1025 Death of Boles? I the Brave, first king of Poland
1091 Death of Dirk V, Count of Holland (b. 1052)
1239 Birth of Edward I king of England (1272-1307).
1397 On Trinity Sunday in Midsummer in Kalmar, at a coronation ceremony, Erik of Pomerania is crowned King of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. Members of the three kingdoms meet for four weeks to discuss future relations.
1462 Vlad III Dracula attempts to assassinate Mehmed II in the Night Attack, and the latter is forced to retreat from Wallachia.
1463 Death of Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (b. 1436)
1497 Battle of Deptford Bridge – Forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
1565 Death of Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (b. 1536)
1565 Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga Shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
1579 Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
1579 Sir Francis Drake lands on the coast of California.
1603 Birth of Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (d. 1663)
1629 Swedes battle Polish and Imperial troops at Honigfelde (Stuhm). Swedes are forced to retreat with heavy losses. King Gustav Adolf narrowly escapes capture.
1631 Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spent more than 20 years to build her tomb, the Taj Mahal.
1682 Birth of King Charles XII of Sweden (d. 1718)
1691 Birth of Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (d. 1765)
1693 Birth of Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (d. 1775)
1694 Death of Philip Cardinal Howard, English Catholic Cardinal (b. 1629)
1696 Death of John III Sobieski, King of Poland (b. 1629)
1703 Birth of John Wesley cofounded Methodist movement/author.
1704 Birth of John Kay, English inventor (d. 1780)
1714 Birth of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (d. 1762)
1718 Birth of George Howard, British field marshal (d. 1796)
1719 Death of Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (b. 1672)
1734 Death of Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshal of France (b. 1653)
1740 Death of William Wyndham, English politician (b. 1687)
1742 Birth of William Hooper signed Declaration of Independence.
1745 American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French.
1762 Death of Prosper Jolyot de CrTbillon, French writer (b. 1674)
1775 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bunker Hill – The battle actually takes place on Breed’s hill by mistake. British forces take Breed’s Hill outside of Boston with heavy casualties.
1775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed’s Hill).
1775 Death of Major John Pitcairn, British marine (killed in battle) (b. 1722)
1789 In France, the Third Estate declares itself as a national assembly.
1789 Third Estate in France declared itself a national assembly.
1797 Death of Agha Muhammad Khan, Shah of Persia (b. 1742)
1808 Birth of Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (d. 1845)
1810 Birth of Ferdinand Freiligrath, German writer (d. 1876)
1811 Birth of Jon Sigurdsson Iceland, leader/collects Icelandic legends.
1813 Death of Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (b. 1726)
1818 Birth of Charles Gounod Paris, France, opera composer (Faust).
1832 Birth of Sir William Crookes chemist/physicist; discovered thallium.
1836 Government of France resolves to close gambling clubs December 31, 1837.
1837 Charles Goodyear obtains his first rubber patent.
1839 Birth of Fr. Arthur Tooth SSC, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted for ritualist activities (d. 1931)
1839 In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the Edict of Toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is later established as a result.
1850 Paddle-wheeler “G P Griffith” burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die).
1856 Republican Party opens its first national convention in Philadelphia.
1858 Birth of Eben Sumner Draper former Massachusetts Governor.
1863 Battle of Aldie; Confederates fail to drive back the Union in Virginia.
1863 Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
1863 Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford chartered (first accident insurer).
1867 Birth of John Robert Gregg Ireland, inventor (shorthand).
1870 Birth of George Cormack created “Wheaties” cereal.
1871 Birth of James Weldon Johnson lawyer, first black admitted to Florida Bar.
1876 First to hit two home runs; and score five runs in 9 inning National League game (George Hall, Athletics).
1876 Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
1880 John Ward, Providence, pitches perfect game versus Buffalo.
1881 Birth of Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (d. 1955)
1882 Birth of Igor Stravinsky in Oranienbaum, Russia; composer (The Rite of Spring).
1882 Tornado kills 130 in Iowa.
1885 The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
1888 Birth of Heinz Guderian, German General (d. 1954)
1894 First US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont.
1895 US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble.
1898 Birth of M.C. Escher, Dutch artist (d. 1972)
1898 Death of Edward Burne-Jones, English artist (b. 1833)
1898 M. C. Escher is born; artist (dies 1972).
1898 The US Navy Hospital Corps is established.
1900 Birth of Martin Bormann, Nazi official (d. 1945)
1901 The American College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
1902 Birth of Sammy Fain, American popular music composer (d. 1989)
1904 Birth of Ralph Bellamy Chicago; actor (Air Mail, Dive Bomber, Trading Places).
1904 Death of Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov, Russian politician, Governor-General of Finland (assassinated) (b. 1839)
1905 M�ximo G=mez Cuban general, dies at age 68.
1907 Birth of Charles Eames, American designer and architect (d. 1978)
1909 A Kopff discovers asteroid #682 Hagar.
1909 Birth of Elmer Lee Andersen, Governor of Minnesota (d. 2004)
1910 Birth of Red Foley Blue Lick Kentucky, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington).
1912 Birth of Don Gillis Cameron Missouri, composer (Symphony #5 1/2).
1914 Birth of John Hersey author (Hiroshima, A Bell for Adano).
1915 Birth of Stringbean [David Akeman], Kentucky, banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw).
1917 Birth of Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician
1919 “Barney Google” cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres.
1919 Birth of Kingman Brewster college president (Yale).
1920 Birth of Beryl Reid actress (Joseph Andrews, Psycho Mania, Yellowbeard).
1922 Birth of Jerry Fielding Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, orchestra leader (Lively Ones).
1923 Birth of Elroy (Crazylegs) Hirsch; AAFC, NFL halfback, end (Los Angeles Rams).
1927 Birth of Martin B�ttcher, German conductor
1929 Birth of Tigran Petrosyan in USSR; world chess champion (1963-69).
1930 Birth of Brian Statham, English cricketer (d. 2000)
1930 Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
1930 US President Herbert Hoover signs the Hawley-Smoot Tariff bill into law, increasing some 900 American import duties.
1930 U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff into law.
1933 Birth of Christian Ferras, French violinist (d. 1982)
1933 Union Station Massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash were gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
1939 Eugene Weldman is last person guillotined in France.
1939 Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre.
1940 Birth of Bobby Bell; NFL linebacker (Kansas City Chiefs).
1940 Death of Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender.
1940 Soviet occupation of Estonia begins.
1940 The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
1940 World War II: Operation Ariel begins – Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany’s takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
1940 World War II: Sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
1942 Birth of Norman Kuhlice in England; rocker (Swinging Blue Jeans – “You’re No Good”).
1942 Death of Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician (b. 1853)
1942 First World War II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast).
1943 Birth of Barry Manilow in New York City, New York, USA; singer (“Mandy”).
1944 Iceland becomes independent from Denmark and forms a republic.
1944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland.
1945 Birth of Eddy Merckx in Belguim; cyclist (5 time winner of Tour de France).
1946 Birth of Peter Rosei, Austrian writer
1946 SouthWest Bell innaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, Saint Louis, Missouri. USA.
1947 First round-the-world civil air service leaves New York City.
1948 A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
1948 Birth of David Concepcion in Venezuela; all-star shortstop (Cincinnati Reds).
1948 Joe Cronin pinch hit home runs in both ends of a doubleheader.
1950 First kidney transplant (Chicago, Illinois, USA).
1950 Julius Rosenberg is arrested in the US on suspicion of espionage, accused of heading a spy ring that passed top-secret information concerning the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.
1952 Death of Jack Parsons, American rocket-fuel pioneer and renegade occultist (b. 1914)
1953 Riots in East Germany for reunification.
1953 Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
1956 Death of Paul Rostock, German doctor (b. 1892)
1957 Birth of Jon Gries, American actor
1957 Death of Dorothy Richardson, English writer (b. 1873)
1957 Tuskegee boycott begins (blacks boycott city stores).
1958 Birth of Jello Biafra, American musician and activist
1960 Birth of Michael Monroe, Finnish singer (Hanoi Rocks)
1960 Fire consumes the El Rancho Vegas casino resort, on the Las Vegas Strip.
1960 Ted Williams becomes the fourth member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio.
1960 Ted Williams hits his 500th home run.
1961 Death of Jeff Chandler, American actor (b. 1918)
1961 The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.
1962 Brazil beats Czechoslovakia in soccer’s 7th World Cup at Santiago.
1963 Birth of Greg Kinnear, American actor
1963 The United States Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord’s Prayer in public schools.
1963 US Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools.
1964 Birth of Michael Gross in West Germany; swimmer (Olympic-2 world records-1984).
1965 Birth of Dermontti Dawson, American football, center
1966 Birth of Jason Patric, American actor
1967 China becomes world’s fourth thermonuclear (hydrogen bomb) power.
1969 Birth of Kevin Thornton, vocalist (Color Me Badd – “I Want to Sex You Up”).
1970 Birth of Jason Hanson, American football player
1971 At 11:13 AM, Disneyland welcomes its 100-millionth guest, Valerie Suldo of New Jersey.
1971 Birth of Bif Naked, Canadian punk rock musician
1971 C U Cesco discovers asteroid #2399 Terradas.
1971 Representatives of Japan and the United States sign the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, setting out a plan where the U.S. would return control of Okinawa.
1972 Five arrested for burglarizing US Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate.
1972 The Main Street Electrical Parade premieres at Disneyland. The vehicles feature 500,000 sparkling lights, and 500 miles of wiring.
1972 Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
1973 In Japan, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurs, centered in the northern coastal area of Hokkaido. Regional tsumani up to 3 metres. Twenty-six fishing boats battered or sunk, water supply temporarily disrupted, over 30,000 people evacuated, 250 tons of salmon on the docks washed away. The total damage estimated at $5 million.
1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroids #2997 and #3083.
1975 Birth of Joshua Leonard, American actor, famous for his role in the Blair Witch Project
1975 Voters in Northern Mariana Island approve commonwealth status with US.
1977 Birth of Mark Tauscher, National Football League player
1978 Birth of Kumiko Aso, Japanese actress
1978 Ron Guidry sets New York Yankees’ record with 18 strike-outs.
1979 Birth of Nick Rimando, American soccer player
1979 Death of Duffy Lewis, baseball player (b. 1888)
1980 Birth of Kimeru; Japanese singer.
1980 C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #2586 Matson.
1981 Death of Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (born 1889).
1982 Argentine president Leopoldi Galtieri is told he is no longer president.
1982 Birth of Will Allen, American football player
1982 Death of Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (b. 1920)
1982 The body of “God’s Banker”, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
1983 Birth of Lee Ryan, singer – formally of British boyband Blue
1984 Birth of John Gallagher Jr., American actor, singer and dancer.
1984 Swale, Kentucky Derby winner, collapses and dies.
1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched.
1985 Birth of Marcos Baghdatis; Cypriot tennis player.
1985 John Hendricks launches the Discovery Channel in the United States.
1986 Death of Kate Smith, American singer (God Bless America) (b. 1907)
1986 Kate Smith, American singer (“God Bless America”), dies in Raleigh, North Carolina at age 78 (born 1907).
1986 US Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns; Antonin Scalia nominated.
1987 Birth of Nozomi Tsuji; Japanese singer.
1987 Death of Dick Howser, baseball player and manager (b. 1936)
1987 Dick Howser, New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals manager, dies at age 51 of brain cancer.
1987 With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
1987 With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
1988 Birth of Andrew Ogilvy, Australian basketball player.
1988 Women sentenced to 90 years in first product tampering murder case.
1989 David S Griggs, astronaut, dies in crash of WW II vintage plane.
1989 John Matusek, Oakland Raiders player/actor, dies at age 38 of a heart attack.
1989 US beats Guatemala 2-1, in third round of 1990 world soccer cup.
1990 Palmira Henry, fashion designer, dies at age 44 of cerebral hemorrhage.
1991 Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required all racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
1991 The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
1991 U.S. President Zachary Taylor is exhumed to discover whether or not his death was caused by arsenic poisoning, instead of acute gastrointestinal illness; no trace of arsenic is found.
1992 A ‘Joint Understanding’ agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this is later codified in START II).
1992 A ‘Joint Understanding’ agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
1992 Birth of James Martin, British actor.
1994 Birth of Jiordan Anna Tolli, Australian actress.
1994 Following a televised highway chase and a failed attempt at suicide, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
1994 NFL star O.J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in Simpson’s white Ford Bronco. The low speed chase, which unfolds live on television, ends up at Simpson’s mansion in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, where he then surrenders to police.
1994 The 1994 FIFA World Cup soccer competition begins in the United States.
1996 Death of Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (born 1922).
2000 An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale strikes Iceland.
2000 Death of Brian Statham, English cricket player (born 1930).
2001 A.S.Roma wins the scudetto (Italian championship).
2001 Death of Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1919).
2002 Death of Willie Davenport, American athlete (born 1943).
2004 Death of Gerry McNeil, Canadian hockey player (b. 1926)
2005 A 6.7 aftershock, which followed a 5.3 earthquake the previous day, hits California, making it the fourth earthquake since June 12 in California.
2005 Because of “quadruple-witching” options and futures expiration, the New York Stock Exchange sees the heaviest first-hour trading on record. 704 million shares are traded between 9:30-10:30 A.M. (1.92 billion shares for the day).
2005 Death of Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (b. 1962)
2006 Death of Bussunda, Brazilian comedian (born 1962).
2007 Death of Gianfranco FerrF, Italian designer (born 1944).
2008 A car bomb explodes in a market area of Baghdad, Iraq, killing 51 people and wounding 75. The blast set fire to 20 shops and leveled a multi-storey building.
2008 Death of American actress and dancer Cyd Charisse (born Tula Ellice Finklea), at age 86 of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California.
2008 The Boston Celtics win a record 17th NBA championship by defeating the Los Angeles Lakers 131-92 in Game Six.
2009 Death of Ralf Dahrendorf, German-British social theorist and politician (born 1929).
2009 Former American HealthSouth chief executive Richard Scrushy is ordered to pay US$2.9 billion after a judge found him responsible for an accounting fraud that nearly bankrupted the hospital chain.
2009 Ivan Rodriguez, back catcher for the Houston Astros, catches his 2,227th game, beating the old record in Major League Baseball.
2010 The Los Angeles Lakers beat the Boston Celtics 83-79 in the decisive seventh game of the NBA finals and secure back-to-back titles.
