This Day In History

A Day In History - June

Events and birthdays around the world on this day . . .

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In 1495 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Friar John Cor is the distiller.
In 1638 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass.
In 1845 Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days.
In 1915 1st Zeppelin air raid over England.
In 1926 Andy Griffith Mount Airy NC, actor (Andy Griffith Show, Matlock), born.
In 1926 Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Baker], actress (Some Like It Hot), born.
In 1930 Edward Woodward England, actor (Breaker Morant, Equalizer), born.
In 1937 Morgan Freeman actor (Driving Mrs Daisy), born.
In 1938 Superman Comics launched.
In 1958 Charles de Gaulle becomes premier of France.
In 1959 Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day).
In 1963 King Victor Emmanual III of Italy, becomes Emperor of Ethiopia.
In 1968 Helen Keller blind & deaf, dies at 87.
In 1980 Ted Turner's Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting

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In 1491 Henry VIII, King of England (1509-47), born.
In 1740 Marquis de Sade, 1st known sadist, writer (Justine), born.
In 1835 St Pius X, 257th Roman Catholic pope (1903-14), born.
In 1835 P.T. Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US.
In 1840 Thomas Hardy, England, poet/novelist (Mayor of Casterbridge), born.
In 1904 John Weissmuller, actor (Tarzan)/100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1924, 28), born.
In 1936 Sally Kellerman, Long Beach Cal, actress (M*A*S*H, Back to School), born.
In 1940 Constantine II, deposed king of Greece (-1967), born.
In 1941 Charlie Watts, drummer (Rolling Stones), born.
In 1944 Marvin Hamlisch, US composer/pianist (The Sting, Chorus Line), born.
In 1946 Italian people chooses republic over monarchy (National Day).
In 1948 Jerry Mathers, Sioux City Iowa, actor (Beaver-Leave It To Beaver), born.
In 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey.
In 1955 Dana Carvey, comedian (Sat Night Live, Wayne's World), born.
In 1979 John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland).
In 1987 Andres Segovia Spanish guitarist, dies at 94.
In 1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.
In 1990 Rex Harrison, actor famous for "Doctor Dolittle" and "My Fair Lady", dies at 82 from cancer.

3rd

In 1539 Hernando De Soto claims the US state of Florida for Spain.
In 1621 Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands".
In 1864 Ransom Eli Olds, auto (Oldsmobile) and truck (REO) manufacturer, born.
In 1911 Paulette Goddard, born.
In 1925 Tony Curtis, actor, born.
In 1926 Allen Ginsberg, poet, born.
In 1934 Dr. Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, knighted.
In 1937 Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor married Wallis Warfield Simpson in France.
In 1942 Battle of Midway turning point in war in Pacific began.
In 1942 Curtis Mayfield, musician, born.
In 1949 "Dragnet" is first broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles).
In 1950 Suzi Quatro (in Detroit, Michigan), musician, born.
In 1965 Gemini IV is launched. Ed White first American to walk in space.
In 1966 Gemini IX is launched.
In 1969 Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices US destroyer "Frank E Evans" in half, killing 74. (South Vietnam).
In 1976 U.S. presented with oldest known copy of the Magna Carta.
In 1980 The crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35.
In 1981 Pope John Paul II gets out of hospital after attempt on life.
In 1989 Chinese government puts down student democracy protest in Beijing ... thousands die in Tiananmen Square.

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In 1738 George III of England, king, born.
In 1647 British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner.
In 1896 Henry takes his first Ford through the streets of Detroit. The road test of the is delayed an hour because the car is wider than the door of the shed in which it is built.
In 1940 British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops.
In 1942 Battle of Midway begins. First naval battle won in the air.
In 1944 Rome liberated from the Fascist armies of Mussolini.
In 1944 First submarine captured and boarded on high seas - U 505.
In 1956 Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public.
In 1957 First commercial coal pipeline placed in operation.
In 1982 Israel attacks targets in southern Lebanon.
In 1986 Jonathan Pollard spy for Israel pleads guilty.
In 1989 Ayatollah Khomeini (86) dies from complications due to surgery leading to days of loud, hysterical mourning.
In 1989 The Chinese Army eshews moderation and greets protesting students in Beijing's Tiananmen Square with tanks and guns. Hundreds of students are killed.
In 1989 In Siberia, two trains pass each other in a valley filled with natural gas from a leaking pipeline. The gas explodes and hundreds are killed.

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In 1723 Adam Smith (in Kirkcaldy, Scotland), economist, born.
In 1783 Joseph Jaques Montgolfier becomes the first to fly (10 minute) in a hot-air balloon.
In 1833 Ada Lovelace (future first computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage.
In 1849 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
In 1875 Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens.
In 1883 John Maynard Keynes (in Cambridge, England), another economist, born.
In 1900 Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography (3D laser photography), born.
In 1940 Battle of France begins in WW II.
In 1940 First synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron, OH.
In 1944 First B-29 bombing raid one plane lost; engine failure.
In 1967 Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt begin Six-Day War.
In 1968 Sen. Robert F. Kennedy assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles (by Sirhan Sirhan) after winning the Democratic Primary.
In 1975 Suez Canal reopens (after 6 Day War caused it to close).
In 1977 Revolution in the Seychelles Islands.
In 1980 Soyuz T-2 is launched.

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In 1809 Sweden's constitution adopted.
In 1844 The Young Men's Christian Association founded in London.
In 1925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded the Chrysler Corporation.
In 1933 First drive-in theatre opens, in Camden, New Jersey.
In 1935 Dalai Lama, religious leader, born.
In 1940 Tom Jones, singer, born.
In 1942 Japanese forces retreated in the World War II Battle of Midway.
In 1942 First nylon parachute jump Hartford Ct Adeline Gray.
In 1944 D-Day. Invasion of Europe; Allies storm Normandy, France.
In 1946 Henry Morgan is first to take off shirt on TV.
In 1956 Bjorn Borg, tennis player, born.
In 1955 Sandra Bernhard, actress, born.
In 1966 Gemini IX returns to Earth.
In 1982 Israel invades Lebanon to drive out the PLO.
In 1984 1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India.
In 1985 Body of Dr. Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal, located and exhumed.
In 2012 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) will occur.

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In 1583 Gregory XIII, pope, born.
In 1654 Louis XIV crowned King of France.
In 1778 Beau Brummel, English Dandy, man of fashion, born.
In 1848 Paul Gauguin, French post-impressionist painter, born.
In 1909 Jessica Tandy (in London, England), actor (Driving Miss Daisy, Cocoon), born.
In 1922 Rocky Graziano, pugilist, born.
In 1929 Vatican City becomes a soverign state.
In 1948 Communists take over Czechoslovakia.
In 1953 First color network telecast in compatible color Boston, MA.
In 1958 Prince, musician, born.
In 1965 Gemini IV returns to Earth.
In 1967 Israel captures Wailing Wall.
In 1972 German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel.
In 1981 Israel destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility.
In 1982 Pres Reagan meets with Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth.
In 1989 For one second this morning, the time is 01:23:45, 6-7-89.

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In 452 Italy invaded by Attila the Hun.
In 536 St Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
In 570 Religion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca.
In 632 Mohammed prophet of Islam (Koran), dies (according to tradition).
In 1625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovered 4 satellites of Saturn.
In 1783 Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption.
In 1786 1st commercially-made ice cream sold (NY).
In 1809 Thomas Paine writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72.
In 1815 39 German states unite under the Act of Confederation.
In 1824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec.
In 1928 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford-Smith).
In 1933 Joan Rivers Brooklyn, comedian (The Late Show, Hollywood Squares), born.
In 1940 Nancy Sinatra Jersey City, singer, (These boots were made for walking), born.
In 1940 Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced.
In 1958 Keenen Ivory Wayans comedian (In Living Color), born.
In 1960 Mike Hucknall, singer (Simply Red-Every Time We Say Goodbye), born.
In 1986 Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria.
In 2004 Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs.

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In 68 Nero, Roman Emperor commits suicide.
In 1456 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
In 1640 Leopold I, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire, born.
In 1781 George Stephenson, inventor (principal RR locomotive), born.
In 1870 Charles Dickens, author, dies in England.
In 1893 Cole Porter, Indiana U.S.A, composer/lyricist (Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate), born.
In 1898 China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years.
In 1915 Les Paul, Waukesha Wisconsin, U.S.A., guitarist/inventor (Les Paul guitar), born.
In 1934 Donald Duck, famous fowl, born.
In 1940 Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II.
In 1961 Michael J Fox, Edmonton, Canada, actor (Family Ties, Back to the Future, Spin City), born.
In 1963 Johnny Depp, actor, born.
In 1977 Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks.
In 1978 Gutenberg Bible (1 of 21) sells for $2.4 million, London.
In 1989 "Star Trek V" premiers.
In 1997 British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires.

10th

In 1610 1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island.
In 1692 Bridget Bishop became the first person hanged for witchcraft, during the ordeal known to history as the 'Salem Witch Trials.' In all, 20 people died before theological jurisprudence was restored in this isolated Puritan community in Massachusetts.
In 1801 Tripoli declares war on US for refusing tribute.
In 1836 Yamaoka Tesshu Japanese swordsman, master of kendo, born.
In 1854 Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved.
In 1903 King Alexander I & Queen Dragia of Serbia are assassinated.
In 1916 Great Arab Revolt begin.
In 1921 Prince Philip Mountbatten, Greece, current Duke of Edinburgh, born.
In 1922 Judy Garland [Frances Gumm], Michigan, U.S.A., actress/singer (Wizard of Oz), born.
In 1924 Giacomo Matteotti Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists.
In 1928 Maurice Sendak, NYC, author/illustrator (Where The Wild Things Are), born.
In 1934 Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome.
In 1940 Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II.
In 1941 Marcus Garvey dies at 52 in London England.
In 1942 Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia) Gestapo kills 173.
In 1957 Harold MacMillan becomes British PM.
In 1967 Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq & Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help.
In 1977 Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II.
In 1982 Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut.
In 1984 US missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time.
In 1985 Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife.

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In 1770 Captain Cook runs aground on Australian Great Barrier Reef.
In 1776 John Constable (in England), painter, born.
In 1864 Richard Strauss (in Germany), composer, born.
In 1867 Charles Fabry, discovered the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere, born.
In 1895 First known auto race.
In 1910 Jacques Yves Cousteau (in France), marine explorer, born.
In 1918 Nelson Mandela, South African civil rights leader & politician, born.
In 1935 Gene Wilder, comedic actor, born.
In 1939 Jackie Stewart, race-car driver, Ford spokesperson, born.
In 1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released.
In 1942 US and USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during World War II.
In 1982 Israel and Syria stop fighting in Lebanon.
In 1982 Movie "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" released in America.

12th

In 1819 Charles Kingsley (in England), author, born.
In 1898 Philippine nationalists declared their independence from Spain. Phillipine Independance day
In 1915 David Rockefeller, International Power Broker, born.
In 1919 Uta Hagen, born.
In 1923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet above the ground.
In 1924 George Herbert Walker Bush, former President of the United States, born.
In 1929 Anne Frank, diarist, born.
In 1932 Jim Nabors, actor (Gomer Pyle, USMC; Mayberry RFD), singer, born.
In 1937 USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continued.
In 1964 Nelson Mandela begins a long jail term in South Africa.
In 1972 John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the World", "Attica State", and "Luck of the Irish".
In 1986 P. W. Botha declares South African national emergency.
In 1991 Chicago Bulls win their first NBA championship in a 4-1 series against the Los Angeles Lakers.

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In 323 B.C. Alexander the Great dies of fever at Babylon.
In 40 Gnaeus Julius Agricola Roman general; conquered Wales and Northern England, born.
In 823 Charles II (the Bald) king of France (843-77), emperor (875-77), born.
In 1373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed.
In 1752 Fanny Burney, England, author (Camille, Evelina), born.
In 1773 Thomas Young proponent of the wave theory of light, born.
In 1863 Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon", Christchurch, N.Z..
In 1865 William Butler Yeats Ireland, poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923), born.
In 1886 King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowns.
In 1900 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Christians.
In 1940 Paris evacuated before the German advance.
In 1944 Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks.
In 1970 Beatles' "Let It Be", album goes #1 and stays #1 for 4 weeks, Beatles' "Long & Winding Road", single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks.
In 1980 UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela.
In 1981 Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II.
In 1981 Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on "Tomorrow".
In 1982 Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69.
In 1982 King Khalid of Saudi Arabia, dies at 69.
In 1986 Benny Goodman the clarinet playing King of Swing, dies in NY at 77.
In 1892 Basil Rathbone Johannesburg S Africa, actor (Sherlock Holmes), born.
In 1893 Dorothy L Sayers England, novelist (9 Taylors), born.
In 1971 Broderick nonuplets Sydney Australia (7 of 9 survived infancy), born.
In 1983 Pioneer 10 becomes 1st man-made object to leave Solar System.
In 1986 Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency.
In 1990 Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight distance record, Seattle, U.S.A. to Narobi, Kenya.

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In 1864 Alois Alzheimer Germany, psychiatrist/pathologist (Alzheimer Disease), born.
In 1834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine
In 1834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont
In 1841 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario
In 1847 Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide.
In 1909 Burl Ives Hunt Ill, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), born.
In 1935 Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ends
In 1942 Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released
In 1944 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan
In 1946 Donald Trump master builder (Trump Towers/Plaza/Castle), born.
In 1949 State of Vietnam formed
In 1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau
In 1961 Boy George, androgynous rock musician (Culture Club), born.
In 1967 Launch of Mariner V for Venus fly-by
In 1967 USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit
In 1969 Steffi Graf, West Germany, tennis player (Grand Slam 1988), born.
In 1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict
In 1985 Lebanese Shiite Moslem gunmen hijack TWA 847 after Athens' takeoff
In 2160 Montgomery Edward Scott Aberdeen, Scotland (Star Trek's Scotty), born.

15th

In 763 B.C. Assyrians record total solar eclipse event on clay tablet.
In 1215 King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England.
In 1330 Edward the black prince, prince of Wales (1343-1376), born.
In 1649 Margaret Jones of Charlestown became the first person tried and executed for witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.
In 1785 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident.
In 1843 Edvard Grieg, Bergen Norway, composer, born.
In 1844 Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber.
In 1851 Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory.
In 1869 Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY.
In 1878 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground.
In 1924 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile.
In 1940 French fortress of Verdun captured by Germans.
In 1954 Jim Belushi, Chicago Ill, comedian (Sat Night Live, Trading Places), born.
In 1956 John Lennon (15) & Paul McCartney (13) meet for the 1st time as Lennon's rock group The Quarrymen perform at a church dinner.
In 1960 Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichman.
In 1963 Helen Hunt LA Calif, actress (Mad About You), born.
In 1964 Courtney Cox Birmingham Ala, actress (Monica on Friends), born.
In 1978 Jordan's King Hussein marries Elizabeth Halaby, 26-yr-old American.
In 1982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat.
In 1985 En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus.
In 1986 Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity.
In 1989 Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth.

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In 1216 Innocent III pope, dies at 54.
In 1567 Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison.
In 1879 Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theatre NYC.
In 1895 Stan Laurel comedian (Laurel & Hardy), born.
In 1922 Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics.
In 1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA.
In 1940 Commuinist govt installed in Lithuania.
In 1944 Takamiyama [Jesse Kuhaulua] Hawaii, 1st non-Japanese sumo champion, born.
In 1948 Brian Eno rocker (Here Comes the Warm Jets), born.
In 1955 Pope Pius XII ex-communicated Argentine President Juan Peron.
In 1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris.
In 1977 Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR.
In 1982 Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners. 1991 Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR.

17th

In 1579 Sir Francis Drake lands on the coast of California.
In 1870 George Cormack, the inventor of "Wheaties" cereal
In 1882 Igor Stravinsky, composer (Firebird Suite, The Rite of Spring)
In 1885 Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard the French ship `Isere'.
In 1917 Dean Martin, singer, actor
In 1946 Barry Manilow, singer, jingle writer (Like a Good Neighbor...)
In 1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in NY.
In 1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II.
In 1942 First American expeditionary force to land in Africa (WW II).
In 1944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland.
In 1972 Arrest of burglars starts the Watergate affair.
In 1982 President Galtieri resigns in Argentina.
In 1982 Ronald Reagan's "evil empire" speech.
In 1985 Eighteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 5 is launched.

18th

In 1583 Richard Martin of London takes out the first life insurance policy, on William Gibbons. The premium is 383 pounds.
In 1812 War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain.
In 1815 Battle of Waterloo -- British and Prussians defeat Napoleon.
In 1873 Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President.
In 1877 James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, best known for his "I want you" Uncle Sam recruiting poster
In 1928 Amelia Earhart is first woman to cross the Atlantic.
In 1940 Winston Churchill urged perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour."
In 1942 Paul McCartney, musician (Wings, Beatles)
In 1952 Isabella Rossellini, actor (Blue Velvet)
In 1953 Egypt proclaimed a republic.
In 1975 Saudi Prince Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king.
In 1977 Space Shuttle test model the "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for the first time. It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747.
In 1981 Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires. (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor first woman on the high court).
In 1983 7th Shuttle Mission (Challenger 2) launched. Sally Ride is the first U.S. woman in space.

19th

In 1623 Blaise Pascal, mathematician, born.
In 1862 Slavery is abolished in the US territories.
In 1867 Mexico's deposed emperor Maximilian is executed.
In 1886 Duchess of Windsor, famous divorcee, born.
In 1917 After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames. They took the name Windsor.
In 1943 Malcolm McDowell, actor, born.
In 1954 Kathleen Turner, actress, born.
In 1962 Paula Abdul, singer, born.
In 1963 Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space, returns to earth.
In 1970 Soyuz 9 returns to Earth.
In 1977 Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cent bishop John Neumann first US male saint.
In 1978 Garfield, famous cat (big fat hairy deal), born.
In 1986 Artificial heart recipient Murray P. Haydon died in Louisville, KY.

20th

In 1402 Battle of Angora (Ankara)-Tatars defeat Turkish Army.
In 1791 King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution.
In 1837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV. She ruled for 63 years until 1901.
In 1837 King William IV of England, dies.
In 1899 Jean Moulin hero of the French Resistance during WW II, born.
In 1909 Errol Flynn actor (Captain Blood, Robin Hood, Against All Flags), born.
In 1920 DeForest Kelley Atlanta Ga, actor (Dr Leonard McCoy-Star Trek), born.
In 1924 Audie Murphy Kingston Tx, WWII hero/actor (Destry, Joe Butterfly), born.
In 1924 Chet Atkins Luttrell Tenn, guitarist (Me & My Guitar), born.
In 1936 U.S. sprinter, Jesse Owens sets 100 meter record at 10.2 seconds.
In 1952 John Goodman actor (Roseanne, Everyone's All American), born.
In 1960 Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France.
In 1967 Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services.

21st

In 1633 Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest" his Copernican heliocentric views (eg That the earth went around the sun and not the other way around).
In 1887 Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria.
In 1893 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition).
In 1905 Jean-Paul Sartre, France, philosopher/writer (Nobel 1964; declined), born.
In 1919 Germans scuttle their own fleet.
In 1921 Jane Russell, actress full-figured gal (The Outlaw), born.
In 1942 Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa.
In 1945 Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to US during WW II.
In 1948 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I.
In 1948 Dr Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrates "long playing record", Columbia commits to 33 1/3 rpm records, plans to phase out 78's.
In 1953 Benazir Bhutto 1st female leader of a Moslem nation (Pakistan), born.
In 1963 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII.
In 1982 Prince William of Wales, second in line to English throne (Son of Prince Charles), born.
In 1989 Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson remarry.
In 1990 25,000 die in Iranian Earthquake.
In 1990 Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame.

22nd

In 816 Stephen IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
In 1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II.
In 1772 Slavery outlawed in England.
In 1815 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo).
In 1847 1st Doughnut created.
In 1858 Giacomo Puccini Italy, operatic composer (Madama Butterfly), born.
In 1874 Howard Staunton world chess champion, designer of chess pieces, dies.
In 1887 Sir Julian Huxley London, biologist/philosopher, Darwin's Bulldog, born.
In 1903 John Dillinger one of America's Most Wanted, born.
In 1906 Billy Wilder movie director (Some Like It Hot, Apartment, Stalag 17), born.
In 1911 King George V of England crowned.
In 1936 Kris Kristofferson singer/actor (Amerika, Millenium), born.
In 1936 Harry Froboess dives 110 m from airship into Bodensee & survives.
In 1941 Germany declares war on Soviet Union during WW II.
In 1949 Lindsay Wagner LA Ca, actress (Bionic Woman, Paper Chase, Nighthawks), born.
In 1949 Meryl Streep NJ, actress (French Lieutenant's Woman, Sophie's Choice), born.
In 1965 David O Selznick Gone With the Wind's producer, dies at 63.
In 1969 Judy Garland singer/actress, dies in London at 47.
In 1969 Aretha Franklin arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance.
In 1977 Walt Disney's "The Rescuers" released.
In 1978 James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced.
In 1987 Fred Astaire actor/dancer, dies at Century City Hospital in LA at 88.

23rd

In 1846 George Sax inventor (the saxophone), born.
In 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer"
In 1894 Alfred Kinsey entomologist/sexologist (Kinsey Report), born.
In 1894 Duke of Windsor [King Edward VIII of England] (briefly in 1936), born.
In 1902 Dr Howard T Engstrom Boston, a designer of Univac computer, born.
In 1912 Alan Turing mathematician pioneer in computer theory (Turing Machine), born.
In 1970 Rocker Chubby Checker arrest for marijuana pocession
In 1972 Nixon & Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
In 1975 Rocker Alice Cooper falls of stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs
In 1989 The movie "Batman" premiers

24th

In 1842 Ambose Bierce, cynic
In 1895 Jack Dempsey, boxer (The Manassa Mauler)
In 1942 Mick Fleetwood, musician
In 1944 Jeff Beck, musician
In 1314 Scotland, under King Robert I, defeats England.
In 1509 Henry VIII becomes King of England.
In 1947 First reported sighting of Flying Saucers, near Mt. Rainier, Washington by Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho.
In 1948 The Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift begin.
In 1949 Cargo airlines first licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board.
In 1949 Hopalong Cassidy becomes first network western.
In 1975 113 killed in Eastern Boeing 727 crash at JFK airport.
In 1977 IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976.
In 1982 Soyuz T-6 is launched.
In 1982 The Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat.
In 1983 7th Space Shuttle Mission (Challenger 2) returns to Earth
In 1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission (Discovery 5) returns to Earth.

25th

In 1178 Five Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon (only known observation). These monks have NO winery of their own.
In 1630 The Fork is introduced to American dining by Gov. Winthrop.
In 1835 Pueblo founded with construction of first building (start of Yerba Buena, later to be called San Francisco).
In 1876 First public display of the telephone at the Philedelphia Exhibition.
In 1894 Hermann Oberth, founder of modern astronautics
In 1906 Architect Stanford White shot dead atop Madison Square Garden, which he designed, by Harry Thaw, the jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit. During Thaw's trial, he tried to plead 'brainstorming' (temporary insanity).
In 1919 First flight Junkers F13 advanced monoplane airliner.
In 1929 Pres. Hoover authorizes the building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam).
In 1941 Finland declares war on the U.S.S.R.
In 1942 British RAF staged a thousand-bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II).
In 1942 Willis Reed, basketball player
In 1945 Carly Simon (in New York City), singer
In 1949 Phyllis George (in Denton, Texas), commentator, former Miss America
In 1949 Jimmie Walker, comedian
In 1950 Korean Conflict begins; North Korea invades South Korea.
In 1951 First color TV broadcast - CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC. Four cities see the show in color.
In 1953 First passenger to fly commercially around the world in less than 100 hours.
In 1963 George Michael (in England), singer, born.
In 1973 John Dean begins testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee.

26th

In 684 St Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
In 1483 Richard III usurps English throne.
In 1819 Abner Doubleday, credited with inventing American baseball, born.
In 1824 William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, engineer/mathematician/physicist, born.
In 1904 Peter Lorre, actor (M, Casablanca, Beast with 5 Fingers, voice over for Twilight Zone), born.
In 1909 Col. Tom Parker Elvis Presley's manager, born.
In 1940 End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27.
In 1941 Finland enters WW II against Russia.
In 1945 UN Charter signed by 50 nations in SF.
In 1948 US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin.
In 1949 Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus inside orbit of Mercury.
In 1955 Mick Jones rocker (The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite), born.
In 1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain.
In 1960 Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day).
In 1964 Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album.

27th

In 1693 The first woman's magazine, "The Ladies' Mercury" is published in London. It has the first advice column.
In 1867 Bank of California opens its doors.
In 1880 Helen Keller, blind-deaf author-lecturer
In 1929 First color TV demonstration NY city.
In 1930 H. Ross Perot, billionaire, founder of EDS, owner of one of three original copies of the Magna Carta, attempted to run for US Presidency.
In 1940 End of USSR experimental calendar.
In 1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island.
In 1950 First jet plane combat victor in Korea - RJ Brown.
In 1950 Pres. Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict.
In 1955 U.S.'s First automobile seat belt legislation is enacted in Illinois.
In 1973 John W. Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's `enemies list'.
In 1977 Djibouti National Day.
In 1978 Soyuz 30 is launched.
In 1982 Fourth Space Shuttle Mission (Columbia 4) launched.
In 1983 Soyuz T-9 is launched.

28th

In 767 St Paul I ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
In 1491 Henry VIII of England (1509-47), born.
In 1820 Tomato is proven nonpoisonous.
In 1838 Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey.
In 1861 Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest.
In 1914 Archduke Ferdinand & wife Sofia of Austria assassinated (starts WW I).
In 1919 Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed.
In 1926 Mel Brooks comedian/actor/director (Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs), born.
In 1946 Gilda Radner Detroit, comedienne (Saturday Night Live), born.
In 1971 Supreme Court overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali.
In 1974 Wings release "Band on the Run" & "Zoo Gang" in UK.
In 1975 Rod Serling writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery), dies at 60.
In 1975 David Bowie releases "Fame".

29th

1613 Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down.
1776 Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay.
1858 Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia.
1865 Shigechiyo Izumi achieved oldest authenticated age (120 y 237 d), born.
1911 Prince Bernhard, Germany, (Constort to Queen Juliana of Netherlands), born.
1919 Slim Pickens Kingsburg Calif, actor (Dr Strangelove, Blazing Saddles), born.
1944 Gary Busey Goose Creek Tx, actor (Buddy Holly Story, Under Siege), born.
1945 Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR.
1949 South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages.
1949 US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II.
1958 Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 in soccer's 6th World Cup at Stockholm.
1963 Beatles' 1st song "From Me to You" hits the UK charts.
1964 1st draft of Star Trek's pilot "The Cage" released.
1967 Jayne Mansfield actress, dies in a car crash at 34.
1976 Seychelles gains independence from Britain.
1978 Bob Crane actor (Hogan's Heroes), murdered at 59.

30th

1470 Charles VIII king of France (1483-98), invaded Italy, born.
1893 Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered.
1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid.
1908 Giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (Tunguska Event).
1914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa.
1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica.
1934 "Night of the Long Knives," Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party.
1936 "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, published.
1944 Glenn Shorrock vocalist (Little River Band-Help Is On Its, Way), born.
1948 Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs).
1950 Pres Truman orders US troops into Korea.
1960 Zaire (then Belgian Congo) gains independence from Belgium.
1962 Rwanda & Burundi become independent.
1963 Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church.
1966 "Iron" Mike Tyson heavyweight boxing champ (1986-90), born.
1970 Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City.
1971 3 cosmonauts die as Soyuz XI depressurizes during reentry.
1979 Johnny Rotten & Joan Collins appear together on BBC's Juke Box Jury.
1981 China's Communist Party condemns the late Mao Tse-tung's policy.

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