1161 Death of Emperor Qinzong of China (b. 1100)
1381 Death of Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
1381 King Richard II of England meets the leaders of Peasants’ Revolt.
1497 Death of Giovanni Borgia, Duke of Borgia (assassinated)
1544 Death of Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1489)
1548 Death of Carpentras, French composer
1594 Death of Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer
1623 First breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Va files against.
1645 English Civil War: Battle of Naseby ? 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
1645 Royalists lose Battle of Naseby.
1648 Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
1662 Death of Henry Vane the Younger, British Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1613)
1674 Death of Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French writer (b. 1600)
1703 Death of Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (b. 1625)
1726 Birth of James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797) [2]
1736 Birth of Charles-Augustin de Coulomb physicist (formulated Coulomb’s Law).
1775 American Revolutionary War: The United States Army is established by the Continental Congress.
1775 The Continental Congress adopts the New England army as the Continental Army, and votes to raise ten companies of riflemen.
1777 Stars and Stripes adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
1777 The American Continental Congress adopts a resolution stating that “the flag of the United States be thirteen alternate stripes red and white” and that “the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.”
1789 Mutiny on the Bounty: HMAV Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 4,000 mile journey in an open boat.
1789 Whisky distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
1794 Death of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (b. 1718)
1800 Death of Louis Charles Antoine Desaix de Veygoux, French military leader (killed in battle) (b. August 17, 1768)
1800 Napoleon Bonaparte’s French Army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
1801 Benedict Arnold Revolutionary War general, dies in London.
1801 Birth of Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)
1801 Death of Benedict Arnold, American general (b. 1741)
1811 Birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe author (Uncle Tom’s Cabin).
1820 Birth of John Bartlett US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations).
1822 Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled “Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables.”
1825 Death of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, French architect (b. 1754)
1828 Charles Duke of Prussia, dies at age 70.
1832 Birth of Nikolaus Otto, German engineer (d. 1891)
1834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine.
1834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont.
1837 Death of Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798)
1839 Henley Royal Regatta: The village of Henley, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first Regatta.
1841 First Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario.
1846 Bear Flag Revolt begins – Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
1846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma.
1847 Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide.
1850 Fire destroys part of San Francisco.
1855 Birth of Robert Marion La Follette Wisconsin, presidential candidate (Progressive).
1856 Birth of Andrey Markov Russia, mathematician (Markov Chain).
1863 American Civil War: Battle of Second Winchester ? A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
1863 Battle of second Winchester, Virginia.
1864 Battle of Pine Mount, General Leonidas Polk killed in action.
1864 Birth of Alois Alzheimer Germany, psychiatrist/pathologist (Alzheimer Disease).
1868 Birth of Karl Landsteiner immunologist/pathologist (Nobel Prize 1930).
1870 All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer first loss in 130 games.
1871 Birth of Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (d. 1946)
1872 Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
1874 Birth of Edward Bowes radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour).
1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Company gets its franchise.
1876 Philadelphia Athletics’ George Hall becomes first major league baseball player to hit for cycle.
1877 Birth of Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (d. 1970)
1877 In the USA, the first Flag Day observance is held on the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes.
1881 Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1883 Death of Edward FitzGerald, English poet (b. 1809)
1886 Death of Alexandr Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (b. 1823)
1890 Birth of May Allison, American actress (d. 1989)
1893 Birth of Siggie Nordstrom, model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer of The Nordstrom Sisters (d. 1980)
1894 Birth of Marie-AdTlande, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1924)
1899 Birth of Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
1900 Hawaiian Republic becomes the US Territory of Hawaii.
1900 Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
1900 The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
1903 Birth of Alonzo Church, American mathematican and logician (d. 1995) [5]
1905 Battleship Potemkin uprising: Sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war. (See also Eisenstein’s classic film on the subject, The Battleship Potemkin).
1906 Birth of Carl Esmond Wien (Vienna) Austria; actor (Smash-Up).
1906 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #600 Musa.
1907 Norway adopts female suffrage.
1908 Birth of John Scott Trotter Charlotte North Carolina, orchestra leader (George Gobel Show).
1908 Death of Frederick Arthur Stanley, Governor general of Canada (b. 1841)
1908 Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing the building of another four major warships.
1909 Birth of Burl Ives Hunt Illinois, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof).
1910 Birth of Rudolf Kempe Niederpoyritz Germany, conductor (Tonhalle Orchestra 1965-72).
1916 Birth of Dorothy McGuire, American actress (d. 2001)
1917 Birth of Lash La Rue Gretna Louisiana, cowboy actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp).
1917 General Pershing and his headquarters staff arrived in Paris during WW I.
1918 Birth of Dorothy McGuire Omaha Nebraska, actress (Old Yeller, Summer Magic).
1919 Birth of Sam Wanamaker Chicago Illinois; actor (Holocaust, Competition, Raw Deal).
1919 First nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock and Brown) leaves Newfoundland.
1919 John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John’s, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1920 Death of Max Weber, German sociologist (b. 1864)
1921 Birth of Gene Barry New York City; actor (Bat Masterson, Name of the Game, Burke’s Law).
1922 Birth of Kevin Roche, Irish architect
1923 US President Warren Harding is first US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore, Maryland.
1925 Birth of Pierre Salinger; newsman (ABC)/press secretary (President John Kennedy).
1926 Birth of Hermann Kant, German author
1926 Death of Mary Cassatt, American artist (b. 1843)
1927 Death of Jerome K. Jerome, British author (b. 1859)
1928 Birth of Ernesto (Che) Guevara; Latin American revolutionary.
1928 Death of Emmeline Pankhurst, British feminist (b. 1857)
1928 Republican National Convention in Kansas City nominates Herbert Hoover for US President.
1929 Birth of Cy Coleman [Seymour Kaufman]; songwriter (“Witchcraft”, “Sweet Charity”).
1931 Birth of Junior Walker, Saxophonist and singer (Jr. Walker & the All Stars)
1932 Birth of Joe Arpaio, controversial sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
1932 Death of DorimFne Roy Desjardins, Canadian business pioneer
1933 Birth of Jerzy Kosinski, Polish author (d. 1999)
1934 Max Baer knocks out Primo Carnera in 11 rounds for heavyweight boxing championship in Long Island City.
1935 Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ends.
1936 Birth of Renaldo “Obie” Benson, Singer and songwriter (The Four Tops) (d. 2005)
1936 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1490 Limpopo.
1936 Death of G. K. Chesterton, English author (b. 1874)
1937 Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
1938 Action Comics issues the first Superman comic.
1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin.
1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins the first Caldecott Medal (kid books author).
1939 Birth of Dr. John F. MacArthur, American evangelist
1940 A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarn=w become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1940 German forces occupy Paris, France.
1940 Soviet Premier Josef Stalin sends an ultimatum to Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, making territorial demands.
1940 World War II: Paris falls under German occupation.
1940 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law which aims to increase the United States Navy’s tonnage by 11%.
1941 Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita, Kansas.
1941 Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians begun.
1942 Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.
1942 First bazooka rocket gun produced, in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
1943 Birth of Muff Mervyn Winwood; singer (Spencer Davis Group – “Gimme Some Lovin”).
1944 Birth of Laurie Colwin, American author (d. 1992)
1945 Birth of Rod Argent, English musician (The Zombies)
1946 Birth of Donald Trump; master builder (Trump Towers/Plaza/Castle).
1946 Canadian Library Association established.
1946 Death of John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (b. 1888)
1947 Birth of Barry Melton, American guitarist (Country Joe and the Fish)
1949 Birth of Jimmy Lea, British musician (Slade)
1949 State of Vietnam formed.
1950 Birth of Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury
1951 Birth of Paul Boateng, British politician
1951 First commercial computer, Reminton Rand UNIVAC 1, enters service at US Census Bureau in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1951 UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.
1952 Birth of Pat Summitt, American basketball coach
1952 The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
1953 Birth of Janet Mackey, New Zealand Labour Party Politician
1953 New York Yankees sweep Cleveland Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708; win streak at 18 straight.
1954 Birth of Will Patton, American actor
1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words “under God” to the United States’ Pledge of Allegiance.
1954 US President Dwight Eisenhower signs order adding words “under God” to the Pledge.
1955 Birth of Paul O’Grady, British comedian, actor and television presenter
1955 Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1956 Birth of King Diamond, Danish singer (King Diamond, Mercyful Fate)
1958 Birth of Eric Heiden in Wisconsin, USA; .5/1/1.5/5/10K speed skater (Olympic-5 golds-1980).
1959 A group of Dominican exiles with leftist tendencies which departed from Cuba landed in the Dominican Republic with the intent of deposing Rafael Le=nidas Trujillo Molina’s dicatorial regime. Save for four of them, all were killed and/or executed by Trujillo’s army. This feat would be the inspiration for a clandestine group that would seek to continue undermining Trujillo’s power and would be called “Movimiento Catorce de Junio” (14th of June Movement).
1959 The Disneyland-Alweg Monorail System begins operation in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in California. It represents the first urban monorail system in the USA.
1959 The Matterhorn Mountain with its Matterhorn Bobsleds ride opens in Fantasyland at Disneyland in California. It is the first thrill ride at Disneyland, and the first ride to use cylindrical rails and urethane wheels. The mountain is 147 feet high, 1/100th the height of the real Matterhorn mountain, and uses 2175 steel girders. Final cost of the attraction is US$1.5 million.
1961 106 degrees F, hottest temperature in San Francisco, California.
1961 Birth of Boy George O’Dowd; androgynous rock musician and druggie (Culture Club).
1962 Anna Sleasers is first Boston Strangler victim.
1962 Anna Slesersby becomes the first victim of Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler.
1962 The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris ? later becoming the European Space Agency.
1965 Cincinnati Reds’ pitcher Jim Maloney no-hits New York Mets but loses in 11, 1-0.
1965 The Beatles release the album “Beatles VI”.
1966 Birth of Traylor Howard, actress
1966 The Vatican announces the abolition of the index librorum prohibitum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.
1967 Birth of Kelly Nash, radio personality
1967 Death of Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897)
1967 Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
1967 The People’s Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.
1968 Birth of Yasmine Bleeth, American actress
1968 Death of Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
1969 Birth of Steffi Graf in West Germany; tennis player (Grand Slam 1988).
1970 Cincinnati Red Stockings loses first game after winning 130 straight.
1970 Manchester United footballer Bobby Charlton plays his 106th and last international match for England v West Germany in the World Cup finals in Mexico. His first game had been in April 1958 against Scotland.
1972 Death of Martin Dies, American politician (b. 1900)
1975 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing.
1976 12th Mayor’s Trophy Game: New York Yankees beat New York Mets 8-4.
1976 The Gong Show debuts on NBC.
1976 The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther.
1977 Birth of Chris McAlister, American football player
1977 Death of Robert Middleton, American actor (b. 1911)
1978 Birth of Steve BTgin, French Canadian professional ice hockey player
1978 Down 9-7 in 10th with two outs, New York Yankees Paul Blair hits a three run home run.
1979 Rock group “Little Feat” disbands.
1980 Birth of Chauncey Leopardi, American actor
1980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2937 Gibbs, #2938 Hopi and #3160 Angerhofer.
1981 Birth of Lonneke Engel; Dutch model.
1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Islands, ends 74-day conflict.
1982 Birth of Lang Lang, Chinese pianist
1982 Death of Arthur Coles, Australian businessman and philanthropist (born 1892).
1982 Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.
1983 Birth of Siobhan Donaghy, British singer (Sugababes)
1983 Fire kills five at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Texas.
1984 Birth of Siobh�n Donaghy, British singer and songwriter (Sugababes).
1985 TWA Flight 847, carrying 153 passengers from Athens, Greece to Rome, Italy, is hijacked by a Hezbollah fringe group. One passenger, U.S. Navy Petty Officer Robert Stethem, is killed.
1985 TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah.
1986 Alan Jay Lerner, Broadway librettist, dies in New York at age 67.
1986 Birth of Haley Hudson, American actress.
1986 Death of Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (b. 1899)
1986 Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author, dies in Geneva, Switzerland at age 86 (born 1899).
1987 Los Angeles Lakers win NBA title with a 106-93, victory over the Boston Celtics.
1989 Detroit Pistons sweep Los Angeles Lakers for NBA title, Kareem Abdul Jabber’s final NBA game.
1989 Ground-breaking begins in Minnesota on the world’s largest mall.
1989 Nolan Ryan becomes second pitcher to defeat all 26 teams.
1989 Rocker Carole King gets a star in Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
1990 Detroit Pistons beat Portland Trail Blazers, four games to one for NBA championship.
1990 In Panay, Philippine Islands, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs. At least four people killed, 15 injured.
1990 In the Kazakh-Xinjiang border region, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs. One person killed, 3,000 houses destroyed and 20,000 people left homeless.
1991 Death of Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (born 1907).
1991 Leroy Burrell of USA sets the 100m record (9.90) in New York City.
1991 Marshall Ledbetter occupies the Florida State Capitol.
1992 Birth of Evan Sabara, American actor.
1992 The Chicago Bulls win their second NBA championship by defeating the Portland Trail Blazers in the best-of-seven series four games to two.
1993 A weeklong product tampering scare, later proven to be a hoax, occurs as customers throughout the USA discover syringes in unopened cans of Diet Pepsi Cola.
1993 Mulitpartyists win a referendum on the future of the one-party system in Malawi.
1993 Tansu ?iller becomes prime minister of Turkey.
1994 Death of Henry Mancini, American composer and arranger (born 1924).
1994 Hacker Kevin Poulsen pleads guilty to seven counts of mail fraud, wire and computer fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
1994 The New York Rangers defeat the Vancouver Canucks at Madison Square Garden in New York in Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals to win their first Stanley Cup Championship in 54 years.
1995 Death of Rory Gallagher, Irish musician and composer (b. 1949)
1996 Cal Ripken sets a new consecutive games world record by playing in his 2,216th consecutive baseball game.
1997 Death of Richard Jaeckel, American actor (b. 1926)
1998 The Chicago Bulls win their 6th NBA title in 8 years when they beat the Utah Jazz, 87-86 in Game Six. This is also Michael Jordan’s last game as a Chicago Bulls player.
1999 Death of Bernie Faloney, Professional football player (b. 1932)
2000 Death of Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (born 1906).
2000 Italian President Carolo Ciampi pardons Mehmet Ali Agca for the attempted assassination on Pope John Paul II 19 years ago.
2002 Death of June Jordan, American writer and teacher (b. 1936)
2002 In Karachi, Pakistan, a car bomb in front of the U.S. Consulate kills 12 Pakistanis and injures 50.
2002 Twelve are killed and 50 injured by a car bomb explosion in front of the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.
2003 Death of Jimmy Knepper, American jazz trombonist (born 1927).
2004 Death of Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (b. 1900)
2004 The Workers Party of Bangladesh is split, as Khandaker Ali Abbas leaves to form a new party.
2005 Asafa Powell from Jamaica sets a new world record on the 100 m sprint in Athens with 9.77 seconds.
2005 Death of Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (b. 1924)
2005 Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners becomes the third fastest major league player to reach the 1000-hit mark, in his 696th game. Suzuki also holds the record in Japan for being quickest player to attain a 1,000 hits, in his first 757 games.
2006 Death of Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (born 1930).
2006 Phillips Fox announced that it had entered an exclusive alliance with the international firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary.
2007 Death of Ruth Bell Graham, wife of Billy Graham (born 1920).
2007 The Green Party enters government for the first time in Ireland, with Fianna F�il and the Progressive Democrats.
2007 The San Antonio Spurs sweep the Cleveland Cavaliers to win the 2007 NBA Finals.
2008 At RM’s Joe’s Garage sale in Tustin, California, a 1960 Meskowski Bowes Seal Fast Special race car sells for US$462,000. Also, a 1923 Miller 122 Supercharged race car sells for US$2,035,000.
2008 Expo 2008 is held in Zaragoza, Spain, with the topic of “Water and sustainable development”.
2008 In Iwate, northern Japan, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake occurs, killing nine, injuring over 200, and causing landslides.
2009 Anna Nordqvist finishes at 15-under-par 273 to win the LPGA Championship in Havre de Grace, Maryland, USA.
2009 The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Orlando Magic 99-86 to win their 15th NBA championship in five games. Lakers coach Phil Jackson wins his record 10th title.
2009 Three-time heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis is inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Lewis retired in 2003 with a record of 41-2-1, including 32 knockouts.
