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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1.6.1283 | Albrecht I van Habsburg becomes ruler of Austrian/Bull market |
| 1.6.1459 | Pope Pius II opens congress of Mantua |
| 1.6.1495 | "1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller" |
| 1.6.1526 | Parliament of Spiers: Lutheran monarchy freed of their belief |
| 1.6.1533 | Anna Boleyn crowned queen of England |
| 1.6.1562 | Emperor Ferdinand and Sultan Suleiman signs treaty |
| 1.6.1568 | Duke van Alva beheads 18 nobles in Brussels |
| 1.6.1608 | Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-govt |
| 1.6.1638 | "1st earthquake recorded in U.S., at Plymouth, Mass" |
| 1.6.1641 | France and Portugal sign anti-Spanish covenant |
| 1.6.1649 | Czar Aleksei throws out English merchants from Moscow |
| 1.6.1657 | 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (New York) |
| 1.6.1670 | Engl king Charles II and Fr king Louis XIV sign anti-Dutch treaty |
| 1.6.1679 | Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scottish |
| 1.6.1746 | French troops conquer Antwerp |
| 1.6.1774 | Boston Port Bill: British government orders Port of Boston closed |
| 1.6.1789 | 1st U.S. congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths) |
| 1.6.1792 | Kentucky admitted as 15th U.S. state |
| 1.6.1794 | English fleet under Richard Earl Howe defeats French |
| 1.6.1796 | Last of Britain's troops withdraws from U.S. |
| 1.6.1796 | Tennessee admitted as 16th U.S. state |
| 1.6.1808 | "1st U.S. land-grant university founded at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio" |
| 1.6.1809 | "Allardyce Barclay begins a bet of walking 1 mile every hour for 1,000 hours. Each hour he walked a mile round trip from his home" |
| 1.6.1813 | "Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto ""Don't give up the ship""" |
| 1.6.1834 | "HMS Beagle for anchor in Port Famine, Magallanes Street" |
| 1.6.1835 | 6th national black convention (Phila) |
| 1.6.1836 | Charles Darwin returns to Capetown |
| 1.6.1843 | It snows in Buffalo and Rochester New York and Cleveland Ohio |
| 1.6.1843 | Sojourner Truth leaves New York to begin her career as antislavery activist |
| 1.6.1845 | "Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days" |
| 1.6.1855 | "U.S. adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery" |
| 1.6.1861 | "1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Virginia" |
| 1.6.1861 | British territorial waters and ports off-limits during Civil War |
| 1.6.1861 | "Skirmish at Arlington Mills, Virginia" |
| 1.6.1861 | U.S. and Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange |
| 1.6.1862 | "2nd/last day of battle at Fair Oaks/7 Pines Virginia (11,165 casualties)" |
| 1.6.1862 | Gen Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines |
| 1.6.1862 | Slavery abolished in all U.S. possessions |
| 1.6.1864 | "Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm)" |
| 1.6.1864 | Confederate cruiser The Georgia sold to The English |
| 1.6.1866 | General Dutch Typographer Union forms |
| 1.6.1866 | "Renegade Irish Fenians invade Ft. Erie, Ontario from U.S." |
| 1.6.1868 | Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin |
| 1.6.1869 | Voting machine patented by Thomas A. Edison |
| 1.6.1872 | 6th Belmont: James Roe aboard Joe Daniels wins in 2:58 |
| 1.6.1877 | Society of American Artists forms |
| 1.6.1877 | U.S. troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico |
| 1.6.1880 | 1st pay telephone installed |
| 1.6.1880 | "U.S. census at 50,155,783" |
| 1.6.1881 | Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange |
| 1.6.1888 | California gets its 1st seismograph |
| 1.6.1890 | "U.S. census at 62,622,250" |
| 1.6.1893 | "Opera ""Falstaff"" is produced (Berlin)" |
| 1.6.1898 | Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha |
| 1.6.1899 | Cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes and Victor Trumper in Grace's last |
| 1.6.1900 | British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa |
| 1.6.1902 | Blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms |
| 1.6.1905 | "Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon" |
| 1.6.1907 | "-27 degrees F (-33 degrees C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)" |
| 1.6.1908 | "John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of U.S., which took 357 days" |
| 1.6.1909 | Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle |
| 1.6.1910 | South Carolina Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede |
| 1.6.1911 | "1st U.S. group insurance policy written, Passaic, New Jersey" |
| 1.6.1912 | Stormvogels soccer team forms in Ijmuiden |
| 1.6.1914 | "Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km)" |
| 1.6.1915 | 1st Zeppelin air raid over England |
| 1.6.1916 | "German attack on Fort Vaux, Verdun" |
| 1.6.1917 | Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WW I |
| 1.6.1918 | Excelsior Maassluis soccer team forms in Maassluis |
| 1.6.1918 | "White Sox losing 5-4 against New York Yankees, load the bases in 9th with no outs Chick Gandil lines to Frank Baker who turns a triple play" |
| 1.6.1919 | Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden |
| 1.6.1920 | RKSV Volendam soccer team forms in Volendam |
| 1.6.1921 | "Race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 61 people killed" |
| 1.6.1923 | "New York Giants beat Phillies, 22-5, Giants score in every inning" |
| 1.6.1925 | Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp (1st of record 2130 consec games) |
| 1.6.1926 | Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland |
| 1.6.1930 | 6th French Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats Bill Tilden (36 86 63 61) |
| 1.6.1930 | 6th French Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (62 61) |
| 1.6.1930 | Alphense Boys soccer team forms in Alphen on Rhine |
| 1.6.1930 | "Bradman scores cricket 191 Australia vs. Hampshire, 240 mins, 26 fours" |
| 1.6.1931 | Rozenburg soccer team forms in Rozenburg |
| 1.6.1932 | Lunteren soccer team forms in Lunteren |
| 1.6.1933 | Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago |
| 1.6.1933 | Charlie Chaplin weds Paulette Goddard |
| 1.6.1934 | AFC '34 soccer team forms in Alkmaar |
| 1.6.1935 | Driving test and license plates introduced in England |
| 1.6.1935 | Yanks set solo HR record with 6 beat Boston 7-2 |
| 1.6.1936 | """Lux Radio Theater"" moved from New York City to Hollywood" |
| 1.6.1936 | "Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in New York" |
| 1.6.1937 | "Chicago White Sox Bill Dietrich no-hits St. Louis Browns, 8-0" |
| 1.6.1937 | Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier |
| 1.6.1938 | Protective baseball helmets 1st worn by batters |
| 1.6.1938 | Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1 |
| 1.6.1939 | "1st boxing match to be televised, Lon Nova defeats Max Baer" |
| 1.6.1939 | "1st night game at Phil's Shribe Park (Pirates 5, Phillies 2)" |
| 1.6.1939 | "British sub ""Thetis"" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard" |
| 1.6.1939 | Retired German Col-gen Gerd von Runstedt returns to service |
| 1.6.1940 | Coffee and tea rationed in Holland |
| 1.6.1940 | Gen-mjr Bernard Montgomery returns to London |
| 1.6.1940 | Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard |
| 1.6.1941 | "12.59"" (31.98 cm) rainfall, Burlington Kansas (state 24-hr record)" |
| 1.6.1941 | British troops occupy Bagdad Iraq |
| 1.6.1941 | Germany bans all Catholic publications |
| 1.6.1941 | Germany occupies Kreta |
| 1.6.1941 | "New York Giant Mel Ott hits his 400th HR and his 1,500th RBI" |
| 1.6.1943 | "Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die" |
| 1.6.1943 | Pirates Rip Sewell 1st throws his dew-drop (eephus) ball in a game |
| 1.6.1944 | Gen Montgomery/Patton/Bradley/Dempsey/Crerar meet in Portsmouth |
| 1.6.1944 | Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots |
| 1.6.1945 | WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minnesota changes call letters to KUOM |
| 1.6.1946 | 78th Belmont: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:30.8 |
| 1.6.1946 | Spijkenisse soccer team forms in Spijkenisse |
| 1.6.1947 | "OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands" |
| 1.6.1947 | Photosensitive glass developed |
| 1.6.1948 | Israel and Arabs agree to a cease fire |
| 1.6.1949 | 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek) |
| 1.6.1949 | British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence |
| 1.6.1949 | "KSL TV channel 5 in Salt Lake City, UT (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.6.1949 | Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz wed for the second time |
| 1.6.1949 | "Microfilm copies of ""Newsweek"" magazine 1st offered" |
| 1.6.1950 | "WKZO (now WWMT) TV channel 3 in Kalamazoo, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast" |
| 1.6.1951 | 1st self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada) |
| 1.6.1951 | International Cheese treaty signed |
| 1.6.1952 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cross Country Weathervane Golf Tournament |
| 1.6.1952 | "Catholic church puts Andre Gides ""Labor"" on the index" |
| 1.6.1953 | "KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno, California (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.6.1953 | "WDAY TV channel 6 in Fargo, ND (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.6.1954 | "Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile: (27:59.2)/10,000m (28:54.2)" |
| 1.6.1955 | Habib Bourguiba ends exile from Tunisia |
| 1.6.1957 | 1st U.S. runner breaks 4 minute mile (Don Bowden) |
| 1.6.1958 | Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election |
| 1.6.1958 | Charles de Gaulle elected premier of France |
| 1.6.1958 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Gatlinburg Golf Open |
| 1.6.1959 | 2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from 1959 Little League competition for using players outside predetermined geographical area |
| 1.6.1959 | Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day) |
| 1.6.1960 | """Finian's Rainbow"" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 12 performances" |
| 1.6.1960 | "WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, WV (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.6.1961 | FM multiplex stereo broadcasting 1st heard |
| 1.6.1962 | Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit |
| 1.6.1962 | Roda JC soccer team reforms in Kerkrade |
| 1.6.1962 | "USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m" |
| 1.6.1963 | """El Watusi"" by Ray Barreto hits #17" |
| 1.6.1963 | Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st premier of Kenya |
| 1.6.1963 | "King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, becomes Emperor of Ethiopia" |
| 1.6.1965 | A Penzias and R Wilson detect 3 degrees K primordial background radiation |
| 1.6.1965 | coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236 |
| 1.6.1966 | "2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights" |
| 1.6.1966 | George Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London |
| 1.6.1966 | Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic |
| 1.6.1966 | Shortwave station Radio New York Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW |
| 1.6.1967 | Beatles release Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in U.S. and goes gold |
| 1.6.1967 | "Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, D.C." |
| 1.6.1968 | 100th Belmont: Gus Gustines aboard Stage Door Johnny wins in 2:27.2 |
| 1.6.1968 | "Simon and Garfunkel's ""Mrs Robinson"" hits #1" |
| 1.6.1969 | Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio and TV |
| 1.6.1970 | "Com Bowie Kuhn reprimands Astro Jim Bouton for writing ""Ball Four""" |
| 1.6.1970 | """Everything Is Beautiful"" by Ray Stevens hits #1" |
| 1.6.1970 | Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days |
| 1.6.1970 | Tigers Al Kaline collides with another player and swallows his tongue |
| 1.6.1971 | Ed Sullivan's final TV show on CBS |
| 1.6.1971 | """You're a Good Man Charlie Brown"" opens at Golden New York City for 31 performances" |
| 1.6.1972 | "Dmitri Shostakovitch's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin" |
| 1.6.1972 | Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa |
| 1.6.1972 | West German police arrest RAF-leader Andreas Baader |
| 1.6.1973 | "George Harrison's ""Living in the Material World"" goes gold" |
| 1.6.1973 | "Greek President Papadopoulos asks for ""parliamentary presidential republic""" |
| 1.6.1973 | "Paul McCartney and Wings release ""Live and Let Die""" |
| 1.6.1974 | Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 29 in UK |
| 1.6.1974 | """My Girl Bill"" by Jim Stafford hits #12" |
| 1.6.1975 | 21st LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth |
| 1.6.1975 | "California Angel Nolan Ryan 4th no-hitter beats Baltimore Orioles, 1-0" |
| 1.6.1975 | Cars in Netherlands must have seatbelts |
| 1.6.1975 | """Chicago"" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 947 performances" |
| 1.6.1975 | Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist |
| 1.6.1977 | British Virgin Islands adopts constitution |
| 1.6.1977 | Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason |
| 1.6.1977 | South Carolina Heerenveen soccer team forms in Heerenveen |
| 1.6.1978 | "Cricket Test debut of David Gower, vs. Pakistan, Edgbaston, scores 58" |
| 1.6.1978 | High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten |
| 1.6.1979 | "33rd NBA Championship: Sea Supersonics beat Washington Bullets, 4 games to 1" |
| 1.6.1979 | Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier |
| 1.6.1979 | "Ted Coombs began a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to New York City" |
| 1.6.1979 | "Wings release ""Old Siam, Sir""" |
| 1.6.1980 | "1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network" |
| 1.6.1980 | ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa |
| 1.6.1980 | Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in California |
| 1.6.1980 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championshipship |
| 1.6.1980 | "Steve Garvey, hits the 7,000th Dodger home run" |
| 1.6.1980 | Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting |
| 1.6.1982 | Rickey Henderson is fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a year |
| 1.6.1984 | "Douglas H Mitchell, QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner" |
| 1.6.1984 | KWK-AM in St. Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD |
| 1.6.1984 | Netherlands' Lubbers government gives 48 sites for cruise missiles |
| 1.6.1984 | Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of U.S.S.R. snatches a record 211 kg |
| 1.6.1985 | """Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody"" by David Lee Roth hits #12" |
| 1.6.1985 | Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 vs. Warwicks cricket |
| 1.6.1985 | Weird Al Yankovic released his Dare To Be Stupid LP |
| 1.6.1986 | 32nd LPGA Championship won by Pat Bradley |
| 1.6.1986 | 40th Tony Awards: I'm Not Rappaport and Mystery of Edwin Drood win |
| 1.6.1987 | Phil Niekro 314th combines with Joe to have most wins by bros (530) |
| 1.6.1988 | """Les Miserables,"" opens at Shubert Theatre, Los Angeles" |
| 1.6.1988 | """Morton Downey, Jr. Show,"" debuts in TV syndication" |
| 1.6.1988 | "Train crash in Zeeland Neth, kills 2" |
| 1.6.1989 | 62nd National Spelling Bee: Scott Isaacs wins spelling spoliator |
| 1.6.1989 | Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house |
| 1.6.1989 | Robin Givens and Mike Tyson granted final divorce in New Jersey |
| 1.6.1990 | """Cemetery Club"" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City after 56 performances" |
| 1.6.1990 | Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting |
| 1.6.1990 | Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland for 1st time since 1974 |
| 1.6.1990 | "Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97" |
| 1.6.1991 | Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years |
| 1.6.1991 | "Roseanne Arnold and Tom Arnold wed again, they divorced later" |
| 1.6.1992 | America West Arena opens in Phoenix |
| 1.6.1992 | Stanley Cup: Pittsburgh Penguins sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games |
| 1.6.1993 | Connie Chung joins Dan Rather as anchors of CBS Evening News |
| 1.6.1993 | Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army |
| 1.6.1993 | Melchior Ndadaye elected President of Burundi |
| 1.6.1994 | "FX Channel, Cable Network, debuts" |
| 1.6.1994 | Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery |
| 1.6.1994 | Guns n Roses drummer Matthew Sorum files to divorce Kai |
| 1.6.1995 | 68th National Spell Bee: Justin Tyler Carroll wins spelling xanthosis |
| 1.6.1995 | Rangers' Kenny Rogers scoreless inning streak ends after 39 |
| 1.6.1996 | MTV Movie Awards |
| 1.6.1996 | Sony does not renew lease on megatron in Times Square |
| 1.6.1997 | "10th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $5,400,186" |
| 1.6.1997 | 1st New York Women Film Festival opens |
| 1.6.1997 | 51st Tony Awards: Titanic and Last Night of Ballyhoo win |
| 1.6.1997 | Ameritech Senior Golf Open |
| 1.6.1997 | Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Michelob Light Classic |
| 1.6.1997 | Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race |
| 1.6.1997 | Heartland LPGA Classic |
| 1.6.1997 | "Los Angeles Dodger Wilton Guerrero's bat breaks, revealing it is corked" |
| 1.6.1997 | "Vijay Singh wins Golf Memorial at Muirfield Village CC, 14 under par" |
| 2.6.455 | A D Gaiseric and the Vandals sacked Rome |
| 2.6.575 | Benedict I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 2.6.657 | St. Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 2.6.1129 | Fulco V's son Godfried marries king Henry I's daughter Mathildis |
| 2.6.1619 | England and Netherlands signs treaty about business in the Indies |
| 2.6.1625 | Prince Frederik Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand |
| 2.6.1627 | English king Charles I establishes Guyana Company |
| 2.6.1633 | Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Rhine at Cologne |
| 2.6.1676 | Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch/Spanish fleet |
| 2.6.1697 | Monarch August van Saksen becomes Catholic |
| 2.6.1746 | Russia and Austria sign agreements |
| 2.6.1774 | "England passed Quartering Act, mandating Colonists must board English troops in their homes" |
| 2.6.1780 | Anti Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London |
| 2.6.1797 | "1st ascent of ""Great Mountain"" (4,622') in Adirondack New York (C Broadhead)" |
| 2.6.1834 | "5th national black convention meet, New York City" |
| 2.6.1835 | P. T. Barnum and his circus begin 1st tour of US |
| 2.6.1851 | "1st U.S. alcohol prohibition law enacted, Maine" |
| 2.6.1857 | "James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine" |
| 2.6.1858 | Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer |
| 2.6.1862 | Gen Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E Virginia and NC |
| 2.6.1862 | Raid at Early's: Maryland towards Washington D.C. |
| 2.6.1863 | "Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves" |
| 2.6.1864 | "Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2" |
| 2.6.1865 | "At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders Trans-Mississippi Dept" |
| 2.6.1866 | Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to U.S. forces |
| 2.6.1869 | "Cleveland's Forest City play their 1st game, vs Cincinnati Red Stockings" |
| 2.6.1873 | Construction begins on Clay St. (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad |
| 2.6.1875 | James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US |
| 2.6.1881 | Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens |
| 2.6.1882 | Pierre de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris |
| 2.6.1883 | "1st night baseball under lights, Ft. Wayne Indiana" |
| 2.6.1883 | "Chicago's ""El"" opens to traffic" |
| 2.6.1886 | "Grover Cleveland is 1st to wed during presidency, Frances Folsom" |
| 2.6.1896 | 30th Belmont: Henry Griffin aboard Hastings wins in 2:24 |
| 2.6.1896 | Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio |
| 2.6.1899 | Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings |
| 2.6.1901 | "Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday, New York" |
| 2.6.1902 | "2nd statewide initiative and referendum law adopted, in Oregon" |
| 2.6.1903 | Netherlands Korfball League forms |
| 2.6.1903 | Pirates win a triple header from Dodgers |
| 2.6.1904 | Professor Schron finds microbe that causes photosynthesis |
| 2.6.1908 | 33rd Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Royal Tourist wins in 1:46.4 |
| 2.6.1909 | 43rd Belmont: Eddie Dugan aboard Joe Madden wins in 2:21.6 |
| 2.6.1910 | Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea |
| 2.6.1910 | "1st roundtrip flight over English Channel, C S Rolls, England" |
| 2.6.1913 | 1st strike settlement mediated by U.S. Department of Labor-RR clerks |
| 2.6.1913 | Demonstrations for general voting right in Neth |
| 2.6.1914 | Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome |
| 2.6.1916 | German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux |
| 2.6.1919 | "Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers" |
| 2.6.1920 | "Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the Horizon" |
| 2.6.1922 | "Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances" |
| 2.6.1924 | Snyder Act: U.S. citizenship granted to all American Indians |
| 2.6.1925 | "New York Yankee Lou Gehrig begins his 2,130 consecutive game streak" |
| 2.6.1928 | Velveeta Cheese created by Kraft |
| 2.6.1930 | "Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in U.S., Cincinnati" |
| 2.6.1932 | "Franz von Papen ""Cabinet of the Baron"" premieres" |
| 2.6.1933 | Franklin D. Roosevelt authorizes 1st swimming pool built inside the White House |
| 2.6.1933 | WNJ-AM in Newark New Jersey goes off the air |
| 2.6.1935 | "Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player" |
| 2.6.1936 | Gen. Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua |
| 2.6.1940 | Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach |
| 2.6.1942 | Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a Navy aviator |
| 2.6.1943 | "99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission, over Italy" |
| 2.6.1943 | "German assault on Sebastopol Krim, begins" |
| 2.6.1944 | Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery dine in Portsmouth |
| 2.6.1944 | Judendurchgangslager Vught disbands |
| 2.6.1946 | "Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy, National Day" |
| 2.6.1947 | Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns |
| 2.6.1947 | """Louisiana Lady"" opens at Century Theater New York City for 4 performances" |
| 2.6.1949 | Transjordan renamed Jordan |
| 2.6.1950 | St. Louis Browns pitcher Harry Dorish swipes home vs Washington Senators |
| 2.6.1951 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones |
| 2.6.1952 | "650,000 metal workers go on strike in U.S." |
| 2.6.1952 | Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette |
| 2.6.1953 | Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey |
| 2.6.1954 | John Costello (Cons) becomes premier of Ireland |
| 2.6.1956 | Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow |
| 2.6.1957 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
| 2.6.1957 | U.S. TV interviews Khrushchev |
| 2.6.1958 | Alan Freed joins WABC (New York City) radio |
| 2.6.1958 | "Brooks Robinson, hits into 1st of record 4 triple plays" |
| 2.6.1958 | Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record |
| 2.6.1959 | "Allen Ginsberg writes his poem ""Lysergic Acid,"" San Francisco" |
| 2.6.1960 | "Broadway theaters close, labor dispute between owners and Actors Equity" |
| 2.6.1962 | 32nd French Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (36 26 63 97 62) |
| 2.6.1963 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
| 2.6.1964 | """Follies Bergere"" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 191 performances" |
| 2.6.1964 | Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India |
| 2.6.1964 | "Rolling Stones 1st U.S. concert tour debuts in Lynn, Massachusetts" |
| 2.6.1965 | "2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000, Ganges R India" |
| 2.6.1966 | U.S. Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing |
| 2.6.1967 | Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston |
| 2.6.1968 | Canadians must get government permission to export silver |
| 2.6.1968 | "WBLG (now WTVQ) TV channel 62 in Lexington, Kentucky (ABC) 1st broadcast" |
| 2.6.1969 | "Australian aircraft carrier ""Melbourne"" slices U.S. destroyer ""Frank E Evans"" in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)" |
| 2.6.1969 | Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open |
| 2.6.1971 | Ajax wins 16th Europe Cup 1 |
| 2.6.1973 | """Nash at Nine"" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 21 performances" |
| 2.6.1974 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Baltimore Golf Classic |
| 2.6.1974 | Malta's constitution goes into effect |
| 2.6.1975 | "James A. Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)" |
| 2.6.1975 | VP Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA |
| 2.6.1976 | East-Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation through Indonesia |
| 2.6.1977 | New Jersey allows casino gambling in Atlantic City |
| 2.6.1979 | John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland) |
| 2.6.1979 | NASA launches space vehicle S-198 |
| 2.6.1979 | Pope John Paul II visits Poland |
| 2.6.1980 | """Your Arm's Too Short to Box..."" opens at Ambassador New York City for 149 performances" |
| 2.6.1981 | Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be |
| 2.6.1982 | """Blues in the Night"" opens at Rialto Theater New York City for 53 performances" |
| 2.6.1983 | "1980 movie ""Attack of the Killer Tomatoes,"" released in Germany" |
| 2.6.1983 | "Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati" |
| 2.6.1984 | Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy |
| 2.6.1984 | Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines |
| 2.6.1984 | """Welcome To Fun Zone"" hosted by Dr. Demento airs on NBC-TV" |
| 2.6.1985 | 31st LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez |
| 2.6.1985 | 39th Tony Awards: Biloxi Blues and Big River win |
| 2.6.1985 | Andreas Papandreous PASOK-party wins election in Greece |
| 2.6.1985 | RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco |
| 2.6.1986 | New York City transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token |
| 2.6.1986 | Regular TV coverage of U.S. Senate sessions begins |
| 2.6.1987 | "Mariners draft Ken Griffey, Jr. #1" |
| 2.6.1988 | 61st National Spell Bee: Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal |
| 2.6.1988 | Consumer Reports calls for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai automobile |
| 2.6.1989 | "10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing" |
| 2.6.1989 | 14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee |
| 2.6.1989 | Cincinnati Red Eric Davis hits for cycle |
| 2.6.1989 | """Dead Poets Society"" starring Robin Williams, premieres" |
| 2.6.1989 | Rolling Stones Bill Wyman marries Mandy Smith |
| 2.6.1990 | "Seattle's Randy Johnson, no-hits Tigers, 2-0" |
| 2.6.1990 | """Turtle Power"" by Partners In Kryme hits #13" |
| 2.6.1991 | 45th Tony Awards: Lost in Yonkers and Will Rogers Follies win |
| 2.6.1991 | 4th Children's Miracle Network Telethon |
| 2.6.1991 | Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
| 2.6.1991 | "Seppo Raty of Finland improves his world javelin record to 318' 1""" |
| 2.6.1991 | Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin |
| 2.6.1992 | Former NFL New York Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgery |
| 2.6.1992 | "Wilson Phillips release their 2nd album ""Shadows and Light""" |
| 2.6.1994 | 67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian |
| 2.6.1994 | "Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland, 29 killed" |
| 2.6.1994 | "Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's ""Schindler's List""" |
| 2.6.1994 | Sharon Stone files $12m suit against her jeweler |
| 2.6.1995 | John Valentin hits 3 HRs |
| 2.6.1996 | 50th Tony Awards: Master Class and Rent win |
| 2.6.1996 | 51st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Annika Sorenstam |
| 2.6.1996 | 9th Children's Miracle Network Telethon |
| 2.6.1997 | Albert Belle's Chicago White Sox tying 27-game hitting streak ends |
| 2.6.1997 | Liberals beat Conservatives in France |
| 2.6.1997 | "Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, killing 168" |
| 3.6.1083 | "Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St. Peter's Cathedral" |
| 3.6.1098 | "After 5-month siege in 1st Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch Turkey" |
| 3.6.1357 | Peace of Aat |
| 3.6.1509 | "Henry VIII married wife No 1, Catherine of Aragon" |
| 3.6.1539 | Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain |
| 3.6.1540 | "Hernando de Soto crosses Appalachian Mountain, 1st European to do so" |
| 3.6.1621 | "Dutch West India Company receives charter for ""New Netherlands"" (NY)" |
| 3.6.1621 | "WIC, West Indian Co, under Heeren XIX, founded" |
| 3.6.1665 | Duke of York defeats Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft |
| 3.6.1748 | Amsterdam establishes municipal postal service |
| 3.6.1752 | Moscow houses and churchs destroyed by fire |
| 3.6.1770 | Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in California |
| 3.6.1781 | Jack Jouett rides to warn Jefferson of British attack |
| 3.6.1789 | Alex Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada) |
| 3.6.1818 | Maratha Wars between British and Maratha Confederacy in India ends |
| 3.6.1833 | 4th national black convention meets (Phila) |
| 3.6.1847 | Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens |
| 3.6.1851 | "1st baseball uniforms worn, New York Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt and blue long trousers" |
| 3.6.1856 | Cullen Whipple patents screw machine |
| 3.6.1860 | "Comanche, Iowa completely destroyed by 1 of a series of tornadoes" |
| 3.6.1861 | "1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV" |
| 3.6.1864 | Gen Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor |
| 3.6.1871 | "Jesse James and his gang robs Obocock Bank (Corydon Iowa), of $15,000" |
| 3.6.1875 | Alexander Graham Bell makes 1st voice transmission |
| 3.6.1876 | Lacrosse introduced in Britain and Canada |
| 3.6.1884 | John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party national convention chair |
| 3.6.1886 | 24 Christians burn to death in Namgongo Uganda |
| 3.6.1888 | """Casey at the Bat"" published, SF Examiner" |
| 3.6.1899 | W G Grace's last day of Test cricket aged 50 years 320 days |
| 3.6.1906 | Belgian King Leopold II calls Congo his private possession |
| 3.6.1911 | """Come Josephine in My Flying Machine"" hits #1" |
| 3.6.1913 | Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws |
| 3.6.1916 | National Defense Act establishes ROTC |
| 3.6.1918 | Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional |
| 3.6.1919 | Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks |
| 3.6.1921 | "A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado" |
| 3.6.1924 | Gila Wilderness Area established by Forest Service |
| 3.6.1925 | "Eddie Collins, is 6th to get 3,000 hits" |
| 3.6.1925 | "Goodyear airship ""Pilgrim"" makes 1st flight (1st with enclosed cabin)" |
| 3.6.1925 | "White Sox manager Eddie Collins gets 3,000 hit" |
| 3.6.1929 | "1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center, electric light" |
| 3.6.1929 | "Chile, Peru and Bolivia sign accord about Tacna-Arica-area" |
| 3.6.1932 | "John McGraw, who came to New York in 1902, resigns as manager of Giants" |
| 3.6.1932 | Lou Gehrig is 1st to hit 4 consecutive HRs; Yanks beat A's 20-13 |
| 3.6.1932 | Von Hindenburg disbands German Parliament |
| 3.6.1933 | "A's score 11 runs in 2nd, Yanks score 10 in 5th and win 17-11" |
| 3.6.1933 | "Pope Pius XI encyclical ""On oppression of the Church in Spain""" |
| 3.6.1934 | "Dr. Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted" |
| 3.6.1935 | "French Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours" |
| 3.6.1937 | Duke of Windsor (Edward 8) weds Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson in France |
| 3.6.1937 | "Josh Gibson HR's just 2 feet below rim of Yankee Stadium, 580' drive" |
| 3.6.1938 | "German law on ""Entartete Art"" legalizes art robbery" |
| 3.6.1939 | 71st Belmont: James Stout aboard Johnstown wins in 2:29.6 |
| 3.6.1939 | Beer Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Will Glahe |
| 3.6.1940 | Last British/French troop leave Dunkirk |
| 3.6.1941 | Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol |
| 3.6.1941 | Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn |
| 3.6.1941 | "German occupiers stamp ""J"" on Jewish passports" |
| 3.6.1942 | Battle of Midway Island begins |
| 3.6.1943 | United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration forms |
| 3.6.1944 | 76th Belmont: G L Smith aboard Bounding Home wins in 2:32.2 |
| 3.6.1944 | Generals Giraud and de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution |
| 3.6.1944 | Nazis pull out of Rome |
| 3.6.1946 | "1st bikini bathing suit displayed, Paris" |
| 3.6.1946 | International Milt Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals |
| 3.6.1946 | "U.S. Supreme Court rules race separation on buses, unconstitutional" |
| 3.6.1947 | British viceroy of India lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan |
| 3.6.1948 | "200"" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory" |
| 3.6.1948 | Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore |
| 3.6.1948 | """Sleepy Hallow"" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 12 performances" |
| 3.6.1949 | "Dragnet is 1st broadcast on radio, KFI in Los Angeles" |
| 3.6.1949 | GN Clark becomes 1st female U.S. treasurer |
| 3.6.1950 | French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal |
| 3.6.1952 | Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president |
| 3.6.1953 | Alexander Cartwright founded baseball and not Abner Doubleday |
| 3.6.1953 | Congress cites research of New York City librarian Robert Henderson in proving |
| 3.6.1953 | "KVOS TV channel 12 in Bellingham/Vancouver, WA (CBS) begins" |
| 3.6.1955 | "KLFY TV channel 10 in Lafayette, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 3.6.1955 | Stan Musial hits his 300th HR |
| 3.6.1956 | 3rd class travel on British Railways ends |
| 3.6.1956 | "KGUN TV channel 9 in Tucson, Arizona (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 3.6.1956 | Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Pittsburgh Golf Open |
| 3.6.1957 | Howard Cosell's 1st TV show |
| 3.6.1958 | Referendum allows city to sell Chavez Ravine to the Dodgers |
| 3.6.1959 | "1st class graduates from Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo" |
| 3.6.1959 | 1st U.S. Air Force Academy graduation |
| 3.6.1959 | Eisenhower routes Canadian premier Diefenbaker message off the Moon |
| 3.6.1959 | Real Madrid wins 4th Europe Cup 1 |
| 3.6.1959 | Singapore adopts constitution |
| 3.6.1961 | 93rd Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Sherluck wins in 2:29.2 |
| 3.6.1961 | John F. Kennedy and Khrushchev meet in Vienna |
| 3.6.1961 | """Wildcat"" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 172 performances" |
| 3.6.1962 | "Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130" |
| 3.6.1962 | Betsy Rawls and Kathy wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
| 3.6.1962 | Lee Harvey Oswald arrives by train in Oldenzaal Neth |
| 3.6.1962 | "WBKO TV channel 13 in Bowling Green, Kentucky (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 3.6.1964 | Ringo Starr collapses from tonsillitis and pharyngitis |
| 3.6.1964 | "Rolling Stones begin 1st U.S. tour, with Bobby Goldsboro and Bobby Vee" |
| 3.6.1965 | "Gemini 4 launched; 2nd U.S. 2-man flight, McDivitt and White" |
| 3.6.1966 | "European DX Council forms in Copenhagen, shortwave listeners" |
| 3.6.1966 | "Gemini 9 launched; 7th U.S. 2-man flight, Stafford and Cernan" |
| 3.6.1967 | 99th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Damascus wins in 2:28.8 |
| 3.6.1967 | "Aretha Franklin's ""Respect"" reaches #1" |
| 3.6.1968 | Canada announces it will replace silver with nickel in coins |
| 3.6.1968 | Poor Peoples March on Washington |
| 3.6.1968 | Yanks turn 21st triple-play in their history lose 4-3 to Twins |
| 3.6.1969 | Last episode of Star Trek airs on NBC (Turnabout Intruder) |
| 3.6.1970 | 1st artificial gene synthesized |
| 3.6.1970 | "Ray Davies of Kinks travels round trip NY-London to change 1 word in ""Lola,"" (Coca-Cola to Cherry Cola) because of BBC coml reference ban" |
| 3.6.1971 | "Chic Cub Ken Holtzman 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 1-0" |
| 3.6.1971 | "Test Cricket debut of Imran Khan, vs. Engl at Edgbaston (5, 0-36, 0-19)" |
| 3.6.1972 | "1st female U.S. rabbi installed, Sally J Priesand at 25" |
| 3.6.1972 | """Hot Rod Lincoln,"" by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9" |
| 3.6.1972 | Sally J Priesand becomes 1st female U.S. rabbi |
| 3.6.1972 | Yanks score 8 times in 13th beating White Sox 18-10 |
| 3.6.1973 | "At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner, crashes" |
| 3.6.1973 | Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Sealy-Faberge Golf Classic |
| 3.6.1973 | """Smith"" closes at Eden Theater New York City after 17 performances" |
| 3.6.1973 | "Tupolev 144 crashes at Paris, 15 killed" |
| 3.6.1974 | Yitzhak Rabin forms a new Israeli government |
| 3.6.1976 | "Queen's ""Bhoemian Rhapsody"" goes gold" |
| 3.6.1976 | Test Cricket debut of Mike Brearley vs. West Indies (0 and 17) |
| 3.6.1976 | U.S. presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta |
| 3.6.1977 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 6th triple play (9-6-4-6-6 vs Kansas City Royals) |
| 3.6.1977 | Belgium government of Tindemans forms |
| 3.6.1977 | U.S. and Cuba talk about diplomatic relations |
| 3.6.1978 | Phillies Dave Johnson is 1st to hit 2 pinch hit grand slams in a year |
| 3.6.1979 | 33rd Tony Awards: Elephant Man and Sweeny Todd win |
| 3.6.1979 | Ex-president Idi Amin of Uganda flees to Libya |
| 3.6.1979 | "Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled, world's worst oil spillage" |
| 3.6.1979 | """Madwoman of Central Park West"" opens on Broadway" |
| 3.6.1979 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship |
| 3.6.1980 | Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35 |
| 3.6.1980 | ESPN begins televising college world series games |
| 3.6.1980 | """It's So Nice to Be Civilized"" opens at Martin Beck New York City for 8 performances" |
| 3.6.1980 | Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination |
| 3.6.1980 | "New York Mets draft Darryl Strawberry, 18, #1" |
| 3.6.1981 | Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt |
| 3.6.1982 | 55th National Spelling Bee: Molly Dieveney wins spelling psoriasis |
| 3.6.1982 | Israeli ambassador Shlomo Argov seriously wounded by Palestinians |
| 3.6.1984 | 30th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan |
| 3.6.1984 | 38th Tony Awards: Real Thing and La Cage Aux Folles win |
| 3.6.1984 | """Wiz"" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 13 performances" |
| 3.6.1985 | Brewers draft B J Surhoff #1 |
| 3.6.1985 | Massive anti-ETA demonstration in Basques |
| 3.6.1986 | Battles in Beirut; 53 killed |
| 3.6.1987 | Cubs and Astro tie Oriole and Ranger record of 3 grand slams in a game |
| 3.6.1987 | """Little Shop of Horrors,"" released in France" |
| 3.6.1987 | """Pee-wee's Big Adventure,"" released in France" |
| 3.6.1988 | """Big,"" premieres in U.S." |
| 3.6.1988 | Margo Adams sues Red Sox 3rd baseman Wade Boggs for palimony |
| 3.6.1989 | Chinese troops kill hundred of pro-democracy students in Beijing |
| 3.6.1989 | Country singer Rebe McEntire weds her manager Narvel Blackstone |
| 3.6.1989 | "Houston Astros beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-4, in 22 innings (7:14:09)" |
| 3.6.1989 | "Leaking pipe of Asha, U.S.S.R. causes 2 trains to catch fire; 460 die" |
| 3.6.1989 | Nolan Ryan pitches his 2nd one-hitter this season and 11th overall |
| 3.6.1990 | "3rd Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $894,560" |
| 3.6.1990 | 44th Tony Awards: Grapes of Wrath and City of Angels win |
| 3.6.1990 | Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 3.6.1991 | "Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history" |
| 3.6.1991 | "New York Yankees selected 19-year-old Brien Taylor, #1 in amateur draft" |
| 3.6.1991 | Thomas Hearns captures WBA light-heavyweight title |
| 3.6.1992 | "Joan Lunden ordered to pay her ex-husband $18,000 a month support" |
| 3.6.1992 | "World's largest environmental summit opens, Rio De Janeiro Brazil" |
| 3.6.1993 | 66th National Spelling Bee: Geoff Hooper wins spelling kamikaze |
| 3.6.1994 | "5.9 earthquake/floods SE Java, 150+ killed" |
| 3.6.1994 | Pearl Jam rocker Eddie Vedder (29) weds Beth Liebling (27) |
| 3.6.1994 | WIIZ (98.7) FM goes off the air |
| 3.6.1995 | "Expos pitcher Pedro Martinez perfect game is broken up in 10th inning as San Diego's Bip Roberts leads off with a double, Mont wins 1-0" |
| 4.6.1070 | "Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France" |
| 4.6.1133 | Rome-Innocentius II crowns Lotharius III Roman-German emperor |
| 4.6.1391 | "Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surounds and sets fire to Jewish quarter of Seville Spain, surviving Jews sold into slavery" |
| 4.6.1487 | Lord Lovell and John de la Poles army land at Furness Lancashire |
| 4.6.1632 | Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Venlo |
| 4.6.1647 | British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner |
| 4.6.1664 | Viceroy Willem Frederik conquerors Dijlerschans |
| 4.6.1666 | Battle at Duinkerk: English vs Dutch fleet |
| 4.6.1741 | Prussia goes to the Covenant of Nymphenburg |
| 4.6.1745 | Battle at Hohenfriedberg Silezie: Prussia beats Austria |
| 4.6.1745 | Frederick the Great (Prussia) defeats Austrians and Saxons |
| 4.6.1756 | Quakers leave assembly of Pennsylvania |
| 4.6.1783 | "Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon, unmanned" |
| 4.6.1784 | "Mme Thible becomes 1st woman to fly, in a balloon" |
| 4.6.1789 | U.S. constitution goes into effect |
| 4.6.1792 | Capt George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain |
| 4.6.1794 | "Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers" |
| 4.6.1800 | White House completed and President and Mrs. John Adams move in |
| 4.6.1805 | Tripoli forced to conclude peace with U.S. after war over tribute |
| 4.6.1812 | "Louisiana Territory officially renamed ""Missouri Territory""" |
| 4.6.1825 | Unseasonable hurricane hits New York City |
| 4.6.1831 | National Congress selects Leopold von Saksen-Coburg as King of Belgium |
| 4.6.1832 | "3rd national black convention meets, Philadelphia" |
| 4.6.1845 | Mexican - U.S. war starts |
| 4.6.1850 | Empire Engine Company No 1 organized |
| 4.6.1850 | Self deodorizing fertilizer patented in England |
| 4.6.1862 | "Confederates evacuate Ft. Pillow, Tennessee" |
| 4.6.1868 | Van Bosse/Fock government begins |
| 4.6.1870 | 4th Belmont: W Dick aboard Kingfisher wins in 2:59 |
| 4.6.1873 | 1st contract workers of British-Indies Co arrives in Suriname |
| 4.6.1875 | Pacific Stock Exchange opens |
| 4.6.1878 | Cyprus ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes |
| 4.6.1884 | 18th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Panique wins in 2:42 |
| 4.6.1892 | "Oil City and Titusville Penn, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die" |
| 4.6.1892 | Sierra Club forms in San Francisco |
| 4.6.1896 | Henry takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit |
| 4.6.1907 | Automatic washer and dryer introduced |
| 4.6.1912 | Cone of Mount Katmai (Alaska) collapses |
| 4.6.1912 | Massachusetts passes 1st U.S. minimum wage law |
| 4.6.1913 | Suffragette Emily Davinson throws himself in front of king's horse |
| 4.6.1916 | Russian General Brusilov fails on his Eastern Front attack |
| 4.6.1917 | 1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards and Elliott (Julia Ward Howe) |
| 4.6.1917 | American men begin registering for the draft |
| 4.6.1917 | Order of British Empire inaugurated |
| 4.6.1919 | Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill |
| 4.6.1919 | U.S. Marines invade Costa Rica |
| 4.6.1920 | Peace of Trianon between Allies and Hungary |
| 4.6.1927 | "1st Ryder Cup: U.S. beats England, 9 -2 at Worcester CC Mass" |
| 4.6.1927 | Johnny Weissmuller set swim records in 100-yard and 200-yard free-style |
| 4.6.1929 | George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie (Rochester New York) |
| 4.6.1932 | 64th Belmont: Tom Malley aboard Faireno wins in 2:32.8 |
| 4.6.1932 | Edouard Herriot becomes premier of France |
| 4.6.1937 | Leon Blum becomes premier of People's front government of France |
| 4.6.1938 | "10th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7 -4" |
| 4.6.1938 | 70th Belmont: James Stout aboard Pasteurized wins in 2:29.6 |
| 4.6.1940 | "1st night game at Forbes Field (Pirates 14, Braves 2)" |
| 4.6.1940 | "1st NL night game at Sportsman's Park (Dodgers 10, Cardinals 1)" |
| 4.6.1940 | "British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops" |
| 4.6.1940 | German forces enter Paris |
| 4.6.1940 | The synthetic rubber tire unveiled |
| 4.6.1940 | "Winston Churchill says ""We shall fight on the seas and oceans""" |
| 4.6.1941 | Rep of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z |
| 4.6.1942 | Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II |
| 4.6.1942 | Capitol Record Co. opens for business |
| 4.6.1942 | USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island |
| 4.6.1943 | Argentina taken over by Gen Rawson and Col Juan Peron |
| 4.6.1943 | St. Louis Card Mort Cooper pitches his 2nd consecutive 1 hitter |
| 4.6.1944 | French general De Gaulle arrives in London |
| 4.6.1944 | 1st British gliders touches down on French soil for D-Day |
| 4.6.1944 | 1st submarine captured and boarded on high seas-U 505 |
| 4.6.1944 | 5th Army enters and liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies |
| 4.6.1945 | 6th Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa |
| 4.6.1945 | "U.S., Russia, England and France agree to split occupied Germany" |
| 4.6.1946 | "Largest solar prominence, 300,000 mi/500,000 km, observed" |
| 4.6.1947 | House of Representatives approves Taft-Hartley act |
| 4.6.1947 | """Louisiana Lady"" closes at Century Theater New York City after 4 performances" |
| 4.6.1949 | """Cavalcade of Stars"" debuts (DuMont); Jackie Gleason made host in 1950" |
| 4.6.1950 | CVP wins Belgian parliamentary election |
| 4.6.1950 | Dutch cyclist Wim van Est wins Bordeaux-Paris (586 km in 17:25) |
| 4.6.1951 | Mississippi Valley State University founded |
| 4.6.1951 | Pirate's Gus Bell hits for cycle helps beat Phillies 12-4 |
| 4.6.1953 | Pittsburgh trades outfielder Ralph Kiner and Joe Garagiola to Chicago |
| 4.6.1954 | "Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m" |
| 4.6.1954 | France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union |
| 4.6.1955 | """Mickey Rooney Show,"" TV comedy last airs on NBC" |
| 4.6.1956 | Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public |
| 4.6.1957 | 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation |
| 4.6.1957 | May and Cowdrey make 411 stand vs. WI Ramadhin bowls 98 overs |
| 4.6.1958 | French premier De Gaulle arrives in Algiers |
| 4.6.1958 | San Francisco Giants Hank Sauer and B Schmidt are 2nd to hit consecutive pinch HRs |
| 4.6.1961 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
| 4.6.1962 | Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to U.S. |
| 4.6.1963 | "1st transmission of ""Pop Go the Beatles"" on BBC radio" |
| 4.6.1963 | British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler |
| 4.6.1964 | "Beatles ""World Tour"" begins in Copenhagen Denmark" |
| 4.6.1964 | "Los Angeles Dodger Sandy Koufax 3rd no-hitter beats Philadelphia Phillies, 3-0" |
| 4.6.1964 | Maldives adopts constitution |
| 4.6.1964 | "Test Cricket debut of Geoff Boycott vs. Australia at Trent Bridge, 48" |
| 4.6.1965 | "Rolling Stones release ""Satisfaction""" |
| 4.6.1966 | 98th Belmont: William Boland aboard Amberoid wins in 2:29.6 |
| 4.6.1966 | """Batman and His Grandmother"" by Dickie Goodman hits #70" |
| 4.6.1966 | "Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras" |
| 4.6.1967 | "19th Emmy Awards: Mission Impossible, Monkees, Don Knotts and Lucy Ball" |
| 4.6.1967 | Curt Flood's record 568 straight chances without an error ends (227 straight games) |
| 4.6.1967 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St. Louis Women's Golf Invitational |
| 4.6.1967 | "KTVN TV channel 2 in Reno, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 4.6.1967 | Monkees take home an Emmy for their Outstanding comedy Series |
| 4.6.1968 | "Don Drysdale pitches his 6th straight shutout, en route to 58 innings" |
| 4.6.1969 | "22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hr flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft" |
| 4.6.1969 | "Beatles release Ballad Of John and Yoko/Old Brown Shoe, in US" |
| 4.6.1969 | "Nicky Hopkins quits rock and rolls, Jeff Beck Group" |
| 4.6.1970 | 43rd National Spelling Bee: Libby Childress wins spelling croissant |
| 4.6.1970 | San Diego Padres draft Mike Ivie #1 |
| 4.6.1970 | "Tonga, formerly Friendly Islands, declares independence from U.K." |
| 4.6.1970 | "WSMW TV channel 27 in Worcester, MA (IND) begins broadcasting" |
| 4.6.1970 | Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 1st of 3 times in 28 days |
| 4.6.1971 | J Luns appointed Secretary-General of NATO |
| 4.6.1971 | "Oakland A's beat Washington Senators, 5-3, in 21 innings" |
| 4.6.1971 | "Zaheer Abbas scores Cricket 274 at Edgbaston, 544 minutes 38 fours" |
| 4.6.1972 | "Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard" |
| 4.6.1972 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 4.6.1972 | "Record 8 shutouts pitched in 16 major league games (AL=5, NL=3)" |
| 4.6.1973 | 43rd French Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beats C Evert (67 76 64) |
| 4.6.1974 | "10 cents Beer Night at Cleveland, unruly fans stumble onto field and cause Indians to forfeit the game to Rangers with score tied 5-5 in 9th" |
| 4.6.1974 | Never-to-be-repeated 10 cents Beer Night at Cleveland Stadium occurs |
| 4.6.1974 | NFL grants franchise to Seattle Seahawks |
| 4.6.1975 | Oldest animal fossils in U.S. discovered in North Carolina |
| 4.6.1977 | "Apple II, the 1st personal computer, goes on sale" |
| 4.6.1977 | Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2 |
| 4.6.1978 | 32nd Tony Awards: Da and Ain't Misbehavin' win |
| 4.6.1978 | 6th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): JoAnne Carner |
| 4.6.1978 | Liberal Julio Turbay Ayola wins Colombia elections |
| 4.6.1978 | """Working"" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 25 performances" |
| 4.6.1979 | South-African President Vorster resigns due to scandal |
| 4.6.1979 | Sri Lanka forfeit ICC Trophy game vs Israel for political reasons |
| 4.6.1981 | 54th National Spelling Bee: Paige Pipkin wins spelling sarcophagus |
| 4.6.1982 | Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon |
| 4.6.1982 | """Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,"" released in USA" |
| 4.6.1983 | 53rd French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Mima Jausovec (61 62) |
| 4.6.1984 | 18th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers |
| 4.6.1984 | Arnold Palmer fails to make U.S. Open golf tournament 1st time in 32 yrs |
| 4.6.1984 | "Bruce Springsteen releases ""Born in the USA""" |
| 4.6.1984 | DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal |
| 4.6.1984 | "New York Mets draft Shawn Abner, 17, #1" |
| 4.6.1985 | STS 51-G vehicle moves to launch pad |
| 4.6.1985 | "Supreme Court strikes down Alabama ""moment of silence"" law" |
| 4.6.1986 | "Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in U.S. court" |
| 4.6.1987 | "Danny Harris beats Edwin Moses, ends streak of 122 cons hurdle wins" |
| 4.6.1988 | 42nd Tony Awards: M Butterfly and Phantom of the Opera win |
| 4.6.1988 | 58th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats N Zvereva (60 60) |
| 4.6.1988 | """Cabaret"" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 262 performances" |
| 4.6.1988 | Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle the globe alone |
| 4.6.1988 | Longest game in Balt Memorial Stadium (5:46) 14 inn (beat New York 7-6) |
| 4.6.1988 | Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases for record 249 as a New York Yankee |
| 4.6.1989 | "2nd Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $770,000" |
| 4.6.1989 | 43rd Tony Awards: Heidi Chronicles and Jerome Robbin's Broadway win |
| 4.6.1989 | Beijing cop shoots and wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping |
| 4.6.1989 | Eastern Europe's 1st somewhat free election in 40 years held in Poland |
| 4.6.1989 | "Gas explodes near 2 passenger trains in U.S.S.R., kills 100s" |
| 4.6.1989 | Largest parade in Bronx history honors 350th anniversary |
| 4.6.1989 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
| 4.6.1989 | "Red Sox lead Blue Jays 10-0 in 7th, but lose 12-11 in 12 for Blue Jays 12th consecutive victory at Fenway" |
| 4.6.1990 | 24th Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton and Patty Loveless |
| 4.6.1990 | "Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die" |
| 4.6.1990 | Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy |
| 4.6.1990 | Los Angeles Dodger Ramon Martinez strikes out 18 Atlanta Braves |
| 4.6.1990 | New York Telephone company announces that it wants Bronx area code 917 |
| 4.6.1991 | 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania |
| 4.6.1991 | Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl is ordained in Episcopal Church |
| 4.6.1991 | Pope John Paul II compares abortion with nazi murders |
| 4.6.1991 | Robert Strauss becomes U.S. ambassador to Soviet Union |
| 4.6.1992 | San Jose voters reject Giants plan to build a new stadium |
| 4.6.1992 | USPO announces young Elvis beats old Elvis stamp |
| 4.6.1994 | Haile Gebre Selassie runs world record 5 km (12:56.96) |
| 4.6.1995 | 49th Tony Awards: Love! Valour! Compassion! and Sunset Boulevard win |
| 4.6.1995 | "8th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,331,000" |
| 4.6.1995 | Dale Eggeling wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic |
| 4.6.1995 | """Jackie Mason: Politically Incorrect"" closes at Golden New York City at 347 perf" |
| 5.6.70 | Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem |
| 5.6.754 | Friezen murders bishop Boniface and over 50 companions |
| 5.6.1288 | Battle of Woeringen: Reinald I vs Jan I |
| 5.6.1305 | Bordeaux's archbishop Bertrand the Got elected Pope Clement V |
| 5.6.1507 | England and Netherlands sign trade agreement |
| 5.6.1625 | Spanish troops under Spinola conquer Breda |
| 5.6.1632 | Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Roermond |
| 5.6.1661 | "Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge" |
| 5.6.1716 | England and Emperor Karel VI signs military treaty |
| 5.6.1752 | Prince Willem van Orange becomes Knight of Garter |
| 5.6.1783 | Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight |
| 5.6.1794 | Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces |
| 5.6.1805 | "1st recorded tornado in ""Tornado Alley"", Southern Illinois" |
| 5.6.1806 | "1st trotter to break 3 minute mile, Yankee" |
| 5.6.1806 | Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland |
| 5.6.1808 | Battle at Wagram: French army beats Austrians |
| 5.6.1827 | Turks capture Acropolis and takes Athens during Greek War of Independ |
| 5.6.1833 | Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage |
| 5.6.1846 | Telegraph line opens between Philadelphia and Balt |
| 5.6.1848 | Statue of prince Willem the Silent unveiled |
| 5.6.1849 | Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy |
| 5.6.1855 | Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention |
| 5.6.1857 | "Walter Woodbury and James Page open photo studio in Batavia, Djakarta" |
| 5.6.1861 | Federal marshals seize arms and gunpower at Du Pont works DE |
| 5.6.1863 | "Battle of Franklin's Crossing, Virginia, Deep Run" |
| 5.6.1863 | "CSS ""Alabama"" captures ""Tailsman"" in Mid Atlantic" |
| 5.6.1864 | "Battle of Piedmont, Virginia, Augusta City" |
| 5.6.1869 | 3rd Belmont: C Miller aboard Fenian wins in 3:04 |
| 5.6.1870 | Constantinople in fire; 900 die |
| 5.6.1872 | "Republican National Convention meets, Philadelphia" |
| 5.6.1873 | Sultan Bargash closes slave market of Zanzibar |
| 5.6.1875 | Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens |
| 5.6.1876 | "Bananas become popular in U.S., at Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia" |
| 5.6.1879 | 13th Belmont: George Evans aboard Spendthrift wins in 2:42.75 |
| 5.6.1882 | "Storm and floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die" |
| 5.6.1884 | "William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying ""I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected""" |
| 5.6.1886 | 20th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Inspector B wins in 2:41 |
| 5.6.1888 | Democrats nominate Grover Cleveland for president |
| 5.6.1899 | Alfred Dreyfus' acquitted |
| 5.6.1900 | Lord Roberts' army occupies Pretoria |
| 5.6.1907 | Automatic washer and dryer are introduced |
| 5.6.1911 | Red Sox Joe Wood strikes out 3 pinch hitters in 9th for 5-4 win |
| 5.6.1912 | "U.S. Marines invade Cuba, 3nd time" |
| 5.6.1913 | Dutch Disability laws go into effect |
| 5.6.1915 | 47th Belmont: George Byrne aboard The Finn wins in 2:18.6 |
| 5.6.1917 | 10 million U.S. men begin registering for draft in WW I |
| 5.6.1920 | 1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell |
| 5.6.1920 | A's VP Thomas Shibe denies charges that baseballs are livelier |
| 5.6.1925 | 29th U.S. Golf Open: Willie Macfarlane shoots a 291 at Worcester CC Mass |
| 5.6.1926 | Indians triple-play Yankees and win 15-3 |
| 5.6.1927 | 3rd French Mens Tennis: R Lacoste beats B Tilden (64 46 57 63 11-9) |
| 5.6.1927 | Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard and 200-yard free-style swim record |
| 5.6.1929 | Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour government in Britain |
| 5.6.1931 | Jules Renkin becomes premier of Belgium |
| 5.6.1933 | Gold standard abolished |
| 5.6.1934 | 1st formal meeting of Baker Street Irregulars (New York City) |
| 5.6.1937 | 69th Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 2:28.6 |
| 5.6.1937 | Henry Ford initiates 32 hour work week |
| 5.6.1940 | 1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron Oh |
| 5.6.1940 | American Negro Theater organizes |
| 5.6.1940 | Battle of France begins in WW II |
| 5.6.1940 | Gen Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme |
| 5.6.1940 | General De Gaulle becomes under minister of Defense |
| 5.6.1940 | Gov of Suriname and Netherlands Antilles refuse entry to Jewish refugees |
| 5.6.1940 | Netherlands rations petroleum |
| 5.6.1941 | "Sandor Szabo beats B Nagurski in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ" |
| 5.6.1942 | British offensive in North Africa under general Ritchie |
| 5.6.1942 | Elwood Ordnance Plant near Joliet Illinois kills 54 |
| 5.6.1942 | "USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania" |
| 5.6.1943 | 75th Belmont: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:28.2 |
| 5.6.1943 | German occupiers arrest Louvain University's chancellor |
| 5.6.1944 | 1st B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure |
| 5.6.1944 | 1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day |
| 5.6.1944 | Allies march into Rome |
| 5.6.1944 | General Eisenhower decides invasion set for June 6 |
| 5.6.1944 | King Victor Emmanuel abdicates the throne for his son Umberto |
| 5.6.1945 | "Opera ""Peter Grimes of Benjamin Britten,"" premieres in London" |
| 5.6.1945 | "U.S., U.K., U.S.S.R., France declare supreme authority over Germany" |
| 5.6.1946 | "Fire at LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge kills 61 (Chicago, Illinois)" |
| 5.6.1947 | Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlines Marshall Plan |
| 5.6.1948 | Phillies Richie Ashburn sets NL rookie consecut hitting streak at 23 |
| 5.6.1950 | U.S. Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation |
| 5.6.1952 | 1st sporting event televised nationally-Walcott vs Charles boxing |
| 5.6.1952 | Jersey Joe Walcott beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for hw boxing title |
| 5.6.1952 | Test Cricket debut of Freddie Trueman vs. India at Headingley |
| 5.6.1953 | Denmark adopts a new constitution |
| 5.6.1953 | U.S. Senate rejects China PR membership to U.N. |
| 5.6.1954 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ecclesiae fastos |
| 5.6.1954 | """Your Show Of Shows,"" last airs on NBC-TV" |
| 5.6.1955 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open |
| 5.6.1955 | New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550' HR off Chicago Billy Pierce |
| 5.6.1956 | Fed court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Const |
| 5.6.1956 | """Milton Berle Show,"" last airs on NBC-TV" |
| 5.6.1957 | "New York narcotics investigator, Dr. Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes" |
| 5.6.1959 | Bob Dylan graduates Hibbing HS in Minnesota |
| 5.6.1960 | """George Gobel Show,"" last airs on CBS-TV" |
| 5.6.1960 | Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open |
| 5.6.1963 | Princess Marijke changes her name to Christina |
| 5.6.1963 | "State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested" |
| 5.6.1964 | "Davie Jones and King Bees debut ""I Can't Help Thinking About Me,"" group disbands but Davie Jones goes on to success as David Bowie" |
| 5.6.1965 | 97th Belmont: John Sellers aboard Hail to All wins in 2:28.6 |
| 5.6.1965 | Lopez Arellano becomes president of Honduras |
| 5.6.1965 | """Wooly Bully"" by Sam the Sham and Pharaohs hits #2" |
| 5.6.1966 | Cincinnati Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 home runs in a doubleheader |
| 5.6.1966 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Clayton Federal Golf Invitational |
| 5.6.1967 | 6 day war between Israel and Arab neighbors begin |
| 5.6.1967 | Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair |
| 5.6.1967 | Royal Canadian Mint ordered to start converting 10 cent and 25 cent coins to pure nickel as soon as possible |
| 5.6.1967 | "WSBE TV channel 36 in Providence, RI (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 5.6.1968 | "Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies next day" |
| 5.6.1969 | Dutch Antilles government of Kroon resigns |
| 5.6.1969 | Race riot in Hartford Connecticut |
| 5.6.1970 | "KPAX TV channel 8 in Missoula, MT (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 5.6.1971 | 103rd Belmont: Walter Blum aboard Pass Catcher wins in 2:30.6 |
| 5.6.1972 | """If You Had Wings"" opens" |
| 5.6.1972 | U.N. Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm |
| 5.6.1972 | Yugoslav president Tito visits U.S.S.R. |
| 5.6.1973 | 43rd French Mens Tennis: Ilse Nastase beats Nikki Pilic (63 63 60) |
| 5.6.1974 | A's Reggie Jackson and Bill North engage in clubhouse fight at Detroit |
| 5.6.1975 | 48th National Spelling Bee: Hugh Tosteson wins spelling incisor |
| 5.6.1975 | British population agrees to European Common Market membership |
| 5.6.1975 | "Egypt president Sadat reopens Suez Canal, closed since 1967" |
| 5.6.1976 | "108th Belmont: Angel Cordero, Jr. aboard Bold Forbes wins in 2:29" |
| 5.6.1976 | """Bigfoot"" by Bro Smith hits #57" |
| 5.6.1976 | "Teton Dam in Idaho burst causing $1 billion damage, 14 die" |
| 5.6.1977 | "31st NBA Championship: Port Trailblazers beat Philadelphia 76er, 4 games to 2" |
| 5.6.1977 | 31st Tony Awards: Shadow Box and Annie win |
| 5.6.1977 | "Coup in Seychelles, National Day" |
| 5.6.1977 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Talk Tournament '77 Golf Tournament |
| 5.6.1977 | Los Angeles Dodgers retire Walt Alston's #24 |
| 5.6.1979 | Seychelles adopts constitution |
| 5.6.1980 | Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station |
| 5.6.1981 | "Astro's Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as all-time walk leader, 1,777" |
| 5.6.1981 | "Center of Disease Control reports of a pneumonia affecting gays, AIDS" |
| 5.6.1981 | "George Harrison releases ""Somewhere in England""" |
| 5.6.1982 | "114th Belmont: Laffit Pincay, Jr. aboard Conquistador Cielo wins in 2:28" |
| 5.6.1982 | "52nd French Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Andrea Jaeger, 76 61" |
| 5.6.1982 | """Murphy's Law"" by Cheri hits #39" |
| 5.6.1982 | Waterfront streetcar begins operating in Seattle |
| 5.6.1983 | 37th Tony Awards: Torch Song Trilogy and Cats win |
| 5.6.1983 | 53rd French Mens Tennis: Yannick Noah beats Mats Wilander (62 75 76) |
| 5.6.1983 | Alice Miller wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic |
| 5.6.1984 | "Cyndi Lauper's ""Time After Time"" becomes #1" |
| 5.6.1984 | "Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh's holiest site, Golden Temple" |
| 5.6.1986 | San Diego Padre Steve Garvey ejected for 1st time |
| 5.6.1987 | Dwight Gooden returns from drug rehabilitation and allows wins game |
| 5.6.1987 | """Nightline"" presents it's 1st ""Town Meeting"" the subject is AIDS and the show runs until 3:47 AM" |
| 5.6.1988 | "1st Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $590,000" |
| 5.6.1988 | 58th French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Henri Leconte (75 62 61) |
| 5.6.1988 | Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle globe alone |
| 5.6.1988 | Laura Davies wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
| 5.6.1988 | Longest champagne cork flight is 177'9 in New York |
| 5.6.1988 | "Russian orthodox church celebrates 1,000th anniversary" |
| 5.6.1989 | 23rd Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton and Randy Travis |
| 5.6.1989 | "Billy Smith, last original New York Islander, retires" |
| 5.6.1989 | "Paul McCartney releases ""Flowers in the Dirt""" |
| 5.6.1989 | "Toronto Blue Jays Skydome stadium opens, Mil Brewers win 5-3" |
| 5.6.1990 | South African troops plunder Mandela's dwelling |
| 5.6.1991 | Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church |
| 5.6.1991 | Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 5.6.1991 | Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) launched |
| 5.6.1993 | 125th Belmont: Julie Krone aboard Colonial Affair wins in 2:29.8 |
| 5.6.1993 | 63rd French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M J Fernandez (46 62 64) |
| 5.6.1993 | Liberian Charles Taylors rebellion kills 550 fugitives |
| 5.6.1993 | """Livin' On The Edge"" by Aerosmith hits #18" |
| 5.6.1993 | "Singer Mariah Carey weds Tommy Mottola, CEO (Sony Music)" |
| 5.6.1993 | Somali warlord Aidids murders 23 Pakistani |
| 5.6.1994 | 64th French Mens Tennis: S Bruguera beats A Berasategui (63 75 26 61) |
| 5.6.1994 | 64th French Womens Tennis: A Sanchez Vicario beats M Pierce (64 64) |
| 5.6.1994 | 7th Children's Miracle Network Telethon |
| 5.6.1994 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic |
| 5.6.1994 | """Gray's Anatomy"" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 8 performances" |
| 5.6.1995 | 29th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Reba McEntire |
| 5.6.1996 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Memphis Tennessee on WMFS 92.9 FM |
| 6.6.1002 | German king Henry II the Saint crowned |
| 6.6.1242 | 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris |
| 6.6.1391 | "Inhabitants of Seville Spain massacres 5,000 Jews" |
| 6.6.1513 | Battle at Novara: Habsburgers vs Valois |
| 6.6.1520 | France and England sign treaty of Scotland |
| 6.6.1523 | Gustavus I becomes king of Sweden (Swedish National Day) |
| 6.6.1536 | Mexico begins it's inquisition |
| 6.6.1639 | Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill |
| 6.6.1654 | Queen Christina of Sweden resigns and converts to Catholicism |
| 6.6.1660 | Denmark and Sweden signs peace treaty |
| 6.6.1664 | New Amsterdam renamed New York City |
| 6.6.1665 | Battle at Monte Carlo: English and Portuguese army beat Spain |
| 6.6.1673 | France and Brandenburg sign peace treaty |
| 6.6.1716 | 1st slaves arrive in Louisiana |
| 6.6.1744 | France and Prussia sign peace treaty |
| 6.6.1752 | 3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks; 1/3 of city destroyed |
| 6.6.1772 | Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable settles Chicago |
| 6.6.1795 | "Fire destroy 1/3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured" |
| 6.6.1797 | Napoleon forms Ligurische Republic |
| 6.6.1801 | Peace of Badajoz: Spain-Portugal |
| 6.6.1809 | "Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established" |
| 6.6.1813 | U.S. invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek |
| 6.6.1816 | "10"" snowfall in New England, ""year without a summer"", Krakatoa" |
| 6.6.1831 | "2nd national black convention, Philadelphia" |
| 6.6.1844 | "Young Men's Christian Association, YMCA, forms in London" |
| 6.6.1850 | Levi Strauss made his 1st blue jeans |
| 6.6.1861 | Lincoln's cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers |
| 6.6.1862 | Battle of Memphis-city is surrendered |
| 6.6.1862 | "Battle of Port Royal, South Carolina, Port Royal Ferry" |
| 6.6.1862 | "Skirmish at Harrisonburg, Pennsylvania" |
| 6.6.1863 | "Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA and Williamsport, MD" |
| 6.6.1864 | "Battle of Lake Chicot, AR, Dutch Bayou" |
| 6.6.1872 | Susan B Anthony is fined for trying to vote |
| 6.6.1875 | Netherlands goes on the gold standard |
| 6.6.1882 | "Cyclone in Arabian Sea, Bombay, India, drowns 100,000" |
| 6.6.1882 | "Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, New York City" |
| 6.6.1885 | 19th Belmont: Paul Duffy aboard Tyrant wins in 2:43 |
| 6.6.1885 | "Opera ""Lakme"" is produced, Paris" |
| 6.6.1889 | Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks |
| 6.6.1890 | "United States Polo Association forms, New York City" |
| 6.6.1896 | 21st Preakness: Henry Griffin aboard Margrave wins in 1:51 |
| 6.6.1896 | George Samuelson leaves New York harbor to row across Atlantic |
| 6.6.1904 | "National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, New Jersey" |
| 6.6.1905 | French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request |
| 6.6.1911 | "Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to U.S., not ratified" |
| 6.6.1913 | "Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home 3 times" |
| 6.6.1914 | "1st air flight out of sight of land, Scotland to Norway" |
| 6.6.1916 | Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage |
| 6.6.1918 | "Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st U.S. victory of WW I" |
| 6.6.1919 | "Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910" |
| 6.6.1919 | Finland declares war on bolsheviks |
| 6.6.1920 | Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army |
| 6.6.1921 | "Detroit Stars' Bill Gatewood pitches the 1st no-hitter in Negro League history, defeating the Cuban Stars 4-0" |
| 6.6.1924 | 28th U.S. Golf Open: Cyril Walker shoots a 297 at Oakland Hills CC Mich |
| 6.6.1925 | "Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp, Iacocca is 8 months old" |
| 6.6.1926 | Egyptian government of Adly Pasha forms |
| 6.6.1931 | """There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time"" by Guy Lombardo hits #1" |
| 6.6.1931 | Yanks turn triple-play but lose 7-5 to Indians |
| 6.6.1932 | Carlos Davila coup against President Juan Montero of Chile |
| 6.6.1932 | Ijsselmeervogels soccer team forms in Spakenburg |
| 6.6.1932 | U.S. Federal gas tax enacted |
| 6.6.1933 | "1st drive-in theater opens, Camden, New Jersey" |
| 6.6.1933 | U.S. Employment Service created |
| 6.6.1934 | Securities and Exchange Commission established |
| 6.6.1934 | Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game |
| 6.6.1936 | 40th U.S. Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ |
| 6.6.1936 | 68th Belmont: James Stout aboard Granville wins in 2:30 |
| 6.6.1936 | "Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro, New Jersey" |
| 6.6.1937 | "Phillies trailing 8-2 to St. Louis, forfeit game" |
| 6.6.1939 | "New York Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 home runs in 4th inning" |
| 6.6.1939 | New York supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared dead |
| 6.6.1941 | 1st Navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched |
| 6.6.1941 | Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time |
| 6.6.1942 | "1st nylon parachute jump, Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray" |
| 6.6.1942 | 74th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Shut Out wins in 2:29.2 |
| 6.6.1942 | "Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway" |
| 6.6.1942 | "Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians" |
| 6.6.1944 | Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion |
| 6.6.1944 | "D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France" |
| 6.6.1944 | Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad |
| 6.6.1944 | "Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. receives congressional medal of honor" |
| 6.6.1944 | "U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 sink in Gulf of Biskaje" |
| 6.6.1945 | """Free People"" premieres in Amsterdam" |
| 6.6.1946 | 11 Basketball of America Association teams meet to schedule 1st season |
| 6.6.1946 | Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV |
| 6.6.1946 | "Martin Kresses begins publishing ""Eric the Viking"" comic strip" |
| 6.6.1947 | Treaty drawn for establishment of International Patent Institute |
| 6.6.1949 | """It Pays To Be Ignorant,"" game Show, debut on CBS-TV" |
| 6.6.1949 | "WKY (now KTVY) TV channel 4 in Oklahoma City, OK (NBC) 1st broadcast" |
| 6.6.1950 | German DR and Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border |
| 6.6.1954 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
| 6.6.1955 | "Bill Haley and Comets, ""Rock Around the Clock"" hits #1" |
| 6.6.1958 | Ozzie Virgil is 1st black to play as a Tiger |
| 6.6.1958 | Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French |
| 6.6.1960 | "Roy Orbison releases ""Only the Lonely""" |
| 6.6.1960 | South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill |
| 6.6.1960 | "Steve Allen Show,"" last airs on NBC-TV" |
| 6.6.1962 | "Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record ""Besame Mucho"" with Peter Best on drums" |
| 6.6.1964 | 96th Belmont: Manuel Ycaza aboard Quadrangle wins in 2:28.6 |
| 6.6.1964 | Beatles arrive in netherlands |
| 6.6.1965 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Blue Grass Golf Invitational |
| 6.6.1965 | Yankees Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive home runs beating White Sox 12-0 |
| 6.6.1966 | Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi |
| 6.6.1966 | Claus Von Bulow and Martha (Sunny) Crawford wed |
| 6.6.1966 | "Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with ""angry alligator""" |
| 6.6.1966 | NFL and AFL announce their merger |
| 6.6.1966 | "Stokely Carmichael launches ""Black Power"" movement" |
| 6.6.1967 | Israeli troops occupy Gaza |
| 6.6.1968 | "WKHA TV channel 35 in Hazard, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 6.6.1969 | "Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar" |
| 6.6.1970 | 102nd Belmont: John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34 |
| 6.6.1971 | "Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die" |
| 6.6.1971 | """Ed Sullivan Show"" last broadcasts on CBS-TV" |
| 6.6.1971 | John Lennon and Yoko Ono unannounced appearance at Fillmore East in New York City |
| 6.6.1971 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 6.6.1971 | Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station |
| 6.6.1971 | "WHAE (now WGNX) TV channel 46 in Atlanta, Georgia (CBN) begins broadcasting" |
| 6.6.1971 | Willie Mays hits record 22nd and last extra inning HR |
| 6.6.1972 | "David Bowie releases ""Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust""" |
| 6.6.1972 | Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie Rhodesia) |
| 6.6.1972 | Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London |
| 6.6.1972 | "U.S. bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed" |
| 6.6.1974 | 47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte |
| 6.6.1975 | British voters decide to remain in Common Market |
| 6.6.1975 | Nolan Ryan's bid for 2nd no-hitter broken in 6th inning |
| 6.6.1975 | Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established |
| 6.6.1976 | "30th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2" |
| 6.6.1976 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic |
| 6.6.1977 | Doobie Brothers sponsor a Golf Classic and Concert for United Way |
| 6.6.1977 | Joseph L Howze installed as bishop of Roman Catholic diocese (Miss) |
| 6.6.1977 | Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws |
| 6.6.1977 | Washington Post reports U.S. has developed neutron bomb |
| 6.6.1978 | Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57 percent |
| 6.6.1979 | 200th running of horse's Derby in England |
| 6.6.1979 | Josef Mengeles corpse excavated in Brazil |
| 6.6.1979 | Royal Air force receives 1st F-16 |
| 6.6.1979 | Willie Horton becomes 43rd player to hit 300 home runs in the majors |
| 6.6.1980 | Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe for Wimbledon title |
| 6.6.1981 | 113th Belmont: George Martens aboard Summing wins in 2:29 |
| 6.6.1981 | 51st French Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats Sylvia Hanika (62 64) |
| 6.6.1981 | Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial |
| 6.6.1982 | "30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO" |
| 6.6.1982 | 36th Tony Awards: Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and Nine win |
| 6.6.1982 | 52nd French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats G Vilas (16 76 60 64) |
| 6.6.1982 | "Bernard Glassman, installed as abbot of Zen Center of NY" |
| 6.6.1982 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA McDonald 's Golf Classic |
| 6.6.1983 | 17th Music City News Country Awards: Marty Robbins and Roy Acuff |
| 6.6.1983 | "Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland" |
| 6.6.1983 | Emmy 10th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 4th time |
| 6.6.1983 | Li Xiannian becomes pres/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR |
| 6.6.1983 | Nicaragua expels 3 U.S. diplomats |
| 6.6.1983 | Twins draft pitcher Tim Belcher #1 |
| 6.6.1984 | "1,200 die in Sikh ""Golden Temple"" uprising India" |
| 6.6.1985 | 55th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Navratilova (63 67 75) |
| 6.6.1985 | 58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu |
| 6.6.1985 | "Body of Nazi criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele located and exhumed" |
| 6.6.1985 | "Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts ""status"" of Aruba" |
| 6.6.1985 | Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station |
| 6.6.1986 | "Jurgen Schull sets world discus record, 74.07 m" |
| 6.6.1986 | "Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of North Carolina State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself" |
| 6.6.1987 | 119th Belmont: Craig Perret aboard Bet Twice wins in 2:28.2 |
| 6.6.1987 | 57th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (64 46 86) |
| 6.6.1987 | "New York Yankees play their 13,000th game" |
| 6.6.1988 | 22nd Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis and Statler Brothers |
| 6.6.1988 | 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant |
| 6.6.1989 | Mets turn their 1st triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4 |
| 6.6.1990 | 2nd International Rock Awards |
| 6.6.1990 | "For 2nd time this season, Cecil Fielder belts 3 home runs in a game" |
| 6.6.1990 | Stump Merrill replaces Bucky Dent as New York Yankee manager |
| 6.6.1991 | Albert Belle is shipped to minors for not running out a ground ball |
| 6.6.1991 | Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store |
| 6.6.1991 | "NBC announces Jay Leno will replace Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992" |
| 6.6.1991 | "Test Cricket debut of Graeme Hick, vs. West Indies at Headingley" |
| 6.6.1992 | 124th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard AP Indy wins in 2:26 |
| 6.6.1992 | 62nd French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf (62 36 10-8) |
| 6.6.1992 | Ben Vereen suffers injuries when hit by a car |
| 6.6.1992 | David Bowie and model Iman marry in Switzerland |
| 6.6.1992 | New York Met Eddie Murray sets RBI record by a switch hitter |
| 6.6.1992 | "WLAF World Bowl 2: Sacramento beats Orlando 21-17, Montreal" |
| 6.6.1993 | 47th Tony Awards: Angels in America and Kiss of the Spider Woman win |
| 6.6.1993 | 63rd French Mens Tennis: S Bruguera beats Jim Courier (64 26 62 36 63) |
| 6.6.1993 | 6th Children's Miracle Network Telethon |
| 6.6.1993 | Jane Geddes wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic |
| 6.6.1993 | Punsalmaagiyn Otsjirbat recognized as president of Mongolia |
| 6.6.1993 | Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected President of Guatemala |
| 6.6.1994 | 28th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Ray Stevens |
| 6.6.1994 | "6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez Colombia, about 1000 killed" |
| 6.6.1994 | Brian Lara scores 501 not out for Warwickshire vs Durham |
| 6.6.1994 | CD-councillor H Selhorst arrested for hard-drugs trade |
| 6.6.1994 | Cricketer Brian Lara hits record 501 not out/390 runs in 1 day |
| 6.6.1994 | "Tupolev-154M crashes at Xian China, 160 killed" |
| 6.6.1994 | Warwickshire score 4 for 810 declared against Durham |
| 6.6.1995 | 1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards |
| 6.6.1998 | 68th French Womens Tennis: |
| 7.6.421 | Eudocia A Athenais marries Oostromeins emperor Theodosius II |
| 7.6.555 | Vigilius ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 7.6.1099 | 1st Crusaders arrive in Jerusalem |
| 7.6.1340 | Rotterdam Netherlands founded |
| 7.6.1413 | King Ladislaw of Naples occupies Rome |
| 7.6.1494 | "Treaty of Tordesillas, Spain and Portugal divide America" |
| 7.6.1527 | Pope Clement VII surrenders to emperor Charles V's armies |
| 7.6.1546 | England signs Peace of Andres with Scotland/Ireland |
| 7.6.1557 | England declares war on France |
| 7.6.1601 | Louis Gunther of Nassau weds countess Anna Margaretha of Manderscheid |
| 7.6.1614 | "2nd parliament of King James I, dissolves passing no legislation" |
| 7.6.1628 | English king Charles I accepts Petition of Rights |
| 7.6.1654 | Louis XIV crowned King of France |
| 7.6.1672 | Battle by Solebay: Dutch adm M de Ruyter beats French/English fleet |
| 7.6.1692 | "Earthquake in Porte Royale, Jamaica, kills 3,000" |
| 7.6.1694 | English invasion army under Thomas Talmash reaches Brest |
| 7.6.1769 | Daniel Boone begins exploring Bluegrass State of Kentucky |
| 7.6.1775 | United Colonies change name to United States |
| 7.6.1776 | Richard Lee (VA) moves Decl of Independence in Continental Congress |
| 7.6.1780 | "Anti-Catholic riot in London, 100s die" |
| 7.6.1788 | Masses stone French government army at Grenoble |
| 7.6.1798 | Jews of Pesaro Italy fast commemorating murder of Jews |
| 7.6.1839 | Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed |
| 7.6.1860 | "1st U.S. ""dime novel"" published: ""Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter,"" by Mrs. Ann Stevens" |
| 7.6.1860 | "Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, San Francisco" |
| 7.6.1862 | Gen B. Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed and destroyed U.S. flag on display over New Orleans Mint |
| 7.6.1862 | "Skirmish at Union Church, Virginia (Peninsular)" |
| 7.6.1863 | "Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA-Jefferson Davis' home burnt" |
| 7.6.1863 | Mexico City captured by French troops |
| 7.6.1864 | Abe Lincoln renominated for President by Republican Party |
| 7.6.1866 | "Irish Fenians raid Pigeon Hill, Quebec" |
| 7.6.1873 | 7th Belmont: James Roe aboard Springbok wins in 3:01.75 |
| 7.6.1881 | 15th Belmont: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:47 |
| 7.6.1887 | "Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Washington D.C." |
| 7.6.1892 | John J Doyle of Clev Spiders is 1st to pinch hit in a baseball game |
| 7.6.1892 | Republican convention in Minneapolis begins |
| 7.6.1896 | G Harpo and F Samuelson leave New York to row the Atlantic (takes 54 days) |
| 7.6.1898 | "Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chic" |
| 7.6.1900 | Boer general Christian de Law occupiers British train depot Roodewal |
| 7.6.1905 | "Norway dissolves union with Sweden, in effect since 1814" |
| 7.6.1906 | "Chicago Cubs score 11 in 1st inning, beating New York Giants 19-0" |
| 7.6.1906 | Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches |
| 7.6.1909 | Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens |
| 7.6.1912 | "St. Pius X encyclical ""On Indians of South America""" |
| 7.6.1912 | U.S. Army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane |
| 7.6.1916 | "Germany troop march into Fort Faux, Verdun" |
| 7.6.1924 | 56th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Mad Play wins in 2:18.8 |
| 7.6.1924 | George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775' from Everest's summit |
| 7.6.1926 | Swedish government of Ekman forms |
| 7.6.1929 | Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st Dutch female minister (of Labor) |
| 7.6.1929 | Vatican City becomes a sovereign state |
| 7.6.1930 | 62nd Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:31.6 |
| 7.6.1932 | "Pitcher John Quinn, 47, is oldest player to have an extra-base hit (a double) and bat in a run, as the Dodgers beat the Cubs 9-2" |
| 7.6.1933 | "Balanchine/Weills ""7 Deadly Sins,"" premiers in Paris" |
| 7.6.1936 | Yanks beat Indians 5-4 in 16; longest game without a strikeout |
| 7.6.1938 | "1st play telecast with original Broadway cast, ""Susan and God""" |
| 7.6.1938 | "Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown, Eddie Allen" |
| 7.6.1939 | "1st king and queen of England to visit U.S., George VI and Elizabeth" |
| 7.6.1939 | "Cleveland Indians sets AL record of 16 inning game without striking out, however lose game 5-4 to New York Yankees" |
| 7.6.1940 | British/French troops evacuate Narvik |
| 7.6.1941 | 45th U.S. Golf Open: Craig Wood shoots a 284 at Colonial Club Ft. Worth |
| 7.6.1941 | "73rd Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway win in 2:31, triple crown" |
| 7.6.1942 | Battle of Midway ends: Adm Nimitz wins 1st WW II naval defeat of Japan |
| 7.6.1942 | Germany Armys march into Sebastopol |
| 7.6.1942 | "Japanese troops lands on Attu, Aleutian Islands" |
| 7.6.1944 | Achilles Veen soccer team forms in Veen |
| 7.6.1944 | Canadian 50th division occupies Bayeux |
| 7.6.1944 | Claus von Stauffenberg meets Hitler |
| 7.6.1946 | Pirates players vote 20-16 to walkout rather than play the Giants |
| 7.6.1946 | U.S. Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel |
| 7.6.1948 | Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; President Bernes resigns |
| 7.6.1948 | KVP wins Dutch Second-Parliamentary election |
| 7.6.1952 | """3 Wishes after Jamie"" closes at Mark Hellinger New York City after 94 performances" |
| 7.6.1952 | "7th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 5-4" |
| 7.6.1952 | 84th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard One Count wins in 2:30.2 |
| 7.6.1953 | "1st color network telecast in compatible color, Boston, Massachusetts" |
| 7.6.1953 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open |
| 7.6.1953 | Mary Terrell wins struggle to end segregation in Washington D.C. restaurants |
| 7.6.1953 | "WDAU (now WYOU) TV chan 22 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins" |
| 7.6.1954 | "1st microbiology laboratory dedicated, New Brunswick, New Jersey" |
| 7.6.1955 | "1st President to appear on color TV, Eisenhower" |
| 7.6.1955 | """$64,000 Question"" premieres on CBS TV" |
| 7.6.1955 | India premier Nehru visit U.S.S.R. |
| 7.6.1956 | Singapore government of Marshall resigns |
| 7.6.1957 | Mickey Stewart holds 7 cricket catches for Surrey vs. Northants |
| 7.6.1958 | 90th Belmont: Pete Anderson aboard Cavan wins in 2:30.2 |
| 7.6.1958 | Battles between Turkish and Greeks Cypriots break out |
| 7.6.1959 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
| 7.6.1959 | KLX-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KEWB (now KNEW) |
| 7.6.1962 | "NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m" |
| 7.6.1963 | "1st Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars) and release 1st single, ""Come on""" |
| 7.6.1964 | Beatles travel canals of Amsterdam |
| 7.6.1965 | Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits |
| 7.6.1965 | "Morocco King Hassan suspends constitution, grabs power" |
| 7.6.1965 | "Sony Corp introduced its home video tape recorder, priced at $995" |
| 7.6.1965 | Supreme Court rules 1879 Connecticut law ban of contraceptives unconstitutional |
| 7.6.1966 | New York Mets pass up Reggie Jackson to draft Steve Chilcott #1 |
| 7.6.1967 | 2 Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of minors |
| 7.6.1967 | "Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem, Jericho and Bethlehem" |
| 7.6.1967 | New York Yankees draft Ron Blomberg #1 |
| 7.6.1968 | Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination |
| 7.6.1969 | 101st Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Arts and Letters wins in 2:28.8 |
| 7.6.1969 | Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash combine on a Grand Ole Opry TV special |
| 7.6.1969 | """Johnny Cash Show,"" debuts on ABC-TV" |
| 7.6.1969 | "Tommy James and Shondells release ""Crystal Blue Persuasion""" |
| 7.6.1969 | Washington Senators draft Jeff Burroughs #1 |
| 7.6.1970 | "22nd Emmy Awards: Marcus Welby, Robert Young and Susan Hampshire" |
| 7.6.1970 | "Jockey Willie Shoemaker passes Johnny Longden with his 6,033 win" |
| 7.6.1970 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 7.6.1970 | "The Who's ""Tommy"" is performed at New York's Lincoln Center" |
| 7.6.1971 | Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut |
| 7.6.1972 | German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel |
| 7.6.1972 | """Grease"" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 3,388 performances" |
| 7.6.1972 | "Hsan Hua, Zen teacher, conducted 1st ordination ceremony in America" |
| 7.6.1972 | "Pirate's Gene Alley bases-loaded walk, beats Padres 1-0 in 18th" |
| 7.6.1973 | Rangers draft Texas high school pitcher David Clyde #1 |
| 7.6.1974 | Padres draft Brown University shortstop Bill Almon #1 |
| 7.6.1975 | "Dennis Lillee takes 1st one-day 5WI, 5-34 vs. Pakistan World Cup" |
| 7.6.1975 | "Spain's Manuel Orantes wins U.S. Open, beating Jimmy Connors in 3 sets" |
| 7.6.1975 | "Sri Lanka's 1st one-day international, vs. WI Cricket World Cup" |
| 7.6.1975 | """Thank God I'm a Country Boy,"" by John Denver hits #1" |
| 7.6.1976 | "NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor and David Brinkley, premieres" |
| 7.6.1977 | Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law |
| 7.6.1977 | White Sox draft Harold Baines #1 |
| 7.6.1978 | "32nd NBA Championship: Washington Bullets beat Sea Supersonics, 4 games to 3" |
| 7.6.1978 | Emmy 5th Daytime Award presentation |
| 7.6.1979 | 52nd National Spelling Bee: Katie Kerwin wins spelling maculature |
| 7.6.1979 | "Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched" |
| 7.6.1979 | Portugal government of Mota Pinto resigns |
| 7.6.1979 | Rocker Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion |
| 7.6.1980 | 112th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Temperence Hill wins in 2:29.8 |
| 7.6.1980 | 50th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Vitas Gerulaitis (64 61 62) |
| 7.6.1980 | """Billy Bishop Goes to War"" closes at Morosco New York City after 12 performances" |
| 7.6.1980 | """Cars,"" by Gary Numan hits #9" |
| 7.6.1980 | Jeff Norman runs world record 50k (2:48:06) |
| 7.6.1980 | John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg for U.S. Open |
| 7.6.1980 | "Tommy John wins his 200th, 3-0 on a 2-hitter" |
| 7.6.1981 | 35th Tony Awards: Amadeus and 42nd Street win |
| 7.6.1981 | 51st French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats I. Lendl (61 46 62 36 61) |
| 7.6.1981 | Israeli F-15's and F-16's destroys Iraqi plutonium production facility |
| 7.6.1981 | Sandra Post wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Classic |
| 7.6.1982 | 16th Music City News Country Awards: Barbara Mandrell |
| 7.6.1982 | "Habres rebel army occupies capital of Chad, N'djamena" |
| 7.6.1982 | "Los Angeles Dodger Steve Garvey is 5th to play in 1,000 consecutive games" |
| 7.6.1982 | "New York Mets draft Dwight Gooden, Roger McDowell and Randy Myers" |
| 7.6.1982 | President Reagan meets Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth |
| 7.6.1982 | "Steve Garvey plays in his 1,000th consecutive game and goes 0-for-4" |
| 7.6.1983 | "Steve Carlton temporarily passes Nolan Ryan with his 3,552 strike out" |
| 7.6.1986 | "Madonna's ""Live to Tell,"" single goes #1" |
| 7.6.1986 | Pirates draft 3rd baseman Jeff King #1 |
| 7.6.1986 | 118th Belmont: Chris McCarron aboard Danzig Connect wins in 2:29.8 |
| 7.6.1986 | 56th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 63 63) |
| 7.6.1986 | Air Supply guitarist Graham Russell weds Jodi Varble |
| 7.6.1987 | 41st Tony Awards: Fences and Les Miserables win |
| 7.6.1987 | 57th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (75 62 36 76) |
| 7.6.1987 | Andy Van Slyke home runs off R McDowell in both ends of double header |
| 7.6.1987 | Betsy King wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
| 7.6.1988 | Aluminum contaminates Cornish England's water supply |
| 7.6.1989 | "1st 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" |
| 7.6.1989 | 23 year old olympic barefoot South African runner Zola Budd retires |
| 7.6.1989 | Atlanta Fulton County Comm approves $210M stadium for the Falcons |
| 7.6.1989 | "For one second this morning, the time is 01:23:45, 6-7-89" |
| 7.6.1989 | Suriname SLM-173 (DC-8) crashes near Paramaribo Airport killing 173 |
| 7.6.1989 | Wayne Gretzky wins his 9th NHL Hart (MVP) Trophy in 10 years |
| 7.6.1990 | Michael Jackson hospitalized for chest pains |
| 7.6.1990 | South Africa President F W de Klerk lifts 4 year of state of emergency |
| 7.6.1991 | Singer Jimmy Osmond weds Michelle Larson |
| 7.6.1992 | 62nd French Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats Petr Korda (75 62 61) |
| 7.6.1992 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
| 7.6.1992 | """Small Family Business"" closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 48 performances" |
| 7.6.1993 | 27th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Vince Gill |
| 7.6.1993 | Cleveland breaks ground for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| 7.6.1993 | "Crickets Graham Gooch dismissed handled the ball vs. Aust, Old Trafford" |
| 7.6.1993 | Prince celebrated his birthday by changing his name to a symbol |
| 7.6.1994 | "A's outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 1,100th career base" |
| 7.6.1996 | "Julia and Noah wed on ""All My Children""" |
| 7.6.1997 | 129th Belmont: Chris McCarron aboard Touch Gold wins in 2:28.8 |
| 7.6.1997 | 67th French Womens Tennis: Iva Majoli beats Martina Hingis (64 62) |
| 7.6.1997 | "Cosmos 2344 Proton-K Launch (Russia), Failed" |
| 7.6.1997 | Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep the Philadelphia Flyers |
| 8.6.65 | "Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem" |
| 8.6.68 | Rome Senate accepts emperor Galba |
| 8.6.452 | Italy invaded by Attila the Hun |
| 8.6.536 | St. Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 8.6.570 | Religion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca |
| 8.6.793 | Vikings plunder St. Cuthbert convent Lindisfarne |
| 8.6.979 | "Louis V de Luie, crowned King of France" |
| 8.6.1551 | Pope Julius III excommunicates Duke Ottario Farnese of Parma |
| 8.6.1624 | Earthquake strikes Peru |
| 8.6.1632 | Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sittard |
| 8.6.1663 | Battle at Amegical: English and Portugese fleet beats Spanish |
| 8.6.1694 | "English troop landing at Brest attack, 300 killed" |
| 8.6.1761 | British fleet occupies Belle Britain |
| 8.6.1783 | Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption |
| 8.6.1786 | "Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised, Mr Hall, New York City" |
| 8.6.1815 | 39 German states unite under Act of Confederation |
| 8.6.1824 | Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec |
| 8.6.1829 | "1st U.K. municipal swimming pool outside of London, opens in Liverpool" |
| 8.6.1834 | HMS Beagle sails from Port Famine to Cape Turn |
| 8.6.1846 | Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu |
| 8.6.1856 | Pitcairn Islanders arrive on Norfolk Island |
| 8.6.1861 | People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union |
| 8.6.1861 | U.S. Sanitary Commission is given executive approval |
| 8.6.1862 | "Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia" |
| 8.6.1865 | "Tristanderl und Zusholde, premieres" |
| 8.6.1869 | Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner |
| 8.6.1872 | Congress endorses penny post card |
| 8.6.1878 | 12th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:43 |
| 8.6.1882 | 16th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Forester wins in 2:43 |
| 8.6.1886 | 1st Civil Rights Act passes |
| 8.6.1889 | "Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure ""Boscombe Valley Mystery""" |
| 8.6.1892 | Homer A. Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy vs. Ferguson) |
| 8.6.1900 | "Start of Sherlock Holmes ""Adventure of 6 Napoleons""" |
| 8.6.1911 | Belgium government of Schollaert falls |
| 8.6.1914 | "34.7 degrees F (1.5 degrees C) in De Bilt, Netherlands" |
| 8.6.1915 | "92 degrees F (33.3 degrees C) in De Bilt, Netherlands" |
| 8.6.1915 | William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State |
| 8.6.1917 | Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School |
| 8.6.1918 | "Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered" |
| 8.6.1920 | "Reds' Edd Roush falls asleep in center during long infield argument Heinie Groh goes to wake him, but ump ejects Roush for delay of game" |
| 8.6.1921 | "Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, and held in jail until 4 PM" |
| 8.6.1927 | Tony Lazzeri hits 3 home runs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11 |
| 8.6.1928 | 1st U.S. to Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford) |
| 8.6.1929 | 61st Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins in 2:32.8 |
| 8.6.1929 | "Venezuelan rebel Rafael Urbina overthrows Fort Amsterdam, Curaeao kidnap governor Fruytier" |
| 8.6.1931 | Duke and Duchess of Kent wed |
| 8.6.1931 | Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo |
| 8.6.1933 | A's Jimmie Foxx homers his 1st 3 at bats for 4 consecutive HRs |
| 8.6.1935 | "39th U.S. Golf Open: Sam Parks, Jr. shoots a 299 at Oakmont CC PA" |
| 8.6.1935 | 67th Belmont: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:30.6 |
| 8.6.1935 | Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds and leaves the game |
| 8.6.1936 | 1st parking meters are invented |
| 8.6.1937 | "World's largest flower blooms in New York Botanical Garden, 12' calla lily" |
| 8.6.1939 | British king George VI visits U.S. |
| 8.6.1940 | 72nd Belmont: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 2:29.6 |
| 8.6.1940 | "Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced" |
| 8.6.1940 | "Last British troops leave Narvik, Norway" |
| 8.6.1941 | English and French troop overthrow pro-German Syria |
| 8.6.1942 | "Bing Cosby records ""Silent Night""" |
| 8.6.1944 | 1st SS-Pantser corps counter attacks at Normandy |
| 8.6.1944 | Allies occupy Port-and-Bessin Normandy |
| 8.6.1944 | Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested |
| 8.6.1944 | "Gen Montgomery lands in Normandy, forms HQ in Chateau de Creully" |
| 8.6.1946 | """Lute Song"" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 142 performances" |
| 8.6.1946 | Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia |
| 8.6.1948 | """Milton Berle Show"" premieres on NBC TV" |
| 8.6.1948 | """Sally"" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 36 performances" |
| 8.6.1949 | Siam changes name to Thailand |
| 8.6.1950 | Boston Red Sox beat St. Louis Browns 29-4 (win by record 25 runs) |
| 8.6.1950 | Jean Duvieusart becomes Belgian premier |
| 8.6.1950 | Test Cricket debut of Ramadhin and Valentine (8-104 1st inn) vs. England |
| 8.6.1952 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Women's Golf Open |
| 8.6.1953 | Cluster of 6 tornadoes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113 |
| 8.6.1953 | Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court |
| 8.6.1953 | Tornadoes kill 110 in Mich and Ohio |
| 8.6.1955 | Dodgers option Tommy Lasorda to make room on roster for Sandy Koufax |
| 8.6.1956 | Lim Yem Hock forms Singapore government |
| 8.6.1956 | "WDAM TV channel 7 in Laurel-Hattiesburg, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 8.6.1958 | 4th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright |
| 8.6.1959 | "1st official ""missile mail"" lands, Jacksonville, Florida" |
| 8.6.1959 | "X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m" |
| 8.6.1960 | "1st date in James Clavell's novel ""Nobel House""" |
| 8.6.1960 | Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann |
| 8.6.1961 | "English prince Edward, Duke of Kent, weds Katharine Worsley" |
| 8.6.1961 | "Milwaukee sets record of 4 consecutive home runs (Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron Joe Adcock and Frank Thomas)" |
| 8.6.1961 | "Test Cricket debut of William Morris Lawry, vs. Eng at Edgbaston, 57" |
| 8.6.1962 | Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8) |
| 8.6.1963 | 95th Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:30.2 |
| 8.6.1963 | American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes |
| 8.6.1963 | """Mr. President"" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 265 performances" |
| 8.6.1965 | A's draft Rick Monday #1 |
| 8.6.1965 | U.S. troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam |
| 8.6.1965 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 6; missed Moon |
| 8.6.1966 | NFL and AFL announce plans to become NFC and AFC in 1970 |
| 8.6.1967 | "Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 U.S. crewmen" |
| 8.6.1968 | 1st reduced-gravity golf game is played on the Moon |
| 8.6.1968 | Bermuda adopts its constitution |
| 8.6.1968 | Don Drysdale pitches a record 58th consecutive scoreless inning |
| 8.6.1968 | "Gary Puckett and Union Gap release ""Lady Will Power""" |
| 8.6.1968 | "James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, captured" |
| 8.6.1968 | New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted |
| 8.6.1968 | "Rolling Stones release ""Jumpin' Jack Flash""" |
| 8.6.1969 | "21st Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Don Adams and Susan St. James" |
| 8.6.1969 | Brian Jones leaves The Rolling Stones |
| 8.6.1969 | General Franco closes Spain's frontier with Gibraltar |
| 8.6.1969 | "KDNL TV channel 30 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting" |
| 8.6.1969 | "Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired (I was there-BTG)" |
| 8.6.1969 | "Nixon says 25,000 U.S. troops would leave Vietnam by end of August" |
| 8.6.1969 | Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones |
| 8.6.1969 | """Smothers Brothers comedy Hour,"" last airs on CBS-TV" |
| 8.6.1969 | Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 8.6.1970 | "Players and management end labor dispute up min salary to $12,000" |
| 8.6.1971 | North Vietnam demands U.S. end aid to South Vietnam |
| 8.6.1971 | "White Sox draft Danny Goodwin #1, he refuses to sign" |
| 8.6.1972 | "Padres draft Dave Roberts #1, Indians draft Rick Manning #2" |
| 8.6.1972 | "Test Cricket debut of Tony Greig, vs. Australia at Old Trafford (57/62)" |
| 8.6.1973 | Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain |
| 8.6.1974 | 106th Belmont: Miguel Rivera aboard Little Current wins in 2:29.2 |
| 8.6.1974 | "Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group ""Yes""" |
| 8.6.1974 | U.S. and Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract |
| 8.6.1975 | 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35 |
| 8.6.1975 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic |
| 8.6.1975 | U.S.S.R. launches Venera 9 for Venus landing |
| 8.6.1976 | Houston Astros draft Floyd Bannister #1 |
| 8.6.1977 | Nolan Ryan notches his 4th career 19-strikeout game |
| 8.6.1978 | 51st National Spelling Bee: Peg McCarthy wins spelling deification |
| 8.6.1978 | Braves draft Bob Horner #1 |
| 8.6.1978 | "Nevada jury rules Howard Hughes ""Mormon Will"" is a forgery" |
| 8.6.1979 | Mariners draft Al Chambers #1 |
| 8.6.1979 | """The Source,"" 1st computer public information service, goes on-line" |
| 8.6.1979 | "Wings release ""Back to the Egg"" album" |
| 8.6.1980 | 26th LPGA Championship won by Sally Little |
| 8.6.1980 | 34th Tony Awards: Children of a Lesser God and Evita win |
| 8.6.1980 | 50th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Virginia Ruzici (60 63) |
| 8.6.1980 | """It's So Nice to Be Civilized"" closes at Martin Beck New York City after 8 performances" |
| 8.6.1981 | 15th Music City News Country Awards: Mandrell Sisters |
| 8.6.1981 | Seattle Mariners draft Mike Moore #1 |
| 8.6.1982 | "36th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers, 4 games to 2" |
| 8.6.1982 | Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die |
| 8.6.1982 | Emmy 9th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 3rd time |
| 8.6.1982 | Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament |
| 8.6.1983 | "Charlos Vieira begins 191 hr ""nonstop"" cycling in Leiria, Portugal" |
| 8.6.1983 | Marlies Gohr runs female European record 100m (10.81) |
| 8.6.1983 | """Trading Places,"" ""Ghostbusters,"" and ""Gremlins,"" premieres" |
| 8.6.1985 | 117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27 |
| 8.6.1985 | "Pirates score 10 in top of 1st, but lose 15-11 to Phillies, as Steve becomes 1st Phillie to switch hit home runs in same game" |
| 8.6.1986 | "40th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Hous Rockets, 4 games to 2" |
| 8.6.1986 | 56th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mikael Pernfors (63 62 64) |
| 8.6.1986 | Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected President of Austria |
| 8.6.1986 | """Big Deal"" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 70 performances" |
| 8.6.1986 | Juli Inkster wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
| 8.6.1986 | "Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Baltimore Orioles beat Yankees 18-9" |
| 8.6.1987 | 21st Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis |
| 8.6.1987 | Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall tesifies at Iran-Contra hearing |
| 8.6.1988 | Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20% |
| 8.6.1989 | "Pirates score 10 in 1st (their best inning since 1942), prompts Pirate Jim Rooker to say he would walk from Pitts to Philadelphia if Pirates lost, Phillies beat them 15-11, Rooker walks at end of season broadcaster" |
| 8.6.1990 | """It's Garry Shandling's Show,"" last airs on Fox-TV" |
| 8.6.1990 | Phil Bradley hits 18th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history |
| 8.6.1991 | 123rd Belmont: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 2:28 |
| 8.6.1991 | 61st French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A S Vicario (63 64) |
| 8.6.1991 | College World Series: Louisiana State defeats Wichita State 6-3 |
| 8.6.1991 | Former New York Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds |
| 8.6.1991 | """Our Country's Good"" closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 48 performances" |
| 8.6.1991 | "Victory parade held in Washington D.C., Persian Gulf War" |
| 8.6.1991 | "Warren Schutte, is 1st non American to win NCAA Div 1 golf title" |
| 8.6.1992 | 26th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson and Garth Brooks |
| 8.6.1992 | New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for 7th time |
| 8.6.1992 | Thomas Klestil succeeds Waldheim as president of Austria |
| 8.6.1993 | Premier Marc Bazin of Haiti resigns |
| 8.6.1994 | 7.8 earthquake strikes North Bolivia |
| 8.6.1995 | """Buttons on Broadway"" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 40 performances" |
| 8.6.1996 | 128th Belmont: Rene Douglas aboard Editor's Note wins in 2:28.96 |
| 8.6.1996 | "66th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats A S Vicario (63, 67, 108)" |
| 8.6.1996 | China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 8.6.1996 | Dean Jones takes career-best 5-112 for Derbyshire vs. Hampshire |
| 8.6.1996 | Lloyd and Titchard complete 358 stand for 4th wkt Lancs vs. Essex |
| 8.6.1996 | PBA National Championship Won by Butch Soper |
| 8.6.1997 | 67th French Mens Tennis: Gustavo Kuerten beats S Bruguera (63 64 62) |
| 8.6.1997 | BellSouth Senior Golf Classic at Opryland |
| 8.6.1997 | Justin Leonard wins golf's Kemper Open at TPC at Avenel |
| 8.6.1997 | Pat Hurst wins LPGA Oldsmobile Classic |
| 8.6.1997 | """Young Man From Atlanta"" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 85 performances" |
| 9.6.641 | Arabic/Islamic army contrasts with the Hippo over Alexandria |
| 9.6.922 | "French republic chooses Robert I, King of France" |
| 9.6.1075 | Battle at Homburg/Unstrut: German king Henry IV beats Saksen |
| 9.6.1456 | 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
| 9.6.1525 | Tax revolt in Hertogenbosch |
| 9.6.1529 | Zurich declares war on Catholic kantons |
| 9.6.1531 | Pope Clemens VII and Francois I sign secret treaty against Karel V |
| 9.6.1534 | Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St. Lawrence River |
| 9.6.1549 | Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England |
| 9.6.1549 | England enforces Act of Supremacy |
| 9.6.1572 | Willem van Oranges army occupies Gelderland |
| 9.6.1588 | Spanish Armada sails from Lisbon to England |
| 9.6.1628 | "1st deportation from what is now U.S., Thomas Morton from Mass" |
| 9.6.1720 | Sweden and Denmark signs 3rd Treaty of Stockholm |
| 9.6.1732 | Royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe |
| 9.6.1742 | "Battle of Bloody Marsh-Spanish assault on Simons Island, Georgia" |
| 9.6.1752 | French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly India |
| 9.6.1772 | "1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, RI" |
| 9.6.1772 | 1st Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion |
| 9.6.1784 | John Carroll appointed supervisor of U.S. Catholic Missions |
| 9.6.1789 | Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I |
| 9.6.1790 | "1st book copyrighted under constitution, ""Philadelphia Spelling Book""" |
| 9.6.1822 | Charles Graham patents false teeth |
| 9.6.1860 | "1st ""dime"" novel issued ""Malaesk The Indian Wife of the White Hunter""" |
| 9.6.1862 | "Battle of Port Republic, last of 5 battles in Jacksons Valley camp" |
| 9.6.1863 | "Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia, Fleetwood, Beverly Ford" |
| 9.6.1864 | "Battle of Big Shanty, Georgia" |
| 9.6.1864 | "Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, Pine Mt, Pine Knob, Golgotha" |
| 9.6.1865 | "Battle of Grand Gulf, Mississippi" |
| 9.6.1868 | "1st meeting of Board of Regents, University of California" |
| 9.6.1869 | "Charles Elmer Hires sells his 1st root beer, Philadelphia" |
| 9.6.1870 | Washington: President Grant meets with Sioux chief Red Cloud |
| 9.6.1877 | 11th Belmont: C Holloway aboard Cloverbrook wins in 2:46 |
| 9.6.1883 | 17th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard George Kinney wins in 2:42 |
| 9.6.1883 | 1st commercial electric railway line begins operation in Chicago |
| 9.6.1887 | 21st Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Hanover wins in 2:43 |
| 9.6.1888 | 22nd Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Sir Dixon wins in 2:40 |
| 9.6.1890 | "Opera ""Robin Hood"" premieres in Chicago" |
| 9.6.1891 | "Painter Gauguin arrives in Papeete, Tahiti" |
| 9.6.1892 | 26th Belmont: W Hayward aboard Patron wins in 2:12 |
| 9.6.1898 | China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years |
| 9.6.1899 | James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 11 for heavywgt boxing title |
| 9.6.1901 | New York Giants get record 31 hits to beat Cin Reds 25-13 |
| 9.6.1902 | "1st Automat restaurant opens, 818 Chestnut St, Philadelphia" |
| 9.6.1906 | Boston Beaneaters (NL) end 19-game losing streak beat Cards 6-3 |
| 9.6.1910 | "Passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard, found June 6, 1983 in Queensland" |
| 9.6.1914 | "Honus Wagner, is 2nd to get 3,000 hits" |
| 9.6.1919 | General steel strike in France |
| 9.6.1923 | 55th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:19 |
| 9.6.1923 | Brinks unveils 1st armored security vans |
| 9.6.1923 | Bulgarian premier Stamboeliski and King Boris III overthrown |
| 9.6.1924 | """Jelly-Roll Blues,"" is recorded by blues great, Jelly Roll Morton" |
| 9.6.1928 | 60th Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Vito wins in 2:33.2 |
| 9.6.1928 | Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm are 1st to fly across the Pacific when they end their flight from California to Brisbane |
| 9.6.1929 | Venezuelan rebel Urbina lets Dutch/Curacaose hostages free |
| 9.6.1930 | "Paavo Nurmi runs world record 6 mile, 29:36.4" |
| 9.6.1931 | "1st rocket-powered aircraft design patented, Robert Goddard" |
| 9.6.1931 | 1st showing of a Donald Duck cartoon |
| 9.6.1933 | Spanish president Zamora takes power |
| 9.6.1933 | Walter Johnson takes over as Cleveland manager |
| 9.6.1934 | "1st Donald Duck cartoon, Wise Little Hen, released" |
| 9.6.1934 | 38th U.S. Golf Open: Olin Dutra shoots a 293 at Merion Cricket Club PA |
| 9.6.1934 | 66th Belmont: Wayne D Wright aboard Peace Chance wins in 2:29.2 |
| 9.6.1934 | "Donald Duck made his 1st screen appearance (""The Wise Little Hen"")" |
| 9.6.1934 | Lawson Little beats Gene Sarazen by 3 strokes for U.S. Open |
| 9.6.1936 | Olin Dutra beats Gene Sarazen by 1 stroke for U.S. Open |
| 9.6.1936 | "Page Miss Glory (1936), premieres in USA" |
| 9.6.1938 | Second Chamber agrees to return Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 9.6.1940 | 44th U.S. Golf Open: Lawson Little shoots a 287 at Canterbury GC OH |
| 9.6.1940 | General Charles de Gaulle's 1st meeting with Winston Churchill |
| 9.6.1940 | Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II |
| 9.6.1941 | "Ammunition plant at Fort Smederovo in Belgrade explodes; kills 1,500" |
| 9.6.1941 | Archbishop De Young bans priest cooperation on Rijks radio |
| 9.6.1942 | Adipatie Ario Soejono becomes minister in Gerbrandy government |
| 9.6.1942 | "German-Neth press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe" |
| 9.6.1942 | "Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, Czechoslovakia" |
| 9.6.1943 | U.S. income tax withholding paycheck deductions authorized |
| 9.6.1944 | Russian offensive in Carelia |
| 9.6.1945 | "71st Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hoop, Jr. wins in 2:07" |
| 9.6.1945 | Australian troops lands in Brunei Bay North-Borneo |
| 9.6.1945 | "Following an 8-7 win over the Phils, Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher is arrested on a complaint by a fan that Durocher slugged him" |
| 9.6.1945 | """Gruesome Twosome,"" premieres in USA" |
| 9.6.1946 | "19 guests at Canfield Hotel die in fire, Dubuque, Iowa" |
| 9.6.1946 | "66,545 fans help Yanks break million attendance mark, the earliest" |
| 9.6.1946 | "Bhumibol Adulyadej, becomes king of Thailand" |
| 9.6.1946 | Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 9.6.1946 | New York Giant Mel Ott is 1st mgr ejected from both games of a doubleheader |
| 9.6.1948 | "WBZ TV channel 4 in Boston, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 9.6.1949 | Mrs Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas becomes 1st woman treasurer of U.S. |
| 9.6.1951 | """Doodles Weaver Show,"" debuts on NBC-TV" |
| 9.6.1953 | """Milton Berle Show/Texaco Star Theater,"" last airs on NBC-TV" |
| 9.6.1953 | South African premier Malan visits Netherlands |
| 9.6.1953 | "Worcester County tornado, 94 killed, 1310 injured, 10,000 homeless" |
| 9.6.1954 | "Joseph Welch asks Sen Joseph McCarthy ""Have you no sense of decency, sir?"" during Senate-Army hearings" |
| 9.6.1955 | 100 degrees F - Hottest day in Seattle Washington |
| 9.6.1955 | "Test Cricket debut of Ken Barrington, vs. South Africa, Trent Bridge" |
| 9.6.1956 | "Heavy earthquake strikes Afghanistan, 400 killed" |
| 9.6.1957 | Anthony Eden resigns as British PM |
| 9.6.1958 | """Purple People Eater"" by Sheb Wooley hits #1" |
| 9.6.1959 | "1st ballistic missile sub launched, George Washington" |
| 9.6.1960 | ABC and AFL sign a 5 year contract |
| 9.6.1960 | "Typhoon Mary in China killed at least 1,600" |
| 9.6.1961 | Ryne Duren sets AL record with 7 straight strikeouts against Red Sox |
| 9.6.1962 | 94th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Jaipur wins in 2:28.8 |
| 9.6.1962 | """Bill of Hare,"" premieres in U.S." |
| 9.6.1962 | Tony Bennett debuts in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City |
| 9.6.1963 | 1st Sunday night game in baseball San Francisco Giants lose to Houston Colts 3-0 |
| 9.6.1963 | Barbara Romack wins LPGA Rock City Ladies Golf Open |
| 9.6.1963 | "Barbra Streisand appears on ""Ed Sullivan Show""" |
| 9.6.1963 | Colt .45s beat Giants 3-0 in major leagues' 1st Sunday night game |
| 9.6.1963 | Equal Pay Act enacted |
| 9.6.1963 | John F. Kennedy names Winston Churchill U.S. honorary citizen |
| 9.6.1963 | "Movie ""Cleopatra"" opens in New York" |
| 9.6.1964 | Jack Nicklaus wins British Open golf tournament |
| 9.6.1965 | "Frenchman, Machal Jazy, runs record mile in 3:53.6" |
| 9.6.1966 | "5 Minnesota Twins (Rich Rollins, Zolio Versailes, Tony Oliva, Don Michner, and Harmon Killebrew) all homer in 7th inning to beat A's 9-4" |
| 9.6.1967 | "Boycott scores 246* vs. India, Leeds, 573 minutes, 29 fours 1 six" |
| 9.6.1967 | Israeli troops reach Suez Canal |
| 9.6.1967 | Monkees appear at Hollywood Bowl |
| 9.6.1968 | 38th French Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats R Laver (63 61 26 62) |
| 9.6.1968 | 38th French Womens Tennis: Nancy Richey beats Anne H Jones (57 64 61) |
| 9.6.1968 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational |
| 9.6.1968 | Yugoslav president Tito promises reforms |
| 9.6.1969 | Brian Jones quits (sic) Rolling Stones because of his drug problems |
| 9.6.1969 | Warren Burger confirmed as U.S. Chief Justice |
| 9.6.1970 | Argentine milt junta under lt-gen Lanusse drives out President Ongania |
| 9.6.1970 | Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton |
| 9.6.1970 | "Harry A. Blackmun, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice" |
| 9.6.1971 | Abdul Zahir appointed premier of Afghanistan |
| 9.6.1971 | "Paul McCartney's album ""Ram"" goes gold" |
| 9.6.1972 | "14"" of rain in 6 hours burst Rapid City, South Dakota dam, drowns 237" |
| 9.6.1972 | Bruce Springsteen signs a record deal with Columbia |
| 9.6.1973 | 105th Belmont: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 2:24 |
| 9.6.1974 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Desert Inn Golf Classic |
| 9.6.1974 | "Supergroup Blind Faith's (Clapton, Windwood, Baker) 1st concert" |
| 9.6.1975 | 107th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Avatar wins in 2:28.2 |
| 9.6.1975 | Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners and 1 guard (Sanford Fla) |
| 9.6.1975 | House of Commons is broadcast live by radio for 1st time |
| 9.6.1975 | "Tony Orlando and Dawn receives gold record for ""He Don't Love You""" |
| 9.6.1977 | 50th National Spelling Bee: John Paola wins spelling cambist |
| 9.6.1977 | George and Patti Harrison divorce |
| 9.6.1977 | Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks |
| 9.6.1978 | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood |
| 9.6.1978 | "Gutenberg Bible, 1 of 21, sells for $2.4 million, London" |
| 9.6.1978 | Larry Holmes beats Ken Norton in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 9.6.1979 | 111th Belmont: Ruben Hernandez aboard Coastal wins in 2:28.6 |
| 9.6.1979 | 49th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Wendy Turnbull (62 60) |
| 9.6.1979 | "Michael Cairney topples a record row of 169,713 dominoes" |
| 9.6.1979 | Phillies wear burgundy uniforms for 1st and last time |
| 9.6.1979 | Willie Horton is honored at Seattle's Kingdome |
| 9.6.1980 | 14th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers and Loretta Lynn |
| 9.6.1980 | Comedian Richard Pryor suffers burns from free basing cocaine |
| 9.6.1980 | Phillies and San Francisco Giants end their game at 3:11 AM |
| 9.6.1980 | Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth |
| 9.6.1982 | General Efrain Rios Montt declares himself president of Guatemala |
| 9.6.1982 | Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley |
| 9.6.1983 | 56th National Spelling Bee: Blake Giddens wins spelling purim |
| 9.6.1983 | Margaret Thatchers Conservative Party wins British parliamentary election |
| 9.6.1983 | "Zimbabwe win their 1st one-day cricket international, vs. Australia" |
| 9.6.1984 | "116th Belmont: Laffit Pincay, Jr. aboard Swale wins in 2:27.2" |
| 9.6.1984 | 54th French Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats C Evert (63 61) |
| 9.6.1984 | "Cyndi Lauper's 1st #1 ""Time After Times""" |
| 9.6.1984 | Donald Ducks 50th birthday celebrated at Disneyland |
| 9.6.1984 | "Jurgen Hingsen of W Germany sets record for decathlon, 8,798 pts" |
| 9.6.1984 | Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD |
| 9.6.1984 | Weird Al Yankovic gives a live performance at Starlight Amphitheater |
| 9.6.1985 | "39th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2" |
| 9.6.1985 | 55th French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (36 64 62 62) |
| 9.6.1985 | Alice Miller wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
| 9.6.1985 | American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped and held hostage in Lebanon |
| 9.6.1985 | Bernard Hinault wins Tour de France |
| 9.6.1985 | U.S.S.R.'s Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus |
| 9.6.1986 | 20th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers and Loretta Lynn |
| 9.6.1986 | Angel Don Sutton (298 wins) beats White Sox Tom Seaver (306 wins) 3-0 |
| 9.6.1986 | Dow Jones-index hits record 45.71 points |
| 9.6.1986 | Rogers Comm report on Challenger disaster blames Morton Thiokol |
| 9.6.1988 | Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to U.K. |
| 9.6.1989 | Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of Oklahoma's football |
| 9.6.1989 | Michael Changs French Open win makes him youngest male to go to finals |
| 9.6.1989 | Rare tornado in Philadelphia kills 1 |
| 9.6.1989 | """Star Trek V: The Final Frontier,"" premieres in USA" |
| 9.6.1990 | 122nd Belmont: Michael Kinane aboard Go and Go wins in 2:27.2 |
| 9.6.1990 | 60th French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf (76 64) |
| 9.6.1990 | Czechoslovakia beats U.S. 5-1 in World Cup soccer |
| 9.6.1990 | Dodger Eddie Murray ties Mickey Mantle with switch hit home runs in 10 games |
| 9.6.1990 | Kerry Kennedy (daughter of Robert) and Andrew Coumo (Mario's son) wed |
| 9.6.1990 | Michael Jackson is hospitalized with inflamed rib cartilage |
| 9.6.1990 | Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf for French Open title |
| 9.6.1991 | 61st French Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats A Agassi (36 64 26 61 64) |
| 9.6.1991 | 9th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jim Albus |
| 9.6.1991 | Bruce Springsteen weds his backup singer Patty Scialfa |
| 9.6.1991 | "Jack La Lanne, 76, arrested for suspicion of DWI" |
| 9.6.1991 | Jane Geddes wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic |
| 9.6.1991 | WLAF 1st world bowl London Monarchs defeat Barlecona Dragons 21-0 |
| 9.6.1993 | """Ce que femme veut"", premieres in France" |
| 9.6.1993 | Japanese crown prince Naruhito weds Masaka Owada |
| 9.6.1993 | "Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Los Angeles Kings, 4 games to 1" |
| 9.6.1993 | Tickets for Indians 1st season in Jacobs Field go on sale |
| 9.6.1993 | """Tout capour ca!"", premieres in France" |
| 9.6.1993 | """What's Love Got to Do with It"", premieres" |
| 9.6.1994 | 5.6 earthquake strikes South-Mexico |
| 9.6.1994 | Angolan plane bombs school in Waku Kungo (89 killed) |
| 9.6.1995 | """Congo"" premieres in USA" |
| 9.6.1996 | "66th French Mens Tennis: Yevgeny Kafelnikov beats M Stich (76, 75, 76)" |
| 9.6.1996 | Michelle McGann wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic |
| 9.6.1996 | Sunday League game Kent 6-314 overhaul Leicestershire's 4-311 |
| 9.6.1997 | British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires |
| 9.6.1997 | Detroit Tigers bat out of order against Oakland A's in 1st inning |
| 10.6.1358 | French boer leader Guillaume Cale captured |
| 10.6.1538 | Catholic German monarchy signs League of Neurenberg |
| 10.6.1540 | Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminister |
| 10.6.1605 | Valse Dimitri crowned Russian tsar for 1st time |
| 10.6.1610 | "1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island" |
| 10.6.1624 | Netherlands and France sign anti-Spanish Treaty of Compiegne |
| 10.6.1627 | Piet Heyn conquerors 38 ships at bay of Salvador |
| 10.6.1639 | 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware) |
| 10.6.1648 | Moscow's people uprise against regent Boris Morozov |
| 10.6.1652 | "In Boston, John Hull opens the 1st mint in America" |
| 10.6.1682 | Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3' diameter oak tree |
| 10.6.1720 | Mrs. Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard |
| 10.6.1752 | Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock! |
| 10.6.1760 | New York passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine |
| 10.6.1761 | "Puritan version of ""Othello"" opens in Newport Rhode Island" |
| 10.6.1772 | "Burning of Gaspee, British revenue cutter, by Rhode Islanders" |
| 10.6.1776 | Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Decl of Ind |
| 10.6.1793 | 1st public zoo opens in Paris |
| 10.6.1793 | Washington replaced Philadelphia as U.S. capital |
| 10.6.1794 | "Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, forms" |
| 10.6.1794 | France revolutionary regime begins trials |
| 10.6.1801 | Tripoli declares war on U.S. for refusing tribute |
| 10.6.1809 | 1st U.S. steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves New York for Phila |
| 10.6.1818 | "Pesaro opera theater opens with Rossini's ""La gaza ladra""" |
| 10.6.1826 | "Sultan Mahmud II rebellious elite corp, slaughter 20,000 in Turkey" |
| 10.6.1834 | HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin sails Pacific Ocean |
| 10.6.1846 | Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire |
| 10.6.1847 | Chicago Tribune begins publishing |
| 10.6.1848 | 1st telegraph link between New York City and Chicago |
| 10.6.1848 | Battle at Vicenza: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte |
| 10.6.1850 | Millard Fillmore sworn-in as president of U.S. (replacing Taylor) |
| 10.6.1854 | Georg F B Reiman proposes that space is curved |
| 10.6.1857 | England passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system |
| 10.6.1861 | "Battle of Big Bethel Virginia (Bethel Church, Great Bethal)-Union retreats" |
| 10.6.1863 | "Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Miss; Forrest w/3500 defeats 8000 Feds" |
| 10.6.1864 | "Battle of Kellar's Bridge Kentucky, Licking River" |
| 10.6.1864 | "Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia" |
| 10.6.1865 | "Wagner's ""Tristan und Isolde"" 1st performance Munich Germany" |
| 10.6.1868 | 2nd Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard General Duke wins in 3:02 |
| 10.6.1869 | 'Agnes' arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef |
| 10.6.1871 | 5th Belmont: W Miller aboard Harry Basset wins in 2:56 |
| 10.6.1876 | 10th Belmont: William Donohue aboard Algerine wins in 2:40 |
| 10.6.1880 | Charlie Jones becomes 1st to hit 2 home runs in 1 inning |
| 10.6.1882 | Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans |
| 10.6.1890 | 24th Belmont: Pike Barnes aboard Burlington wins in 2:07.75 |
| 10.6.1891 | 25th Belmont: Ed Garrison aboard Foxford wins in 2:08.75 |
| 10.6.1892 | Wilbert Robinson sets record by going 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game |
| 10.6.1893 | 27th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Commanche wins in 1:53 |
| 10.6.1898 | "U.S. Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War" |
| 10.6.1899 | Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati |
| 10.6.1902 | Patent for window envelope granted to H F Callahan |
| 10.6.1905 | "1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Maine" |
| 10.6.1908 | "1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of New York, opens" |
| 10.6.1911 | Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam |
| 10.6.1915 | British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon |
| 10.6.1915 | Girl Scouts founded |
| 10.6.1916 | 48th Belmont: E Haynes aboard Friar Rock wins in 2:22 |
| 10.6.1916 | Great Arab Revolt begin |
| 10.6.1917 | "60,000 people of Petrograd welcome Prince Kropotkin, banned 41 years" |
| 10.6.1917 | Limburgse mine workers strike |
| 10.6.1921 | "Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120, Gavvy Cravath" |
| 10.6.1922 | 54th Belmont: C H Miller aboard Pillory wins in 2:18.8 |
| 10.6.1924 | 1st political convention broadcast on radio - Republicans at Cleveland |
| 10.6.1926 | Phillies Russ Wrightstone hits for the cycle |
| 10.6.1930 | Winnipeg Rugby Football Club forms |
| 10.6.1931 | Norway occupies East-Greenland |
| 10.6.1932 | 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass |
| 10.6.1932 | 67th British Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 283 at Prince's England |
| 10.6.1933 | 37th U.S. Golf Open: Johnny Goodman shoots a 287 at North Shore Ill |
| 10.6.1933 | 65th Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Hurryoff wins in 2:32.6 |
| 10.6.1934 | Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome |
| 10.6.1934 | U.S.S.R. and Romania regain diplomatic relations |
| 10.6.1935 | Dr. Robert Smith and William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous |
| 10.6.1938 | Charlie Barnett makes 98 by lunch vs. Australia at Trent Bridge |
| 10.6.1940 | French government moves to Bordeaux |
| 10.6.1940 | "German ""Dutch Q-ship Atlantis"" sinks Norwegian tanker" |
| 10.6.1940 | German 5th Armour division occupies Rouen |
| 10.6.1940 | Italy declares war on France and Britain during WW II |
| 10.6.1942 | "Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia), Gestapo kills 173" |
| 10.6.1942 | "Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich" |
| 10.6.1943 | Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country during wartime |
| 10.6.1944 | "Joe Nuxhall, 15, of Cin Reds is youngest player in major league" |
| 10.6.1944 | "Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France" |
| 10.6.1945 | "U.S. destroyer William D. Porter (""Willie Dee"") sunk by kamikaze" |
| 10.6.1946 | Italian Republic established |
| 10.6.1946 | "Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, ends term as 1st director of CIA Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, becomes 2nd director of CIA" |
| 10.6.1949 | Istvan Dobi becomes Hungarian premier |
| 10.6.1950 | 50th U.S. Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Merion Golf Club PA |
| 10.6.1950 | 82nd Belmont: William Boland aboard Middleground wins in 2:28.6 |
| 10.6.1950 | Germany doesn't annex Oder-Neissegrens |
| 10.6.1952 | Chicago White Sox Sam Mele is 6th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th) |
| 10.6.1952 | St. Louis Browns fire manager Rogers Hornsby |
| 10.6.1954 | "KQED TV channel 9 in SF, California (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 10.6.1954 | PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting |
| 10.6.1955 | 1st separation of virus into component parts reported |
| 10.6.1955 | "KWEX TV channel 41 in San Antonio, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting" |
| 10.6.1956 | 16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm |
| 10.6.1956 | Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
| 10.6.1957 | 3rd LPGA Championship won by Louise Suggs |
| 10.6.1957 | Harold MacMillan becomes British PM |
| 10.6.1957 | John Diefenbacker (C) elected PM of Canada |
| 10.6.1959 | Rocky Colovito hits 4 consecutive home runs in 1 game |
| 10.6.1962 | A record 54 home runs hit in baseball |
| 10.6.1962 | "Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of U.S.S.R., sets then long jump record at 27' 3""" |
| 10.6.1962 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Austin Civitan Golf Tournament |
| 10.6.1963 | John F. Kennedy signs law for equal pay for equal work for men and women |
| 10.6.1964 | Rolling Stones record their 12x5 album at Chess Studios in Chicago |
| 10.6.1964 | Southern Democrats filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked |
| 10.6.1966 | "Beatles ""Paperback Writer"" is released in U.K." |
| 10.6.1966 | "Beatles record ""Rain,"" 1st to use reverse tapes" |
| 10.6.1966 | "Cleveland Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Washington Senator, 2-0" |
| 10.6.1966 | "Janis Joplin's 1st live concert, Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco" |
| 10.6.1966 | "Mamas and Papas win gold record for ""Monday, Monday""" |
| 10.6.1967 | "15,000 attend Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival, California" |
| 10.6.1967 | "Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt end ""6-Day War"" with United Nations help" |
| 10.6.1967 | U.S.S.R. drops diplomatic relations with Israel |
| 10.6.1968 | AL games at Balt and Chicago postponed honoring Robert Kennedy |
| 10.6.1968 | """Danny Thomas Hour,"" last airs on NBC-TV" |
| 10.6.1968 | "KCFW TV channel 9 in Kalispell, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 10.6.1968 | "WHTV (now WTZH) TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (NBC/CBS) 1st broadcast" |
| 10.6.1971 | "11 die in a train crash in Salem, Illinois" |
| 10.6.1971 | 44th National Spelling Bee: Jonathan Knisely wins spelling shalloon |
| 10.6.1972 | 104th Belmont: Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:28 |
| 10.6.1972 | Elvis Presley records a live album at New York's Madison Square Garden |
| 10.6.1972 | Hank Aaron's grandslammer (14) ties him for NL lead with Gil Hodges and moves him ahead of Willie Mays as #2 HR hitter (649) |
| 10.6.1973 | 19th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills |
| 10.6.1973 | NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit |
| 10.6.1974 | Mike Schmidt hits a ball off public address speaker on Astrodome roof |
| 10.6.1974 | Rumor's government in Italy resigns |
| 10.6.1975 | "Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans" |
| 10.6.1975 | "Yanks sponsor Army Day at temporary home, Shea Stadium during 21-gun salute, part of fence is blown away, and another part is set afire" |
| 10.6.1976 | 49th National Spelling Bee: Tim Kneale wins spelling narcolepsy |
| 10.6.1976 | "67,000 fans attends Wings concert at Seattle's Kingdome" |
| 10.6.1977 | Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II |
| 10.6.1977 | James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison |
| 10.6.1978 | 110th Belmont: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 2:26.8 |
| 10.6.1978 | Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis |
| 10.6.1979 | 25th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young |
| 10.6.1979 | 49th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Victor Pecci (63 61 67 64) |
| 10.6.1979 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 8th triple play (5-4-3 vs Cleve) |
| 10.6.1979 | Pope John Paul II visits Poland |
| 10.6.1981 | IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail |
| 10.6.1981 | "Pete Rose ties Stan Musial's NL record of 3,630 hits" |
| 10.6.1981 | Sebastian Coe of England sets 800m record (1:41.73) in Florence |
| 10.6.1981 | Seven Brothers Square in Bronx named honoring 7 Santini Bro Moving Co |
| 10.6.1982 | Battle of Sultan Yakoub - 3 IDF members captured |
| 10.6.1982 | Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut |
| 10.6.1982 | John N McMahon replaces Bobby R Inman becomes deputy director of CIA |
| 10.6.1982 | """Taxi,"" last airs on ABC, moves to NBC in the fall" |
| 10.6.1984 | "38th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3" |
| 10.6.1984 | 54th French Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (36 26 64 75 75) |
| 10.6.1984 | "Ivan Lendl wins French Open, his 1st grand slam title" |
| 10.6.1984 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA McDonald's Kids Golf Classic |
| 10.6.1984 | U.S. missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time |
| 10.6.1984 | "Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 7'10"" (2.39m)" |
| 10.6.1985 | "19th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers, B Mandrell" |
| 10.6.1985 | Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife |
| 10.6.1985 | Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula |
| 10.6.1985 | French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior near NZ |
| 10.6.1986 | A. Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's NL |
| 10.6.1987 | Discovery's SRBs and External Tank are mated |
| 10.6.1988 | "Greatest number of participants, 31,678, on a bicycle tour, London" |
| 10.6.1989 | 121st Belmont: Pat Day aboard Easy Goer wins in 2:26 |
| 10.6.1989 | "59th French Womens Tennis: A Sanchez Vicario beats S Graf (76 36 75) favored Steffi Graf, also 1st Spaniard to win a grand slam title" |
| 10.6.1989 | """Tales From The Crypt,"" TV Anthology, debuts on HBO" |
| 10.6.1990 | 60th French Mens Tennis: Andres Gomez beats A Agassi (63 26 64 64) |
| 10.6.1990 | 8th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jack Nicklaus |
| 10.6.1990 | """Accomplice"" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City after 52 performances" |
| 10.6.1990 | Burger King begins using Newman's Own Salad Dressing |
| 10.6.1990 | Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers for 1st time since 1974 in Portland |
| 10.6.1990 | """Meet Me in St. Louis"" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 253 performances" |
| 10.6.1990 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
| 10.6.1990 | Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Florida for obscenity |
| 10.6.1991 | 25th Music City News Country Awards: Ricky Van Shelton |
| 10.6.1991 | Mother of All Parades - New York City welcomes desert storm troops |
| 10.6.1991 | South Florida and Denver picked for 1993 NL franchises |
| 10.6.1991 | """Twin Peaks"" airs on ABC-TV" |
| 10.6.1992 | Intelsat K launched |
| 10.6.1992 | """Price"" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 47 performances" |
| 10.6.1993 | """She Loves Me"" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 61 performances" |
| 10.6.1994 | Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg/(237) 2.5 m) at Aarle-Rixtel |
| 10.6.1994 | China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 10.6.1994 | "Jennifer Capriati, tennis ace, checks out of drug abuse clinic" |
| 10.6.1995 | 127th Belmont: Gary Stevens aboard Thunder Gulch wins in 2:32 |
| 10.6.1995 | 65th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graff beats A.S. Vicario (76 46 60) |
| 10.6.1995 | """Month in the Country"" closes at Roundabout Theater New York City after 79 performances" |
| 10.6.1995 | "Orioles Jeff Manto, hits his 4th consecutive homer" |
| 10.6.1996 | 30th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson |
| 10.6.1996 | Colorado Avalanche sweeps Florida Panthers by winning 1-0 in 6 periods |
| 10.6.1996 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toledo OH on WBUZ 106.5 FM |
| 10.6.1996 | Intel releases 200 mhz pentium chip |
| 10.6.1996 | Stanley Cup: Colorado Avalanche sweep Florida Panthers in 4 games |
| 10.6.1997 | "Feng Yun-2B Long March 3 Launch (China), Successful" |
| 10.6.1997 | Kevin Brown of Florida Marlins no hits San Francisco Giants 9-0 |
| 11.6.1231 | Harderwijk becomes a city |
| 11.6.1488 | "Battle of Sauchieburn, Scotland" |
| 11.6.1509 | King Henry VIII marries wife #1 Catharina of Aragon |
| 11.6.1517 | Sir Thomas Pert reaches Hudson Bay |
| 11.6.1572 | Spanish co-land guardian duke of Medinaceli arrives in Lock |
| 11.6.1578 | England grants Sir Humphrey Gilbert a patent to explore and colonize US |
| 11.6.1644 | Florentine scientist describe invention of barometer |
| 11.6.1666 | Vierdaagse Sea battle (Ruyter-Monk vs Prince Ruprecht) |
| 11.6.1676 | Battle at land: Danish and Dutch fleet under CM Tromp beats Sweden |
| 11.6.1685 | "James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, rebels against Catholic king James II" |
| 11.6.1690 | English king Willem III departs to Ireland |
| 11.6.1699 | "England, France and Netherlands agree on 2nd Extermination treaty of Spain" |
| 11.6.1726 | Cardinal Fleury succeeds duke of Bourbon as French premier |
| 11.6.1742 | Benjamin Franklin invents his Franklin stove |
| 11.6.1770 | Capt. James Cook discovers Great Barrier Reef off Australia |
| 11.6.1774 | Jews of Algiers escape attack of Spanish Army |
| 11.6.1776 | Continental Congress create a committee to draft Decl of Independence |
| 11.6.1788 | 1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound |
| 11.6.1793 | 1st American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick |
| 11.6.1816 | Gas Light Co of Baltimore founded |
| 11.6.1838 | Iowa Territory is organized |
| 11.6.1859 | "Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City, Nevada" |
| 11.6.1864 | 300' (90 m) of Meigg's Wharf washed away in storm |
| 11.6.1864 | Battle at Cynthiana Kentucky: Gen Hobsons unit caught |
| 11.6.1864 | "Battle of Laurel Hill, West Virginia" |
| 11.6.1864 | "Battle of Trevillian Station, Virginia, Central Railroad" |
| 11.6.1864 | "Battle of Trevillian Station, Virginia, Central Railroad" |
| 11.6.1864 | Confederate warship CSS Alabama runs into harbor of Cherbourg |
| 11.6.1870 | 1st-stone Amstel Brewery opens in Amsterdam |
| 11.6.1876 | Republicans pick Rutherford B Hayes as presidental candidate |
| 11.6.1878 | "DC is given a new government by Congress, 3 commissioners appointed by president (change in 1974)" |
| 11.6.1891 | Puerto Rican flag adopted |
| 11.6.1895 | Charles E Duryea patents a gas-driven automobile |
| 11.6.1896 | U.S. Assay Office in Deadwood South Dakota authorized |
| 11.6.1898 | 1st U.S. Marines land in Cuba during Spanish-American War |
| 11.6.1898 | 23rd Preakness: Willie Simms aboard Sly Fox wins in 1:49.75 |
| 11.6.1898 | 600 U.S. Marines land at Guantanamo Cuba |
| 11.6.1898 | Emperor De Zong proclaims reforms in Peking |
| 11.6.1900 | Battle at Diamond Hill: British troops chase General Botha |
| 11.6.1901 | Cook Islands annexed and proclaimed part of New Zealand |
| 11.6.1904 | "Cub's Bob Wicker no-hits New York Giants, wins in 12th on 1 hitter, 1-0" |
| 11.6.1904 | "German Lt-Gen Lothar von Trotha lands in Swapokmund, SW-Africa" |
| 11.6.1905 | Penns Railroad debuts fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs) |
| 11.6.1907 | Northants all out for 12 vs. Gloucestershire |
| 11.6.1911 | Tigers trailing White Sox 13-1 come back to win 16-15 |
| 11.6.1911 | UNIA founded by Garvey |
| 11.6.1919 | 23rd U.S. Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Brae Burn CC Mass |
| 11.6.1919 | 51st Belmont: J Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:17.6 and Trip Crown |
| 11.6.1920 | Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for president |
| 11.6.1921 | 53rd Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Grey Lag wins in 2:16.8 |
| 11.6.1921 | Brazil adopts women suffrage |
| 11.6.1924 | Bene Brak Palestine founded |
| 11.6.1924 | Koos Vorrink elected President of AJC |
| 11.6.1927 | 59th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Chance Shot wins in 2:32.6 |
| 11.6.1927 | Babe Ruth hits 19th and 20th of 60 HRs |
| 11.6.1927 | Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross |
| 11.6.1928 | "Alfred Hitchcock's 1st film, ""Case Of Jonathan Drew,"" is released" |
| 11.6.1934 | Disarmament conference in Geneva fails |
| 11.6.1936 | Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia |
| 11.6.1937 | "Marx Brothers' ""A Day At The Races"" released" |
| 11.6.1938 | 42nd U.S. Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 284 at Cherry Hills Denver |
| 11.6.1938 | "Cincinnati Red Johnny Vander Meer no-hits Boston Braves, 3-0" |
| 11.6.1938 | Compton scores 1st Test Cricket ton (102 vs. Aust) aged 20 years 19 days |
| 11.6.1938 | Earthquake in Belgium |
| 11.6.1938 | England declare at 8 for 658 vs. Australia at Trent Bridge |
| 11.6.1939 | "King and Queen of England taste 1st ""hot dogs"" at FDR's party" |
| 11.6.1940 | Italy declares war on allies/raids Malta |
| 11.6.1940 | Premier Winston Churchill flies to Orleans |
| 11.6.1941 | 2nd great raid on Jews of Amsterdam |
| 11.6.1941 | "Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews" |
| 11.6.1942 | German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa |
| 11.6.1942 | U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II |
| 11.6.1943 | "British invades Pantelleria, tiny island south of Sicily" |
| 11.6.1943 | Heinrich Himmler orders liquidation of Polish ghettos |
| 11.6.1944 | 15 U.S. aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas |
| 11.6.1944 | "1st Serbian Orthodox cathedral in U.S., Cathedral of St. Sava, New York City" |
| 11.6.1944 | KP gang surprise attack on Dome Arnhem jail |
| 11.6.1947 | "WW II sugar rationing finally endd in U.S., began May 28, 1942" |
| 11.6.1949 | 49th U.S. Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 286 at Medinah CC ILL |
| 11.6.1949 | 81st Belmont: Ted Atkinson aboard Capot wins in 2:30.2 |
| 11.6.1949 | "Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m, 29:28.2" |
| 11.6.1950 | Ben Hogan wins U.S. Open golf tournament |
| 11.6.1951 | Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal |
| 11.6.1951 | New York Times reports the New York City subway will auction off things found |
| 11.6.1953 | """Amos 'n Andy,"" TV Comedy, also radio from '29; last aired on CBS" |
| 11.6.1955 | 1st magnesium jet airplane flies |
| 11.6.1955 | 87th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Nashua wins in 2:29 |
| 11.6.1955 | "Le Mans race car accident kills 83 spectators, race continues" |
| 11.6.1957 | 12 die in a train crash in Vroman Colo |
| 11.6.1958 | U.N. Security council sends observers to Lebanon |
| 11.6.1959 | "Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by U.S. Court of Appeals in Mar 1960)" |
| 11.6.1960 | 92nd Belmont: Bill Hartack aboard Celtic Ash wins in 2:29.2 |
| 11.6.1960 | House packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30 (Pakistan) |
| 11.6.1961 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
| 11.6.1961 | Norm Cash becomes 1st Det Tiger to hit a ball out of Tiger Stadium |
| 11.6.1961 | Roger Maris hits 19th and 20th of 61 HRs |
| 11.6.1961 | """Winston Churchill,"" last airs on ABC-TV" |
| 11.6.1962 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted an honorary degree from Yale |
| 11.6.1963 | Gov Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at University of Alabama |
| 11.6.1963 | Greek government of Karamanlis resigns |
| 11.6.1963 | "John F. Kennedy says segregation is morally wrong and that it is ""time to act""" |
| 11.6.1964 | Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference |
| 11.6.1964 | Manfred Mann record Do Wah Diddy Diddy |
| 11.6.1964 | "Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend" |
| 11.6.1964 | West Germany seeks talks with Czechoslovakia |
| 11.6.1966 | French and German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry |
| 11.6.1966 | """I Am A Rock"" by Simon and Garfunkel peaks at #3" |
| 11.6.1966 | """(I'm A) Road Runner"" by, Jr. Walker and The All-Stars peaks at #20" |
| 11.6.1966 | Janis Joplin plays her 1st gig in San Francisco |
| 11.6.1966 | """On A Clear Day You..."" closes at Mark Hellinger New York City after 280 performances" |
| 11.6.1966 | """Paint It, Black"" by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1" |
| 11.6.1966 | """Skyscraper"" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 248 performances" |
| 11.6.1966 | """Sloop John B"" by The Beach Boys hit #1 in U.K." |
| 11.6.1967 | A. J. Foyt and Dan Gurney drove a Ford to victory in Le Mans |
| 11.6.1967 | Chicago Cubs (7) and New York Mets (4) tie record of 11 home runs in a game |
| 11.6.1967 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
| 11.6.1967 | Race riot in Tampa Florida; National Guard mobilizes |
| 11.6.1969 | "David Bowie releases ""Space Oddity""" |
| 11.6.1969 | """The Ballad Of John and Yoko"" by The Beatles hit #1 in UK" |
| 11.6.1970 | U.S. leaves Wheelus AFB Libya |
| 11.6.1971 | U.S. and Japan sign accord to return Okinawa to Japan |
| 11.6.1971 | U.S. ends ban on China trade |
| 11.6.1972 | 18th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Ahern |
| 11.6.1972 | 31 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June |
| 11.6.1972 | "KPAT-AM in Berkeley, California returns from KRE" |
| 11.6.1974 | "Mel Stottlemyre's AL record 272nd consecutive start, without relief" |
| 11.6.1975 | 1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield |
| 11.6.1975 | Greece adopts constitution |
| 11.6.1975 | "One-day international cricket debut, Javed Miandad age 17 years 364 days" |
| 11.6.1976 | Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa |
| 11.6.1976 | Australian band AC/DC begin their 1st headline tour of Britain |
| 11.6.1976 | "Beatles ""Rock and Roll Music"" LP is released in USA" |
| 11.6.1976 | """Magnificent Marble Machine,"" last airs on NBC-TV" |
| 11.6.1977 | 109th Belmont: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 2:29.6 |
| 11.6.1977 | """Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Fat Woman)"" by Joe Tex hits #12" |
| 11.6.1977 | """Dance and Shake Your Tambourine"" by Universal Robot Band peaks at #93" |
| 11.6.1977 | Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland |
| 11.6.1977 | "ELO releases ""Telephone Line""" |
| 11.6.1977 | """I'm Your Boogie Man"" by Kansas City and Sunshine Band peaks at #1" |
| 11.6.1977 | Main Street Electrical Parade premieres at Disney |
| 11.6.1978 | 24th LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez |
| 11.6.1978 | Bjorn Borg wins French Open Title |
| 11.6.1978 | Christa Tybus of London sets record of 24 hours of hula-hoop |
| 11.6.1978 | """Grease"" starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John opens" |
| 11.6.1978 | "Joseph Freeman, Jr. is 1st black priest in Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints" |
| 11.6.1979 | "Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months" |
| 11.6.1980 | K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service (SF) |
| 11.6.1981 | "Mariners beat Orioles 8-2 at Kingdome, then players go on strike" |
| 11.6.1982 | Israel and Syria stop fighting in Lebanon |
| 11.6.1982 | Larry Holmes TKOs Gerry Cooney in 13 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 11.6.1982 | "Movie ""ET the Extra-Terrestrial"" released (highest grossing film)" |
| 11.6.1982 | Pope John Paul II visits Argentina |
| 11.6.1983 | "Don Genalo needs just 3 of 5 pins to win Southern California Open bowling tournament, miscalculates his score and intentionally gutters his ball" |
| 11.6.1983 | """Faithfully"" by Journey peaks at #12" |
| 11.6.1983 | """My Love"" by Lionel Richie peaks at #5" |
| 11.6.1983 | """Theme From Doctor Detroit"" by Devo peaks at #59" |
| 11.6.1983 | """When I'm With You"" by Sheriff peaks at #61" |
| 11.6.1983 | Zhu Jianhua of China set a new world record in high jump at 7-9 14 |
| 11.6.1983 | "115th Belmont: Laffit Pincay, Jr. aboard Caveat wins in 2:27.8" |
| 11.6.1983 | """Always Something There To Remind Me"" by Naked Eyes peaks at #8" |
| 11.6.1983 | Cards outfielder Lonnie Smith checks into a drug rehab |
| 11.6.1983 | """Cool Places"" by Sparks and Jane Wiedlin peaks at #49" |
| 11.6.1984 | Funeral for S Nakagawa and burial of half of his ashes |
| 11.6.1984 | Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally |
| 11.6.1985 | Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus |
| 11.6.1985 | "Von Hayes becomes 21st to hit 2 HRS in an inning (Phils-26, Mets-7)" |
| 11.6.1985 | WJW-AM/TV in Cleveland Ohio change call letters to WRMR |
| 11.6.1986 | Amnesty International megaconcert |
| 11.6.1986 | """Blacke's Magic,"" last airs on NBC-TV" |
| 11.6.1987 | Margaret Thatcher is 1st British Prime Minister in 160 years to win 3rd term |
| 11.6.1988 | 120th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 2:26.6 |
| 11.6.1988 | "25th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 11-7" |
| 11.6.1988 | """Everything Your Heart Desires"" by Daryl Hall and John Oates peaks at #3" |
| 11.6.1988 | Freedomfest - Mandela addresses Wembley Stadium London |
| 11.6.1988 | "Galina Chistyakova of U.S.S.R. sets long jump woman's record (24""8"")" |
| 11.6.1988 | """Rooty Toot Toot"" by John Cougar Mellencamp peaks at #61" |
| 11.6.1988 | """We All Sleep Alone"" by Cher peaks at #14" |
| 11.6.1988 | Yanks' Rick Rhoden becomes 1st pitcher to DH (0 for 1 with an RBI) |
| 11.6.1989 | 59th French Mens Tennis: Michael Chang beats S Edberg (61 36 46 64 62) |
| 11.6.1989 | 7th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Orville Moody |
| 11.6.1989 | Robin Hood 16 wins LPGA Planters Pat Bradley Points Golf International |
| 11.6.1990 | Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress |
| 11.6.1990 | "Nolan Ryan pitches his 6th no-hitter beating Oakland, in 9th he retires Ken Phelps, Rickey Henderson and Willie Randolph (all ex Yanks)" |
| 11.6.1990 | Supreme Court says law prohibiting desecration of U.S. flag unconstitutional |
| 11.6.1990 | U.N. appoints Olivia Newton-John environmental ambassador |
| 11.6.1991 | Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0 |
| 11.6.1992 | Owners approve sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group |
| 11.6.1992 | "Tracy Austin, 29, is youngest inductee of International Tennis Hall of Fame" |
| 11.6.1992 | "U.S. Olympic baseball team plays 1st exhibtion game, beat Venez 20-0" |
| 11.6.1993 | """Scattergories,"" game show; last airs on NBC-TV" |
| 11.6.1993 | """Scrabble,"" second run,"" TV Game Show; last airs on NBC-TV" |
| 11.6.1994 | 126th Belmont: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 2:26.8 |
| 11.6.1994 | "Cbox is 39'115 long, 20'85 wide, and 8' high in Jacksonville, Florida Largest popcorn container is 6,619.76 cubic feet full of popped corn" |
| 11.6.1994 | Drunken officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun Sweden |
| 11.6.1994 | """Meet The Flintstones"" by The BC 52's peaks to #33" |
| 11.6.1994 | Moshood Abiola becomes President of Nigeria |
| 11.6.1995 | 65th French Mens Tennis: Thomas Muster beats Michael Chang (75 62 64) |
| 11.6.1995 | Julie Larsen wins Edina Realty LPGA Golf Classic |
| 11.6.1995 | Rondell White has six hits and hits for the cycle in 13-innings |
| 11.6.1996 | "Bob Dole, Sen-R-KS, resigns from U.S. senate to run for president" |
| 12.6.28 | Gaius Carrinas' triumphant procession through Rome |
| 12.6.1442 | King Alfonso V of Aragon occupies Naples |
| 12.6.1523 | Frisian rebel leader Jancko Douwama arrested |
| 12.6.1534 | "Turkish adm Chaireddin ""Barbarossa"" allows Giulia Gonzaga to kidnap and plunder Naples" |
| 12.6.1552 | Land guardians of Netherlands attacks Verdun |
| 12.6.1553 | "King Edward VI accept archbishop Cranmers ""42 Articles""" |
| 12.6.1575 | William of Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon |
| 12.6.1653 | Battle at North Foreland: English fleet beats Dutch |
| 12.6.1665 | "English rename New Amsterdam, New York, after Dutch pull out" |
| 12.6.1667 | Michiel de Ruyter destroys English fleet |
| 12.6.1672 | French army under Gen Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith |
| 12.6.1673 | Charles II's brother duke James of York resigns as Lord High Admiral |
| 12.6.1683 | Rye House-plot against English king Charles II uncovered |
| 12.6.1691 | Pope Innocent XII succeeds Alexander VIII |
| 12.6.1701 | "Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover" |
| 12.6.1714 | Prussia and Russia sign secret treaty |
| 12.6.1775 | 1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (U.S.) captures Margaretta (Br) |
| 12.6.1776 | Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights |
| 12.6.1787 | Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old |
| 12.6.1792 | George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver BC |
| 12.6.1812 | Napoleon invades Russia |
| 12.6.1817 | Karl Drais von Sauerbronn demonstrates bicycle course |
| 12.6.1819 | Dutch colonial troops driven out of Palembang Sumatra |
| 12.6.1838 | "Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Massachusetts" |
| 12.6.1838 | Iowa Territory forms |
| 12.6.1839 | 1st baseball game played in America |
| 12.6.1840 | "Meteorite hits Uden, Netherlands" |
| 12.6.1845 | George Abernethy becomes 1st governor of Oregon Country |
| 12.6.1849 | "Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Kentucky" |
| 12.6.1859 | Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered |
| 12.6.1861 | "Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers to stop Federates from taking over his state" |
| 12.6.1864 | Lee sends Early into Shenandoah Valley |
| 12.6.1864 | "Skirmish at Mcafee's Cross Road Georgia, about 57 dies in battle" |
| 12.6.1867 | Austro-Hungarian Empire forms |
| 12.6.1875 | 9th Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard Calvin wins in 2:42 |
| 12.6.1880 | 1st baseball perfect game-John Richmond of Worcester beats Cleve |
| 12.6.1880 | "John Lee Richmond pitches 1st major league perfect game, Worcester 1, Cleveland's Forest City 0" |
| 12.6.1885 | Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France |
| 12.6.1889 | "Single tornado kills 119, injures 146, New Richmond, Wisconsin" |
| 12.6.1892 | Netherlands Society for Currency and Coin collecting forms |
| 12.6.1897 | "Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (negligible death toll)" |
| 12.6.1898 | Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to U.S. control |
| 12.6.1900 | German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power |
| 12.6.1903 | "Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city" |
| 12.6.1907 | Yanks commit 11 errors and lose 14-6 to Tigers |
| 12.6.1908 | "Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours, New York City" |
| 12.6.1909 | """Shine On, Harvest Moon"" by Ada Jones and Billy Murray hits #1" |
| 12.6.1910 | PEC soccer team forms in Zwolle |
| 12.6.1913 | """Dachshund"" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released" |
| 12.6.1915 | 29th U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Hazel Wightman (46 62 60) |
| 12.6.1916 | 30th U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Louise Raymond (60 61) |
| 12.6.1916 |