Today's Events in History

1997
U.S. Senior Golf Open ends at Olympia Fields Golf Club Illinois
1995
Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis
1995
Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars in their 1st NFL exhibition game 20-14
1994
200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin
1994
Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8 year jail sentenced
1994
H Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary election
1994
India army kills 27 Moslem militants
1994
Parliamentary election in Aruba
1993
Cincinnati Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession
1993
Walter Koenig, Checkov-Star Trek, suffers a mild heart attack
1993
Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible
1992
"Chinese Coffee" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 18 performances
1992
Evgueni Sadovyi swims world record/OR 400m freestyle (3:45.00)
1992
Ray Sharkey, actor, Wiseguys, arrested for narcotic possession
1991
1st Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium, Mets beat Cubs 6-0
1991
Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7 caret engagement ring
1991
Yankee Stadium fans throw cups and blowup dolls at Jose Canseco
1990
26th Curtis Cup: U.S. wins 14-4
1990
28th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats U.S.S.R. in Atlanta Georgia (2-1)
1990
36th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Beth Daniel
1990
Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game
1990
South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference
1989
Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in San Juan
1989
Phillies retire Steve Carlton's # 32
1989
Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases
1989
White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher and Sam Sosa
1988
FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion
1988
Gorbachev pushes plan electing president and parliament in March, 1989
1988
Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit
1988
Last U.S. Playboy Club, Lansing, Michigan, closes
1988
South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"
1988
Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson and Curt Schilling
1988
Rick Sutcliffe swipes home, 1st pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to steal home
1987
Ben and Jerry's and Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia
1986
Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed
1986
Dennis Amiss scores his 100th 100, Warwickshire vs. Lancashire
1986
New York jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages
1985
19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched
1984
12th du Maurier Golf Classic: Juli Inkster
1984
23rd Summer Olympics opens in Los Angeles
1983
"Friday Night Videos" premieres on NBC TV
1983
Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
1982
Andy Taylor of rock group Duran Duran weds Tracie Wilson
1981
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated
1981
Iran ex-president Bani Sadr flees to Paris
1981
Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diane Spencer
1979
7th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Amy Alcott
1978
600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, New York
1978
Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h 40m
1978
Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn and its rings
1978
On Old Timer's Day, New York Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as New York Yankee manager in 1980 and Bob Lemon will become General Manager
1976
U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test
1975
Ford became 1st U.S. President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
1975
Military coup by General Mohammed/President Jakubu Gowon fired
1974
2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee
1974
Episcopal Church ordained female priests
1974
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1974
St. Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base
1973
$180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from New York, Hilton
1973
Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy
1972
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1970
6 days of race rioting in Hartford, Connecticut
1969
Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
1968
Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1
1968
Gram Parson refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa
1968
Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
1968
Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited
1968
Washington D.C. Ron Hansen makes unassisted triple play vs. Cleveland
1967
Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134
1967
Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas Venezuela causing severe damage
1966
Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock New York
1966
Nigerians chief of staff Jakubu Gowon makes coup
1965
Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends
1965
Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s
1965
Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10)
1965
U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1961
Bob Dylan injured in car accident
1961
Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games
1961
Wallis and Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory
1958
President Eisenhower signs NASA and Space Act of 1958
1958
Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running
1957
Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1957
International Atomic Energy Agency formed by U.N.
1957
Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres
1956
11th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Cornelius
1956
Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)
1956
WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, Florida (IND) begins broadcasting
1955
Smokey Burgess hits 3 home runs to help Pirates beat Reds 16-5
1955
U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test
1953
U.S. bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok
1952
1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
1950
Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run
1949
Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends
1949
BBC radio begins broadcasting
1948
King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London
1947
Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg, Virginia
1945
After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine
1944
Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours
1944
Frank McCormick (Reds) HR off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH
1944
U.S. 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches
1943
1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg
1943
Nazi's evacuate Hollandsche Theater in Amsterdam
1942
Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd
1940
Urk soccer team forms
1938
Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears
1938
Olympic National Park forms
1937
Japanese troops occupies Peking and Tientsin
1936
RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show and monologue from Tobacco Road and comedy)
1934
17th PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Park CC Williamsville NY
1930
115 degrees F (46 degrees C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record)
1930
Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada
1929
Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France
1928
Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
1928
Cleveland Indians score 17 in 1st 2 inns to beat Yankees 24-6 at Dunn Field they also set a record with 24 singles in 1 game
1927
1st iron lung installed, Bellevue hospital, New York
1927
Bellevue Hospital in New York installs 1st iron lung
1927
Phil Mead scores his 100th 100, Hampshire vs. Northants
1924
Paul Runyan wins PGA golf championship
1923
Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin
1923
KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany
1921
Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration: Cy Young, 54, pitches 2 inn
1921
New rules of language assumed, equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium
1920
1st transcontinental airmail flight from New York to SF
1920
Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders
1916
Postal check and Girodienst establishes
1915
Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam HR
1914
1st transcontinental phone link made between New York City and SF
1914
Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade
1914
British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover
1914
Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary
1913
Albania becomes sovereignty under prince Wilhelm von Wied
1911
Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St. Louis Browns, 5-0
1910
JWEL Hilgers is 1st Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory
1908
St. Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Philadelphia Athletics
1907
Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England
1902
Union of Orthodox Rabbis of U.S. and Canada forms
1899
1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, New York
1899
Southern California Golf Association forms
1874
Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court
1864
3rd and last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
1864
Battle of Macon, Georgia (Stoneman's Raid)
1858
1st commercial treaty between U.S. and Japan signed
1858
U.S. citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan
1844
New York Yacht Club forms
1786
1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette
1783
Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000
1773
1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH
1751
1st international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M Petit of France in 29 minutes in England
1715
10 Spanish treasure galleons sinks off Florida coast by hurricane
1696
French king Louis XIV and Victor Amadeua van Savoye signs peace
1693
Battle at Neerwinden: French beats English/Dutch army
1676
Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians
1655
Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam
1634
Dutch fleet under Johannes van Walbeeck lands on Curacao
1588
Attacking Spanish Armada defeated and scattered by English defenders
1588
Duke Farneses troops ready for invasion of England
1585
Friese academy opens
1579
Antwerp request union with of Utrecht
1579
King Philip II arrests plotters Antonio Perez and princess van Eboli
1565
Mary Queen of Scots marries her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
1563
League of High Nobles routes King Philip II
1560
Turkish fleet recaptures Djerba on Spanjaarden
1179
Lando Sittino proclaimed (anti-)pope Innocent III
1030
Battle at Stiklestad (Trondheim)
1014
Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies
626
Avaren/Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople
362
Emperor Julianus of Constantinople ends education laws

Holidays and observances
Faroe Islands – Ólavsøka: opening of the Løgting session.
National Anthem Day in Romania.
Roman Catholicism
Saint Eugenius, king [Magdeburg]
Saint Felix I, pope, and companions (Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix, (siblings)), martyrs [common]
Saint Ladislas, king, confessor (Deposition) [Hungary]
Saint Lupus, bishop of Troyes, confessor [Cologne, Constance, Metz, Paris, France]
Saint Olaf II of Norway, king of Norway, martyr, patron of woodcarvers [Sleswig, Scandinavia] – celebrated in Norway as Olsok (St. Olav's Day)
Saint Pantaleon [Paris]
Saint Beatrice of Nazareth
Saint Martha, host of Christ, sister of Lazarus, patron saint of cooks, domestic staff and dieticians [common]
Saint Serafina