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FRIDAY, June 16, 2023

632-Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era1567-Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison1671-Cossack rebel leader Stenka Razin tortured, executed in Moscow1832-Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Ill1858-Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand"1864-Siege of Petersburg & Richmond begins1883-1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams beat Cleve Spiders 5-2)1933-National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down)1933-U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created1940-Commuinist govt installed in Lithuania1963-Valentina Tereshkova becomes 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 61970-Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ1976-Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa (Soweto Day)1987-Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him

Jun 15, 2023

THURSDAY, June 15, 2023

1567-Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy1590-Pope Leo X threatens to ex-communicate Martin Luther1664-NJ established1804-12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president1836-Arkansas becomes 25th state1889-Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adv "The Stockbroker's Clerk" (BG)1896-Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku Japan 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed1902-Canada's Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time1904-Side-wheeler "General Slocum" burns in NY's East River (1,031 die)1919-1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland1924-Native Americans are proclaimed U.S. citizens1977-Spain's 1st free elections since 19361983-Supreme Court struck down state & local restrictions on abortion1989-Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth1992-Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport (NYC)

Jun 14, 2023

WEDNESDAY, June 14, 2023

1642-1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts1775-U.S. Army founded1841-1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario1846-California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma1876-California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise1900-Hawaiian Republic becomes the U.S. Territory of Hawaii1935-Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends1942-Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released1944-1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan1946-Canadian Library Association established1949-State of Vietnam formed1951-1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau

Jun 13, 2023

TUESDAY, June 13, 2023

1373-Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed1774-Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves1888-Congress creates the Department of Labor1898-Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital1900-China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians1907-Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2øF in Tamarack Calif1913-Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games1940-Paris evacuated before the German advance1944-Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks1966-Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights1967-Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice1969-Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins the Rolling Stones1971-NY Times began publishing "The Pentagon Papers"1980-UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela

Jun 12, 2023

MONDAY, June 12, 2023

1897-Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India. Shock waves felt over an area size of Europe. Negligible death toll1898-Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to US control1900-German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power1937-USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continued1939-Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY1942-Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City1964-South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment1965-Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"1967-Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages1967-USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus1971-T. Smirnova discovers asteroid #2216 Kerch1980-Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests1982-750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park NYC1986-P. W. Botha declares South African national emergency1989-Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids1990-NY Yankee reliever Dave Righetti becomes 9th to record 200 saves

Jun 12, 2023

FRIDAY, June 09, 2023

On this day...1456-23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet1822-Charles Graham receives first patent for false teeth1898-China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years1940-Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II1978-Gutenberg Bible (1 of 21) sells for $2.4 million, London1980-Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth1984-Cyndi Lauper's first No. 1 "Time After Times"1984-NASA launches Intelsat V, it failed1989-Michael Chang's French Open win makes him youngest male to go to finals1990-Kerry Kennedy (daughter of Robert) & Andrew Coumo (Mario's son) wed1997-British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires

Jun 8, 2023By Kim Ji-soo

FRIDAY, June 09, 2023

1456-23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet1822-Charles Graham receives first patent for false teeth1898-China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years1940-Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II1978-Gutenberg Bible (1 of 21) sells for $2.4 million, London1980-Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth1984-Cyndi Lauper's first No. 1 "Time After Times"1984-NASA launches Intelsat V, it failed1989-Michael Chang's French Open win makes him youngest male to go to finals1990-Kerry Kennedy (daughter of Robert) & Andrew Coumo (Mario's son) wed1997-British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires

Jun 8, 2023

THURSDAY, June 08, 2023

1917-Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School1918-Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered1928-First U.S.-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)1937-World's largest flower blooms in N.Y. Botonical Garden, 12' calla lily1940-Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced1953-Segregated lunch counters in D.C. forbidden by Supreme Court1953-Tornadoes kill 110 in Mich & Ohio1960-First date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"1965-U.S. troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam1968-New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted1979-The Source, first computer public information service, goes online1986-Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria2004-Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs

Jun 7, 2023

WEDNESDAY, June 07, 2023

1839-Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed1864-Abe Lincoln renominated for Pres by Republican Party1912-U.S. army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a planestriking out, however lose the game 5-4 to NY Yankees1954-First microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)1967-Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem1968-Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination1971-Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes first transfer to orbiting Salyut1972-German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel1981-Israel destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility1989-23-year-old Olympic barefoot South African runner Zola Budd retires1990-Michael Jackson hospitalized for chest pains

Jun 6, 2023

TUESDAY, June 06, 2023

1889-Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks1933-First drive-in theatre opens (Camden NJ)1942-First nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)1946-Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV1960-Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"1967-Six-day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin1971-Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station1975-Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established1978-Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57 percent1985-Body of Nazi criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele located & exhumed1988-George Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)2012-Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs

Jun 5, 2023
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