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FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 2010

Today is Friday, June 25, the 176th day of 2010. There are 189 days left in the year. 1178 _ Five Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon 1929 _ President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) 1938 _ Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40 cents per hour 1941 _ FDR issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination 1950 _ Korean conflict begins; N. Korea invades S. 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 1961 _ Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees) 1969 _ Longest tennis match in Wimbledon history, Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5-hour 12-minute) marathon 1991 _ Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia

Jun 24, 2010

THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2010

Today is Thursday, June 24, the 175th day of 2010. There are 190 days left in the year. 1322 _ Jews are expelled from France 1441 _ Eton College founded by Henry VI 1497 _ John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England 1793 _ First republican constitution in France adopted 1894 _ Decision to begin modern Olympics every four years 1963 _ First demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London 1966 _ Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I 1985 _ 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth 1985 _ Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F 1986 _ Guy Hunt elected first Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years

Jun 23, 2010

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2010

Today is Wednesday, June 23, the 174th day of 2010. There are 191 days left in the year. 1775 _ First regatta held on Thames, England 1848 _ Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris 1944 _ Thomas Mann becomes a U.S. citizen 1956 _ Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt 1969 _ Joe Frazier beats Jerry Quarry for the heavyweight boxing title 1969 _ Warren E. Burger sworn in as Supreme Court Chief Justice 1972 _ Nixon and Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate 1975 _ Rocker Alice Cooper falls of stage in Vancouver, breaks six ribs 1985 _ Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die 1989 _The movie ``Batman" premiers

Jun 22, 2010

TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2010

Today is Tuesday, June 22, the 173rd day of 2010. There are 192 days left in the year. 1675 _ Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II 1772 _ Slavery outlawed in England 1815 _ Second abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo) 1847 _ Doughnut created 1938 _ Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of 1st round at Yankee Stadium 1940 _ France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarmed 1941 _ Finland invades Karelia 1941 _ Germany declares war on Soviet Union during WW II 1981 _ Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon 1983 _ First time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by space shuttle

Jun 21, 2010

MONDAY, JUNE 21, 2010

Today is Monday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2010. 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 NH is ninth to ratify 1887 _ Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria 1945 _ Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to U.S. during WW II 1969 _ Zager & Evans release ``In the Year 2525" 1970 _ Brazil wins last Jules Rimet Trophy, soccer championship 1971 _ 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea Louisiana 1987 _ Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendant 1990 _ 25,000 die in Iranian Earthquake 1990 _ U.S. House of Reps vote 254-177 to stop U.S. flag burning, doesn't pass

Jun 20, 2010

Today in History

Today is Saturday, June 19, the 170th day of 2010. There are 195 days left in the year. 240 B.C. - Eratosthenes estimates circumference of Earth 1846 - First baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1 1862 - Slavery outlawed in U.S. territories 1910 - Father’s Day celebrated for first time (Spokane, Wash.) 1917 - After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames, they take the name Windsor 1931 - First photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven, Conn. 1961 - Kuwait regains complete independence from Britain 1963 - Valentina Tereshkova first woman in space returns to Earth 1967 - Muhammad Ali is convicted for reusing induction in U.S. Army 1981 - Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, S.Africa

Jun 19, 2010

FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2010

Today is Friday, June 18, the 169th day of 2010. There are 196 days left in the year. 1178 _ Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno 1583 _ Richard Martin of London takes out first life insurance policy, on William Gibbons. The premium was 83 cents 1815 _ Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington and Bluecher 1872 _ Woman's Suffrage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall 1948 _ U.N. Commission on Human Rights adopts International Declaration of Human Rights 1948 _ National Security Council authorizes covert operations for first time 1953 _ Egypt proclaimed a republic; General Neguib becomes president 1959 _ first telecast transmitted from England to U.S. 1977 _ Space Shuttle test model ``Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for first time fixed to a modified Boeing 747 1981 _ Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman on high court)

Jun 17, 2010

THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2010

Today is Thursday, June 17, the 168th day of 2010. There are 197 days left in the year. 1397 _ Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden and Norway 1579 _ Sir Francis Drake lands on the coast of California 1789 _ Third Estate in France declared itself a national assembly 1837 _ Charles Goodyear obtains his first rubber patent 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 _ President Reagan's first U.N. General Assembly address (``evil empire" speech)

Jun 16, 2010

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2010

Today is Wednesday, June 16, the 167th day of 2010. 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) 1947 _ Pravda denounces Marshall Plan 1949 _ Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie, Pa. 1961 _ Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris 1977 _ ``Beatlemania" opens on Broadway 1989 _ Four golfers shoot a hole-in-one on the same hole at the U.S. Open are made all on the sixth hole (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate and Price) 1991 _ Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russia

Jun 15, 2010

TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 2010

Today is Tuesday, June 15, the 166th day of 2010. There are 199 days left in the year. 763 B.C. _ Assyrians record total solar eclipse event on clay tablet 1215 _ King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England 1520 _ Pope threatens to toss Luther out of Catholic Church 1775 _ George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army 1785 _ Two French balloonists die in world's first fatal aviation accident 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 1924 _ Native Americans are proclaimed U.S. citizens 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 1977 _ Spain's first free elections since 1936 1989 _ Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth

Jun 14, 2010
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