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May 28th
1892 ~ In San Francisco, California, John Muir organized the Sierra Club.
1908 ~ Birthday of Ian Fleming, author of James Bond books. 1925 ~ Birthday of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone. 1934 ~ Birthday of The Dionne quintuplets, the world's first surviving quintuplets. 1936 ~ Alan Turing submitted On Computable Numbers for publication. 1964 ~ The Palestine Liberation Organization was formed. 1971 ~ Death of Audie Murphy, American actor & war hero. 1984 ~ President Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War. 1987 ~ Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses. 1998 ~ Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts. |
May 29th
1453 ~ Ottoman armies captured Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1860 ~ Birthday of Isaac Albéniz, Spanish Composer. 1874 ~ Birthday of G. K. Chesterton, English author. 1903 ~ Birthday of Bob Hope, British-born Comedian & Actor. 1906 ~ Birthday of T.H. White, English author. 1913 ~ Igor Stravinsky's ballet score “The Rite of Spring” premiered in Paris. 1919 ~ Observation of shifted star positions during a solar eclipse confirmed Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. 1953 ~ Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest. 1972 ~ Three Japanese Red Army gunmen opened fire on crowds at Lod (now Ben Gurion) International Airport, Israel, killing 26 people and injuring dozens more. 2005 ~ French voters rejected the European Union's proposed constitution. |
May 30th
1431 ~ Death of Joan of Arc, French commander and saint (burned at the stake by a pro-English tribunal).
1640 ~ Death of Peter Paul Rubens, German painter. 1778 ~ Death of Voltaire, French philosopher & Author. 1926 ~ Birthday of Christine Jorgensen, transsexual activist. 1942 ~ 1,047 British bombers launched a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany. 1964 ~ Death of Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American nuclear physicist. 1982 ~ Spain became NATO's 16th member. 1982 ~ Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr played the first of 2,632 consecutive games. His streak ended on September 20, 1998. 1989 ~ The 33-foot high Goddess of Democracy statue was unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators. 1997 ~ Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka - a case that inspired Megan's Law, which requires that communities be notified when sex offenders move in. |
May 31st
1669 ~ Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys made the last entry in his diary.
1809 ~ Death of Joseph Haydn, Composer. 1819 ~ Birthday of Walt Whitman, American Poet. 1889 ~ A dam broke near Johnstown, Pa, drowning more than 2,000. 1916 ~ British and German fleets fought the Battle of Jutland off Denmark. 1923 ~ Birthday of Prince Rainier III of Monaco. 1927 ~ The Ford Model T assembly line shut down after a production run of 15,007,003. 1938 ~ Birthday of Peter Yarrow, American folk singer ("Peter, Paul and Mary"). 1957 ~ Playwright Arthur Miller was convicted of contempt of Congress. 1996 ~ Death of Timothy Leary, LSD advocate. |
June 1st
1494 ~ Friar John Cor :angel: recorded the first known batch of scotch whisky.
1801 ~ Birthday of Brigham Young, Mormon Church leader. 1804 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer. 1890 ~ The U.S. Census Bureau began using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns. 1918 ~ the Battle for Belleau Wood began, during which came forth the famous phrase Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever? Heroes indeed! 1926 ~ Birthday of Marilyn Monroe, Actress. 1938 ~ Action Comics issued the first Superman comic. 1965 ~ Birthday of Nigel Short, English chess player. 1968 ~ Death of Helen Keller, symbol of courage. 1967 ~ The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released. |
June 2nd
1740 ~ Birthday of Marquis de Sade, French Nobleman & Author.
1835 ~ Start of P.T. Barnum’s circus’ first tour of the U.S. 1840 ~ Birthday of Thomas Hardy, Poet & Novelist. 1857 ~ Birthday of Edward Elgar, English Composer. 1896 ~ Guglielmo Marconi received a patent for the radio. 1897 ~ Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he was dead, was quoted as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration." 1953 ~ Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. 1966 ~ First U.S. Lunar soft landing, by Surveyor 1. 1987 ~ Death of Andres Segovia, Spanish guitarist. 1990 ~ Death of Rex Harrison, English actor. |
June 3rd
1875 ~ Death of Georges Bizet, French composer.
1888 ~ The poem Casey at the Bat, by Ernest Thayer, was published in the SF Examiner. 1899 ~ Death of Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer. 1924 ~ Death of Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist. 1925 ~ Birthday of Tony Curtis, Actor. 1926 ~ Birthday of Allen Ginsberg, American poet. 1937 ~ The Duke of Windsor married American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson, for whom he had abdicated the British throne. 1965 ~ Edward White became the first American astronaut to walk in space. 1969 ~ The science fiction television series Star Trek aired its final new episode after being canceled by NBC. 1982 ~ The Israeli ambassador to Britain was shot on a London street. |
June 4th
1798 ~ Death of Giacomo Casanova, Italian Lover.
1919 ~ Birthday of Robert Merrill, American Baritone. 1928 ~ Birthday of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, German-American Sex Therapist. 1940 ~ The Allies completed the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk, France. 1944 ~ Birthday of Michelle Phillips, American Singer (The Mamas & the Papas). 1975 ~ Birthday of Angelina Jolie, American Actress. 1984 ~ The album ''Born in the U.S.A.'' by Bruce Springsteen was released. 1986 ~ Jonathan Pollard pleaded guilty to espionage for selling top secret U.S. military intelligence to Israel. 1989 ~ The Tiananmen Square Massacre. 1998 ~ Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. |
June 5th
1723 ~ Birthday of Adam Smith, Scottish Economist.
1883 ~ Birthday of John Keynes, English Economist. 1910 ~ Death of O. Henry, American author. 1944 ~ WWII: Rome was liberated. 1947 ~ At a speech at Harvard University, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall called for economic aid to Europe. 1963 ~ UK Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigned over a sex scandal. 1967 ~ Israel began the Six Day War with a pre-emptive attack on Egypt. 1968 ~ Sen. Robert Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles, CA. 1975 ~ Death of Paul Keres, Estonian chess player. 2004 ~ Death of Ronald Reagan. |
June 6th
1683 ~ Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum opened to the public as the world's first university museum.
1844 ~ The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London. 1868 ~ Birthday of Robert Falcon Scott, English Explorer. 1901 ~ Birthday of Sukarno, first President of Indonesia. 1903 ~ Birthday of Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer. 1944 ~ D-Day began with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. 1961 ~ Death of Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist. 1984 ~ Indian troops stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar. 1985 ~ Authorities in Brazil exhumed a body later identified as that of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who conducted medical experiments on inmates at Auschwitz. 2002 ~ The Wye Oak, Maryland's honorary state tree, was destroyed in a thunderstorm. |
June 8th
632 ~ Death of Muhammad, founder of Islam.
1810 ~ Birthday of Robert Schumann, Composer. 1866 ~ The Canadian Parliament met for the first time in Ottawa. 1876 ~ Death of George Sand, Author. 1887 ~ Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punch card calculator. 1910 ~ Birthday of John W. Campbell Jr., Science Fiction Writer, Publisher, & Editor. 1916 ~ Birthday of Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS, most noted for being one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1962. 1949 ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell was published. 1984 ~ Homosexuality is decriminalized in New South Wales, Australia. 1998 ~ Charlton Heston assumed the presidency of the National Rifle Association. |
June 9th
1810 ~ Birthday of Otto Nicolai, Composer.
1870 ~ Death of Charles Dickens, English author. 1891 ~ Birthday of Cole Porter, Composer. 1916 ~ Birthday of Robert McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense, former president of the World Bank. 1934 ~ Donald Duck debuted in The Wise Little Hen. 1954 ~ Beginning of the end of the McCarthy Era. 1959 ~ The USS George Washington launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles. 1970 ~ Assassination attempt on King Hussein of Jordan. 1973 ~ Secretariat won the Triple Crown. 2004 ~ The FCC agreed to a $1.75 million settlement with Clear Channel to resolve indecency complaints against Howard Stern and other radio personalities. |
June 10th
1829 ~ First Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge.
1836 ~ Death of André-Marie Ampère, French physicist. 1846 ~ The California Republic declared independence from Mexico. 1915 ~ Birthday of Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1921 ~ Birthday of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. 1922 ~ Birthday of Judy Garland, Singer & Actress. 1940 ~ Italy declared war on France and Britain; Canada declared war on Italy. 1967 ~ End of the Six-Day War. 1999 ~ Yugoslav troops departed Kosovo, prompting NATO to suspend its air war. 2004 ~ Death of Ray Charles, Singer & Musician. |
June 11th
1770 ~ Captain James Cook ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
1776 ~ Birthday of John Constable, English painter. 1864 ~ Birthday of Richard Strauss, Composer & Conductor. 1892 ~ The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, opened in Melbourne. 1918 ~ Birthday of Nelson Mandela, former President of SA, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1993. 1937 ~ Death of R. J. Mitchell, British aircraft designer, developer of the Spitfire. 1942 ~ The U.S. and the USSR signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in WWII. 1987 ~ Margaret Thatcher became the first British PM in 160 years to win a third consecutive term in office. 2001 ~ Death of Timothy McVeigh, terrorist (executed). 2004 ~ Cassini-Huygens made its closest flyby of Phoebe. |
June 12th
1897 ~ Birthday of Anthony Eden, British P.M.
1942 ~ Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday. 1962 ~ Three prisoners escaped from Alcatraz prison. 1963 ~ Death of Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist. 1967 ~ In Loving v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court declared all state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. 1979 ~ Bryan Allen flew the man powered Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel. 1987 ~ Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. 1994 ~ Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home in Los Angeles. O. J. Simpson was acquitted of the killings, but held liable in a civil suit. 1997 ~ Major league baseball began interleague play. 2003 ~ Death of Gregory Peck, Actor. |
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