0961 German King Otto II crowned
1328 William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII
1521 Edict of Worms outlaws Martin Luther & his followers
1538 Genève throws out Calvijn
1596 England, France & Netherlands signs Drievoudig Covenant against Spain
1637 1st battle of Pequot at New Haven CT kills 500 Indians
1647 Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony
1736 Battle of Ackia (Louisiana), British & Chickasaw Indians defeat the French
1781 Bank of North America incorporated in Philadelphia
1788 Mary Clark of England gives birth to a baby without a brain
1790 Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress
1798 British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara
1805 Lewis & Clark 1st see Rocky Mountains
1805 Napoleon is crowned king of Italy
1824 Brazil is recognized by US
1834 Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates
1860 Garibaldi occupies Palermo Italy
1861 Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South
1861 Union blockades New Orleans LA & Mobile AL
1864 Skirmish along the Totopotomoy Creek VA
1864 Territory of Montana is formed
1865 Battle of Galveston TX, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith
1868 President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote
1874 2nd Preakness: William Donohue aboard Culpepper wins in 2:56½
1876 HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration
1883 11th Preakness: G Barbee aboard Jacobus wins in 2:42½
1884 Fred Spofforth takes 7-34 & 7-3 vs England XI in 4 hours
1887 Racetrack betting becomes legal in New York state
1894 Emanuel Lasker (26) becomes World Champion chess player
1896 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY
1896 Dow Jones begins an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94)
1896 Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned
1898 32nd Belmont Stakes: F Littlefield aboard Bowling Brook wins in 2:32
1898 San Fransisco approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utiliies
1900 British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa
1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes “The Adventure of the 3 Gables” (BG)
1905 A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia
1906 Archaeological Institute of America forms
1907 Chicago White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits New York Highlanders, 8-1 in 5 inning game
1909 Frederick Barrett runs world record marathon (2:42:31)
1913 Actors’ Equity Association forms (NYC)
1915 H H Asquith forms a coalition government in England
1917 Walt Cruise hit 1st homerun out of Braves Field
1918 Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia
1922 Lenin suffers a stroke
1923 1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance was run
1923 Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg
1924 German Government of Marx resigns
1924 President Coolidge signs Immigration Law (restricting immigration)
1925 Babe Ruth is finally out of bed, 5 weeks after ulcer surgery
1925 Tigers’ Ty Cobb is 1st to collect 1,000 extra-base hits (ends 1,139)
1926 Lebanon adopts constitution
1927 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model T automobile
1928 A’s commit 7 errors & lose to Yankees 7-4
1930 Joe Sewell, hardest to strike out, is struck out twice by Pat Caraway
1930 Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution
1932 Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo
1933 2nd emergency Dutch Government of Colijn forms
1933 Phillies Chuck Klein hits for the cycle vs St Louis Cardinals
1934 Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago
1936 1st Government of Zealand in Belgium ends
1937 Dutch Rail NV at law forms
1937 San Francisco Bay’s Golden Gate Bridge opens
1938 House Committee on Un-American Activities begins work
1940 Operation Dynamo begins evacuating defeated Allied troops from Dunkirk
1941 American Flag House (Betsy Ross’ Home) given to city of Philadelphia
1941 Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck
1941 German occupiers begin youth labor
1942 Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London
1942 Belgian Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star
1942 Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army
1943 1st president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)
1943 Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam
1943 Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly from US to North Africa
1944 82nd Airborne division D-day-landing at La Haye du Puits to Ste Mère Eglise
1945 US drop fire bombs on Tokyo
1946 2-for-42 & hitting .048 for 1946, Mel Ott stops playing baseball
1946 Darius Milhauds 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Prague
1946 Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia
1946 Patent filed in US for H-Bomb
1948 Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers
1948 South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy
1951 Vaughan Williams “Pilgrim’s Progress” premieres in London
1953 Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die
1955 “7th Heaven” opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 44 performances
1955 Conservatives win British parliamentary election
1955 Khrushchev arrives in Belgrade
1956 Aircraft carrier “Bennington” burns off Rhode Island, killing 103
1956 Reds’ John Klippstein, Hershel Freemman & Joe Blacks no-hitter, broken up with 2 outs in the 10th & lose to Braves in 11th, 2-1
1957 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open
1958 Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed
1958 Union Square, San Fransisco becomes state historical landmark
1958 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1959 Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings, loses in 13th
1961 Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta
1961 USAF bomber flies the Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours
1962 “All American” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 80 performances
1963 15th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, E G Marshall & Shirley Booth
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1963 Organization of African Unity forms
1963 Wes Stock becomes the only Baltimore Oriole to win a double header
1964 “Fade Out-Fade In” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 199 performances
1965 Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes
1965 Revised International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect
1965 Revised international Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect
1966 Buddhist sets self on fire at US consulate in Hué South-Vietnam
1966 Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK
1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1969 Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth
1969 John & Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montréal)
1971 Soviet Union’s Concorde, TU-144, makes its 1st appearance
1972 Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1972 Nixon & Brezhnev signs SALT accord
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 “Funky Worm” by Ohio Players hits #15
1973 “Super Fly Meets Shaft” by John & Ernest hits #31
1973 Bahrain adopts it’s constitution
1973 Beatles’ “The Beatles 1967-1970” album goes #1
1973 Tippett’s 3rd Piano sonata, premieres
1974 During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14 year old is trampled
1974 Joanne Carner wins Hoosier LPGA Golf Classic
1975 Tennis game in the Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes
1977 “Beatlemania” opens in Winter Garden Theater on Broadway
1977 George Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center
1977 Movie “Star Wars” debuts
1978 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City
1979 “Dancin’ Fool” by Frank Zappa hits #45
1980 Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8"
1980 Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st National League-er to record 6, 1-hitters
1980 Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6
1981 Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14
1981 Soyuz T-4 returns to Earth
1982 Aston Villa wins 27th Europe Cup 1 of Rotterdam
1982 British ship Atlantic Conveyor & Coventry were hit in Falkland war
1983 29th Walker Cup: US 13½-Great Britain/Ireland 10½
1983 Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7
1983 Los Angeles Lakers set NBA playoff game record of fewest free throws
1983 NASA launches Exosat
1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia
1984 Tulsa OK gets 13" of rain, 14 die
1985 Danny Sullivan wins Indianapolis 500 by 24 seconds following a spin
1985 Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die
1985 Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1987 Cecilia Bolocco, 22, of Chile, crowned 36th Miss Universe
1987 Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka
1987 Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail
1987 William H Webster replaces Robert M Gates as 14th director of CIA
1988 Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games
1989 At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 second silence, honoring radio
1989 Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals
1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 China People’s Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People’s Rebublic of China
1990 Philadelphia Phillies retire Mike Schmidt’s uniform #20
1991 Betsy King wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1992 Weird Al Yankovic begins his Off The Deep End tour
1993 Emmy 20th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 14th time
1993 Long fly ball by Indians’ Carlos Martinez bounces off Jose Canseco’s head & goes over fence for a homerun
1993 Olympique Marseille wins 38th Europe Cup I at Munich
1994 Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis’ daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26)
1996 “Midsummer Night’s Dream” closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 66 performances
1996 Indianapolis 500 race; Buddy Lazier wins with an average speed of 147.956 mph
1996 Laura Davies wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game
1996 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1997 Sammy Sosa (Cubs) & Tony Womack (Pirates) hit inside the park homeruns
1998 Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs President Clinton