1899 23rd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: R.F. Doherty beats Arthur Gore 1-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3
1902 16th U.S. Women's National Championship: Marion Jones beats Elisabeth Moore (6-1, 1-0, ret.)
1903 9th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 307 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1903 17th U.S. Women's National Championship: Elisabeth Moore beats Marion Jones (7-5, 8-6)
1905 Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship "Potemkin" and sail for Odessa
1908 22nd U.S. Women's National Championship: Maud Barger-Wallach beats Evelyn Sears 6-3, 1-6, 6-3
1909 Etten-Leur 1st airplane flight in Neth (Belgium count De Lambert)
1909 23rd U.S. Women's National Championship: Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman beats Maud Barger-Wallach (6-0, 6-1)
1914 Jack Johnson beats Frank Moran in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
1914 US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia
1915 100°F (38°C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record)
1915 Dutch SDAP demonstrates against conscription
1917 1st baseball player (Hank Gowdy) to enter WW I military service
1917 Venizelos takes over as Prime Minister of Greece and severs relations with Central Powers, bringing Greece onside with the Allies in WWI
1922 Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)
1923 Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
1929 1st color TV demo, performed by Bell Laboratories in NYC1933 4th Ryder Cup: Great Britain wins, 6½-5½ at Southport & Ainsdale, England
1934 Federal Savings & Loan Association created
1935 Danno O'Mahoney beats Jim Londos in Boston, to become wrestling champ
1936 71st British Golf Open: Alf Padgham shoots a 287 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club
1939 1st night game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (Indians 5, Tigers 0)
1939 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 2-2, in 23 innings
1939 Headley scores a cricket century in each innings v England at Lord's
1940 Soviet Army attacks Romania
1940 USSR returns to Gregorian calendar
1941 Bialystok Poland falls to Germany
1941 Nazi manifest against the Jews in Amsterdam
1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island
1942 PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk
1943 Elly Dammers throws Dutch record spear (41,43m)
1943 Fanny Blankers-Koen runs Dutch record 200m (24.5)
1944 Cherbourg, France liberated by Allies
1945 Foundation 1940-45 established
1947 98°F (36.8°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1947 WRC TV channel 4 in Washington, D.C. (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 "Captain Video & His Video Rangers" debut on DUMONT-TV
1950 "Liar" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 12 performances
1950 32nd PGA Championship: Chandler Harper at Scioto CC Columbus Ohio
1950 US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam1950 South Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea
1953 Joseph Laniel appointed French premier
1954 1st atomic power station opens - Obninsk, near Moscow in Russia
1954 CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala
1955 "Julius LaRosa Show" debuts on CBS-TV
1955 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)
1956 Indians trailing Orioles 9-1 come back to win 12-11 in 11 innings
1957 Hurricane Audrey, kills 526 in Louisiana & Texas
1957 The British Medical Research Council publishes a report suggesting a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.
1958 Billy Pierce's perfect game bid broken with 2 outs in 9th
1958 Harry Burrell flies KC-135 record (5:27:42.8) NY to London
1958 8th Berlin International Film Festival: "Wild Strawberries" wins Golden Bear
1959 "West Side Story" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 734 performances1959 Players vote Henry Aaron unanimously for the All-Star Game
1960 British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia
1960 Chlorophyll "A" synthesized in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1960 Oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied opens
1961 Ghana imposes a total ban on exports to South Africa and South West Africa
1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m
1962 Ross Perot begins Electronic Data Systems
1962 In South Africa, the General Law Amendment Act (Sabotage Act) No 76 commences, increasing the state president's power to declare organisations unlawful and to add further restrictions to banning orders
1963 Bill J Kramer & Dakotas record Lennon & McCartney "I Call Your Name"1963 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m
1963 Phillies Johnny Callison hits for cycle, but Phillie centerfielder Tony Gonzalez's error ends his record 205 consecutive errorless games
1964 "New Phil Silvers Show" last airs on CBS-TV
1964 "Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You)" by Die Beatles peaks at #97
1965 Carol Mann wins LPGA Carling Golf Open
1966 Dark Shadows, American Gothic soap opera, premieres on ABC-TV
1966 4th Mayor's Trophy Game; Yanks beat Mets 5-2
1967 Race riot in Buffalo NY (200 arrested)
1967 The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London
1968 Ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague
> 1969 50,000 attend Denver Pop Festival
1969 Honduras/El Salvador breaks diplomatic relations due to soccer match
1969 Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, NY, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days
1970 Following the arrest of Bernadette Devlin, intense riots erupt in Derry and Belfast leading to a prolonged gun battle between Irish republicans and loyalists
1971 "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" closes at Golden NYC after 31 performances
1971 26th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by JoAnne Carner1973 John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list"
1973 Uruguayan president dissolves parliament and heads a coup d'état
1974 "Flip Wilson Show" last airs on NBC-TV
1974 US President Nixon visits USSR
1975 25th Berlin International Film Festival: "Adoption" wins the Golden Bear
1976 "Pacific Overtures" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 193 performances
1976 Air France Airbus hijacked in Germany to Uganda
1976 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Invitational
1976 Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president
1976 In South Africa, the National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots in Soweto have lead to a new era of political consciousness
1976 Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda; four hijackers members Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Bader-Meinhof Gang in Germany
1977 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise
1977 Djibouti (Afars & Issas) claims Independence from France
1977 Willie McCovey smashes 2 HRs in inning for 2nd time (Apr 12, 1973)
1978 Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m, 7:32.1
1978 Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to Salyut 6 space station
1978 US Seasat 1, 1st oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit
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