Today in History

SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 2013

Today is Saturday, June 29, the 180th day of 2013. There are 185 days left in the year. 1613 ― Shakespeare’s Globe Theater burns down 1858 ― Treaty of Algun; China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia 1913 ― Beginning of the Second Balkan War 1936 ― Empire State Building emanates high definition TV-343 lines 1949 ― South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages 1949 ― U.S. troops withdraw from Korea after WW II1958 ― Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 in soccer's 6th World Cup at Stockholm1963 ― Beatles' first song “From Me to You” hits the U.K. charts 1964 ― Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate 1972 ― Supreme Court; death penalty usually was “cruel & unusual punishment”

Jun 28, 2013

FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2013

Today is Friday, June 28, the 179th day of 2013. There are 186 days left in the year.1820 ― Tomato is proven nonpoisonous 1838 ― Britain’s Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey 1859 ― First dog show held (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England) 1894 ― Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday 1905 ― Russian sailors mutiny aboard the battleship “Potemkin” 1914 ― Assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife, Sophia, in Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip; this incident precipitated a war with Serbia, eventually starting WW I 1919 ― Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed 1950 ― North Korean forces capture Seoul, capital of South Korea  1965 ― First U.S. ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Johnson 1968 ― Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers

Jun 27, 2013

THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2013

Today is Thursday, June 27, the 178th day of 2013. There are 187 days left in the year.   1693 ― First woman's magazine ”The Ladies' Mercury” published (London) 1833 ― Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury, Conn. 1929 ― First color TV demo (NYC) 1950 ― President Truman orders air force and navy into Korean conflict 1950 ― U.N. Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea 1950 ― U.S. sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam 1954 ― First atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia) 1986 ― Anne White shocks Wimbledon by wearing only a body stocking 1986 ― In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce 1986 ― World Court rules U.S. aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal

Jun 26, 2013

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013

Today is Wednesday, June 26, the 177th day of 2013. There are 188 days left in the year.  1797 ― Charles Newbold patents first cast-iron plow; he can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!1940 ― End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/271945 ― U.N. Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco.1960 ― British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain1963 ― Kennedy visits West Berlin and says, “Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner)” 1964 ― Beatles release “A Hard Day’s Night” album 1968 ― Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by U.S. 1974 ― Liz Taylor's fifth divorce (Richard Burton) 1982 ― U.S. vetoes U.N. Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization forces 1990 ― 122 degrees in Fahrenheit in Phoenix, Ariz. 

Jun 25, 2013

TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2013

Today is Tuesday, June 25, the 176th day of 2013. There are 189 days left in the year.1178 ― Five Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon 1630 ― Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop 1938 ― Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers, 40 cents per hour 1950 ― Korean War begins; North Korea invades South Korea 1951 ― First color TV broadcast; CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to four cities 1953 ― First passenger to fly commercially around the world in 100 hours 1966 ― Kosmos 122, first Soviet weather satellite, launched 1967 ― 400 million watch Beatles “Our World” TV special 1969 ― Longest tennis match in Wimbledon history, Pancho Gonzalez beats  Charles Pasarell in 112-game (5hours and 12minutes) marathon 1991 ― Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia

Jun 24, 2013

MONDAY, JUNE 24, 2013

Today is Monday, June 24, the 175th day of 2013. There are 190 days left in the year.451 ― 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet 1314 ― Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England 1540 ― Henry VIII divorces his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves 1894 ― Decision to begin modern Olympics every four years 1930 ― First radar detection of planes, Anacostia, D.C. 1932 ― Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand 1947 ― Flying saucers sighted over Mt. Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold 1948 ― Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade, so Berlin Airlift begins 1963 ― First demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London 1966 ― Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WWI

Jun 23, 2013

SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 2013

Today is Saturday, June 22, the 173rd day of 2013. There are 192 days left in the year.1772 ― Slavery outlawed in England 1815 ― Second abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo) 1847 ― Doughnut created 1874 ― Dr. Andrew T. Sill of Macon, Mo., finds science of osteopathy 1910 ― First airship with passengers sets afloat; Zeppelin Deutscheland 1940 ― France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarmed 1978 ― James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced 1981 ― Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon 1981 ― John McEnroe exhibits a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbledon]1983 ― First time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle

Jun 21, 2013

FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013

Today is Friday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2013. There are 193 days left in the year. 1633 ― Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to “abjure, curse and detest” his Copernican heliocentric views 1805 ― Great Stoneface Mountain found in N.H. 1869 ― The opera “Die Meistersinger” is produced (Munich) 1913 ― Tiny Broadwick becomes first woman to parachute from an airplane 1945 ― Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to U.S. during WW II 1969 ― First reported hearing of pirate radio WGHP (With God's Help Peace) 1969 ― Zager & Evans release “In the Year 2525” 1970 ― Brazil wins last Jules Rimet Trophy of soccer championship 1971 ― 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea., Lo. 1989 ― Supreme Court rules ok to burn U.S. flag as a political expression

Jun 20, 2013

THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2013

Today is Thursday, June 20, the 171st day of 2013. There are 194 days left in the year. 1402 ― Battle of Angora (Ankara); Tatars defeat Turkish Army 1791 ― King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution 1837 ― Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV, and ruled for 63 years ending in 1901 1895 ― First female doctor of science earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)1939 ― Test flight of first rocket plane using liquid propellants1963 ― U.S. and USSR agree to set up “hot line”1967 ― Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services 1968 ― Jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds 1990 ― 40,000-50,000 die in a (7.6) earthquake in Iran 1990 ― Nelson Mandela lands in NYC to begin a tour of the U.S.

Jun 19, 2013

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013

Today is Wednesday, June 19, the 170th day of 2013. There are 195 days left in the year. 240 B.C. ― Eratosthenes estimates circumference of Earth 1846 ― First baseball game (Cartwright Rules); N.Y. Nines 23, Knickerbockers 11862 ― Slavery outlawed in U.S. territories1889 ― Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “The Man with the Twisted Lip”1910 ― Father's Day celebrated for first time (Spokane, Wash.)1932 ― Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China1961 ― Kuwait regains complete independence from Britain 1967 ― Muhammad Ali is convicted for reusing induction in U.S. Army 1967 ― Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD 1986 ― Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer’s 13th World Cup

Jun 18, 2013

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