1373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Perpetual Alliance (world's oldest still in existence) is signed in London between King Edward III of England and King Ferdinand I of Portugal [1]
1381 Peasants' Revolt: Rebels enter London and with local townsfolk, attack the prisons, destroy Savoy Palace and kill anyone associated with the royal government
- 1392 Assassination attempt on Olivier de Clisson, Constable of France, by Pierre de Craon fails
Peace of Adrianople
1547 Peace of Adrianople (Treaty of Edirne) King Ferdinand of Austria agrees to pay Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent 30,000 gold Forints for western Hungary
- 1611 John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
- 1665 Battle of Lowestoft, off Suffolk, England: English fleet beats Dutch
- 1707 Hungary declares itself independent under Ferenc Rákóczi II (aka Francis II Rákóczi)
- 1721 England signs Treaty of Madrid
- 1727 Spain underwrites Preliminairy of Paris
- 1753 Austria, Great Britain, and Modena sign a secret military treaty
- 1774 Rhode Island becomes first colony to prohibit importation of slaves
- 1777 Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit
King Dismisses Government
1792 King Louis XVI dismisses French government
- 1798 Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
Simon Bolívar Dictator
1828 Simon Bolívar proclaimed dictator of Colombia
- 1837 First Mormon missionaries to the British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio
- 1854 Anthony Faas, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, patents the 1st US accordion, having made improvements to both the keyboard, and to enhance the sound (Patent No. 11,062)
The Sicilian Vespers
1855 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Les vêpres sicilenne" (The Sicilian Vespers) premieres at the Paris Opéra
- 1863 Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon" in Christchurch, New Zealand
- 1863 Second Battle of Winchester, Virginia
- 1863 Skirmish at Berryville, Virginia
Reconstruction
1865 President Andrew Johnson proclaims reconstruction of confederate states
- 1866 US House of Representatives passes the 14th Amendment (Civil Rights)
- 1868 Oscar Dunn becomes first African American to be elected a Lieutenant Governor, of Louisiana
- 1871 Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
- 1878 Congress of Berlin begins, determines the territories of the states in the Balkan peninsula following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78
- 1881 The USS Jeannette, under the command of George Washington De Long, sinks in the Arctic circle following 21 months of drifting after becoming trapped in the ice
- 1886 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, British Columbia
- 1888 US Congress creates Department of Labor
- 1889 Two feet of snow accumulates in Rawlins, Wyoming
- 1890 Eagle Avenue in the Bronx is cut out and named
- 1895 Émile Levassor wins the first automobile race in history, the Paris-Bordeaux-Paris, taking 48 hours and 48 minutes (1,178 km)
- 1898 Yukon Territory of Canada established, Dawson chosen as capital
- 1900 In China, Baron von Kettler, the German minister to China, beats two young Boxers with his walking stick; when word of this circulates, rioting and arson spread throughout Peking during the night
- 1902 Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland
Sports History
1905 New York Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson throws his 2nd no-hitter, beating Chicago Cubs, 1-0 at West Side Grounds, Chicago
- 1907 Lowest temperature ever in 48 US states for June, 2°F in Tamarack, California
Burns KOs Squires
1908 Canadian champion Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires of Australia in 8th round at Neuilly Bowling Palace, Paris to retain world heavyweight boxing title
- 1910 Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Philadelphia
- 1910 South Carolina physician William Demosthenes Crum is appointed the US minister to Liberia
- 1912 NY Giant Christy Mathewson wins his 300th game
- 1913 MLB New York Yankees win 13th game of year after losing 36 games
Plan to Annex Islands
1914 Eleftherios Venizelos announces that Greece intends to annex Chios and Mytilene, two large islands off the Turkish coast; Greece and Turkey have been heading towards conflict for months over claims to Aegean islands
- 1917 World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children with 432 injuries
- 1918 Phillies and Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings
1920 US Post Office states that children cannot be sent by parcel post after various instances
- 1922 Longest recorded attack of hiccups begins when Charles Osborne gets the hiccups and continues for 68 years; he dies 11 months after they stop
- 1924 Bene Berak, Palestine, founded
- 1924 Gaston Doumergue elected as the 1st protestant French President
- 1924 MLB New York Yankees win their third franchise game by forfeit over Detroit Tigers
- 1925 American William DeHart Hubbard sets men's long jump world record at 7.89m (25 ft 10 3⁄4 in) in Chicago, Illinois
- 1925 Charles Jenkins demonstrates the transmission of synchronized pictures and sound (early television)
- 1930 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista, Greece
- 1932 Great Britain and France sign peace treaty
- 1933 Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized
- 1933 First sodium vapor lamps installed in the US in Schenectady, NY
Gestapo Established
1933 German Secret State Police (Gestapo - Geheime Staats Polizei) established by Hermann Goering
Braddock Upsets Baer
1935 10-to-1 underdog James J. Braddock upsets defending champion Max Baer in a 15 round unanimous points decision at Madison Square Garden, NYC for the world heavyweight boxing title
- 1935 Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs v Somerset
- 1936 2nd Belgian government of Van Zealand forms
DiMaggio Hits 3 HRs
1937 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns
- 1938 Great Cricket innings of 232 by Stan McCabe v England at Trent Bridge
- 1938 Jews injured & property destroyed in Przemyal, Poland
- 1940 Paris evacuates before German advance
- 1942 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km
- 1942 Germany lands 4 saboteurs on Long Island
- 1942 The United States opens its Office of War Information, with Elmer Davis as head
- 1942 US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) formed
- 1944 First German V-1 flying bomb (Fieseler Fi 103) attack on London [1]
- 1944 German counterattack on Villers-Bocage, Normandy
- 1945 Heerjansdam soccer team forms
- 1945 Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead
- 1946 First transcontinental round-trip flight in one day, from California to Maryland
- 1946 King Umberto II of Italy abdicates after 24 days in the wake of the country declaring itself a republic
- 1947 First night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3)
Babe Ruth's Farewell
1948 Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th
- 1950 South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act"
- 1951 UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea
- 1952 Soviet fighters shoots down Swedish Air Force Dakota DC-3 reconnaissance plane east of Gotska Sandön in the Baltic Sea, kills entire crew of 8
World Record Marathon
1953 Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:18:40.2)
- 1953 KOAA TV channel 5 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (NBC) 1st broadcast
- 1954 Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine laid in Bronx
- 1956 Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrats 50/KVP 49
- 1956 The last British troops leave the Suez Canal Zone in Egypt
- 1957 Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth, Massachusetts
Baseball Record
1957 Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-HR games in a season
Music History
1958 Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, California
- 1959 "Sammy Kaye Show" last airs on ABC-TV
- 1960 Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia
- 1962 Norway named ombudsman
- 1964 Basil Heatley runs world record marathon (2:13:55)
- 1965 19th Tony Awards: "The Subject Was Roses" (play) & "Fiddler on the Roof" (musical) win
- 1965 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Beverly CC: Susie Maxwell wins by 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Marlene Hagge
- 1965 Vietnam War: Battle of Dong Xoai ends in a Viet Cong victory
- 1966 US Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspects must be informed of rights
- 1970 "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hits #1 in UK
- 1970 Beatles' "Long and Winding Road" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
- 1970 The Beatles' "Let It Be" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 4 weeks
- 1971 "The New York Times" begins publishing excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, classified documents on the long history of the U.S. in Vietnam
- 1971 In defiance of a government ban, members of the Orange Order march through the mainly Catholic town of Dungiven, County Londonderry, causing a riot
- 1972 The Irish Republican Army invites British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Willie Whitelaw to 'Free Derry'; Whitelaw rejects offer and reaffirms his policy to not "let part of the United Kingdom ... default from the rule of law"
- 1973 Garvey, Lopes, Cey & Russell play together for 1st time, set record of staying together as an infield for 8½ years (LA Dodgers)
- 1974 Henry Aaron addresses House of Representatives
- 1974 IMF establishes its "oil facility", a special fund for loans to nations whose balance of payments have been severely affected by high oil prices
Music History
1976 Bob Marley performs at Jaap Edenhal, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 1976 German sprinter Inge Helten runs female WR 100m (11.04) at Fürth, West Germany
- 1978 Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon
Mingus
1979 Asylum Records releases "Mingus", Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's 10th studio album
- 1979 Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills, South Dakota
- 1980 US Congressman John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation
- 1981 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany
- 1982 Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia after King Khalid dies at 69
- 1983 NASA's Pioneer 10 becomes the first human-made object to leave the solar system
- 1986 City of Berlin, Germany dedicates Léon Jessel Platz, a small town square, in memory of composer killed - at age 70 - by the Gestapo in 1943
- 1987 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina
- 1988 Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win AL East
- 1988 Fed jury finds Liggett liable in death of NJ woman of lung cancer
- 1988 US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist
- 1989 "Licence to Kill", 16th James Bond film, last directed by John Glen and starring Timothy Dalton premieres in London
- 1989 Houston's Terry Puhl plays in his 1,403rd game (most by a Canadian)
Music History
1989 Piano playing rock singer Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- 1990 Boeing 767-200ER sets a non-stop commercial flight record, flying 9,253 miles nonstop from Seattle to Nairobi, Kenya
Dick Tracy
1990 Film "Dick Tracy", directed by Warren Beatty and starring Warren Beatty and Madonna, premieres in Woodstock, Illinois
- 1990 Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term
- 1991 NHL owners present contract to players (leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike)
- 1991 The National, the first all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication
- 1993 Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani re-elected President of Iran
- 1994 A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages
Contract of Interest
1994 Chicago Cub second baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract
Jagged Little Pill
1995 "Jagged Little Pill", 3rd studio album by Alanis Morissette is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year, 1996)
Post
1995 Björk releases her second art pop solo album "Post"
- 1995 New Jersey Devils beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4-2 for a 4-2 series win; qualify for their first Stanley Cup Finals Series (beat Detroit Red Wings, 4-0)
- 1996 Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents
- 1997 American fugitive Ira Einhorn is arrested in France for the murder of Holly Maddux after 16 years on the run, though he would not return for another four years
Event of Interest
2000 Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981
Summit of Interest
2000 South Korean President Kim Dae-jung meets North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il for the beginning of the first-ever inter-Korean summit in the northern capital of Pyongyang
2002 Stanley Cup Final, Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, MI: Detroit Red Wings beat Carolina Hurricanes, 3-1 for a 4-1 series win; Red Wings' 10th title; coach Scotty Bowman retires with record 9th title
- 2002 The United States of America withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Music History
2005 A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch
- 2006 The US Senate issues a formal resolution apologizing for failure to create anti-lynching legislation
Frida Kahlo Exhibition Opens
2007 First large-scale exhibition of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's work in Mexico opens at Palacio de Bellas Artes on the 100th anniversary of her birth
- 2007 The Al Askari Mosque in Samarra is bombed reportedly by Iraqi Baathists, destroying the mosque's two ten-story minarets
Viva la Vida
2008 "Viva la Vida" single released by Coldplay, - their 1st US No. 1, (Grammy Song of the Year)
- 2010 64th Tony Awards: "Memphis" & "Red" (play) win
- 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand is hit by another strong earthquake measuring magnitude 6.3
- 2012 A series of bombings across Iraq kill 93 and wound 300 people
Baseball Record
2012 San Francisco Giants' Matt Cain pitches first perfect game in the franchise's history against the Houston Astros
- 2014 Stanley Cup Final, Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA: LA Kings edge New York Rangers, 3-2 in double OT for a 4-1 series win; second Championship in LA franchise history
- 2015 Floods in Tbilisi, Georgia, kill 12 people and free animals from the city's zoo, including bears and hippos, to roam the city
- 2015 Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet during the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission, reawakens after seven months
- 2016 Some Democratic Party members of US House of Representatives protest 'moment of silence' as an inadequate response to mass shooting, and demand legislative action on gun control
- 2017 Otto Warmbier returns to the US in an unresponsive state after being held in a North Korean jail for 17 months
Event of Interest
2017 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before Senate Intelligence Committee, denies secretly meeting Russians
- 2017 Warriors win 2nd NBA title in 3 years over the Cavaliers (129-120)
- 2018 Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate - 200 billion tonnes a year, 3 trillion tonnes in 25 years, in report published in "Nature" journal
- 2018 FIFA Congress votes to award 2026 World Cup to joint bid by US, Canada & Mexico
- 2018 Raccoon climbs 23 story office building in St Paul, Minnesota, becoming an internet sensation
- 2018 The Spanish Football Association sacks coach Julen Lopetegui just 2 days out from first World Cup game after he agreed to manage Real Madrid
- 2018 Volkswagen fined €1 billion (£880m) by German prosecutors over diesel emissions scandal
- 2019 Archaeologists announce that Scottish crannogs (fortified settlements on artificial islands in lochs) are far older than first thought, with radiocarbon dates of 3640–3360 BCE, making them older than Stonehenge
- 2019 Kenyan MP Rashid Kassim arrested for slapping female MP Fatuma Gedi, following a walk out of parliament by female MPs after claiming male MPs joked "its slapping day"
Event of Interest
2019 President Donald Trump announces Sarah Sanders will be leaving her position as White House Press Secretary
Event of Interest
2019 Recently deposed Sudan President Omar al-Bashir is charged with corruption in Sudan
Event of Interest
2019 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Iran is responsible for recent attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman
- 2021 G7 summits ends in Cornwall, England, with leaders promising one billion vaccine doses for poorer nations
Event of Interest
2021 Israel's Knesset votes in a new coalition government with Naftali Bennett as Prime Minister, ousting Benjamin Netanyahu after a record 12 years
- 2021 US President Joe Biden has tea with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle
- 2022 A Google engineer claims one of its AI systems, Lamda, might have a sentient mind, causing the company to place him on leave [1]
- 2022 MIT researchers propose creating raft of "space bubbles" floating above the earth to reflect the sun's rays and help fight climate change [1]
- 2022 New York Stock Exchange enters bear market territory (defined as falling 20% from a recent high - Jan 3) after the S&P falls 3.9%, amid fears of high inflation and a recession [1]
Music Concert
2022 The Rolling Stones cancel concert in Amsterdam due to singer Mick Jagger testing positive for COVID-19
- 2022 World's largest freshwater fish, a stingray 3.98m x 2.2m caught in the Mekong river, Cambodia (tagged and released) [1]
- 2023 Former US President Donald Trump and his aide Walt Nauta plead not guilty to federal charges of intentionally holding on to classified documents at a court in Miami [1]
- 2023 Stanley Cup Final, T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, NV: Vegas Golden Knights rout Florida Panthers 9-3 to clinch 4-1 series win; franchise's first title in only 6th year in the NHL; MVP: Jonathan Marchessault (VGK forward)
- 2024 Argentina’s upper house narrowly passes President Javier Milei’s controversial economic reforms amid violent protests [1]
$46 Billion Pay Deal for Musk
2024 Elon Musk secures Tesla shareholders approval for a $46 billion pay deal - the largest in American corporate history [1]
- 2024 G7 leaders agree to loan Ukraine $50 billion from frozen Russian assets to buy weapons and rebuild, at their meeting in Borgo Egnazia, Italy [1]
- 2025 Operation Rising Lion: Israel strikes dozens of targets in Iran, including nuclear facilities, military sites and private residences, killing some senior military commanders and scientists in effort to eliminate Iran’s nuclear ambitions
