Legs presents ~ On This Day

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[Legs]

On this day... June 7th

555 Vigilius ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1614 2nd parliment of King James I, disolves passing no legislation

1654 Louis XIV crowned king of France

1692 Porte Royale Jamaica slides into harbor after earthquake

1769 Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Kentucky

1775 United Colonies change name to United States

1776 Richard Lee (VA) moves Decl of Independence in Continental Congress

1839 Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed

1860 Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, SF

1863 Mexico City captured by French troops

1864 Abe Lincoln renominated for Pres by Republican Party

1866 Irish Fenians raid Pigeon Hill, Quebec

1887 Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Wash DC

1892 John J Doyle of Clev Spiders is 1st to pinch hit in a baseball game

1896 G Harpo & F Samuelson leave NY to row the Atlantic (takes 54 days)

1898 Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chic

1901 M Wolf discovers asteroid #471 Papagena

1905 Norway dissolves union with Sweden (in effect since 1814)

1909 Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens

1912 St Pius X encyclical "On the Indians of South America"

1912 US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane

1924 George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775' from Everest's summit

1929 Vatican City becomes a soverign state

1930 NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"

1936 Yanks beat Indians 5-4 in 16; longest game without a strikeout

1938 1st play telecast with original Broadway cast, "Susan & God"

1938 Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown (Eddie Allen)

1939 1st king & queen of England to visit US, George VI & Elizabeth

1939 Cleve Indians sets AL record of 16 inning game without

striking out, however lose the game 5-4 to NY Yankees

1941 Whirlaway wins the Belmont Stakes & the triple crown

1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island

1953 1st color network telecast in compatible color, Boston, Mass

1954 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)

1955 "The $64,000 Question" premiers on CBS TV

1955 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)

1959 KLX-AM in Oakland Calif changes call letters to KEWB (now KNEW)

1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m

1963 1st Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars)
& release 1st single, "Come on"

1965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits

1967 2 Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of minors

1967 Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem

1968 Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination

1969 Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash combine on a Grand Ole Opry TV special

1969 Tommy James & the Shondells release "Crystal Blue Persuasion"

1970 Jockey Willie Shoemaker passes Johnny Longden with his 6,033 win

1970 The Who's Tommy is performed at NY's Lincoln Center

1971 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut

1972 German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel

1975 Spain's Manuel Orantes wins US Open, beating Jimmy Connors in 3 sets

1977 Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law

1978 Bullets beat Supersonics for NBA championship, 4 games to 3

1979 Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched

1979 Rocker Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion

1980 John McEnroe beats Bj”rn B”rg for US Open

1980 Temperance Hill wins Belmont Stakes (50:1 long shot)

1980 Tommy John wins his 200th, 3-0 on a 2-hitter

1981 Bjorn Borg wins his 6th French Open singles (defeats Ivan Lendl)

1981 Israel destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility

1982 NY Mets draft Dwight Gooden, Roger McDowell & Randy Myers

1982 Pres Reagan meets Pope John Paul II & Queen Elizabeth

1983 A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3152

1983 Steve Carlton temporarily passes Nolan Ryan with his 3,552 strike out

1986 Madonna's "Live to Tell," single goes #1

1989 23 year old olympic barefoot South African runner Zola Budd retires

1989 Atlanta Fulton County Comm approves $210M stadium for the Falcons

1989 1st Baseball game to start outdoors and end indoors, as Toronto Blue
Jays stadium closes roof during game at 8:48, & beat Brewers 4-2

1990 Michael Jackson hospitalized for chest pains

1991 Singer Jimmy Osmond weds Michelle Larson (Can Jimmy really be called a singer?)

[Legs]

On this Day ~ June 8th

452 Italy invaded by Attila the Hun

536 St Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope

570 Relgion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca

1783 Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption

1786 1st commercially-made ice cream sold (NY)

1815 39 German states unite under the Act of Confederation

1824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec

1861 People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union

1862 Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia

1869 Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner (it sucks)

1875 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #146 Lucina

1887 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #268 Adorea

1889 Cable Cars begin service in LA

1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"

1900 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the 6 Napoleons"

1915 William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State

1917 Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School

1918 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered

1923 S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #995 Sternberga

1927 Tony Lazzeri hits 3 HRs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11

1928 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)

1937 World's largest flower blooms in NY Botonical Garden, 12' calla lily

1940 Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced

1948 "The Milton Berle Show" premiers on NBC TV

1948 John Rudder becomes 1st negro commissioned officer in US marines

1950 Boston Red Sox beats St Louis Browns 29-4

1953 Cluster of 6 tornaodes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113

1953 Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court

1953 Tornadoes kill 110 in Mich & Ohio

1959 1st official "missile mail" lands (Jacksonville, Fla)

1959 X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m

1960 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"

1965 US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam

1965 USSR launches Luna 6; missed Moon

1966 NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970

1967 Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen

1968 Don Drysdale pitches a record 58th consecutive scoreless inning

1968 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"

1968 James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, captured

1968 New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted

1968 Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"

1969 Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired (I was there-BTG)

1969 Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones

1972 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #3230

1974 Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits the rock group "Yes"

1975 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35

1975 USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing

1979 The Source, 1st computer public information service, goes online

1979 Wings release "Back to the Egg" album

1982 Los Angeles beats Phila 76ers, for the NBA championship

1982 Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament

1983 Charlos Vieira begins 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria, Portugal

1985 Pirates score 10 in top of 1st, but lose 15-11 to Phillies, as Steve
becomes 1st Phillie to switch hit HRs in the same game

1986 Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria

1986 Boston Celtics win NBA championship #16 over Houston Rockets

1986 Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Balt Orioles beat Yankees 18-9

1990 Phil Bradley hits the 18th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history

1991 Former NY Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds

1991 Monica Seles beats Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, 6-3, 6-4 for French Open

2004 Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs

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Dingfod's Addendumb: June 8:

68
The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba.

632
In Medina, located in present-day Saudi Arabia, Muhammad, one of the most influential religious and political leaders in history, dies in the arms of Aishah, his third and favorite wife.

793
The first Viking raid on British soil at Lindisfarne where a set date for the raid is known.

1624
An earthquake strikes Peru.

1789
James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives.

1866
The Canadian Parliament meets for the first time in Ottawa.

1887
Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator.

1949
Red Scare: Such celebrities as Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.

1953
the first U.S. propane fuelled gas-turbine locomotive was placed in service by the Union Pacific Railroad.

1968
Barbara Bain wins Emmy for her role in the TV series Mission Impossible.

1998
Charlton Heston assumes the presidency of the U.S. National Rifle Association.

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On this Day ~ June 9th

1456 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1534 Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River

1628 1st deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Mass

1732 Royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe

1772 1st Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion

1784 John Carroll appointed supervisor of US Catholic Missions

1789 Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I

1790 1st book copyrighted under the constitution, Philadelphia Spelling Bk

1822 Charles Graham receives 1st patent for false teeth

1851 San Francisco Committee of Vigilance forms (1st time)

1862 Battle of Port Republic, last of 5 battles in Jacksons Valley camp

1863 Battle of Brandy Station, Va

1868 1st meeting of the Board of Regents, University of California

1869 Charles Elmer Hires sells his 1st root beer (Phila)

1883 1st commercial electric railway line begins operation (Chicago El)

1890 The opera "Robin Hood" is produced (Chicago)

1898 China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years

1899 Jim Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons for the Heavyweight boxxing crown

1901 NY Giants get record 31 hits to beat Cin Reds 25-13

1902 1st Automat restaurant opens (818 Chestnut St, Phila)

1907 K Lohnert discovers asteroid #635 Vundtia

1914 Honus Wagner becomes the 1st baseball player to get 3,000 hits

1928 1st aerial cross of the Pacific lands in Brisbane Australia

1931 1st showing of a Donald Duck cartoon

1931 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1197 Rhodesia

1931 Goddard patents rocket-fueled aircraft design

1934 1st Donald Duck cartoon, The Wise Little Hen, released

1934 Lawson Little beats Gene Sarazen by 3 strokes for the US Open

1936 Olin Dutra beats Gene Sarazen by 1 stroke for the US Open

1940 Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II

1943 Congress passes "pay-as-you-go" income tax

1944 23 puppies (record litter) born to Lena, a foxhound, Ambler, Penn

1946 19 guests at Canfield Hotel die in fire. (Dubuque Iowa)

1946 66,545 fans help Yanks break million attendance mark, the earliest

1946 NY Giant Mel Ott becomes the 1st manager to be ejected from both
games of a doubleheader

1949 Mrs Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas becomes 1st woman treasurer of US

1953 About 100 die in Worcester MA tornado

1953 Tornado strikes Worcester Mass destroying Assumption College

1954 Joseph Welch asks Sen Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" during Senate-Army hearings

1955 100ø F-Hottest day in Seattle Washington

1957 Anthony Eden resigns as British PM

1959 1st ballistic missile sub launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct)

1960 ABC & AFL sign a 5 year contract

1963 1st Sunday night game in baseball SF Giants lose to Houston Colts 3-0

1963 Barbra Striesand appears on "The Ed Sullivan Show"

1963 Movie "Cleopatra" opens in NY

1965 Michel Fazy runs the mile in 3 minute 53.6 seconds

1967 The Monkees appear at the Hollywood Bowl

1969 Brian Jones quits the Rolling Stones

1969 Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice

1970 Harry A Blackmun becomes a Supreme Court Justice

1971 Paul McCartney's album "Ram" goes gold

1972 14" of rain in 6 hrs burst Rapid City SD dam, drowns 200

1972 1st all-nite grad parties

1972 Bruce Springsteen signs a record deal with Columbia

1973 Secretariat wins Belmont Stakes & Triple Crown

1974 Supergroup Blind Faith's (Clapton, Windwood, Baker) 1st concert

1975 E Roemer discovers asteroid #1983 Bok

1975 Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners & 1 guard (Sanford Fla)

1977 George & Patti Harrison divorce

1977 Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks

1978 Gutenberg Bible (1 of 21) sells for $2.4 million, London

1979 Coastal wins the Belmont Stakes

1979 Michael Cairney topples a record row of 169,713 dominoes

1979 Phillies wear burgundy uniforms for 1st & last time

1979 Willie Horton is honored at Seattle's Kingdome

1980 Comedian Richard Pryor suffers burns from free basing cocaine

1980 Phillies & SF Giants end their game at 3:11 AM

1980 Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth

1982 Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley

1984 "Laserphonic Fantasy" premieres

1984 Cyndi Lauper's 1st #1 "Time After Times"

1984 J�rgen Hingsen of W Germany sets record for decathlon, 8,798 pts

1984 NASA launches Intelsat V, it failed

1984 Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD

1984 Swale wins the Belmont Stakes (8 days later Swale dies)

1985 American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped & held hostage in Lebanon

1985 LA Lakers beats Boston Celtics in 6 games for NBA title

1985 Los Angeles beats Boston, for the NBA championship

1985 USSR's Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus

1986 Rogers Comm report on Challenger disaster blames Morton Thiokol

1988 Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to the UK

1989 "Star Trek V" premiers

1989 Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of Oklahoma's football

1989 Michael Changs French Open win makes him youngest male to go to finals

1989 Rare tornado in Philadelphia kills 1

1990 Czechoslovakia beats US 5-1 in World Cup soccer

1990 Go and Go wins the 122nd Belmont Stakes

1990 Kerry Kennedy (daughter of Robert) & Andrew Coumo (Mario's son) wed

1990 Monoica Salas beats Steffi Graff for French Open title

1991 Hansel wins the Belmont Stakes

1991 Jim Courier beats Andre Agassi for the French Open

1991 World Bowl-World League of American Football 1st championship

1997 British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires

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Dingbat's Abbenbump: June 9:

68
Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditus to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging.

1856
500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.

1860
Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter becomes the first dime novel to be published.

1902
Woodrow Wilson was unanimously elected president of Princeton University.

1905
Albert Einstein published his analysis of Planck's quantum theory and its application to light. His article appeared in Annalen der Physik. Though no experimental work was involved, it was for these insights that Einstein earned his Nobel Prize.

1909
Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York to San Francisco, California.

1915
U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the RMS Lusitania sinking.

1935
Alcoholics Anonymous founded when Dr Bob Smith had his last drink on June 9, 1935.

1953
John H. Kraft was granted a U.S. patent for "manufacture of soft surface cured cheese"

1978
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens the priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy excluding black men.

1990
Charles Freeman, the owner of E-C Records store in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is charged with illegally selling the rap album As Nasty As They Wanna Be to an undercover officer.

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On this day... June 10th

1610 1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island

1639 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)

1682 Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3' diameter oak tree

1720 Mrs Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard

1752 Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock!

1760 NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine

1772 Burning of the Gasp‚e, British revenue cutter, by Rhode Islanders

1776 Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Decl of Ind

1801 Tripoli declares war on US for refusing tribute

1809 1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY for Phila

1846 Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire

1848 1st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago

1854 Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved

1863 Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Miss; Forrest w/3500 defeats 8000 Feds

1865 Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance M�nchen Germany

1868 2nd Belmont Stakes, General Duke wins

1869 Agnes arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef

1880 Charlie Jones becomes 1st to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning

1892 Wilbert Robinson of Balt Orioles sets record of 7 for 7 in 9 inn game

1898 US Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War

1899 Improved Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati

1902 Patent for window envelope granted to H.F. Callahan

1905 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Me

1908 1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of NY, opens

1916 Great Arab Revolt begin

1921 Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120 (Gavvy Cravath)

1924 1st political convention broadcast on radio-Republicans at Cleveland

1926 Phillies Russ Wrightstone hits for the cycle

1932 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass

1934 Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome

1935 Dr Robert Smith & William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous

1940 Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II

1942 Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia) Gestapo kills 173

1943 FDR becomes 1st US pres to visit a foreign country during wartime

1943 FDR signs withholding tax bill into law (this is W-2 Day!)

1944 Joe Nuxhall at 15 becomes youngest ML baseball player

1946 Italian Republic established

1952 Chic White Sox Sam Mele is 6th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th)

1954 PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting

1955 1st separation of virus into component parts reported

1956 16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm

1957 Harold MacMillan becomes British PM

1957 John Diefenbacker (C) elected PM of Canada

1959 Rocky Colovito hits 4 HRs in 1 game

1962 A record 54 home runs hit in baseball

1962 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 3¬"

1964 Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked

1965 A R Klemola discovers asteroid #2370 van Altena

1966 Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in the UK

1966 Beatles record "Rain", 1st to use reverse tapes

1966 Cleve Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Wash Senator, 2-0

1966 Janis Joplins 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF)

1967 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire & Magic Mountain Music Festival, Calif

1967 Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq & Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help

1971 11 die in a train crash in Salem Ill

1972 Hank Aaron's grandslammer (14) ties him for NL lead with Gil Hodges &
moves him aheard of Willie Mays as the #2 HR hitter (649)

1973 NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit

1975 Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans

1976 67,000 fans attends Wings concert at Seattle's Kingdome

1977 Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II

1977 James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison

1978 Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis

1979 Balt Orioles pull their 8th triple play (5-4-3 vs Cleve)

1979 Pope John Paul II visits Poland

1981 IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail

1981 Pete Rose ties Stan Musial's NL record of 3,630 hits

1981 Sebastian Coe of Englands sets the 800m record (1:41.73) in Florence

1981 Seven Brothers Square in Bronx named honoring 7 Santini Bro Moving Co

1982 Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut

1984 Boston beats Los Angeles, for the NBA championship

1984 Ivan Lendl wins the French Open, his 1st grand slam title

1984 US missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time

1984 Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 7'10" (2.39m)

1985 Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife

1985 Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula

1986 A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's NL

1988 Greatest number of participants (31,678) on a bicycle tour (London)

1990 Andres Gomez beats Andre Agassi for French Open title

1990 Burger King begins using Newman's Own Salad Dressing

1990 Detroit Pistons beat Trail Blazers for 1st time since 1974 in Portland

1990 Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Fla for obscenity

1991 Mother of All Parades-NYC welcomes desert storm troops

[Dingfod]

Dingwad's Emporium of Dumbdom: June 10:

1692
Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".

1829
First Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge.

1846
The California Republic declares independence from Mexico.

1854
The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate.

1869
Machine-frozen food was transported a significant distance in the U.S. for the first time. A shipment of frozen Texas beef had been processed by refrigeration equipment invented by John Gorrie, and delivered by the steamship Agnes in New Orleans, La.

1871
Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 Marines in naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island Shinmiyangyo, Korea.

1881
Count Leo Tolstoy sets off on a pilgrimage to a monastery disguised as a peasant. Tolstoy had already produced his two greatest masterpieces War and Peace (1865-1869) and Anna Karenina (1875-1877).

1886
Eruption of Mount Tarawera in New Zealand, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.

1890
Black American inventor Daniel Johnson received a patent for "Grass Receivers for Lawn Mowers", a grass catcher.

1902
An "Automatic Air Brake" patent was issued to black American inventor Granville T. Woods, which was an important safety device for the railroads.

1924
The first U.S. portable electrical stethoscope was demonstrated in Chicago, Ill. to amplify the sounds of the human body.

1940
Norway surrenders to Germany.

1943
The ball point pen was patented by Laslo Biro

1945
Australian Imperial Forces landed in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.

1947
Saab produces its first automobile.

1952
Mylar® was registered as a DuPont trademark for an extraordinarily strong polyester film that grew out of the development of Dacron® in the early 1950s.

1954
General Motors announced their GM Turbocruiser, a modifed GMC coach powered by a gas turbine.

2003
The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

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On this Day ~ June 11th

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[Legs]

On this Day ~ June 12th

1381 - Peasants' Revolt: In England rebels arrive at Blackheath.

1418 - An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.


1429 - Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau.

1653 - First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard – lasted until June 13.

1665 - England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.

1758 - French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg – James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.

1775 - American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offered a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.

1830 - Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers landed 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.

1859 - The Comstock Lode is discovered near Virginia City, Nevada.

1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor – General Ulysses S. Grant
pulls his troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.

1885 - At a murder trial in France, a roof collapses, killing 30 people.

1889 - 88 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in Northern Ireland.

1896 - J.T. Hearne sets a cricket record for the earliest date of taking 100 first-class wickets.

1898 - Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.

1903 - Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University of Michigan School of Music.

1922 - In Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded

1931 - Charlie Parker equals cricket record for the earliest date to reach 100 wickets. Tich Freeman reaches 100 wickets a day later.

1935 - Senator Huey Long of Louisiana makes the longest speech on Senate record. The speech takes 15½ hours and was filled by 150,000 words.

1935 - Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay, fighting since 1932.

1939 - The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.

1940 - World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.

1942 - Holocaust: Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

1963 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot dead in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.

1964 - South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life in prison.

1967 - The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.

1967 - Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data).

1978 - David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.

1979 - Bryan Allen flies the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel.

1981 - Major League Baseball players begin a 49 day strike over the issue of free-agent compensation.

1982 - in New York City's Central Park, 750,000 people rally against nuclear weapons. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt are in attendance.

1987 - The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.

1987 - Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate.

1988 - Rusty Wallace wins the last Nascar Winston Cup race at the Riverside International Raceway

1990 - Russia Day – The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.

1991 - Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of their republic.

1993 - Nigerian presidential elections held with the largest turnout ever.

1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit.

1994 - German districts Röbel and Waren are merged to form Müritz

1996 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.

1997 - Interleague play begins in baseball, ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series.

1997 - The United States Department of the Treasury unveils a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant.

1998 - The Philippines celebrates its centennial year of Independence from Spain.

1999 - Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins – NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force KFor enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

2000 - Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing Bus #174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the highly-publicized standoff becomes a media circus and ends with the death of do Nascimento and a hostage.

2004 - A 1.3 kg chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries.

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On this Day ~ June 13th

1373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed

1611 John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication

1774 Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves

1777 Marquis de Lafayette lands in US

1789 Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington

1798 Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California

1837 1st Mormon missionaries to the British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio

1855 The opera "Les Vˆpres Sicilenne" is produced (Paris)

1863 Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon," Christchurch, NZ

1866 House passes 14th Amendment

1871 Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador

1873 J C Watson discovers asteroid #132 Aethra

1879 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #198 Ampella

1886 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, BC

1888 Congress creates the Department of Labor

1889 2' of snow accumulates in Rawlins Wyoming

1890 Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out & named

1895 �mile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)

1898 Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital

1900 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians

1905 NY Giant Christy Mathewson 2nd no-hitter, beats Chic Cubs, 1-0

1907 Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2øF in Tamarack Calif

1910 Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Phila

1910 William D Crum, a SC physician, appointed minister to Liberia

1913 Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games

1918 Philles & Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings

1921 Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8

1924 Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win

1927 Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC

1930 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece

1933 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY)

1933 Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized

1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1349 Bechuana

1935 James T Braddocks beats Max Baer for HW boxing champ

1937 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns

1940 Paris evacuated before the German advance

1942 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenem�nde, Germany; reached 1.3 km

1944 Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks

1946 1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland

1947 1st night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3)

1948 Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th

1955 Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans France

1957 Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-HR games in a season

1966 Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights

1967 Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice

1969 Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins the Rolling Stones

1969 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2111 Tselina

1970 Beatles' "Let It Be," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks

1970 Beatles' "Long & Winding Road," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks

1971 NY Times began publishing "The Pentagon Papers"

1971 Perth Observatory discovers asteroids #1806 Derice & #1978 Patrice

1972 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2604

1973 Garvey, Lopes, Cey & Russell play together for 1st time, set record of staying together as an infield for 8+ years (LA Dodgers)

1975 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2219 Mannucci

1977 Convicted assassin James Earl Ray recaptured

1980 Paul McCartney releases "Waterfall"

1980 Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation

1980 UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela

1981 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany

1981 Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II

1981 Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on "Tomorrow"

1982 Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69

1983 Pioneer 10 becomes 1st man-made object to leave Solar System

1986 Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency

1986 Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta's triple-play

1987 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete
cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina

1988 Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win the AL East

1988 George Harrison releases "This is Love"

1988 US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist

1989 Detroit sweeps Los Angeles, for the NBA championship

1990 Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya

1990 Wash DC mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term,

1991 NHL owners present contract to players (leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike

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On this Day ~ June 14th

1623 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Va files against
Cicely Jordan. He loses

1642 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts

1775 US Army founded

1777 Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag

1834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine

1834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont

1841 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario

1846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma

1847 Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide

1850 Fire destroys part of SF

1863 Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia

1864 Battle of Pine Mt, Gen Leonidas Polk killed in action

1870 All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games

1876 1st player to hit for the cycle (George Hall, Phila Athletics)

1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise

1881 Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr, Cambridge, Mass

1900 Hawaiian Republic becomes the US Territory of Hawaii

1906 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #600 Musa

1917 Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I

1919 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Nfld

1923 Pres Harding is 1st US president to use radio, dedicating the
Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore

1924 WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY

1928 Republican Natl Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover

1931 French "St Philbert" overturned off St Nazaire France, drowns 450

1934 Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City

1934 WOQ-AM in KC Missouri goes off the air

1935 Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends

1936 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1490 Limpopo

1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin

1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins the 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)

1940 German forces occupied Paris during WW II

1941 Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS

1942 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct

1942 Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released

1944 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan

1945 Rod Argent, rocker (The Zombies-Never Even Thought)

1946 Canadian Library Association established

1949 State of Vietnam formed

1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau

1952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub the Nautilus

1953 Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis, Tenn

1953 Yanks sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight

1954 Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge

1961 106øF, hottest temperature in San Francisco

1963 Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days

1965 Beatles release the album "Beatles VI"

1965 Cincinatti Red Jim Maloney no-hits NY Mets but loses in 11, 1-0

1965 John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published

1967 Launch of Mariner V for Venus fly-by

1967 USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit

1969 John & Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show

1970 Cincinatti Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight

1975 Janis Ian releases "At 17"

1975 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing

1976 "Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication)

1976 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4

1978 Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR

1979 Rock group "Little Feat" disbands

1980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2937 Gibbs, #2938 Hopi & #3160 Angerhofer

1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict

1983 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx

1985 Lebanese Shiite Moslem gunmen hijack TWA 847 after Athens' takeoff

1987 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor

1987 LA Lakers win NBA title with a 106-93, victory over the Celtics

1989 Ground breaking begins in Minn on the world's largest mall

1989 Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams

1989 Pistons sweep LA for NBA title, Kareem Abdul Jabber's final NBA game

1989 Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame

1990 Detroit Pistons beat Portland, 4 games to 1 for NBA championship

1991 Leroy Burrell of USA sets the 100m record (9.90) in NYC

1991 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands

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On this Day ~ June 15th

763 BC- Assyrians record total solar eclipse event on clay tablet

1215 King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England

1219 King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark

1381 Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London

1389 Battle of Kossovo; Turks defeat Serbs, Bosnians

1520 Pope threatens to toss Luther out of Catholic Church

1567 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy

1590 Pope Leo X threatens to ex-communicate Martin Luther

1664 NJ established

1775 George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army

1779 General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx

1785 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident

1804 12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president

1836 Arkansas becomes 25th state

1844 Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber

1846 Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49ø N

1851 Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory

1857 SF Water Works organized

1860 1st White settlement in Idaho (Franklin)

1862 Gen JEB Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan"

1864 Battle for Petersburg begins as Gen Grant assaults Confederate line

1864 Robert E Lee's home area (Arlington, VA) becomes a miltary cemetery

1866 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #88 Thisbe

1866 Prussia attacks Austria

1869 Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY

1869 Mike McCoole (US) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout

1871 Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a US collegiate law school

1876 Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a US presidential cconvention

1877 Henry O Flipper becomes 1st black graduate at West Point

1878 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1
picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground

1887 NY Giants beat Phila Phillies 29-1

1889 Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adv "The Stockbroker's Clerk" (BG)

1894 Phillies beat Cincinatti Reds, 21-8

1896 Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan
27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed

1902 Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time

1902 Justin Clark of Corsicana, Tx minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game

1904 Side-wheeler "General Slocum" burns in NY's East River (1,031 die)

1907 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference

1915 US government mints 1st $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo

1918 1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania

1918 50th running of Belmont Stakes (Johren wins)

1919 1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland

1924 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile

1924 Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens

1925 B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #1093 Freda

1929 1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch

1933 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1278 Kenya & #1279 Uganda

1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1324 Knysna

1934 Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated

1934 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1322 Coppernicus

1938 1st night game at Bkln Ebbets Field (Reds 6, Dodgers 0) as Cin Red
Johnny Vander Meer hurls unprecident 2nd consecutive no-hitter

1939 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1676 Kariba

1940 French fortress of Verdun captured by Germans

1944 US forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific

1947 1st night game at Detroit Briggs Stadium (Tigers 4, Athletics 1)

1950 Itzigsohn discover asteroid 1581 Abanderada, 1582 Martir & 1779 Parana

1951 1st coml electronic computer dedicated Phila

1951 Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory

1956 John Lennon (15) & Paul McCartney (13) meet for the 1st time as
Lennon's rock group The Quarrymen perform at a church dinner

1957 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St Louis, Ill (state record)

1957 Yanks trade Billy Martin & Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran

1960 Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichman

1962 Phillies score 10 runs in an inning against Reds en route to 13-8 win

1962 South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes

1963 SF Giants Juan Marichal no-hits Houston Colt 45s, 1-0

1967 Gov Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill

1968 John Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral

1969 "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premiers on CBS TV

1971 Vernon E Jordan Jr, appointed exec director of National Urban League

1972 Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die

1973 "American Graffiti" opens in NYC

1976 Yankees trade May, Martinez, Pagan, MacGregor & Demsey to Baltimore
for Holtzman, Alexander, Grant Jackson, Elrod Henrick & Jim Freeman

1977 Spain's 1st free elections since 1936

1978 Jordan's King Hussein marries Elizabeth Halaby, 26-yr-old American

1978 Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days

1979 1st space shuttle SRB qualification test firing; 122 seconds

1980 Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game

1982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat

1983 Supreme Court struck down state & local restrictions on abortion

1984 Thomas Hearns KOs Roberto Duran

1985 En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus

1986 Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity

1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-213

1989 Balt Orioles pull their 9th triple play (vs Yankees)

1989 Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth

1990 "Dick Tracy" with Warren Beatty & Madonna premiers

1991 Philippines volcano Mount Pinatubo errupts

1992 Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport (NYC)

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On this day ~ June 16th


632 Origin of Persian Era

1567 Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison

1671 Cossack rebel leader Stenka Razin tortured, executed in Moscow

1755 British capture Fort Beaus‚jour, expel the Acadians

1832 Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Ill

1858 Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand"

1864 Siege of Petersburg & Richmond begins

1871 Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine founded, NYC
1879 Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theatre NYC

1882 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa

1883 1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams beat Cleve Spiders 5-2)

1896 Temperture hits 127øF at Fort Mojave, Calif

1903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox

1903 Ford Motors incorporates

1904 Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses)

1909 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000

1916 Boston Brave's Tom Hughes 2nd no-hitter beats Pitts, 2-0

1917 1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia

1922 Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics

1927 Tommy Armour wins golf's US open

1932 Pres Hoover & VP Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention

1933 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down)

1933 US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created

1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA

1938 St Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx 6 times in a row

1940 Commuinist govt installed in Lithuania

1941 1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC

1943 Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die)

1946 Lloyd Mangrum wins golf's US open after 2 playoffs

1947 1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington"

1947 Pravda denounces Marshall Plan

1949 Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie Pa

1951 Ben Hogan wins golf's US open for 2nd year in a row

1953 Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak
& also ending St Louis Brown 14 game losing streak

1955 Pope Pius XII ex-communicated Argentine Pres Juan Peron

1957 White Sox reliever Dixie Howell hits 2 HRs to beat Wash Senators 8-6

1961 Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host

1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris

1963 Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM

1963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6

1964 Quake strikes Niigata Japan

1967 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival

1968 Lee Trevino is 1st to play all 4 rounds of golf's US open under par

1969 Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House

1970 Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ

1970 Race riots in Miami Florida

1971 Racial disturbance in Jacksonville Florida

1975 Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber & Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players

1975 Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD

1976 Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa (Soweto Day)

1977 "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway

1977 Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR

1977 Ron Guidry's 1st complete game, 7-0 over KC Royals

1978 Cin Red Tom Seaver no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0

1978 Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough"

1979 Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit

1979 H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #2275

1982 Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners

1983 Charlos Vieira completes 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria Portugal

1983 European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10

1983 Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany

1984 Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race

1984 Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City (106d)

1985 T C Chen, ahead by 4 strokes in final round of US Open

1986 1 day general strike in South Africa

1987 Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens

1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession
charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him

1988 Boston Red Sox Barrett steals home

1988 In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater
on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins

1989 "Ghostbusters II" premiers

1989 4 golfers shoot a hole-in-one on the same hole at the US Open
are made all on the 6th hole (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate & Price) Only 17 hole-in-ones recorded since the US open began, today 4 more

1991 Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR

1991 Minnesota Twins win a team record 15 games in a row

1991 NYC Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week" (through the 23rd)

1991 Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day

1991 With 3 runs in the 9th, Balt ends Twins 15 game win streak 6-5

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On this Day ~ June 17th

653 St Martin I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

676 Deusdedit III ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1397 Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden & Norway

1579 Sir Francis Drake lands on the coast of Calif

1745 American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French

1775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)

1789 3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly

1837 Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent

1850 Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die)

1856 Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia

1863 Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back the Union in Virginia

1863 Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer)

1876 1st to hit 2 HRs; & score 5 runs in 9 inn NL game (George Hall, A's)

1880 John Ward, Providence, pitches perfect game vs Buffalo

1882 Tornado kills 130 in Iowa

1885 Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'

1894 1st US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont

1895 US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble
Hill off from Manhattan

1897 William Frank Powell, NJ educator, named minister to Haiti

1909 A Kopff discovers asteroid #682 Hagar

1919 "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premiers

1928 Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman to fly the Atlantic

(as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)

1930 Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games

1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in NY

1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II

1942 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)

1944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland

1945 Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day)

1946 SW Bell innaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis

1947 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC

1948 Joe Cronin pinch hit HRs in both ends of a doubleheader

1950 1st kidney transplant (Chicago)

1953 Riots in East Germany for reunification

1953 Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius &

Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for the next day their 14th anniversary

1954 Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends

1957 Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores)

1960 Ted Williams hit his 500th home run

1962 Brazil Beats Czechosolakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago

1963 Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools

1965 28.14 cm (11.08") of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record)

1965 Kinks arrive in NYC beginning their 1st US tour

1967 Barbra Striesand: A Happening in Central Park performed

1967 China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power

1971 C U Cesco discovers asteroid #2399 Terradas

1972 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate

1972 Looking Glass releases "Brandy"

1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroids #2997 & #3083

1975 Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with US

1976 ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets & Spurs) merges into the NBA

1978 Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike-outs

1980 C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #2586 Matson

1982 Pres Reagan 1st UN Gen Assembly address ("evil empire" speech)

1982 President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat

1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched

1986 Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated

1988 Bruce Springsteen seperates from Juliette Phillips

1988 Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0

1988 The Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens

1988 Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case

1989 US beats Guatemala 2-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup

1991 Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78

1994 World Cup soccer match begins

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On this Day ~ June 18th

1178 Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno
5 Canterbury monks report explosion on the moon (only such observation known)

1583 Richard Martin of London takes out 1st life insurance policy, on
William Gibbons. The premium was œ383

1778 British Redcoats evacuate Phila

1812 War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain

1815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington & Bl�cher

1821 The opera "Der Freisch�tz" is produced (Berlin)

1822 Part of US-Canadian boundary determined

1863 After long neglect, Confederates hurriedly fortify Vicksburg

1864 At Petersburg, Grant ends 4 days of assaults

1872 Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall

1873 Susan B Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President

1878 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #188 Menippe

1892 Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii

1898 Amusement pier opens, Atlantic City, NJ

1903 1st transcontinental auto trip begins in SF; arrives NY 3-mo later

1915 Jerome Travers becomes the 2nd amateur to win golf's US Open

1916 Yanks score in every inning but 8th beat Indians 19-3

1928 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman (passenger) to cross Atlantic by air

1934 US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized

1936 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, WI

1940 Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations
would remember that "this was their finest hour"

1942 Bernard W Robinson, becomes 1st black ensign in US Navy

1942 Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m

1945 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) Brit radio traitor charged with treason

1947 Cincinatti Red Ewell Blackwell no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0

1948 American Library Association adopts the Library Bill of Rights

1948 National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time

1948 Phillies pitching great Robin Roberts debut, loses 2-0 to Pirates

1948 UN Commission on Human Rights adopts Intl Decl of Human Rights

1953 Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president

1953 Eugene Stephens gets 3 hits & Red Sox score 17 runs in 1 inning (7th)

1953 USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen

1956 Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt

1957 John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as PM of Canada

1959 1st telecast transmitted from England to US

1960 Giants hire Tom Sheehan as baseball's oldest debuting manager (66)

1963 3,000 blacks boycot Boston public school

1967 Houston Don Wilson no-hits Atlanta Braves, 2-0

1968 Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing

1972 BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118

1973 NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants

1975 Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs in a Red Sox 15-1 victory over Tigers

1976 NBA & ABA agree to merge

1977 Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation

1977 Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft
for 1st time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747

1979 Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager (2nd time), replacing Bob Lemon

1980 "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi premiers

1980 C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #2891 McGetchin

1980 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2569 Madeline

1980 Mrs Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec

1981 Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra
Day O'Connor, 1st woman on high court)

1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote

1983 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride 1st US woman

1983 IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in NYC

1984 Perth Observatory discovers asteroid #3541

1986 52 die in plane/helicopter collision over Grand Canyon

1986 Don Sutton becomes 19th pitcher to win 300 games

1989 Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion

1989 Curtis Strange wins his 2nd US golf open

1990 1st ever lose for Cameroon in the World Cup, USSR-4 Cameroon-0

1990 1st sudden death US Open Golf Championship is won by Hale Irwin

1991 Pres Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died

1991 SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky's cancerous left arm is amputated

1991 Yankee pitchers pick-off 3 Toronto Blue Jays

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On this Day ~ June 19th


240 -BC- Eratosthenes estimates circumference of Earth

1586 English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island NC

1754 Albany Congress held by 7 British colonies & Iroquois indians

1778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge

1835 New Orleans gives US govt Jackson Square to be used as a mint

1846 1st baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1

1861 Anaheim Post Office established

1862 Slavery outlawed in US territories

1864 CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France

1865 All slaves in Texas freed

1867 1st Belmont Stakes, Ruthless wins

1868 Maj Gen E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC

1875 Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio

1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Man with the Twisted Lip"

1910 Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash)

1917 After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to
dispense with German titles & surnames, they take the name Windsor

1930 C Jackson & H E Wood discovers asteroid #1595 Tanga

1931 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct

1932 1st concert given in SF's Stern Grove

1932 Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China PR

1934 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created

1938 "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47

1938 Italy beats Hungary 4-1 in soccer's 3rd World Cup at Paris

1940 "Brenda Starr," 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago

1943 NFL's Phila Eagles & Pitts Steelers merge, (disolves on Dec 5)

1946 1st TV sports spectacular-Joe Louis vs Billy Conn

1947 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc Ca

1950 A G Wilson discovers asteroid #1980 Tezcatlipoca

1952 "I've Got A Secret" debuted on CBS with Garry Moore as host

1952 Bkln Dodger Carl Erskine no-hits Chicago Cubs, 5-0

1953 Albert W Dent, elected president of Natl Health Council

1955 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100

1955 Phils beat Cubs 1-0 in 15, ties longest shut out in Phillies history

1959 Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Sec of Comm

1961 Kuwait regains complete independence from Britain

1961 US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution
requiring state office holders to believe in God

1963 2 Russian space missions return to Earth

1963 Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen

1963 Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth

1965 KYW-AM in Cleveland Ohio returns call letters to Philadelphia

1967 Muhammad Ali is convicted for reusing induction in US Army

1967 Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD

1968 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign

1969 State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances

1970 A Nikolayev & V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9

1970 Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published

1971 Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Ga, racial disturbance

1973 Pete Rose & Willie Davis both get career hit # 2,000

1974 KC Royal Steve Busby 2nd no-hitter beats Milwaukee Brewers, 2-0

1976 US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth

1977 Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cen bishop John Neumann 1st US male saint

1977 Red Sox set 3 game record of 16 HRs, all against Yanks

1981 Boeing commercial Chinook 2-rotor helicopter is certified

1981 European Space Agency's Ariane carries 2 satellites into orbit

1981 Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, S Africa

1981 India's APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched

1984 1st live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger (Nightline)

1985 Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place

1986 Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup

1987 Geffen records sign their 1st artist (Donna Summer)

1987 Wee Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak ends

1988 Danny Spitz, heavy metal artist (Anthrax), weds Valerie

1988 In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers finish cycling underwater

on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins

1991 2 of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie

[maddog]

1987 Wee Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak ends

I don't think the year is correct on this.

#785

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On this day... June 20th

1402 Battle of Angora (Ankara)-Tatars defeat Turkish Army

1567 Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique

1632 Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area

1756 146 Brit soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most die

1779 Battle of Stone Ferry

1782 Congress approves Great Seal of US & the eagle as it's symbol

1789 Oath of the Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken

1791 King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution

1793 Eli Whitney applies for a cotton gin patent

1819 Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)

1837 England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria

1837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of
uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901

1855 Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin

1863 1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)

1863 West Virginia admitted as 35th US state

1867 Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska

1871 Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford Miss

1874 1st US Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons)

1893 Lizzie Borden found innocent in New Bedford Mass

1895 1st female doctor of science earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)

1895 A Charlois discovers asteroid #404 Arsinoe

1895 Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation

1907 1st Portland Rose festival

1910 "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal

1911 NAACP incorporates (NY)

1912 NY Giant Josh Devore steals 4 bases in an inning (2nd & 3rd twice)

1913 3 of 1st 4 Yankees hit-by-pitch en route to a record 6 hit batsman
Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader

1917 J Palisa discovers asteroid #876 Scott

1920 Yanks win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed

1921 29.2 cm (11.5") of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record)

1926 Mordecai W Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University

1936 Jesse Owens of the US sets 100 meter record at 10.2

1939 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1817 Katanga

1939 Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants

1943 National Congress of Racial Equality organizes

1943 New Qu‚bec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Qu‚bec (3« km dia)

1943 Sweden's Gunther Hagg beats favorite Greg Rice by 35 yards in

5,000m at national AAU track & field championship in NY

1944 Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency

1947 Pres Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act

1948 "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV

1950 Joe Dimaggio's 2,000th hit, Yanks beat Indians 8-2

1960 Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France

1963 1st Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 6-2

1963 Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income

1963 US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"

1966 Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman

1967 Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services

1967 Phillies Larry Jackson beats NY Mets for 18th straight time

1968 Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds

1969 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear

1970 Oriole's Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run HR

1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2124 Nissen

1976 Carl Fugate, Starkwether accomplice, paroled

1976 River Country opens

1977 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez

1978 1st 6 teams of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL) granted-Iowa,

NJ, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minnesota & Dayton

1980 Roberto Duran takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray
Leonard at Olympic Stadium in Montreal by unanimous decision

1982 Israeli PM Menachem Begin arrives in Washington

1983 Yankee Bobby Murcer retires

1986 Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon

1987 Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass

1988 NYC WABC-AM becomes the flagship radio station of the NJ Devils

1988 Price is Right model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera

1990 40,000-50,000 die in a (7.6) earthquake in Iran

1990 Nelson Mandela lands in NYC to begin a tour of the US

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On this day... June 22nd

431 Council of Ephesus (3rd ecumenical council) opens

816 Stephen IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1342 Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reconning)

1497 Antitax insurrection in Cornwall suppressed at Blackheath

1611 Henry Hudson & son set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers

1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II

1772 Slavery outlawed in England

1775 1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)

1807 British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812

1808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak

1815 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)

1847 Doughnut created

1848 Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for Pres

1849 Stephen C Massett opens courthouse using only piano in Calif

1851 Fire destroys part of SF

1868 Arkansas re-enters US

1870 Congress creates Department of Justice

1873 Prince Edward Island joins Canada

1874 Dr Andrew T Sill, of Macon, Missouri, finds science of osteopathy

1889 Louisville Colonels set ML baseball record with 26th consecutive loss

1910 1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland

1911 King George V of England crowned

1918 Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68 (Ivanhoe Illinois)

1925 G Shajn discovers asteroid #1058 Grubba

1930 Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in a game, Ruth hits 3 in doubleheader

1936 Harry Froboess dives 110 m from airship into Bodensee & survives

1936 Virgin Islands receives a constution from US (Organic Act)

1937 Joe Louis KOs James Braddock for the heavyweight boxing crown

1938 Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of 1st round at Yankee Stadium

1940 France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarmed

1941 Finland invades Karelia

1941 Germany declares war on Soviet Union during WW II

1944 FDR signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)

1944 Longest shut out in Phillies history, Phils beat Braves 1-0 in 15 inn

Boston Brave Jim Tobin 2nd no-hitter of yr beats Phils, 7-0 in 5 inn

1947 12" rain in 42 mins (Holt, MO)

1949 Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for the boxing title

1954 Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands

1957 KC stops using streetcars in it's transit system

1958 Game in KC between A's & Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to
tornado

1959 Eddie Lubanski bowls 2 consecutive perfect games

1959 Most Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax)

1959 Vanguard SLV-6 launched for Earth orbit (failed)

1961 Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints

Go Marching In, Why, Nobody's Child & My Bonnie, in Hamburg

1969 Aretha Franklin arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance

1970 Pres Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18)

1973 George Harrison releases "Living in the Material World"

1973 Skylab 2's astronauts land

1977 Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison

1977 Walt Disney's "The Rescuers" released

1978 James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced

1978 Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Ill

1978 Pluto's moon Charon discovered by James Christy

1979 Pro Football Researchers Association founded at Canton, Ohio

1980 Jim King begins riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours

1981 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2

1981 John McEnroe exhibites a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbeldon

1981 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon

1982 Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes

1982 Prince Chuck & Lady Di take Prince William home from hospital

1983 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle

1983 NHL institutes a 5 minute sudden death overtime period

1986 Pirate Radio Euro Weekend (Holland) begins transmitting

1987 Tom Seaver retires after 3rd try with NY Mets

1990 Billy Joel performs a concert at Yankee Stadium

1990 Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit

1990 Longest game in Toronto, Yanks beat Blue Jays 8-7 in 15 inns

1991 Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in Phillipines

[Sock Puppet]

Happy Donut Day!

[Legs]

Happy Donut Day, SP

On this Day ~ June 23rd

1683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians
in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"

1757 Robert Clive defeats Indians at Plassey, wins control of Bengal

1760 Battle of Landshut, Silesia

1775 1st regatta held on Thames, England

1784 1st US balloon flight (13 year old Edward Warren)

1810 John Jacob Astor organizes Pacific Fur Co (Astoria, Oregon)

1848 Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris

1860 Congress establishes the Government Printing Office

1860 US Secret Service created

1865 At Fort Towson, Gen Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable army

1868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer"

1903 M Wolf discovers asteroid #512 Taurinensis

1915 Yanks get record 16 walks & 3 wild pitches beat A's Bruno Hass, 15-0

1917 Molla Bjurstedt wins the US Lawn Tennis Assn title

Ernie Shore replaces Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth with a runner on, he

throws him out & retires all 26 he faces for a perfect game

1918 Boston Red Sox Dutch Leonard's 2nd no-hitter beats Tigers, 5-0

1924 V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1022 Olympiada

1925 Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre Wyoming)

1927 Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in 11-4 victory over Red Sox

1930 Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 21-8

1931 Wiley Post & Harold Catty took off for flight around world

1938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) established

1938 Marineland opens in Florida-1st aquarium

1939 France turns over Sanjak of Alexandretta (the Hatay) to Turkey

1944 4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153

1944 Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen

1947 Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by congress

1949 1st 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School

1950 Yanks & Tigers hit record 11 HRs, Tigers win 10-9

1951 British diplomats Guy Burgess & Donald Maclean flee to USSR

1951 Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage & $14M
property-Kansas)

1954 122ø F (50ø C), Overton, Nevada (state record)

1955 Walt Disney's "Lady & the Tramp" released

1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt

1957 S B Nicholson discovers asteroid #1647 Menelaus

1961 Phillies overcome 9-0, losing 11-2 they score 4 in 8th & 6 in 9th

1961 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,830 m

1963 Julius Boros wins golf's US Open

1963 NY Mets Jimmy Piersall, hits his 100th HR, he circles bases backwards

1967 Jim Ryun sets mile record of 3 min, 51.1 sec (Bakersfield, CA)

1967 John Entwistle of the rock group Who weds Alison Wise

1967 LBJ & Alexei Kosygin hold 1st of 2 summit meetings in Glassboro, NJ

1967 US Senate censures Thomas J Dodd (D-Ct) for misusing campaign
funds

1969 Joe Frazier beats Jerry Quarry for the heavyweight boxing title

1969 Warren E Burger sworn in as Supreme Court Chief Justice

1970 Charles Rangel defeats Adam Clayton Powell in Democratic primary

1970 Rocker Chubby Checker arrest for marijuana pocession

1971 Phillies Rick Wise no-hits Cincinatti Reds, 4-0

1972 Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history

1972 Nixon & Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate

1972 Pres Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports

1973 Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game HR in which he pitched

1974 Sandra Haynie wins the LPGA byh 2 strokes over JoAnne Carner

1975 Rocker Alice Cooper falls of stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs

1976 CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555 m) opens

1977 13th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 6-4

1979 The Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil Went Down to Georgia"

1979 The rock group, the Knack releases "My Sharona"

1981 33-inning game ends, Pawtucket 3, Rochester 2

1981 Amanda Maccaro becomes 1st American to win Russian Ballet Competition

1981 NYC mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy

1982 -117ø F; All time low at the South Pole

1982 Himmy, of Australia, weighs in at domestic cat record 20.7 kg (45 lb)

1985 Air India jet crashes near Ireland, 329 killed

1985 Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die

1985 Laffit Pncay Jr becomes the 2nd jockey to win $100 million

1986 Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House

1987 W Landgraf discovers asteroid #3683 Baumann

1988 Charlotte Hornets & Miami Heat begin their NBA expansion draft

1988 Yank manager Billy Martin's 5th term ends, Lou Pinella named manager

1989 The movie "Batman" premiers

1990 A rally to save Alien Nation from cancellation held at Stat of Liberty

1990 TV Guide selects Arsenio Hall as TV personality of the year

1991 Tony Randall & Jack Klugman star in Bdwy performance of Odd Couple

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On this day... June 24th

451 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1314 Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England

1322 Jews are expelled from France

1441 Eton College founded by Henry VI

1497 John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England

1509 Henry VIII crowned King of England

1535 Anabaptists Protestants conquerered & disbanded

1540 Henry VIII divorces his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves

1647 Lord Baltimore's niece ejected requesting vote at Maryland Council

1662 Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed (Macau Day)

1778 David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia

1793 1st republican constitution in France adopted

1813 Battle of Beaver Dam-British & Indian forces defeat US forces

1817 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast

1821 Battle of Carabobo; Bol¡var defeats royalists outside of Caracas

1841 Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx

1852 J R Hind discovers asteroid #18 Melpomene

1861 Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US

1881 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico

1882 NL expells umpire Richard Higham for dishonesty

1884 John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention

1894 Decision to begin modern Olympics every 4 years

1897 Hail injures 26 in Topeka Kansas

1898 American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba

1901 Jewish National Fund starts

1908 A Kopff discovers asteroids #663 Gerlinde & #664 Judith

1908 Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is

destined to have worse won-lost pct of any Yankee mgr 27-71 (.276)

1909 Best 72 holes of golf at US open (George Sargent-290)

1911 John McDermott becomes 1st American to win US open golf
tournament

1914 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #789 Lena

1915 800 die as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago

1920 Chuvash Autonomous Region formed in RSFSR

1922 AFPA changes name to NFL, Chicago Staleys become Chicago Bears

1930 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC

1932 Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand

1936 Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 HRs in 1 inn, Yanks beat Browns 18-4

1939 Pan Am's 1st US to England flight

1940 France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II

1946 29.77 cm (11.72") of rainfall, Mellen, Wisc. (state 24-hr record)

1947 Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold

1948 Republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey

1948 Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade, so Berlin Airlift begins

1949 "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)

1949 Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board

1950 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1821 Aconcagua

1950 NY Giant Wes Westrum hits 3 HRs & a triple

1955 Harmon Killebrew hits his 1st HR (off Billy Hoeff)

1961 Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby"

1962 Jack Reed's 22nd inn HR leads Yanks over Tigers 9-7

1963 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London

1963 Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain

1966 Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die

1966 Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I

1968 Canadian Sandra Post becomes 1st non-US & 1st rookie LPGA winner

1968 Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion

1968 Jim Northrup hits 2 grand-slammers to help Tigers beat Cleve 14-3

1968 Joe Frazier TKOs Manda Ramos for world heavyweight boxing title
1968 Resurrection City closed

1970 Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs

1970 Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

1973 Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8"

1975 113 killed in Eastern Boeing 727 crash at JFK

1975 Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport NY, kills 113

1977 IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976

1980 Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million

1982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat

1982 Jean-Loup Chretien, 1st spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16)

1983 7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB

1983 Don Sutton becomes 8th pitcher to strikeout 3,000 batters

1984 Joe Morgan sets career HR mark for 2nd basemen with #265

1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth

1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F

1986 Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
1986 US Senate approves "tax reform"

1988 Cleve pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves

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On this Day ~ June 25th

253 St Lucius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1178 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon

1630 Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop

1638 A lunar eclipse becomes the 1st astronomical event recorded in US

1672 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Mass

1749 General fast because of drought in MA

1788 Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify US constitution

1798 US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens

1835 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF)

1862 Day 1 of the 7 Days begins with fighting at Oak Grove

1864 Petersburg Campaign-Federals begin digging tunnels under Reb lines

1868 FL, AL, LA, GA, NC & SC readmitted to US

1870 The opera "Die Walk�re" is produced (Munich)

1876 Custer & 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux & Cheyenne at Little Big Horn

1888 Republican Convention, in Chicago, nominates Benjamin Harrison

1903 Yanks & White Sox end deadlocked at 6-6 in 18

1919 1st advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13)

1921 Jack Hutchinson becomes 1st American to win golf's British Open

1924 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1023 Thomana

1928 NY Giant Fred Lindstrom ties record of 9 hits in a doubleheader

1929 Pres Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)

1934 Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times

1935 Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium

1937 Cub Augie Galan becomes 1st player to switch hit HRs in a game

1938 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40 per hour

1941 FDR issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination

1948 Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 to reatain championship

1950 Israeli airline El Al begins service

1950 Korean conflict begins; N Korea invades S Korea

1951 1st color TV broadcast-CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities

1953 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours

1953 86ø F in Anchorage Alaska

1956 51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" & "Stockholm" (Cape Cod)

1961 Balt & Calif use a record 16 pitchers in a game (8 each) in 14 inns

1961 Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)

1961 Yankee's Roger Maris hits his 40th of 61 HRs

1962 Supreme Court rules NY school prayer unconstitutional

1962 Yankee Jack Reed's 22nd inning HR wins a 7 hour game

1966 Beatles' "Paperback Writer," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks

1966 Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched

1967 400 million watch Beatles "Our World" TV special

1968 Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his 1st major league game (Giants)

1969 Longest tennis match in Wimbeldon history, Pancho Gonzalez beats
Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5hr12m) marathon

1972 Berenice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball

1973 John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee

1973 Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m

1975 Mozambique gains independence from Portugal (National Day)

1977 LBJ denies report he had a cancer during his presidency

1977 Roy C Sullivan of Va is struck by lightening for 7th time!

1978 Argentina beats Holland 3-1 in soccer's 11th World Cup at Buenos Aires

1981 Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional

1982 Porn star John Holmes acquitted on murder charges

1982 Sec of State Alexander Haig Jr resigns, replaced by Schultz

1982 SF holds its 1st County Fair

1983 Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m

1984 STS 41-D launch attempt scrubbed because of computer problem

1985 Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK explodes (21 die)

1987 Pope John Paul II receives Austrian Pres Kurt Waldheim

1989 1st US postmark dedicated to Lesbian & Gay Pride (Stonewall, NYC)

1990 120ø F in Phoenix Arizona

1990 NBC decides to air episodes of "Quantum Leep" for 5 straight days

1991 Slovenia & Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia

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684 St Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1483 Richard III usurps English throne

1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to
farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!

1848 1st pure food law enacted in US

1862 Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulse Confederacy in Virginia

1862 Day 2 of the 7 Days-Battle of Mechanicsville

1870 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens

1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever

1902 England establishes Order of Merit

1902 M Wolf & L Carnera discovers asteroid #488 Kreusa

1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the 3 Garidebs" (BG)

1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)

1916 Cleveland Indians experiment with #s on their jerseys (one game)

1917 1st American Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I

1919 1st issue of NY Daily News published

1924 After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave the Domincan Republic

1934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act establishing credit unions

1934 W E B Du Bois resigns position at NAACP

1936 L Boyer discovers asteroid #2021 Poincare

1940 End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27

1941 Finland enters WW II against Russia

1945 UN Charter signed by 50 nations in SF

1948 US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin

1949 Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus inside orbit of Mercury

1957 Hurricane Audrey strikes Louisiana claiming 500 lives

1958 Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated

1958 Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed)

1959 Ingemar Johansson of Sweden defeats Floyd Patterson as boxing champ

1959 Queen Elizabeth & Pres Eisenhower open the St Lawrence Seaway

1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain

1960 Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day)

1962 Boston Red Sox Earl Wilson no-hits LA Angels, 2-0

1963 Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner)

1964 Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album

1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US

1970 Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Orioles beat Senators 12-2

1974 Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton)

1975 Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency

1977 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn

1978 Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France

1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched

1982 A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3521

1982 Marie Osmond marries Steve Craig

1982 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal
from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces

1983 "Loving" premiers on TV

1984 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4s

1984 Barbra Striesand records "Here We Are at Last"

1987 Losing 9-0 to Red Sox, Yanks score 11 in 3rd & win 12-11 in 10 inn

1989 Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson marry for the 2nd time

1990 122ø F in Phoenix Arizona