1051 Death of St. Bardo in Paderborn (Germany); Benedictine monk, abbot, Archbishop of Mainz (1031), constructed Cathedral of Mainz.
1075 Death of Ernest of Austria (b. 1027)
1190 Death of Friedrich I (Friedrich Barbarossa).
1190 Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem.
1213 Birth of Fakhruddin ‘Iraqi, Persian philosopher and Sufi mystic
1424 Death of Duke Ernest of Austria (b. 1377)
1552 Death of Alexander Barclay, English poet
1556 Death of Martin Agricola, German composer (b. 1486)
1580 Death of Luis de Cam)es, Portuguese poet
1580 Lu?s Vaz de Camoes Portugal’s national poet, dies.
1607 Death of John Popham, English politician
1610 First Dutch settlers arrive (from New Jersey), to colonize Manhattan Island.
1619 Battle of Z�blatf, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt of the Thirty Years’ War
1632 Birth of Esprit FlTchier, French writer and bishop (d. 1710)
1637 Birth of Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
1639 First American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware).
1654 Death of Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
1657 Birth of James Cragg the Elder, British politician (d. 1721) (baptism: date of birth not recorded)
1680 Death of Johan G�ransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
1682 Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3-foot diameter oak tree.
1688 Birth of James Francis Edward Stuart, “The Old Pretender” (d. 1766)
1692 Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for “certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries”.
1706 Birth of John Dollond owner of first patent for achromatic lens.
1710 Birth of James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (d. 1768)
1719 Battle of Glen Shiel
1720 Mrs Clements of England markets first paste-style mustard.
1735 Birth of John Morgan American physician-in-chief of Continental Army.
1735 Death of Thomas Hearne, English antiquarian (b. 1678)
1752 Benjamin Franklin flies a kite during a thunderstorm and collects a charge in a Leyden jar when the kite is struck by lightning, enabling him to demonstrate the electrical nature of lightning.
1760 New York passes first effective law regulating practice of medicine.
1772 Burning of the GaspTe, British revenue cutter, by Rhode Islanders.
1776 Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Declaration of Independence.
1776 Death of Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (b. 1722)
1791 Death of Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720)
1793 French Revolution: Following arrests of Girondin leaders the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
1793 The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris (becoming, a year later, the first public zoo).
1801 Tripoli declares war on the United States for refusing tribute.
1801 Tripoli declares war on US for refusing tribute.
1803 Birth of Henry Darcy, French scientist (d. 1858)
1804 Birth of Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884)
1809 First US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves New York for Philadelphia.
1819 Birth of Gustave Courbet France, realist painter (Funeral at Ornans).
1825 Birth of Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (d. 1897)
1829 First Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge.
1831 Death of Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Russian field marshal (b. 1785)
1835 Birth of Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator (d. 1930)
1836 Birth of Yamaoka Tesshu Japanese swordsman, master of kendo.
1836 Death of AndrT-Marie AmpFre, French physicist (b. 1775)
1839 Birth of Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Council President of Denmark (d. 1912)
1839 Nathaniel Pryor sgt of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies.
1846 Mexican-American War: The California Republic declares independence from Mexico.
1846 Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire.
1848 First telegraph link between New York City and Chicago.
1849 Death of Thomas Robert Bugeaud de la Piconnerie, French marshal (b. 1784)
1854 Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved.
1854 The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate.
1861 Birth of Pierre Duhem, French physicist and philosopher of science (d. 1916)
1862 Birth of Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (d. 1937)
1863 Battle of Brice’s Crossroads, Mississippi; Forrest with 3500 defeats 8000 Federal troops.
1863 Birth of Louis Couperus, Dutch novelist and poet (d. 1923)
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Brice’s Crossroads ? Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
1865 Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” first performance Mnnchen Germany.
1868 Second Belmont Stakes, General Duke wins.
1869 Agnes arrives in New Orleans with first ever shipment of frozen beef.
1871 Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 Marines in naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island Shinmiyangyo, Korea.
1880 Birth of AndrT Derain, French painter and illustrator (d. 1954)
1880 Charlie Jones becomes first to hit two home runs in one inning.
1886 Eruption of Mount Tarawera in New Zealand, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
1889 Birth of Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (d. 1973)
1892 Wilbert Robinson of Baltimore Orioles sets record of 7 for 7 in 9 inning game.
1895 Birth of Immanuel Velikovsky writer (Worlds in Collision).
1897 Birth of Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia (d. 1918)
1898 US Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War.
1898 US Marines land on the island of Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
1899 Death of Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)
1899 Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati.
1901 Birth of Frederick Loewe, Austrian-born composer (d. 1988)
1901 Death of Robert Williams Buchanan, British poet, novelist and dramatist (b. 1841)
1902 Death of Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
1902 Patent for window envelope granted to H.F. Callahan.
1903 King Alexander I and Queen Dragia of Serbia are assassinated.
1904 Birth of Frederick Loewe composer/partner of Learner.
1905 First forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Maine.
1907 Birth of Fairfield Porter, American painter (d. 1975)
1908 Birth of Robert Cummings, American actor (d. 1990)
1908 First flying club, Aeronautical Society of New York, opens.
1909 Death of Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822)
1910 Birth of Morgan “Bill” Evans in Santa Monica, California, USA; gardener and landscaper of Disneyland, supervised and trained landscape architects for all other Disney parks, named a Disney Legend in 1992.
1911 Birth of Ralph Kirkpatrick Leominster Massachusetts, harpsichordist.
1912 Birth of Jean Lesage, Premier of Quebec (d. 1980)
1912 Death of Anton A?kerc, Slovenian poet (b. 1856)
1913 Birth of Thor Johnson Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin, conductor (Cincinnati Symphony 1958).
1914 Birth of Saul Bellow author (Mr Sammler’s Planet).
1915 Birth of Oscar Comras Bronx, drummer (namesake of Comras Mall in Bronx Park).
1916 Great Arab Revolt begins.
1918 Birth of Barry Morse, British-born Canadian actor
1918 Death of Arrigo Boito, Italian poet and composer (b. 1842)
1921 Babe Ruth becomes all time home run champion with #120 (Gavvy Cravath).
1921 Birth of Prince Philip Mountbatten Greece, Duke of Edinburgh, Mr Elizabeth II.
1922 Birth of Rose Moffard Arizona acting Governor.
1923 Birth of Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born newspaperman (d. 1991)
1923 Death of Pierre Loti, French sailor and writer (b. 1850)
1924 Fascists kidnap and kill Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
1924 First political convention broadcast on radio: Republicans at Cleveland, Ohio.
1924 Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists.
1925 Inagural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches held in Toronto arena
1926 Birth of Lionel Jeffries, British actor
1926 Death of Antoni Gaudf, Catalan architect (b. 1852)
1927 Birth of Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician
1928 Birth of Maurice Sendak in New York City, New York, USA; author/illustrator (“Where The Wild Things Are”).
1929 Birth of Harald Juhnke, German actor and comedian (d. 2005)
1930 Death of Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
1931 Birth of Jopo Gilberto, Brazilian singer
1932 First demonstration of artificial lightning, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA.
1933 Birth of F Lee Bailey in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA; attorney (Sam Shepard case).
1934 Death of Frederick Delius, English composer (b. 1862)
1934 Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (overtime) in soccer’s second World Cup at Rome.
1935 Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.
1935 Dr Robert Smith and William Wilson of Akron, Ohio form Alcoholics Anonymous.
1937 Death of Robert Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
1940 Birth of John Stevens, British drummer (d. 1994)
1940 Death of Marcus Garvey, American civil rights activist (b. 1887)
1940 Italy declares war on England and France.
1940 World War II: Canada declares war on Italy.
1940 World War II: German forces, under General Erwin Rommel, reach the English Channel.
1940 World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
1940 World War II: Norway Surrenders to German forces.
1940 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy’s actions with “Stab in the Back” speech from the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
1941 Birth of Shirley Alston in Passaic, New Jersey, USA; singer (Shirelles – “Soldier Boy”).
1941 Marcus Garvey dies at age 52 in London, England.
1942 Birth of Preston Manning, Canadian politician
1942 German troops destroy the village of Lidice in Czechoslovakia, in retribution for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. The men are killed, the women taken to internment camps, and children taken to be raised by German families. The city is burned to the ground, 400 graves are dug up, and new roads are built.
1942 World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice as reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
1943 A patent is issued in Argentina for a ball-point pen.
1943 Franklin Roosevelt becomes first US president to visit a foreign country during wartime.
1943 US President Franklin Roosevelt signs withholding tax bill into law.
1944 Death of Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
1944 In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
1944 In the town of Oradour-sur-Clone near Limoges, France, German SS units lock men in barns, women and children in a church, fire machine-guns on both, then set fire to them. About 1000 are killed; only six escape. This was done to deter the French population from helping the Maquis.
1944 Joe Nuxhall at age 15 becomes youngest Major League baseball player.
1944 World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
1945 Australian Imperial Forces landed in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
1946 Birth of Matthew Fisher in England; keyboardist (Procal Harum – “Conquistador”).
1946 Death of Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878)
1946 Italian Republic established.
1946 Jack Johnson, first black heavyweight champion, dies in car accident.
1947 Birth of Ken Singleton, Major league baseball player
1947 Death of Alexander Bethune, Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia (b. 1852)
1947 Saab produces its first automobile.
1947 Swedish aircraft company Saab introduces its first car, the Saab 92. It features front-wheel drive, two doors, green paint.
1949 Birth of John Sentamu, Archbishop of York
1949 Death of Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
1950 Birth of Elias Sosa, Major League baseball pitcher
1951 Birth of Dan Fouts; NFL quarterback (San Diego Chargers).
1952 Chicago White Sox player Sam Mele is 6th to get six RBIs in an inning (4th).
1953 Birth of John Edwards, Former U.S. Senator, and 2004 Vice Presidential candidate
1955 First separation of virus into component parts reported.
1956 (to June 17) The Equestrian games of the Games of the XVI Olympiad are held in Stockholm, due to host country Australia’s animal quarantine laws.
1957 Birth of Lindsay Hoyle, British politician
1957 Harold MacMillan becomes British Prime Minister.
1957 John Diefenbacker (Conservative) elected Prime Minister of Canada.
1958 Death of Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist and poet (b. 1880)
1959 Birth of Eliot Spitzer, New York Attorney General
1959 Rocky Colovito hits four home runs in one game.
1961 Birth of Maxi Priest; rocker (Wide World).
1962 A record 54 home runs hit in Major League Baseball.
1962 Birth of Duane Sutter; NHL player (New York Islanders).
1962 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR sets long jump record at 27 feet 3.25 inches.
1963 Birth of Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress
1964 Birth of Jimmy Chamberlin, American musician
1964 Southern filibuster on US civil rights bill ends; closure invoked.
1965 A R Klemola discovers asteroid #2370 van Altena.
1965 Birth of Elizabeth Hurley, British actress
1965 Vietnam War: Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
1966 Birth of David Platt, British footballer
1966 Cleveland Indians’ Sonny Siebert no-hits Washington Senators, 2-0.
1966 Janis Joplin’s first live concert (Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, California).
1966 The Beatles’ “Paperback Writer” is released in the United Kingdom.
1967 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival, California, USA.
1967 Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1967 Death of Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
1967 Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
1968 Birth of Jimmy Shea, American skeleton racer
1969 Birth of Ronny Johnsen, Norwegian footballer
1970 Birth of Mike Doughty, American singer/songwriter
1971 Birth of Joel Hailey, American singer
1971 Death of Michael Rennie, English actor (b. 1909)
1971 Eleven die in a train crash in Salem, Illinois.
1972 Birth of Radmila ?ekerinska, Macedonian politician
1973 Birth of Faith Evans, American singer
1973 Death of William Inge, American playwright (b. 1913)
1973 John Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
1974 Death of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1900)
1975 Birth of Henrik Pedersen, Danish footballer
1975 Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal US Central Intelligence Agency files on Americans.
1976 67,000 fans attends Wings concert at Seattle’s Kingdome.
1976 Birth of Freddy Garcia, baseball player
1976 Death of Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-born producer (b. 1873)
1977 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II personal computer.
1977 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II personal computer.
1977 Birth of Takako Matsu, Japanese singer and actress
1977 James Earl Ray (convicted killer of Martin Luther King Jr.) escapes from prison.
1977 James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
1978 Birth of Shane West, American actor
1978 Costa Rica becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1978 New York Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis.
1979 Baltimore Orioles pull their 8th triple play (5-4-3 versus Cleveland Indians).
1979 Birth of Alex Garcia, (not the chef)
1980 A Unabomber bomb injures United Airlines president Percy Wood in Lake Forest, Illinois.
1980 Birth of Francelino Matuzalem; Brazilian football player.
1980 Percy Wood, president of United Airlines, is injured by an exploding package sent by the Unabomber.
1980 The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
1980 The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a statement by their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela, which says in part: ‘UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!’
1981 Birth of Hoku Ho; Hawaiian singer and musician.
1981 Death of Jenny Maxwell, American actress (born 1941).
1981 Irish Republican Army’s Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail.
1981 Pete Rose ties Stan Musial’s National League record of 3,630 hits.
1981 Sebastian Coe of England sets the 800m record (1:41.73) in Florence, Italy.
1982 Birth of Princess Madeleine of Sweden.
1982 Death of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German author and film director (b. 1945)
1982 Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon.
1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, film-maker, dies of drug overdose in Munich, Germany, at age 36.
1983 Texas Instruments announces that poor sales of TI 99/4A computers, software, and peripherals would result in a second quarter loss of US$100 million. The news drives the company’s stock price down almost US$50.
1984 Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, for the NBA championship.
1984 Ivan Lendl wins the French Open, his first grand slam title.
1984 US missile shoots down an incoming missile in space for first time.
1984 Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 2.39 metres.
1985 Birth of Kristina Lundberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1985 Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife.
1985 Coca-Cola announces they would bring back their 99-year-old formula.
1986 A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball’s National League.
1986 Birth of Joey Zimmerman, American actor and musician
1986 Death of Merle Miller, American biographer (b. 1919)
1987 Birth of Amobi Okoye; Nigerian-born American football player.
1987 Death of Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (suicide) (born 1943).
1987 In Illinois, a magnitude 5.1 earthquake occurs.
1988 Death of Louis L’Amour, American author (b. 1908)
1988 Greatest number of participants (31,678) on a bicycle tour (London, England).
1988 Louis L’Amour, western writer, dies at age 80 of cancer.
1989 Major French Open upset, as Spain’s Arantxa Sanchez, 17 beats heavily Steffi Graf, also first Spaniard to win a grand slam title.
1990 Detroit Pistons beat Portland Trail Blazers for first time since 1974 in Portland, Oregon.
1991 Death of Vercors, French writer and illustrator (b. 1902)
1991 In what was dubbed “The Mother of All Parades,” New York City hosts a parade welcoming back troops from Operation Desert Storm.
1991 Mother of All Parades-New York City welcomes Desert Storm troops.
1993 Birth of Hugh Alexander Carnegie, British noble.
1993 Death of Les Dawson, British comedian (born 1931).
1996 Death of Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (born 1906).
1996 In the Andreanof Islands, Alaska, magnitude 7.9 and 7.3 earthquakes occurs.
1996 Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without Sinn FTin.
1996 Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without Sinn FTin.
1996 The Colorado Avalanche win their first Stanley Cup in their first season based out of Denver, Colorado, defeating the Florida Panthers four games to none. Avalanche captain Joe Sakic wins the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff Most Valuable Player.
1997 Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen’s family members before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold.
1997 Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief, Son Sen, and 11 of Sen’s family members, before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold.
1998 Death of Hammond Innes, English author (born 1914).
1998 The 1998 FIFA World Cup begins in France.
1999 Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milo?evi? agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
1999 NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milo_evic agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
2000 Death of Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (born 1930).
2000 The New Jersey Devils defeat the defending champion Dallas Stars 2-1 in double overtime in Game six of the 2000 Stanley Cup Finals to win their second Stanley Cup Championship.
2001 Death of Princess Leila of Iran (born 1970).
2001 Pope John Paul II canonized Saint Rafqa
2002 An annular solar eclipse occurs.
2002 Death of John Gotti, American gangster (born 1940).
2002 In the United Kingdom, Kevin Warwick carries out the first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans.
2003 Death of Donald Regan, U.S. Treasury Secretary (born 1918).
2003 NASA begins its Mars Exploration Rover mission by launching Spirit Rover.
2003 The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission.
2004 Death of Ray Charles, American singer and musician (born 1930).
2005 Death of Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer (b. 1915)
2006 President Mahmoud Abbas sets July 26 as the date for a national referendum in the Palestinian National Authority.
2007 A general election is held in Belgium.
2007 Death of Augie Auer, meteorologist (born 1940).
2007 Lewis Hamilton wins the Canadian Grand Prix becoming the first driver of mixed racial origin to win a Formula One race.
2007 The 61st Tony Awards, honoring Broadway theatres’ best shows, takes place at Radio City Music Hall.
2007 The first round of a legislative election is held in France.
2007 Two large meteoroids enter the atmosphere over Sri Lanka, breaking into smaller pieces and landing in several areas.
2008 700,000 protesters assemble in Seoul, South Korea, to protest the resumption of beef imports from the USA, calling for the resignation of President Lee Myung-bak. Prime Minister Han Seung-soo, all 15 cabinet ministers, and nine of Lee’s senior aides offer ro resign.
2008 A Sudan Airways Airbus A-310 passenger jet carrying more than 200 passengers bursts into flames after veering off a runway at an airport in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, killing at least 28 people.
2008 Death of Vo Van Kiet, prime minister of Vietnam (1991-97), architect of Vietnam’s transformation from a socialist system to a market economy, at age 85 in Singapore.
2010 Christie’s auctioneers in England sell a 1983 painting by Indian artist Syed Haider Raza for US$3.5 million, a record for a modern Indian work.
2010 The Burmese government denies recent reports that it is developing a nuclear weapons programme.
2010 The Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 in overtime to win the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup, their first cup win in 49 years.
2010 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency successfully deploys their solar sail, Ikaros, in orbit, as a demonstration of the principle of using sunlight as a simple and efficient means of propulsion.
2010 The South Korean Naro-1 space rocket carrying a scientific satellite explodes 137 seconds into its flight, likely during the first-stage ignition.
