Battle of Dandanaqan
1040 Battle of Dandanaqan: Tughril's Seljuk army defeats Ghaznavid force, near Merv (present-day Turkmenistan), brings about the fall of the Ghaznavid Empire
King Philip I
1059 Henri I crowns his son King Philip I (called the Amorous) of France
Edward I Halts Persecution
1275 King Edward I of England orders cessation of persecution of French Jews
- 1420 Duke of Austria Albert V orders the Vienna Gesera, imprisoning and expelling the Jews of Vienna
Joan of Arc Captured
1430 Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne and sold to the English
Treaty of Senlis
1493 King of France Charles VIII, King of the Romans Maximilian I and Archduke of Austria Philip I sign the Treaty of Senlis, ending hostilities between France and the Seventeen Provinces
Capture of Bologna
1511 Pope Julius II and French troops capture Bologna after an anti-Papal revolt
Mamluks Panic Over the Portuguese
1513 News reaches Cairo and the Mamluk Empire, causing panic, of the first Portuguese fleet to travel up the Red Sea, led by Afonso de Albuquerque
- 1536 Pope Paul III installs Portuguese inquisition
Pope Paul IV
1555 Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV
- 1568 Battle of Heiligerlee, Groningen: Dutch rebels beat Spanish, thousands killed
- 1568 The Netherlands declares independence from Spain
Uraniborg Observatory
1576 King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to astronomer and nobleman Tycho Brahe to build an observatory
- 1609 Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place
- 1611 Matthias von Habsburg chosen as King of Bohemia
- 1618 Second Defenestration of Prague: Two Catholic Lords Regent and their secretary are thrown out of a window and amazingly are not seriously injured by the 70-foot (21 m) fall; event triggers the Thirty Years' War
- 1644 Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists
- 1647 William II Prince of Orange sworn in as Stadtholder of Holland
Charles II Returns from Exile
1660 King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England
- 1667 King Afonso VI of Portugal flees
William Kidd Hanged
1701 Captain William Kidd is hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and the murder of William Moore
Battle of Ramillies
1706 Battle of Ramillies during War of the Spanish Succession.: John Churchill (1st Duke of Marlborough) defeats French; 17,000 killed
- 1774 Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River)
Franklin Invents Bifocals
1785 Benjamin Franklin describes his invention of bifocals in a letter to his friend George Whatley
1788 South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution
El Libertador
1813 South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador (The Liberator)
- 1844 Declaration of Bab (Baha'i festival) ('Azamat 7, 1)
- 1845 New York City Police Department (NYPD) is formed, replacing an old night watch system
- 1853 Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859)
- 1861 Three Virginia slaves Frank Baker, Shepard Mallory and James Townsend escape, rowing across Hampton Roads to Fort Monroe, Virginia - declared 1st contraband of war the next day [1]
- 1861 Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession from the Union
Jackson Takes Fort Royal
1862 US Civil War - Valley Campaign: Stonewall Jackson takes Fort Royal, Virginia
- 1863 Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan
- 1864 Battle of North Anna, Virginia, 1st of 3 days of fighting
- 1865 -24] Victory parade in Washington, D.C. (Grand Review)
- 1865 Flag flown at full mast over White House for the first time since Lincoln was shot
Jesse James Robs Bank
1867 Jesse James' gang robs a bank in Richmond, Missouri, killing two and taking $4,000
- 1873 1st Preakness Stakes: G. Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43 at Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore, Maryland
- 1873 Canada's North West Mounted Police Force forms (receives the "Royal" designation in 1904)
- 1873 Postal cards sold in San Francisco for 1st time
- 1878 Attorney John Henry Smyth named US minister to Liberia
- 1882 6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa
- 1887 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, British Columbia
- 1894 William Love hosts groundbreaking ceremonies for Love Canal, a planned community on shores of Lake Ontario
- 1898 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco
- 1900 William Harvey Carney becomes the first African-American soldier awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Civil War at the Battle of Fort Wagner
- 1901 Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent
- 1903 1st automobile trip across US leaves San Francisco for New York, (arrives July 26)
- 1903 1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin
- 1907 The single chamber Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
- 1908 Dirigible explodes over San Francisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none killed
1908 Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Washington
- 1914 Dutch socialist Henk Sneevliet co-founds The Indies Social Democratic Association (Communist Party) in Dutch Indonesia
- 1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary during WW I
- 1917 Dutch 2nd Chamber approves 1908 conscription draft
- 1918 King Oil/Shell refinery on Curacao officially opens
- 1920 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei
- 1922 Comedic play "Abie's Irish Rose" premieres at Fulton Theatre, NYC; runs for 2,327 performances (longest run at the time)
- 1922 Future World Heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney suffers his only professional defeat in 15-round unanimous points decision against Harry Greb at Madison Square Garden, NY
Laugh-O-Gram Films
1922 Walt Disney incorporates his first film company, Laugh-O-Gram Films
- 1923 Launch of Belgium's SABENA airline: first flight from Brussels to Lympne, England
1st Wrigley Field Scoreboard HR
1926 Chicago Cub's Hack Wilson is 1st to hit a home run off Wrigley Field scoreboard
- 1926 Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate
- 1928 Anarchist bomb attack on Italian Consulate in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 7 and injures dozens
- 1931 Whipsnade Zoo opens in Bedfordshire, England
- 1932 Australian cyclist Hubert Opperman sets paced world records 1,384km in 24 hours, and 1,609km (1,000 miles) in 28 hours, 55 minutes, 39 seconds at Melbourne Motordrome
1934 American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are killed by police in an ambush near Sailes, Louisiana
- 1934 The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers
- 1935 1st scheduled MLB baseball night game postponed due to rain in Cincinnati, Ohio
- 1939 British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949
- 1939 Submarine USS Squalus sinks in the Gulf of Maine, drowning 26, 33 remaining crew rescued from a depth of 243 ft (74 m) by divers using newly developed heliox air systems (divers later awarded the Medal of Honor)
- 1940 1st great dogfight between Spitfires and Luftwaffe
Louis KOs Baer
1941 In his 20th World Heavyweight Boxing title defense Joe Louis knocks out Buddy Baer in round 1 at New York's Madison Square Garden
- 1943 -24] 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund
- 1944 British and Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo, Italy
- 1944 Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front
- 1944 Operation Buffalo: Allied break out from Anzio bridgehead
- 1945 German island of Helgoland in the North Sea surrenders to British
Nazi Germany Dissolves
1945 The Allies arrest the members of the Nazi Flensburg government, including Admiral Karl Dönitz, formally dissolving Nazi Germany
- 1947 PC Hooft prize forms for literature
DiMaggio's Three Home Runs
1948 Future Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs as the New York Yankees edge the Indians, 6-5 at Cleveland Stadium
- 1948 Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel
- 1949 Federal Republic of (West) Germany is created from the American, British, and French occupation zones
Love of Four Colonels
1951 Peter Ustinov's play "Love of Four Colonels" premieres in London
- 1951 Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet signed in Beijing, formally establishes Chinese sovereignty over Tibet
- 1953 WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1956 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Francisco
- 1958 Explorer 1 ceases transmission - 1st US satellite launched into space January 1958
Great Leap Forward
1958 Mao Zedong starts the "Great Leap Forward" movement in China, kills between 23 and 55 million Chinese citizens due to famine and forced labor
- 1958 US schools 1st use Cliff's Notes
- 1960 "Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24
- 1960 WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1960 WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, PR 1st broadcast
- 1960 WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC)
- 1962 15th Cannes Film Festival: "Keeper of Promises" directed by Anselmo Duarte wins the Palme d'Or
- 1962 French OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life in prison (pardoned 1968)
- 1962 Joe Pepitone 2nd NY Yankee to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio)
1963 16th Cannes Film Festival: "The Leopard" directed by Luchino Visconti wins the Palme d'Or
- 1963 NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000
- 1964 Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45)
- 1965 Franz Jonas elected President of Austria
- 1965 Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River, Malawi, kills 150
- 1966 Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu becomes the first Māori Queen, succeeding her father, King Korokī
- 1967 Government bans submarines near South Africa
- 1968 Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London
- 1969 22nd Cannes Film Festival: "If..." directed by Lindsay Anderson wins the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
BBC Orders Monty Python
1969 BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
- 1969 Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes
- 1969 Track Records releases The Who's double album rock opera "Tommy" in the UK
- 1970 A fire breaks out in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales contributing to its partial destruction and causing approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage
- 1970 Grateful Dead's 1st performance outside US, as part of 'The Hollywood Rock Music Festival', in Newcastle under Lyme, England
- 1970 San Diego Padres beat SF Giants 17-16 in 15 innings
- 1970 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
- 1971 American rock group Iron Butterfly ("In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida") disbands
- 1974 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1974 Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed
- 1975 28th Cannes Film Festival: "Chronicle of the Years of Fire" directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina wins the Palme d'Or
- 1977 Benin adopts its constitution
- 1977 Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in the Netherlands, children released May 27, siege ends June 11
Watergate Appeal Refused
1977 US Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals from convicted Watergate figures H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and John Mitchell
- 1978 AL approves transfer of Red Sox to Jean Yawkey for $15M
- 1978 General strike in Peru
- 1979 1st edition of "Wisden Cricket Monthly"
Tom Petty Files for Bankruptcy
1979 American rock singer-songwriter Tom Petty files for chapter 11 bankruptcy
- 1979 West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president
1980 33rd Cannes Film Festival: "All That Jazz" directed by Bob Fosse and "Kagemusha" directed by Akira Kurosawa jointly awarded the Palme d'Or
- 1980 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Neil Burton
- 1981 Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage
- 1981 NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 501
Yorkshsire Ripper
1981 Peter Sutcliffe is convicted for the "Yorkshsire Ripper" murders of 13 women at the Old Bailey in London and sentenced to life sentences for each
Benítez KOs Hope
1981 Puerto Rican boxer Wilfred Benítez (22) becomes the youngest 3-division world champion in history by knocking out WBC World Super Welterweight champion Maurice Hope in 12 rounds in Las Vegas
- 1982 BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina
- 1982 Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles
Peter Donders Beatified
1982 Pope John Paul II beatifies Dutch priest and missionary Peter Donders
- 1983 Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air
1984 37th Cannes Film Festival: "Paris, Texas" directed by Wim Wenders wins the Palme d'Or, starring Harry Dean Stanton and Nastassja Kinski
- 1984 Detroit Tigers win AL record tying 16th straight road game
Presidential Medal of Freedom
1985 President Ronald Reagan awards Jimmy Stewart the Presidential Medal of Freedom and promotes him to Major General on the Retired List
- 1986 US & Western Europe veto heavier sanctions against South Africa
- 1988 41st Cannes Film Festival: "Pelle erobreren" directed by Bille August wins the Palme d'Or
- 1988 Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990
1989 42nd Cannes Film Festival: "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" directed by Steven Soderbergh wins the Palme d'Or
- 1989 Cleveland loses and drop to 21-22, this is the latest a sub .500 team is in 1st place (AL East)
- 1989 Lincoln Square in Bronx named
- 1990 Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion
- 1990 Dow Jones Industrial Average hits a record 2,856.26
- 1990 NY Yankees hit 6 home runs to beat Minnesota Twins 12-0
- 1991 Last Cubans troops leave Angola
- 1991 Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Tommy Greene no-hits Montreal Expos, 2-0
- 1991 San Diego Sockers win 4th consecutive Major Soccer League championship
- 1991 US Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion
- 1992 NY Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game
- 1992 Sicilian Mafia bombs motorcade killing anti-mob prosecutor Giovanni Falcone, his wife, and three police escorts on Highway A29, near Capaci, Sicily
Bush Orders Haiti Intercepts
1992 US President George H. W. Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees
- 1994 "Star Trek: The Next Generation" finale airs this week in syndication
- 1994 270 pilgrims die in the bustle round Mina, Saudi-Arabia
- 1994 Roman Herzog elected President of Germany
- 1995 47th time opposing pitchers hit HRs, K Foster (Cubs)/M Freeman (Rocks)
- 1996 Fred Norris of the Howard Stern show changes his first name legally to Eric
- 1997 "King David" closes at New Amsterdam Theater NYC
- 1997 Mel Karmazin replaces Peter Lund as CEO of CBS TV
- 1998 The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes
- 1999 52nd Cannes Film Festival: "Rosetta" directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne wins the Palme d'Or
The Marshall Mathers LP
2000 Eminem releases his third studio album "The Marshall Mathers LP," the fastest-selling studio album ever (Grammy - Best Rap Album, 2001)
- 2001 Marco Siffredi becomes the first person to snowboard down Mount Everest via the Norton Couloir (some share record accreditation with Stefan Gatt)
- 2002 The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland
- 2003 The Euro exceeds its initial trading value as it hits $1.18 for the first time since its introduction in 1999
- 2004 Part of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.
- 2008 International Court of Justice awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute
- 2010 63rd Cannes Film Festival: "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul wins the Palme d'Or
Roy Named Head Coach
2013 Patrick Roy is named head coach of the Colorado Avalanche, his former team where he won two Stanley Cups
Pauline
2014 "Pauline" a chamber opera by Margaret Atwood and Tobin Stokes premieres at the York Theatre in Vancouver
- 2014 Jason Koumas signs a one-year extension with Tranmere Rovers
- 2014 Russia and China veto the U.N. Security Council resolution to establish an International Criminal Court for war crimes in Syria
- 2016 Chinese archaeologists announce findings of the earliest use of barley in China to make beer, in Shaanxi Province between 3,400 and 2,900 BCE
- 2017 Library of Al-Qarawiyyin, the world's oldest continually operating library, reopens after a major restoration by King Mohammed VI in Fez, Morocco [1]
- 2017 Michael Bay is honored with a hand-and-footprint ceremony at The TCL Chinese Theatre
- 2017 UK raises terror threat level to critical following Manchester bombing
- 2018 Hamburg, Germany, becomes the first city to ban diesel cars on some roads
- 2018 NFL owners approve new NFL national anthem policy whereby players required to stand if they choose to be on the field for pre-game presentations
- 2019 Brazilian cosmetics group Natura buys UK's Avon for $2 billion, creating the world's fourth-largest cosmetics company
- 2019 Fifty children rescued from an international paedophile ring on the dark web in Thailand, Australia and the US by Interpol under Operation Blackwrist, main organizer sentenced to 146 years
Modi Wins Re-Election
2019 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wins re-election in a landslide over the opposition Congress Party, world's largest-ever democratic election with over 600 million voters
- 2019 More than 170 tornadoes reported in a week in US states of Missouri, Oklahoma and Iowa, killing seven and causing widespread damage
- 2019 Prototype of new high-speed train that will float above the track, capable of travelling 600km an hour (370 mph), unveiled by Chinese Railway Rolling Stock Corporation in Qingdao
- 2019 Six migrant children have now died in US custody in eight months prompting calls for an investigation
- 2019 The last slave ship to smuggle slaves to America from Africa, the Clotilda (sunk 1860), is found in Mobile river, Alabama
- 2021 21 runners die in freezing conditions during an ultramarathon in Yellow River Stone Forest Park, Gansu Province, China
- 2021 Belarus accused of “state-sponsored hijacking" after diverting commercial Ryanair flight to Minsk to arrest dissident journalist Roman Protasevich
- 2022 New York City removes its last public payphones in Midtown Manhattan, they will become part of a museum display [1]
Indo-Pacific Economic Framework
2022 US President Joe Biden launches the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework in Tokyo, an economic alliance of Asia-Pacific nations to counter Chinese influence, including India, South Korea, Japan, and others [1]
- 2022 US President Joe Biden says for the first time he would be willing to use force to defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion
- 2023 451 Illinois Catholic clergy sexually abused nearly 2,000 children over 70 years, according to state's attorney general’s office [1]
- 2023 International Booker Prize awarded to "Time Shelter" by Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel is announced in London [1]
Apple's Best Album Ever
2024 Apple Music names Lauryn Hill's "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" the best album ever made [1]
- 2024 President Joe Biden says he will work to make Kenya the US's first key non-NATO ally during a state visit by Kenyan President William Ruto to the White House [1]
UK Early Election
2024 UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak calls an early general election for the 4th of July
