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June 13th
1777 ~ Marquis de Lafayette arrived in America to help train its army.
1865 ~ Birthday of William Butler Yeats, Poet, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1923. 1892 ~ Birthday of Basil Rathbone, Actor. 1944 ~ Germany launched the first V1 “Buzz Bomb” attack on England. 1966 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them (Miranda v. Arizona). 1967 ~ Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall was nominated as the first black Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. 1970 ~ "The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' last #1 song. 1981 ~ A teen-ager fired six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth during a parade in London. 1982 ~ Fahd became King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid. 1995 ~ French president Jacques Chirac announced the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia. |
June 14th
1671 ~ Birthday of Tomaso Albinoni, Italian Composer.
1736 ~ Birthday of Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French mathematician. The unit of electrical charge, the coulomb, and Coulomb's law are named after him. 1841 ~ The first Canadian parliament opened in Kingston. 1903 ~ Birthday of Alonzo Church, Mathematician & Logician. 1909 ~ Birthday of Burl Ives, American Folk Singer, Author & Actor. 1919 ~ John Alcock and Arthur Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight. 1940 ~ WWII: German troops enter Paris. 1952 ~ The keel was laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus. 1982 ~ Argentine forces in the capital Port Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces, bringing the Falklands War to an end. 1995 ~ Death of Roger Zelazny, science fiction author. |
June 15th
1215 ~ King John put his seal to the Magna Carta at Runnymede, England.
1752 ~ Benjamin Franklin showed that lightning is electricity. 1844 ~ Charles Goodyear received a patent for a process to strengthen rubber. 1843 ~ Birthday of Edvard Grieg, Norwegian Composer. 1904 ~ A fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum killed a 1,000 people. 1978 ~ King Hussein of Jordan married 26-year-old Lisa Halaby, who became Queen Noor. 1983 ~ Julia Fischer, German Violinist. 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 & Leader.
1890 ~ Birthday of Stan Laurel, Comedian. 1912 ~ Birthday of Enoch Powell, British politician. 1933 ~ Start of President Roosevelt’s New Deal. 1938 ~ Birthday of Joyce Carol Oates, novelist. 1948 ~ The Miss Macao passenger seaplane became 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. 1976 ~ Riots broke out in the black South African township of Soweto. 1977 ~ Death of Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist. |
June 17th
1631 ~ Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Shah Jahan I, built her a tomb, the Taj Mahal.
1775 ~ The Battle of Bunker Hill took place near Boston during the Revolutionary War. 1818 ~ Birthday of Charles Gounod, French Composer. 1882 ~ Birthday of Igor Stravinsky, Russian Composer. 1885 ~ The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York. 1898 ~ Birthday of M.C. Escher, Dutch Artist. 1928 ~ Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. 1929 ~ Birthday of Tigran Petrosian, Georgian chess player. 1945 ~ Birthday of Eddy Merckx, Belgian Cycling Champion. 1974 ~ The Irish Republican Army bombed the UK’s House of Parliament. |
June 18th
1178 ~ Five Canterbury monks saw what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed on the Moon.
1815 ~ British and Prussian troops defeated the French under Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in Belgium. 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 ~ Presidents Carter and Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna. 1983 ~ Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. |
June 19th
1623 ~ Birthday of Blaise Pascal, Mathematician.
1865 ~ More two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas were finally informed of their freedom. 1886 ~ The proposed annexation of Nova Scotia, Canada, by the United States lampooned. 1896 ~ Birthday of Wallis Warfield, the future Duchess of Windsor. 1934 ~ The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was established. 1937 ~ Death of J.M. Barrie, Author, creator of the character Peter Pan. 1945 ~ Birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, Politician, recipient of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. 1953 ~ Death of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, convicted spies. 1978 ~ First appearance of the comic strip Garfield. 1982 ~ Roberto Calvi, an Italian banker, was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in London. |
June 20th
1819 ~ Birthday of Jacques Offenbach, Composer.
1837 ~ Queen Victoria ascended to the 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, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1964. 1908 ~ Death of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Composer. 1919 ~ Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttled the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. 1965 ~ The Byrds released their debut album “Mr. Tambourine Man”. 1989 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that flag burning is protected speech under the Constitution. 2001 ~ Death of Carroll O'Connor, American Actor. 2004 ~ SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded space plane to achieve spaceflight. |
June 22nd
1837 ~ Birthday of Paul Morphy, Chess master.
1856 ~ Birthday of H. Rider Haggard, Author. 1940 ~ WWII: France forced to sign armistice with Germany. 1941 ~ WWII: Germany invaded the Soviet Union. 1969 ~ Death of Judy Garland, Singer & Actress. 1976 ~ Canadian House of Commons voted to abolish capital punishment. 1986 ~ Diego Maradona scored both the Hand of God goal and the Goal of the Century against England during the FIFA World Cup in Mexico City. 1987 ~ Death of Fred Astaire, Dancer & Actor. 1996 ~ The Quake computer game was released. 2002 ~ Death of Ann Landers, Columnist. |
June 23rd
1894 ~ Birthday of Alfred Kinsey, Sexologist.
1912 ~ Birthday of Alan Turing, Mathematician. 1927 ~ Birthday of Bob Fosse, Choreographer. 1940 ~ 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”. 1947 ~ President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act overridden. 1956 ~ Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt. 1992 ~ John Gotti, convicted of racketeering charges, was sentenced in to life in prison. 1993 ~ Lorena Bobbitt sexually mutilated her husband after he allegedly raped her. 1995 ~ Death of Jonas Salk, developer of the Salk polio vaccine. |
June 24th
1314 ~ Scotland regained its independence in the Battle of Bannockburn, when Scotland's King Robert I defeated the English.
1519 ~ Death of Lucrezia Borgia, duchess of Ferrara. 1692 ~ Kingston, Jamaica founded. 1901 ~ First exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work. 1910 ~ Japan invaded Korea. 1915 ~ Birthday of Fred Hoyle, cosmologist and science fiction author. 1948 ~ Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the U.S. to organize the Berlin Airlift. 1997 ~ The Roswell Incident debunked by the USAF. 2003 ~ Death of Leon Uris, Author. 2004 ~ Federal investigators questioned President Bush in connection with the news leak of a CIA operative's name. |
June 25th
1822 ~ Death of E.T.A. Hoffmann, German Writer, Composer & Painter.
1876 ~ Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out in the Battle of Little Big Horn. 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. 1981 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the male-only draft registration was constitutional. 1997 ~ Death of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French Explorer, Scientist & Inventor. 1998 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 unconstitutional. |
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. 1959 ~ Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower inaugurated the St Lawrence Seaway. 1963 ~ President Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he offered American solidarity to the citizens of West Germany: "Ich bin ein Berliner". 1964 ~ The Beatles released the album A Hard Day's Night. 1975 ~ Death of St. Josemaría Escrivá, creator of Opus Dei. 1997 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Communications Decency Act violated the First Amendment, and thus unconstitutional. |
June 27th
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. 1950 ~ The U.S. decided to send armed forces to fight in the Korean War. 1954 ~ The world's first nuclear power station went on line in Obninsk, near Moscow. 1957 ~ First British Smoking Causes Lung Cancer report released. 1967 ~ The world's first ATM installed in Enfield, London. 2001 ~ Death of Jack Lemmon, Actor & Film Director. |
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