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Peace of Konstanz
1183 Peace of Konstanz signed between Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa and Italian Lombard League
- 1580 Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published
- 1607 Mentally ill Emperor Rudolf II signs Treaty of Lieben, giving up Austria, Hungary and Moravia
- 1621 French government army occupies Fort St Jean d'Angély at La Rochelle
- 1630 Fork introduced to American dining by Governor Winthrop
- 1638 Lunar eclipse is 1st astronomical event recorded in the American Colonies
Event of Interest
1646 Thomas Fairfax's New Model Army occupies Oxford
Piscopia First Female PhD
1678 Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is awarded a doctorate of philosophy from the University of Padua, the first woman to receive a university doctoral degree or PhD
Constitution of the United States
1788 Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify US constitution
Konzertstück
1821 Carl Maria von Weber's "Konzertstück in f, for Piano and Orchestra" premieres
- 1834 Pope Gregory XVI's encyclical "Singulari nos" published
- 1835 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now San Francisco)
- 1862 Battle of Oak Grove, Virginia (Orchard, Henrico, French's Field) (Kings's Schoolhouse) Day 1 of 7 Days
- 1863 US General George Meade replaces General Hooker to be more aggressive
- 1864 Battle of Petersburg: Union forces begin digging tunnels under Confederate lines
- 1864 Horse tramway in The Hague, Netherlands opens
- 1867 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B. Smith of Ohio
- 1868 Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina readmitted to US, after the Civil War
- 1868 US President Andrew Johnson signs a law establishing an eight-hour workday for government workers
Battle of the Little Bighorn
1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as "Custer's Last Stand"
Benjamin Harrison Nominated
1888 Republican Convention in Chicago nominates Benjamin Harrison
- 1894 American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike
Kruger Meets Over Uitlanders
1894 Boer leader Paul Kruger meets British High Commissioner, Sir Henry Loch, on Pretoria station in South Africa and accompanies him to his hotel to discuss the grievances of the Uitlanders (Foreigners)
- 1900 Dunhuang manuscripts, including the Diamond Sutra, world's oldest surviving dated book, discovered by Daoist monk Wang Yuanlu in the Mogao Caves, China
- 1900 Russia mobilizes its army in eastern Siberia preparatory to acting against the Chinese, but also in an attempt to diminish the influence of Japan on the Asian mainland
- 1903 Boston Beaneater Wiley Piatt is only 20th-century pitcher to lose 2 complete games in one day, falling to Pittsburgh 1-0 & 5-3
- 1903 NY Yanks & Chicago White Sox end deadlocked game at 6-6 in 18
- 1905 Tsarist Russian troops in Łódź, Congress Poland crush workers' militia insurrection against Russian occupation; 151-200 workers killed and over 1,000 injured
The Firebird
1910 Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Firebird" for the Ballets Russes premieres at the Opéra de Paris, Paris
- 1910 US Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
- 1913 American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913
- 1913 Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority)
- 1916 Russian Tsar Nicolaas II fires minister of Foreign affairs Sasonov
- 1918 Baku-Turkish communist party forms
- 1919 1st advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13)
- 1919 Revolt of Spartacus in Hamburg
- 1920 League of Nations places Internationall Court of Justice in Hague
- 1921 Charlie McCartney scores 300 in 205 mins Aust v Notts
- 1925 Military putsch under General Theodorus Pangulos in Greece
- 1927 WVO soccer team forms in Oosterhout
- 1928 NY Giants future Baseball HOF third baseman Freddie Lindstrom ties record of 9 hits in a doubleheader in 12-4 & 8-2 wins over Philadelphia Phillies at the Baker Bowl
Hoover Dam Authorized
1929 US President Herbert Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
Gehrig Beats White Sox
1934 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits for the cycle beating White Sox 11-2
- 1934 Previously unknown Winchester Manuscript of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" (1485) announced discovered in the library of Winchester College, England
Louis KOs Carnera
1935 Future world heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis moves to 20-0 with 6th round KO of former champion Primo Carnera of Italy at Yankee Stadium, NYC
- 1937 Cub Augie Galan becomes 1st player to switch hit HRs in a game
A Tisket A Tasket
1938 "A Tisket, A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1
- 1938 US federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25 cents per hour (rising to 40 cents by 1945) and a maximum 44 hour working week
- 1941 -26] Soviet counterattack at Rovno, Ukraine
- 1941 Fair Employment Practices Commission established
- 1941 Finland declares war on Soviet Union
- 1941 Finland enters WW2 against the USSR following a massive airstrike the previous day
- 1941 Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there
Byrnes to Supreme Court
1941 James F. Byrnes is admitted to the US Supreme Court
Executive Order 8802
1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 8802, which forbids racial discrimination in the defense industry
Churchill Returns to London
1942 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill travels from US to London
- 1942 British RAF stages a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen, Germany (WWII)
Eisenhower European Commander
1942 Major General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of US forces in Europe
- 1943 Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Reichskommissar in the Netherlands, orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians
- 1943 Crematorium 3 at Birkenau is finished
- 1943 Racial unrest in Detroit
- 1944 British assault at Caen, Normandy
- 1945 Allied landing at Ternate, capital of the Maluku Islands in modern day Indonesia
- 1945 Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa
Anne Frank's Diary
1947 1st version of Anne Frank's diary "Het Achterhuis" published in The Netherlands
- 1947 Heavyweight boxer Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello
Displaced Persons Bill
1948 Harry Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill (205,000 Europeans to US)
- 1948 Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 for heavyweight boxing title, at Yankee Stadium, NYC
- 1949 "Long-Haired Hare", animated short starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theaters
- 1949 Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote)
- 1950 Israeli airline El Al begins service
- 1950 Johnny Pramesa of the Cincinnati Reds and Hank Thompson of the New York Giants each hit inside the park homeruns in 6-4 Reds win at the Polo Grounds, NYC
Korean War Begins
1950 North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War
1st Color TV Broadcast
1951 First color TV broadcast, Arthur Godfrey hosts a musical variety special titled "Premiere" from CBS NYC to a network of 5 East Coast cities
Event of Interest
1955 Notre Dame du Haut chapel designed by Le Corbusier is consecrated in Ronchamp, France
- 1956 WKNO TV channel 10 in Memphis, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting
Television Finale
1957 "Jonathan Winters Show" last airs on NBC-TV
- 1960 Earthquake in NE Belgium
- 1960 Madagascar gains independence from France
- 1960 South Africa beats New Zealand 13-0 in the first rugby test of the series in Johannesburg
- 1961 Baltimore and California use a record 16 pitchers in a game (8 each) in 14 inns
- 1961 Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)
- 1961 Iraq Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim demands dominion over Kuwait and the end of the British protectorate
- 1962 İnönü government forms in Turkey
- 1962 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) forms
- 1962 Supreme Court rules NY school prayer unconstitutional
- 1963 Curnick Ndlovu, South African worker's union leader and African National Congress Leader, is arrested for acts of sabotage
- 1963 Famous cricket draw at Lord's as England hang on against the Windies
- 1964 Prince A Taylor becomes first African American Methodist bishop, assigned to the New Jersey Area
- 1964 WMCA radio in NYC plays The Beatles' "A Hard Days Night" album 10 days prior to its scheduled release date; record company moves release to June 26th
- 1965 Gyula Kallai succeeds Janos Kádár as premier of Hungary
Music Premiere
1966 Dmitri Shostakovich's 13th Symphony premieres in Leningrad, Russia
- 1966 Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched
- 1966 The Beatles' "Paperback Writer" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
- 1967 First global satellite television program: "Our World" broadcast features 19 acts representing 19 nations including The Beatles singing "All You Need Is Love"
- 1967 KPBS TV channel 15 in San Diego, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
Sports History
1968 Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his 1st major league game (San Francisco Giants)
- 1969 American Pancho González (41) beats Puerto Rican Charlie Pasarell (25) in 5 hour and 12 minute, 112-game marathon at Wimbledon
Where I'm Coming From
1971 Stevie Wonder releases single "Where I'm Coming From"
- 1973 John Dean begins testifying before Senate Watergate Committee
Event of Interest
1973 Russian communist party leader Leonid Brezhnev visits France
- 1973 Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m
- 1975 After a prolonged liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rulers, Mozambique becomes independent as People Republic of Mozambique
Music History
1975 Barry White's "Can't Get Enough of Your Love Babe" is released
- 1976 Soweto Uprising: in South Africa leaves an estimated 200 to 700 blacks and 2 whites dead following 10 days of rioting
The Omen
1976 Supernatural horror film "The Omen" starring Gregory Peck and Lee Remick premieres in the US
- 1976 Texas Ranger Toby Harrah is only shortstop not to handle a fielding chance in doubleheader
- 1977 Roy C. Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightning for 7th time!
- 1978 FIFA World Cup Final, El Monumental, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Striker Mario Kempes scores 2 goals as Argentina beats the Netherlands, 3-1 after extra time
- 1978 First use of the rainbow flag, symbol of gay pride, made by Gilbert Baker at a march in San Francisco
Event of Interest
1979 Failed attack on NATO commander Alexander Haig Jr. in Obourg, Belgium by German terrorist Rolf Klemens Wagner, a former member of the Red Army Faction
- 1981 Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington
- 1981 Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration as constitutional
- 1982 Greece abolishes headshaving of recruits in the military
- 1982 Porn star John Holmes acquitted on murder charges
- 1982 San Francisco holds its 1st County Fair
Blade Runner
1982 Science-fiction film "Blade Runner", directed by Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer, is released
Event of Interest
1982 South African President P. W. Botha issues a new Proclamation again placing Ingwavuma under government control
Appointment of Interest
1982 US Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr. resigns, replaced by George P. Shultz
- 1983 ICC Men's Cricket ODI World Cup, Lord's, London: India beats West Indies by 43 runs to win their first trophy; Player of Match: Mohinder Amarnath (IND) 3/12 from 7 overs
- 1983 Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m
- 1984 Lydia Garrett, 24, crowned 17th Miss Black America
- 1984 STS 41-D launch attempt scrubbed because of computer problem
Purple Rain
1984 Warner Bros Records releases the sixth studio album by Prince, "Purple Rain"; his commercial peak, the film soundtrack album sells over 25 million copies album, tops the charts in 5 countries m and wins 3 Grammy Awards and an Academy Award
- 1985 Fireworks factory near Hallett, Oklahoma, explodes killing 21
- 1985 Thurman v City of Torrington decides in favor of Tracey Thurman, 1st woman to sue a police department for violating her civil rights (not protecting against abusive husband)
- 1986 Former Belgium premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud
Sports History
1986 MLB Philadelphia Phillies give Steve Carlton, 41, his unconditional release
Event of Interest
1987 Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim
- 1988 104°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June
- 1988 Expos Pitcher Floyd Youmans suspended for 60 days due to drugs
- 1988 Kristen Logan, 17, of Mississippi, crowned America's Junior Miss
Sports History
1988 MLB player Cal Ripken Jr. plays in his 1,000th consecutive game
- 1988 Roger Rabbit Cartoon Character debuts in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
- 1989 "Day By Day" last airs on NBC-TV
- 1989 1st US postmark dedicated to Lesbian & Gay Pride (Stonewall, NYC)
- 1989 Mets' defense does not record a single assist in a 5-1 win over Phils
- 1990 "Dave Thomas Comedy Show" last airs on CBS-TV
- 1990 120°F in Phoenix, Arizona
Meeting of Interest
1990 African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets with President George H. W. Bush at the White House
- 1990 Anti-government riots break out in Lusaka, Zambia
- 1990 NBC decides to air episodes of "Quantum Leap" for 5 straight days
- 1990 Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known
- 1991 Japan lifts its call for voluntary restraint on expanding trade with South Africa
Sports History
1991 Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match at Wimbledon, beating Elna Reinach of South Africa 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 in the 1st round
- 1991 Six persons are killed and eighteen injured when gunmen open fire on a crowded commuter train in Soweto, South Africa
Event of Interest
1991 Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia
- 1992 Alexanders Department store closes all 11 stores in the US
- 1992 STS 50 launches (Columbia)
Television Finale
1993 "Late Night with David Letterman" airs for the last time on NBC-TV
Event of Interest
1993 Kim Campbell becomes the 19th Prime Minister of Canada (although she would remain in office for less than five months)
- 1993 NY Islander goalie Billy Smith elected to NHL Hall of Fame
- 1993 Parliamentary election in Morocco
- 1994 105°F (40.5°C) at Albuquerque New Mexico
- 1994 111°F (43.9°C) at El Paso Texas
- 1994 Cleveland Indians 18 game home win streak ends to Yanks 11-6
- 1994 FIFA World Cup: 1,500th goal in Cup'd history scored by Caceres of Argentina
- 1994 Gay Games close in NYC
- 1994 Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns
- 1995 Rockies' Andres Galarraga is 4th to HR in 3 consecutive innings
Independence Day
1996 "Independence Day", directed by Roland Emmerich, and starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum premieres in Westwood, California
- 1996 The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen
Event of Interest
1997 Christies auctions off some of the wardrobe of Diana, Princess of Wales, for $5.5 million
Special Delivery
1997 Danielle Steel’s romantic novel “Special Delivery” is published
- 1997 Galileo, 2nd Callisto Flyby (Orbit 9)
- 1997 Intelsat 802 Ariane 4 Launch is successful
- 1997 Jamaica issues warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop
Sports History
1997 NBA Draft: Wake Forest power forward Tim Duncan first pick by San Antonio Spurs
- 1997 NHL approves franchises in Nashville, Atlanta, Columbus, and Minnesota-St Paul
- 1997 Progress M-34 Collides with and damages Mir Space Station
- 1998 In Clinton v. City of New York, the US Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional