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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/18/10 at 1:17 am
It was one of the most powerful earthquakes in North America. I even wrote a term paper about it when I took a California History class at CSUN.
...and there has been a moive made of it.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/10 at 1:00 am
April 22nd 1889 – Over 50,000 people rushed to claim a piece of the available two million acres (8,000 km2) in the Unassigned Lands, the present-day U.S. state of Oklahoma. Within hours, both Oklahoma City and Guthrie had established cities of around 10,000 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/10 at 1:00 am
April 22nd 1945 – About 600 prisoners of the Jasenovac concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia revolted, but only 80 managed to escape while the other 520 were killed by the Croatian Ustaše regime.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/10 at 1:00 am
April 22nd 1993 – The first version of Mosaic was created by computer programmers Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was released, becoming the first popular World Wide Web browser and Gopher client.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/10 at 1:00 am
April 22nd 2000 – In a predawn raid, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service agents seized six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida, and returned him to his Cuban father.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:44 am
April 23rd 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:45 am
April 23rd 1014 – Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:45 am
April 23rd 1229 – Ferdinand III of Castile conquers Cáceres.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:45 am
April 23rd 1343 – St. George's Night Uprising.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:45 am
April 23rd 1348 – The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St George's Day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:45 am
April 23rd 1521 – Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:45 am
April 23rd April 23rd 1597 – William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I in attendance.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:46 am
April 23rd 1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:46 am
April 23rd 1660 – Treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:46 am
April 23rd 1661 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:46 am
April 23rd 1815 – The Second Serbian Uprising - a second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:47 am
April 23rd 1867 – William Lincoln patents the zoetrope, a machine that shows animated pictures by mounting a strip of drawings in a wheel.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:47 am
April 23rd 1910 – Theodore Roosevelt made his The Man in the Arena speech.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:47 am
April 23rd 1920 – The national council in Turkey denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:47 am
April 23rd 1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey is founded in Ankara.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:47 am
April 23rd 1920 – Turkey becomes the first country to celebrate a Children's Day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:47 am
April 23rd 1923 – Inauguration ceremonies take place of Gdynia as a temporary military port and fishers' shelter.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:48 am
April 23rd 1932 – The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, Netherlands burns down.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:48 am
April 23rd 1935 – The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:48 am
April 23rd 1940 – The Rhythm Night Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:48 am
April 23rd 1941 – World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:48 am
April 23rd 1942 – World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:48 am
April 23rd 1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, the major port of Israel, is captured from Arab forces.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:49 am
April 23rd 1949 – Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People's Liberation Army Navy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:49 am
April 23rd 1955 – The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:49 am
April 23rd 1961 – Algiers putsch by French generals.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:49 am
April 23rd 1967 – Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) was a manned spaceflight, Launched into orbit carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:49 am
April 23rd 1968 – Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:50 am
April 23rd 1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:50 am
April 23rd 1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.
I remembering it tasting horrible!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:50 am
April 23rd 1987 – 28 construction workers die when the L'Ambiance Plaza apartment building collapses while under construction in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:51 am
April 23rd 1990 – Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:51 am
April 23rd 1993 – Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:51 am
April 23rd 1997 – Omaria massacre in Algeria: 42 villagers are killed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:51 am
April 23rd 2003 – Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 3:51 am
April 23rd 2009 – The gamma ray burst GRB 090423 is observed for 10 seconds. The event signals the most distant object of any kind and also the oldest known object in the universe.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 04/23/10 at 6:46 am
I remembering it tasting horrible!
Or How about Coke Clear?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 04/23/10 at 11:12 am
I remembering it tasting horrible!
It wasn't as good as the original.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 11:19 am
It wasn't as good as the original.
It never is!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 04/23/10 at 11:26 am
It never is!
http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/coke.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/10 at 12:00 pm
http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/coke.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-Qiyklq-Q
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 04/23/10 at 1:52 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib-Qiyklq-Q
The old days...nice add.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 04/23/10 at 7:14 pm
It wasn't as good as the original.
the original was better.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/10 at 2:30 am
April 24th 1479 BC – Thutmose III became the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt according to the official chronology, although during the first 22 years of the reign he was co-regent with his aunt, Hatshepsut.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/10 at 2:31 am
April 24th 1877 – Unable to resolve a series of disputes over the Balkans in the aftermath of the 1876 Bulgarian April Uprising, Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire, starting the Russo-Turkish War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/10 at 2:31 am
April 24th 1915 – The Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire began with the arrest and deportation of hundreds of prominent Armenians in Constantinople.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/10 at 2:31 am
April 24th 1916 – Irish republicans led by teacher and political activist Patrick Pearse began the Easter Rising, a rebellion against British rule in Ireland, and proclaimed the Irish Republic an independent state.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/10 at 2:31 am
April 24th 1993 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a truck bomb in London's financial district in Bishopsgate, killing one person, injuring 44 others and causing £1 billion in damages.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/10 at 10:55 am
April 24th 1953 : Winston Churchill was made a Knight of the Garter by the Queen
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Henk on 04/30/10 at 3:46 am
It's been a year today (April 30) since the dreadful and shocking events in Apeldoorn. :\'(
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Henk on 05/13/10 at 8:23 am
May 13, 2000:
A fire works storage in Enschede (The Netherlands) catches fire and explodes, destroying an entire neighborhood and killing 23 people.
Ten years on, and it's still unclear what caused the fire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks5X0N8M_o8
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/15/10 at 5:43 am
May 15th 1602 – English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold became the first recorded European to visit Cape Cod.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/15/10 at 5:44 am
May 15th 1836 – English astronomer Francis Baily first observed "Baily's beads", a phenomenon during a solar eclipse in which the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of light to shine through.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/15/10 at 5:44 am
May 15th 1905 – Las Vegas was established as railroad town, after 110 acres (0.45 km2) owned by the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad was auctioned off.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/15/10 at 5:44 am
May 15th 1928 – Mickey and Minnie Mouse made their film debut in the animated cartoon Plane Crazy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/15/10 at 5:44 am
May 15th 1932 – Japanese Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi was assassinated in a coup attempt by radical elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/15/10 at 5:45 am
May 15th 1966 – After a policy dispute, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ's ruling junta launched a military attack on the forces of General Ton That Dinh, forcing him to abandon his command.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/15/10 at 6:58 am
May 15th 1919 – The Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00 a.m., almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba had walked off the job.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/16/10 at 4:01 am
May 16th 1204 – Fourth Crusade: Count Baldwin IX of Flanders was crowned the first Latin Emperor in Constantinople.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/16/10 at 4:01 am
May 16th 1877 – President Patrice de Mac-Mahon dismissed Jules Simon and installed Albert, Duc de Broglie as Prime Minister, triggering a political crisis in the French Third Republic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/16/10 at 4:02 am
May 16th 1918 – The Sedition Act was passed in the United States, forbidding Americans from using "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, flag, or armed forces during the ongoing World War I.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/16/10 at 4:02 am
May 16th 1929 – The first ceremony of the Academy Awards was held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/16/10 at 4:02 am
May 16th 1975 – Based on the results of a referendum held about one month earlier, Sikkim abolished its monarchy and was annexed by India, becoming its 22nd state.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/16/10 at 4:02 am
May 16th 2003 – In the deadliest terrorist attack in Morocco's history, a series of suicide bombings in Casablanca killed 33 civilians and 12 out of the 14 bombers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 05/16/10 at 5:03 am
1862 Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds 1st automobile
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 05/16/10 at 5:04 am
1891 George A Hormel & Company introduce Spam
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 05/16/10 at 5:04 am
1944 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 05/16/10 at 5:04 am
1986 South African President P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/16/10 at 5:09 am
1983 : The London police began using wheel clamps on illegally parked cars
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/26/10 at 12:35 pm
May 26th 1828 – Kaspar Hauser, a foundling with suspected ties to the Royal House of Baden, first appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/26/10 at 12:35 pm
May 26th 1896 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average, representing twelve stocks from various American industries, was first published by journalist Charles Dow as a stock market index.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/26/10 at 12:35 pm
May 26th 1918 – The Democratic Republic of Georgia was proclaimed following the breakup of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/26/10 at 12:35 pm
May 26th 1972 – U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow, concluding the first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/26/10 at 12:35 pm
May 26th 2006 – An earthquake measuring about 6.3 Mw struck near the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta on the southern side of the island of Java, killing at least 5,700 people, injuring at least 36,000, and leaving at least 1.5 million homeless.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 05/27/10 at 11:37 pm
10 years ago, Rocket Richard ( NHL legend) passed away. :\'(
http://ericksonblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/mauricetherocketrichard.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/10 at 12:26 pm
May 28th 1644 – English Civil War: Royalist troops allegedly slaughtered up to 1,600 people during their storm and capture of the Town of Bolton.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/30/10 at 4:19 am
May 30th 1431 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, after being convicted of heresy in a politically motivated trial.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/30/10 at 4:20 am
May 30th 1815 – The East Indiaman ship Arniston was wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/30/10 at 4:20 am
May 30th 1854 – The Kansas–Nebraska Act became law, establishing the U.S. territories of Nebraska and Kansas, repealing the 1820 Missouri Compromise, and allowing settlers in those territories to determine if they would permit slavery within their boundaries.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/30/10 at 4:20 am
May 30th 1963 – Buddhist crisis: A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination was held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/30/10 at 4:20 am
May 30th 1967 – Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu announced the establishment of Biafra, a secessionist state in southeastern Nigeria, an event that sparked the Nigerian Civil War one week later.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/30/10 at 4:21 am
May 30th 1989 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: the 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/30/10 at 7:59 am
May 30th 1948 : The British Citizen Act came into force
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/30/10 at 7:59 am
May 30th 1842 : An assassination attempt was made on Queen Victoria
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/30/10 at 8:00 am
May 30th 1536 : King Henry VIII married Jane Seymour
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/30/10 at 3:13 pm
May 30th 1588 – The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/30/10 at 3:16 pm
May 30th 1859 – Westminster's Big Ben rang for the first time in London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 06/04/10 at 10:45 am
June 4th, 1989
Massacre at Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China. The Chinese army storms a mass demonstration in Tiananmen Square, killing several hundred people. Many will probably recall this photo.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3080/3166138038_f3a963a0bf.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/04/10 at 1:01 pm
June 4th 1039 – Henry III became Holy Roman Emperor following the death of his father, Conrad II.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/04/10 at 1:02 pm
June 4th 1792 – Royal Navy Captain George Vancouver claimed Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest for Great Britain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/04/10 at 1:02 pm
June 4th 1913 – Emily Davison, an activist for Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, was fatally injured when she was struck by King George V's horse at the Epsom Derby.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/04/10 at 1:03 pm
June 4th 1913 – Emily Davison, an activist for Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, was fatally injured when she was struck by King George V's horse at the Epsom Derby.
This years Epsom Derby is to be ran tomorrow.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/04/10 at 1:03 pm
June 4th 1939 – The German ocean liner St. Louis, carrying 963 Jewish refugees seeking asylum from Nazi persecution, was denied permission to land in the United States, after already having been turned away from Cuba.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/04/10 at 1:03 pm
June 4th 1942 – The Battle of Midway, a major battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, began with a massive Imperial Japanese strike on Midway Atoll.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/04/10 at 1:03 pm
June 4th 1996 – The maiden flight of the Ariane 5 expendable launch system failed, with the rocket self-destructing 37 seconds after launch because of a malfunction in the control software, one of the most expensive computer bugs in history.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/04/10 at 4:46 pm
June 4th 1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/05/10 at 2:33 am
June 5th 1257 – Kraków in Poland received city rights.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/05/10 at 2:33 am
June 5th 1862 – As the Treaty of Saigon was signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Truong Dinh decided to defy Emperor Tu Duc of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/05/10 at 2:34 am
June 5th 1968 – Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan fatally shot U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy inside the kitchen pantry of The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, an event that has spawned a variety of conspiracy theories.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/05/10 at 2:34 am
June 5th 1989 – An anonymous rebel, later dubbed "Tank Man", achieved widespread international recognition as a heroic figure during the Tiananmen Square protests when he was videotaped and photographed in front of a column of Chinese tanks.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/05/10 at 2:34 am
June 5th 1995 – A new phase of matter, the Bose–Einstein condensate, was produced for the first time by Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman at the University of Colorado at Boulder NIST–JILA lab.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: nally on 06/05/10 at 11:51 am
June 5, 2004 (the last time that this date fell on a Saturday): Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States (for most of the 1980's), passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 93. At 93 1/3 years old, he had lived the longest life of any U.S. President (until November 2006, when Gerald Ford attained that age; he would die a month after that).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 06/05/10 at 12:35 pm
June 5th 1968 – Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan fatally shot U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy inside the kitchen pantry of The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, an event that has spawned a variety of conspiracy theories.
That's my first childhood bad memory. :\'(
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 06/05/10 at 3:14 pm
June 5, 2004 (the last time that this date fell on a Saturday): Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States (for most of the 1980's), passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 93. At 93 1/3 years old, he had lived the longest life of any U.S. President (until November 2006, when Gerald Ford attained that age; he would die a month after that).
I remember that,so sad. :(
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/05/10 at 3:26 pm
That's my first childhood bad memory. :\'(
I remember hearing that news live on the radio, but being young then, it did not effect me.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 06/05/10 at 3:59 pm
I remember hearing that news live on the radio, but being young then, it did not effect me.
I was only 5, and I could see my parents were very sad, and I had noticed that, so it was sad for me too .
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/07/10 at 1:12 pm
June 7th 1982 – Graceland, Elvis Presley's mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, opened to the public.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/08/10 at 1:15 pm
June 8th 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces defeated the Continental Army at the Battle of Trois-Rivières, the last major battle fought on Quebec soil that was part of the American colonists' invasion of Quebec.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/08/10 at 1:15 pm
June 8th 1783 – Iceland's Laki craters began an eight-month eruption, triggering major famine and massive fluorine poisoning.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/08/10 at 1:15 pm
June 8th 1982 – Falklands War: The Argentine Air Force attacked British transport ships as they were unloading their supplies off of Bluff Cove in the Falkland Islands, killing 56 British servicemen and wounding 150 others.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/08/10 at 1:16 pm
June 8th 1995 – Danish-Greenlandic programmer Rasmus Lerdorf released the first public version of the scripting language PHP for producing dynamic web pages.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/08/10 at 1:16 pm
June 8th 1968 – James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/10/10 at 12:20 pm
June 10th 2001 – Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/10/10 at 12:20 pm
June 10th 1977 – Apple ships its first Apple II personal computer.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/10/10 at 12:21 pm
June 10th 1190 – The Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River in Anatolia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/10/10 at 12:21 pm
June 10th 1838 – More than 25 Australian Aborigines were massacred near Inverell, New South Wales.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/10/10 at 12:22 pm
June 10th 1935 – American physician Bob Smith had his last alcoholic drink, marking the traditional founding date of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/10/10 at 12:22 pm
June 10th 1935 – American physician Bob Smith had his last alcoholic drink, marking the traditional founding date of Alcoholics Anonymous.
I'll drink to that!
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/10/10 at 12:22 pm
June 10th 1957 – In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservative Party led by John Diefenbaker won a plurality of the seats in the Canadian House of Commons, bringing an end to 22 years of Liberal Party rule.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/10/10 at 12:23 pm
June 10th 1957 – In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservative Party led by John Diefenbaker won a plurality of the seats in the Canadian House of Commons, bringing an end to 22 years of Liberal Party rule.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/10/10 at 12:24 pm
June 10th 1965 – The Viet Cong commenced combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the Vietnam War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/10/10 at 12:24 pm
June 10th 2008 – War in Afghanistan: An airstrike by the United States resulted in the deaths of eleven paramilitary troops of the Pakistan Army Frontier Corps and eight Taliban fighters in Pakistan's tribal areas.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/13/10 at 7:43 am
June 13th 1525 – Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora against the celibacy discipline decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/13/10 at 7:43 am
June 13th 1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria was found dead in Lake Starnberg near Munich under mysterious circumstances.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/13/10 at 7:43 am
June 13th 1898 – The Yukon Territory was formed in Canada, splitting from the Northwest Territories after the area's population substantially increased due to the Klondike Gold Rush.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/13/10 at 7:43 am
June 13th 1971 – The New York Times began to publish the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page top-secret United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/13/10 at 7:44 am
June 13th 1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria was found dead in Lake Starnberg near Munich under mysterious circumstances.
How mysterious?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/13/10 at 7:44 am
June 13th 1997 – In one of the worst fire tragedies in recent Indian history, 59 people died and 103 others were seriously injured during a premiere screening of the film Border at the Uphaar Cinema in Green Park, South Delhi.
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Written By: nally on 06/17/10 at 10:30 pm
^ must've been a bad luck Friday the 13th for those people. :\'( :\'( :\'(
June 17, 1994: OJ Simpson led police on a chase on freeways in the L.A. area in his Ford Bronco, before the chase finally came to an end at his home and he was arrested. I remember that so well, I had watched it on TV (although I had not really intended to). ::)
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Written By: Frank on 06/18/10 at 12:11 am
^ must've been a bad luck Friday the 13th for those people. :\'( :\'( :\'(
June 17, 1994: OJ Simpson led police on a chase on freeways in the L.A. area in his Ford Bronco, before the chase finally came to an end at his home and he was arrested. I remember that so well, I had watched it on TV (although I had not really intended to). ::)
Eventually, he doesn't go to jail for killing 2 people. >:(
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Written By: nally on 06/18/10 at 12:15 am
Eventually, he doesn't go to jail for killing 2 people. >:(
Agreed on the emoticon.
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Written By: Howard on 06/18/10 at 6:55 am
^ must've been a bad luck Friday the 13th for those people. :\'( :\'( :\'(
June 17, 1994: OJ Simpson led police on a chase on freeways in the L.A. area in his Ford Bronco, before the chase finally came to an end at his home and he was arrested. I remember that so well, I had watched it on TV (although I had not really intended to). ::)
I remember that 16 years ago.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/10 at 12:13 pm
June 18th 618 – Lǐ Yuān became Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty in China.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/10 at 12:13 pm
June 18th 1815 – War of the Seventh Coalition: Napoléon Bonaparte fought and lost his final battle, the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/10 at 12:13 pm
June 18th 1815 – War of the Seventh Coalition: Napoléon Bonaparte fought and lost his final battle, the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium.
My my, at Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender!
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/10 at 12:14 pm
June 18th 1858 – Charles Darwin received a manuscript by fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace on evolution, which prompted Darwin to publish his theory.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/10 at 12:14 pm
June 18th 1908 – The University of the Philippines, the national university of the Philippines, was established.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/10 at 12:14 pm
June 18th 1940 – World War II: General Charles de Gaulle (pictured), leader of the Free French Forces, made an appeal to the French people following the fall of France to Nazi Germany, rallying them to support the Resistance.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/10 at 12:14 pm
June 18th 1972 – British European Airways Flight 548 crashed near the town of Staines less than three minutes after departing from London Heathrow Airport, killing all 118 aboard, at the time the worst air disaster in the UK.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/10 at 2:55 am
June 19th 1846 – The first officially recorded baseball game using modern rules was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, US, with the New York Nine defeating the New York Knickerbockers, 23–1.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/10 at 2:57 am
June 19th 1850 – Louise of the Netherlands married Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/10 at 2:57 am
June 19th 1953 – Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed as spies who passed U.S. nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/10 at 2:57 am
June 19th 1961 – Kuwait declared independence from the United Kingdom.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/10 at 2:57 am
June 19th 2009 – The War in Afghanistan: British forces began Operation Panther's Claw, in which more than 350 troops made an aerial assault on Taliban positions in Southern Afghanistan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/10 at 2:59 am
June 19th 1982 – The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/10 at 2:59 am
June 19th 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.
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Written By: nally on 06/19/10 at 10:50 am
12 years ago on this date, I graduated from high school!
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Written By: Frank on 06/19/10 at 11:03 am
12 years ago on this date, I graduated from high school!
Class of 1998.
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Written By: nally on 06/19/10 at 11:06 am
Class of 1998.
That's me!
Yesterday marked 39 years since my dad graduated from high school, and tomorrow marks 41 years since my mom did so.
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Written By: Howard on 06/19/10 at 2:00 pm
12 years ago on this date, I graduated from high school!
I graduated 18 years ago tomorrow.
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Written By: Frank on 06/19/10 at 4:16 pm
That's me!
Yesterday marked 39 years since my dad graduated from high school, and tomorrow marks 41 years since my mom did so.
I graduated 30 years ago, don't remember the exact day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/10 at 11:46 pm
June 20th 451 – A coalition led by Roman General Flavius Aetius and Visigothic king Theodoric I clashed violently with the Hunnic alliance commanded by Attila the Hun at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, the last major military operation of the Western Roman Empire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/10 at 11:46 pm
June 20th 1685 – Monmouth Rebellion: The Duke of Monmouth declared himself King of England at Bridgwater.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/10 at 11:46 pm
June 20th 1782 – The Congress of the Confederation adopted the Great Seal of the United States, used to authenticate certain documents issued by the federal government.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/10 at 11:47 pm
June 20th 1837 – Victoria succeeded to the British throne, starting a reign that lasted for more than 63 years.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/10 at 11:47 pm
June 20th 1863 – American Civil War: West Virginia was admitted to the Union after it seceded from Virginia and the rest of the Confederacy.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/10 at 11:47 pm
June 20th 1973 – Snipers fired into a crowd of Peronists near the Ezeiza Airport in Buenos Aires, killing at least 13 people and injuring 365 others.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/10 at 11:47 pm
June 20th 1631 – The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
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Written By: nally on 06/20/10 at 11:08 pm
I graduated 18 years ago tomorrow.
You graduated on June 20th of '92? That day was a Saturday.
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Written By: Howard on 06/21/10 at 7:27 am
You graduated on June 20th of '92? That day was a Saturday.
I'm sorry,my bad it was the 25th.
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Written By: nally on 06/21/10 at 10:53 pm
I'm sorry,my bad it was the 25th.
...which was a Thursday in 1992. That was the very day I graduated from 6th grade. :)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 1:34 am
June 25th 1947 – The Diary of Anne Frank is published.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 1:35 am
June 25th 2009 saw the untimely death of "the Prince of Pop" Michael Jackson.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 1:36 am
June 25th 1949 – Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theaters.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 1:37 am
June 25th 1913 – American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 1:37 am
June 25th 1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 1:38 am
June 25th 1982 – Greece abolishes the head shaving of recruits in the military.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 1:38 am
June 25th 1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 1:45 am
June 25th 1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 1:45 am
June 25th 1967 – First live global satellite television programme – Our World
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 1:46 am
June 25th 1967 – First live global satellite television programme – Our World
I can remember watching that!
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 1:46 am
June 25th 1950 – The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 1:47 am
June 25th 1788 – Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 1:48 am
June 25th 1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 1:48 am
June 25th 1906 – Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 1:48 am
June 25th 1913 – American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
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Written By: Howard on 06/25/10 at 5:36 am
June 25th 2009 saw the untimely death of "the Prince of Pop" Michael Jackson.
1 year later. :(
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 12:47 pm
June 25th 1938 – Douglas Hyde became the first President of Ireland after the office was established by the Constitution of Ireland in 1937.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 12:49 pm
June 25th 2009 saw the untimely death of "the Prince of Pop" Michael Jackson.
Please not forget that Farrah Fawcett died one year ago today.
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Written By: Howard on 06/25/10 at 3:11 pm
Please not forget that Farrah Fawcett died one year ago today.
yes she died the same day,both were icons of their time.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 11:25 pm
June 26th 1409 – In an attempt to end the Western Schism, during which Gregory XII in Rome and Benedict XIII in Avignon simultaneously claimed to be the true pope, the Council of Pisa instead ended up electing a third one, Alexander V.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 11:26 pm
June 26th 1541 – Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro was assassinated in Lima by supporters of his rival Diego de Almagro's son.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 11:26 pm
June 26th 1918 – World War I: The 26-day Battle of Belleau Wood near the Marne River in France ended with American forces finally clearing that forest of German troops.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 11:27 pm
June 26th 1945 – At a conference in San Francisco, delegates from 50 nations signed a charter establishing the United Nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 11:27 pm
June 26th 2008 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, ruling that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms for private use in Washington, D.C., and other federal enclaves.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 11:28 pm
June 26th 363 – Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/10 at 11:28 pm
June 26th 1284 – the legendary Pied Piper leads 130 children out of Hamelin, Germany
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/10 at 4:51 am
June 26th 1541 – Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/10 at 4:53 am
June 26th 1857 – The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/10 at 4:54 am
June 26th 1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/10 at 4:54 am
June 26th 1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/10 at 11:48 pm
June 27th 1358 – Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/10 at 11:48 pm
June 27th 1709 – Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/10 at 11:48 pm
June 27th 1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally leads troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/10 at 11:51 pm
June 27th 1759 – General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/10 at 11:51 pm
June 27th 1844 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/10 at 11:51 pm
June 27th 1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/10 at 12:23 am
June 27th 1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/10 at 12:23 am
June 27th 1905 – Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/10 at 12:24 am
June 27th 1923 – Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/10 at 4:03 am
June 27th 1941 – Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/10 at 4:04 am
June 27th 1941 – German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/10 at 4:04 am
June 27th 1950 – The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/10 at 4:05 am
June 27th 1954 – The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/10 at 4:10 am
June 27th 1967 – The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/10 at 4:11 am
June 27th 1973 – The President of Uruguay dissolves Parliament and heads a coup d'état.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/10 at 4:12 am
June 27th 1974 – U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R..
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/10 at 4:12 am
June 27th 1976 – Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/10 at 4:13 am
June 27th 1977 – France grants independence to Djibouti.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/10 at 4:16 am
June 27th 1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/10 at 4:16 am
June 27th 1989 – The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, ILO 169 convention, was adopted.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/10 at 4:17 am
June 27th 1991 – Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/10 at 4:17 am
June 27th 2007 – The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/10 at 4:20 am
June 27th 1299 - In his encyclical 'Scimus fili,' Pope Boniface VIII claimed that Scotland owed allegiance to the Catholic Church.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/10 at 4:20 am
June 27th 1961 - In England, Arthur Michael Ramsey was enthroned as the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury, the principal see of the Established Church of England.
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Written By: nally on 06/28/10 at 10:29 pm
Two years ago exactly, I was attending my 10 year class reunion!
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/10 at 1:00 am
June 29th 1613 – The original Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground after a cannon employed for special effects misfired during a performance of William Shakespeare's Henry VIII and ignited the theatre's roof.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/10 at 1:02 am
June 29th 1613 – The original Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground after a cannon employed for special effects misfired during a performance of William Shakespeare's Henry VIII and ignited the theatre's roof.
It has only been in the last few months that Shakespeare's Henry VIII has been performed for the first (at the new Golbe theatre) since back then.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/10 at 1:02 am
June 29th 1880 – Pomare V, King of Tahiti, was forced to cede the sovereignty of Tahiti and its dependencies to France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/10 at 1:02 am
June 29th 1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships voted to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/10 at 1:03 am
June 29th 1967 – Actress Jayne Mansfield, her boyfriend Sam Brody, and their driver were killed in a car accident outside of New Orleans, while her children Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska Hargitay escaped with only minor injuries.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/10 at 1:03 am
June 29th 1995 – Shuttle-Mir Program: During the STS-71 mission, Space Shuttle Atlantis became the first space shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/10 at 1:04 am
June 29th 1149 – Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/10 at 1:04 am
June 29th 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/10 at 1:05 am
June 29th 1444 – Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/10 at 1:05 am
June 29th 1534 – Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/10 at 1:05 am
June 29th 1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/10 at 1:06 am
June 29th 1659 – At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians, led by Prince Trubetskoy.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/10 at 1:06 am
June 29th 1850 – Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/10 at 1:07 am
June 29th 1850 – Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.
"Ders coal on dem island!"
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/10 at 1:07 am
June 29th 2006 – Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/10 at 1:07 am
June 29th 2007 – Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/10 at 1:57 am
June 30th 1990 – East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/10 at 12:37 pm
June 30th 350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/10 at 12:38 pm
June 30th 1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/10 at 12:38 pm
June 30th 1520 – The Spaniards are expelled from Tenochtitlan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/10 at 12:38 pm
June 30th 1559 – King Henry II of France is seriously injured in a jousting match against Gabriel de Montgomery.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/10 at 12:39 pm
June 30th 1651 – The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising – the Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/10 at 12:39 pm
June 30th 1688 – The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William (continuing the English rebellion from Rome), which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/10 at 12:40 pm
June 30th 1758 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Domstadtl takes place.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/10 at 12:41 pm
June 30th 1794 – Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/10 at 12:41 pm
June 30th 1805 – The U.S. Congress organizes the Michigan Territory.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/10 at 12:42 pm
June 30th 1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/10 at 12:43 pm
June 30th 1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
http://www.lessignets.com/signetsdiane/calendrier/images/juillet/30/blondinbalancepole12.jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/10 at 12:43 pm
June 30th 1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/10 at 12:44 pm
June 30th 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.