Events 1 - 217 of 217
253 - St Lucius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians.
841 - Battle at Fontenay: Louis & Charles beat their brother Lotharius I
1080 - Wibbert of Ravenna chosen as anti-pope Clemens III
1096 - 1st Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen Germany
1139 - Battle of Ourique: Afonso I defeats Moors
1178 - 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon
1183 - Peace of Konstanz
1243 - Sinibaldo dei Fieschi elected as Pope Innocentius IV
1298 - Rindfleisch Persecutions-250 Jews killed in Rothenburg Germany
1500 - Pope Alexander VI accept Treaty of Granada
1580 - Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published
1606 - Alkmaarse clergy asks "Great Dertelheyt"
1606 - St Jansday is forbidden
1607 - Mentally ill emperor Rudolf II signs Treaty of Lieben, giving up Austria, Hungary & Moravia
1621 - French government army occupies Fort St Jean d'Angély at La Rochelle
1630 - Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop
1638 - Lunar eclipse is 1st astronomical event recorded in the American Colonies
1646 - Thomas Fairfax's New Model Army occupies Oxford
1658 - Spanish garrison at Dunkirk surrenders to French & British
1667 - Dr Jean-Baptiste Denys, French doctor, performs 1st blood transfusion
1672 - 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Mass
1675 - Battle at Rathenow: Brandenburgers beat Sweden
1678 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy.
1716 - Eugenius of Savoye named land guardian of Austrian Netherlands
1749 - General fast because of drought in MA
1788 - Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify US constitution
1794 - French troops occupy Charleroi
1798 - US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
1834 - Pope Gregory XVI's encyclical "Singulari nos" published
1835 - 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF)
1861 - Western Virginia campaign
1862 - Battle of Oak Grove, VA (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 - Horse tramway at the Hague, opens
1864 - Petersburg Campaign-Federals begin digging tunnels under Reb lines
1867 - 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio
1868 - FL, AL, LA, GA, NC & SC readmitted to US
1868 - US President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day
1870 - Opera "Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)" is produced (Munich)
1876 - Battle of the Little Bighorn: 7th Cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel (sometime Brevet Major General) George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne, Custer killed
23rd US President Benjamin Harrison 1888 - Republican Convention in Chicago nominates Benjamin Harrison
1894 - American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike
1894 - Boer leader Paul Kruger meets the 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 - 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 - Yanks & White Sox end deadlocked at 6-6 in 18
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
1905 - Warsaw & Lodz revolt against Russian occupation
1909 - George Sargent wins US Open golf tournament
1910 - Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
1913 - Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority)
1913 - American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
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 - 56th British Golf Open: Jock Hutchison shoots a 296 at St Andrews
1921 - Charlie McCartney scores 300 in 205 mins Aust v Notts
1925 - Military putsch under Gen Theodorus Pangulos in Greece
Golfer Bobby Jones 1926 - 61st British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Royal Lytham
1927 - WVO soccer team forms in Oosterhout
1928 - NY Giant Fred Lindstrom ties record of 9 hits in a doubleheader
1929 - President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1932 - 36th US Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 286 at Fresh Meadows NY
1932 - Commencement of India's 1st cricket Test v England at Lord's
1934 - Hedley Verity takes 15 wickets v Australia (7-61 & 8-43)
1934 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits for the cycle beating White Sox 11-2
1934 - Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times
1935 - Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium
1937 - Cub Augie Galan becomes 1st player to switch hit HRs in a game
1938 - "A Tisket A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1
1938 - Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25 cents per hour (rising to 40 cents by 1945) and a maximum 44 hour working week
1940 - Adolf Hitler views Eiffel tower & grave of Napoleon in France
1941 - -26] Russian counter attack at Rovno
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1941 - FDR issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination
1941 - Fair Employment Practices Commission established
1941 - Finland declares war on Soviet Union
1941 - Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there
1942 - British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)
1942 - British premier Winston Churchill travels from US to London
1942 - Maj Gen Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of US forces in Europe
1943 - Crematorium 3 at Birkenau is finished
1943 - Racial unrest in Detroit
1943 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Reichskommissar in the Netherlands, orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians
1944 - British assault at Caen, Normandy
1945 - Allied landing at Ternate Molukkas
1945 - Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa
1947 - 1st edition of Anne Frank's "The Back of House" published
1947 - Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello
Jewish Victim & Diarist of the Holocaust Anne Frank 1948 - Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1948 - Harry Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill (205,000 Europeans to US)
1949 - Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote)
1949 - Long-Haired Hare is released in Theaters starring Bugs Bunny.
1950 - Israeli airline El Al begins service
1950 - Johnny Pramesa (Reds) & Hank Thompson (Giants) hit inside the park HRs
1950 - Korean conflict begins; N Korea invades S Korea
1950 - UN member states begin using integrated forces against N Korea
1951 - 1st color TV broadcast-CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities
1952 - "Wish You Were Here" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 597 perfs
1952 - 34th PGA Championship: Jim Turnesa at Big Spring CC Louisville
1952 - Dutch social democratic party wins 2nd-Parliamentary election
1953 - 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
1953 - 86°F in Anchorage Alaska
1955 - "Can Can" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 892 performances
33rd US President Harry Truman 1955 - "Imogene Coca Show" last airs on NBC-TV
1956 - 51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" & "Stockholm" (Cape Cod)
1956 - WKNO TV channel 10 in Memphis, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - "Jonathan Winters Show" last airs on NBC-TV
1960 - Earthquake in NE Belgium
1960 - Madagascar gains independence from France
1960 - Somaliland is granted independence by British government
1960 - South Africa beats New Zealand 13-0 in the first rugby test of the series in Johannesburg
1961 - Balt & 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)
1962 - Inonu government forms in Turkey
1962 - Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) forms
1962 - Supreme Court rules NY school prayer unconstitutional
1963 - Famous cricket draw at Lord's as England hang on against the Windies
1963 - JFK speaks at Pauls Church in Frankfurt
1963 - South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested
1963 - Curnick Ndlovu, South African Trade Unionist and African National Congress Leader, is arrested
1964 - Prince A Taylor becomes 1st black methodist bishop (NJ)
1964 - WMCA (NYC) plays Beatles' Hard Days Night Album (10 days prior to its scheduled release date), they decide to release it June 26th
1965 - Gyula Kallai succeeds Janos Kádár as premier of Hungary
1966 - Beatles' "Paperback Writer" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1966 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 13th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
1966 - Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched
1967 - 400 million watch Beatles "Our World" TV special
1967 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
1967 - KPBS TV channel 15 in San Diego, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) sentenced to 5 years
1967 - First global satellite television programme - Our World
1968 - Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his 1st major league game (Giants)
1969 - Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5hr12m) marathon
Singer-Songwriter Stevie Wonder 1971 - Stevie Wonder releases "Where I'm Coming From"
1972 - Bernice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball
1972 - Juan Peron elected president of Argentina
1973 - John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee
1973 - Russian communist party leader 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.
1976 - Ranger Toby Harrah is only shortstop not to handle a fielding chance in doubleheader
1976 - The Soweto Uprising in South Africa leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
1977 - Roy C Sullivan of Va is struck by lightning for 7th time!
1978 - Argentina beats Holland 3-1 in soccer's 11th World Cup at Buenos Aires
1978 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1979 - "Got Tu Go Disco" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 8 performances
1979 - Failed attack on NATO commander Haig in Obourg, Belgium
1980 - "Fearless Frank" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 12 performances
1981 - Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional
1981 - Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1982 - Porn star John Holmes acquitted on murder charges
1982 - San Francisco holds its 1st County Fair
1982 - US Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr resigns, replaced by Schultz
1982 - Greece abolishes headshaving of recruits in the military.
1982 - South African President P.W. Botha issues a new Proclamation again placing Ingwavuma under government control
1983 - "Evita" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 1568 performances
1983 - India beat West Indies by 43 runs to win Cricket World Cup
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
1985 - Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK, explodes (21 die)
1986 - Former Belgium premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud
1986 - Phillies give Steve Carlton, 41, his unconditional release
264th Pope John Paul II 1987 - Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim
1988 - "Chess" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 68 performances
1988 - 104°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June
1988 - Cal Ripken Jr plays in his 1,000th consecutive game
1988 - Expos Pitcher Floyd Youmans suspended for 60 days due to drugs
1988 - Iceland's President Vigdis Finnbogadóttir elected (90+%)
1988 - Kristen Logan, 17, of Mississippi, crowned America's Junior Miss
1988 - Neth soccer team wins European Cup (2-0 against USSR)
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 - Betsy King wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
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
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
1990 - Anti-government riots break out in Lusaka, Zambia
1990 - African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets with President George Bush at the White House
Tennis Player Martina Navratilova 1991 - Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match at Wimbledon
1991 - Slovenia & Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia
1991 - Japan lifts its call for voluntary restraint on expanding trade with South Africa
1991 - Six persons are killed and eighteen injured when gunmen open fire on a crowded commuter train in Soweto, South Africa
1992 - "Les Miserables" opens at Vinorhady Theatre, Prague
1992 - Alexanders Department store closes all 11 stores
1992 - STS 50 launches (Columbia)
1993 - NY Islander goalie Billy Smith elected to NHL Hall of Fame
1993 - Parliamentary election in Morocco
1994 - 1,500th goal in Soccer World Cup history scored by Caceres of Argentina
1994 - 105°F (40.5°C) at Albuquerque New Mexico
1994 - 111°F (43.9°C) at El Paso Texas
1994 - Cleve Indians 18 game home win streak ends to Yanks 11-6
1994 - Gay Games close in NYC
1994 - Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns
1995 - Betsy King wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1995 - Rockies' Andres Galarraga is 4th to HR in 3 consecutive innings
1996 - The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
1997 - Christies auctions off Princess Di's clothing for $5.5 million
1997 - Galileo, 2nd Callisto Flyby (Orbit 9)
1997 - Intelsat 802 Ariane 4 Launch, Successful
1997 - J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game
1997 - NHL approves franchises in Nash, Atlanta, Columbus, & Minn-St Paul
1997 - Progress M-34 Collides with & damages Mir Space Station
1997 - Jamaica issues a warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop
1998 - In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
1999 - 53rd NBA Championship: San Antonio Spurs beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 1
1999 - In his first state of the nation address, South African President Thabo Mbeki promises to tackle rampaging crime; the nation's murder rate is the third highest in the world and more than 49,000 cases of rape were reported in 1998
2000 - 46th LPGA Championship won by Juli Inkster
2007 - 2007 United Kingdom floods, parts of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire flood including Louth, Horncastle and worst affected, Hull.
2008 - Atlantis Plastics shooting, An employee shot and killed five people after an argument, which ended in the gunman's suicide in Henderson, Kentucky.
2012 - 33 Syrian army officers defect to Turkey
2013 - 37 people are killed after a gold mine collapses in the Central African Republic
253 - St Lucius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians.
841 - Battle at Fontenay: Louis & Charles beat their brother Lotharius I
1080 - Wibbert of Ravenna chosen as anti-pope Clemens III
1096 - 1st Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen Germany
1139 - Battle of Ourique: Afonso I defeats Moors
1178 - 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon
1183 - Peace of Konstanz
1243 - Sinibaldo dei Fieschi elected as Pope Innocentius IV
1298 - Rindfleisch Persecutions-250 Jews killed in Rothenburg Germany
1500 - Pope Alexander VI accept Treaty of Granada
1580 - Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published
1606 - Alkmaarse clergy asks "Great Dertelheyt"
1606 - St Jansday is forbidden
1607 - Mentally ill emperor Rudolf II signs Treaty of Lieben, giving up Austria, Hungary & Moravia
1621 - French government army occupies Fort St Jean d'Angély at La Rochelle
1630 - Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop
1638 - Lunar eclipse is 1st astronomical event recorded in the American Colonies
1646 - Thomas Fairfax's New Model Army occupies Oxford
1658 - Spanish garrison at Dunkirk surrenders to French & British
1667 - Dr Jean-Baptiste Denys, French doctor, performs 1st blood transfusion
1672 - 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Mass
1675 - Battle at Rathenow: Brandenburgers beat Sweden
1678 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy.
1716 - Eugenius of Savoye named land guardian of Austrian Netherlands
1749 - General fast because of drought in MA
1788 - Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify US constitution
1794 - French troops occupy Charleroi
1798 - US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
1834 - Pope Gregory XVI's encyclical "Singulari nos" published
1835 - 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF)
1861 - Western Virginia campaign
1862 - Battle of Oak Grove, VA (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 - Horse tramway at the Hague, opens
1864 - Petersburg Campaign-Federals begin digging tunnels under Reb lines
1867 - 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio
1868 - FL, AL, LA, GA, NC & SC readmitted to US
1868 - US President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day
1870 - Opera "Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)" is produced (Munich)
1876 - Battle of the Little Bighorn: 7th Cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel (sometime Brevet Major General) George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne, Custer killed
23rd US President Benjamin Harrison 1888 - Republican Convention in Chicago nominates Benjamin Harrison1894 - American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike
1894 - Boer leader Paul Kruger meets the 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 - 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 - Yanks & White Sox end deadlocked at 6-6 in 18
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
1905 - Warsaw & Lodz revolt against Russian occupation
1909 - George Sargent wins US Open golf tournament
1910 - Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
1913 - Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority)
1913 - American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
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 - 56th British Golf Open: Jock Hutchison shoots a 296 at St Andrews
1921 - Charlie McCartney scores 300 in 205 mins Aust v Notts
1925 - Military putsch under Gen Theodorus Pangulos in Greece
Golfer Bobby Jones 1926 - 61st British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Royal Lytham1927 - WVO soccer team forms in Oosterhout
1928 - NY Giant Fred Lindstrom ties record of 9 hits in a doubleheader
1929 - President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1932 - 36th US Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 286 at Fresh Meadows NY
1932 - Commencement of India's 1st cricket Test v England at Lord's
1934 - Hedley Verity takes 15 wickets v Australia (7-61 & 8-43)
1934 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits for the cycle beating White Sox 11-2
1934 - Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times
1935 - Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium
1937 - Cub Augie Galan becomes 1st player to switch hit HRs in a game
1938 - "A Tisket A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1
1938 - Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25 cents per hour (rising to 40 cents by 1945) and a maximum 44 hour working week
1940 - Adolf Hitler views Eiffel tower & grave of Napoleon in France
1941 - -26] Russian counter attack at Rovno
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1941 - FDR issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination1941 - Fair Employment Practices Commission established
1941 - Finland declares war on Soviet Union
1941 - Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there
1942 - British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)
1942 - British premier Winston Churchill travels from US to London
1942 - Maj Gen Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of US forces in Europe
1943 - Crematorium 3 at Birkenau is finished
1943 - Racial unrest in Detroit
1943 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Reichskommissar in the Netherlands, orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians
1944 - British assault at Caen, Normandy
1945 - Allied landing at Ternate Molukkas
1945 - Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa
1947 - 1st edition of Anne Frank's "The Back of House" published
1947 - Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello
Jewish Victim & Diarist of the Holocaust Anne Frank 1948 - Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 for heavyweight boxing title1948 - Harry Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill (205,000 Europeans to US)
1949 - Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote)
1949 - Long-Haired Hare is released in Theaters starring Bugs Bunny.
1950 - Israeli airline El Al begins service
1950 - Johnny Pramesa (Reds) & Hank Thompson (Giants) hit inside the park HRs
1950 - Korean conflict begins; N Korea invades S Korea
1950 - UN member states begin using integrated forces against N Korea
1951 - 1st color TV broadcast-CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities
1952 - "Wish You Were Here" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 597 perfs
1952 - 34th PGA Championship: Jim Turnesa at Big Spring CC Louisville
1952 - Dutch social democratic party wins 2nd-Parliamentary election
1953 - 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
1953 - 86°F in Anchorage Alaska
1955 - "Can Can" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 892 performances
33rd US President Harry Truman 1955 - "Imogene Coca Show" last airs on NBC-TV1956 - 51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" & "Stockholm" (Cape Cod)
1956 - WKNO TV channel 10 in Memphis, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - "Jonathan Winters Show" last airs on NBC-TV
1960 - Earthquake in NE Belgium
1960 - Madagascar gains independence from France
1960 - Somaliland is granted independence by British government
1960 - South Africa beats New Zealand 13-0 in the first rugby test of the series in Johannesburg
1961 - Balt & 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)
1962 - Inonu government forms in Turkey
1962 - Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) forms
1962 - Supreme Court rules NY school prayer unconstitutional
1963 - Famous cricket draw at Lord's as England hang on against the Windies
1963 - JFK speaks at Pauls Church in Frankfurt
1963 - South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested
1963 - Curnick Ndlovu, South African Trade Unionist and African National Congress Leader, is arrested
1964 - Prince A Taylor becomes 1st black methodist bishop (NJ)
1964 - WMCA (NYC) plays Beatles' Hard Days Night Album (10 days prior to its scheduled release date), they decide to release it June 26th
1965 - Gyula Kallai succeeds Janos Kádár as premier of Hungary
1966 - Beatles' "Paperback Writer" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1966 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 13th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
1966 - Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched
1967 - 400 million watch Beatles "Our World" TV special
1967 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
1967 - KPBS TV channel 15 in San Diego, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) sentenced to 5 years
1967 - First global satellite television programme - Our World
1968 - Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his 1st major league game (Giants)
1969 - Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5hr12m) marathon
Singer-Songwriter Stevie Wonder 1971 - Stevie Wonder releases "Where I'm Coming From"1972 - Bernice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball
1972 - Juan Peron elected president of Argentina
1973 - John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee
1973 - Russian communist party leader 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.
1976 - Ranger Toby Harrah is only shortstop not to handle a fielding chance in doubleheader
1976 - The Soweto Uprising in South Africa leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
1977 - Roy C Sullivan of Va is struck by lightning for 7th time!
1978 - Argentina beats Holland 3-1 in soccer's 11th World Cup at Buenos Aires
1978 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1979 - "Got Tu Go Disco" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 8 performances
1979 - Failed attack on NATO commander Haig in Obourg, Belgium
1980 - "Fearless Frank" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 12 performances
1981 - Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional
1981 - Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1982 - Porn star John Holmes acquitted on murder charges
1982 - San Francisco holds its 1st County Fair
1982 - US Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr resigns, replaced by Schultz
1982 - Greece abolishes headshaving of recruits in the military.
1982 - South African President P.W. Botha issues a new Proclamation again placing Ingwavuma under government control
1983 - "Evita" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 1568 performances
1983 - India beat West Indies by 43 runs to win Cricket World Cup
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
1985 - Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK, explodes (21 die)
1986 - Former Belgium premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud
1986 - Phillies give Steve Carlton, 41, his unconditional release
264th Pope John Paul II 1987 - Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim1988 - "Chess" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 68 performances
1988 - 104°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June
1988 - Cal Ripken Jr plays in his 1,000th consecutive game
1988 - Expos Pitcher Floyd Youmans suspended for 60 days due to drugs
1988 - Iceland's President Vigdis Finnbogadóttir elected (90+%)
1988 - Kristen Logan, 17, of Mississippi, crowned America's Junior Miss
1988 - Neth soccer team wins European Cup (2-0 against USSR)
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 - Betsy King wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
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
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
1990 - Anti-government riots break out in Lusaka, Zambia
1990 - African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets with President George Bush at the White House
Tennis Player Martina Navratilova 1991 - Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match at Wimbledon1991 - Slovenia & Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia
1991 - Japan lifts its call for voluntary restraint on expanding trade with South Africa
1991 - Six persons are killed and eighteen injured when gunmen open fire on a crowded commuter train in Soweto, South Africa
1992 - "Les Miserables" opens at Vinorhady Theatre, Prague
1992 - Alexanders Department store closes all 11 stores
1992 - STS 50 launches (Columbia)
1993 - NY Islander goalie Billy Smith elected to NHL Hall of Fame
1993 - Parliamentary election in Morocco
1994 - 1,500th goal in Soccer World Cup history scored by Caceres of Argentina
1994 - 105°F (40.5°C) at Albuquerque New Mexico
1994 - 111°F (43.9°C) at El Paso Texas
1994 - Cleve Indians 18 game home win streak ends to Yanks 11-6
1994 - Gay Games close in NYC
1994 - Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns
1995 - Betsy King wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1995 - Rockies' Andres Galarraga is 4th to HR in 3 consecutive innings
1996 - The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
1997 - Christies auctions off Princess Di's clothing for $5.5 million
1997 - Galileo, 2nd Callisto Flyby (Orbit 9)
1997 - Intelsat 802 Ariane 4 Launch, Successful
1997 - J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game
1997 - NHL approves franchises in Nash, Atlanta, Columbus, & Minn-St Paul
1997 - Progress M-34 Collides with & damages Mir Space Station
1997 - Jamaica issues a warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop
1998 - In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
1999 - 53rd NBA Championship: San Antonio Spurs beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 1
1999 - In his first state of the nation address, South African President Thabo Mbeki promises to tackle rampaging crime; the nation's murder rate is the third highest in the world and more than 49,000 cases of rape were reported in 1998
2000 - 46th LPGA Championship won by Juli Inkster
2007 - 2007 United Kingdom floods, parts of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire flood including Louth, Horncastle and worst affected, Hull.
2008 - Atlantis Plastics shooting, An employee shot and killed five people after an argument, which ended in the gunman's suicide in Henderson, Kentucky.
2012 - 33 Syrian army officers defect to Turkey
2013 - 37 people are killed after a gold mine collapses in the Central African Republic
