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SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2009

Today is Saturday, June 27, the 178th day of 2009. There are 187 days left in the year. 1693 _ First woman's magazine ``The Ladies' Mercury" published (London) 1806 _ Buenos Aires captured by British 1934 _ Federal Savings & Loan Association created 1939 _ First night game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (Indians 5, Tigers 0) 1940 _ USSR returns to the Gregorian calendar 1942 _ FBI captures eight Nazi saboteurs from a sub off N.Y.'s Long Island 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 1955 _ First automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois) 1990 _ Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8,600 to help their earthquake victims

Jun 26, 2009

FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2009

Today is Friday, June 26, the 177th day of 2009. There are 188 days left in the year. 1483 _ Richard III usurps English throne 1797 _ Charles Newbold patents first cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, although they fear effects of iron on soil! 1916 _ Cleveland Indians experiment with numbers on their jerseys (one game) 1919 _ First issue of NY Daily News published 1945 _ U.N. Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco 1963 _ Kennedy visits W. Berlin and says, ``Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) 1964 _ Beatles release ``A Hard Day's Night" album 1974 _ Liz Taylor's fifth divorce (Richard Burton) 1975 _ Indian P.M. Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency 1982 _ U.S. vetoes U.N. Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli and PLO forces

Jun 25, 2009

THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2009

Today is Thursday, June 25, the 176th day of 2009. There are 189 days left in the year. 1178 _ Five Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon 1798 _ U.S. passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens 1929 _ President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) 1938 _ Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40c per hour 1941 _ FDR issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination 1942 _ British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II) 1950 _ Korean War begins; N. Korea invades S. Korea 1951 _ First color TV broadcast-CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to four cities 1981 _ Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional 1991 _ Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia

Jun 24, 2009

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2009

Today is Wednesday, June 24, the 175th day of 2009. There are 190 days left in the year. 1314 _ Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England 1793 _ First republican constitution in France adopted 1894 _ Decision to begin modern Olympics every four years 1898 _ American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas, Cuba 1915 _ 800 die as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago 1932 _ Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand 1948 _ Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade, so Berlin Airlift begins 1963 _ Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain 1963 _ First demonstration of home video recorder in London 1986 _ Guy Hunt elected first Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years

Jun 23, 2009

TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2009

Today is Tuesday, June 23, the 174th day of 2009. There are 191 days left in the year. 1683 _ William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty ``not sworn to, nor broken" 1848 _ Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris 1944 _ Thomas Mann becomes a U.S. citizen 1947 _ Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by congress 1972 _ Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history 1972 _ Nixon and Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate 1976 _ CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest freestanding structure (555 m) opens 1985 _ Air India jet crashes near Ireland, 329 killed 1989 _ The movie ``Batman" premiers 1990 _ A rally to save Alien Nation from cancellation held at Statue of Liberty

Jun 22, 2009

MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2009

Today is Monday, June 22, the 173rd day of 2009. There are 192 days left in the year. 1772 - Slavery outlawed in England 1775 - First continental currency issued ($3,000,000) 1815 - Second abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo) 1847 - Doughnut created 1938 - Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of the first round at Yankee Stadium 1940 - France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarmed 1941 - Germany declares war on the Soviet Union during WWII 1978 - Pluto’s moon Charon discovered by James Christy 1983 - First time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by space shuttle 1991 - Underwater volcano, Mt. Didicas, erupts in the Philippines

Jun 21, 2009

SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2009

Today is Saturday, June 20, the 171st day of 2009. There are 194 days left in the year. 1782 _ Congress approves Great Seal of U.S. and the eagle as its symbol 1837 _ Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV who ruled for 63 years ending in 1901 1867 _ President Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska 1895 _ Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras form a short-lived confederation 1943 _ National Congress of Racial Equality organizes 1944 _ Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency 1963 _ U.S. and USSR agree to set up ``hot line" 1968 _ Jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds 1990 _ 40,000-50,000 die in a 7.6-Richter scale earthquake in Iran 1990 _ Nelson Mandela lands in NYC to begin a tour of the U.S.

Jun 19, 2009

FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2009

Today is Friday, June 19, the 170th day of 2009. 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 _ Two Russian space missions return to Earth 1967 _ Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army 1967 _ Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD

Jun 18, 2009

THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2009

Today is Thursday, June 18, the 169th day of 2009. 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 1815 _ Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington and Blucher 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, Gen. Neguib becomes president 1959 _ First telecast transmitted from England to U.S. 1976 _ NBA & ABA agree to merge 1977 _ Space Shuttle test model ``Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for first time 1986 _ 52 die in plane-helicopter collision over Grand Canyon

Jun 17, 2009

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2009

Today is Wednesday, June 17, the 168th day of 2009. 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 1863 _ Travelers Insurance Co. of Hartford chartered (first accident insurer) 1885 _ Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship ``Isere" 1940 _ France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II 1942 _ First WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast) 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 first U.N. General Assembly address (``evil empire" speech)

Jun 16, 2009

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