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| Posted 5 months ago June 2 1886 Grover Cleveland became the first U.S. President to get married in the White House. 1889 A hydroelectric power plant generated alternating current electricity, for the first time making it available to consumers at a significant distance from its origen. 1924 Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians. 1941 Baseball great, Lou Gehrig, died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, ALS, a rare type of paralysis now referred to as Lou Gehrig's Disease. 1946 In Italy, a plebiscite rejected a monarchy in favor of a republic. 1953 Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey. 1997 Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. 2003 The European Space Agency launched the Mars Express probe. Contact with the lander Beagle 2 was lost in December.
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| Posted 5 months ago June 3 1861 Stephen Douglas, U.S. politician, died. 1937 The Duke of Windsor, (formerly Edward VIII), married Wallis Simpson. 1965 Major Edward White became the first U.S. astronaut to walk in space, during the Gemini 4 mission. 1979 The world's worst oil spill occurred when an exploratory oil well, ltoc1, blew out, spilling out over 140 million gallons of oil into the Bay of Campeche off the coast of Mexico. 1989 Chinese army troops head to Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations. 1989 Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini died. |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 4 1873 Charles Fox Parham was born. 1892 The Sierra Club, led by John Muir, was incorporated in San Francisco. 1896 Henry Ford took out his first car out for a test drive. 1942 The Battle of Midway, a decisive Allied victory in World War II, began. 1944 The U.S.Fifth Army entered Rome, leading up to the liberation of the city during World War II. 1968 Dorothy Gish, an American actress who starred in many silent film classics, died. 1989 People's Army of China opened fire on crowds of prodemocracy protestors in Tiananman Square, killing thousands. 1992 The U.S. Post Office announced that in a poll people preferred the "young Elvis" stamp to the "old Elvis" stamp. 2001 King Dipendra of Nepal died, three days after shooting most of his familyl and himself. 2003 Martha Stewart was indicted on charges of insider trading.
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| Posted 5 months ago June 5 1783 Joseph and Jacques Mongolfier gave the first successful balloon demonstration. 1884 Civil War hero General William T. Sherman refused the Republican nomination for President with the words, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected." 1933 The United States went off the gold standard. 1947 Senator George Marshall proposed a plan (Marshall Plan) to help Europe recover financially from the effects of World War II. 1967 The Israeli-Arab Six Day War began. 1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot by an assassin and died the next day. 1981 The Centers for Disease Control published the first report about the disease that would later become known as AIDS. 2002 Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home. 2004 Former President Ronald Reagan died.j
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| Posted 5 months ago June 6 1844 The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London. 1933 The first drive-in movie movie theater opened in Camden, NJ. 1934 The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was established to protect investors and maintain the integrity of the securities markets. 1944 Thousands of Allied troops invaded the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the D-Day invasions. 1982 Israel invaded Lebanon to drive out the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). 2001 Vermont Republican James Jeffords left the party to become an independent, handing control of the Senate back to the Democrats. 2002 President Bush proposed a new Cabinet department, The Department of Homeland Security. |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 7 1494 Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the New World between the two countries. 1654 Louis XIV was crowned the King of France. 1776 Henry Richard Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution in the Continental Congress proposing a Declaration of Independence. 1891 Charles H. Spurgeon preached the last sermon of his 38 year old ministry at London's Metropolitan Tabernacle. 1892 Homer Plessy was arrested for his refusal to move from a whites's-only seat on a train. This led to the Plessy versus Ferguson Supreme Court decision. 1929 Vatican City became a sovereign state. 1948 President Eduard Benes of Czechslovakia resigned and the Communist takeover of the country was complete. 1967 Dorothy Parker, American short story writer, poet, and critic, died. 2003 Reverend V. Gene Robinson was elected the first openly gay bishop by New Hampshire Episcopalians. |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 8 632 The prophet Muhammed died. 1845 Andrew Jackson, the 7th President of the United States, died in Tennessee. 1859 Smith Wigglesworth was born. 1861 Tennessee became the 11th and the last state to secede from the Union. 1878 Evan John Roberts was born. 1968 James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King, Jr.s assassin, was arrested. 1982 President Reagan became the first American President to address a joint secession of Britain's Parliament. 1983 Negro Baseball League great Satchel Paige died. 2001 Tony Blair and his Labour Party won a second term, overwhelming the opposition at the polls. |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 9 1870 Author Charles Dickens died. 1898 China leased Hong Kong to Britain for 99 years. 1934 Donald Duck made his screen debut in The Little Wise Hen. 1944 The Republic of Iceland was established. 1973 Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes, the became the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years. 1978 After 148 years, the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints finally allowed black men to become priests. 1993 Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito married commoner Masako Owada.
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| Posted 5 months ago June 10 1801 The Tripolitan War, between the United States and the Barbary States, began. 1865 Wagner's Opera, Tristan and Isolde, premiered in Munich. 1935 Alcoholics Anonymous was founded by "Bill W". 1942 The entire of the male population of the Czech village Lidice was massacred in retaliation for death of Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich. 1946 Italy replaced its monarchy with a republic. 1967 The Six-Day War between Israel and Syria, Egypt, and Jordan, ended. Israel and Syria agree to observe a U.N. mediated ceasefire. 1978 Affirmed won the Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown. 2003 Ontario, Canada issued the first full same-sex licenses in North America. |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 11 1509 King Henry VIII married his first wife, Katharine of Aragon. 1770 Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. 1919 Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to capture the Triple Crown. 1963 Vivian Moore and and James Hood successfully enrolled at the University of Alabama following Governor George Wallace's famous "stand in the schoolhouse door". 1977 Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown. 2001 Timothy McVeigh, the 1995 Oklahoma City bomber, was executed. |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 12 1667 The world's first successful blood transfusion was carried out by Jean-Baptiste Denys. 1880 John Lee Richmond pitched baseballl's first perfect game. A perfect game occurs when no batter reaches a base during a complete game of at least nine innings. 1898 Emilio Equinaldo, head of Phillipine nationalists, proclaimed independence from Spain. 1939 The Baseball Hall of Fame opened to the public in Cooperstown, New York. 1942 Anne Frank received a diary for her birthday. 1963 Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, MS. 1997 Interleague play began in baseball, ending a 126 year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series. |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 13 1900 The Boxer Rebellion began in China. 1966 The U.S. Supreme Court set forth in Miranda versus Arizona that the police might advise suspects of their rights upon taking them into custody. 1967 Thurgood Marshall was nominated to become the first African American on the U.S. Supreme Court. 1971 The New York Times began publishing "The Pentagon Papers". 1983 The U.S. space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system. 1986 Band leader and clarinetist Benny Goodman died. 2000 The first meeting between President Kim Jong II of North Korea and President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea occurred. |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 14 Flag Day 1775 The United States Army was founded. 1777 The Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as its official flag of the U.S. 1922 Warren Harding became the first President to be heard on the radio. 1940 German troops enter Paris. The Nazis opened the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. 1951 The first commercial computer, Univac I, was unveiled. 1954 President Eisenhower signed an order adding "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance. 1982 Argentine forces surrendered to British forces on the Falkland Islands. |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 15 1215 King John sealed the Magna Carta. 1775 George Washington was appointed head of the Continental Army by the Second Continental Congress. 1836 Arkansas became the 25th state of the United States. 1844 Charles Goodyear was granted a patent for rubber vulcanization. 1849 James Polk, the 11th President of the United States, died in Nashville, TN. 1919 John Alcock and Arthur W. Browne successfully completed the first non-stop transatlantic airplane flight. 1923 Lou Gehrig made his first New York Yankee debut as a pitch runner. 1992 Vice-President Dan Qualye's "potatoe" incident. 1996 Ella Fitzgerald, the first "lady of song", died in Beverly Hills, CA. 2002 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger was knighted by Queen Elizabeth. |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 16 1487 The Battle of Stoke ended the War of the Roses. 1858 Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln declared, "a house divided against itself cannot stand." 1904 James Joyce's novel Ulysees took place on this day, which is celebrated as Bloomsday, for the main character, Leopold Bloom. 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Industrial Recovery Act. 1963 Valentina Tereshkova of the USSR became the first woman in space. 1996 Russia voted in its first independent Presidential election. Boris Yeltsin eventually won in a runoff. 2004 The 9/11 Commission determined that Saddam Hussein had no strings to al-Qaeda, contradicting White House beliefs. |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 17 1703 John Wesley was born. 1775 The Battle of Bunker Hill took place during the American Revolution. 1885 The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere. 1928 Amelia Earhart embarked on the first trans-Atlantic flight by a woman. 1944 The Republic of Iceland was established. 1963 U.S. Supreme Court ruled that no locality may require recitation of the Lord's Prayer or Bible verses in public schools. 1972 Burglary of Democratic headquarters in Washington, D.C., started the Watergate political scandal. 1994 O.J. Simpson's slow speed chase by the police, watched by millions on TV, ended in his arrest. 2002 Australian scientists announced that they had "teleported" a laser beam -- breaking it up and reconstructing it in another location. |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 18 1812 The War of 1812 began. 1815 Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, by British, German, and Dutch forces. 1873 Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 Presidential election. 1928 Aviator Ameila Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. She completed the flight from Newfoundland to Wales in about 21 hours. 1948 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights. The General Assembly would give its final approval on December 10, 1948. 1983 Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. 1995 The Pensacola Revival began on Father's Day! |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 19 1834 Charles Spurgeon was born. 1862 Congress abolished slavery in the U.S. territories. 1865 General Gordon Granger informed the citizens of Galveston, TX that the slaves were freed. The celebration of the day became known as Juneteenth. 1867 The first running of the Belmont Stakes 1934 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was created. 1964 The Civil Rights Act was approved after a 83 day filibuster in the U.S. Senate. 1977 Pope Paul VI proclaimed John Neumann, the first male saint from the United States. 1987 The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring any public school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creationism as well. 2002 Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai was sworn in. |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 20 1756 British soldiers were found in the cell known as "The Black Hole of Calcutta". 1782 The Great Seal of the United States was adopted. 1819 The 320 ton Savannah became the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. 1837 Queen Victoria ascended the British throne. 1863 West Virginia became the 35th state in the United States. 1893 Lizzie Borden, accused of murdering her parents, was found not guilty by a jury in New Bedford, MA. 1967 Muhammed Ali was convicted of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 21 Father's Day 1527 Italian statesman, diplomat, and author of "The Prince", Niccolo Machiavelli died. 1788 The U.S. Constitution went into effect when New Hampshire became the 9th state to ratify it. 1834 Cyrus McCormick's mechanical reaper was patented. 1964 Three civil rights workers -- James E. Chaney, 21; Andrew Goodman, 21; and Michael Schwermer, 24 -- disappeared in Philadelphia, MS. In 2005, 41 years after his disappearance, Edgar Killen was conviceted of their murders. 1982 John Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted murder of President Ronald Reagan. 1989 The U.S. Supreme Court decided that burning the U.S. flag was protected under the First Amendment. 1997 The WNBA (The National Basketball Association) made its debut. 2004 Michael Melvill pilots the first privately-developed spacecraft, SpaceShipOne, into space. |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 22 1772 Slavery was outlawed in England. 1815 Napoleon abdicated his throne for the second time after his defeat at Waterloo. 1870 The U.S. Justice Department was created. 1874 Dr. Andrew Still became the first to practice osteopathy. 1943 W.E.B. DuBois became the first black member of the National Institute of Letters. 1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the G.I. Bill of Rights. 1969 Singer-actress Judy Garland died. 1987 Actor-dancer-singer Fred Astaird died. |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 23 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called a "Type-Writer". 1947 The Senate overrode President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. 1969 Warren Burger was sworn in as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. 1972 President Richard Nixon and H.R.Haldeman discussed ways to obstruct ways the FBI's Watergate investigation. Revelations of this conversation spurred on President Richard Nixon's 1974 resignation. 1992 Mobster John Gotti was sentenced to life imprison 1995 Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneed who developed the first polio vaccine, died. 2003 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Universit of Michigan's School of Law affirmative action policy. |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 24 1509 Henry VIII was crowned King of England. 1519 Theodore Beza was born. 1647 Early American feminist Margaret Brent demanded a seat and vote in the Maryland Assembly, but was rejected from that body. 1675 King Phillip's War, the most devastating war between the colonists and the Indians, began with the Indians attacking the Swansea (MA) settlement. 1908 The 22nd and 24th President of the United States, Grover Cleveland, died in Princeton, NJ. 1947 Kenneth Arnold, an American pilot, reported seeing strange objects near Mt. Rainier, WA. He described them as "saucers skipping across the water", hence the term "flying saucers" was born. 1948 The Soviet Union began a blockade of Berlin. Allied forces responded with what would be known as the Berlin Airlift flying in more than 2 million tons of supplies over the next year. 1997 The U.S. Air Force released The Roswell Report, closing the case on the 1947 Roswell, NM incident concerning UFOs and alien bodies. |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 25 1788 Virginia became the 10th state in the Union. 1876 Lt. Col. George A. Custer and all his men were killed by Sioux and Cheyanne Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn in MT. 1865 J. Hudson-Taylor founded the China Inland Mission. 1950 Communist North Korean troops invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War. 1951 The first commercial color TV program was transmitted by CBS from New York to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, D.C. 1962 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the use of an unofficial prayer in New York public schools unconstitutional. 1991 Croatia and Slovenia proclaimed their independence from Yugoslavia, beginning the Yugoslavian Civil War. 1997 Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau died. |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 26 1819 The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson. 1843 Hong Kong was proclaimed a British crown colony. 1906 The first Grand Prix motor race was held in Le Mans, France. 1959 The St. Lawrence Seaway, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, was opened. 1963 President John Kennedy gave his, "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) speech in West Berlin. 1976 The CN tower in Toronto opened, the world's tallest free-standing structure. 2000 The map of the human genome, which required decoding which required decoding more than 3 billion biochemical "letters" of human DNA, is completed. 2003 Former South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond at age 100.
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| Posted 5 months ago June 27 1844 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints founder Joseph Smith was murdered by a mob in Carthage, IL. 1871 The Yen was made th official monetary unit of Japan. 1898 Joshua Slocum became the first person to successfully circumnavigate the earth alone when he landed his sloop Spray in Newport, RI, a 46,000 mile trip. 1922 The Newbury Medal for children's literature was first awarded. 1950 President Harry S. Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean War. 1954 The world's first atomic power station opened in Obninsk, near Moscow. 1969 The police and gays clashed at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, fostering the Gay Rights Movement. 1985 The legendary Route 66, running from Chicago to Santa Monica, CA, was decertified, the victim of the Interstate Highway System. 2003 The National Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and adminstered by the Federal Trade Commision, enrolled enrolled almost three quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day. |
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| Posted 5 months ago June 28 1836 The fourth President of the United States, James Madison, died at Montpelier, his Virginia estate. 1894 Labor Day became a federal holiday by an act of Congress. 1914 Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were assassinated, setting off World War I. 1919 The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I. 1967 Israel declared Jerusalem reunified under its sovereignty. 1978 The Supreme Court ruled in Regents of the University of California versus Bakke that the use of quotas in affirmative action programs were not permissable. 1996 The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, voted to admit women. 1997 Boxer Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear during their heavyweight title fight, earning 16 month suspension. 2000 Ellan Gonzalez was returned to his father in Cuba. 2001 Serbia handed over Slobodan Milosovic over to the UN War Crimes Tribunal. 2004 In Iraq, the United States transferred power back to the Iraqis two days earlier than planned. |
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| Posted 4 months ago June 29 1613 London's Globe Theater burned down during a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII. 1767 The British Parliament approved The Townshend Acts. 1972 The Supreme Court ruled in Furman versus Georgia that the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual" prompting some states to revise their laws. 1995 The shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth. 2003 Actress Katharine Hepburn died. |
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| Posted 4 months ago June 30 1859 French acrobat Charles Blondin, aka Jean Francois Gravelet, walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. 1905 Pandita Ramabai initiated the outbreak of revival in India. 1908 A powerful explosion from an unknown cause rocked the Tunquska Basin, in eastern Siberia, flattening square miles of forest and resulting in tremors that could be felt hundreds of miles away. 1921 President Warren G. Harding appointed former President William H. Taft Chief Justice of the United States. 1934 Adolf Hitler secure his position in the Nazi party by a "blood purge," ridding the party of other leaders such as Ernst Roehm and Kurt von Schleicher. 1936 Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind was published. 1971 The 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18, was ratified by the states. 1998 The remains of a Vietnam War serviceman buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers were identified as those of Air Force pilot Michael J. Blassie. |
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| Posted 4 months ago July 1 Canada Day 1858 The Wallace-Darwin theory of evolution was first published Linnaean Society. in London. 1963 The Battle of Gettysburg, which marked the turning point in the Civil War, began. 1867 Canada became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain under the British Northern America Act. 1898 Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders fought the Battle of San Juan Hill in the Spanish American War. 1943 Income tax withholding began in the United States. 1962 Burundi and Rwanda achieved independence. 1963 The U.S. Post Office inaugurated its five digit ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) codes. 1968 The United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and 58 other nations signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. 1994 Yasir Arafat returned to Palestinian land after 27 years in exile. 1997 After 156 years of British colonial rule, Hong Kong was returned to China. 2000 Vermont's civil unions law went into effect. 2000 The Confederate flag was removed from the South Carolina statehouse. |
