)
Film & TV History
1994 Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List"
Film & TV History
1994 Sharon Stone files $12m lawsuit against her jeweler
- 1995 John Valentin hits 3 HRs
- 1996 50th Tony Awards: "Master Class" (play) & "Rent" (musical) win
- 1996 9th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
- 1997 Albert Belle's Chicago White Sox tying 27-game hitting streak ends
- 1997 Liberals beat Conservatives in France
Event of Interest
1997 Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168
Music History
2000 SInger-songwriter Joni Mitchell completes her retirement "Both Sides Now Tour Of America" at the Blockbuster/Sony Entertainment Centre in Camden, New Jersey
- 2002 56th Tony Awards: "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (musical) & "The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?" (play) win
The Wire
2002 Crime drama "The Wire" created by David Simon and starring Idris Elba and Dominic West debuts on HBO
- 2003 Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.
Film & TV History
2004 Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated television game show "Jeopardy!"
- 2009 Switzerland officially enters the global recession
Music History
2010 British singer-songwriter and musician Paul McCartney receives Library of Congress Gershwin Prize at the White House in Washington, D.C.
- 2014 Former Liberation Front guerilla fighter Salvador Sánchez Cerén, 69, is sworn in as president in El Salvador
- 2014 Telangana with Hyderabad as it's capital becomes India's 29th state after it is separated from Andhra Pradesh
- 2014 The unity government is sworn into power in Palestine; it agrees to the following: recognition of Israel, compliance to diplomatic agreements, renunciation of violence
- 2015 100 volunteers in Bhutan set a world record for tree planting - 49,672 in 1 hour
Election of Interest
2015 FIFA President Sepp Blatter announces his resignation, 5 days after his re-election, amid FIFA's involvement in a bribery scandal
- 2015 US Congress passes new legislation to reform National Security Agency procedures, restricting gathering of phone records
- 2017 "Wonder Woman" directed by Patty Jenkins released, earns over $100 million in North American in its opening weekend - domestic record for a female director
Sports History
2017 Alex Puccio ascends Dead Meadow V13 (8B) at Wild Basin
- 2018 Ringo Starr's thirteenth All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include: Steve Lukather, Gregg Rolie, Colin Hay, Graham Gouldman, Gregg Bissonette, and Warren Ham
Event of Interest
2018 Socialist Pedro Sánchez is sworn in as Spanish Prime Minister
- 2020 Brazilian death toll passes 30,000 from COVID-19 at 31,199 with 555,383 number of cases confirmed, 2nd only to the US
- 2020 New outbreak of Ebola has killed five people in city of Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo
- 2020 UK death toll from COVID-19 passes 50,000 (50,032) according to its Office of National Statistics
Event of Interest
2020 UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet says pandemic exposing "endemic inequalities" around the world, cites death of George Floyd and higher death toll for ethnic minorities
Film & TV History
2022 Jury in defamation case brought by Johnny Depp against ex-wife Amber Heard awards Depp $15 million in damages and compensation and Heard $2 million in damages in Fairfax, Virginia [1]
- 2022 Queen Elizabeth II marks her Platinum Jubilee with four days of celebrations starting with a military parade at Buckingham Palace [1]
- 2023 A three-train collision in India's Balasore district, Odisha state, leaves 288 dead and more than 1,000 people injured in the country's worst rail accident this century [1]
- 2023 US Army renames Fort Bragg in North Carolina as Fort Liberty as part of effort to remove Confederate names from military bases; namesake Braxton Bragg served in the US Army (1837-56) and the Confederate Army (1861-65)
- 2024 Chinese spacecraft Chang'e-6 successfully lands on the far side of the Moon on a mission to analyse and collect rock samples [1]
- 2024 Gymnast Simone Biles (27) wins her record 9th US Championship in Fort Worth, Texas
- 2024 Mexico elects former Mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, as its first woman president [1]
- 2024 US Open Women's Golf, Lancaster CC: 2021 champion Yuka Saso of Japan scores a 3 stroke win over compatriot Hinako Shibuno for her second major title
