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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/11 at 6:35 am
1953 – A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tokyo, Japan killing 129.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/11 at 6:35 am
1954 – Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/11 at 6:36 am
1965 – Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/11 at 6:36 am
1972 – Staines air disaster – 118 are killed when a plane crashes two minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/11 at 6:36 am
1979 – The United States and the Soviet Union signed the SALT II treaty, placing specific limits on each side's stock of nuclear weapons.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/11 at 6:36 am
1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/11 at 6:37 am
1983 – Mona Mahmudnizhad together with nine other Bahá'í women, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran because of her Bahá'í Faith.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/11 at 6:37 am
1984 – A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 UK miners' strike.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/11 at 6:37 am
1994 – The Troubles: the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) open fire inside a pub in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, killing six civilians and wounding five.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/11 at 6:37 am
1996 – Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/11 at 6:37 am
2006 – The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/11 at 6:37 am
2009 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:12 am
1179 – The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:12 am
1269 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:12 am
1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:13 am
1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:13 am
1770 – Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:13 am
1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:13 am
1821 – Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:13 am
1846 – The first officially recorded baseball game using modern rules developed by Alexander Cartwright (pictured) was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, US.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:14 am
1846 – The first officially recorded baseball game using modern rules developed by Alexander Cartwright (pictured) was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, US.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Alexander_Cartwright_1855_Daguerreotype.jpg/61px-Alexander_Cartwright_1855_Daguerreotype.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:15 am
1850 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:15 am
1862 – The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:16 am
1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:16 am
1867 – Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:16 am
1870 – After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:16 am
1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:16 am
1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:17 am
1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
...and is Father's Day today!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:17 am
1913 – Natives' Land Act in South Africa implemented.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:17 am
1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:18 am
1944 – World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:18 am
1953 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:18 am
1961 – Kuwait declared independence from the United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:18 am
1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:18 am
1966 – Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:19 am
1970 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty, an international law treaty, was signed, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:20 am
1974 – A female resident of Bellevue, Washington, becomes the first person to be saved by the Heimlich maneuver.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:20 am
1978 – Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:20 am
1982 – In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:20 am
1982 – The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:20 am
1985 – Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:20 am
1987 – Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:20 am
1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:21 am
1991 – The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 2:21 am
2009 – Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 3:15 am
325 - The month-long Council of Nicea closed. Known as the first ecumenical council in the history of the Church, it formulated the Nicene Creed and established the method for calculating Easter.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 3:16 am
1566 - Birth of James VI of Scotland. Upon the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, he ascended the English throne as James I. He is best remembered for authorizing the publication known today as the 'King James Version' (KJV) of the Bible.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 3:16 am
1977 - Paul VI canonized John Nepomucene Neumann, the first American-born male saint. As fourth Bishop of the Philadelphia Diocese, Neumann is remembered for developing the parochial school system.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 3:16 am
1987 - The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring public schools to teach creationism if they taught evolutionism. The court ruled that the state law violated the First Amendment.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/11 at 3:20 am
1991 - Two of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/22/11 at 3:08 pm
1593 – Ottoman forces were crushingly defeated by the Habsburgs at Sisak (now in Croatia), triggering the Long War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/22/11 at 3:08 pm
1633 – Galileo Galilei was forced to recant his heliocentric view of the Solar System by the Roman Inquisition.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/22/11 at 3:08 pm
1813 – War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a forthcoming surprise attack, Canadian Laura Secord set out on a 30 km (19 mi) journey from Queenston, Ontario, on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon (pictured).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/22/11 at 3:10 pm
1813 – War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a forthcoming surprise attack, Canadian Laura Secord set out on a 30 km (19 mi) journey from Queenston, Ontario, on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon (pictured).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Laura_Secord_warns_Fitzgibbons%2C_1813.jpg/100px-Laura_Secord_warns_Fitzgibbons%2C_1813.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/22/11 at 3:10 pm
1944 – World War II: The Soviet Union began its operation to expel German forces from the Belorussian SSR and eastern Poland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/22/11 at 3:10 pm
1978 – Working at the U.S. Naval Observatory, American astronomer James W. Christy discovered Charon, then considered the sole moon of Pluto.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/22/11 at 3:10 pm
2009 – Two Metro trains in Washington, D.C., collided, killing nine people and injuring 80 others.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:00 pm
109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north-west of Rome.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:01 pm
637 – The Battle of Moira is fought between the High King of Ireland and the Kings of Ulster and Dalriada. It is the largest battle in the history of Ireland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:01 pm
972 – Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:01 pm
1128 – Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães: forces led by Alfonso I defeat forces led by his mother Teresa of León and her lover Fernando Pérez de Traba. After this battle, the future king calls himself "Prince of Portugal", the first step towards "official independence" that will be reached in 1139 after the Battle of Ourique.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:01 pm
1314 – First War of Scottish Independence: the Battle of Bannockburn concludes with a decisive victory by Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce, though England did not recognize Scottish independence until 1328 with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:02 pm
1340 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys – The French fleet is almost destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by King Edward III.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:02 pm
1340 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys – The French fleet is almost destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by King Edward III.
So how long did the "Hundred Years' War" laast?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:02 pm
1340 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys – The French fleet is almost destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by King Edward III.
So how long did the "Hundred Years' War" laast?
107 years
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:03 pm
1340 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys – The French fleet is almost destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by King Edward III.
So how long did the "Hundred Years' War" laast?
107 years
Correct!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:03 pm
1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:03 pm
1497 – John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland leading the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:03 pm
1509 – Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen of England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:04 pm
1535 – The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:04 pm
1571 – Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founds Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:04 pm
1597 – The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:04 pm
1604 – Samuel de Champlain discovers the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:04 pm
1622 – Battle of Macau: The Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macau.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:04 pm
1717 – The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:05 pm
1793 – The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:05 pm
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the Neman River beginning the invasion of Russia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:05 pm
1813 – Battle of Beaver Dams : a British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:05 pm
1821 – The Battle of Carabobo takes place. It is the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:26 pm
1859 – Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns): Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:27 pm
1866 – Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:27 pm
1880 – First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:27 pm
1894 – Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:27 pm
1902 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:28 pm
1913 – Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:28 pm
1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:29 pm
1916 – World War I: the Battle of the Somme begins with a week-long artillery bombardment on the German Line.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:30 pm
1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:30 pm
1932 – A bloodless Revolution instigated by the People's Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (Thailand).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:31 pm
1938 – Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:32 pm
1939 – Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Pibulsonggram, the country's third prime minister.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:32 pm
1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:33 pm
1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
What shape was it?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:33 pm
1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
What shape was it?
Sort of saucer shape!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:33 pm
1948 – Start of the Berlin Blockade: the Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:34 pm
1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:34 pm
1957 – In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment .
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:34 pm
1963 – The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:34 pm
1975 – An Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:34 pm
1981 – The Humber Bridge is opened to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:35 pm
1982 – "The Jakarta Incident": British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:35 pm
1985 – STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery completes its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:35 pm
2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:35 pm
2004 – In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/11 at 2:35 pm
2010 – John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:21 am
253 – Pope Cornelius is executed (beheaded) at Centumcellae.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:21 am
524 – The Franks defeat the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:22 am
841 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:22 am
1530 – At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:22 am
1678 – Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:22 am
1741 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:22 am
1786 – Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:22 am
1788 – Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:23 am
1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:23 am
1906 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:23 am
1910 – The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:23 am
1913 – American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:23 am
1935 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:24 am
1938 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:24 am
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:24 am
1944 – The final page of the comic Krazy Kat was published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:24 am
1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:25 am
1948 – The Berlin airlift begins.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:25 am
1949 – Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theaters.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:25 am
1949 – Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theaters.
...and the rest is history!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:25 am
1950 – The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:25 am
1960 – Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:26 am
1967 – Broadcasting of the first live global satellite television program: Our World
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:26 am
1975 – The State of Emergency is declared in India.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:26 am
1975 – Mozambique achieves independence.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:26 am
1976 – Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:26 am
1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:27 am
1982 – Greece abolishes the head shaving of recruits in the military.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:27 am
1990 – Avianca Flight 52 crashes into the village of Cove Neck, New York after running out of fuel, killing 73 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:28 am
1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:28 am
1993 – Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:28 am
1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:29 am
1997 – An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:29 am
1997 – The Soufrière Hills volcano in Montserrat erupts resulting in the death of 19 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:29 am
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 06/25/11 at 2:29 am
2006 – Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, is kidnapped by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid from the Israeli territory.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:40 am
1115 - St. Bernard founded a monastery in Clairvaux, France. It afterward became a strategic center for the Cistercians, a religious order that flourished up until the Reformation.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:40 am
1580 - The German 'Book of Concord' was published, containing all the official confessions of the Lutheran Church. (English translations of the entire work were not available before 1851.)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:40 am
1744 - The first Methodist conference convened, in London. This new society within Anglicanism imposed strict disciplines upon its members, formally separating from the Established Church in 1795.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:40 am
1865 - English pioneer missionary J. Hudson Taylor founded the China Inland Mission. Its headquarters moved to the US in 1901, and in 1965 its name became Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF) International.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 2:40 am
1957 - During a convention in Cleveland, Ohio, the United Church of Christ (UCC) was formed by a merger of the Congregational Christian Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/11 at 4:06 am
1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride first flew in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:07 am
221 – Roman Emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:07 am
363 – Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate (pictured) was killed during the retreat from his campaign against the Sassanid Empire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:07 am
363 – Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate (pictured) was killed during the retreat from his campaign against the Sassanid Empire.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/IVLIANVS.gif/92px-IVLIANVS.gif
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:08 am
1284 – the legendary Pied Piper leads 130 children out of Hamelin, Germany
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:08 am
1284 – the legendary Pied Piper leads 130 children out of Hamelin, Germany
Where did the children go?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:08 am
1409 – Western Schism: the Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:08 am
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 06/26/11 at 2:08 am
1718 – Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:09 am
1723 – After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
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1848 – End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
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1857 – The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:10 am
1857 – The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
I hope it did not rain that day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:10 am
1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:10 am
1907 – Bolshevik revolutionaries in Tiflis, Georgia, robbed a bank stagecoach, getting away with 341,000 rubles.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:10 am
1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:10 am
1917 – The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:11 am
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 06/26/11 at 2:12 am
1924 – American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:12 am
1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
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1934 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:13 am
1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:13 am
1940 – World War II: under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:13 am
1941 – World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovenia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:13 am
1942 – The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:14 am
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 06/26/11 at 2:14 am
1948 – The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:14 am
1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:15 am
1948 – Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:15 am
1952 – The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewise labour parties.
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1953 – Lavrentiy Beria,head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:15 am
1955 – The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
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1959 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
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1960 – The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland .
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1960 – Madagascar gains its independence from France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:16 am
1973 – At Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:16 am
1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:16 am
1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:16 am
1977 – The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she is the first victim who is not a prostitute.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:16 am
1978 – Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:16 am
1991 – Ten-Day War: the Yugoslav people's army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:17 am
1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:17 am
1996 – Irish crime reporter Veronica Guerin was murdered while she was stopped at a traffic light, an event which helped establish Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:18 am
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:18 am
2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:18 am
2006 – Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:18 am
2008 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual right, and that the District of Columbia handgun ban is unconstitutional.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:20 am
1097 - The armies of the First Crusade (1096-99) occupied the ancient Byzantine city of Nicea.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:20 am
1702 - Birth of Philip Doddridge, an English Nonconformist clergyman. Doddridge authored 370 hymn- texts, of which 'O Happy Day That Fixed My Choice' is still sung today.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:20 am
1839 - Scottish clergyman and missionary Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'Joy is increased by spreading it to others.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:21 am
1892 - Birth of Pearl S. Buck, American Presbyterian missionary to China and author of the 1931 best-seller, 'The Good Earth.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:21 am
1955 - The first Southern Baptist congregation was formally organized in Las Vegas, with 33 charter members. It was the second Southern Baptist church established in Nevada.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:09 pm
1358 – Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
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1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
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1709 (O.S.) – Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
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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 06/27/11 at 2:09 pm
1759 – General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
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1806 – British forces take Buenos Aires during the first British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:10 pm
1844 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:10 pm
1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York, New York, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:10 pm
1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
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1899 – A. E. J. Collins scores 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:11 pm
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 06/27/11 at 2:11 pm
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 06/27/11 at 2:11 pm
1927 – Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi leads a conference to discuss Japan's plans for China; later, a document detailing these plans, the "Tanaka Memorial" is leaked, although it is now considered a forgery.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:11 pm
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 06/27/11 at 2:12 pm
1941 – German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:12 pm
1946 – In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:13 pm
1950 – The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:13 pm
1954 – The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:13 pm
1954 – The 1954 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:13 pm
1967 – The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield Town, England, United Kingdom.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:14 pm
1971 – After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York, New York, the "Church of Rock and Roll".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:15 pm
1973 – The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:15 pm
1974 – U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:15 pm
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 06/27/11 at 2:16 pm
1977 – France grants independence to Djibouti.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:16 pm
1980 – Italian Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 mysteriously explodes in mid air while in route from Bologna to Palermo, killing all 81 on board. Also known in Italy as the Ustica disaster
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:16 pm
1981 – The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:16 pm
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 06/27/11 at 2:17 pm
1989 – The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, ILO 169 convention, is adopted.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:17 pm
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 06/27/11 at 2:17 pm
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 06/27/11 at 2:17 pm
2008 – In a highly-scrutizined election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/11 at 1:33 pm
1559 – During a jousting match, Gabriel Montgomery of the Garde Écossaise mortally wounded King Henry II of France (pictured), piercing him in the eye with his lance.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/11 at 1:34 pm
1559 – During a jousting match, Gabriel Montgomery of the Garde Écossaise mortally wounded King Henry II of France (pictured), piercing him in the eye with his lance.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Henry_II_of_France..jpg/73px-Henry_II_of_France..jpg
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/11 at 1:34 pm
1860 – Seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, several prominent British scientists and philosophers participated in an evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum in Oxford, England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/11 at 1:34 pm
1971 – The Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft suffered an uncontrolled decompression during preparations for reentry, killing cosmonauts Vladislav Volkov, Georgiy Dobrovolskiy and Viktor Patsayev—the only human deaths to occur in space.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/11 at 1:34 pm
1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduced the Canadian one-dollar coin, commonly known as the Loonie.
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2007 – In an attempted terrorist attack, a car loaded with propane canisters was driven into the terminal of Scotland's Glasgow International Airport and set ablaze.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/01/11 at 2:06 pm
1770 – Lexell's Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.015 AU.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/01/11 at 2:06 pm
1874 – The Remington No. 1, the first commercially successful typewriter, went on sale.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/01/11 at 2:07 pm
1963 – The British Government revealed that former MI6 agent Kim Philby had engaged in espionage for the Soviet Union.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/01/11 at 2:07 pm
1999 – Legislative governance of Scotland was transferred from the Scottish Office in Westminster to the Scottish Parliament.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/01/11 at 2:07 pm
2002 – Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 and DHL Flight 611 collided in mid-air over the towns of Owingen and Überlingen in Germany, killing all 71 people aboard both aircraft.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/01/11 at 2:07 pm
2008 – Rioting erupted in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the recent legislative elections.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:12 am
626 – Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor of China, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Incident at Xuanwu Gate.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:12 am
706 – In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang interred the final bodies in the Qianling Mausoleum, which remained unopened until the 1960s.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:13 am
963 – The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea.
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1298 – The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:13 am
1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:13 am
1555 – The Ottoman Admiral Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola.
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1561 – Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/02/11 at 12:14 am
1582 – Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.