CoM Moderators Posted June 30, 2024 Posted June 30, 2024 833 - Louis crowned King of Austria 1741 - Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms 1881 - Henry Highland Garnet named US minister to Liberia 1909 - Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to a no decision in 6 rounds at Duquesne Gardens, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to retain his heavyweight boxing title 1911 - British Open Men's Golf, Royal St George's Golf Club: Harry Vardon wins his 5th Championship by 10 shots in a playoff with 1907 champion Arnaud Massy of France 1934 - Detroit radio executive George Richards pays $7,952.08 to buy NFL's Portsmouth Spartans; moves team to Detroit and rebrands it to 'Lions' 1968 - East German Communist Party leader Walter Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution" 1981 - China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Zedong's policy 1993 - Richard Jacobs announces Chief Wahoo will go to Jacobs Field 2018 - Two members of the public confirmed poisoned by Novichok nerve agent, a women later dies, in Wiltshire, England; authorities suspect source was left over poison from the attack on former Russian spies Sergei Skripal and his daughter More Historical Events »
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