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What happened in history on this day: April 18?
On April 18 in ...
- 310 - Saint Eusebius begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 387 - Bishop Ambrosius of Milan baptizes Augustinus.
- 680 - Mu'awijja, kalief of Al-Schaam, dies.
- 1480 - Birth of Lucretia Borgia murderess (poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI).
- 1504 - Filippino Lippi painter, dies at about age 52.
- 1506 - The cornerstone of St. Peter's Basilica is laid.
- 1521 - Birth of François de Coligny ruler of van Andelot, French General (Jarnac).
- 1521 - Parliament of Worms: Cardinal Alexander questions Martin Luther.
- 1530 - François Lambert d'Avignon French church reformer, dies at about age 43.
- 1552 - John Leland antiquary, dies.
- 1552 - Mauritius of Saksen occupies Linz.
- 1556 - Luigi Alamanni Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at age 61.
- 1580 - Birth of Thomas Middleton English playwright (Game of Chess).
- 1587 - John Foxe author (Book of Martyrs), dies.
- 1590 - Birth of Ahmed I 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17).
- 1599 - Valencia arch duke Albrecht of Austrian marries Isabella of Spain.
- 1605 - Birth of Giacomo Carissimi composer.
- 1610 - Robert Parsons English jesuit leader/plotter, dies at age 63.
- 1612 - Emanuel Van Meteren merchant/historian, dies.
- 1635 - Axel Oxenstierna and French Cardinal Richelieu sign the Treaty of Compiègne in Paris, France. Sweden gains control of the Rhine area from Breisach to Strasbourg, and France accepts Sweden as an equal ally, and agrees to declare war on Spain. Both parties agree to assist Protestants in Germany by force, and not to obtain a separate peace.
- 1663 - Osman declares war on Austria.
- 1666 - Peace of Kleef Netherlands and bishop Von Galen of Münster.
- 1676 - Sudbury Massachusetts attacked by Indians.
- 1684 - Gonzales Cocx [Coques] painter, dies.
- 1689 - George Jeffreys first Baron Jeffreys of Wem/infamous judge, dies.
- 1690 - Death of Karl IV (Charles V) Leopold in Vienna, Austria; Duke of Lotharingen, Austrian Field Marshal who successfully defended Vienna against the attacking Turks in 1683.
- 1729 - Birth of Gaetano B Vestris Italian/French ballet dancer.
- 1732 - Birth of George Colman "the Elder", playwright (baptised).
- 1744 - Birth of Pieter 't Hoen Dutch journalist/patriot.
- 1756 - Maréchal Duc de Richelieu and 16,000 French troops disembark at Port-Mahon and Fort Saint Philip, Minorca, and set siege to the English position.
- 1775 - In Massachusetts, Paul Revere and William Dawes ride calling "the British are coming!" to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams to escape.
- 1797 - France and Austria sign cease fire.
- 1800 - Death of Pieter Fouquet; art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet).
- 1803 - Birth of Charles F Pahud de Montagnes; Governor-General of Netherlands East Indies (1856-61).
- 1806 - US Congress passes an act forbidding imports of certain goods from Great Britain.
- 1807 - Death of Erasmus Darwin; physician/writer (Influence).
- 1809 - First run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket, England.
- 1817 - Birth of George Henry Lewes; English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe).
- 1819 - Birth of Franz von Suppé in Spalato, Dalmatia; composer (Light Cavalry Overture).
- 1835 - William Lamb, Lord Melbourne forms British government.
- 1839 - Birth of Henry Clarence Kendall in New South Wales, Australia; poet (Bell Birds).
- 1842 - Birth of Antero Tarquinio de Quental in Portugal; poet (Beatrice).
- 1846 - R.E. House of New York City receives a US patent for the telegraph ticker.
- 1853 - First train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km).
- 1853 - US Vice President William King dies a month after his inauguration.
- 1855 - Birth of Abraham Bredius; Dutch art historian (Jan Steen).
- 1856 - Russian Republic Chancellor Earl von Nesselrode resigns.
- 1857 - Birth of Clarence S Darrow; defense attorney at the Scopes monkey trial.
- 1859 - Birth of Eduard G H H Cuypers; architect (Sanatorium High-Laren).
- 1860 - Count István Széchenyi, statesman, commits suicide.
- 1861 - Union forces marching from Pottsville, Pennsylvania to Washington DC encounter hostile crowd of Southern supporters in Baltimore. Oliver Christian Bosbyshell is hit by a brick, first Union injury of the war.
- 1861 - Colonel Robert E Lee turns down offer to command US armies.
- 1862 - Union ships begin assault on New Orleans, beginning with mortar shelling of forts Saint Philip and Fort Jackson.
- 1864 - Birth of Richard Harding Davis; US journalist/author (In The Fig).
- 1865 - Confederate General Johnson surrenders to USA General Tecumseh Sherman in North Carolina.
- 1868 - Birth of Didericus G van Epen; genealogist (Dutch Patriciate).
- 1869 - First international cricket match, held in San Francisco, is won by a Californian.
- 1871 - Birth of Henry Stephenson in the British West Indies; actor (Conquest, Little Old New York, Mr Lucky).
- 1871 - Omar Pasha [Michael Lats], Croatian Governor, dies at age 64.
- 1873 - In Rotterdam, Netherlands, the Netherlands-America Steamship Company (Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij) begins operations. (later renamed Holland America Line)
- 1879 - Anthony Pannizim, principal librarian (British Museum), dies.
- 1879 - Trial begins of Standing Bear-Crook on Indians' citizen rights.
- 1881 - Birth of Hermann KJ Zilcher; German pianist/composer (Dr Eisenbart).
- 1882 - Birth of Leopold Stokowski in London, England; conductor (Cincinnati Symphony).
- 1884 - Birth of Magda Janssens; Flemish/Netherlands actress/acting teacher (Maria Stuart).
- 1888 - The Imperial British East Africa Company is incorporated in London, England.
- 1889 - Birth of Jessie Street; Australian professional women's/aborigine rights fighter.
- 1889 - Birth of John Kilbane; US featherweight boxing champion (1912-23).
- 1889 - In Potsdam, Germany, Ernst von Rebeur-Paschwitz makes the first known recordings of a distant earthquake, taken place in Tokyo, Japan, an hour earlier.
- 1890 - Birth of James Rennie in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; actor (Lash, Little Damozel).
- 1896 - Birth of C Eugène Wegmann; Swiss geologist (Le Jura plissé).
- 1897 - Birth of Pedro Regas in Sparta, Greece; actor (Pat Paulsen's 1/2 Comedy Hour).
- 1898 - Birth of Lord Leatherland; British journalist/Labour peer.
- 1901 - Birth of László Németh; Hungarian physician/author (Gyász, Galilei).
- 1902 - Denmark is first country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals.
- 1903 - Birth of Leonid Kinskey in Saint Petersburg, Russia; actor (Casablanca).
- 1904 - L'Humanité, under Jean Jaurès, begins publishing.
- 1905 - Juan Valera bon Alcalá Galiano, Spanish author (Pepita Jiménez), dies at age 80.
- 1906 - Birth of Clara Eggink [Ebbele]; Dutch poetess (Life with JC Bloem).
- 1906 - Birth of Edgar Unsworth; Justice of Appeals (Gibralter).
- 1906 - At 5:13 a.m., an earthquake estimated at close to 8.0 on the Richter scale strikes San Francisco, California, caused by a slip of the San Andreas Fault over a segment about 275 miles long. An estimated 3,000 people die from the quake and fires. Almost 30,000 buildings are destroyed, including most of the city's homes and nearly all the central business district.
- 1907 - Birth of Miklós Rózsa in Budapest, Hungary; movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora).
- 1907 - Birth of Stephen Longstreet; American writer (All or Nothing).
- 1908 - Birth of Edward Roberts; bishop (Ely).
- 1908 - Birth of Joseph Keilberth; German conductor (Bayreuther Festspiele).
- 1908 - Tommy Burns knocks out Jewy Smith in five for heavyweight boxing title.
- 1909 - Joan of Arc is beatified, declared a saint, in Rome.
- 1910 - Birth of Jamie L Whitten; American politician (Representative-Democrat-Mississippi, 1941-).
- 1910 - Birth of Sylvia Fisher; soprano (Albert Herring Opera).
- 1911 - Birth of George Huntington Hartford II in New York City, New York, USA; A&P heir.
- 1912 - Birth of Wendy Barrie in Hong Kong; hostess (Wendy Barrie Show).
- 1913 - Birth of Al Hodge; actor (Captain Video).
- 1914 - Birth of C S Nayudu; cricket player (brother of C K, 11 Tests as leggie).
- 1914 - Birth of Henk Lankhorst; pacifist/Dutch Member of Parliament (PSP).
- 1917 - Birth of Louise Frederika; Queen of Greece.
- 1917 - Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, Governor-General of Belgium (1914-17), dies at age 73.
- 1918 - Birth of Robert Zimonyi in Hungary; cox (Olympics-bronze-1948/US-gold-1964).
- 1918 - Birth of Roger de Grey; president (Royal Academy).
- 1918 - Birth of Tony Mottola in Kearney, New Jersey, USA; guitarist (studio musician, CBS studio orchestra, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Melody Street TV show, arranger for Perry Como's TV variety show), president of Sony Music Entertainment.
- 1918 - Cleveland Indians' center fielder Tris Speaker turns an unassisted double play.
- 1921 - Earnest [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, actor (Inkwartiering), dies at age 70.
- 1922 - Birth of Barbara Hale in Dekalb, Illinois, USA; actress (Della Street - Perry Mason).
- 1922 - Birth of Avril Angers; actress (Brass Monkey).
- 1922 - Netherlands soccer team defeats Denmark 2-0.
- 1923 - 74,000 (62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York, USA.
- 1923 - Birth of Baroness Platt of Writtle; British CEO (Equal Opportunities Commission).
- 1923 - Birth of Leif Panduro; Danish writer (Kick me in the Traditions).
- 1923 - Poland annexes Central Lithuania.
- 1924 - First crossword puzzle book published (in USA by Simon and Schuster).
- 1924 - Birth of Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown in Vinton, Louisiana, USA; blues singer ("Mary is Fine").
- 1924 - Birth of Henry J Hyde; American politician (Representative-Republican-Illinois).
- 1924 - Birth of Lord Mason of Barnsley; Member of Parliament (Labour), British defense secretary.
- 1924 - Birth of Raf de Linde [Raphaël van Hecke]; author (Vaarwel on Gertrude).
- 1925 - Birth of Bob Hastings in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (McHale's Navy, All in the Family).
- 1925 - Charles Ebbets, president of MLB Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, dies.
- 1925 - World's fair opens in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- 1926 - Birth of Doug Insole; cricket player (England batsman of the 1950s, nine Tests).
- 1926 - Birth of Gunter Meisner in Germany; actor (Between Wars, Quiller Memorandum).
- 1927 - Birth of Jim De Courcy; cricket player (in Newcastle Australian batsman 1953).
- 1927 - Chiang Kai-shek forms anti-government in China.
- 1929 - Birth of Peter Hordern; British CEO (Fina).
- 1929 - Birth of Peter Jeffrey; actor (Dr Phibes Rides Again, Twinsanity).
- 1929 - Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire.
- 1930 - Birth of Clive Revill in Wellington, New Zealand; actor (Legend of Hell House).
- 1931 - Birth of Klas Lestander in Sweden; 20km biathlon (Olympics-gold-1960).
- 1932 - Birth of Dominic Milroy; OSB/headmaster (Ampleforth College England).
- 1933 - Birth of Alan Devereux; CEO (Scottish Tourist Board).
- 1934 - First "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Fort Worth, Texas).
- 1934 - Birth of James Drury in New York City, New York, USA; actor (The Virginian, Firehouse).
- 1934 - Birth of Jap F Scherpenhuizen; Dutch Member of Parliament (VVD).
- 1934 - Birth of Mark Kingston; actor (Intimate Contact).
- 1934 - Adolf Hitler names Joachim von Ribbentrop ambassador for disarmament.
- 1935 - Birth of Joel Hefley; American politician (Representative-Republican-Colorado).
- 1935 - General Sarazen's double eagle on the 15th wins him his second Masters tournament of golf.
- 1936 - Birth of Brian Fuller; commandant (Fire Service College, England).
- 1936 - Birth of Harold Innocent [HS Harrison]; English actor (Tall Guy).
- 1936 - Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Belkis), dies at age 56.
- 1936 - Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from San Francisco, California to Honolulu, Hawaii.
- 1937 - Birth of Robert Hooks in Washington DC, USA; actor (Fast Walking, Aaron Loves Angela, Dynasty, The Hoop Life, Supercarrier).
- 1937 - Birth of Tatyana Shchelkanova in USSR; long jumper (Olympics-bronze-1964).
- 1938 - Birth of Andreas J "Cat" Liebenberg; supreme commander (South Africa army).
- 1939 - Franz von Papen becomes German ambassador in Turkey.
- 1939 - Hubert Pierlot forms Belgian government.
- 1939 - Theo Mann, actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler), dies at age 88.
- 1940 - Birth of Ed Garvey; American labor leader (Major League Baseball Players Association).
- 1940 - Birth of Ira von Furstenberg [Virginia Caroline] in Rome, Italy; Princess (Monaco).
- 1940 - Birth of Joseph L Goldstein in Sumter, South Carolina, USA; physician (Nobel Prize 1985).
- 1940 - Birth of Skip Stephenson in Omaha, Nebraska, USA; comedian (Real People).
- 1941 - Alexander Korysis, Prime Minister of Greece, commits suicide.
- 1941 - Birth of Mike Vickers; guitarist (Manfred Mann - "Mighty Quinn").
- 1942 - Stars and Stripes paper for US armed forces starts.
- 1942 - Birth of Dick K J Tommel; chemist/(D66) Dutch Assistant Secretary of State (1994-).
- 1942 - (about 1215 hours) Sixteen American B-25 bombers lead by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle bomb Tokyo, Nagoya, and Kobe, Japan. The planes were launched from the carrier Hornet 668 miles off Tokyo. 73 of the 80 crew survive as the planes land in China.
- 1942 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3.
- 1943 - Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down over the Solomon Islands.
- 1944 - 48th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Coté of Canada in 2:31:50.4. This is his second straight and third career win.
- 1944 - Birth of Irvine Shillingford; cricket player (cousin of Grayson, four Tests for West Indies).
- 1945 - Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-German propoganda for months, uses their influence to trap 350,000 German Army Group B troops.
- 1945 - Ernest T Pyle, British/US newscaster, killed by Japanese gunfire on Okinawa, Japan, at age 44.
- 1945 - About 320,000 German troops in Army Group B surrender in the Ruhr.
- 1946 - Call Me Mister opens at National Theater in New York City for 734 performances.
- 1946 - Birth of Hayley Mills in London, England; actress (The Parent Trap, Pollyanna, The Love Boat, Good Morning Miss Bliss).
- 1946 - Birth of Lenny Baker; rocker (Sha Na Na).
- 1946 - Birth of Alexander (Skip) Spence at Windsor, Ontario, Canada; rock and roll singer/guitarist/drummer (Moby Grape - "Omaha", Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service).
- 1946 - Jackie Robinson debuts as second baseman for the Montreal Royals.
- 1946 - League of Nations dissolves (three months after the United Nations starts).
- 1946 - US recognizes Tito's Yugoslavia government.
- 1947 - Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champion (1917-25), dies at age 51.
- 1947 - Birth of David Gee; director (Friends of the Earth).
- 1947 - Birth of Dorothy Lyman in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; actress (All My Children, Naomi - Mama's Family, Life Goes On).
- 1947 - Birth of Walt Richmond; Country keyboardist (The Tractors).
- 1947 - Birth of Cindy Pickett; actress (Hyperion Bay).
- 1947 - Birth of James Woods in Warwick, Rhode Island, USA; actor (Salvador, Against All Odds, Shark).
- 1947 - Birth of Lori Martin in Glendale, California, USA; actress (Velvet - National Velvet).
- 1948 - Birth of "Tiny" Nate Archibald; NBA guard (Cincinnati Royals).
- 1948 - Birth of Catherine Malfitano in New York City, New York, USA; soprano (Metropolitan Opera).
- 1948 - Birth of Skip Stephenson in Omaha, Nebraska, USA; comedian (Real People).
- 1948 - International Court of Justice opens at The Hague, Netherlands.
- 1949 - Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth.
- 1950 - First opening night-game, Saint Louis Cardinals beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-2.
- 1950 - Canadian Avro Jetliner makes first international jet transport flight in North America, from Toronto to New York.
- 1950 - Birth of Bill Sudderth III; trumpeter (Atlantic Star - "Touch Four Leaf Clover").
- 1950 - New York Yankees win 15-10 after trailing Boston Red Sox 9-0 in 6th inning.
- 1950 - Polish Catholic church and government sign accord over relations.
- 1951 - Dutch Antilles government of Da Costa Gomez forms.
- 1951 - France, Federal Republic of Germany and Benelux form European Steel and Coal Community.
- 1952 - Birth of Jim Scholten in Midland, Michigan, USA; country singer/bassist (Sawyer Brown - "Betty's Bein' Bad").
- 1953 - Pal Joey closes at Broadhurst Theater in New York City after 542 performances.
- 1953 - Birth of Rick Moranis in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; actor/comedian (SCTV, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Spaceballs).
- 1954 - Birth of Kim Stone; bassist (Spyro Gyra - "Morning Dance").
- 1954 - Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power and becomes Prime Minister of Egypt.
- 1954 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open.
- 1955 - First "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed.
- 1955 - First Bandoeng Conference - Afro-Asian conference opens.
- 1955 - Death of Albert Einstein; German/American physicist (E=MC^2, Theory of Relativity, Nobel Prize for Physics 1921 for work on photoelectric effects), dies.
- 1955 - Birth of Amschel Rothschild; banker.
- 1955 - Birth of Anne-Marie Palli in Ciboure, France; LPGA golfer (1992 ShopRite).
- 1955 - Don Blackie, cricket player (3 Tests for Australia 1928-29), dies at age 46.
- 1955 - Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany at age 70.
- 1956 - Birth of David Wayne Edwards in Neosho, Missouri, USA; PGA golfer (1980 Walt Disney).
- 1956 - Birth of Eric Roberts in Biloxi, Mississippi, USA; actor (Pope of Greenwich Village, King of Gypsies, Heroes, Less Than Perfect).
- 1956 - Birth of John James in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; actor (Jeff Colby - Dynasty, The Colbys).
- 1956 - Birth of Melody Thomas Scott in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Nikki - The Young and the Restless).
- 1956 - Egypt and Israel agree to a cease fire.
- 1958 - Birth of Les Pattinson Ormskirk in Merseyside, England; rock bassist (Echo and the Bunnymen - "Heaven Up Here").
- 1958 - Birth of Malcolm Marshall; cricket player (West Indies quickie 1978-91, West Indies top wicket-taker).
- 1958 - Government troops reconquer Padang, Middle-Sumatra, Indonesia.
- 1958 - Maurice-Gustave Gamelin, French Generalissmo (WWI, WWII), dies at age 85.
- 1958 - National League single-game attendance record of 78,682, San Francisco Giants lose to Los Angeles Dodgers 6-5, in Los Angeles, California.
- 1958 - Richard B Goldschmidt, German zoologist (butterflies), dies.
- 1959 - Birth of Jim Eisenreich in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA; outfielder (Philadelphia Phillies, Florida Marlins).
- 1959 - Death of Irving Cummings at age 70 of a heart ailment; actor/director/host (Lux Radio Theatre radio show (1952-1955), In Old Arizona).
- 1959 - NHL Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1.
- 1960 - Emory Johnson, director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at age 66.
- 1960 - Mutual of New York sells the Mutual Broadcasting System to the 3M Company of Minnesota for $1.25 million.
- 1961 - Birth of Ian Doig in Seaforth, Ontario, Canada; Canadian Tour golfer (1985 Florida Classic).
- 1961 - Birth of Jane Leeves in London, England; actress (Murphy Brown, Daphne Moon - Fraiser).
- 1961 - Birth of Jeff Cook in Muncie, Indiana, USA; Nike golfer (1990 Greater Ozarks Open).
- 1961 - Birth of Kelly Hansen; heavy metal rocker (Hurricane - "I'm on to You").
- 1962 - 16th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3.
- 1962 - Birth of Mick Sweda; heavy metal (Bulletboys, King Kobra - "Ready to Strike").
- 1962 - Birth of Shirlie Hollman; rocker (Pepsi and Shirley - "All Right Now").
- 1962 - Birth of Wilber Marshall; NFL linebacker (New York Jets).
- 1963 - Birth of Eric McCormack; actor (Will and Grace).
- 1963 - Birth of Conan [Christopher] O'Brien in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA; TV host (Late Night).
- 1963 - Birth of Phil Simmons; cricket player (West Indian opening batsman).
- 1963 - Dr James Campbell performs the first human nerve transplant.
- 1963 - Death of Henrietta Kreis, third of famous Wallenda aerialists to fall to death.
- 1963 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1.
- 1964 - Artisans' strike in Belgium ends.
- 1964 - Ben Hecht, playwright (Child of the Century), dies at age 71.
- 1964 - Birth of Robert Kelker-Kelly; actor (Another World).
- 1964 - Geraldine Mock of US completes flying solo round the world.
- 1964 - Sandy Koufax is first to strike out the side on 9 pitches.
- 1965 - Birth of Diana Villegas in México; rocker (Triplets - "You Don't Have To Go").
- 1965 - Birth of Sylvia Villegas in México; rocker (Triplets - "You Don't Have To Go").
- 1965 - Birth of Vicky Villegas in México; rocker (Triplets - "You Don't Have To Go").
- 1966 - Birth of Chuck Wade in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, USA; diver (Olympics-1996).
- 1966 - Birth of Michelle Chryst; WPVA volleyball player (Santa Cruz-17th-1994).
- 1966 - Birth of Valeri Kamensky in Voskresensk, Russia; NHL left wing (Colorado Avalanche, Olympics-silver-1998).
- 1967 - Birth of Jayce Fincher Junior; heavy metal bassist (Southgang - "Tainted Angel").
- 1967 - Birth of Kenneth Gant; NFL safety (Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
- 1967 - Birth of Marcel Valk; soccer player (RKC, Go Ahead Eagles).
- 1967 - Birth of Maria Bello; actress (ER).
- 1968 - 178,000 employees of US Bell Telephone System go on strike.
- 1968 - First ABA basketball championship begins.
- 1968 - Dutch Department of Amnesty International forms.
- 1968 - London Bridge is sold to US oil company (to be erected in Arizona).
- 1968 - San Francisco's Old Hall of Justice is demolished.
- 1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1969 - Birth of Vladimir Tsyplakov in Inta, Russia; NHL left wing (Los Angeles Kings, Belarus 1998).
- 1969 - Piotr F Scharoff, Russian/Italian actor/director (Chechov), dies at age 82.
- 1970 - Birth of Carl Simpson; NFL defensive tackle (Chicago Bears).
- 1970 - Birth of Francois Leroux in Ste-adele, Quebec, Canada; NHL defenseman (Pittsburgh Penguins).
- 1970 - Birth of Heike Friedrich in German Democratic Republic; swimmer (world record 200 metre).
- 1970 - Birth of Peter Giles in London, Ontario, Canada; kayaker (Olympics-1996).
- 1970 - Birth of Vladimir Antipin; hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998).
- 1970 - Birth of William Roaf; NFL tackle (New Orleans Saints).
- 1970 - Birth of Greg Eklund; rock musician (The Oolahs).
- 1971 - Birth of Dan Kordic in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; NHL defenseman (Philadelphia Flyers).
- 1971 - Birth of Kerry Lynn Kemper; Miss Nebraska-USA (1996).
- 1971 - Birth of Oleg Petrov in Moscow, Russia; NHL right wing (Montreal Canadiens).
- 1971 - Gavaskar makes 220 in second inning versus West Indies after 124 in first.
- 1971 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic.
- 1972 - Birth of Jeff Traversy; Canadian Football League defensive tackle (Calgary Stampeders).
- 1973 - Birth of Derrick Brooks; NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
- 1973 - Birth of Haile Gebresleassie in Ethiopia; 10km runner (Olympics-gold-1996).
- 1973 - Birth of James "Jamie" Koven in Morristown, New Jersey, USA; rower (Olympics-5th-1996).
- 1974 - Betty Compson, actress (Barker, Weary River, Drag Net), dies at age 77.
- 1974 - Marcel Pagnol, French writer/movie (Topaz), dies at age 79.
- 1974 - Red Brigade kidnaps Italian Attorney General Mario Sossi.
- 1974 - Birth of Trina; rhythm-and-blues singer (Trina and Tamara).
- 1975 - Rob Touber [Robert J Noordervliet), chansonnier/director, dies at age 38.
- 1976 - 30th Tony Awards: Travesties and Chorus Line win.
- 1976 - Birth of Melissa Joan Hart in Sayville, New York; actress (Clarissa, Sabrina the Teenage Witch).
- 1976 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Karsten - Ping Golf Open.
- 1976 - Percy Julian, holder of more than 138 chemical patents, dies at age 78.
- 1976 - Birth of Sean Maguire; actor (The Class, EastEnders).
- 1977 - 6th Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of California in 2:48:33.
- 1977 - 81st Boston Marathon won by Jerome Drayton of Canada in 2:14:46.
- 1977 - Alex Haley, author of Roots, awarded Pulitzer Prize.
- 1977 - Baltimore Orioles' Eddie Murray hits his first homerun.
- 1977 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Cristofer for Shadow Box.
- 1978 - The U.S. Senate votes 68-32 to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control on December 31, 1999.
- 1979 - NBC debuts the TV show Real People.
- 1979 - Major Haddad declares South-Lebanon independent.
- 1980 - The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) declares independence from United Kingdom. Robert Mugabe becomes Prime Minister.
- 1981 - The rock band Yes splits up (regrouping in 1983).
- 1981 - A Minor League baseball game between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, becomes the longest professional baseball game in history: 8 hours and 25 minutes/33 innings (the 33rd inning is not played until June 23).
- 1982 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International.
- 1982 - Zimbabwe capital Salisbury renamed Harare.
- 1982 - Atlanta Braves win record 11th straight opening game (beat Houston Astros).
- 1983 - Alan Melville, cricket player (11 Tests for South Africa, 894 runs), dies.
- 1983 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Alice Walker for The Color Purple.
- 1983 - The U.S Embassy is bombed in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
- 1983 - 12th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:22:43.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel, a cable-TV network, begins broadcasting, at 7:00 AM, with a show called Good Morning, Mickey. The service runs for 18 hours per day.
- 1983 - 87th Boston Marathon won by Greg Meyer of Massachusetts in 2:09:00.
- 1984 - Birth of America Ferrera; actress (Ugly Betty).
- 1985 - In Yunnan Province, China, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake occurs. Twenty-three people killed, 300 injured.
- 1986 - Robert M Gates becomes deputy director of US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1986 - Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
- 1987 - Bob Land wins his 6th straight Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race.
- 1987 - Mike Schmidt hits 500th home run (vs. Robinson-Pittsburgh Pirates).
- 1987 - Pat Knauff, France sets one-leg downhill ski speed record (115.012 mph).
- 1987 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia.
- 1988 - 17th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:24:30.
- 1988 - 92nd Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:43.
- 1988 - United States Navy retaliates for the Roberts mining with Operation Praying Mantis, in a day of strikes against Iranian oil platforms and naval vessels.
- 1989 - Birth of Alia Shawkat; actress (Arrested Development).
- 1989 - The Hillsborough disaster claims its 95th victim when 14-year-old Lee Nichol dies in hospital from his injuries.
- 1990 - Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines.
- 1990 - Birmingham Fire issued an original franchise in the WLAF.
- 1990 - Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at age 87.
- 1990 - In Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurs.
- 1991 - US Census Bureau says it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census.
- 1991 - US Congress ends railroad workers' one day strike.
- 1991 - John Stockton breaks his own NBA season assist record at 1,136.
- 1991 - Iraq declares some of its chemical weapons and materials to the United Nations, as required by Resolution 687, and claims that it does not have a biological weapons program.
- 1991 - A sellout crowd of 42,191 watch the Chicago White Sox play their first game at new Comiskey Park and sees the home team get crushed by the Detroit Tigers, 16-0.
- 1992 - Florence Randall, model/designer (Bill Blass), dies at age 54 of cancer.
- 1992 - Start of South Africa's first Test Cricket since 1970 (versus West Indies Bridgetown).
- 1993 - 54th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Tom Wargo.
- 1993 - Arthur P Smith, US founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at age 76.
- 1993 - Trish Johnson wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship.
- 1993 - In Peru, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurs. Six people killed, thirty houses were destroyed at Lima.
- 1994 - 23rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:21:45.
- 1994 - 98th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya in 2:07:15.
- 1994 - Brian Lara scores 375 for West Indies versus England to beat Sobers' world record.
- 1994 - Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at age 32.
- 1994 - Lebanon drops relations with Iran.
- 1995 - Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (1958-62), dies (born 1908).
- 1995 - Houston Post newspaper folds after 116 years.
- 1995 - Quarterback Joe Montana announces his retirement from football.
- 1996 - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, opens at Saint James Theater in New York City for 715 performances.
- 1996 - Over 100 Lebanese civilians are killed after Israel shells the United Nations compound in Qana.
- 1996 - Death of Bernard Edwards at age 43, found dead in a hotel room in Tokyo, Japan; musician (Chic - "Le Freak" (1978), "Good Times" (1979)), record producer (Diana Ross, Rod Stewart, Sister Sledge - "We Are Family").
- 1997 - The Red River of the North breaks through dikes and floods Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, causing US$2 billion in damage.
- 1998 - The Walt Disney Company launches the Toon Disney cable television network in the USA.
- 1999 - "The Great One" Wayne Gretzky plays his final National Hockey League game.
- 2001 - Death of Billy Mitchell at age 74; bebop tenor saxophonist (in bands of Woody Herman, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie).
- 2002 - A new insect order, Mantophasmatodea, is announced.
- 2002 - Death of Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer, writer (born 1914).
- 2004 - Death of Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (born 1920).
- 2005 - Five people die in ethnic clashes in Iran's south-west Khuzestan province.
- 2005 - In New York City, New York, American Numismatic Rarities auctions a Venetian 50-zecchini coin of Doge Alvise Mocenigo IV (1763-78) for US$379,500.
- 2007 - Royal Caribbean International takes delivery of Liberty of the Seas cruise ship (160,000 gross tons, 3634 passengers) from Aker Yards during a ceremony in Turku, Finland.
- 2007 - Birth of HRH Prince Lerotholi Seeiso, son of King Letsie III of Lesotho and Queen Masenate Mohato Seeiso.
- 2007 - 32 Chinese steel workers are burnt to death in the Qinghe Special Steel Corporation disaster.
- 2007 - Birth of HRH Princess Hayah bint Al Hamzah, daughter of Prince Hamzah and Princess Noor bint Asem bin Nayef.
- 2008 - A 5.2-5.4-magnitude earthquake rocks Illinois, USA, centered near West Salem, the largest in the region in 40 years, and felt 350 miles away.
- 2010 - Kevin Martin defeats Brad Gushue 8-7 at the Grey Power Players' Championship curling event, in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada.
- 2012 - Death of Dick Clark, American television host and producer (born 1929).
- 2018 - In Nicaragua, protests begin against announced reforms of Social Security which would decrease retirement pension benefits. An estimated number of 34 protesters are killed by police.
- 2018 - Cinemas open in Saudi Arabia for the first time since 1983 with the American film Black Panther chosen as the first to be screened.
- 2018 - NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is launched.
- 2019 - NepaliSat-1 is launched. It is Nepal's first ever research satellite to be sent into space.
- 2020 - 44 suspected Boko Haram members are found dead, apparently due to poisoning, inside a prison in N'Djamena, Chad.
- 2021 - Twelve football clubs, including three from La Liga and leading clubs from the Premier League and Serie A, agree to join a new breakaway European Super League, prompting international condemnation.
- 2022 - The US government announces a unilateral moratorium on antisatellite missile tests.
- 2022 - Death of Harrison Birtwistle at age 87; British composer (The Triumph of Time (1972)).
- 2023 - Death of Keith Nale at age 62 of cancer in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA; reality show contestant (Survivor TV show).
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