June 15th
 

1215 ~ King John of England put his seal to the Magna Carta.

1330 ~ Birthday of Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales.

1752 ~ Benjamin Franklin showed that lightning is electricity.

1844 ~ Charles Goodyear received a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.

1843 ~ Birthday of Edvard Grieg, Norwegian Composer.

1914 ~ Birthday of Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1916 ~ U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America.

1995 ~ Death of John Vincent Atanasoff, computer pioneer.

1996 ~ In Manchester, U.K., a terrorist bomb injured over 200 people.

1996 ~ Death of Ella Fitzgerald, Jazz singer.

June 16th
 

1829 ~ Birthday of Geronimo, Apache warrior and leader.

1890 ~ Birthday of Stan Laurel, Comedian.

1912 ~ Birthday of Enoch Powell, British politician.

1938 ~ Birthday of Joyce Carol Oates, novelist.

1948 ~ The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by the Cathay Pacific airline, marked the first skyjacking of a commercial plane.

1961 ~ Rudolf Nureyev defected at Le Bourget airport in Paris.

1963 ~ Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.

1977 ~ Death of Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist.

1977 ~ Leonid Brezhnev became president of the USSR.

1983 ~ Yuri Andropov became president of the USSR.

June 17th
 

1631 ~ Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spent more than 20 years to build her tomb, the Taj Mahal.

1775 ~ Battle of Bunker Hill - The British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston.

1818 ~ Birthday of Charles Gounod, French Composer.

1882 ~ Birthday of Igor Stravinsky, Russian Composer.

1885 ~ The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor.

1898 ~ Birthday of M. C. Escher, Dutch Artist.

1942 ~ Birthday of Mohamed El Baradei, IAEA Director.

1945 ~ Birthday of Eddy Merckx, Belgian Cycling Champion.

1972 ~ Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives were arrested while burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee.

1974 ~ The Irish Republican Army bombed the U.K.’s House of Parliament.

June 18th
 

1178 ~ Five Canterbury monks saw what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed.

1815 ~ Battle of Waterloo lead to Napoleon Bonaparte abdicating the throne of France for a second, final time.

1873 ~ Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.

1915 ~ Birthday of Red Adair, Firefighter.

1928 ~ Death of Roald Amundsen, Explorer, first to the South Pole.

1942 ~ Birthday of Paul McCartney, Singer & Songwriter.

1945 ~ William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) was charged with treason.

1967 ~ Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.

1979 ~ U.S. President Jimmy Carter and U.S.S.R. leader Leonid Brezhnev signed Salt II.

1983 ~ Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.

June 19th
 

1623 ~ Birthday of Blaise Pascal, Mathematician.

1865 ~ Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas were finally informed of their freedom.

1896 ~ Birthday of Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor.

1912 ~ Establishment of the 8-hour work day in the U.S.

1934 ~ The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was established in the United States.

1937 ~ Death of J. M. Barrie, Author, creator of the character Peter Pan.

1945 ~ Birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, Politician & recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1953 ~ Death of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, convicted spies.

1978 ~ First appearance of the comic strip Garfield.

2005 ~ Father’s Day (U.S.)

Garfield rules!

June 20th
 

1819 ~ Birthday of Jacques Offenbach, Composer.

1837 ~ Queen Victoria ascended to the British throne.

1877 ~ Alexander Graham Bell installed the first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario.

1899 ~ Birthday of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance in WW II.

1909 ~ Birthday of Errol Flynn, Actor.

1948 ~ The Ed Sullivan Show, (née Toast of the Town) debuted.

1953 ~ Birthday of Cyndi Lauper, singer.

1966 ~ Canada sold 336 million bushels of wheat to the U.S.S.R.

1977 ~ Oil began to flow through the Trans-Alaska pipeline.

2002 ~ Death of Erwin Chargaff, biochemist.

June 21st
 

1527 ~ Death of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian Historian & Political Author.

1749 ~ Halifax, Nova Scotia founded.

1781 ~ Birthday of Siméon-Denis Poisson, Mathematician & Physicist.

1905 ~ Birthday of Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher & Playwright, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1964.

1908 ~ Death of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Composer.

1940 ~ World War II: France surrendered to Germany.

1965 ~ Folk rock band The Byrds released their debut album Mr. Tambourine Man.

1989 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. Johnson that flag burning is protected speech under the United States Constitution.

2001 ~ Death of Carroll O'Connor, American Actor.

2004 ~ SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded space plane to achieve spaceflight.

June 22nd
 

1825 ~ British Parliament abolished feudalism in British North America.

1837 ~ Birthday of Paul Morphy, Chess phenomenon.

1856 ~ Birthday of H. Rider Haggard, Author.

1936 ~ Birthday of Kris Kristofferson, Singer, Songwriter, Actor, & Rhodes scholar.

1941 ~ Germany invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.

1969 ~ Death of Judy Garland, Singer & Actress.

1976 ~ Canadian House of Commons voted to abolish capital punishment.

1987 ~ Death of Fred Astaire, Dancer & Actor.

1996 ~ The Quake computer game was released.

2002 ~ Death of Ann Landers, Columnist.

June 23rd
 

1894 ~ International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) was founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

1894 ~ Birthday of Alfred Kinsey, Sexologist.

1912 ~ Birthday of Alan Turing, Mathematician.

1927 ~ Birthday of Bob Fosse, Choreographer.

1940 ~ German leader Adolf Hitler toured Paris in now occupied France.

1943 ~ Birthday of Vint Cerf, co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and one of the Fathers of the Internet.

1944 ~ Thomas Mann became a US citizen.

1956 ~ Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt.

1958 ~ The Dutch Reformed Church accepted women ministers.

1995 ~ Death of Jonas Salk, developer of the Salk polio vaccine.

June 24th
 

1314 ~ Scotland regained its independence in the Battle of Bannockburn, where Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce defeat Edward II of England.

1497 ~ John Cabot landed in Newfoundland, the first European discovery of the region since the Vikings.

1519 ~ Death of Lucrezia Borgia, duchess of Ferrara.

1692 ~ Kingston, Jamaica founded.

1901 ~ First exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work.

1910 ~ Japan invades Korea.

1915 ~ Birthday of Fred Hoyle, cosmologist and science fiction author.

1948 ~ Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union made land travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.

1995 ~ The New Jersey Devils swept the Detroit Red Wings in four games in the NHL Stanley Cup finals.

2003 ~ Death of Leon Uris, Author.

June 25th
 

1822 ~ Death of E.T.A. Hoffmann, German Writer, Composer & Painter

1876 ~ Battle of the Little Big Horn & death of Colonel George Armstrong Custer.

1894 ~ Birthday of Hermann Oberth, Physicist & one of the founding fathers of Rocketry and Astronautics.

1903 ~ Birthday of George Orwell, Writer.

1950 ~ The start of the Korean War.

1991 ~ Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from Yugoslavia.

1993 ~ Kim Campbell became the first female Prime Minister of Canada.

1995 ~ Death of Warren Burger, United States Supreme Court justice.

1997 ~ Death of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French Explorer, Scientist & Inventor.

1998 ~ In Clinton v. City of New York, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 unconstitutional.

Today 2005

Everyone seems to have too many hormones cursing through their system and need to go and have a good romp. ;)

June 26th
 

1541 ~ Death of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish Conqueror of Peru.

1824 ~ Birthday of Lord Kelvin, Physicist.

1898 ~ Birthday of Willy Messerschmitt, Aircraft Designer.

1933 ~ Birthday of Claudio Abbado, Conductor.

1934 ~ Initial flight of the first practical helicopter, the Focke-Wulf Fw 61.

1975 ~ Death of St. Josemaría Escrivá, creator of Opus Dei.

1948 ~ The Western allies began the Berlin Airlift, after the Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin.

1964 ~ The Beatles released the album A Hard Day's Night.

1997 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Communications Decency Act violated the First Amendment, and thus unconstitutional.

2003 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.

June 27th
 

1759 ~ General James Wolfe began the siege of Quebec.

1838 ~ Birthday of Paul von Mauser, Weapon Designer.

1880 ~ Birthday of Helen Keller, spokeswoman for the Deaf and Blind.

1893 ~ Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.

1905 ~ Mutiny on the battleship Potemkin.

1931 ~ Birthday of Charles Bronfman, Industrialist & Philanthropist

1954 ~ World's first nuclear power station went on line in Obninsk, near Moscow.

1967 ~ World's first ATM installed in Enfield, London.

1979 ~ Muhammad Ali announced his retirement from boxing.

2001 ~ Death of Jack Lemmon, Actor & Film Director.