68 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditus to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging
- 641 Arabic-Islamic army conquers Romans at Alexandria, taking control of Egypt
- 721 Odo of Aquitaine defeats a Umayyad Muslim army at the Battle of Toulouse, halting Arab expansion in Western Europe
Battle of Langensalza
1075 Battle of Langensalza: German King Henry IV defeats the Duchy of Saxony on the River Unstrut near Langensalza in Thuringia
- 1310 Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy
- 1456 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
- 1525 Tax revolt in 's-Hertogenbosch
- 1529 Zurich declares war on Catholic cantons
Cartier Sails the St. Lawrence
1534 French explorer Jacques Cartier is the 1st European to sail into mouth of St Lawrence River
1549 Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England
William Takes Gelderland
1572 William of Orange leads his army into Gelderland and occupies the province during the Dutch Revolt, expanding rebel control in the Low Countries
- 1628 First deportation from what is now the US: Thomas Morton is deported from Massachusetts
- 1650 Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard University, is established as the first legal corporation in the Americas
- 1715 King Philip V unifies the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Aragon into the Kingdom of Spain
- 1720 Sweden and Denmark signs 3rd Treaty of Stockholm
- 1727 Wreck of Dutch ship Zeewijk on the Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia, with the loss of 72 lives, 82 survivors eventually build a boat and sail to Batavia (Jakarta) [1]
- 1732 Royal charter for Georgia granted to British military officer and philanthropist soldier James Oglethorpe
- 1752 French army surrenders to the British in Trichinopoly, India
- 1772 First naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, Rhode Island
- 1772 First Protestant church west of Pennsylvania (in Ohio) holds communion
- 1784 John Carroll appointed supervisor of US Catholic Missions
- 1789 Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver Island
- 1790 First book copyrighted under US Constitution, "The Philadelphia Spelling Book"
Circumnavigation of Australia
1803 British explorer Matthew Flinders arrives in Sydney becoming the first person to circumnavigate Australia, proving it is one continent [1]
- 1815 Congress of Vienna ends after reshaping the political map of Europe
- 1822 Charles Graham of New York patents porcelain false teeth
- 1851 San Francisco Committee of Vigilance forms (1st time)
- 1856 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa, and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah, carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts
- 1860 First US "dime novel" published, "Malaeska, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens
Battle of Port Republic
1862 US Civil War - Battle of Port Republic, last of 5 battles in Stonewall Jackson's Shenandoah Valley campaign, won by the Confederates
- 1863 Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia (Fleetwood, Beverly Ford)
- 1868 First meeting of the Board of Regents of the University of California
Grant Meets Red Cloud
1870 US President Ulysses S. Grant meets with Sioux Chief Red Cloud at The White House in Washington, D.C.
- 1873 Alexandra Palace in London burns down, after being open for only 16 days
- 1890 Comic opera "Robin Hood" by Reginald De Koven, Harry B. Smith, and Clement Scott premieres in Chicago
Gauguin Arrives in Papeete
1891 French painter Paul Gauguin arrives in Papeete, Tahiti
- 1898 Second Convention of Peking leases the "New Territories" of Hong Kong to United Kingdom for 99 years rent-free, expiring on 30 June 1997
Jeffries KOs Fitzsimmons
1899 American boxer James J. Jeffries KOs defending champion Bob Fitzsimmons of England in 11th round in Brooklyn, New York to win the lineal World Heavyweight title
- 1900 In China, Boxers destroy the race course in Peking, a few miles from the legations and the center and symbol of diplomatic social life and Western privilege
- 1901 NY Giants get record 31 hits to beat Cincinnati Reds 25-13
- 1906 Boston Beaneaters (NL) end 19-game losing streak beat Cards 6-3
Edward VII Meets Nicholas II
1908 King Edward VII of Great Britain visits Tsar Nicholas II at Reval, Russia, where the two discuss the growing power of Germany and British plans for reform in Macedonia
- 1909 Alice Huyler Ramsey, 22-year-old housewife from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the 1st woman to drive across the US, in a Maxwell 30, drives 3,800 miles from Manhattan to San Francisco in 59 days
- 1910 A passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard (found June 6, 1983 in Queensland)
- 1914 Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Honus Wagner becomes the second player to reach 3,000 hits
Second Lusitania Note
1915 US President Woodrow Wilson sends second Lusitania note to Germany protesting sinking of the Lusitania and refuting German claim British blockade illegal
- 1919 General steel strike in France
- 1919 Red Army captures Ufa in Russia
- 1922 First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University
- 1923 American cash-carrying company Brink's unveils the first armored security vans
Bulgarian Premier Overthrown
1923 Bulgarian Prime Minister Aleksander Stamboliyski is overthrown in a coup led by the military and supported by Tsar Boris III
- 1924 "Jelly-Roll Blues" is recorded by American jazz pioneer pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton
- 1928 1st US-to-Australia flight lands in Brisbane, captained by Charles Kingford Smith, the four-man crew made stops in Hawaii and Fiji on the approximately 11,566 kilometer (7,187 mile) journey
- 1928 Charles Kingsford-Smith & Charles Ulm are 1st to fly across the Pacific when they end their flight from California to Brisbane
- 1929 Venezuelan rebel Urbina lets Dutch/Curacaose hostages free
Mobsters Murder Tribune Reporter
1930 Chicago Tribune reporter and closet racketeer Jake Lingle is shot at close range and killed at the Illinois Central train station, allegedly over a $100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone; mobster Leo Brothers was convicted of the murder [1]
1st Rocket-Powered Aircraft Patent
1931 First rocket-powered aircraft design patented by Robert Goddard
- 1933 Spanish president Niceto Alcalá-Zamora takes power
- 1933 Walter Johnson takes over as MLB Cleveland Indians manager
- 1934 First appearance of Donald Duck in the cartoon "The Wise Little Hen"
- 1935 Ho-Umezu Agreement: Republic of China, under KMT administration, acknowledges Japanese occupation in Northeast China
- 1941 Archbishop De Young bans priests cooperating with Rijks radio
- 1942 Adipatie Ario Soejono becomes minister without portfolio, in Gerbrandy's Dutch government in exile
- 1942 German-Netherlands press reports 3 million Dutch people are sent to Eastern Europe
Current Tax Payment Act
1943 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Current Tax Payment Act into law, requiring taxes to be withheld from workers' wages and paid directly to the federal government
- 1944 Soviet offensive in Carelia, Finland
- 1945 -10] Australian troops land in Brunei Bay, North Borneo
- 1945 Following an 8-7 win over the Phils, Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher is arrested on a complaint by a fan that Durocher slugged him
- 1945 Warner Bros. cartoon "A Gruesome Twosome" starring Tweety premieres in the US
- 1946 19 guests at Canfield Hotel die in fire (Dubuque, Iowa)
- 1946 66,545 fans help MLB's New York Yankees break one-millionth attendance mark, the earliest in franchise history
King Bhumibol Adulyadej
1946 Bhumibol Adulyadej becomes King of Thailand after the death of his brother King Ananda Mahidol
- 1946 New York Giant Mel Ott becomes first manager in MLB history to be ejected from both games of a doubleheader; Giants lose both games to Pittsburgh Pirates
- 1948 WBZ TV channel 4 in Boston, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1949 Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas becomes 1st woman treasurer of US
- 1951 "Doodles Weaver Show" debuts on NBC-TV
Texaco Star Theater Finale
1953 Milton Berle's TV show "Texaco Star Theater" last airs on NBC-TV
- 1953 South African premier D. F. Malan visits the Netherlands
- 1953 Worcester County tornado kills 94 injures 1310 and leaves 10,000 homeless
Have You No Decency?
1954 Joseph Welch asks US Senator Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" during Senate-Army hearings
- 1955 Temperature reaches 100°F in Seattle, Washington, the then hottest day on record; surpassed in 2009
- 1955 Test Cricket debut of Ken Barrington, v South Africa at Trent Bridge
- 1956 Heavy earthquake strikes Afghanistan, 400 killed
- 1957 First ascent of Broad Peak, the world's 12th highest mountain
Gatwick Airport
1958 HM Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport (LGW) in Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom
- 1958 Novelty song "The Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley hits #1
- 1959 First ballistic missile submarine launched, USS George Washington, in Groton, Connecticut
- 1960 ABC and AFL sign a 5 year contract
Only the Lonely
1960 Roy Orbison releases single "Only the Lonely"; it becomes his 1st major hit - peaking at #2 in the US and topping the UK charts
- 1960 Typhoon Mary in China kills at least 1,600
- 1961 Ryne Duren sets AL record with 7 straight strikeouts against Red Sox
Bennett Debts at Carnegie Hall
1962 American pop and jazz singer Tony Bennett makes his Carnegie Hall concert debut in New York City
- 1962 Warner Bros. "Bill of Hare," starring Bugs Bunny, premieres in the US
- 1963 Barbra Streisand appears, for her third time, on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
- 1963 First Sunday night game in baseball: SF Giants lose to Houston Colts 3-0
- 1964 Lal Bahadur Shastri becomes Prime Minister of India after being selected by the ruling Congress Party after Jawaharlal Nehru passed away
- 1965 Frenchman Michel Jazy runs world record mile in 3:53.6 in Rennes, France
- 1966 Five Minnesota Twins players, Rich Rollins, Zoilo Versalles, Tony Oliva, Don Mincher, and Harmon Killebrew, all homer in the seventh inning to beat the A's 9 to 4
- 1967 Boycott scores 246* v India, Leeds, 573 minutes, 29 fours 1 six
- 1967 Israeli troops reach Suez Canal
- 1967 The Monkees appear at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California
- 1969 Brian Jones leaves the Rolling Stones after developing a serious drug problem
- 1969 Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice
- 1970 Argentine military junta under Juan Carlos Lanusse ousts President Juan Carlos Onganía
- 1970 Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton University
- 1971 Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan
- 1971 Paul McCartney's album "Ram" goes gold
- 1972 14" of rain in 6 hrs bursts dam in Rapid City, South Dakota; 237 people drown
- 1972 Bruce Springsteen signs a record deal with Columbia Records
- 1972 In a show of support for Iraq, OPEC moves to prevent companies whose interests were nationalized in Iraq from increasing production elsewhere
1973 105th Belmont Stakes: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 2:24, becoming the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years
- 1975 Fire in prison hospital at Sanford, Florida, kills 10 prisoners and 1 guard
- 1975 Tony Orlando & Dawn receives gold record for "He Don't Love You"
- 1975 UK House of Commons is broadcast live by radio for first time
- 1977 50th National Spelling Bee: John Paola wins spelling cambist
- 1977 Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain celebrated with fireworks
- 1978 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood
Gutenberg Bible Record
1978 Johannes Gutenberg's Bible, one of 21 complete copies of the first book produced using a printing press, sells for $2.4 million in London
Holmes vs. Norton
1978 Larry Holmes beats Ken Norton in a 15 round split decision at Caesars Palace, Paradise, Nevada for the WBC heavyweight boxing title
- 1979 Michael Cairney topples a record row of 169,713 dominoes
- 1979 MLB Phillies wear all-burgundy alternate uniforms for 1st and (almost) last time in 10-5 loss to Montreal Expos at Veteran's Stadium, Philadelphia; revived 40 years later as part of a "retro night" promotion [1]
- 1980 Comedian Richard Pryor suffers severe burns from free basing cocaine
- 1980 Phillies and SF Giants end their game at 3:11 AM
- 1980 Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth
- 1982 Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley
- 1983 56th National Spelling Bee: Blake Giddens wins spelling purim
Thatcher Reelected
1983 Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party wins reelection in the British parliamentary election
- 1983 Zimbabwe win their 1st one-day cricket international, v Australia
- 1984 "Laserphonic Fantasy" light show premieres at Epcot
Time After Time Hits #1
1984 Cyndi Lauper gets her first US #1 hit with "Time After Time"
- 1984 Donald Duck's 50th birthday celebrated at Disneyland
- 1984 Jurgen Hingsen of West Germany sets record for decathlon, 8,798 pts
- 1984 NASA suffers a launch vehicle failure launching Intelsat 509
- 1984 Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD
- 1985 American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped & held hostage in Lebanon
- 1985 USSR's Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus
- 1986 Dow Jones Industrial Average hits record 1,885.90 points
- 1986 In a clash of future Baseball Hall of Fame starting pitchers California Angel Don Sutton (298 wins) beats Tom Seaver of the Chicago White Sox (306 wins), 3-0 at Comiskey Park
- 1986 Rogers Comm report on Challenger disaster blames Morton Thiokol
Meese Deports Doherty
1988 US Attorney General Edwin Meese overrules the Board of Immigration Appeals and orders Provisional Irish Republican Army member Joseph Doherty deported to the United Kingdom
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
1989 "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier", directed by William Shatner and starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, premieres in America
- 1989 Rare tornado in Philadelphia kills 1
- 1990 Dodgers' Eddie Murray ties Mickey Mantle for home runs by a switch-hitter in 10 games
- 1990 Michael Jackson is hospitalized with inflamed rib cartilage, in California
Red Hot + Blue
1990 Red Hot Organization releases music album "Red Hot + Blue" featuring contemporary pop stars (including U2; Annie Lennox; Thompson Twins; Sinéad O'Connor; Tom Waits) performing songs of Cole Porter to raise awareness and money to fight AIDS/HIV
- 1991 Jack La Lanne, 76, arrested for suspicion of DWI
- 1993 "Ce que femme veut", directed by Gérard Jumel and starring Karin Viard and Caroline Chaniolleau, premieres in France
- 1993 "Tout capour ca!", directed by Claude Lelouch and starring Francis Huster and Fabrice Luchini, premieres in France
- 1993 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Canadiens beat LA Kings, 4-1 for a 4-1 series win; Canadiens franchise's 24th Stanley Cup Championship
- 1993 Tickets for Indians 1st season in Jacobs Field go on sale
- 1994 5.6 earthquake strikes southern Mexico
- 1994 Angolan plane bombs school in Waku Kungo (89 killed)
- 1995 "Congo", directed by Frank Marshall and starring Laura Linney and Tim Curry, premieres in America
Abubakar Takes Power
1998 Abdulsalami Abubakar succeeds Sani Abacha as military President of Nigeria
- 1999 Yugoslavia and NATO sign the Kumanovo Agreement, a peace treaty ending the Kosovo War
- 2001 Stanley Cup Final, Pepsi Center, Denver, CO: Colorado Avalanche beat defending champion New Jersey Devils, 3-1 for 4-3 series win; Avalanche 2nd title
- 2003 Stanley Cup Final, Meadowlands Arena, East Rutherford, NJ: New Jersey Devils beat Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, 3-0 for 4-3 series win
- 2006 King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand celebrates the first of three national holidays commemorating his 60 years on the throne
- 2007 Stacy Lewis earns medalist honors at the Garland, Texas, sectional to qualify for the US Women's Open
- 2009 Brazil officially enters recession
- 2010 Finland falls back into a state of recession after GDP contracted 0.4% in Q1 2010 and 0.2% in Q4 2009
- 2010 Hungary comes out of recession after experiencing 0.9% growth in the first quarter as a result of growing exports and effective government spending measures
2010 Patrick Kane scores the Stanley Cup-winning goal for the Chicago Blackhawks against the Philadelphia Flyers in overtime
- 2010 Stanley Cup Final, Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA: Chicago Blackhawks edge Philadelphia Flyers, 4-3 in OT for a 4-2 series win; first Championship for Chicago since 1961
- 2011 Boston University's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy announces agreement to examine brains of recently deceased San Francisco 49ers football players Joe Perry and John Henry Johnson for signs of injury [1]
- 2012 Burma (Myanmar) riots kill 20 people and burn down 300 houses
- 2012 It is announced that up to $125 million dollars in loans will be given to aid Spain's struggling banks
- 2013 67th Tony Awards: "Kinky Boots" (musical) & "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" (play) win
Tony Awards
2013 67th Tony Awards: Cicely Tyson wins Best Actress for her performance as Miss Carrie Watts in "The Trip to Bountiful"
Snowden Reveals Himself
2013 Edward Snowden publicly makes his identity known as the leaker of NSA documents
Cox Makes History
2014 Laverne Cox becomes the first transgender person to appear on the cover of Time magazine
- 2015 Chris Heston of the San Francisco Giants becomes first pitcher to throw a no-hitter in the 2015 MLB season; blanks New York Mets, 5-0
- 2016 MLB Draft: Philadelphia Phillies select La Costa Canyon HS (CA) shortstop Mickey Moniak at #1
- 2016 Successful attempts to turn CO2 gases into stone underground in Iceland published in the journal "Science"
- 2016 World Health Organzsation advises delaying pregnancy in areas with the Zika virus
- 2017 Tennis player Venus Williams is involved in a car accident that leads to death of another passenger in Palm Beach, Florida; police later clear her of fault
- 2019 1st UEFA Nations League Final, Porto: Guedes scores as Portugal win inaugural tournament final, 1-0 over the Netherlands
Tony Awards
2019 73rd Tony Awards: "Hadestown" best musical, "The Ferryman" best play, Bryan Cranston and Elaine May win
- 2019 95 people killed in attack on Dogon village Sobame Da in central Mali by suspected Fulani group
- 2019 Ali Stroker becomes the first actress in a wheelchair to win a Tony award for musical "Oklahoma!"
- 2019 Former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz shot while visiting in his native Dominican Republic
- 2019 General strike begins in Khartoum, Sudan, as a protest against ruling military generals by the Sudanese Professionals Association
- 2019 Over 1 million people protest in Hong Kong against proposed new laws for extradition to China in one of the largest-ever protests in the city
- 2020 US Senate unanimously confirms General Charles Q. Brown (58) as Air Force Chief of Staff, 1st African American to lead a US armed forces branch
- 2021 One of the worst ever plagues of mice in New South Wales, Australia, prompts local government to commit $100 million in support to farmers [1] [2]
- 2021 Record price for a coin sold at auction as 1933 'Double Eagle' gold coin sells for $18.9 million in New York
Biden's First Foreign Trip
2021 US President Joe Biden begins his first foreign trip, arriving in the UK to attend a G7 summit
- 2022 Conjoined twins with a fused brain successfully separated with help of virtual reality in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [1]
- 2022 Controversial Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series gets underway at the Centurion Club, Hertfordshire; PGA suspends 17 participating players
- 2022 First public hearings of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack held in Washington D.C
- 2022 NASA announces it will begin research into UFOs, focusing on unidentified aerial phenomena (U.A.P.s) [1]
- 2022 Thailand is the first South-East Asian country to legalize the growing and selling of cannabis (recreational use still banned) [1]
- 2022 Two people are rescued after falling into a tank of chocolate at Mars M&M factory in Pennsylvania [1]
Boris Resigns as an MP
2023 Former UK PM Boris Johnson resigns as an MP accusing government Committee of trying to “drive me out,” ahead of their report investigating if he misled the government over lockdown parties [1]
- 2023 Four Colombian children are found safe after surviving 40 days in the Colombian jungle after their plane crashed killing the three adults on board [1]
Modi's Second Term
2024 Narendra Modi is sworn in as only the second third-term Prime Minister of India at the head of a BJP-led coalition government at a ceremony in Delhi [1]
Freedom Flotilla Seized
2025 Freedom Flotilla Madleen carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza is seized by the Israeli Navy, and volunteers, including Greta Thunberg, are detained in Israel [1]
- 2025 US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth deploys 700 US Marines to protect National Guard troops in southern California who were sent to quell protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sweeps in and around Los Angeles [1]
