This day in history.....

June 8th


1869: Inventor Ives McGaffey receives a U.S. patent for a "sweeping machine," the first vacuum cleaner.

1915: U.S. secretary of state William Jennings Bryan resigns, believing that President Woodrow Wilson's response to the sinking of the Lusitania will lead the United States into World War I.

1948: The Texaco Star Theatre debuts on NBC. Its host, Milton Berle, goes on to become one of the biggest stars of early television.

1969: James Earl Ray, later convicted for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., is arrested at London Airport while traveling under the name Ramon George Sneyd.

1978: A Nevada jury decides that a will in which reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes allegedly left his fortune to a medical institute, four universities, and a number of individuals, is a forgery.

632: Muhammad, the founder of Islam, dies in Medina.
 
Mare said:
June 8th


1869: Inventor Ives McGaffey receives a U.S. patent for a "sweeping machine," the first vacuum cleaner.
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June 12, 1869: Margo McGaffey, wife of legendary inventor Ives, first utters the soon to become famous phrase: "Get off your ass and help me run this friggin' vacuum cleaner willya?"
 
June 8th

President Ulysses Grant signs an act making the Post Office an executive department.
 
June 10th


1194: Chartres Cathedral, France, burns down save for the west front. The reconstruction of the cathedral, which begins the same year, heralds the birth of the High Gothic style of architecture.

1776: The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to write a statement of independence from Britain.

1935: Two recovering alcoholics, Bill W. and Dr. Bob S., found Alcoholics Anonymous in Akron, Ohio, to help each other stay sober.

1957: For the first time in 22 years, the Progressive Conservative Party wins control of the Canadian Parliament. They choose John Diefenbaker as prime minister.

1964: After a 75-day filibuster led by Southern senators, the U.S. Senate votes 71-29 to close debate on the Civil Rights Bill, which passes the Senate nine days later.

1978: Affirmed becomes the last horse to take the thoroughbred Triple Crown in the 20th century when he wins the Belmont Stakes. For the third straight race, Affirmed's rival Alydar finishes a close second.
 
June 11th


1770: British captain James Cook is the first European to discover the Great Barrier Reef off the northeastern coast of Australia.

1950: Alabama governor George Wallace attempts to block the entry of the first black students to the University of Alabama, but he backs down when faced with federal troops.

1950: Seventeen months after suffering life-threatening injuries in a car accident, Ben Hogan returns to win his second of four U.S. Open golf championships.

1963: In Saigon, South Vietnam, Buddhist monk Quang Duc sets himself on fire to protest the treatment of Buddhists by the government of U.S.-backed president Ngo Dinh Diem.

1986: In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a divided Supreme Court upholds its earlier decision in Roe v. Wade protecting a woman's right to have an abortion.

1987: Margaret Thatcher becomes the first prime minister elected to three consecutive terms as prime minister of the United Kingdom in the 20th century.
 
June 12th


1630: John Winthrop, the newly selected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company, lands at Salem. He will lead the colony for the next two decades.

1937: In the USSR, as part of Joseph Stalin's purges of Communist Party leadership, eight generals in the Soviet army are executed for conspiracy against the government.

1963: Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and considered the most expensive movie ever made to that point, premieres in New York City.

1963: NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Not until 1994 is white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith convicted of the crime.

1964: Nelson Mandela, along with other members of the African National Congress, is sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage, treason, and conspiracy in South Africa.

1979: Pedalled by cyclist Bryan Allen, the Gossamer Albatross becomes the first human-powered vehicle to fly over the English Channel.
 
June 14th

Happy Flag Day!!!!!


1777: The Continental Congress votes to adopt a flag with 13 stars and 13 stripes as the national emblem of the new United States of America.

1846: In the Bear Flag Revolt during the Mexican War, American settlers capture Sonoma from Mexican forces and declare an independent Republic of California. Mexico cedes the territory to the United States in 1848.

1940: After sweeping through Belgium and the Netherlands to the north, the German army captures Paris, leading to the surrender of France three days later.

1951: UNIVAC, the first commercial, general-use computer, designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, is demonstrated by the Remington Rand company.
 
Mare said:
June 14th

1940: After sweeping through Belgium and the Netherlands to the north, the German army captures Paris, leading to the surrender of France three days later.
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What took 'em so long that time to surrender? :swing:
 
June 15th


1215: King John of England signs the Magna Carta, a historic agreement with his barons that protects individual liberties and establishes that not even the king is above the law.


1752: Benjamin Franklin and his son conduct the famous experiment involving a kite and key during a thunderstorm, confirming Franklin's theory that lightning is electrical.


1844: Charles Goodyear receives a U.S. patent for the vulcanization of rubber.


1938: Pitcher Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds throws his second straight no-hit game, a feat unequaled in baseball history.

1977: Less than two years after the death of longtime ruler Francisco Franco, Spain holds its first democratic elections in 41 years.


1992: Vice President Dan Quayle, visiting a Trenton, N.J., school, corrects the spelling of a student, telling him that "potato" should be spelled "potatoe."
 
1992: Vice President Dan Quayle, visiting a Trenton, N.J., school, corrects the spelling of a student, telling him that "potato" should be spelled "potatoe."
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Then argued with the teacher that it could be spelled either way when he was corrected. :lloyd:
 
SouthernN'Proud said:
What took 'em so long that time to surrender? :swing:
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I take it you haven't heard the French have a discussion.

Requirements:

Wine, red, local. Four of.
Bread, fresh, baguette, local. Four of.
Cheese, smelly, local. Kilo of.
Cigarettes, Camel, filterless. 500 of.

then they can engage in a 8 hour discussion on what they should be discussing.
 
June 16th


1654: Queen Christina of Sweden, a convert to Roman Catholicism, abdicates her throne.


1904: The action of James Joyce's novel Ulysses takes place on this day, known as Bloomsday after Leopold and Molly Bloom, two of the novel's main characters.


1937: When the government shuts down the debut of The Cradle Will Rock, a proletarian opera written by Marc Blitzstein and directed by Orson Welles, the production moves to an empty theater nearby.


1958: Former Hungarian prime minister Imre Nagy is executed for his role in the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956.


1963: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, is launched into a three-day orbital flight aboard Vostok 6 to study the problem of weightlessness.


1970: Kenneth A. Gibson is elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey, becoming the first black mayor elected in a major northeastern city in the United States.
 
June 16

1862 Battle of Secessionville


On this day, a Union attempt to capture Charleston, South Carolina, is thwarted when the Confederates turn back an attack at Secessionville, just south of the city on James Island.
 
SouthernN'Proud said:
June 16

1862 Battle of Secessionville


On this day, a Union attempt to capture Charleston, South Carolina, is thwarted when the Confederates turn back an attack at Secessionville, just south of the city on James Island.
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Bah...the battle of Boone Hall Plantation wasn't that important. ;)
 
June 18th


1155: Frederick I, after consolidating his power in Germany and Italy, is crowned Holy Roman emperor by Pope Adrian IV in Rome.


1812: Aroused by the impressment of American sailors into the British navy and eager to expand the country's western possessions, the U.S. Congress declares war against Britain to begin the War of 1812.


1815: British, Prussian, and Dutch troops led by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher give French emperor and general Napoleon his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.

1940: British prime minister Winston Churchill, speaking to the House of Commons before the Battle of Britain, says British resistance in the battle will be remembered as "their finest hour."

1983: Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space, aboard the space shuttle Challenger. :swing:
 
Mare said:
1983: Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space, aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
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Dang that gurl kicked some ass, huh?
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Sally Ride was born on May 26, 1951 in Los Angeles, California. As a young girl, she wanted to become a professional tennis player and, at one time, was a ranked player on the junior tennis circuit. She attended Stanford University where she earned four degrees. Dr. Ride has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics. She also has a Masters degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in Physics. She was accepted into the astronaut corps in 1978 and completed her training as a mission specialist in 1979. On June 18,1983 she became the first American woman to orbit Earth when she flew aboard Space Shuttle Challenger. Her second flight was also aboard Challenger in 1984. Dr. Ride was a member of the team chosen to investigate the explosion of Challenger in 1986. She left the astronaut corps in 1987 to join the faculty of Stanford University, her alma mater. Dr. Ride was, and is, concerned about the lack of women scientists and engineers. Her decision to return to Stanford University was evidence of her commitment to finding a solution to the problem. Since 1989, Dr. Ride has been on the faculty of the University of California at San Diego, where she also heads the California Space Institute.

You can write to Dr. Sally Ride at the address listed below. When writing, in order to receive a response, please include a self-addressed, self-stamped envelope.

Dr. Sally Ride
Director
California Space Institute
University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093
 
1862
Congress abolished slavery in the U.S. territories.

1865
Gen. Gordon Granger informed the citizens of Galveston, Tex., that the slaves were freed. The celebration of the day became known as Juneteenth.

1867
The first running of the Belmont Stakes.

1934
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was created.

1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved.

1977
Pope Paul VI proclaimed John Neumann, the first male saint from the United States.

1987
The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring any public school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creationism as well.

2002
Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai was sworn in.
 
June 21st


1788: The United States Constitution takes effect after New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify it. .

1877: Ten members of the Molly Maguires, a secret society of Irish immigrant coal miners, are executed for their roles in a violent coal strike in Pennsylvania.

1964: Future baseball Hall-of-Famer and U.S. senator Jim Bunning pitches a perfect game for the Philadelphia Phillies, the first perfect game in the National League in 84 years.

1964: The Haitian National Assembly adopts a new constitution that proclaims François "Papa Doc" Duvalier president for life. He remains dictator of the country until his death in 1971.

1978: Evita, a musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice based on the life of Argentine political figure Eva Perón, opens in London.

1997: The New York Liberty defeats the Los Angeles Sparks 67-57 in the inaugural game of the Women's National Basketball Association.
 
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