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THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2011

Today is Thursday, June 23, the 174th day of 2011. There are 191 days left in the year. 1848 ― Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris 1868 ― Christopher Latham Sholes patents ``typewriter" 1944 ― Thomas Mann becomes a U.S. citizen 1951 ― British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean flee to USSR 1956 ― Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt 1972 ― Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history 1972 ― Nixon and Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate 1985 ― Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die 1986 ― Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House 1989 ― The movie ``Batman" premiers

Jun 22, 2011

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2011

Today is Wednesday, June 22, the 173rd day of 2011. 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 1940 ― France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarmed 1941 ― Germany declares war on Soviet Union during WW II 1977 ― Former Attorney General John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison 1981 ― Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon 1983 ― First time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle 1990 ― Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit

Jun 21, 2011

TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2011

Today is Tuesday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2011. There are 193 days left in the year. 1633 Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to ``abjure, curse and detest" his Copernican heliocentric views 1788 ― U.S. Constitution goes into effect as N.H. is ninth to ratify 1869 ― The opera ``Die Meistersinger" is produced (Munich) 1919 ― Germans scuttle their own fleet 1945 ― Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to U.S. during WW II 1948 ― First stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I 1969 ― Zager & Evans release ``In the Year 2525" 1970 ― Brazil wins last Jules Rimet Trophy, soccer championship 1981 ― 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000 1989 ― Supreme Court rules Okays to burn U.S. flag as a political expression

Jun 20, 2011

MONDAY, JUNE 27, 2011

Today is Monday, June 27, the 178th day of 2011. There are 187 days left in the year. 1693 ― First woman's magazine, ``The Ladies' Mercury" published (London) 1940 ― USSR returns to the Gregorian calendar 1942 ― FBI captures eight Nazi saboteurs from a sub off N.Y.'s Long Island 1944 ― Cherbourg, France, captured by Allies 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 1954 ― First atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia) 1966 ― First sci-fi soap opera, ``Dark Shadows," premiers 1986 ― World Court rules U.S. aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal 1990 ― Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8600 to help their earthquake victims

Jun 20, 2011

MONDAY, JUNE 20, 2011

Today is Monday, June 20, the 171st day of 2011. 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 1867 ― Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska 1871 ― Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford, Miss. 1939 ― Test flight of first rocket plane using liquid propellants 1943 ― National Congress of Racial Equality organizes 1967 ― Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services 1968 ― Jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds 1969 ― 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear 1977 ― Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez

Jun 20, 2011

SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 2011

Today is Saturday, June 18, the 169th day of 2011. There are 196 days left in the year. 1583 ― Richard Martin of London takes out first life insurance policy, on William Gibbons. 1815 ― Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington and Blucher 1873 ― Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President 1928 ― Amelia Earhart is first woman (passenger) to cross Atlantic by air 1940 ― Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that ``this was their finest hour” 1948 ― U.N. Commission on Human Rights adopts International Declaration of Human Rights 1953 ― Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president 1977 ― Space Shuttle test model ``Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for first time; it was fixed to a modified Boeing 747 1982 ― Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote 1986 ― 52 die in plane/helicopter collision over Grand Canyon

Jun 17, 2011

FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 2011

Today is Friday, June 17, the 168th day of 2011. There are 197 days left in the year. 1789 ― Third Estate in France declared itself a national assembly 1837 ― Charles Goodyear obtains his first rubber patent 1856 ― Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia 1885 ― Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship ``Isere” 1940 ― France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II 1950 ― First kidney transplant (Chicago) 1953 ― Riots in East Germany for reunification 1967 ― China becomes world's fourth thermonuclear (H-bomb) power 1982 ― U.S. President Reagan‘s first U.N. Gen Assembly address (``evil empire" speech) 1988 ― Women sentenced to 90 years in first product tampering murder case

Jun 16, 2011

THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2011

Today is Thursday, June 16, the 167th day of 2011. There are 198 days left in the year. 632 ― Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era 1858 ― Abraham Lincoln says, ``A house divided against itself cannot stand" 1903 ― Ford Motors incorporates 1904 ― Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses) 1917 ― First Congress of Soviets convene in Russia 1933 ― U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created 1947 ― Pravda denounces Marshall Plan 1955 ― Pope Pius XII ex-communicated Argentine President Juan Peron 1961 ― Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris 1963 ― Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space, aboard Vostok 6

Jun 15, 2011

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2011

Today is Wednesday, June 15, the 166th day of 2011. There are 199 days left in the year. 1215 ― King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England 1381 ― Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London 1590 ― Pope Leo X threatens to ex-communicate Martin Luther 1785 ― Two French balloonists die in world's first fatal aviation accident 1851 ― Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up first ice-cream factory 1869 ― Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, N.Y. 1878 ― First attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking one picture) done to see if all four of a horse's hooves leave the ground 1896 ― Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku, Japan; 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured with 13,000 houses destroyed 1956 ― John Lennon (15) and Paul McCartney (13) meet for the first time as Lennon's rock group, The Quarrymen, perform at a church dinner 1986 ― Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity

Jun 14, 2011

TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2011

Today is Tuesday, June 14, the 165th day of 2011. There are 200 days left in the year. 1775 ― U.S. Army founded 1834 ― Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr., Springfield, Vt. 1847 ― Bunson invents a gas burner; lab teachers celebrate worldwide 1900 ― Hawaiian Republic becomes the U.S. Territory of Hawaii 1935 ― Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ends 1944 ― First B-29 raid against mainland Japan 1952 ― Keel laid for first nuclear powered sub the Nautilus 1975 ― Janis Ian releases ``At 17" 1982 ― Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Islands, ends 74-day conflict 1989 ― Nolan Ryan becomes second pitcher to defeat all 26 teams

Jun 13, 2011
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