What happened in History on this date

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  It's Sunday, June the 17th.  Here is today in history!

 

 

• 1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinateMehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
• 1497 – Battle of Deptford Bridge – forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
• 1565 – Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yo**bleep**eru.
• 1579 – Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
• 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperorShah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
• 1673 – French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.
• 1773 – Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
• 1789 – In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
• 1839 – In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are established as a result.
• 1861 – Battle of Vienna, Virginia in the American Civil War.
• 1863 – Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
• 1876 – Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back GeneralGeorge Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
• 1877 – Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon – the Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
• 1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
• 1898 – The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
• 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: Allied Western and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
• 1901 – The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
• 1910 – Aurel Vlaicu pilots a A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
• 1930 – U.S. PresidentHerbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
• 1932 – Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
• 1933 – Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
• 1939 – Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison
• 1940 – World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
• 1940 – World War II: the British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.
• 1940 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
• 1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
• 1948 – A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
• 1953 – East Germany Workers Uprising: in East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
• 1958 – The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.
• 1958 – The wooden roller coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada opens. It is still open today.
• 1960 – The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km2) of land undervalued at 4 cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
• 1961 – The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded by the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and the Canadian Labour Congress.
• 1963 – The United States Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
• 1963 – A day after South Vietnamese PresidentNgo Dinh Diem announced the Joint Communique to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
• 1971 – President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs.
• 1972 – Watergate scandal: five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
• 1987 – With the death of the last individual of the species, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
• 1991 – Apartheid: the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
• 1992 – A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian PresidentBoris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
• 1994 – Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

 

 

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

From Hippie's post today...

1565 – Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yo**bleep**eru.

 

And now my entry...

6-17-2012    Not content to let the dead rest in peace, Linden Lab assinates both the name of the late shogun Ashikaga Yo-shi-teru and the underlying URL to his Wikipedia entry. (Thank you bitly ;-)

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

From Hippie's post today...

1565

 – 

Matsunaga Hisahide

 assassinates the 13th 

Ashikaga shogun

, 

Ashikaga Yo**bleep**eru

.

 

And now my entry...

6-17-2012    

Not content to let the dead rest in peace, Linden Lab assinates both the name of the late shogun Ashikaga Yo-shi-teru and the underlying URL to

his Wikipedia entry

. (Thank you bitly ;-)

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HAHA!  They wacked that!  OMG!

 

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

From Hippie's post today...

1565

 – 

Matsunaga Hisahide

 assassinates the 13th 

Ashikaga shogun

, 

Ashikaga Yo**bleep**eru

.

And now my entry...

6-17-2012    

Not content to let the dead rest in peace, Linden Lab assinates both the name of the late shogun Ashikaga Yo-shi-teru and the underlying URL to

his Wikipedia entry

. (Thank you bitly ;-)

---

HAHA!  They wacked that!  OMG!

Peace!

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I must admit that Yo**bleep**eru is fun to say.

;-)

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

From Hippie's post today...

1565

 – 

Matsunaga Hisahide

 assassinates the 13th 

Ashikaga shogun

, 

Ashikaga Yo**bleep**eru

.

And now my entry...

6-17-2012    

Not content to let the dead rest in peace, Linden Lab assinates both the name of the late shogun Ashikaga Yo-shi-teru and the underlying URL to

his Wikipedia entry

. (Thank you bitly ;-)

---

HAHA!  They wacked that!  OMG!

Peace!

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I must admit that Yo**bleep**eru is fun to say.

;-)

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It is indeed Maddy!  It is indeed!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  Its June the 18th!  Here is today in history!

 

• 618 – Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang Dynasty rule over China.
• 1053 – Battle of Civitate: 3,000 horsemen of Norman Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX.
• 1178 – Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
• 1264 – The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
• 1429 – French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
• 1684 – The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court.
• 1757 – Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
• 1767 – Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
• 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1812 – War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom.
• 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher forcing him to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.
• 1830 – French invasion of Algeria.
• 1858 – Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
• 1859 – First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.
• 1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
• 1887 – The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
• 1900 – Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
• 1908 – Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
• 1908 – The University of the Philippines is established.
• 1923 – Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
• 1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
• 1930 – Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.
• 1935 – Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
• 1940 – Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
• 1940 – "Finest Hour" speech by Winston Churchill.
• 1945 – William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II.
• 1946 – Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
• 1953 – The Egyptian Revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
• 1953 – A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tokyo, Japan killing 129.
• 1954 – Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
• 1972 – Staines air disaster – 118 are killed when a plane crashes two minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
• 1979 – SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
• 1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1996 – Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
• 2006 – The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.
• 2009 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.

 

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  It is June the 19th.  Here is today in history.

 

• 1179 – The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
• 1269 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
• 1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
• 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
• 1770 – Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
• 1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• 1821 – Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
• 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball match is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired.
• 1850 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
• 1862 – The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
• 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.
• 1867 – Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
• 1870 – After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist.
• 1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
• 1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
• 1913 – Natives' Land Act in South Africa implemented.
• 1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
• 1944 – World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
• 1953 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
• 1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
• 1966 – Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai.
• 1970 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
• 1978 – Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
• 1982 – In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.
• 1982 – The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
• 1985 – Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
• 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.
• 1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
• 1991 – The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
• 1999 – Wedding of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Sophie Rhys-Jones.
• 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.
• 2009 – War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

 

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  Its June 20th!  Here is today in history!

 

• 451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory.
• 1214 – The University of Oxford receives its charter.
• 1605 – After only three months as tsar, 16-year-old Feodor II of Russia is assassinated.
• 1631 – The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerianpirates.
• 1652 – Tarhoncu Ahmet Paşa is appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1685 – Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
• 1756 – A Britishgarrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
• 1782 – The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
• 1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
• 1789 – Deputies of the FrenchThird Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
• 1819 – The U.S. vesselSS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail.
• 1837 – Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
• 1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
• 1862 – Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
• 1863 – American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
• 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• 1887 – Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opens in Bombay.
• 1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
• 1895 – The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
• 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
• 1919 – 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
• 1921 – Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
• 1942 – The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• 1943 – The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
• 1944 – World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".
• 1944 – Continuation war: the Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses.
• 1948 – Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
• 1956 – A VenezuelanSuper-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.
• 1959 – A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
• 1960 – The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
• 1963 – The so-called "red telephone" is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• 1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
• 1973 – Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured.
• 1979 – ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.
• 1982 – The Argentine base (Corbeta Uruguay) on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.
• 1990 – AsteroidEureka is discovered.
• 1991 – The German Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
• 2003 – The WikiMedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
• 2009 – During the Iranian election protests, the death of Neda Agha-Soltan is captured on video and spreads virally on the Internet, making it "probably the most widely witnessed death in human history".

 

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

6-20-2015     Three years after the near collapse of the European Union, leaders of the 27 member states finally ratify the adoption of an already existing currency which, unlike the Euro, is recognized, trusted and accepted around the world, and is tied to a tangable, and potentially durable asset. The new currency, "McDonald's Gift Certificates", is an immediate success.

[Hippie Bowman]

LOL Maddy!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  It is June the 21st.  Here is doay in history!

 

• 217 BC – The Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.
• 524 – Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce.
• 1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.
• 1529 – French forces were driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.
• 1582 – Japanese daimyoOda Nobunaga is forced to commit suicide in Honnō-ji, Kyoto.
• 1621 – Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
• 1734 – In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city.
• 1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
• 1768 – James Otis, Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
• 1788 – New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
• 1791 – King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
• 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
• 1813 – Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria.
• 1824 – Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
• 1826 – Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
• 1848 – In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new republican government.
• 1854 – The first Victoria Cross is awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands.
• 1861 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.
• 1864 – New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
• 1877 – The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
• 1898 – The United Statescaptures Guam from Spain.
• 1900 – Boxer Rebellion. China formally declared war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Dowager Empress Cixi.
• 1900 – Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departed Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
• 1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
• 1919 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
• 1919 – Admiral Ludwig von Reuterscuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
• 1929 – An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
• 1930 – One-year conscription comes into force in France.
• 1940 – France signs an armistice with Germany at Compiègne.
• 1940 – The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• 1942 – World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
• 1942 – World War II: A Japanesesubmarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland.
• 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
• 1948 – Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York.
• 1952 – The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
• 1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.
• 1963 – Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.
• 1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of theKu Klux Klan.
• 1970 – Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date.
• 1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test for obscenity in U.S. law.
• 1977 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey.
• 1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. PresidentRonald Reagan.
• 2000 – Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
• 2001 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
• 2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
• 2006 – Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
• 2009 – Greenland assumes self-rule.

 

 

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

6-21-2012    Sopping wet Druids battle the rain and fog in tents to celebrate the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge, unaware that just miles away, drunken patrons at a Domino's Pizza in nearby Amesbury are plotting the largest domino toppling demonstration in history.

6-21-2012    An Oracle database error results in CEO Larry Ellison purchasing 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai rather than the $98 lanai set on sale at his local Home Depot.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

6-21-2012    

Sopping wet Druids battle the rain and fog in tents to celebrate the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge, unaware that just miles away, drunken patrons at a Domino's Pizza in neaby Amesbury are plotting the largest domino toppling demonstration in history.

6-21-2012    

An Oracle database error results in CEO Larry Ellison purchasing 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai rather than the $98 lanai set on sale at his local Home Depot.

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Oh Gawd!  HEHEHE!

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  It is Friday the 22nd of June!  Here is today in history!

 

• 217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
• 168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War.
• 1527 - Fatahillah chased away Portugal from Sunda Kelapa harbour, and peoples celebrated it as birthday of Jakarta, Indonesia.
• 1593 – Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Turks.
• 1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
• 1774 – The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
• 1783 – A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
• 1807 – In the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
• 1813 – War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
• 1825 – The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
• 1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
• 1893 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
• 1897 – British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
• 1898 – Spanish–American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
• 1906 – The flag of Sweden is adopted.
• 1907 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
• 1911 – George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1918 – The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
• 1922 – Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
• 1940 – France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany.
• 1941 – Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
• 1941 – The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
• 1942 – Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
• 1944 – Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
• 1944 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
• 1957 – The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).
• 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing 113.
• 1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire, triggering a crack-down on pollution in the river.
• 1976 – The Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
• 1978 – Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered by American astronomer James W. Christy.
• 1984 – Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
• 1990 – Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
• 2002 – An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.
• 2009 – Washington Metro train collision: Two Metro trains collide in Washington, D.C., USA, killing nine and injuring over 80.
• 2009 – Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.

 

 

 

Peace!

[Coby Foden]

June 22:

• 1633 - Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope (on Oct 31, 1992, Vatican admits it was wrong)

It took "only" 359 years for them to admit the error.  :smileysad: :smileysurprised:

• 1772 - Slavery outlawed in England
• 1910 - First airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland

[Hippie Bowman]

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Coby Foden wrote:

June 22:

• 1633 - Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope (on Oct 31, 1992, Vatican admits it was wrong)

It took "only" 359 years for them to admit the error.  :smileysad: :smileysurprised:

 

• 1772 - Slavery outlawed in England

• 1910 - First airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland

 

 

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Good stuff Coby!  Thanks for sharing!

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

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Coby Foden wrote:

June 22:

• 1633 - Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope (on Oct 31, 1992, Vatican admits it was wrong)

It took "only" 359 years for them to admit the error.  :smileysad: :smileysurprised:

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At the rate they're making new errors, I wonder if their backlog of admissions will take them right into the hereafter.

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  It's June the 23rd.  Here is today in history!

 

 

• 1180 – First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
• 1305 – A peace treaty between the Flemish and the French is signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
• 1314 – First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn (south of Stirling) begins.
• 1532 – Henry VIII and François I sign a secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
• 1565 – Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Siege of Malta.
• 1611 – The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again.
• 1661 – Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza.
• 1683 – William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
• 1713 – The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
• 1757 – Battle of Plassey – 3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.
• 1758 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld – British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
• 1760 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut – Austria defeats Prussia.
• 1780 – American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township).
• 1794 – Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
• 1810 – John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
• 1812 – War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
• 1848 – Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris, France.
• 1860 – The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
• 1865 – American Civil War: at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate, Brigadier GeneralStand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
• 1868 – Typewriter: Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer."
• 1887 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
• 1894 – The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
• 1913 – Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.
• 1914 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
• 1917 – In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
• 1919 – Estonian War of Independence: the decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cesis. This day is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
• 1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
• 1931 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
• 1938 – The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
• 1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
• 1941 – The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
• 1942 – World War II: the first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris.
• 1942 – World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
• 1943 – World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the ItaliansubmarineAscianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
• 1946 – The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
• 1947 – The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
• 1956 – The French National Assembly takes the first step in creating the French Community by passing the Loi Cadre, transferring a number of powers from Paris to elected territorial governments in French West Africa.
• 1958 – The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
• 1959 – Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
• 1959 – A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim (Norway) kills 34 people.
• 1960 – The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.
• 1961 – Cold War: the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent, comes into force after the opening date for signature set for the December 1, 1959.
• 1967 – Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
• 1968 – 74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.
• 1969 – Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
• 1972 – Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
• 1972 – Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds.
• 1973 – A fire at a house in Hull, England which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
• 1982 – Chinese AmericanVincent Chin is beaten to death in Highland Park, Michigan, by two auto workers who had mistaken him for Japanese and who were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies.
• 1985 – A terrorist bomb aboard Air India flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  Its June the 24th!  Here is todays history!

 

• 109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north-west of Rome.
• 474 – Julius Nepos forces Roman usurper Glycerius to abdicate the throne and proclaims himself Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
• 637 – The Battle of Moira is fought between the High King of Ireland and the Kings of Ulster and Dalriada. It is claimed to be largest battle in the history of Ireland.
• 972 – Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1340 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys – The French fleet is almost destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by King Edward III.
• 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.
• 1497 – John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland leading the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings.
• 1509 – Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen of England.
• 1535 – The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
• 1571 – Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founds Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines.
• 1597 – The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).
• 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.
• 1622 – Battle of Macau: The Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macau.
• 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.
• 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
• 1793 – The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.
• 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon'sGrande Armée crosses the Neman River beginning the invasion of Russia.
• 1813 – Battle of Beaver Dams: a British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army.
• 1821 – The Battle of Carabobo takes place. It is the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain.
• 1859 – Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns): Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.
• 1866 – Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
• 1880 – First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
• 1894 – Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
• 1902 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
• 1913 – Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
• 1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract.
• 1916 – World War I: the Battle of the Somme begins with a week-long artillery bombardment on the German Line.
• 1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
• 1932 – A bloodless Revolution instigated by the People's Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (now Thailand).
• 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.
• 1939 – Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Pibulsonggram, the country's third prime minister.
• 1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
• 1948 – Start of the Berlin Blockade: the Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
• 1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.
• 1957 – In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
• 1963 – The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1985 – STS-51-GSpace 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.
• 2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
• 2004 – In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
• 2010 – John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history.

 

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

6-25-2012    Hippie Bowman, the curator of SLF's "What happened in History on this date" is tardy in posting the day's list. Although Mr. Bowman explained that he was delayed by tropical Storm Debby's wild weather, many believe he simply overslept after overindulging at Renate Mulford's Sunday morning beer bash.

 

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  It is June the 25th!  Here is today in History!

 

• 253 – Pope Cornelius is executed (beheaded) at Centumcellae.
• 524 – The Franks defeat the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce.
• 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.
• 1530 – At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
• 1678 – VenetianElena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.
• 1741 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
• 1786 – Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
• 1788 – Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• 1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
• 1906 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
• 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.
• 1910 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
• 1913 – American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
• 1935 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established.
• 1938 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
• 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins.
• 1944 – World War II: United States Navy and Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
• 1944 – The final page of the comic Krazy Kat was published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
• 1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
• 1948 – The Berlin airlift begins.
• 1949 – Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theaters.
• 1950 – The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
• 1960 – Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
• 1967 – Broadcasting of the first live global satellitetelevision program: Our World
• 1975 – The State of Emergency is declared in India.
• 1975 – Mozambique achieves independence.
• 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.
• 1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
• 1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
• 1982 – Greece abolishes the head shaving of recruits in the military.
• 1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
• 1993 – Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
• 1997 – An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russianspace stationMir.
• 1997 – The Soufrière Hills volcano in Montserrat erupts resulting in the death of 19 people.
• 1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
• 2006 – Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, is kidnapped by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid from the Israeli territory.

 

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

6-25-2012

   Hippie Bowman, the curator of SLF's "What happened in History on this date" is tardy in posting the day's list. Although Mr. Bowman explained that he was delayed by tropical Storm Debby's wild weather, many believe he simply overslept after overindulging at Renate Mulford's Sunday morning beer bash.

 

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LOL Maddy!  I am here!  Yes I did overindulge, and yes I did sleep in!  HEHE!  Morning!

 

Peace!

[Coby Foden]

June 26:

1797 - Charles Newbold patents first cast-iron plow. Farmers fear the effects of the iron on the soil.  :smileysurprised:
1911 - Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 133 km/h (83 mph).  :matte-motes-big-grin:
1963 - John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" on a visit to West Berlin.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Coby Foden wrote:

June 26:

1797 - Charles Newbold patents first cast-iron plow. Farmers fear the effects of the iron on the soil.  :smileysurprised:

1911 - Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 133 km/h (83 mph).  :matte-motes-big-grin:

1963 - John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" on a visit to West Berlin.

 

 

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Good stuff Coby!  YAY!

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  It is June the 26th!  Here is today in history!

 

• 221 – Roman EmperorElagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
• 363 – Roman EmperorJulian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
• 699 – En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1723 – After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
• 1740 – A combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during theWar of Jenkins' Ear.
• 1848 – End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
• 1857 – The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
• 1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
• 1886 – Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
• 1907 – The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi.
• 1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
• 1917 – The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.
• 1918 – World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
• 1924 – American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
• 1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
• 1934 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
• 1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
• 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.
• 1941 – World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
• 1942 – The first flight of the GrummanF6F Hellcat.
• 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, ends with the defeat of the Polish resistance forces.
• 1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
• 1948 – The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin.
• 1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
• 1948 – Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
• 1952 – The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewise labour parties.
• 1953 – Lavrentiy Beria,head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
• 1955 – The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
• 1959 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
• 1960 – The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
• 1960 – Madagascar gains its independence from France.
• 1963 – U.S. PresidentJohn F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
• 1973 – At Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 1978 – Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creekravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
• 1991 – Ten-Day War: the Yugoslav people's army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
• 1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
• 1996 – Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
• 1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• 2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
• 2006 – Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
• 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 theDistrict of Columbia handgun ban is unconstitutional.

 

 

June 26th 1993  Hippie Bowman and LadySue Kuhn were married in RL!

 

 

 

Peace!