Month: June 2024

833 – Louis crowned King of Austria
1741 – Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms
1881 – Henry Highland Garnet named US minister to Liberia
1909 – Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to a no decision in 6 rounds at Duquesne Gardens, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to retain his heavyweight boxing title
1911 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal St George’s Golf Club: Harry Vardon wins his 5th Championship by 10 shots in a playoff with 1907 champion Arnaud Massy of France
1934 – Detroit radio executive George Richards pays $7,952.08 to buy NFL’s Portsmouth Spartans; moves team to Detroit and rebrands it to ‘Lions’
1968 – East German Communist Party leader Walter Ulbricht receives “Order of October Revolution”
1981 – China’s Communist Party condemns late Mao Zedong’s policy
1993 – Richard Jacobs announces Chief Wahoo will go to Jacobs Field
2018 – Two members of the public confirmed poisoned by Novichok nerve agent, a women later dies, in Wiltshire, England; authorities suspect source was left over poison from the attack on former Russian spies Sergei Skripal and his daughter

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1529 – Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Pope Clement VII sign the Treaty of Barcelona to bring peace to Italy and to repel Turkish advances
1863 – Battle at Westminster or Corbitt’s Charge, Maryland: small unit of Delaware cavalry charge Confederate cavalry numbering nearly 6,000, crucially delaying their arrival at Gettysburg
1929 – 31.1°C (88°F) highest temperature on this day in De Bilt, Netherlands
1961 – The International Labour Organisation (ILO) calls for South Africa’s withdrawal at the Geneva Conference in protest of the racial policies of the South African government
1969 – On ‘Billy Williams Day’ at Wrigley Field, Chicago, the Cubs outfielder passes Stan Musial’s NL record for consecutive MLB games played (896) as Chicago sweeps St. Louis Cardinals, 3-1 and 12-1
1972 – Supreme Court rules (5-4) that death penalty is cruel and unusual
1990 – World’s first female diocesan Anglican bishop, Dr Penny Jamieson, appointed in New Zealand
1991 – With a world ranking of 591, Englishman Nick Brown upsets 10th-seeded (and 2001 champion) Goran Ivanišević 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 in the 2nd round at Wimbledon
2003 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Inverness Club: Bruce Lietzke wins by 2 strokes from Tom Watson
2017 – Mihai Tudose confirmed as Romanian Prime Minister, by parliament, succeeding Sorin Grindeanu

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1865 – The Army of the Potomac is disbanded
1902 – Germany, Italy, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire renew their Triple Alliance for six more years
1941 – German and Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev
1950 – North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea in opening phase of the Korean War
1958 – American swimmer Nancy Ramey sets world record for 100m butterfly in 1:09.6 in Los Angeles, California
2000 – Cuban exile Elián González returns to Cuba following a Supreme Court order.
2002 – Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Coldplay, and Rod Stewart headline; other performers include Roger Waters, Isaac Hayes, Ani DiFranco, The Charletons, and The White Stripes
2013 – Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole’s final “Sportscentre” broadcast on TSN
2015 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Del Paso CC: Jeff Maggert shoots final round 65 (-5) to win by 2 strokes from defending champion Colin Montgomerie of Scotland
2020 – COVID-19 cases surge in southern and western US states with California, Texas and Florida closing bars, Arizona reports 20% of tests returning as positive

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1746 – Flora MacDonald helps Bonnie Prince Charlie, disguised as Betty Burke an Irish maid, evade capture by landing him on the Isle of Skye
1922 – Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)
1956 – Indians trailing Orioles 9-1 come back to win 12-11 in 11 innings
1960 – Oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied opens
1966 – Dark Shadows, American Gothic soap opera, premieres on ABC-TV
1986 – South African Journalist and founder of the ‘New Nation’ newspaper, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted; he was released 721 days later on 2 December 1988
1988 – Reds bat out of order against Padres in 1st inning
1995 – Holland’s debut in English domestic comp (v Northants, NatWest)
2007 – The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
2008 – Bill Gates steps down as Chairman of Microsoft Corporation to work full time for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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1243 – Battle of Köse Dağ: Mongols under Baiju defeat Seljuk army of Sultan Kaykhusraw II during Mongol attacks in north east Turkey
1553 – Christ’s Hospital in London, England, granted a charter by King Edward VI to house and teach children of the poor
1910 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Defending champion Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman beats Louise Hammond 6-4, 6-2
1924 – Theatrical revue “Ziegfeld Follies of 1924”, featuring Billie Burke and W.C. Fields, opens at the New Amsterdam Theatre, NYC
1946 – Dutch Nazi collaborator Arnold Meijer sentenced to 5 years
2012 – Police procedural drama “Line of Duty” debuts on BBC 2 in the UK
2013 – Kevin Rudd defeats Julia Gillard in a leadership battle to become Australian Prime Minister
2015 – US Supreme Court rules 5-4 same-sex marriage is a legal right across all US states
2017 – Brazilian state prosecutors file corruption charges against President Michel Temer
2018 – Polio outbreak confirmed in New Guinea by WHO, 18 years after it was declared free of the disease

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1900 – Russia mobilizes its army in eastern Siberia preparatory to acting against the Chinese, but also in an attempt to diminish the influence of Japan on the Asian mainland
1920 – League of Nations places Internationall Court of Justice in Hague
1943 – Crematorium 3 at Birkenau is finished
1955 – “Can Can” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 892 performances
1961 – Iraq Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim demands dominion over Kuwait and the end of the British protectorate
1961 – Baltimore and California use a record 16 pitchers in a game (8 each) in 14 inns
1961 – Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)
1993 – Parliamentary election in Morocco
1996 – Jay-Z releases his debut studio album “Beyond Reasonable Doubt” with Roc-A-Fella Records and Priority Records
2018 – Oakland pitcher Edwin Jackson takes the mound in a 5-4 win at Detroit; A’s are his 13th MLB club, tying Octavio Dotel’s record

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1396 – Crusaders under Earl of Nevers reach Vienna
1664 – Colony of New Jersey founded when Duke of York grants Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret ownership of land between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers
1692 – Kingston, Jamaica, founded after Port Royal at mouth of the harbour destroyed by an earthquake
1750 – Jesuit priest hold first mass in The Little Chapel in Tadoussac, New France (built 1747, now the oldest surviving church in North America)
1843 – Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside a ghetto in Italy
1900 – Dutch Social-Democratic Workers’ party and Socialistenbond merge
1953 – KSWS (now KOBR) TV channel 8 in Roswell, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting
1974 – India is dismissed for 42 in 17 overs in 2nd Test defeat to England at Lord’s; lowest total in country’s Test cricket history; Chris Old 5-21, Geoff Arnold 4-19
1986 – Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
1989 – Jiang Zemin appointed the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

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1908 – The USA suspends diplomatic relationships with Venezuela after the refusal of Cipriano Castro’s government to compensate Americans for injuries suffered in the uprising of 1899
1932 – St Louis Browns beat NY Yankees, 14-10; Lou Gehrig’s 1,103rd consecutive game in a Yankees uniform, equaling Joe Sewell’s record with one team (Cleveland Indians)
1938 – Marineland opens in Florida-1st aquarium
1967 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin hold 1st of 2 summit meetings in Glassboro, New Jersey (about halfway between NYC and Washington, DC)
1967 – Jim Ryun sets mile record (3:51.1, Bakersfield CA)
1983 – US Supreme Court ruled Congress could not veto presidential decisions
2013 – India defeats England to win the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy in cricket
2014 – Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is re-elected President of Mauritania
2014 – Claude Monet’s Water Lilies is sold at auction for US$54 million
2019 – Ashleigh Barty becomes first Australian female in 42 years (since Evonne Goolagong Cawley) to attain world #1 tennis ranking when she beats Julia Görges 6-3, 7-5 at the Birmingham Classic

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1596 – Cornelis de Houtman’s Dutch fleet reaches Bantam (Banten), Java
1679 – Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scots
1745 – Bonnie Prince Charles sails to Scotland
1955 – US air patrol plane shot down above Bering sea
1973 – 23rd Berlin International Film Festival: “Distant Thunder” wins the Golden Bear
1991 – “I Hate Hamlet” closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 88 performances
1991 – Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in the Philippines
2013 – Roskilde 6, world’s longest Viking longship (37 meters/123 ft) rediscovered 1996, probably part of King Canute’s royal fleet (built 1025 AD) goes on display for the first time at National Museum in Copenhagen
2020 – New York City, once the epicentre of the pandemic in America, begins stage 2 of re-opening, allowing outdoor dinning and some in-store shopping
2021 – Unesco says Australia’s Great Barrier Reef should be put on list of World Heritage Sites that are “in danger”

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