History of June

During the month of June the following events have happened in our world's history.

June 01, 1638 - 1st earthquake recorded in U.S. - at Plymouth - Mass
June 01, 1792 - Kentucky becomes 15th state
June 01, 1796 - Tennessee becomes 16th state
June 01, 1813 - Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto 'Don't give up the ship'
June 01, 1845 - Homing pigeon completes 11 -000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days
June 01, 1861 - US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
June 01, 1865 - US adventurer Wm. Walker conquers Nicaragua - reestablishes slavery
June 01, 1866 - Renegade Irish Fenians invade Fort Erie Ontario from US
June 01, 1877 - U.S. troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico
June 01, 1918 - Yanks turn triple play - beat Tigers 5-4
June 01, 1925 - Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp starts 2130 game streak
June 01, 1933 - Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago
June 01, 1935 - Yanks set solo HR record with 6 beat Boston 7-2
June 01, 1939 - 1st TV heavyweight boxing match - Max Baer vs Lou Nova
June 01, 1949 - 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers - Newsweek
June 01, 1951 - 1st self-contained titanium plant opened Henderson Nevada
June 01, 1957 - 1st US runner breaks 4 minute mile - Don Bowden
June 01, 1959 - constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
June 01, 1965 - A Penzias and R. Wilson detect 3 degree Kelvin primordial background
June 01, 1967 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - by the Beatles - is released
June 01, 1967 - Beatles release "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
June 01, 1970 - Soyuz 9 launched into earth orbit for 18 days
June 01, 1971 - Ed Sullivan's final show
June 01, 1984 - weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg
June 02, 0455 - Gaiseric and the Vandals sack Rome
June 02, 1851 - 1st Prohibition law enacted in Maine
June 02, 1858 - Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer
June 02, 1866 - Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces
June 02, 1873 - Ground broken on Clay Street for world's 1st cable railroad
June 02, 1873 - ground broken on Clay Street for world's 1st cable railroad
June 02, 1883 - 1st night baseball under lights Ft Wayne IN
June 02, 1886 - 1st to wed during presidency-Grover Cleveland
June 02, 1902 - 1st statewide initiative and referendum law adopted - in Oregon
June 02, 1910 - Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
June 02, 1924 - US citizenship granted to all American Indians
June 02, 1936 - Gen. Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua
June 02, 1941 - Yankee great Lou Gehrig dies at 37
June 02, 1946 - Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)
June 02, 1953 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey
June 02, 1966 - US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum 1st moon soft-landing
June 02, 1967 - Sgt Pepper album released in US
June 02, 1977 - NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
June 02, 1979 - John Paul II 1st pope to visit a communist country Poland
June 02, 1983 - Toilet catches fire in Douglas DC-9 23 die at Cincinnati
June 02, 1984 - Actress Jill Ireland had a radical masectomy
June 03, 1539 - Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain
June 03, 1621 - Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands"
June 03, 1770 - Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in California
June 03, 1789 - Alex Mackenzie began exploration of Mackenzie River
June 03, 1888 - Casey at the Bat published (SF Examiner)
June 03, 1916 - ROTC established by Act of Congress
June 03, 1932 - Lou Gehrig hits 4 consecutive HRs Yanks beat A's 20-13
June 03, 1933 - A's score 11 runs in 2nd - Yanks score 10 in 5th & win 17-11
June 03, 1934 - Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin knighted
June 03, 1935 - Atlantic crossing record French "Normandie": 1077 hours
June 03, 1937 - Edward VIII - Duke of Windsor married Wallis Warfield Simpson
June 03, 1942 - Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II
June 03, 1948 - 200 inch Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory
June 03, 1949 - Dragnet's 1st broadcast on radio (KFI in LA)
June 03, 1957 - Howard Cosell's 1st TV show
June 03, 1959 - 1st US Air Force Academy graduation
June 03, 1965 - Gemini IV is launched Ed White 1st American to walk in space
June 03, 1966 - Gemini 9 launched; 7th U.S. 2-man flight
June 03, 1968 - Yanks turn 21st triple play in their history lose 4-3 to Twins
June 03, 1972 - Yanks score 8 times in 13th beating White Sox 18-10
June 03, 1976 - US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
June 03, 1979 - Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled
June 03, 1980 - Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
June 03, 1980 - Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination
June 03, 1981 - Pope John Paul II released from hospital after attempt on life
June 04, 0780 - BC 1st total solar eclipse reliably recorded by Chinese
June 04, 1647 - British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner
June 04, 1784 - Mme. Thible becomes 1st woman to fly (in a balloon)
June 04, 1792 - Capt. George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain
June 04, 1812 - La Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory"
June 04, 1850 - Empire Engine Company No 1 organized
June 04, 1896 - Henry takes his 1st Ford through sts of Detroit
June 04, 1919 - US marines invade Costa Rica
June 04, 1940 - British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300 -000 troops
June 04, 1942 - Battle of Midway begins 1st naval battle won in air
June 04, 1944 - 1st submarine captured & boarded on high seas - U 505
June 04, 1944 - Rome liberated from Mussolini's Fascist armies
June 04, 1946 - Largest solar prominence (300 -000 miles) is observed
June 04, 1947 - Taft-Hartley Act approved despite Truman veto
June 04, 1956 - Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public
June 04, 1957 - 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation
June 04, 1970 - Tonga gains independence from Britain (National Day)
June 04, 1977 - Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills two
June 04, 1982 - Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon
June 04, 1985 - Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
June 04, 1986 - Jonathan Pollard spy for Israel pleads guilty
June 05, 1661 - Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College - Cambridge
June 05, 1753 - Adam Smith Day
June 05, 1783 - Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight
June 05, 1833 - Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
June 05, 1849 - Danish National Day - Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
June 05, 1855 - Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention
June 05, 1875 - Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens
June 05, 1917 - 10 million American men began registering for draft in WW I
June 05, 1920 - 1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell
June 05, 1926 - Indians triple play Yankees & win 15-3
June 05, 1933 - US goes off gold standard
June 05, 1940 - Battle of France begins in WW II
June 05, 1940 - 1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron Oh
June 05, 1944 - 1st B-29 bombing raid 1 plane lost; engine failure
June 05, 1947 - Sec of State George C Marshall outlines `The Marshall Plan'
June 05, 1967 - Israel Syria Jordan Iraq & Egypt begin 6-Day War
June 05, 1967 - Richard Speck sentenced to death in the electric chair
June 05, 1968 - Sen Robert F Kennedy assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan
June 05, 1972 - U.N. Conference on the Human Environment opens in Stockholm
June 05, 1972 - If You Had Wings opens
June 05, 1975 - Suez Canal reopens (after 6 Day War caused it to close)
June 05, 1977 - Revolution in Seychelles Islands
June 05, 1980 - Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
June 05, 1981 - TODAY/PC ran for 1st time
June 05, 1982 - Conquistador Cielo wins Belmont Stakes by 14 1/2 lengths
June 06, 1809 - Swedish Constitution and Flag Day (National Day)
June 06, 1844 - YMCA founded in London
June 06, 1889 - Great Fire in Seattle
June 06, 1909 - Alaska Yukon and Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
June 06, 1911 - Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to U.S. (not ratified)
June 06, 1918 - Battle of Belleau Wood 1st US victory of WWI
June 06, 1925 - Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp
June 06, 1931 - Yanks turn triple play but lose 7-5 to the Indians
June 06, 1932 - US Federal gas tax enacted
June 06, 1933 - 1st drive-in theatre opens in Camden NJ
June 06, 1933 - US Employment Service created
June 06, 1934 - Securities & Exchange Commission established
June 06, 1934 - Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game
June 06, 1936 - Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro NJ
June 06, 1941 - 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
June 06, 1942 - 1st nylon parachute jump Hartford Ct Adeline Gray
June 06, 1942 - Japanese forces retreated in WW II Battle of Midway
June 06, 1944 - D-Day invasion of Europe Allies storm Normandy France
June 06, 1946 - Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
June 06, 1965 - Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive homers beating White Sox 12-0
June 06, 1966 - Activist James Meredith shot in Mississippi
June 06, 1966 - Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with 'angry alligator'
June 06, 1967 - 6 day war between Israel & Arab neighbors begin
June 06, 1971 - Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
June 06, 1975 - British voters decide to remain on Common Market
June 06, 1977 - Supreme Court tossed out automatic death penalty laws
June 06, 1978 - Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%
June 06, 1982 - Israel invades Lebanon to drive out PLO
June 06, 1984 - 1 -200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
June 06, 1985 - Body of Dr Josef Mengele Nazi criminal located & exhumed
June 06, 1985 - Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
June 06, 2012 - transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs
June 07, 1654 - Louis XIV crowned king of France
June 07, 1769 - Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Ky
June 07, 1776 - Richard Lee Virginia calls for Declaration of Independence
June 07, 1839 - Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed
June 07, 1860 - Workmen start laying Market Street RR track
June 07, 1863 - Mexico City captured by French troops
June 07, 1864 - Abe Lincoln renominated for Pres by Republican Party
June 07, 1905 - Norway declares independence from Sweden
June 07, 1929 - Vatican City becomes a soverign state
June 07, 1936 - Yanks beat Indians 5-4 in 16 set record of no strike outs
June 07, 1938 - Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown by Eddie Allen
June 07, 1948 - Communists take over Czechoslovakia
June 07, 1953 - 1st color network telecast in compatible color Boston Mass
June 07, 1954 - 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated - New Brunswick NJ
June 07, 1955 - 1st President to appear on television in color - DD Eisenhower
June 07, 1965 - Judy Holiday dies at 42
June 07, 1965 - Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
June 07, 1967 - Israel captures Wailing Wall
June 07, 1968 - Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination
June 07, 1971 - Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut
June 07, 1972 - German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel
June 07, 1977 - Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay law
June 07, 1980 - Tommy John wins his 200th 3-0 on a 2 hitter
June 07, 1980 - Temperance Hill wins Belmont Stakes (50:1 long shot)
June 07, 1981 - Israel destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility
June 07, 1982 - Pres Reagan meets Pope John Paul II & Queen Elizabeth
June 08, 0632 - Prophet Mohammed died
June 08, 1783 - Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption
June 08, 1786 - 1st commercially-made ice cream sold in NY
June 08, 1861 - Tennessee secedes from Union
June 08, 1869 - Ives McGaffey patents his vacuum cleaner (It sucks)
June 08, 1889 - Cable Cars begin service in LA
June 08, 1915 - William Jennings Bryan quits as Sec of State
June 08, 1917 - Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
June 08, 1918 - Nova Aquila - brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604 - discovered
June 08, 1927 - Tony Lazzeri hits 3 HRs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11
June 08, 1940 - Element 93 Neptunium - discovery announced
June 08, 1953 - Segregated lunch counters in D C forbidden by Supreme Court. Also Tornadoes kills 110 in Mich & Ohio
June 08, 1959 - 1st official `missile mail' landed Jacksonville Fla
June 08, 1966 - NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970
June 08, 1967 - Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean - killing 34
June 08, 1968 - Don Drysdale pitches a record 68th consecutive scoreless inning
June 08, 1969 - Mickey Mantle Day 60 -096 saw #7 retired
June 08, 1975 - Soviets launch Venera 9 to Venus
June 08, 1979 - The Source - 1st computer public information service - goes online
June 08, 1982 - Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament
June 08, 1986 - Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria. Also Boston Celtics win NBA championship #16 over Houston Rockets
June 08, 2004 - Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
June 09, 0068 - Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide
June 09, 1732 - royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe
June 09, 1851 - SF Committee of Vigilance forms
June 09, 1860 - 1st dime novel published
June 09, 1868 - 1st meeting of Board of Regents U of Cal
June 09, 1897 - Alvin Graham Clark dies 3 weeks after 1st use of Yerkes 40-inch lens
June 09, 1898 - China leases Hong Kong's New Territories to Britain for 99 years
June 09, 1931 - Goddard patents rocket-fueled aircraft design
June 09, 1946 - 66 -545 fans help Yanks break million mark earliest
June 09, 1953 - About 100 die in Worcester MA tornado
June 09, 1959 - 1st ballistic missile sub launched "George Washington"
June 09, 1963 - Cleopatra opens in NY
June 09, 1969 - Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice
June 09, 1972 - First All-Nite Grad Parties
June 09, 1973 - Secretariat wins Belmont Stakes & Triple Crown
June 09, 1977 - Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks
June 09, 1980 - Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth
June 09, 1982 - Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley
June 09, 1984 - Laserphonic Fantasy premieres
June 09, 1986 - Rogers Commission report released blame on Morton Thiokol
June 09, 1997 - British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires
June 10, 1580 - Lu¡s Vaz de Camoes - Portugal's national poet - dies
June 10, 1639 - 1st American log cabin at Ft Christina (Wilmington Del)
June 10, 1752 - Ben Franklin flies kit in storm
June 10, 1772 - Burning of the Gaspee British revenue cutter by Rhode Islanders
June 10, 1801 - State of Tripoli declares war on the US
June 10, 1854 - Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved
June 10, 1865 - Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munich Germany
June 10, 1869 - Agnes arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef
June 10, 1880 - Charlie Jones becomes 1st to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning
June 10, 1892 - Wilbert Robinson gets 7 base hits in 1 baseball game
June 10, 1898 - US Marines land at Cuba in Spanish-American War
June 10, 1910 - Portuguese Natl Day
June 10, 1921 - Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120 (Gavvy Cravath)
June 10, 1932 - 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass
June 10, 1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous formed in Akron by Dr Robert Smith
June 10, 1940 - Italy declares war on France & Britain
June 10, 1942 - Nazis exterminate village of Lidice - Czechoslovakia
June 10, 1942 - Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia) Gestapo kills 173
June 10, 1943 - FDR 1st US pres to visit foreign country during wartime
June 10, 1944 - Joe Nuxhall at 15 became youngest ML baseball player
June 10, 1946 - Establishment of Italian Republic
June 10, 1954 - PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting
June 10, 1955 - 1st virus separated into component parts - reported
June 10, 1959 - Rocky Colovito hits 4 HRs in 1 game
June 10, 1964 - Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked
June 10, 1967 - Israel Syria Jordan Iraq Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help
June 10, 1977 - Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II. Also James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison
June 10, 1978 - Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis
June 10, 1984 - Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 2.39 m
June 11, 1488 - Battle of Sauchieburn - Scotland
June 11, 1770 - Capt Cook runs aground on Australian Great Barrier Reef
June 11, 1838 - Iowa Territory organized
June 11, 1859 - Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City - Nevada
June 11, 1864 - 300' of Meigg's Wharf washed away in storm
June 11, 1895 - 1st auto race
June 11, 1919 - Sir Barton 1st horse to win the Triple Crown
June 11, 1927 - Babe Ruth hits 19th & 20th of 60 HRs
June 11, 1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released
June 11, 1942 - US & USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II
June 11, 1947 - WW II sugar rationing finally ends
June 11, 1955 - 1st jet magnesium airplane flown
June 11, 1961 - Roger Maris hits #19 & 20 of 61 HRs
June 11, 1963 - George Wallace backs down at Alabama schoolhouse door
June 11, 1970 - US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya
June 11, 1977 - Train & school hostage incident in Netherlands ends
June 11, 1980 - K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service SF
June 11, 1982 - Larry Holmes defeats Gerry Cooney retains WBC heavyweight crown / Israel & Syria stop fighting in Lebanon / Movie "E T" released
June 12, 1665 - English rename New Amsterdam NY after Dutch pull out
June 12, 1776 - Va 1st to adopt Bill of Rights
June 12, 1787 - Senators must be at least 30
June 12, 1812 - Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins
June 12, 1838 - Iowa Territory organized
June 12, 1838 - Hopkins Observatory - dedicated in Williamstown - Mass
June 12, 1839 - 1st baseball game played in America
June 12, 1880 - 1st baseball perfect game - John Richmond of Worcester beats Cleve
June 12, 1898 - Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain
June 12, 1907 - Yanks commit 11 errors & lose 14-6 to the Tigers
June 12, 1917 - Secret Service extend protection of pres to his family
June 12, 1920 - Farmer Labor Party organized
June 12, 1934 - Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] & United Air Lines
June 12, 1936 - 1st 50KW radio station - Pittsburgh Pa
June 12, 1937 - USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continued
June 12, 1939 - Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY
June 12, 1946 - Philippines National Day
June 12, 1957 - Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg
June 12, 1963 - Medgar Evers - NAACP official - murdered in Jackson - Miss
June 12, 1967 - Israel wins 6 day war
June 12, 1967 - USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
June 12, 1971 - Tricia Nixon & Edward F Cox marry at White House
June 12, 1972 - John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" & "Luck of the Irish"
June 12, 1973 - Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer
June 12, 1977 - Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library
June 12, 1979 - Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel
June 12, 1981 - 3rd baseball strike starts
June 12, 1982 - 750 -000 anti-nuclear demonstrators in Central Park NYC
June 12, 1986 - P W Botha declares South African national emergency
June 13, 0323 - BC Alexander the great dies of fever at Babylon
June 13, 1373 - Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed
June 13, 1611 - John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
June 13, 1798 - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
June 13, 1871 - hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
June 13, 1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowns
June 13, 1898 - Yukon Territory of Canada organized - Dawson chosen as capital
June 13, 1900 - China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians
June 13, 1913 - Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games
June 13, 1921 - Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8
June 13, 1924 - Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers. 3rd forfeit win
June 13, 1927 - Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
June 13, 1933 - 1st sodium vapor lamps installed Schenectady NY
June 13, 1933 - Federal Savings & Loan Association authorized
June 13, 1937 - Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns
June 13, 1944 - Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks
June 13, 1948 - Babe Ruth's #3 is retired
June 13, 1963 - Vostok 6 launched Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman cosmonaut
June 13, 1966 - Miranda vs Az decision-Suspect must be informed of rights
June 13, 1967 - Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice
June 13, 1971 - NY Times began publishing Pentagon Papers
June 13, 1977 - Convicted assassin James Earl Ray recaptured
June 13, 1977 - Former Supreme Court Justice Tom C Clark died in NY at 77
June 13, 1980 - Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation
June 13, 1981 - A teen-ager fired six blanks at Queen Elizabeth II
June 13, 1982 - Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69
June 13, 1983 - Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave Solar System
June 13, 1986 - Benny Goodman the clarinet playing King of Swing died in NY at 77
June 13, 1986 - Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
June 13, 1987 - Geraldine Page dies
June 14, 1775 - US Army founded
June 14, 1777 - Continental Congress in Phila adopts Stars & Stripes as flag
June 14, 1801 - Former Revolutionary War Gen Benedict Arnold died in London
June 14, 1841 - 1st Canadian parliament opened in Kingston
June 14, 1846 - California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma
June 14, 1847 - Bunsen invents a gas burner
June 14, 1850 - Fire destroys part of SF
June 14, 1870 - All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games
June 14, 1876 - California St Cable Car RR Co gets it's franchise
June 14, 1900 - Hawaiian Territorial Government begins
June 14, 1917 - Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
June 14, 1919 - 1st direct airplane crossing of Atlantic
June 14, 1922 - Baltimore radio station WEAR 1st to put on a President (Harding)
June 14, 1938 - Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
June 14, 1940 - German forces occupied Paris during WW II
June 14, 1941 - Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS
June 14, 1942 - 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct
June 14, 1942 - Walt Disney's "Bambi" is released
June 14, 1944 - 1st B-29 raid against Mainland Japan
June 14, 1948 - TV Guide is published
June 14, 1951 - UNIVAC 1 - 1st commercial computer - unveiled
June 14, 1952 - Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub the Nautilus
June 14, 1953 - Yanks sweep Indians 6-2 3-0 before 74 -708 win streak of 18 straight
June 14, 1954 - Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words `under God' to the Pledge
June 14, 1963 - Valery F Bykovsky 5th cosmonaut (Vostok 5)
June 14, 1967 - Launch of Mariner V for Venus flyby
June 14, 1975 - USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
June 14, 1976 - 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4
June 14, 1976 - Gong Show premiers
June 14, 1977 - M L King killer James Earl Ray recaptured after prison break
June 14, 1978 - Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR
June 14, 1982 - Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is ending 74-day conflict
June 14, 1985 - Lebanese Shiite Moslem gunmen hijack TWA 847 after Athens' takeoff
June 14, 1986 - Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges in Geneva dies at 86
June 14, 1986 - Death claimed Broadway librettist Alan Jay Lerner in NY at 67
June 14, 1986 - Wild Kingdom host Marlin Perkins dies near St Louis at 81
June 15, 0763 - BC Assyrians record total solar eclipse event on clay tablet
June 15, 1215 - King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede England
June 15, 1389 - Battle of Kossovo; Turks defeat Serbs - Bosnians
June 15, 1520 - Pope threatens to toss Luther out of Catholic Church
June 15, 1664 - NJ established
June 15, 1752 - Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-What a shock
June 15, 1775 - Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army
June 15, 1785 - 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident
June 15, 1804 - 12th Amendment ratified manner of choosing President & VP
June 15, 1836 - Arkansas becomes 25th state
June 15, 1844 - Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber
June 15, 1846 - Oregon Treaty signed - setting US-British boundary at 49ø N
June 15, 1857 - SF Water Works organized
June 15, 1864 - Robert E Lee's home area (Arlington Va) turned into a milt cemetery
June 15, 1878 - 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground
June 15, 1902 - Justin Clark of Corsicana - Tx minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game
June 15, 1904 - General Slocum boat catches fire; over a thousand die
June 15, 1907 - 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference
June 15, 1919 - 1st flight across Atlantic (Alcock & Brown)
June 15, 1924 - Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens
June 15, 1940 - France surrenders to Hitler
June 15, 1944 - American forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific
June 15, 1951 - 1st coml electronic computer dedicated Phila
June 15, 1957 - Yanks trade Billy Martin & Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran
June 15, 1967 - Gov Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill
June 15, 1975 - Soyuz 19 launched
June 15, 1976 - Yankees trade May - Martinez - Pagan - MacGregor & Demsey to Baltimore for Holtzman - Alexander - Grant Jackson - Elrod Henrick & Jim Freeman
June 15, 1977 - Spain's 1st free elections since 1936
June 15, 1978 - Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days
June 15, 1982 - Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat
June 15, 1986 - Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity
June 16, 1567 - Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison
June 16, 1686 - BC Hammurabi the Great dies - Babylon
June 16, 1775 - Battle of Bunker Hill (actually Breed's Hill)
June 16, 1832 - Battle of Kellogg's Grove - Ill
June 16, 1858 - A house divided against itself cannot stand - Abraham Lincoln
June 16, 1883 - 1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams vs Cleveland Spiders)
June 16, 1903 - Ford Motor Company vehicle manufacturer
June 16, 1903 - 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox
June 16, 1904 - Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses)
June 16, 1919 - 1st nonstop transatlantic flight completed
June 16, 1933 - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (US) created (FDIC)
June 16, 1933 - National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down)
June 16, 1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA
June 16, 1941 - 1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC
June 16, 1947 - Pravda denounces Marshall Plan
June 16, 1947 - 1st network news - Dumont's "News from Washington"
June 16, 1949 - Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated Erie Pa
June 16, 1953 - Despite Johnny Mize 2000th hit Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak
June 16, 1961 - Rudolf Nureyev Soviet ballet dancer defects to West
June 16, 1963 - Valentina Tereshkova becomes 1st woman in space - aboard Vostok 6
June 16, 1963 - Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM
June 16, 1976 - US ambassador to Lebanon kidnapped & killed
June 16, 1976 - Soweto Day Student uprisings begin in Soweto - South Africa
June 16, 1977 - Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR
June 16, 1977 - Ron Guidry's 1st complete game 7-0 over KC Royals. Also Wernher von Braun dies at 65 from smoking
June 16, 1978 - Tom Seaver no hits St Louis Cards
June 16, 1982 - Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners
June 16, 1984 - Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race
June 16, 1986 - One-day general strike in South Africa
June 16, 1987 - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him
June 17, 1775 - Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)
June 17, 1789 - 3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly
June 17, 1856 - Republican Party opened its 1st convention in Phila
June 17, 1880 - John Ward - Providence - pitches perfect game vs Buffalo
June 17, 1885 - Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'
June 17, 1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in NY
June 17, 1940 - France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
June 17, 1942 - 1st American expeditionary force to land in Africa (WW2)
June 17, 1944 - Rep of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir
June 17, 1945 - German Fed Rep National Day
June 17, 1947 - 1st round-the-world civil air service left NYC
June 17, 1953 - Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for the next day their 14th anniversary
June 17, 1954 - Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ended
June 17, 1963 - Supreme Court strikes down Lord's Prayer recitation
June 17, 1971 - US returns control of Okinawa to Japanese
June 17, 1972 - Democratic HQs at Watergate burglarized - wire-tapped
June 17, 1978 - Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike outs
June 17, 1982 - President Galtieri resigns in Argentina. Also Ronald Reagan's "evil empire" speech
June 17, 1985 - 18th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 5 is launched
June 17, 1986 - Singer Kate Smith dies in Raleigh NC at 79
June 17, 1986 - Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated
June 17, 1987 - NY Yankee & KC Royal Mgr Dick Howser dies at 51 of brain cancer
June 18, 1178 - Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno
June 18, 1778 - British Redcoats evacuate Phila
June 18, 1812 - War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain
June 18, 1815 - Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington & Bl�cher
June 18, 1872 - Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall
June 18, 1873 - Susan B Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President
June 18, 1892 - Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
June 18, 1898 - Amusement pier opens - Atlantic City - NJ
June 18, 1916 - Yanks score in every inning but 8th beat Indians 19-3
June 18, 1928 - Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to cross Atlantic
June 18, 1934 - US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized
June 18, 1940 - Winston Churchill urged perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour"
June 18, 1945 - William Joyce-Lord Haw-Haw Brit radio traitor charged with treason
June 18, 1953 - Egypt proclaimed a republic
June 18, 1953 - Eugene Stephens gets 3 hits as Red Sox score 17 runs in 7th inning
June 18, 1959 - 1st telecast transmitted from England to US
June 18, 1972 - 118 die in crash of British European Airways jet
June 18, 1975 - Saudi Prince Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king
June 18, 1977 - Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation
June 18, 1977 - Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time - It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
June 18, 1979 - Billy Martin replaces Bob Lemon as Yank manager (2nd time)
June 18, 1981 - Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor 1st woman on high court)
June 18, 1982 - Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
June 18, 1983 - 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride 1st US woman
June 18, 1986 - 52 die in plane/helicopter collision over Grand Canyon
June 19, 0240 - BC Eratosthenes estimates circumference of earth
June 19, 1586 - English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island NC
June 19, 1756 - 146 English people imprisoned in Black Hole of Calcutta
June 19, 1778 - Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge
June 19, 1812 - US declares war on England
June 19, 1846 - 1st baseball game-NY Nines 23 Knickerbockers 1 (Hoboken - NJ)
June 19, 1861 - Anaheim PO established
June 19, 1862 - Slavery outlawed in US territories
June 19, 1867 - Mexican Emperor Maximilian executed - Mexican republic restored
June 19, 1875 - Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio
June 19, 1910 - Father's Day celebrated for 1st time in Spokane Wash
June 19, 1917 - After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles & surnames They took the name Windsor
June 19, 1931 - 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct
June 19, 1932 - 1st concert given in SF's Stern Grove
June 19, 1934 - Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created
June 19, 1946 - 1st TV sports spectacular - Joe Louis vs Billy Conn
June 19, 1947 - 1st plane to exceed 600 mph - Albert Boyd Muroc Ca
June 19, 1953 - Julius & Ethel Rosenberg executed at Sing Sing Prison Ossining NY (Julius takes 3 tries - Ethel 5)
June 19, 1955 - Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100
June 19, 1961 - Kuwait gains independence from Britain
June 19, 1961 - US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution requiring state office holders to belief in existence of God
June 19, 1963 - Charter members of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen
June 19, 1963 - Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to earth
June 19, 1964 - Civil Rights Act of 1964 survived an 83-day filibuster in Senate
June 19, 1970 - A Nikolayev and V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9
June 19, 1973 - Pete Rose & Willie Davis both get career hit # 2000
June 19, 1976 - US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from earth
June 19, 1977 - Red Sox set record of 16 HRs in 3 games All against Yanks
June 19, 1977 - Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cent bishop John Neumann 1st US male saint
June 19, 1981 - Boeing Coml Chinook two-rotor helicopter gets certified
June 19, 1981 - European Space Agency's Ariane carries two satellites into orbit
June 19, 1986 - Artificial heart recipient Murray P Haydon died in Louisville Ky
June 19, 1986 - Len Bias 1st pick of Celtics suffers fatal cocaine-induced seizure
June 19, 1987 - Wee Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak ends
June 20, 1632 - Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
June 20, 1756 - British soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most died
June 20, 1779 - Battle of Stone Ferry
June 20, 1782 - Congress approves Great Seal of US & the Eagle as it's symbol
June 20, 1791 - King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
June 20, 1837 - Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901
June 20, 1855 - Comm appoints to lay out streets west of Larkin - SF
June 20, 1863 - West Virginia became 35th state
June 20, 1867 - Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
June 20, 1893 - Lizzie Borden found innocent in New Bedford Mass
June 20, 1895 - Nicaragua - El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
June 20, 1913 - Bert Daniels set AL mark by getting hit 3 times in a doubleheader
June 20, 1920 - Yanks win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed
June 20, 1939 - Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
June 20, 1947 - Gangster Benjamin `Buggsy' Siegel shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
June 20, 1947 - Pres Truman vetoed Taft-Hartley Act
June 20, 1948 - Toast of the Town hosted by Ed Sullivan premier on CBS-TV
June 20, 1950 - Joe Dimaggio's 2000th hit - Yanks beat Indians 8-2
June 20, 1963 - US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"
June 20, 1963 - 1st Mayor's Trophy Game Mets beat Yanks 6-2
June 20, 1966 - Georges Lemaitre - originator of "big bang" theory - dies at 71
June 20, 1967 - Muhammad Ali convicted of violating draft law in Houston
June 20, 1968 - Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds
June 20, 1976 - River Country opens
June 20, 1977 - Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
June 20, 1982 - It's National Bald Eagle Day
June 20, 1982 - Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrives in Washington
June 20, 1983 - Yankee Bobby Murcer retires
June 20, 1986 - Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan
June 20, 1987 - Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass
June 21, 1633 - Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure - curse - & detest" his Copernican heliocentric views
June 21, 1788 - US Constitution went into effect as NH is 9th state to ratify it
June 21, 1805 - Great Stoneface Mt found in NH
June 21, 1834 - Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine
June 21, 1879 - F W Woolworth opens 1st store (failed almost immediately)
June 21, 1887 - Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria
June 21, 1894 - workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
June 21, 1916 - Red Sox George Foster no hits Yanks
June 21, 1917 - Hawaiian Red Cross founded
June 21, 1930 - Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7
June 21, 1938 - Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit
June 21, 1939 - Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic laterial sclerosis
June 21, 1943 - Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead
June 21, 1945 - Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to US during WW II
June 21, 1948 - Dr Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrated 'long playing record'
June 21, 1948 - 1st stored computer program run - on the Manchester Mark I
June 21, 1963 - Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII
June 21, 1964 - 3 civil rights workers-Michael H Schwerner Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney-disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail
June 21, 1967 - Yanks take 5-3 lead in 11th & lose 6-5 - in 2nd game Red Sox lead 3-2 in 9th & Yanks beat them 6-3
June 21, 1968 - Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns
June 21, 1975 - Soyuz 19 returns to Earth
June 21, 1977 - Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison
June 21, 1982 - Wash DC jury finds John Hinckley Jr innocent by insanity
June 21, 1985 - American Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists announce skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
June 21, 1986 - Pres Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments
June 22, 1611 - Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay during mutiny
June 22, 1675 - Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
June 22, 1772 - slavery outlawed in England
June 22, 1775 - 1st Continental currency authorized
June 22, 1807 - British board USS Chesapeake - a provocation leading to War of 1812
June 22, 1808 - Zebulon Pike reaches his peak
June 22, 1815 - 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)
June 22, 1847 - Doughnut invented
June 22, 1849 - Stephen C Massett opens at courthouse as 1st professional entertainer using (allegedly) only piano in Cal
June 22, 1851 - Fire destroys part of SF
June 22, 1868 - Arkansas reenters US
June 22, 1870 - Dept of Justice cabinet-level federal agency founded
June 22, 1889 - Louisville Colonels set major-league baseball record with 26th consecutive loss
June 22, 1910 - 1st airship passengers - Zeppelin Deutscheland
June 22, 1911 - King George V of England crowned
June 22, 1930 - Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in a game - Ruth hits 3 in double header
June 22, 1937 - Joe Lewis wins world heavyweight title from James Braddock by KO
June 22, 1938 - Joe Lewis knocks out Max Schmeling in 1st round
June 22, 1940 - France falls to Nazi Germany
June 22, 1941 - Germany declares war on Russia during WW II
June 22, 1944 - FDR signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
June 22, 1954 - Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands
June 22, 1957 - KC stops using streetcars in it's transit system
June 22, 1970 - Pres Nixon signs 26th Amendment (voting age 18)
June 22, 1973 - Skylab 2's astronauts land
June 22, 1977 - Walt Disney's "The Rescuers" is released
June 22, 1977 - Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in AL prison
June 22, 1978 - Pluto's moon Charon discovered by James Christy
June 22, 1979 - Pro Football Researchers Association founded at Canton - O
June 22, 1979 - Julius Sommer dies of heart failure buried in Dayton Oh
June 22, 1981 - Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing Beatle John Lennon
June 22, 1982 - Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes
June 22, 1982 - Prince Chuck & Lady Di take Prince William home from hospital
June 22, 1983 - 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle
June 22, 1987 - Actor/Dancer Fred Astaire dies
June 22, 1987 - Tom Seaver retires after 3rd try with NY Mets
June 23, 1683 - William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Penn; only treaty "not sworn to - nor broken"
June 23, 1757 - Robert Clive defeats Indians at Plassey - wins control of Bengal
June 23, 1760 - Battle of Landshut - Silesia
June 23, 1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes patents Typewriter
June 23, 1915 - Yanks get record 16 walks & 3 wild pitches beat A's Bruno Hass - 15-0
June 23, 1927 - Gehrig hits 3 HRs in 11-4 victory over Red Sox
June 23, 1938 - Marineland opens in Fla - 1st aquarium
June 23, 1938 - Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) created
June 23, 1947 - Vetoed Taft-Hartley Act overriden by congress
June 23, 1950 - Yanks & Tigers hit 11 HRs - Tigers win 10-9
June 23, 1955 - Walt Disney's "Lady And The Tramp" is released
June 23, 1967 - Senator Dodd (D-CT) censured for misusing campaign funds. Also President Johnson & Premier Kosygin (USSR) meet in NJ
June 23, 1969 - Warren Burger sworn in as US Chief Justice
June 23, 1972 - Nixon & Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
June 23, 1973 - Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game HR in which he pitched
June 23, 1976 - CN Tower in Toronto - tallest free-standing structure (555 m) opens
June 23, 1977 - 13th Mayor's Trophy Game - Mets beat Yanks 6-4
June 23, 1981 - 33 inning game ends Pawtuckett 3 Rochester 2
June 23, 1985 - Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air - 329 die
June 23, 1986 - Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House
June 24, 1314 - Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
June 24, 1314 - Scotland under King Robert I defeats England
June 24, 1441 - Eton College founded by Henry VI
June 24, 1497 - John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England
June 24, 1509 - Henry VIII becomes King of England
June 24, 1647 - Lord Baltimore's niece ejected requesting vote at Maryland Council
June 24, 1662 - Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed (Macau Day)
June 24, 1778 - David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Phila
June 24, 1817 - 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
June 24, 1861 - Tennessee becomes 11th (and last) state to secede from US
June 24, 1901 - Jewish Natl Fund started
June 24, 1908 - Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is destined to have worse won-lost pct of any Yankee mgr 27-71
June 24, 1930 - 1st radar detection of planes Anacostia DC
June 24, 1936 - Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning
June 24, 1947 - Flying Saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by Airline pilot Ken Arnold
June 24, 1948 - Berlin Blockade & Berlin Airlift begin
June 24, 1949 - Hopalong Cassidy becomes 1st network western
June 24, 1949 - Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board
June 24, 1963 - 1st demonstration of home video recorder - at BBC Studios - London
June 24, 1970 - Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs
June 24, 1975 - 113 killed in Eastern Boeing 727 crash at JFK
June 24, 1977 - IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
June 24, 1982 - Soyuz T-6 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 French) to Salyut 7 space station
June 24, 1982 - Jean-Loup Chretien - first spacionaut - lifts off (Soyuz T-16)
June 24, 1982 - Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
June 24, 1983 - 7th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 2 returns to Earth
June 24, 1985 - 18th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 5 returns to Earth
June 24, 1986 - Disputed Ala Dem Gov runoff lets Guy Hunt win (1st Repub in 112 yrs)
June 24, 1986 - US Senate approves "tax reform"
June 25, 1178 - 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon
June 25, 1630 - Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop
June 25, 1638 - A lunar eclipse becomes the known astronomical event recorded
June 25, 1788 - Va becomes 10th state
June 25, 1835 - 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF)
June 25, 1868 - FL AL LA GA NC SC readmitted to US
June 25, 1876 - Lt Col Custer & 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux & Cheyenne
June 25, 1903 - Yanks & White Sox end deadlocked at 6-6 in 18
June 25, 1906 - Architect Stanford White shot dead atop Madison Square Garden (which he designed) by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit
June 25, 1919 - 1st flight Junkers F13 advanced monoplane airliner
June 25, 1929 - Pres Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
June 25, 1934 - Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times
June 25, 1938 - federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40› per hour
June 25, 1942 - British RAF staged a thousand-bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)
June 25, 1950 - Korean Conflict begins; N Korea invades S Korea
June 25, 1950 - El Al begins air service
June 25, 1951 - 1st color TV broadcast - CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities
June 25, 1953 - 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
June 25, 1960 - Walter Baade - astronomer - dies
June 25, 1961 - Yankee's Roger Maris hits his 40th of 61 HRs
June 25, 1962 - Yankee Jack Reed's 22nd inning HR wins a 7 hour game
June 25, 1962 - Supreme Court rules NY school prayer unconstitutional
June 25, 1973 - Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m
June 25, 1973 - John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee
June 25, 1975 - Mozambique gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
June 25, 1977 - Roy C Sullivan of Va is struck by lightening for 7th time!
June 25, 1977 - Report of LBJ having cancer operation while Pres denied
June 25, 1981 - Supreme Court held male-only draft registration - constitutional
June 25, 1982 - Sec of State Alexander Haig Jr resigns Schultz replaces
June 25, 1982 - SF holds its 1st County Fair
June 26, 1483 - Richard III usurps the English throne
June 26, 1797 - Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow
June 26, 1870 - 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens
June 26, 1876 - Custer's Last Stand
June 26, 1900 - Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats yellow fever
June 26, 1911 - Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 133 kph
June 26, 1917 - 1st American Expeditionary Force arrived in France during WW I
June 26, 1919 - 1st issue of NY Daily News published
June 26, 1934 - FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act establishing Credit Unions
June 26, 1945 - UN Charter signed by 50 nations in SF
June 26, 1948 - US responses to Soviet blockade of Berlin
June 26, 1949 - Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus inside orbit of Mercury
June 26, 1959 - Pres Eisenhower joins Queen Elizabeth opening St Lawrence Seaway
June 26, 1959 - St Lawrence Seaway opens - linking Atlantic Ocean with Great Lakes
June 26, 1960 - British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
June 26, 1960 - Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day)
June 26, 1963 - Kennedy visits W Berlin `Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner)'
June 26, 1964 - Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album
June 26, 1968 - Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
June 26, 1975 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency
June 26, 1977 - 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
June 26, 1978 - 1st dedicated oceanographic satellite - SEASAT 1 launched
June 26, 1982 - US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces
June 26, 1984 - 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery scrubbed at T-4
June 26, 1987 - Losing 9-0 to Red Sox Yanks score 11 in 3rd & win 12-11 in 10 inn
June 27, 1806 - Buenos Aires captured by British
June 27, 1838 - Queen Victoria is crowned
June 27, 1844 - Mormon leaders Joseph & Hyrum Smith killed by a mob in Carthage
June 27, 1847 - NY & Boston linked by telegraph wires
June 27, 1867 - Bank of Calif opens doors
June 27, 1929 - 1st color TV demo - NYC
June 27, 1934 - Federal Savings & Loan Association created
June 27, 1940 - End of USSR experimental calendar
June 27, 1942 - FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island
June 27, 1944 - Cherbourg - France captured by Allies
June 27, 1950 - Pres Truman orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict
June 27, 1954 - CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala
June 27, 1955 - 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted Illinois
June 27, 1957 - 500 people killed by Hurricane Audrey in coastal La & Tx
June 27, 1960 - Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge Mass
June 27, 1962 - NASA X-15 flies at 4105 mph
June 27, 1963 - Robert Rushworth in X-15 reaches 87 km
June 27, 1963 - Pres Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland
June 27, 1966 - 4th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 5-2
June 27, 1973 - John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's `enemies list'
June 27, 1977 - 5-4 decision Supreme Court decides to let lawyers advertise
June 27, 1977 - Djibouti gains independence from France (National Day)
June 27, 1978 - Soyuz 30 launched
June 27, 1982 - 4th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 4 launched
June 27, 1983 - Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
June 27, 1983 - Balloonists Maxie Anderson & Don Ida died during a race
June 27, 1984 - Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
June 27, 1986 - World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal
June 27, 1987 - Supreme Court Justice Powell retires
June 28, 1778 - Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" helped American patriots
June 28, 1778 - Battle of Monmouth
June 28, 1820 - Tomato is proved to be nonpoisonous
June 28, 1836 - James Madison 4th US pres died
June 28, 1838 - Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey
June 28, 1861 - Leipzig Obs discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) comet d'Arrest
June 28, 1889 - Maria Mitchell - 1st American woman astronomer - dies at 71
June 28, 1914 - Aust Archduke Ferdinand & wife Sofia assassinated (starts WW I)
June 28, 1918 - 1st flight between Hawaiian Islands
June 28, 1919 - Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed
June 28, 1919 - Harry S Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence
June 28, 1919 - Carl Mazes pitches a complete double-header against Yanks
June 28, 1938 - Queen Victoria ascends to British throne
June 28, 1939 - Yanks hit 13 HRs sweep A's 23-2 & 10-0
June 28, 1939 - Pan Am begins transatlantic air service Dixie Clipper
June 28, 1942 - Dumont TV network begins (WABD NY)
June 28, 1950 - N Korean forces captured Seoul S Korea
June 28, 1956 - 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Il
June 28, 1965 - 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by Pres Johnson
June 28, 1971 - Phillies Rick Wise hits 2 HRs & no-hits the Reds
June 28, 1977 - Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers
June 28, 1978 - Supreme Court orders Cal medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected
June 28, 1982 - Prince Chuck & Lady Di name their baby "William"
June 28, 1983 - Bridge section along I-95 in Conn collapsed kills 3
June 28, 1986 - Kenneth & Nellie Pike challenge Ala Dem runoff win by AG C Graddick
June 28, 1987 - Don Baylor sets career hit by pitch mark at 244 (Pitcher Rick Roiden)
June 28, 1987 - Gay Pride Day
June 29, 1776 - Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
June 29, 1776 - Va state constitution adopted & Patrick Henry made governor
June 29, 1854 - Gadsden Purchase (parts of Az - NM) from Mexico for $10 million
June 29, 1863 - very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport - Iowa
June 29, 1864 - Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed
June 29, 1897 - Chicago beats Louisville 36-7
June 29, 1916 - Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time
June 29, 1927 - 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
June 29, 1929 - 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca
June 29, 1936 - Empire State Building eminates high definition TV - 343 lines
June 29, 1941 - Polish statesman pianist Ignace Paderewski died in NY at 80
June 29, 1941 - DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler's record
June 29, 1946 - British arrest 2700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorists
June 29, 1947 - Yanks beat Senators 3-1 starting a 19 game win streak
June 29, 1949 - South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
June 29, 1952 - 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn - the Oriskany
June 29, 1954 - Atomic Energy Comm voted against reinstating Dr J Robert Oppenheimer
June 29, 1956 - Charles Dumas - 1st high jump over 7 feet - LA Cal
June 29, 1962 - 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner
June 29, 1965 - Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 85 km
June 29, 1966 - US bombs fuel storage facilities near N Vietnamese cities
June 29, 1967 - Jayne Mansfield dies at 34
June 29, 1967 - Israel removes barricades separating city of Jerusalem
June 29, 1970 - US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia
June 29, 1971 - Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days
June 29, 1972 - Supreme Court-death penalty usually was `cruel & unusual punishment'
June 29, 1976 - Seychelles gains independence from Britain
June 29, 1977 - Supreme Court ruled out death penalty for rapists of adults
June 29, 1982 - Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended
June 29, 1984 - USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI
June 29, 1987 - Yanks blow 11-4 lead but trailing 14-11 Dave Winfield's 8th inning Grand Slammer beats Toronto 15-14 Mattingly also Grand slams
June 30, 1794 - Battle of Ft Recovery - Ohio
June 30, 1834 - Congress creates Indian Territory
June 30, 1859 - Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope
June 30, 1870 - Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate
June 30, 1893 - Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
June 30, 1894 - Korea declares independence from China - asks for Japanese aid
June 30, 1906 - Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act adopted
June 30, 1908 - Giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (Tunguska Event)
June 30, 1908 - Cy Young no hits Yankees Red Sox win 8-0
June 30, 1914 - Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest campaign for Indian rights in S Africa
June 30, 1923 - New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica
June 30, 1930 - 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY
June 30, 1934 - Adolf Hitler begins pogrom against his enemies
June 30, 1934 - Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions
June 30, 1936 - 40 hour work week law approved (federal)
June 30, 1936 - Gone With the Wind is published
June 30, 1948 - Transistor demonstrated Murray Hill NJ
June 30, 1950 - Pres Truman orders American troops into Korea
June 30, 1952 - The Guiding Light soap opera moves from radio to TV
June 30, 1953 - US ground forces enter Korean conflict
June 30, 1954 - Yank pitcher Tom Morgan ties record by hitting 3 batters in 1 inning. This was also Bobby Brown's last game he retired to become a Dr.
June 30, 1960 - Zaire (then Belgian Congo) gains ind
June 30, 1962 - Pope Paul VI crowned in St Peter's Square
June 30, 1971 - 26th Amendment ratified gives vote to 18 year olds-Ohio ratifies
June 30, 1971 - 3 cosmonauts die as Soyuz XI depressurizes during reentry
June 30, 1972 - 1st leap second - day
June 30, 1977 - Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"
June 30, 1977 - Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive HRs in Toronto
June 30, 1982 - Equal Rights Amendment dies without ratification
June 30, 1982 - New Jersey NHL Franchise named the Devils
June 30, 1985 - 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed
June 30, 1986 - Georgia sodomy law upheld by the Supreme Court