Members phkrause Posted June 21 Author Members Share Posted June 21 THIS DAY IN HISTORY June 21 1788 U.S. Constitution ratified New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last necessary state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby making the document the law of the land. By 1786, defects in the post-Revolutionary War Articles of Confederation were apparent, such as the lack of central authority over foreign and domestic... read more 19th CENTURY 1813 France pushed out of Spain in the decisive battle of the Peninsular War 1876 General Santa Anna dies in Mexico City American Revolution 1779 Spain declares war against Great Britain Art, Literature and Film History 1920 Hollywood stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks mobbed by crowds 1956 Arthur Miller refuses to name communists 1965 "Mr. Tambourine Man" is released, and the folk-rock revolution is on Crime 1964 The KKK kills three civil rights activists 1982 John Hinckley Jr., who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan, found not guilty LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY 1916 U.S. General John J. Pershing's force attacked by Mexican troops Natural Disasters & Environment 1990 Earthquake devastates Iran SPACE EXPLORATION 2004 First privately owned spacecraft, SS1, travels beyond the earth’s atmosphere U.S. Presidents 1810 Zachary Taylor and Richard Nixon marry their future first ladies World War II 1942 Allies surrender at Tobruk, Libya Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 23 Author Members Share Posted June 23 THIS DAY IN HISTORY June 22 1944 FDR signs G.I. Bill On June 22, 1944, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the G.I. Bill, an unprecedented act of legislation designed to compensate returning members of the armed services—known as G.I.s—for their efforts in World War II. As the last of its sweeping New Deal reforms, Roosevelt's administration... read more American Revolution 1775 Congress authorizes the issue of Continental currency Art, Literature and Film History 2001 Blockbuster hit movie "The Fast and the Furious" released Civil War 1864 Confederates strike back in the Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road Crime 1611 Henry Hudson set adrift by mutineers 2011 Notorious Boston mobster Whitey Bulger is arrested World War I 1898 Author Erich Maria Remarque born World War II 1941 Germany launches Operation Barbarossa—the invasion of Russia 1945 Battle of Okinawa ends Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 24 Author Members Share Posted June 24 THIS DAY IN HISTORY June 23 1972 Title IX enacted On June 23, 1972, Title IX of the education amendments of 1972 is enacted into law. Title IX prohibits federally funded educational institutions from discriminating against students or employees based on sex. It begins: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded... read more 21st CENTURY 2013 Wallenda crosses Little Grand Canyon on high wire 2018 Thai soccer team becomes trapped in cave AFRICAN HISTORY 1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt Art, Literature and Film History 1989 Tim Burton's "Batman" released Crime 1992 Mafia boss John Gotti, aka “Teflon Don,” sentenced to life 1993 Lorena Bobbitt maims her husband with a kitchen knife U.S. Presidents 1972 Haldeman encourages Nixon, on tape, to thwart FBI inquiry into Watergate Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 24 Author Members Share Posted June 24 THIS DAY IN HISTORY June 24 1997 U.S. Air Force reports on Roswell On June 24, 1997, U.S. Air Force officials release a 231-page report dismissing long-standing claims of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell, New Mexico, almost exactly 50 years earlier. Public interest in Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs... read more 1980s 1982 Garment workers' strike begins in New York City's Chinatown 21st CENTURY 2021 98 people die in Surfside condo collapse Art, Literature and Film History 1997 Disney pulls Insane Clown Posse album on release day 2005 Tom Cruise raises eyebrows in "Today" show interview Cold War 1948 Soviets blockade West Berlin Colonial America 1675 King Philip's War begins Crime 1973 UpStairs Lounge arson attack 1993 Unabomber mail bomb injures Yale professor EUROPEAN HISTORY 1717 1st Masonic Grand Lodge formed in London 1812 Napoleon's Grande Armée invades Russia Vietnam War 1970 Senate votes to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 25 Author Members Share Posted June 25 THIS DAY IN HISTORY June 25 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn On June 25, 1876, Native American forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of General George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn near southern Montana's Little Bighorn River. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, leaders of the Sioux tribe on ... read more 1950s 1950 Korean War begins 1990s 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. airmen Art, Literature and Film History 1988 Teenager Debbie Gibson earns a #1 hit with "Foolish Beat" 2009 "King of Pop" Michael Jackson dies at age 50 BLACK HISTORY 1941 FDR signs order banning discrimination in the defense industry Civil War 1864 Union begins tunneling toward Rebels at Petersburg Crime 1910 Congress passes Mann Act, aimed at curbing sex trafficking GAY RIGHTS 1978 First rainbow Pride flag premieres at San Francisco parade Inventions & Science 1956 Last Packard—the classic American luxury car—produced U.S. PRESIDENTS 1953 Jacqueline Bouvier and Senator John F. Kennedy announce engagement Vietnam War 1965 Viet Cong blow up a floating restaurant Women's History 1993 Kim Campbell becomes Canada's first female prime minister World War I 1915 Germans release statement on use of poison gas at Ypres World War II 1942 Eisenhower takes command Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 27 Author Members Share Posted June 27 THIS DAY IN HISTORY June 26 1948 U.S. begins Berlin Airlift On June 26, 1948, U.S. and British pilots begin delivering food and supplies by airplane to Berlin after the city is isolated by a Soviet Union blockade. When World War II ended in 1945, defeated Germany was divided into Soviet, American, British and French zones of occupation. The city of Berlin... read more 1990s 1993 President Clinton punishes Iraq for plot to kill George H.W. Bush 21st CENTURY 2003 Former U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond dies Ancient Americas 1541 Francisco Pizarro, conqueror of the Incas, assassinated Art, Literature and Film History 1975 Sonny and Cher's divorce becomes final Civil War 1862 Rebels strike Union at the Battle of Mechanicsville Gay Rights 2013 Lawrence v. Texas is decided 2015 Same-sex marriage is made legal nationwide with Obergefell v. Hodges decision Inventions & Science 1956 Congress approves Federal-Aid Highway Act 1959 St. Lawrence Seaway officially opened 1974 Pack of chewing gum becomes first-ever item scanned with a UPC barcode U.S. Presidents 1844 President John Tyler weds his second wife 1963 John F. Kennedy claims solidarity with the people of Berlin World War I 1917 First U.S. troops arrive in France World War II 1945 United Nations charter signed Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 28 Author Members Share Posted June 28 THIS DAY IN HISTORY June 27 1950 President Truman orders U.S. forces to Korea On June 27, 1950, President Harry S. Truman announces that he is ordering U.S. air and naval forces to South Korea to aid the democratic nation in repulsing an invasion by communist North Korea. The United States was undertaking the major military operation, he explained, to enforce a United Nations... read more 19th CENTURY 1829 James Smithson, founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, dies 1844 Religious founder Joseph Smith killed by mob AFRICAN HISTORY 1976 Ebola breaks out in Sudan Art, Literature and Film History 1922 First Newbery Medal for children's literature awarded to Hendrik Willem van Loon Black History 2015 Activist Bree Newsome removes Confederate flag from South Carolina State House Inventions & Science 1985 Route 66 decertified NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY 1864 Colorado governor orders ‘friendly Indians’ to report to Army forts for sanctuary Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 29 Author Members Share Posted June 29 THIS DAY IN HISTORY June 28 1969 The Stonewall Riots begin in NYC’s Greenwich Village Sometime after midnight on June 28, 1969, in what is now regarded by many as history's first major protest on behalf of equal rights for LGBTQ people, a police raid of the Stonewall Inn—a popular gay club located on New York City's Christopher Street—turns violent as ... read more EARLY 20th CENTURY U.S 1904 Helen Keller graduates from Radcliffe, first DeafBlind person to earn a B.A. 21st CENTURY 2007 Bald Eagle removed from list of threatened species EUROPEAN HISTORY 1519 Charles I of Spain crowned Holy Roman Emperor, becomes Charles V Inventions & Science 2006 DaimlerChrysler announces Smart Car's arrival in the U.S. Natural Disasters & Environment 1992 Two big quakes rock California Sports 1997 Boxer Mike Tyson bites off part of an opponent's ear U.S. PRESIDENTS 1836 Former President James Madison dies Vietnam War 1965 U.S. forces launch first military offensive in Vietnam 1972 Nixon announces draftees will not go to Vietnam World War I 1914 Austria's Archduke Ferdinand assassinated World War II 1940 Britain recognizes General Charles de Gaulle as the leader of the Free French Hitler takes a tour of Paris Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 29 Author Members Share Posted June 29 THIS DAY IN HISTORY June 29 1995 U.S. space shuttle docks with Russian space station On June 29, 1995, the American space shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir to form the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth. This historic moment of cooperation between former rival space programs was also the 100th human space mission in American history... read more American Revolution 1776 South Carolina's Edward Rutledge opposes independence Art, Literature and Film History 1613 The Globe Theatre burns down 1956 Marilyn Monroe weds playwright Arthur Miller 1967 The Rolling Stones fight the law, and the law wins 1967 Actress Jayne Mansfield dies in car crash 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival begins 2003 Academy Award-winning actress Katharine Hepburn dies at age 96 COLD WAR 1974 Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from USSR Crime 2001 Boston doctor found guilty of killing wife LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY 1974 Isabel Perón takes office as Argentine president Sports 1950 U.S. World Cup team wins unlikely victory over England 1958 Pelé leads Brazil to first World Cup title U.S. GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS 1972 Supreme Court strikes down death penalty World War I 1917 Greece breaks diplomatic ties with the Central Powers World War II 1941 Germans capture Lvov—and slaughter ensues Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 30 Author Members Share Posted June 30 THIS DAY IN HISTORY June 30 1520 Spanish retreat from Aztec capital June 30, 1520: Faced with an Aztec revolt against their rule, forces under the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan at heavy cost. Known to the Spanish as La Noche Triste, or “the Night of Sadness,” many soldiers drowned in Lake Texcoco... read more 19th CENTURY 1859 Daredevil crosses Niagara Falls on tightrope 1876 Wounded soldiers evacuated from the Little Big Horn by steamboat Art, Literature and Film History 1936 “Gone With the Wind” published 1989 "Do the Right Thing" released in theaters 2015 Misty Copeland becomes American Ballet Theater’s first Black principal dancer SCIENCE & INVENTION 1905 Einstein publishes his groundbreaking theory of relativity 1953 First Chevy Corvette rolls off the assembly line Space Exploration 1971 Soviet cosmonauts perish in reentry disaster World War II 1934 Hitler purges members of his own Nazi party in Night of the Long Knives Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 1 Author Members Share Posted July 1 THIS DAY IN HISTORY July 1 1997 Hong Kong returned to China At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hong Kong reverts back to Chinese rule in a ceremony attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Prince Charles of Wales, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. A few thousand Hong Kongers protested the turnover, which was otherwise peaceful... read more 19th CENTURY 1867 Canada established as a self-governing state 1898 The Battle of San Juan Hill 1960s 1963 U.S. Post Office introduces zip codes Art, Literature and Film History 1979 The first Sony Walkman goes on sale 1984 PG-13 rating debuts Civil War 1863 The Battle of Gettysburg begins Cold War 1947 "Mr. X" article on Soviet Union appears in Foreign Affairs Crime 2003 Kobe Bryant accuser goes to police Inventions & Science 2005 Last Ford Thunderbird produced WOMEN'S HISTORY 1972 First standalone issue of “Ms.” Magazine is published
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