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June Events Through History

June Events

  • 6:American Rivers Month
  • 6:Black Music Month
  • 6:Cancer in the Sun Month
  • 6:Gay and Lesbian History Month
  • 6:June Dairy Month
  • 6:June is Turkey Lovers’ Month
  • 6:National Accordion Awareness Month
  • 6:National Adopt-A-Cat Month
  • 6:National Drivesafe Month
  • 6:National Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month
  • 6:National Papaya Month
  • 6:National Pest Control Month
  • 6:National Ragweed Control Month
  • 6:National Rose Month
  • 6:National Tennis Month
  • 6:National Zoo and Aquarium Month
  • : Events depending on weekdays
  • U(6/7) :Day of the Rice God (Japan) (first Sunday).
  • U(6/7) :Family Day (first Sunday).
  • U(6/7) :Gioco del Ponte (Italy) (first Sunday).
  • U(6/7) :International Mothers’ Peace Day (first Sunday).
  • U(6/7) :Pushkin Poetic Festival (USSR) (first Sunday).
  • U(6/7) :Teacher’s Day (Massachusetts) (first Sunday).
  • W(6/7) :The Derby (England) (first Wednesday?).
  • R(6/7) :Career Nurse Assistants Day (first Thursday).
  • F(6/7) :Labor Day (Bahamas) (first Friday).
  • S(6/11):Belmont Stakes (fifth Saturday after Kentucky Derby).
  • S(6/14):Past 80 Party (second Saturday).
  • S(6/14):Trooping the Colour (England) (second Saturday).
  • M(6/14):Hug Holiday (second Monday).
  • U(6/14):Children’s Day (second Sunday).
  • U(6/14):Father’s Day (France) (second Sunday).
  • U(6/14):Festival of the Red Rose (second Sunday).
  • U(6/14):Military Music Festival (Belgium) (second Sunday).
  • U(6/14):Race Unity Day (second Sunday).
  • S(6/21):National Hollerin’ Contest (Spivey’s Corner, North Carolina)
  • :(third Saturday).
  • S(6/21):National Jousting Hall of Fame Jousting Tournament (third
  • :Saturday).
  • U(6/21):Father’s Day (Canada, US, England) (third Sunday).
  • T(6/28):National Columnist’s Day (fourth Tuesday).
  • U(6/28):Festa del Giglio (Italy) (fourth Sunday).
  • M(6/30):Jefferson Davis’ Birthday (Alabama and Mississippi) (last Monday).
  • : Normal events
  • 6/1 :Birthday of His Majesty the King (Malaysia).
  • 6/1 :Independence Day (Samoa).
  • 6/1 :International Children’s Day (China).
  • 6/1 :Madaraka Day (Kenya).
  • 6/1 :National Holiday (Tunisia).
  • 6/1 :Procession des Bouteilles (France).
  • 6/1 :Statehood Day (Tennessee).
  • 6/1/1638 :First recorded earthquake in the US (Plymouth Plantation).
  • 6/1/1660 :Mary Dyer hanged for heretical preaching (Boston).
  • 6/1/1789 :First legislation enacted by US Congress.
  • 6/1/1792 :Kentucky became 15th US state.
  • 6/1/1796 :Tennessee became 16th US state.
  • 6/1/1813 :Captain James Lawrence, naval hero of the War of 1812, died.
  • 6/1/1821 :Waterford Academy for Young Ladies founded (Emma Willard).
  • 6/1/1854 :Emily Chubbock Judson (a.k.a. Fanny Forester), American poet,
  • :died.
  • 6/1/1868 :James Buchanan, 15th US president, died.
  • 6/1/1869 :Voting machine patented (Thomas A. Edison).
  • 6/1/1912 :Daniel Hudson Burnham, US architect, died.
  • 6/1/1925 :Thomas Riley Marshall, 28th US vice president, died.
  • 6/1/1936 :RMS Queen Mary began her maiden crossing of the Atlantic.
  • 6/1/1939 :First FW-190 (Germany) flew.
  • 6/1/1952 :John Dewey, US psychologist and philosopher, died.
  • 6/1/1964 :Prayers and Bible teaching banned in US public schools.
  • 6/1/1965 :Robert Manry, Cleveland newspaper editor, began sailing the
  • :Atlantic (in a 13.5 foot craft).
  • 6/1/1967 :The Beatles released “Sergent Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”
  • 6/1/1968 :Helen Keller, blind and deaf author, died.
  • 6/1/1968 :First episode of “The Prisoner” aired.
  • 6/1/1970 :Soyuz 9 (USSR) launched.
  • 6/1/1973 :George Papadopoulos became president of Greece.
  • 6/1/1980 :Arthur Charles Nielsen, marketing research engineer, died.
  • 6/1/1980 :Muhammad Ali was diagnosed as having brain damage.
  • 6/1/1985 :Drinking age raised to 21 in Massachusetts.
  • 6/1/1991 :David Ruffin, singer, died.
  • 6/2 :Coronation Day (UK).
  • 6/2 :Corpus Christi (Paraguay).
  • 6/2 :Republic Day (Italy).
  • 6/2 :Yell “Fudge” at the Cobras in North America Day.
  • 6/2/1774 :Quartering Act (updated act of 1765) passed.
  • 6/2/1835 :P.T. Barnum’s circus began first US tour.
  • 6/2/1862 :General Robert E. Lee took command of the Confederate armies of
  • :East Virginia and North Carolina.
  • 6/2/1886 :Grover Cleveland married Francis Folsom.
  • 6/2/1924 :Native Americans granted US citizenship.
  • 6/2/1933 :Swimming pool accepted in White House for the first time.
  • 6/2/1941 :Henry Louis Gehrig, baseball player, died.
  • 6/2/1946 :Italy chose to be a republic rather than a monarchy.
  • 6/2/1953 :Queen Elizabeth II was crowned.
  • 6/2/1959 :A swarm of gnats attacked Oriole pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm on the
  • :mound.
  • 6/2/1966 :Surveyor 1 (US) softlanded on the moon.
  • 6/2/1967 :First issue of Computerworld.
  • 6/2/1986 :US Senate began live TV coverage of its proceedings.
  • 6/2/1990 :Frederick Mellinger, founder of Frederick’s of Hollywood, died.
  • 6/2/1990 :Rex Harrison, actor (“My Fair Lady”), died.
  • 6/3 :Bank Holiday (Republic of Ireland).
  • 6/3 :Confederate Memorial Day (Kentucky and Louisiana).
  • 6/3 :Jefferson Davis’ Birthday (Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, and South
  • :Carolina).
  • 6/3 :Labor Day (Bahamas).
  • 6/3/1770 :Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded.
  • 6/3/1841 :Nicolas Appert, French chef (invented canning process), died.
  • 6/3/1861 :”Philippi (Virginia) Races.”
  • 6/3/1864 :Battle of Cold Harbor.
  • 6/3/1888 :”Casey at the Bat” first appeared in print (San Francisco
  • :Examiner).
  • 6/3/1898 :Samuel Plimsoll, whom Plimsoll Line named after, died.
  • 6/3/1924 :Franz Kafka, novelist (“The Castle”), died.
  • 6/3/1931 :Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz’s “The Band Wagon” opened on
  • :Broadway.
  • 6/3/1932 :Lou Gehrig hit four home runs.
  • 6/3/1937 :Duke of Windsor (formerly King Edward VIII) married Wallis
  • :Warfield Simpson of Baltimore.
  • 6/3/1942 :Japanese attempted to seize the island of Midway.
  • 6/3/1946 :Bikini introduced (Louis Reard).
  • 6/3/1963 :Billie Jo MacAlister jumped off the Tallahasee Bridge.
  • 6/3/1963 :Pope John 23rd (Angelo Roncalli) died.
  • 6/3/1965 :Gemini 4 (first American to “walk” in space) launched.
  • 6/3/1969 :Last episode of “Star Trek” aired.
  • 6/3/1970 :Emmett J. Culligan, founder of water treatment organization, died.
  • 6/3/1972 :First US female rabbi ordained (Sally Preisand, Cincinnati).
  • 6/3/1984 :San Francisco cable cars began rolling again.
  • 6/3/1989 :Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranian leader, died.
  • 6/3/1990 :Robert N. Noyce, microchip inventor and founder of Intel, died.
  • 6/4 :Dragon Boat Festival (Hong Kong and Taiwan).
  • 6/4 :Flag Day (Finland).
  • 6/4 :International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression.
  • 6/4 :National Day (Tonga).
  • 6/4 :Old Maid’s Day (never married women over 35).
  • 6/4 :Queen’s Birthday (New Zealand).
  • 6/4/1070 :Roquefort cheese developed.
  • 6/4/1781 :Jack Jouett’s ride (warning Virginia of British invasion).
  • 6/4/1784 :First free balloon flight by a woman (Marie Thible).
  • 6/4/1798 :Giacomo Girolamo Casanova, Italian writer-librarian, died.
  • 6/4/1800 :US White House completed.
  • 6/4/1809 :First US state employment service (Ohio).
  • 6/4/1887 :William Almon Wheeler, 19th US vice president, died.
  • 6/4/1896 :Henry Ford completed his first car (but, car wider than door).
  • 6/4/1917 :First Pulitizer Prizes awarded.
  • 6/4/1918 :Charles Warren Fairbanks, 26th US vice president, died.
  • 6/4/1919 :Women’s Suffrage bill passed in US Senate.
  • 6/4/1940 :Dunkirk evacuation completed.
  • 6/4/1940 :First night game at Forbes Field.
  • 6/4/1942 :Battle of Midway began.
  • 6/4/1944 :Landing at Normandy postponed from June 5th to June 6th.
  • 6/4/1972 :Angela Davis, black militant, acquitted.
  • 6/4/1974 :Cleveland fans rushed onto the field causing an Indian forfeit.
  • 6/4/1980 :Gordy Howe retired.
  • 6/4/1987 :Andres Segovia, Spanish guitarist, died.
  • 6/4/1989 :Tiananmen Square Massacre ended.
  • 6/5 :Constitution Day (Denmark).
  • 6/5 :Liberation Day (Seychelles).
  • 6/5 :World Environment Day.
  • 6/5/1783 :First public demonstration of a hot air balloon flight.
  • 6/5/1826 :Carl Maria von Weber, German composer, died.
  • 6/5/1855 :”Know-Nothings” held first national convention.
  • 6/5/1885 :Sir Julius Benedict, musician and composer, died.
  • 6/5/1900 :Stephen Crane, US novelist (“The Red Badge of Courage”), died.
  • 6/5/1910 :William Sydney Porter (a.k.a. O. Henry), US short story writer,
  • :died.
  • 6/5/1916 :Mildred J. Hill, composer (“Happy Birthday to You”), died.
  • 6/5/1925 :Earliest 100 degree F temperatures in New England.
  • 6/5/1933 :Gold standard abolished.
  • 6/5/1946 :Sponge first marketed for medical use.
  • 6/5/1947 :Marshall Plan (to rebuild Europe) unveiled.
  • 6/5/1963 :John Profumo, British war secretary resigned.
  • 6/5/1966 :Gene Cernan left Gemini-9 for a “spacewalk”.
  • 6/5/1967 :Six Day War began.
  • 6/5/1968 :Senator Robert F. Kennedy shot (Los Angeles, California).
  • 6/5/1976 :Teton River Dam (Idaho) collapsed (14 killed).
  • 6/5/1980 :Soyuz T-2 (USSR) launched.
  • 6/5/1982 :Sophia Loren released from jail (Italy) after 17 days for tax
  • :evasion.
  • 6/5/1985 :General Motors bought Hughes Aircraft (>$5 billion).
  • 6/5/1993 :Conway Twitty, singer, died.
  • 6/6 :Bonza Bottler Day.
  • 6/6 :Flag Day (Sweden).
  • 6/6 :His Majesty, Yang Di-Pertuan Agong’s Birthday (Malaysia).
  • 6/6 :Memorial Day (South Korea).
  • 6/6 :National “Sure, You Can Travel” Day.
  • 6/6 :National Yo-Yo Day.
  • 6/6 :Philatelic Writers Day.
  • 6/6/1523 :Gustavus I (Gustavus Vasa) ascended the throne of Sweden.
  • 6/6/1639 :Land granted for first gunpowder mill in US (Pecoit,
  • :Massachusetts).
  • 6/6/1788 :First cotton goods to be trademarked and manufactured (Beverly,
  • :Massachusetts).
  • 6/6/1799 :Patrick Henry, US patriot, died.
  • 6/6/1832 :Jeremy Bentham, Utilitarian philosopher, died.
  • 6/6/1862 :Memphis, Tennessee surrendered to Union troops.
  • 6/6/1873 :Susan B. Anthony was fined for voting (never paid).
  • 6/6/1882 :Electric Iron patented (Henry W. Weely).
  • 6/6/1890 :US Polo Association formed.
  • 6/6/1890 :Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society founded.
  • 6/6/1891 :Sir John Alexander MacDonald, first Canadian Prime Minister, died.
  • 6/6/1892 :Wee Willie Keeler made his professional baseball debut.
  • 6/6/1896 :George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen began rowing from US to France.
  • 6/6/1918 :Battle of Belleau Wood (France) began.
  • 6/6/1922 :Lillian Russell (Helen Louise Leonard), singer-actress, died.
  • 6/6/1925 :Chrysler Corporation founded (Walter Percy Chrysler).
  • 6/6/1933 :First drive-in movie theater opened (Camden, New Jersey).
  • 6/6/1934 :US Securities and Exchange Commission established.
  • 6/6/1942 :Battle of Midway ended.
  • 6/6/1944 :D-Day (Normandy landing).
  • 6/6/1961 :Carl G. Jung died.
  • 6/6/1966 :James Meredith, black activist, shot and wounded while on a lone
  • :march.
  • 6/6/1968 :Robert Francis Kennedy, US Senator, died (1:44 am PDT).
  • 6/6/1971 :Soyuz 11 (USSR) (first humans to die in space) launched.
  • 6/6/1978 :Proposition 13 (California) passed (66%).
  • 6/6/1991 :Stan Getz, saxophonist (“The Girl From Ipanema”), died.
  • 6/7 :National Day (Chad).
  • 6/7/1767 :Daniel Boone reportedly first sighted Kentucky.
  • 6/7/1790 :Rhode Island ratified the Bill of Rights.
  • 6/7/1893 :Edwin (Thomas) Booth, actor and brother of John Wilkes, died.
  • 6/7/1894 :William Dwight Whitney died.
  • 6/7/1924 :Batman’s parents killed.
  • 6/7/1930 :New York Times agreed to capitalize the “n” in “Negro.”
  • 6/7/1942 :Japanese troops occupied Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands.
  • 6/7/1942 :US Carrier “Yorktown” sank at Midway Island.
  • 6/7/1954 :Alan M. Turing died.
  • 6/7/1970 :Edward Morgan Forster, English novelist, died.
  • 6/7/1980 :First solar-cell power plant dedicated (Utah).
  • 6/7/1980 :Henry Valentine Miller, American novelist, died.
  • 6/7/1982 :Ferdinand Demara, “The Great Imposter”, died.
  • 6/7/1986 :BSD Unix 4.3 released.
  • 6/8/1697 :First public award to a woman in America (Hannah Duston).
  • 6/8/1783 :Laki Volcano erupted.
  • 6/8/1786 :Commercially made ice cream first advertised (Mr. Hall, New York).
  • 6/8/1789 :US Bill of Rights proposed.
  • 6/8/1806 :George Wythe, signer of the US Declaration of Independence, died.
  • 6/8/1809 :Thomas Paine, American Revolutionary leader and corset-maker,
  • :died.
  • 6/8/1845 :Andrew Jackson, 7th US president, died.
  • 6/8/1861 :Tennessee seceded from the Union to join the Confederacy.
  • 6/8/1869 :Vacuum cleaner patented (Ives W. McGaffey, Chicago).
  • 6/8/1876 :George Sand (Amandine Aurore Lucile (Dupin) Dudevant), French
  • :novelist, died.
  • 6/8/1902 :First automatic food vending restaurant opened (Philadelphia).
  • 6/8/1924 :George Leigh Mallory, English explorer, last seen climbing Mount
  • :Everest.
  • 6/8/1928 :WGY (Schenectady, New York) began broadcasting regularly
  • :scheduled TV programs, three times a week.
  • 6/8/1928 :First US-to-Australia flight.
  • 6/8/1950 :Boston Red Sox beat St. Louis Browns 29-4.
  • 6/8/1957 :First X-15 flight.
  • 6/8/1967 :USS Liberty attacked by Israel (34 killed, 171 wounded).
  • 6/8/1975 :Venera 9 (USSR), first to orbit Venus, launched.
  • 6/8/1982 :Satchel Paige died.
  • 6/9 :Senior Citizens Day (Oklahoma).
  • 6/9/1681 :William Lilly, English astrologer, died.
  • 6/9/1860 :First “dime” novel issued (“Malaesk: The Indian Wife of the White
  • :Hunter”).
  • 6/9/1870 :Charles Dickens, English novelist (“Oliver Twist”), died.
  • 6/9/1898 :Britain leased Hong Kong from China for 99 years.
  • 6/9/1911 :Carry Amelia Moore Nation, American temperance leader, died.
  • 6/9/1931 :First rocket-powered aircraft design patented (R. Goddard).
  • 6/9/1934 :Donald Duck made his first screen appearance (“The Wise Little
  • :Hen”).
  • 6/9/1943 :”Pay-as-you-go” US income tax deductions authorized.
  • 6/9/1953 :Worcester County tornado (94 killed, 1310 injured, 10,000
  • :homeless).
  • 6/9/1959 :First ballistics missile-firing submarine (George Washington)
  • :launched.
  • 6/9/1963 :Equal Pay Act enacted.
  • 6/9/1963 :First Sunday night game in major league history (Houston).
  • 6/9/1973 :Secretariat won the Triple Crown.
  • 6/9/1982 :General Efrain Rios Montt declared himself president of Guatemala.
  • 6/9/1991 :Charles Loloma, painter and sculptor, died.
  • 6/10 :Camoes Day (Portugal).
  • 6/10/-323 :Alexander the Great died. (6/13?)
  • 6/10/1580 :Luis Vas de Camoes, Portugese poet, died.
  • 6/10/1652 :First mint in America (Boston).
  • 6/10/1761 :Rhode Island Assembly banned theatrical performances.
  • 6/10/1836 :Andre Ampere, French physicist, died.
  • 6/10/1861 :Dorothea Dix appointed superintendent of women nurses in Union
  • :Army.
  • 6/10/1864 :Battle at Brice’s Crossroads (Mississippi).
  • 6/10/1865 :Lydia Sigourney, US author (“How to Be Happy”), died.
  • 6/10/1898 :US Marines invaded Cuba in Spanish-American War.
  • 6/10/1916 :Great Arab Revolt began.
  • 6/10/1919 :Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin ratified 19th Amendment to the
  • :US Constitution.
  • 6/10/1927 :Victoria Chaflin Woodhull, first female candidate for US
  • :president, died.
  • 6/10/1935 :Alcoholics Anonymous founded (Akron, Ohio).
  • 6/10/1942 :German Gestapo burned Lidice, Czechoslovakia.
  • 6/10/1944 :Joe Nuxhall made his major league debut (at 15 years old).
  • 6/10/1971 :Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull and 2,000 fans.
  • 6/10/1977 :First Apple II shipped.
  • 6/10/1977 :First golfer to break 60 in PGA tour (Al Geiberger).
  • 6/10/1977 :James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, escaped from
  • :prison.
  • 6/10/1983 :”Octopussy” released in the US.
  • 6/10/1985 :Claus von Bulow, socialite, acquitted.
  • 6/10/1988 :Louis L’Amour died.
  • 6/10/1991 :Jean Vercors, novelist (“Silence of the Sea”), died.
  • 6/11 :King Kamehameha I Day (Hawaii).
  • 6/11 :National Impressionists Day.
  • 6/11 :Queen’s Birthday (UK).
  • 6/11/-1184:Greeks seized Troy.
  • 6/11/1727 :George II became English Sovereign.
  • 6/11/1816 :The Gas Light Co. of Baltimore founded.
  • 6/11/1825 :Daniel D. Tompkins, 6th US vice president, died.
  • 6/11/1859 :Comstock Lode discovered.
  • 6/11/1900 :Belle Boyd, Confederate spy, died.
  • 6/11/1927 :Charles Lindbergh welcomed home after making first non-stop
  • :flight across the Atlantic.
  • 6/11/1930 :Henry Clay Folger Jr, US businessman and industrialist, died.
  • 6/11/1938 :Johnny Van der Meer threw the first of two consecutive no hit
  • :games (vs. Boston).
  • 6/11/1963 :Reverend Quang Duc self-immolated himself.
  • 6/11/1967 :Six Day War ended.
  • 6/11/1969 :John Llewellyn Lewis, US labor leader, died.
  • 6/11/1969 :”Space Oddity” released by David Bowie.
  • 6/11/1971 :Mike Schmidt signed by the Philadelphia Phillies.
  • 6/11/1979 :John Wayne (Marion Michael Morrison), actor, died.
  • 6/11/1982 :”ET the Extraterrestrial” first shown.
  • 6/11/1985 :Karen Ann Quinlan, coma victim, died.
  • 6/11/1990 :US Supreme Court struck down an anti-flag burning law earlier
  • :passed by Congress.
  • 6/11/1991 :Mount Pintatubo errupted (Philippines).
  • 6/11/1992 :Major league baseball owners approved sale of Seattle Mariners to
  • :a Japanese-led group.
  • 6/12 :Independence Day (Pilippines).
  • 6/12 :Peace with Bolivia (Paraguay).
  • 6/12/1778 :Philip Livingston, merchant and signer of US Declaration of
  • :Independence, died.
  • 6/12/1862 :J.E.B. Stuart and men surrounded Union forces led by McClellan.
  • 6/12/1878 :William Cullen Bryant, US poet, died.
  • 6/12/1880 :First major league perfect game (Worcester Brown Stockings).
  • 6/12/1898 :Philippines declared independence from Spain.
  • 6/12/1920 :Farmer Labor Party organized.
  • 6/12/1920 :US Postal service declared it illegal to mail children.
  • 6/12/1939 :Baseball Hall of Fame (Cooperstown, New York) dedicated.
  • 6/12/1952 :Cat named Dusty gave birth to her 420th kitten.
  • 6/12/1956 :Official US Army flag established.
  • 6/12/1963 :Medgar Wiley Evers, civil rights leader, assassinated. (6/13?)
  • 6/12/1967 :US Supreme Court ruled that states can’t outlaw inter-racial
  • :marriages.
  • 6/12/1967 :Venera 4 (USSR) launched.
  • 6/12/1971 :First wedding held in the Rose Garden of the White House (Tricia
  • :Nixon and Edward Finch Cox).
  • 6/12/1979 :First man-powered flight across the English Channel.
  • 6/12/1981 :Major league baseball strike began.
  • 6/13 :The Queen’s Official Birthday.
  • 6/13/-323 :Alexander the Great died. (6/10?)
  • 6/13/1231 :Saint Anthony of Padua died.
  • 6/13/1788 :Daniel Shays pardoned.
  • 6/13/1798 :Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded.
  • 6/13/1888 :US Department of Labor established.
  • 6/13/1898 :Yukon Territory of Canada was organized.
  • 6/13/1927 :Ticker-tape parade for Charles Lindbergh in New York.
  • 6/13/1933 :The Federal Savings and Loan Association authorized.
  • 6/13/1937 :First international Whist Tournament began (Budapest).
  • 6/13/1942 :US Office of War Information created.
  • 6/13/1944 :First German V1 “buzz-bomb” hit London.
  • 6/13/1947 :First night game in Fenway Park (Red Sox 5 White Sox 3).
  • 6/13/1963 :Medgar Wiley Evers, civil rights leader, assassinated. (6/12?)
  • 6/13/1966 :Miranda decision (reading your rights) handed down by US Supreme
  • :Court.
  • 6/13/1967 :First black justice on US Supreme Court nominated (Thurgood
  • :Marshall).
  • 6/13/1967 :”You Only Live Twice” released in US.
  • 6/13/1971 :New York Times began publishing “The Pentagon Papers.”
  • 6/13/1976 :Don Bolles, investigative reporter, died.
  • 6/13/1980 :Third erruption of Mount Saint Helens, Washington.
  • 6/13/1982 :King Khalid of Saudi Arabia died.
  • 6/13/1983 :Pioneer 10 (US) became the first manmade object to leave the
  • :solar system.
  • 6/13/1991 :Alexis Welsh, former Rockette, murdered.
  • 6/13/1993 :Donald Kent “Deke” Slayton, US astronaut, died.
  • 6/14 :Flag Day.
  • 6/14/1623 :First breach of promise suit filed (Cicely Jordan jilted Reverend
  • :Greville Pooley).
  • 6/14/1775 :US Army founded.
  • 6/14/1777 :”Stars and Stripes” became the US national flag.
  • 6/14/1789 :Lt. William Bligh and followers landed on the island of Timor
  • :following the Mutiny on the “Bounty”.
  • 6/14/1801 :General Benedict Arnold, American turncoat, died.
  • 6/14/1825 :Pierre Charles L’Enfant, architect (designed Washington DC), died.
  • 6/14/1834 :Sandpaper patented (I. Fischer, Jr).
  • 6/14/1846 :Republic of California established.
  • 6/14/1883 :Edward Fitzgerald, English author, died.
  • 6/14/1906 :UK Parliament passed a bill banning women from dangerous sports.
  • 6/14/1914 :Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 23rd US vice president, died.
  • 6/14/1915 :General Radio (now GenRad) founded.
  • 6/14/1922 :First radio message broadcast by a US president.
  • 6/14/1936 :Gilbert Keith Chesterton, English author, died.
  • 6/14/1941 :Roosevelt froze all German and Italian assets in US.
  • 6/14/1951 :Univac I, first commercially built computer, went into service
  • :(Census Bureau). (6/15?)
  • 6/14/1962 :Albert DeSalvo killed his first victim (Anna E. Slesers).
  • 6/14/1963 :Vostok 5 (USSR) launched.
  • 6/14/1965 :Two OBE’s returned to Buckingham Palace to protest the award of
  • :MBE’s to the Beatles.
  • 6/14/1967 :Mariner 5 (US) launched.
  • 6/14/1975 :Venera 10 (USSR) launched.
  • 6/14/1982 :Falkland Islands recaptured by British forces.
  • 6/14/1986 :Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist (“Camelot” and “My Fair Lady”), died.
  • 6/14/1987 :Mike Schmidt hit three home runs (vs. Montreal).
  • 6/14/1989 :Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slapping a policeman.
  • 6/14/1994 :Henry Mancini, composer, died.
  • 6/15 :A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed Day.
  • 6/15 :Smile Power Day.
  • 6/15 :Valdemar’s Day (Denmark).
  • 6/15/1215 :Magna Carta signed.
  • 6/15/1746 :Killing frost (New Jersey).
  • 6/15/1752 :Benjamin Franklin’s “kite experiment.”
  • 6/15/1775 :George Washington appointed first US General (actually only
  • :soldier).
  • 6/15/1785 :First fatal aviation accident.
  • 6/15/1804 :12th Amendment to US Constitution (new electoral college rules)
  • :ratified.
  • 6/15/1836 :Arkansas became the 25th US state.
  • 6/15/1844 :Vulcanization process patented (Charles Goodyear).
  • 6/15/1846 :Oregon Treaty (northern US boundary set at 49th parallel).
  • 6/15/1849 :James Knox Polk, 11th US president died.
  • 6/15/1878 :Series of photographs by Edward Muggeridge prove to Leland
  • :Stanford that all the hooves of a horse are off the ground
  • :during a gallop.
  • 6/15/1897 :Ellis Island immigration station destroyed by fire.
  • 6/15/1904 :General Slocum, an excursion steamboat, caught fire (1021 killed).
  • 6/15/1934 :Finland paid off US war debt (only nation to do so).
  • 6/15/1938 :Johnny Van der Meer threw second of two consecutive no hit games
  • :(vs. Brooklyn).
  • 6/15/1951 :UNIVAC I delivered to Census Bureau. (6/14?)
  • 6/15/1954 :Revised Organic Act (Virgin Islands organization) enacted.
  • 6/15/1963 :Soviet cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky was launched into space.
  • 6/15/1978 :Soyuz 29 (USSR) launched.
  • 6/15/1985 :First mixed marriage in South Africa.
  • 6/15/1985 :Meredith Wilson died.
  • 6/16 :International Day of Solidarity With the Struggling People of
  • :South Africa.
  • 6/16/-1686:Hammurabi died (Babylon).
  • 6/16/1775 :Liberty Bell rung for Second Continental Congress.
  • 6/16/1883 :First Ladies’ Day baseball game (New York Giants).
  • 6/16/1890 :Madison Square Garden opened.
  • 6/16/1893 :Cracker Jack first sold (Chicago).
  • 6/16/1893 :Leland Stanford died.
  • 6/16/1894 :Squeeze play first used (Yale used it against Princeton).
  • 6/16/1897 :Start of the Alaskan Gold-Rush.
  • 6/16/1904 :James Joyce fell in love with his future wife (used this date as
  • :the setting for “Ulysses”).
  • 6/16/1917 :First Congress of Soviets convened in Russia.
  • 6/16/1930 :Mixed bathing allowed in the Serpentine in Hyde Park.
  • 6/16/1941 :Roosevelt ordered closing of all German and Italian consulates in
  • :US.
  • 6/16/1948 :First airplane hijacking took place (Miss Macao enroute from
  • :Macao to Hong Kong).
  • 6/16/1955 :Juan Peron excommunicated from the Catholic church.
  • 6/16/1963 :Vostok 6 (USSR), first solo woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova).
  • 6/16/1976 :Soweto uprising (South Africa).
  • 6/16/1978 :”Space Invaders” first demonstrated.
  • 6/16/1980 :”The Blues Brothers” premiered (Chicago).
  • 6/16/1980 :US Treasury Department issued its first gold medallions.
  • 6/16/1983 :Yuri Andropov became president of the Soviet Union.
  • 6/16/1987 :Last Dusky Seaside Sparrow (“Orange Band”) died.
  • 6/17 :Bunker Hill Day (Boston and Suffolk County, Massachusetts).
  • 6/17 :Day of Unity (Federal Republic of Germany).
  • 6/17 :Independence Day (Iceland).
  • 6/17 :Lily Festival (Japan).
  • 6/17/1719 :Joseph Addison, English essayist, died.
  • 6/17/1775 :Battle of Bunker Hill (actually Breed’s Hill).
  • 6/17/1775 :Colonel William Prescott said “Don’t fire until you see the …”.
  • 6/17/1823 :Waterproof fabric for raincoats patented (Charles Mackintosh).
  • 6/17/1825 :Lafayette visited Bunker Hill.
  • 6/17/1859 :Santa Ana winds roasted fruit on trees (California).
  • 6/17/1887 :Mark Hopkins, US educator and author, died.
  • 6/17/1939 :Last death by guillotine in public in France (Eugen Weldmann).
  • 6/17/1947 :First commercial around-the-world plane flight began ($1700).
  • 6/17/1947 :Maxwell Perkins, American editor, died.
  • 6/17/1950 :Ethel Kennedy married Robert F. Kennedy.
  • 6/17/1953 :Most runs scored in an inning (17 by Red Sox).
  • 6/17/1960 :Ted Williams hit his 500th home run.
  • 6/17/1963 :US Supreme Court rules it’s unconstitutional to require prayer in
  • :school.
  • 6/17/1967 :China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb.
  • 6/17/1969 :Boris Spassky became world chess champion.
  • 6/17/1972 :Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in.
  • 6/17/1982 :Leopoldo Gasltieri, Argentinian President, resigned.
  • 6/17/1984 :Swale, winner of the 1984 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes, died.
  • 6/17/1986 :Kathryn Elizabeth “Kate” Smith, singer, died.
  • 6/17/1986 :Len Bias, Maryland basketball star, died of cocaine intoxication.
  • 6/17/1991 :South Africa repealed their last apartheid law.
  • 6/18 :Evacuation Day (Eqypt).
  • 6/18 :Queen’s Birthday (Fiji).
  • 6/18/1178 :Gervase saw crater Giordano Bruno formed.
  • 6/18/1583 :First life insurance policy sold in London.
  • 6/18/1812 :US declared war on Britain.
  • 6/18/1815 :Battle of Waterloo.
  • 6/18/1865 :Edmund Ruffin, US agriculturalist, commited suicide.
  • 6/18/1880 :John Augustus Sutter, established the first white settlement at
  • :Sacramento, died.
  • 6/18/1886 :Appendicitis (almost became Fitz’ disease) named (Dr. Reginald
  • :Fitz).
  • 6/18/1898 :First amusement pier opened in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
  • 6/18/1902 :Samuel Butler, English author, died.
  • 6/18/1936 :First bicycle traffic court (Racine, Wisconsin).
  • 6/18/1936 :Maxim Gorkey, Russian writer, died.
  • 6/18/1954 :British army withdrew from Suez Canal area of Egypt.
  • 6/18/1959 :Ethel Barrymore (Ethel Blythe), actress, died.
  • 6/18/1963 :Pedro Armendariz, actor, shot himself.
  • 6/18/1975 :Saudi Arabian Prince Museid was publicly beheaded for the
  • :assassination of King Faisal.
  • 6/18/1979 :SALT II agreement signed.
  • 6/18/1982 :John Cheever died.
  • 6/18/1983 :STS-7 (US), first US woman in space, launched.
  • 6/18/1986 :Charles Lee Herron taken off FBI’s Most Wanted List (captured
  • :after being on the list the longest – since 2/9/1968).
  • 6/18/1989 :I.F. Stone died.
  • 6/19 :Artigas Birthday (Uruguay).
  • 6/19 :Emancipation Day (Texas).
  • 6/19 :Juneteenth (Texas, Louisiana).
  • 6/19 :Labor Day (Trinidad and Tobago).
  • 6/19 :Revolution Day (Algeria).
  • 6/19/325 :Rules for computing Easter’s date settled (general council of
  • :Nicaea).
  • 6/19/1786 :Nathaniel Greene, American Revolutionary War General, died.
  • 6/19/1811 :Samuel Chase, American Revolutionary leader, died.
  • 6/19/1844 :Etienne Geoffroy St. Hilaire died.
  • 6/19/1846 :First team baseball played (New York Nine 23, New York
  • :Knickerbockers 1 – Hoboken, New Jersey).
  • 6/19/1849 :Melodeon patented (C. Austin, Concord, New Hampshire).
  • 6/19/1865 :Emancipation of the slaves in Texas.
  • 6/19/1893 :Lizzie Bordon acquitted.
  • 6/19/1897 :Charles Cunningham Boycott, estate agent, died.
  • 6/19/1910 :First Father’s Day celebration.
  • 6/19/1911 :First recorded flight of an airplane in New Hampshire (Harry
  • :Atwood).
  • 6/19/1934 :US Federal Communications Commission created.
  • 6/19/1953 :Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed (Sing-Sing prison).
  • 6/19/1963 :Two Russian space missions returned to Earth.
  • 6/19/1964 :First topless bathing suit worn (Carol Doda).
  • 6/19/1973 :Leonid Brezhnev declared the Cold War over.
  • 6/19/1977 :First US male saint canonized (Saint John Nepomucene Neumann).
  • 6/19/1981 :Ariane (ESA) launched.
  • 6/19/1986 :US Supreme Court ruled sexual harassment of employees violates
  • :federal law.
  • 6/19/1987 :US Supreme Court ruled schools no longer required to teach
  • :”creationist theory.”
  • 6/20 :Flag Day (Argentina).
  • 6/20/1782 :Great Seal of US approved by Congress.
  • 6/20/1783 :Unpaid revolutionary war soldiers invaded Philadelphia.
  • 6/20/1837 :Victoria became English Sovereign.
  • 6/20/1863 :First US bank chartered by Congress (Philadelphia).
  • 6/20/1863 :West Virginia became the 35th US state.
  • 6/20/1893 :Lizzie Borden found innocent of the axe murders of her father and
  • :stepmother.
  • 6/20/1895 :First female doctor of science earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin).
  • 6/20/1898 :US seized Guam.
  • 6/20/1909 :First balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham and Eleanor Waring).
  • 6/20/1921 :First woman presided over US House of Representatives (Alice Mary
  • :Robertson).
  • 6/20/1921 :Washington passed a bill imposing a fine on women smoking
  • :($25+$100/cigarette).
  • 6/20/1930 :Bobby Jones won the British Open.
  • 6/20/1933 :Clara Zetkin, German women’s rights advocate, died.
  • 6/20/1939 :First liquid-fueled rocket plane flight (Germany).
  • 6/20/1947 :Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel shot.
  • 6/20/1948 :”Toast of the Town,” hosted by Ed Sullivan, debuted.
  • 6/20/1961 :United Artists agreed to make James Bond films.
  • 6/20/1963 :Michael S. Dukakis, Massachusetts Governor, married Katherine
  • :Dickson.
  • 6/20/1963 :US and Russia established a “hot line”.
  • 6/20/1967 :American Independent Party formed.
  • 6/20/1967 :First state public defender appointed (Peter Murray).
  • 6/20/1977 :Oil began to flow through the Alaska pipeline.
  • 6/20/1988 :US Supreme Court ruled it illegal for private clubs to generally
  • :exclude women and minorities.
  • 6/21/1652 :Inigo Jones, English architect, died.
  • 6/21/1684 :Massachusetts Bay Colony’s charter revoked.
  • 6/21/1788 :New Hampshire became the 9th US state.
  • 6/21/1834 :First practical reaper patented (C.H. McCormick).
  • 6/21/1852 :Friedrich Froebel, founder of the kindergarten, died.
  • 6/21/1893 :Ferris Wheel introduced (St. Louis).
  • 6/21/1910 :Jack Dalton, Dodger rookie, had four straight hits vs. Christy
  • :Mathewson.
  • 6/21/1934 :James Thorne Smith Jr, author (“Topper”), died.
  • 6/21/1942 :Japanese submarine fired on the Oregon coast.
  • 6/21/1945 :Japanese surrendered at Okinawa.
  • 6/21/1948 :33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced (Columbia Records).
  • 6/21/1948 :Berlin airlift began.
  • 6/21/1960 :Last B-29 operational flight.
  • 6/21/1963 :Pope Paul VI elected.
  • 6/21/1964 :Jim Bunning pitched a perfect game (first to throw a no-hitter in
  • :each league).
  • 6/21/1982 :John Hinckley Jr. found not guilty by reason of insanity of
  • :shooting Ronald Reagan and others.
  • 6/22 :Midsummer Eve (Finland and Sweden).
  • 6/22 :National Sovereignty Day (Haiti).
  • 6/22/1342 :Bilbo Baggins returned to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reckoning).
  • 6/22/1377 :Richard II became the English Sovereign.
  • 6/22/1476 :Morat (Switzerland) battle.
  • 6/22/1527 :Machiavelli died.
  • 6/22/1775 :First issue of paper money in US approved.
  • 6/22/1807 :US Chesapeake fired on and boarded by the Leopard.
  • 6/22/1832 :Pin manufacturing machine patented (J.I. Howe).
  • 6/22/1870 :US Department of Justice established.
  • 6/22/1937 :Joe Louis knocked out James J. Braddock to win heavyweight title.
  • 6/22/1938 :Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling.
  • 6/22/1940 :France fell to Germany in WWII.
  • 6/22/1941 :Germany invaded Russia.
  • 6/22/1942 :V-Mail delivery began (US) (conserved cargo space).
  • 6/22/1944 :US GI Bill signed.
  • 6/22/1964 :Civil rights workers disappeared in Mississippi.
  • 6/22/1969 :Cuyahoga River (Cleveland) caught fire.
  • 6/22/1969 :Judy Garland (Frances Gumm), actress-singer, died.
  • 6/22/1977 :John Mitchell began serving a prison sentence for Watergate
  • :crimes.
  • 6/22/1977 :Steve Petrocino drank a liter of beer in 1.3 seconds.
  • 6/22/1978 :Charon (Pluto’s moon) discovered (J. Christy).
  • 6/22/1986 :Stacy Keach married Malgosia Tomassi.
  • 6/22/1987 :Fred Astaire, dancer, died.
  • 6/22/1993 :Pat Nixon, former US first lady, died.
  • 6/23 :Discovery Day (Newfoundland).
  • 6/23 :Midsummer (Finland and Sweden).
  • 6/23 :Midsummer Eve (Denmark).
  • 6/23 :Midsummer Night (Norway).
  • 6/23 :National Holiday (Luxembourg).
  • 6/23/1675 :Wampanoag indian shot (sparking King Philip’s War).
  • 6/23/1771 :First matador killed in bullfight (Spain).
  • 6/23/1772 :Slavery abolished in England.
  • 6/23/1810 :Pacific Fur Co. was established (John Jacob Astor).
  • 6/23/1845 :Congress of the Republic of Texas agreed to annexation by the US.
  • 6/23/1865 :Last formal surrender of Confederate troops (Oklahoma Territory).
  • 6/23/1868 :Typewriter patented (Christopher Latham Sholes).
  • 6/23/1917 :Baseball’s greatest relief effort (only player on base caught
  • :stealing and next 26 batters retired, Ernie Shore, Boston).
  • 6/23/1924 :Maughan’s flight across US.
  • 6/23/1930 :Iceland celebrated millennium of the Alting (oldest parliament).
  • 6/23/1944 :Last “Fireside Chat”.
  • 6/23/1947 :Taft-Hartley labor act enacted.
  • 6/23/1969 :IBM unbundled software.
  • 6/23/1980 :First solar-powered coast-to-coast two-way radio conversation.
  • 6/23/1992 :Rob Dibble struck out his 500th batter (least number of innings
  • :to do so).
  • 6/24 :Battle of Carabobob (Venezuela).
  • 6/24 :Countryman’s Day (Peru).
  • 6/24 :Fisherman’s Day (Madagascar, Mozambique, and Somalia).
  • 6/24 :Kings Day (Spain).
  • 6/24 :Macau Day (Macau).
  • 6/24 :National Fink Day (honors all named Fink).
  • 6/24 :Saint Jean-Baptiste Day (Quebec).
  • 6/24/1497 :Newfoundland discovered (John Cabot).
  • 6/24/1647 :First American woman demanded a vote (Margaret Brent).
  • 6/24/1675 :King Philip’s War began.
  • 6/24/1812 :Napoleon’s army entered Russia.
  • 6/24/1908 :Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th US president, died.
  • 6/24/1930 :First radar detection of airplanes (Anacostia, DC).
  • 6/24/1936 :First US black woman appointed to a major federal office (Mary
  • :McLeod Bethune).
  • 6/24/1947 :First official UFO sighting filed (Kenneth Arnold).
  • 6/24/1948 :Soviets blockaded western zones of Berlin.
  • 6/24/1957 :Last “I Love Lucy” aired.
  • 6/24/1969 :Warren Burger succeeded Earl Warren as Chief Justice of US
  • :Supreme Court.
  • 6/24/1970 :Final pitch thrown at Crosley Field (Cincinnati).
  • 6/24/1970 :Senate repealed Gulf of Tonkin resolution.
  • 6/24/1974 :Steve Busby completed his streak of 33 consecutive batters
  • :retired.
  • 6/24/1979 :Rickey Henderson stole his first major league base.
  • 6/24/1982 :Soyuz T-6 (USSR) (first Frenchman in space) launched.
  • 6/24/1987 :Herbert John “Jackie” Gleason, comedian-actor, died.
  • 6/25 :National Day (Mozambique).
  • 6/25 :Tatar Festival of the Plow (Russia).
  • 6/25/1178 :Explosion on moon reported (five Canterbury monks).
  • 6/25/1630 :Fork introduced to American dining (Governor Winthrop).
  • 6/25/1749 :General fast because of drought in Massachusetts.
  • 6/25/1788 :Virginia became the 10th US state.
  • 6/25/1835 :First building constructed in Yerba Buena (now San Francisco).
  • 6/25/1857 :”Les Fleurs du Mal” by Charles Baudelaire published.
  • 6/25/1862 :Seven Days Campaign began.
  • 6/25/1868 :Eight hour workday for government workers passed by US Congress.
  • 6/25/1876 :Little Big Horn (Custer’s Last Stand) (260+ killed).
  • 6/25/1889 :Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, wife of Rutherford B. Hayes, died.
  • 6/25/1891 :Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish patriot, married Katharine O’Shea.
  • 6/25/1906 :Stanford White, US architect (“Madison Square Garden”), shot.
  • 6/25/1941 :Roosevelt banned discrimination in US government and defense
  • :industries.
  • 6/25/1950 :Korean War began.
  • 6/25/1951 :First color TV broadcast made (CBS). (6/24?)
  • 6/25/1962 :US Supreme Court handed down a decision interpreted as banning
  • :prayer in public schools.
  • 6/25/1964 :Picturephone telephone service first opened to general public
  • :(New York, Chicago, Washington DC).
  • 6/25/1985 :Fireworks factory near Hallett, Oklahoma exploded (21 killed).
  • 6/25/1988 :Mildred “Axis Sally” E. Gillars, Nazi propagandist, died.
  • 6/25/1991 :Croatia and Slovenia seceeded from Yugoslavia.
  • 6/26 :Independence Day (Madagascar).
  • 6/26 :International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
  • 6/26/1483 :Richard III became English Sovereign.
  • 6/26/1498 :Toothbrush invented.
  • 6/26/1721 :First US smallpox inoculations administered (Zabdiel Boylston).
  • 6/26/1793 :Gilbert White, father of British naturalists, died.
  • 6/26/1797 :Cast-iron plough patented (Charles Newbold).
  • 6/26/1810 :Joseph Michel Montgolfier, co-inventor of hot-air balloon, died.
  • 6/26/1830 :William IV became English Sovereign.
  • 6/26/1900 :Dr. Walter Reed and his medical team began a campaign to wipe out
  • :yellow fever in the Panama Canal Zone.
  • 6/26/1917 :First US WWI troops reached Europe.
  • 6/26/1922 :Boston council of the Boy Scouts of America founded.
  • 6/26/1934 :Federal Credit Union Act signed.
  • 6/26/1939 :Ford Madox Ford, English novelist (“The Good Soldier”), died.
  • 6/26/1945 :United Nations charter signed.
  • 6/26/1959 :Saint Lawrence Seaway dedicated by Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth
  • :II.
  • 6/26/1976 :Canadian National Tower (tallest free-standing, self-supporting
  • :structure) opened.
  • 6/26/1981 :”For Your Eyes Only” was released in the US.
  • 6/26/1982 :Charles Joseph Anthony “Rush” Russhon, military liason to James
  • :Bond films, died.
  • 6/26/1990 :Second largest armored car robbery ($10.8 million, Rochester, NY).
  • 6/27 :National Holiday (Djibouti).
  • 6/27/1629 :First settlers of Massachusetts Bay Colony entered Salem Harbor.
  • 6/27/1787 :Edward Gibbon completed “The Decline and Fall of the Roman
  • :Empire.”
  • 6/27/1829 :James Smithson, founder of the Smithsonian Institution, died.
  • 6/27/1844 :Joseph Smith, founder of Mormon church, killed (Carthage,
  • :Illinois).
  • 6/27/1847 :First telegraph wires were established between New York and
  • :Boston.
  • 6/27/1893 :The “Panic of 1893” (value of US silver dollar fell to < $.60 :gold) began. 6/27/1950 :US forces ordered to help repel the North Korean invasion of :South Korea. 6/27/1955 :Harry Agganis, baseball player, died. 6/27/1957 :Hurricane Audrey slammed through coastal Louisiana and Texas :(>500 killed).
  • 6/27/1962 :X-15 velocity record of 6,606 kilometer per hour set.
  • 6/27/1973 :”Live and Let Die” (the movie) released in the US.
  • 6/27/1976 :Air France’s Flight 139 from Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked to
  • :Uganda.
  • 6/27/1978 :Soyuz 30 (USSR) launched.
  • 6/27/1979 :Muhammad Ali announced his retirement (second time).
  • 6/27/1980 :First female state police officer graduated (New Jersey).
  • 6/27/1982 :STS-4 (US) launched.
  • 6/27/1983 :Soyuz T-9 (USSR) launched.
  • 6/27/1984 :Fire destroyed a stage at Pinewood Studios during filming of “A
  • :View to a Kill.”
  • 6/27/1984 :Oswald Jacoby died.
  • 6/27/1985 :First hotel strike in New York.
  • 6/27/1985 :Route 66 was decertified.
  • 6/27/1991 :Thurgood Marshall announced his resignation from the US Supreme
  • :Court.
  • 6/28 :Festival of the Tarasque (France).
  • 6/28 :Mothers Day (Central African Republic).
  • 6/28/1687 :First native American knight dubbed (William Phipps).
  • 6/28/1762 :First reported counterfeiting attempt (Boston).
  • 6/28/1778 :Battle of Monmouth (New Jersey).
  • 6/28/1832 :First case of cholera (beginning of epidemic) in New York.
  • 6/28/1836 :James Madison, 4th US president, died.
  • 6/28/1862 :Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi began.
  • 6/28/1904 :Daniel Decatur Emmett, songwriter (“Dixie”), died.
  • 6/28/1904 :Helen Keller graduated with honors from Radcliffe College.
  • 6/28/1914 :Archduke Francis Ferdinand and wife assassinated.
  • 6/28/1919 :Harry Truman married Bess Wallace.
  • 6/28/1919 :Treaty of Versailles signed ending WWI.
  • 6/28/1966 :First black US cabinet member sworn in (Robert Clifton Weaver).
  • 6/28/1968 :Monday established as observance of most US holidays.
  • 6/28/1969 :Stonewall Inn riots started (New York).
  • 6/28/1971 :US Supreme Court reversed Muhammad Ali’s conviction for refusing
  • :induction in the US Army.
  • 6/28/1971 :Use of US public funds for parochial schools was ruled
  • :unconstitutional.
  • 6/28/1972 :Richard Nixon announced that no more draftees would be sent to
  • :Vietnam, unless they volunteered.
  • 6/28/1974 :Frank Sutton, actor (“Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.”), died.
  • 6/28/1978 :Supreme Court decided in favor of Alan Bakke.
  • 6/28/1981 :Terrence Stanley Fox, who ran 3328 miles across Canada for
  • :cancer, died.
  • 6/29 :Annual Wine Battle (La Rioja, Spain).
  • 6/29 :Independence Day (Seychelles).
  • 6/29/1613 :The Globe Theater (London) burned to the ground.
  • 6/29/1620 :Parliament prohibited tobacco growing in England.
  • 6/29/1767 :Townshend Review Act approved.
  • 6/29/1853 :Gadsden Purchase ratified by US Senate.
  • 6/29/1854 :Charlotte Bronte, English novelist, married Arthur Bell Nicholls.
  • 6/29/1861 :Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet, died.
  • 6/29/1882 :Joseph Aloysius Hansom, English inventor of the cab, died.
  • 6/29/1895 :Thomas Henry Huxley died.
  • 6/29/1927 :First US to Hawaii flight.
  • 6/29/1934 :Charles Stephen Brooks, essayist and author of travel books, died.
  • 6/29/1941 :Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish composer and pianist, died.
  • 6/29/1956 :First high jump over seven feet (Charles Dumas, Los Angeles).
  • 6/29/1966 :US first bombed Hanoi.
  • 6/29/1970 :Last US troops were withdrawn from Cambodia into South Vietnam.
  • 6/29/1972 :US Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment (as then
  • :practiced) was unconstitutional.
  • 6/29/1978 :Bob Crane, actor (“Hogan’s Heroes”), murdered.
  • 6/29/1979 :”Moonraker” released in the US.
  • 6/29/1990 :No-hitter thrown in each baseball league for the first time (Dave
  • :Stewart (A’s) beat Blue Jays, Fernando Valenzuela (Dodgers)
  • :beat Cardinals.
  • 6/30 :Armed Forces Day (Guatemala).
  • 6/30 :Burning of the Three Firs (France).
  • 6/30 :Independence Day (Zaire).
  • 6/30 :Official Calendar Day (Leap seconds added here).
  • 6/30/1785 :General James Edward Oglethorpe, colonizer of Georgia, died.
  • 6/30/1859 :Charles Blondin walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
  • 6/30/1870 :First woman graduated from a US accredited law school (Ada
  • :Kepley, Union College of Law in Chicago).
  • 6/30/1882 :Charles J. Guiteau, assassin of James Abram Garfield, hanged.
  • 6/30/1900 :Fire at Hoboken (New Jersey) docks (326 killed).
  • 6/30/1906 :Meat Inspection Act passed by US Congress.
  • 6/30/1906 :Pure Food and Drugs Act passed by US Congress.
  • 6/30/1908 :Explosion over Siberia.
  • 6/30/1909 :Forbes Field opened.
  • 6/30/1924 :”Teapot Dome” scandals.
  • 6/30/1934 :Sumner tunnel (Boston, Massachusetts) opened.
  • 6/30/1936 :”Gone With the Wind” published.
  • 6/30/1941 :First presidential library dedicated (FDR).
  • 6/30/1943 :WPA (Works Progress Administration) terminated.
  • 6/30/1948 :First advanced degree on computer related topic (H. Karmanian,
  • :Temple University, for symbolic differentiation on the ENIAC).
  • 6/30/1948 :Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs).
  • 6/30/1950 :US troops moved from Japan to help defend South Korea.
  • 6/30/1952 :”The Guiding Light” debuted on TV (previously on radio).
  • 6/30/1953 :Chevrolet Corvette introduced.
  • 6/30/1960 :China and Soviet Union announced split over ideology.
  • 6/30/1960 :Republic of the Congo granted independence.
  • 6/30/1961 :Lee deForest, “the father of radio,” died.
  • 6/30/1971 :26th US Constitutional Amendment (18 year olds vote) ratified.
  • 6/30/1971 :Crew of Soyuz 11 (USSR) died on reentry.
  • 6/30/1982 :Extended deadline for ratification of the ERA expired.
  • 6/30/1985 :James Dewar, inventor of the Twinkie, died.
  • 6/30/1993 :George Robert Phillips (Spanky McFarland), actor, died.