Historical Events on this Day in History
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143 - Earliest known date in Amer-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed
685 - Battle of Nechtansmere/Dun Nechtain: Picts beat Northumbrians
878 - Syracuse is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
879 - Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of Croatian state.
996 - Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III as Holy Roman Emperor
1040 - King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency
1216 - French crown prince Louis enters England
1260 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire sends his envoy Hao Jing and two other advisors to the Song Dynasty court of Emperor Lizong of Song; while attempting to negotiate with the Song in order to resolve their conflict, Hao Jing and his fellow emissaries are imprisoned by order of the high Chancellor of China, Jia Sidao.
1420 - Treaty of Troyes following Englsh victory at Agincourt: Henry V of England and his heirs would inherit the throne of France upon the death of King Charles VI of France
1471 - King Edward IV enters London
1502 - Portuguese admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena
1526 - -Jun 8] Sermon of Bathe, Aargau: TC evangelical theology
1602 - Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
1674 - General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland
1683 - West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname
1725 - The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by the empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
1758 - Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War.
1793 - Curacao Island Council forbids criticism of House of Orange
1804 - Lewis & Clark Expedition begins
Key Figure of Medieval Rus Alexander Nevsky
1809 - Battle of Aspern-Essling: Austrian archduke Karl beats Napoleon1819 - 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in US introduced in NYC
1832 - 1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore)
1840 - New Zealand became a British colony
1846 - 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii
1856 - Lawrence, Kansas, is captured and sacked by pro-slavery forces
1861 - Richmond, Va, is designated Confederate Capital
1863 - Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana, begins
1864 - Gen David Hunter takes command of Dept of West Virginia
1864 - Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated to be the Circassian Day of Mourning.
1866 - 1st-class debut of G F Grace aged 15 years 159 days
1871 - -July 28] French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die
1878 - 4th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Carter aboard Day Star wins in 2:37.25
1879 - Battle of Iquiquw
1879 - War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
Humanitarian Clara Barton
1881 - American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton1881 - US Nation Lawn Tennis Association forms
1886 - 14th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Bard wins in 2:45
1891 - Boxers Peter Jackson & Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds
1892 - Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera "I Pagliacci" premieres in Milan
1894 - 22-year-old French Anarchist Émile Henry is executed by guillotine.
1897 - Yerkes Observatory 40" (1m) refractor used for 1st time
1898 - US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized
1904 - Federation Internationale de Football Association (Soccer) forms in Paris
1906 - Louis H Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars
1907 - 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4
1908 - 1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago
1908 - Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th
1914 - 39th Preakness: Andy Schuttinger aboard Holiday wins in 1:53.8
1914 - Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota
1916 - Britain begins "Summer Time" (daylight saving time)
1917 - Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I
1917 - The Great Fire of Atlanta: at least 10,000 people were displaced, but there was only one fatality
1918 - US House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote
1921 - Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co
1922 - "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize
1922 - Col Ruppert buys out Col Huston interest in NY Yankees for $1,500,000
1922 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie)
1922 - Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million
1924 - Leopold & Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun
1925 - Canadians allow to sell beer
1925 - George Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, becomes British High Commissioner in Egypt
1925 - Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole
1926 - White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double
1927 - Aviator Charles Lindbergh, in the Spirit of St Louis, lands in Paris after first solo air crossing of Atlantic
1929 - Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
1929 - Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son" premieres in Paris
1930 - Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader
Baseball Great Babe Ruth
1930 - NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers1931 - Belgian government of Jaspar falls
1932 - 1st Curtis Cup: US wins, 5½-3½ at Wentworth Club (Wentworth, England)
1932 - 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands in Ireland
1933 - Mount Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph
1934 - Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes first US city to fingerprint its citizens
1936 - Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
1938 - Don Bradman scores 143 Austalia v Surrey, 198 mins, 11 fours
1940 - AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
1940 - Allied counter attack at Atrecht, northern France
1940 - Reynaud forms French government
1941 - SS Robin Moore is first US ship sunk by a U-boat
1941 - German airforce occupies airport at Maleme, Crete
1941 - Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp
1942 - Convoy PQ16 departs Great Britain for Russia
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt
1943 - Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators1944 - Hitler begins attack on British/US "terror pilots"
1945 - Aust Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets
1945 - Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler of the Nazi SS captured
1945 - Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart wed
1948 - NY Yank Joe DiMaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR)
1950 - Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
1951 - The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition - a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively know as the New York School.
1952 - Bkln Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning & beat Cin Reds, 19-1
1952 - Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
1953 - French government of Mayer resigns
1954 - Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated
1955 - "House of Flowers" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 165 performances
1955 - 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset
1955 - WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay, WI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
Baseball Player Joe DiMaggio
1956 - Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms1956 - US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
1956 - WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, WI (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - French government of Mollet resigns
1958 - Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
1959 - "Gypsy" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 702 performances
1959 - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens
1960 - 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6
1961 - Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery
1962 - 3 more Cleveland HR set AL record for most HR (26) over 8 games
1964 - 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)
1964 - Fire in Belgium resort kills 19
1964 - US begin intelligence flights above Laos
1966 - "Downtown" by Mrs Miller hits #82
1966 - "Time for Singing" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 41 performances
1966 - 92nd Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4
1966 - Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97
1966 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1967 - "Sing, Israel Sing" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 14 perfs
1967 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1968 - Cubs Billy Williams sets outfielder record of 695 straight game
1968 - Paul McCartney & Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
1968 - WEKW TV channel 52 in Keene, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Nuclear-powered sub USS Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores
1969 - Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death: later commuted to life imprisonmnet
1969 - Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel
Baseball Player Hank Aaron
1969 - After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over NY Mets1969 - Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, aka Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
1970 - National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1971 - Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens
1971 - National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga Tenn
1972 - "Heathen!" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 1 performance
1972 - "Lost in the Stars" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 39 perfs
1972 - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1972 - Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal.
1975 - Borussia Mönchengladbach wins 4th UEFA Cup at Enschede
1975 - Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm
1975 - Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart
1977 - "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 167 perfs
1977 - 103rd Preakness: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 1:54.4
Painter Michelangelo
1977 - Albert Innaurato's "Gemini" premieres in NYC1977 - Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19
1977 - SD Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings
1978 - 118 Unification church couples wed in England
1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1978 - Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect
1979 - Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of SF mayor Moscone
1979 - Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in USSR
1979 - National Volksraad installed in Namibia
1979 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat NY Rangers, 4 games to 1
1980 - "Star Wars Episode IV - Empire Strikes Back" premieres
1980 - Eintracht Frankfurt wins 9th UEFA Cup at Frankfurt
1980 - Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from US service academy
1981 - Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France
1981 - Kim Seelbrede, (Ohio), crowned 30th Miss USA
Singer Elton John
1981 - Stanley Cup: NY Islanders beat Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 11981 - Reggae musician Bob Marley receives a Jamaican state funeral
1982 - British troops land on Falkland Islands
1983 - "Bang The Drum All Day" by Todd Rundgren hits #63
1983 - 109th Preakness: Donald Miller Jr on Deputed Testamony wins in 1:55.4
1983 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB, for mating for STS-7 mission
1983 - David Bowie's "Let's "Dance" single goes #1
1986 - Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game
1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 - Military coup in Fiji Islands under lt col Sitivani Rabuka
1987 - Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama
1988 - "Da'Butt" by EU hits #35
1988 - "Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99
1988 - 114th Preakness: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 1:56.2
1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Parody Singer and Comedian Weird Al Yankovic
1989 - 35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68
1990 - Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV
1991 - Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
1992 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1992 - NJ senate overrides Governor Florio's veto & lowers sales tax to 6%
1993 - Dayanara Torres, 18, of Puerto Rico, crowned 42nd Miss Universe
1993 - Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life
1993 - Robin Smith scores 167 in England Texaco Trophy loss v Australia
1993 - Venezuela president Carlos Andres Perez fired
1994 - "Best Little Whorehouse" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 16 perfs
1994 - 120th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 1:56.4
1994 - Reds bat out of order against Dodgers in 2nd inning
1994 - South Yemen secedes from Yemen
1995 - Chris Johnson wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
1996 - Blackout in many areas of Queens NY
1996 - Ken Griffey Jr, 26, is 8th youngest to hits 200 home runs
1996 - Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens beats Yankees for his 200th win
1996 - The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
1997 - Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 17th time
1998 - In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
1998 - Suharto, the Indonesian dictator who had ruled for 32 years, resigns.
1999 - All My Children star Susan Lucci finally wins a Daytime Emmy after being nominated 19 times, the longest period of unsuccessful nominations in television history
2001 - French Taubira law officially recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
2003 - An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people.
2003 - 38th Academy of Country Music Awards: Toby Keith, Martina McBride & Kenny Chesney wins
2004 - Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu's record from the previous year.
2004 - Stanislav Petrov is awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in 1983.
2005 - 131st Preakness: Jeremy Rose aboard Afleet Alex wins in 1:55.04
2006 - The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%.
2006 - The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year.
2007 - Cutty Sark, the last surviving tea clipper, is badly damaged by fire in Greenwich, England.
2011 - 137th Preakness: Jesús Castañón aboard Shackleford wins in 1:56.47
2012 - 120 people are killed and 350 injured by a suicide bomb in Sana'a, Yemen
2012 - 13 people are killed and 22 people injured after a bus falls 80 metres off a cliff in Albania
2013 - Microsoft announces the release of Xbox One
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