1979 – During a double-header between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers, riots occurred at Comiskey Park to what became known as Disco Demolition Night.”
0927 – King Aethelstan is the first southern English king to gain control of much of the north of Britain when various local kings accept his overlordship at Eamont, Cumbria
1096 – Crusaders under Peter the Hermit reached Sofia, Bulgaria. There they met their Byzantine escort, which brought them safely the rest of the way to Constantinople. by August 1.
1191 – Salaudin’s garrison surrenders, ending the two-year siege of Acre. Conrad of Montferrat, who has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of the Third Crusade leaders Richard I of England, Philip II of France, and Leopold V of Austria on the city’s walls and towers.
1450 – Jack Cade slain in a revolt against British King Henry VI
1543 – England’s King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.
1561 – “Trinity Church” (now Saint Basil’s Cathedral) is consecrated in Moscow, Russia, built to commemorate defeat of the Mongols at battle of Kazan
1573 – Spanish forces under the Duke of Alba capture Haarlem after a seven month siege.
1580 – Ostrog Bible, the first printed Bible in a Slavic language, is published
1627 – English invasion fleet under George Villiers lands on the Île de Ré, forced to withdraw after 3 months of combat and losing 4,000 of 7,000 troops
1690 – Protestant forces led by William of Orange defeated the Roman Catholic army of James II.
1691 – William III defeated the allied Irish and French armies at the Battle of Aughrim, Ireland.
1700 – Gelderland accepts Gregorian calendar; yesterday is June 30, 1700
1705 – Ottoman army officer Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī proclaims himself Bey of Tunis, founding the Husainid Dynasty (dynasty rules till 1957)
1790 – The French Assembly approved a Civil Constitution providing for the election of priests and bishops.
1806 – Sixteen German imperial states leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine
1843 – Mormon leader Joseph Smith says God allows polygamy
1862 – The U.S. Congress authorized the Medal of Honor.
1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln witnessed the battle where Union forces repelled Jubal Early’s army on the outskirts of Washington, DC.
1892 – A hidden lake bursts out of a glacier on the side of Mont Blanc, flooding the valley below and killing around 200 villagers and holidaymakers in Saint Gervais.
1901 – In Germany a group of 104 aristocrats present a deceleration against dueling, though the tradition will go on
1901 – Striking Canadian salmon fishermen on the Pacific coast, resentful of the non-union Japanese who continue to fish, maroon and imprison 47
1915 – Army orders harvest furloughs to Canadian Expeditionary Force soldiers still in training camps in Canada.
1917 – The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona
1920 – Moscow Peace Treaty is signed, Also known as the Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty, the treaty was signed between Lithuania and the Soviet Union. It recognized Lithuanian sovereignty in exchange for its neutrality and for safe passage for Russian troops to Poland.
1933 – A minimum wage of 40 cents an hour was established in the U.S.
1941 – Moscow was bombed by the German Luftwaffe for the first time.
1942 – In village Podhum, near Rijeka. Italian fascists shot 91 men aged from 15 to 60 years, took 889 people to concentration camps, burned 515 buildings, and took all cattle from the village. Although the perpetrators of this crime were known, they were never prosecuted.
1944 – Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased
1950 – Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death
1951 – Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero Ill
1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed a highway modernization program, with costs to be shared by federal and state governments.
1954 – The Major League Baseball Players Association was organized in Cleveland, OH.
1957 – The U.S. surgeon general, Leroy E. Burney, reported that there was a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.
1960 – Manufacturing began for the Etch A Sketch®.
1960 – Congo, Chad & Central African Republic declare independence
1966 – Race riot in Chicago
1967 – Six days of race riots begin in Newark, New Jersey that will claim the lives of 27 people: The violence began when two white policemen arrested a black cab driver.
1974 – John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Nixon, and three others were convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg’s former psychiatrist.
1975 – São Tomé and Príncipe gains independence from Portuguese rule
1979 – During a double-header between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers, riots occurred at Comiskey Park to what became known as Disco Demolition Night.” https://edm.com/features/remembering-disco-demolition-night-1979
1981 – In British Columbia, 48,000 BC woodworkers go on strike, shut down forest industry; 60,000 workers off the job by July 20
1982 – FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail
1982 – The last of the distinctive-looking Checker taxicabs rolled off the assembly line in Kalamazoo, MI.
1984 – Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale named U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running mate. Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket.
1986 – Steven McDonald, New York City Police Department patrolman, is shot and paralyzed by Shavod Jones
1990 – In Soweto, South Africa, Shanty town women strip to the waist and confront bulldozers sent by authorities to demolish their homes
1990 – Russian republic president Boris N. Yeltsin announced his resignation from the the Soviet Communist Party.
1998 – 1.7 billion people watched soccer’s World Cup finals between France and Brazil. France won 3-0.
2000 – Russia launched the Zvezda after two years of delays. The module was built to be the living quarters for the International Space Station (ISS.)
2002 – Gay rights: The Superior Court of Ontario orders Ontario to recognize same-sex marriages.
2006 – Hezbollah initiates Operation True Promise.
2012 – 200 people are killed by the Syrian army in Tremseh
2013 – Malala Yousafzai addresses the United Nations and calls for worldwide access to education
2017 – World’s largest iceberg (later christened A68) breaks away from Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica, about 6,000 sq km in length
2018 – Republic of Ireland will be the first country to sell off its investments in fossil fuel companies after passing legislation in parliament
2021 – At least 92 people die in a fire in a COVID-19 hospital ward in Iraqi city of Nasiriya
2022 – Twitter sues Elon Musk after he pulls out of a deal to buy the social media site, accusing him of “trashing it” and “a model of bad faith”
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
