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June 25th
1767 ~ Death of Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer.
1788 ~ Virginia ratified the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 10th state of the United States. 1867 ~ The Battle of Little Big Horn and the death of Colonel George Custer. 1894 ~ Birthday of Hermann Oberth, Physicist and one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. 1900 ~ Birthday of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. 1901 ~ Death of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Composer. 1903 ~ Birthday of George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), Author. 1950 ~ The beginning of the Korean War. 1991 ~ Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from Yugoslavia. 1997 ~ Death of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Explorer, Scientist. |
June 26th
1483 ~ Richard III became King of England.
1541 ~ Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador & conqueror of the Inca Empire. 1819 ~ The bicycle was patented. 1824 ~ Birthday of Lord Kelvin, physicist, inventor of the Kelvin temperature scale. 1898 ~ Birthday of Willy Messerschmitt, Aircraft Designer. 1912 ~ Birthday of Jay Silverheels, Actor. 1933 ~ Birthday of Claudio Abbado, Conductor. 1945 ~ The charter of the United Nations was signed. 1963 ~ John F. Kennedy spoke the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner". 1964 ~ The Beatles released the album “A Hard Day's Night”. |
June 27th
1149 ~ Death of Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch, in the battle of Inab.
1759 ~ General James Wolfe started a siege of Quebec. 1838 ~ Birthday of Paul von Mauser, weapon designer. “…When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin”, I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major-General ,The Pirates of Penzance, 1880, Gilbert & Sullivan 1880 ~ Birthday of Helen Keller, Spokeswoman for the deaf and blind. 1905 ~ Mutiny on the battleship Potemkin. 1930 ~ Birthday of Ross Perot, Billionaire and Politician. 1950 ~ US President Truman sent troops to fight in the Korean War. 1967 ~ World's first ATM installed in Enfield, London. 1977 ~ France granted independence to Djibouti. 2001 ~ Death of Jack Lemmon, Actor. |
June 28th
1389 ~ Ottoman forces defeated the Serbian army in Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe.
1491 ~ Birthday of Henry VIII, king of England. 1712 ~ Birthday of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher. 1838 ~ Queen Victoria crowned. 1902 ~ Birthday of Richard Rodgers, Composer. 1914 ~ Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophia were assassinated by a Serbian nationalist, the proximate cause of World War I. 1926 ~ Birthday of Mel Brooks, Filmmaker. 1948 ~ Birthday of Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court. 1950 ~ Seoul captured by troops from North Korea. 2004 ~ 2004 Canadian election. |
June 29th
1786 ~ Alexander Macdonnell and over five hundred Highlanders left Scotland to settle in Ontario, Canada.
1850 ~ Coal discovered on Vancouver Island. 1861 ~ Birthday of Dr. William Mayo, surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic. 1895 ~ Doukhobors burned their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government. 1900 ~ Birthday of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Pilot and Writer. 1910 ~ Birthday of Frank Loesser, Composer and Lyricist. 1963 ~ Birthday of Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violinist. 1974 ~ Isabel Peron sworn in as President of the Argentine Republic. 1995 ~ The US Space Shuttle delivered a relief crew of two cosmonauts to the Russian Mir space station. 2003 ~ Death of Katharine Hepburn, Actress. |
June 30th
1817 ~ Birthday of Joseph Dalton Hooker, Botanist.
1864 ~ President Lincoln granted Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation". 1908 ~ Tunguska impact event occurred in Siberia. 1917 ~ Birthday of Lena Horne, Actress & Singer. 1934 ~ Night of the Long Knives in Germany. 1934 ~ Death of Ernst Röhm, Nazi government official. 1936 ~ ”Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell published. 1943 ~ Birthday of Florence Ballard, Singer & member of the Supremes. 1966 ~ Birthday of Mike Tyson, World Champion Boxer. 1971 ~ Crew of Soyuz 11 spacecraft killed when air supply escaped through faulty valve. |
July 1st
1646 ~ Birthday of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Mathematician & Philosopher.
1863 ~ Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War began. 1872 ~ Birthday of Louis Blériot, first man to fly across the English Channel. 1881 ~ World's first international telephone call, between St. Stephen, New Brunswick and Calais, Maine 1916 ~ First day of the First Battle of the Somme. On this first day, 20,000 soldiers of the British Army were killed, and 40,000 wounded. 1925 ~ Death of Erik Satie, Composer. 1961 ~ Birthday of Diana, Princess of Wales. 1962 ~ Independence of Rwanda and Burundi. 2000 ~ Death of Walter Matthau, Actor. 2004 ~ Saturn Orbit Insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UT and ends at 02:48 UT. |
July 2nd
1679 ~ Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi - led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
1714 ~ Birthday of Christoph Willibald Gluck, Composer. 1839 ~ 53 African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué took over the slave ship Amistad. 1877 ~ Birthday of Hermann Hesse, Writer 1900 ~ First Zeppelin flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany 1906 ~ Birthday of Hans Bethe, Nobel-winning nuclear physicist. 1925 ~ Birthday of Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo. 1937 ~ Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator 1942 ~ Birthday of Vicente Fox, president of Mexico. 1976 ~ North and South Vietnam united to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. |
July 3rd
323 ~ Battle of Adrianople: Constantine the Great defeated Licinius, who fled to Byzantium.
1608 ~ Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain. 1844 ~ The last pair of Great Auks was killed. 1854 ~ Birthday of Leos Janacek, Composer. 1883 ~ Birthday of Franz Kafka, Author. 1890 ~ Idaho was admitted as the 43rd U.S. state. 1935 ~ Death of André Citroën, automobile pioneer. 1938 ~ World record for a steam railway locomotive was set in England, by the "Mallard", which reached a speed of 126 mph. 1964 ~ President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited racial segregation in public places. 1998 ~ Death of Danielle Bunten Berry, a.k.a. Dan Bunten, software developer. |
July 4th
1054 ~ A supernova was observed by the Chinese and American Indians near the star ζ Tauri. For several months it remained bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.
1776 ~ The Continental Congress of the British colonies in America approved a Declaration of Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, forming the United States of America. 1807 ~ Birthday of Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot. 1826 ~ Death of John Adams, 2nd president of the United States and Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of the United States. In a remarkable coincidence, both of these framers of the United States Declaration of Independence died on the 50th anniversary of its adoption. 1865 ~ “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” is published. 1883 ~ Birthday of Rube Goldberg, Cartoonist. 1918 ~ Birthday of Ann Landers, advice columnist. 1924 ~ Birthday of Eva Marie Saint, Actress: “North by Northwest”, “On the Waterfront”. 1946 ~ After over 400 years, the Philippines achieved full independence. 1976 ~ Israeli commandos raided Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing most passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by pro-Palestinian hijackers. |
July 5th
1687 ~ Isaac Newton's “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica” published.
1781 ~ Birthday of Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore. 1830 ~ France invaded Algeria. 1853 ~ Birthday of Cecil Rhodes, South African politician. 1951 ~ William Shockley invented the junction transistor. 1880 ~ Birthday of Jan Kubelík, violinist. 1962 ~ Algeria became independent from France. 1909 ~ Birthday of Andrei Gromyko, president of the Soviet Union. 1971 ~ The voting age in the United States was reduced to 18 from 21. 1996 ~ Birthday of Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal. |
July 6th
1483 ~ Richard III crowned king of England.
1885 ~ Louis Pasteur successfully tested his vaccine against rabies. 1917 ~ Arabian troops led by T.E. Lawrence captured Aqaba from the Turks. 1923 ~ Birthday of Nancy Reagan, Actress, former US First Lady. 1964 ~ ”A Hard Day's Night”, the first Beatles film, premieres. 1935 ~ Birthday of Tenzin Gyatso, (Lhamo Dhondrup) fourteenth and current Dalai Lama. 1937 ~ Birthday of Vladimir Ashkenazy, Pianist & Conductor. 1946 ~ Birthday of Sylvester Stallone, Actor. 1946 ~ Birthday of George W. Bush, US President. 1974 ~ The radio program “A Prairie Home Companion” made its first live broadcast. 2004 ~ PixiesPace mourns the loss of one of their own, skipthisone. He was only 31. |
July 7th
1534 ~ First known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
1887 ~ Birthday of Marc Chagall, Painter. 1898 ~ US President William McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States. 1907 ~ Birthday of Robert Heinlein, Science Fiction Writer. 1915 ~ Birthday of Yul Brynner, Actor. 1922 ~ Birthday of Pierre Cardin, Fashion Designer. 1940 ~ Birthday of Ringo Starr, Drummer and Singer. 1946 ~ Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini became the first American to be canonized. 1969 ~ French was made equal to English throughout the Canadian national government. 1978 ~ The Solomon Islands became independent from the United Kingdom. |
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July 8th
1099 ~ First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers marched around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders mocked them.
1663 ~ Charles II of England granted John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island. 1695 ~ Death of Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist and namesake of Saturn satellite probes. 1758 ~ French and Indian War: French forces held Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York. 1822 ~ Death of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet ("Ozymandias", "Ode to the West Wind”, …). 1838 ~ Birthday of Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, inventor of rigid dirigibles. 1839 ~ Birthday of John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil. 1889 ~ The first issue of the Wall Street Journal was published. 1933 ~ Birthday of Marty Feldman, Comedian & Actor (“Blazing Saddles”, “Young Frankenstein”,…). 1997 ~ Mayo Clinic researchers warned that the dieting-drug "fen-phen" could cause severe heart and lung damage. |
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