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Historical Events

01 Jun 4000
BC Approximate domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Dereivka central Ukraine (hypothesis only)
01 Jun 1283
Albrecht I van Habsburg becomes ruler of AustrianBull market
01 Jun 1283
Treaty of Rheinfelden Duke Rudolph II of Austria waives his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria
01 Jun 1485
Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna from Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III
01 Jun 1495
First written record of Scotch Whisky appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland Friar John Cor is the distiller
01 Jun 1526
Parliament of Spiers Lutheran monarchy freed of their belief
01 Jun 1568
Duke of Alva oversees beheading of 18 nobles in Brussels as part of Council of TroublesCouncil of Blood
01 Jun 1608
Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-government
01 Jun 1638
1st earthquake recorded in US at Plymouth Massachusetts
01 Jun 1641
France and Portugal sign anti-Spanish covenant
01 Jun 1649
Russian Tsar Alexis throws English merchants out of Moscow
01 Jun 1660
Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony
01 Jun 1679
The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog
01 Jun 1774
Boston Port Act Following the passage of the act the British government orders Port of Boston closed to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party
01 Jun 1789
1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)
01 Jun 1794
Glorious First of June first naval battle between Britain (under Admiral Lord Howe) and France (Vice-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse) during French Revolutionary Wars. Britain gains tactical win.
01 Jun 1808
1st US land-grant university founded as Ohio University in Athens Ohio
01 Jun 1809
Allardyce Barclay begins a bet of walking 1 mile every hour for 1000 hours. Each hour he walked a mile round trip from his home
01 Jun 1813
Captain John Lawrence utters Navy motto Dont give up the ship
01 Jun 1834
HMS Beagle for anchor in Port Famine Magallanes Street
01 Jun 1843
It snows in Buffalo and Rochester NY & Cleveland Ohio
01 Jun 1845
Homing pigeon completes 11000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days
01 Jun 1855
US adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua reestablishes slavery
01 Jun 1857
Charles Baudelaires Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) is published.
01 Jun 1861
1st skirmish in US Civil War at Fairfax Court House Virginia
01 Jun 1861
British territorial waters & ports off-limits during Civil War
01 Jun 1861
US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
01 Jun 1862
2ndlast day of battle at Fair Oaks7 Pines Virginia (11165 casualties)
01 Jun 1862
African Slave Trade Treaty Act Bilateral treaty between the US and UK abolishing the slave trade in all US possessions
01 Jun 1864
Battle of Cold Harbor Virginia (Gaines Mill Gaines Farm)
01 Jun 1864
Confederate cruiser Georgia sold to a British merchant in Liverpool
01 Jun 1866
Renegade Irish Fenians from US invade Fort Erie Ontario
01 Jun 1868
Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin
01 Jun 1868
Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico
01 Jun 1872
6th Belmont James Roe aboard Joe Daniels wins in 258.25
01 Jun 1877
US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico
01 Jun 1880
The first pay telephone service in the United States is installed in New Haven Connecticut
01 Jun 1886
The railroads of the Southern United States convert 11000 miles of track from a five foot rail gauge to standard gauge beginning May 31
01 Jun 1898
Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha
01 Jun 1902
Blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms
01 Jun 1905
Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland Oregon
01 Jun 1907
-27F (-33C) Sarmiento Argentina (South American record)
01 Jun 1908
John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US which took 357 days
01 Jun 1909
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
01 Jun 1911
1st US group insurance policy written in Passaic New Jersey
01 Jun 1911
1st Inter-Empire Championships close in London
01 Jun 1913
The Serbian government concludes a ten-year treaty with Greece against Bulgaria Serbia wishes to pursue Macedonian aspirations with Greeces help
01 Jun 1917
Hank Gowdy is 1st baseball player to enlist during WWI
01 Jun 1918
Excelsior Maassluis soccer team forms in Maassluis
01 Jun 1918
White Sox losing 5-4 against NY Yankees load the bases in 9th with no outs Chick Gandil lines to Frank Baker who turns a triple play
01 Jun 1920
Adolfo de la Huerta becomes President of Mexico
01 Jun 1921
Race riot in Tulsa Oklahoma (21 whites & 60 blacks killed)
01 Jun 1923
NY Giants beat Phillies 22-5 Giants score in every inning
01 Jun 1930
Alphense Boys soccer team forms in Alphen on Rhine
01 Jun 1930
French Mens Tennis Championships Frenchman Henri Cochet wins 3rd of 4 French titles beats American Bill Tilden 3-6 8-6 6-3 6-1
01 Jun 1932
Franz von Papen becomes Reich Chancellor of Germany
01 Jun 1933
Century of Progress worlds fair opens in Chicago
01 Jun 1935
Driving test & license plates introduced in England
01 Jun 1935
Yanks set solo HR record with 6 beat Boston 7-2
01 Jun 1936
Lux Radio Theater moved from NYC to Hollywood
01 Jun 1936
Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage arriving in NY
01 Jun 1936
French Championships Mens Tennis Gottfried von Cramm of Germany wins his 2nd French title beats Englishman Fred Perry 6-0 2-6 6-2 2-6 6-0
01 Jun 1936
41st Womens French Championships Hilde Sperling beats Simonne Mathieu (6-3 6-4)
01 Jun 1937
Chicago White Sox Bill Dietrich no-hits St Louis Browns 8-0
01 Jun 1938
Protective baseball helmets 1st worn by batters
01 Jun 1939
1st boxing match to be televised Lon Nova defeats Max Baer
01 Jun 1939
1st night game at Phils Shribe Park (Pirates 5 Phillies 2)
01 Jun 1939
British submarine Thetis sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard
01 Jun 1939
Retired German Colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt returns to service
01 Jun 1940
Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard
01 Jun 1941
12.59 (31.98 cm) rainfall in Burlington Kansas (state 24-hr record)
01 Jun 1941
Germany occupies Crete after Allied evacuation
01 Jun 1941
NY Giant Mel Ott hits his 400th HR & his 1500th RBI
01 Jun 1943
Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London all die
01 Jun 1943
Pirates Rip Sewell 1st throws his dew-drop (eephus) ball in a game
01 Jun 1944
Allied generals Bernard Montgomery George S. Patton Omar Bradley Miles Dempsey and Harry Crerar meet in Portsmouth England just prior to D-Day
01 Jun 1944
Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots
01 Jun 1945
WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minn changes call letters to KUOM
01 Jun 1946
78th Belmont Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 230.8
01 Jun 1947
OPA which issued WW II rationing coupons disbands
01 Jun 1947
The development of photosensitive glass which had occurred ten years previously is announced publicly
01 Jun 1949
British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence
01 Jun 1949
KSL TV channel 5 in Salt Lake City UT (CBS) begins broadcasting
01 Jun 1950
WKZO (now WWMT) TV channel 3 in Kalamazoo MI (CBS) 1st broadcast
01 Jun 1951
1st self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada)
01 Jun 1952
French Championships Mens Tennis England based Czech Jaroslav Drobn wins his 2nd straight French title beats Frank Sedgman of Australia 6-2 6-0 3-6 6-4
01 Jun 1952
French Championships Doris Hart beats fellow American Shirley Fry 6-4 6-4 for her 2nd French singles title
01 Jun 1953
KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
01 Jun 1953
WDAY TV channel 6 in Fargo ND (ABCNBC) begins broadcasting
01 Jun 1954
Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile (2759.2)10000m (2854.2)
01 Jun 1957
Don Bowden becomes 1st American to run a 4 minute mile (358.7)
01 Jun 1957
56th Mens French Championships Sven Davidson beats Herbert Flam (6-3 6-4 6-4)
01 Jun 1957
56th Womens French Championships Shirley Bloomer beats Dorothy Knode (6-1 6-3)
01 Jun 1958
Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election
01 Jun 1959
2-time champ Monterrey Mexico barred from Little League competition for using players outside predetermined geographical area
01 Jun 1959
Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
01 Jun 1960
Finians Rainbow closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
01 Jun 1960
WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston WV (CBS) begins broadcasting
01 Jun 1962
Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit
01 Jun 1962
USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 40420 m
01 Jun 1965
A Penzias & R Wilson detect 3K primordial background radiation
01 Jun 1965
Coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236
01 Jun 1965
Robert Manry begins his 78 day voyage to sail a 13.5-foot yacht Tinkerbelle across the Atlantic Ocean
01 Jun 1966
2400 people attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
01 Jun 1966
Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic
01 Jun 1966
Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW
01 Jun 1967
Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington D.C.
01 Jun 1968
100th Belmont Gus Gustines aboard Stage Door Johnny wins in 227.2
01 Jun 1968
Simon & Garfunkels single Mrs Robinson from The Graduate hits 1 (first rock song to win Grammy for Record of the Year)
01 Jun 1969
Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV
01 Jun 1970
Everything Is Beautiful by Ray Stevens hits 1
01 Jun 1970
Com Bowie Kuhn reprimands Astro Jim Bouton for writing Ball Four
01 Jun 1973
Greek President Papadopoulos asks for parliamentary presidential republic
01 Jun 1973
Eight OPEC countries raise price of petroleum by 11.9 percent
01 Jun 1974
Bundy victim Brenda Ball disappears from Burien Washington
01 Jun 1974
Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincolnshire killing 28 in UK
01 Jun 1974
The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine
01 Jun 1972
Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa
01 Jun 1972
West German police arrest Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader
01 Jun 1972
Iraq nationalizes Iraq Petroleum Companys (IPC) concession owned by British Petroleum Royal Dutch-Shell Compagnie Francaise des Petroles Mobil and Standard Oil of New Jersey
01 Jun 1973
George Harrisons Living in the Material World goes gold
01 Jun 1974
Arab oil ministers decide to end most restrictions on exports of oil to the United States but continue embargo against the Netherlands Portugal South Africa and Rhodesia
01 Jun 1975
Chicago opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 947 performances
01 Jun 1975
Ronnie Wood replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist
01 Jun 1881
Ridden by outstanding English jockey Fred Archer Iroquois wins the Epsom Derby to become first American-owned and bred horse to take out a European classic race
01 Jun 1910
Sportclub Enschede soccer club forms in Enschede Netherlands merge with Enschedese Boys to form FC Twente in 1965
01 Jun 1911
1st Inter-Empire Sports Championships close in London
01 Jun 1912
Dutch soccer club Stormvogels forms in Ijmuiden merges with VSV to form Telstar in 1963
01 Jun 1918
Chicago White Sox losing 5-4 against NY Yankees load the bases in 9th with no outs Chick Gandil lines to Frank Baker who turns a rare game winning triple play
01 Jun 1920
Dutch soccer club RKSV forms in Volendam merges with FC Volendam in 1977
01 Jun 1923
New York Giants rout Philadelphia Phillies 22-5 at the Baker Bowl first time in 20th century a MLB team has scored in every inning
01 Jun 1930
French Championships Mens Tennis Frenchman Henri Cochet wins 3rd of 4 French titles beats American Bill Tilden 3-6 8-6 6-3 6-1
01 Jun 1936
French Championships Womens Tennis German Hilde Sperling beats Simonne Mathieu of France 6-3 6-4 for her second of 3 straight French titles
01 Jun 1937
Chicago White Sox pitcher Bill Dietrich no-hits St Louis Browns 8-0
01 Jun 1939
First major boxing match on US television is the heavyweight bout from NYs Yankee Stadium between former world champion Max Baer and Lou Nova Nova wins by TKO in 11th round
01 Jun 1939
First night MLB game takes place at Philadelphias Shribe Park Phillies lose 5-2 to Pittsburgh Pirates
01 Jun 1941
Future Hall of Fame outfielder Mel Ott hits his 400th career HR and his 1500th RBI to help New York Giants to a 3-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds
01 Jun 1943
Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Rip Sewell patents his eephus or blooper ball pitch uses pitch on way to a 20-win campaign
01 Jun 1944
Washington Senators MLB outfielder Stan Spence goes 6-for-6 in an 11-5 win over the St. Louis Browns collects 5 singles and a home run
01 Jun 1946
78th Belmont Stakes Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 230.8 7th horse to win the Triple Crown
01 Jun 1952
French Championships Womens Tennis Doris Hart beats fellow American Shirley Fry 6-4 6-4 for her 2nd French singles title
01 Jun 1954
Czech distance runner Emile Zatopek breaks his own 10000m world record clocking 2854.2 in Brussels Belgium
01 Jun 1957
Don Bowden becomes first American to run a sub-4 minute mile (358.7) at the Pacific Association AAU Meet in Stockton California
01 Jun 1957
French Championships Mens Tennis Sven Davidson becomes first Swede to win a Grand Slam title beats American Herbert Flam 6-3 6-4 6-4
01 Jun 1957
French Championships Womens Tennis Englands Shirley Bloomer wins her lone Grand Slam singles title beats American Dorothy Knode 6-1 6-3
01 Jun 1958
The Riverside International Raceway in Southern California opens with three 500-mile races in one weekend Eddie Gray wins the Crown America 500 for NASCAR Grand National cars
01 Jun 1959
Two-time defending champion Monterrey Mexico is ruled ineligible to compete in Little League Baseball World Series for using players outside predetermined geographical area
01 Jun 1968
St. Louis Cardinals side-arming left-hander Joe Hoerner ties NL record for most consecutive strikeouts by a relief pitcher fanning the final 6 batters to earn a 6-5 victory over the New York Mets
01 Jun 1977
Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason
01 Jun 1977
Dutch soccer club FC Volendam is established as a result of split up with RKSV 6-time Eerste Divisie champions
01 Jun 1978
Future England cricket captain David Gower makes his Test debut in 1st Test against Pakistan in Birmingham England win by an innings and 57 runs
01 Jun 1978
High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten
01 Jun 1978
The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed
01 Jun 1978
England cricket fast bowler Chris Old becomes only third man to capture 4 wickets in 5 balls in a Test as Pakistan dismissed for 164 in 1st Test at Edgbaston Old 5 for 70
01 Jun 1917
Boston Braves first baseman Hank Gowdy is first active MLB player to enlist for service in World War I only player to fight in both World War I & II
01 Jun 1970
MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn reprimands Astro Jim Bouton for writing Ball Four
01 Jun 1975
John Kander and Fred Ebbs musical Chicago opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 947 performances
01 Jun 1937
Chicago White Sox pitcher Bill Dietrich no-hits St Louis Browns 8-0 at Comiskey Park Chicago
01 Jun 1955
Tunisian nationalist leader Habib Bourguiba returns to Tunisia after imprisonment and exile in France
01 Jun 1959
Two-time defending champion Monterrey Mexico ruled ineligible to compete in Little League Baseball World Series for using players outside predetermined geographical area
01 Jun 1964
Rolling Stones arrive in New Yorks Kennedy International Airport for 1st US tour greeted by about 500 fans
01 Jun 1967
EMI releases The Beatles album Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band nation-wide in the UK it goes to number one for 22 weeks in the UK
01 Jun 1973
George Harrisons Living in the Material World album goes gold 2 days after its US release
01 Jun 1975
Ronnie Wood replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stones guitarist
01 Jun 1283
Albert I son of Rudolph pf Hapsburg made sole ruler of the Duchies of Austria and Styria under Treaty of Rheinfelden removing his brother Rudolph II as co-ruler (leads later to Rudolphs son murdering his uncle)
01 Jun 1459
Pope Pius II opens the Council of Mantua to call for a new crusade against the Ottoman Empire - crusade never amounts to much (Council disbanded January 1560)
01 Jun 1943
Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London 13 passengers included actor Leslie Howard and 4 crew die
01 Jun 1966
Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic for the second time
01 Jun 1283
Albert I son of Rudolf I of Hapsburg made sole ruler of the Duchies of Austria and Styria under Treaty of Rheinfelden removing his brother Rudolph II as co-ruler (leads later to Rudolphs son murdering his uncle)
01 Jun 1459
Pope Pius II opens the Council of Mantua to call for a new crusade against the Ottoman Empire - crusade never amounts to much (Council disbanded January 1560)
01 Jun 1831
British explorer James Clark Ross discovers the magnetic North Pole on the west coast of Boothia peninsula [1]
01 Jun 1872
Charles Albanels expedition sets off for Hudson Bay overland accompanied by sixteen Amerindian canoeists (they will be the first Europeans to reach it overland about 25 days later) [1]
01 Jun 1916
US Senate confirms Louis Brandeis for the Supreme Court of the United States by a vote of 47 to 22 over 4 months after his nomination
01 Jun 1940
Major General Bernard Montgomery returns to London
01 Jun 1951
Massey Commission issues its landmark report in Canada advocating for funding wide range of cultural activities (resulted in the founding of the National Library of Canada) [1]
01 Jun 1960
WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston West Vrirginia (CBS) begins broadcasting
01 Jun 1975
Cars in the Netherlands required to have seatbelts
01 Jun 1979
Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe Rhodesias 1st black Prime Minister the first leader of a black-led government in 90 years
01 Jun 1979
Los Angeles passes its first homosexual rights bill
01 Jun 1979
Ted Coombs begins 5193 mile roller skate from Los Angeles to New York City
01 Jun 1979
Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh India.
01 Jun 1980
1st transmission of CNN the Cable News Network
01 Jun 1980
ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa
01 Jun 1984
Douglas H Mitchell QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner
01 Jun 1984
KWK-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD
01 Jun 1495
First written record of Scotch whisky appears in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland Friar John Cor is listed as the distiller
01 Jun 1676
Battle of land naval battle between Danish-Dutch fleet and the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea
01 Jun 1843
It snows in Buffalo and Rochester NY and Cleveland Ohio
01 Jun 1881
Ridden by outstanding English jockey Fred Archer Iroquois wins the Epsom Derby to become the first American-owned and bred horse to win a European classic race
01 Jun 1898
Hotelier Caesar Ritz opens the Ritz Hotel in Paris the first hotel with electricity on every floor and separate bathrooms [1]
01 Jun 1965
Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson at Bell Labs detect 3K primordial background radiation - helping confirm The Big Bang theory (1978 Nobel Prize) [1]
01 Jun 1968
Simon & Garfunkels single Mrs. Robinson from The Graduate hits 1 (first rock song to win a Grammy for Record of the Year)
01 Jun 1975
Ronnie Wood replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stones guitarist who was asked to leave
01 Jun 1980
First transmission of the Cable News Network or CNN
01 Jun 1981
Jaffna Public Library repository of Tamil culture and one of the largest libraries in Asia is burnt to the ground by a Sinhalese crowd