- 555 Vigilius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1099 First Crusaders arrive in Jerusalem
- 1195 Earliest report of ball lightning in London by Benedictine monk Gervase of Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury [1]
- 1340 Rotterdam is founded in the Netherlands
- 1413 King Ladislaw of Naples occupies Rome
- 1420 Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patriarchate of Aquileia
1494 Treaty of Tordesillas: Spain and Portugal divide the New World along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa
- 1546 Peace of Andres Treaty ends the stalemated Italian War of 1542–1546 of France and the Ottoman Empire against the Holy Roman Empire and England, as well as England's dispute with Scotland and Ireland
- 1557 England declares war on France
Addled Parliament Dissolves
1614 Second parliament of King James I dissolves after passing no legislation, earning itself the name of the Addled Parliament
Petition of Rights
1628 English King Charles I ratifies the Petition of Right
Elephant Attack
1633 14-year-old Mughal prince Aurangzeb, the future Emperor Alamgir I, survives an elephant attack
- 1663 Munsee Esopus make a surprise attack on Dutch settlement of Wiltwijck (Kingston, Hudson Valley, NY), killing 25 colonists and taking 45 hostage [1]
- 1665 Boston's First Baptist Church, one of the oldest Baptist churches in America, is founded [NS March 1]
1665 Great Plague of London: Samuel Pepys writes in his diary of houses marked with a red cross in London's Drury Lane, meaning somebody inside is infected with the plague and must be locked in for 40 days or until death
- 1672 Battle of Solebay: Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter defeats a French-English fleet
Port Royal Earthquake
1692 An earthquake in Port Royal, Jamaica, kills 3,000 and sinks the cemetery where Henry Morgan was buried into the sea
- 1694 English invasion army under Thomas Tollemache reaches Brest
Event of Interest
1742 Prussian mathematician Christian Goldbach proposes his Conjecture - every even natural number greater than 2 is the sum of two prime numbers - in a letter to Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler
1753 British Museum is founded by an Act of Parliament with royal assent from King George II, opens in 1759
Daniel Boone Climbs Pilot Knob
1769 American frontiersman Daniel Boone ascends Pilot Knob, setting sight on the fertile hunting grounds of what is now known as the Bluegrass Region of the State of Kentucky [exact date disputed]
1776 Richard Lee (Virginia) moves Declaration of Independence in Continental Congress
- 1780 Gordon Riots: anti-Catholic riots across London, hundreds die and fires burn across the city
- 1788 French peasants stone the Army in Grenbole, an event known as the Day of the Tiles
- 1798 Jews of Pesaro Italy fast commemorating murder of Jews
Essay on the Principle of Population
1798 Thomas Malthus publishes the first edition of his influential 'Essay on the Principle of Population' (date of the unsigned preface)
Thompson Reaches Saskatchewan River Mouth
1800 Anglo-Canadian explorer David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba
- 1832 Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada
- 1839 Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed
- 1860 Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, San Francisco
- 1862 Skirmish at Union Church, Virginia (Peninsular)
- 1862 The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade
Execution of William Mumford
1862 Union General Benjamin Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed and destroyed US flag on display over New Orleans Mint
Battle of Milliken's Bend
1863 Battle of Milliken's Bend, Lousisiana, Jefferson Davis' home burnt
- 1863 Mexico City captured by French troops
- 1866 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec
- 1875 California Rifle and Pistol Association founded
- 1880 War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign)
- 1887 Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Washington, D.C.
- 1892 Creole shoemaker Homer Plessy buys whites-only train ticket in New Orleans in act of civil disobedience - results in landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- 1892 John J. Doyle of Clev Spiders is 1st to pinch hit in a baseball game
- 1892 Republican convention in Minneapolis begins
Gandhi's 1st Civil Disobedience Act
1893 Indian attorney M.K. Gandhi is thrown off a First Class compartment of a Pretoria train in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa - leads to his first act of civil disobedience when he protests his treatment the next day
- 1898 Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chicago
- 1900 Boer General Christian de Law occupies British rail depot at Roodewal
- 1906 Chicago Cubs score 11 runs in the 1st inning of a 19-0 drubbing of the New York Giants off future Baseball Hall of Famers Christy Mathewson and Joe McGinnity; worst beating in Giants franchise history
- 1906 Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches
- 1909 Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens
- 1912 St Pius X encyclical "On Indians of South America"
- 1912 US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
- 1913 1st verifiable ascent of main summit of Denali (Mt McKinley), North America's highest mountain led by Hudson Stuck and Harry Karstens
Roosevelt Declines Nomination
1916 Theodore Roosevelt declines nomination of the Progressive Party and throws his support behind Republican Charles Evans Hughes
- 1917 Melvin Jones and a number of other Chicago businessmen found Lions Clubs International, now the largest service organization in the world
- 1917 The British detonate mines beneath the German-held Messines Ridge, in the Ypres area
- 1919 Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four are killed.
- 1926 Swedish government of Ekman forms
- 1929 Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st British female cabinet minister (Labour)
- 1929 Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
- 1932 At 47, Brooklyn pitcher Jack Quinn becomes oldest player in MLB history to record an extra-base hit (double) as the Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 9-2
- 1936 New York Yankees beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 16 innings; longest MLB game without a strikeout
1937 Time magazine publishes the second of the only two known photos taken of the United States Supreme Court in session
- 1938 1st play telecast with original Broadway cast, "Susan & God"
- 1938 Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown (Eddie Allen)
British Royal Visit
1939 George VI and Elizabeth become the 1st king and queen of Britain to visit USA
- 1940 British/French troops evacuate Narvik
Partition Chromatography
1941 Chemists Archer John Porter Martin and Richard L. M. Synge give the first demonstration of partition chromatography (separation of mixtures) at a meeting of the Biochemical Society held at the National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead
Battle of Midway ends
1942 Battle of Midway ends: Admiral Chester Nimitz wins 1st World War II naval defeat of Japan
- 1942 Germany Army marches into Sebastopol, Russia
- 1942 Japanese troops land on Attu, Aleutian Islands
- 1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island
- 1944 Achilles Veen soccer team forms in Veen
- 1944 British forces attack Bréville in France during the Normandy invasion while other British forces attempt to encircle Caen
- 1944 Canadian 50th Division occupies Bayeux during the Normandy invasion
- 1946 MLB Pittsburgh Pirates players attempt to unionize and vote 20-16 to go on strike rather than play the New York Giants; vote fell short of required 2/3 majority and union fizzles, and Pirates win 10-5 at Forbes Field, Pittsburghn
- 1948 Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; President Bernes resigns
- 1948 KVP wins Dutch Second-Parliamentary election
- 1953 First color network telecast in compatible color (Boston, Massachusetts)
- 1953 WDAU (now WYOU) TV channel 22 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins
- 1954 First microbiology laboratory dedicated in New Brunswick, New Jersey
- 1955 "$64,000 Question" hosted by Hal March, premieres on CBS TV
1st President on Color TV
1955 Eisenhower becomes the first President to appear on color TV
Gene Roddenberry Leaves the Police
1956 Gene Roddenberry resigns from the Los Angeles Police Department to concentrate on his writing career
- 1956 Singapore government of Marshall resigns
- 1957 Mickey Stewart holds 7 cricket catches for Surrey v Northants
Tamla Records Founded
1958 American songwriter and impresario Berry Gordy Jr. founds Tamla Records, precursor to Motown Records, in Detroit, Michigan
- 1958 Battles between Turkish & Greeks Cypriots break out
- 1959 KLX-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KEWB (now KNEW)
- 1963 1st Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars) & release 1st single, "Come On"
- 1964 The Beatles travel canals of Amsterdam, with a substitute for Ringo
- 1965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
- 1965 Morocco King Hassan suspends constitution, grabs power
- 1965 Sony Corp introduces its home video tape recorder, priced at $995
- 1965 The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples
Steve Chilcott #1 Pick
1966 MLB Draft: New York Mets pass on Reggie Jackson to select Antelope Valley HS catcher Steve Chilcott #1
- 1967 Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem, Jericho and Bethlehem
- 1967 NY Yankees draft Ron Blomberg #1
- 1967 Two members of American psychedelic rock band "Moby Grape" arrested for contributing to delinquency of minors, charges were later dropped
- 1968 The body of assassinated US Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York
Blind Faith Debut
1969 Supergroup Blind Faith's debut performance in Hyde Park, London, featuring Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Steve Baler and Rick Grech
- 1969 Tommy James and the Shondells release single "Crystal Blue Persuasion"
- 1969 Washington Senators draft Jeff Burroughs #1
- 1970 22nd Emmy Awards: Marcus Welby, Robert Young & Susan Hampshire win
- 1970 British rock band The Who's perform their rock opera "Tommy" at the Metropolitan Opera House at NYC's Lincoln Center [1]
- 1971 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut space station
- 1972 Hsan Hua, Zen teacher, conducted 1st ordination ceremony in America
- 1972 Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's musical "Grease," starring Barry Bostwick, Carole Demas, and Adrienne Barbeau, opens at the Broadhurst Theatre in NYC; runs for 3,388 performances
- 1972 Pirate's Gene Alley bases-loaded walk, beats Padres 1-0 in 18th
- 1973 Rangers draft Texas high school pitcher David Clyde #1
- 1974 MLB San Diego Padres draft Brown University shortstop Bill Almon #1
First 5-Wicket Haul
1975 Dennis Lillee takes the first one-day 5-wicket haul, 5-34 against Pakistan in the Cricket World Cup
- 1975 Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public
NBC Nightly News
1976 "NBC Nightly News" changes to a dual-anchor show with John Chancellor and David Brinkley
- 1977 American singer and orange juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against gay rights law in Miami, Florida
God Save the Queen
1977 During the Queen's Jubilee, the Sex Pistols attempt to perform on a boat on the River Thames, but are forced to stop by the police
- 1977 White Sox draft Harold Baines #1
- 1979 52nd National Spelling Bee: Katie Kerwin wins spelling maculature
- 1979 Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched
- 1979 Portugal government of Mota Pinto resigns
Chuck Berry Charged
1979 Rock 'n' Roll singer-songwriter and guitar legend Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion
- 1980 "Cars" by Gary Numan hits #9
- 1980 Jeff Norman runs world record 50k (2:48:06)
- 1981 35th Tony Awards: "Amadeus" (play) & "42nd Street" (musical) win
- 1981 Israeli F-15/F-16 jets destroy an alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility
Sports History
1982 LA Dodger Steve Garvey is 5th to play in 1,000 consecutive games
- 1982 Steve Garvey plays in his 1,000th consecutive game & goes 0-for-4
#1 in the Charts
1986 Madonna's single "Live to Tell" goes #1
- 1986 Pirates draft third baseman Jeff King #1
- 1987 41st Tony Awards: "Fences" (play) and "Les Misérables" (musical) win
- 1987 Andy Van Slyke HRs off R McDowell in both ends of double header
- 1988 Aluminum contaminates Cornwall's water supply
- 1989 23-year-old olympic barefoot South African runner Zola Budd retires
- 1989 Atlanta Fulton County Comm approves $210M stadium for the Falcons
- 1989 First baseball game to start outdoors and end indoors as Toronto Blue Jays' stadium closes roof during game at 8:48 and beat Brewers 4-2
- 1989 For one second this morning, the time is 01:23:45, 6-7-89
- 1989 Suriname SLM-173 (DC-8) crashes near Paramaribo Airport killing 173
- 1990 Michael Jackson enters St. John's Hospital and Health Center, near his home, for chest pains after a dance rehearsal and exercise session
State of Emergency Lifted
1990 South African President F. W. de Klerk lifts 4 year state of emergency
- 1991 Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time
- 1992 NASA's Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) launches
- 1993 American singer Prince celebrates his birthday by changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol
- 1993 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame breaks ground for their museum in Cleveland, Ohio
- 1995 The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines
- 1996 Julia and Noah wed on "All My Children"
- 1997 Russian reconnaissance satellite Cosmos 2344 launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan using a four-stage Proton-K rocket [1]
- 1997 Stanley Cup Final, Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, MI: Detroit Red Wings edge Philadelphia Flyers, 2-1 for a 4-0 series sweep; 8th title in Wings' franchise history and first since 1955
- 1998 52nd Tony Awards: "The Lion King" (musical) and '"Art" (play) win
- 1998 James Byrd, Jr. is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime
- 2001 BP announces that it will build a new $600-million platform offshore Trinidad that is expected to double the company's production of natural gas there by 2004
Election of Interest
2001 Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election
Live Like You Were Dying
2004 "Live Like You Were Dying" single released by Tim McGraw (Grammy Award Best Country Song, 2004; Billboard Song of the Year, 2004)
- 2004 Stanley Cup Final, Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL: Tampa Bay Lightning beat Calgary Flames, 2-1 for 4-3 series win; Tampa Bay's 1st-ever appearance in final
- 2006 British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert
- 2008 Vatnajökull National Park in Iceland formed as second-largest European national park, combining Skaftafell and Jökulsárgljúfur parks and the Vatnajökull ice cap (World Heritage Site 2019) [1]
- 2009 63rd Tony Awards: "Billy Elliot the Musical" (musical) and "God of Carnage" (play) win
Bryce Harper #1 Pick
2010 MLB Draft: Southern Nevada outfielder Bryce Harper first pick by Washington Nationals
Curtain Theatre Found Under a Pub
2012 16th century archaeology remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays first performed found under a pub in London
- 2012 A bus falls into a ravine in La Paz, Bolivia, killing 16 and injuring 32 people
- 2012 Credit rating agency Fitch downgrades Spain's credit rating to BBB in the wake of international bailout speculation
- 2013 18 people are killed and 14 are injured after a bus plunges off a mountain road in Himachel Pradesh, India
- 2013 42 people are killed and 30 are injured after a bus catches fire in Xiamen, China
- 2015 -8 41st G7 summit held in Schloss Elmau, Bavaria
- 2015 69th Tony Awards: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" (play) and "Fun Home" (musical) each win 5 awards
- 2016 "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", a play written by Jack Thorne with JK Rowling, premieres in London
- 2016 Car bomb attack on a police bus in central Istanbul kills 11
Iris Apfel Honored
2016 Iris Apfel is awarded the Women Together Special Award of the Year at the 12th Annual Women Together Gala in New York City
- 2017 Earliest-ever evidence of Homo Sapiens from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, are unearthed by archaeologists published in "Nature," at 300,000 years old
- 2017 Police warn bald men against attacks in Mozambique after 5 men murdered for the gold believed in their heads
Islamic State Attacks Iran
2017 Suicide bombers attack Iranian parliament in Tehran and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini killing 12, 1st Islamic State attacks in Iran
- 2018 Baltimore ex-police sergeant Wayne Earl Jenkins, head of a rogue police unit sentenced to 25 years for robbery and racketeering
- 2018 Mars Curiosity Rover finds organic matter, including methane, on Mars in studies published in journal "Science"
- 2018 Stanley Cup Final, T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, NV: Washington Capitals beat Las Vegas Golden Knights, 4-3 for a 4-1 series victory; first title in franchise history
- 2019 More than four million Venezuelans have left their country since 2015 due to its economic crisis according to the UN
- 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests continue worldwide in large numbers; in Bristol, England, a statue of 17th century slave trader Edward Colston is pulled down
- 2020 COVID-19 global death toll passes 400,000 with confirmed cases at 6,973,195 according to Johns Hopkins figures
- 2020 US National Guard pulled out of Washington D.C. and curfew ends in New York as anti-racism protests stay largely peaceful
- 2021 Auckland named world's most livable city (due to success with COVID) and Damascus named the worst by The Economist Intelligence Unit
- 2021 Multicellular organisms (bdelloid rotifer) frozen for 24,000 years in Siberia to return to life after Russian scientists have them thawed [1]
- 2021 Two passenger trains collide in Pakistan, killing at least 40 people in Sindh province
- 2021 UN International Labor Director says global impact of the pandemic four times worse than 2008 Economic Crisis, pushed 100 million workers into poverty [1]
Harris Visits Guatemala
2021 US Vice President Kamala Harris visiting Guatemala on her first foreign trip, announces task forces on corruption and human trafficking
- 2022 New study reveals Shark Bay sea grass, off Western Australia, may be world's largest plant, covering 77 square miles of sea floor, having cloned itself for 4,500 years [1]
- 2022 “For many countries, recession will be hard to avoid” says World Bank President David Malpass, with prediction world growth in 2022 will slow to 2.9% (down from 5.7%) [1]
- 2023 Britain's Boxford Timber identified as UK's oldest decoratively carved wood at 6,000 years old by radio carbon dating after being found in West Berkshire during house renovations [1]
2023 New York's air quality sinks to the lowest in the world (air quality index 218) as smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets the American north east [1]
2024 At 98, actor and comedian Dick Van Dyke becomes the oldest winner of a Daytime Emmy, for a guest performance in "Days of Our Lives" [1]
Sajak's Final Spin
2024 Pat Sajak’s final appearance on "Wheel of Fortune" after 43 years; the longest continuous stint by a game show host [1]
- 2025 157th Belmont Stakes: Junior Alvarado aboard Sovereignty wins in 2:00.69 at slightly shorter course in Saratoga Springs, New York, due to renovation construction at usual Belmont Park location
Good Night, and Good Luck
2025 George Clooney's stage drama "Good Night, and Good Luck" about journalist Edward R. Murrow's 1950s stand against anti-communist witch hunts is first live broadcast of a Broadway performance, on CNN
National Guard Deployed to California
2025 US President Donald Trump orders deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to southern California to quell protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sweeps in and around Los Angeles [1]
