This day in history.....

June 23rd


1611: The mutinous crew of English explorer Henry Hudson, after a harsh winter with their ship frozen in Hudson Bay, puts Hudson and eight others adrift in a small boat. They are never seen again.


1845: The Congress of the Republic of Texas agrees to join the United States, following the wishes of the republic's leading figure, Sam Houston.


1848: During a year of revolution throughout Europe, French working-class radicals clash with government forces in the first of the June Days, in which thousands of workmen are killed.


1917: After Boston pitcher Babe Ruth is ejected for arguing the base on balls given to the first game's first batter, reliever Ernie Shore retires 27 straight men and is credited with a perfect game.


1947: Despite the veto of President Harry Truman, the U.S. Congress passes the Taft-Hartley Act, which significantly restricts the ability of labor unions to organize.

1961: The Antarctic Treaty (signed December 1, 1959) comes into effect. It pledges the 12 signatory nations to nonpolitical, scientific investigation of the continent and bars any military activity.


1994: The Nigerian military regime led by Sani Abacha arrests Moshood Abiola after he declares himself president of the country. Abiola was the apparent winner of the suspended presidential election in 1993.
 
June 24th


1314: In the Battle of Bannockburn, the decisive victory for Scottish independence, forces led by Robert Bruce, king of Scotland, defeat the troops of English king Edward II.

1497: An English expedition led by John Cabot makes the first recorded sighting of North America by a European, landing at what may have been Cape Breton Island.


1901: Painter Pablo Picasso has his first exhibit in Paris, at the age of 19.


1922: German nationalists assassinate foreign minister Walther Rathenau, a German Jew, in response to his policy of paying reparations for Germany's role in World War I.

1947: An American pilot reports seeing objects he describes as "saucers" flying near Mount Rainier in Washington, leading to the popular term "flying saucers."


1964: The Federal Trade Commission requires that a message be placed on all cigarette packages that warns consumers that cigarette smoking is dangerous to their health.
 
1964: The Federal Trade Commission requires that a message be placed on all cigarette packages that warns consumers that cigarette smoking is dangerous to their health.
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Wasn't this changed to or from may be dangerous etc...
 
June 26th


1876: A force of Sioux and Northern Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull wipes out about 260 U.S. cavalry led by General George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Big Horn.


1906: On the roof of New York City's old Madison Square Garden, a building he designed, leading American architect Stanford White is shot and killed by the jealous husband of beautiful showgirl Evelyn Nesbit.


1944: The final strip of George Herriman's innovative Krazy Kat comic strip appears, two months after Herriman's death.


1950: The Korean War begins with the crossing of the 38th parallel into South Korea by North Korean troops.

1973: Former White House counsel John Dean begins his televised testimony before the Senate Watergate committee. His account, corroborated by secret White House tapes, will lead to President Nixon's resignation.


1975: After 470 years of rule by Portugal, the former colony of Portuguese East Africa gains its independence as the nation of Mozambique.
 
Mare said:
1906: On the roof of New York City's old Madison Square Garden, a building he designed, leading American architect Stanford White is shot and killed by the jealous husband of beautiful showgirl Evelyn Nesbit.


1944: The final strip of George Herriman's innovative Krazy Kat comic strip appears, two months after Herriman's death.
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I don't see the conection....
 
June 26th


1483: In a royal drama later told by Shakespeare, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, takes the crown of England as Richard III, following the death of King Edward IV and the imprisonment of the young Edward V.


1858: China and Britain sign the Treaty of Tianjin, bringing a temporary end to the Second Opium War.


1870: In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the world's first oceanside boardwalk is completed. :beardbng:


1894: Railroad workers led by Eugene V. Debs begin a national strike in sympathy with employees at the Pullman railcar company. Later, troops sent by President Grover Cleveland put a violent end to the strike.


1925: The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin's epic comedy set in Alaska, opens. A critical and popular success, it is immediately acclaimed as a landmark in film history.


1963: President John F. Kennedy is received enthusiastically by the residents of West Berlin, divided from the eastern half of the city by the Berlin Wall, when he tells them, "Ich bin ein Berliner."
 
June 27th


1787: In Lausanne, Switzerland, Edward Gibbon completes the sixth and final volume of his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, one of the great works of history in the English language.


1844: American religious leader Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum, imprisoned in Illinois for treason and conspiracy, are taken from jail and killed by a mob.


1857: The Scientific American warns that whale oil, used for lighting, may soon run out due to overhunting.


1950: After the UN Security Council votes to repel the invasion of South Korea by North Korea, President Harry Truman orders U.S. forces into battle for South Korea.
 
1950: After the UN Security Council votes to repel the invasion of South Korea by North Korea, President Harry Truman orders U.S. forces into battle for South Korea.
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Which was funded, in the most part, by social securety. Amazing how times change...
 
June 28th


1778: In the Battle of Monmouth during the Revolutionary War, American forces led by General George Washington and aided by a woman known as Molly Pitcher defeat the British.


1841: The ballet Giselle premieres in Paris, with music by Adolph Charles Adam, choreography by Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli, and the title role danced by Carlotta Grisi.


1914: Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinates Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand, leading Austria-Hungary to declare war on Serbia a month later, beginning World War I.


1928: The plane of Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer who was the first person to reach the South Pole, disappears on a flight to rescue the Italian explorer Umberto Nobile in the Arctic.


1939: Pan American Airways debuts the first regular transatlantic air service, flying from New York to Lisbon, Portugal, and Marseilles, France.


1971: The Supreme Court overturns the conviction of boxer Muhammad Ali for draft evasion, finding that his refusal to fight in Vietnam is based on the religious principles of Islam.
 
June 29th


1613: The original Globe Theatre in London burns down accidentally when a cannon discharged during a performance of William Shakespeare's Henry VIII sets fire to the building's thatched roof.


1916: For his role in seeking German help for the Easter Rebellion in Ireland, Irish nationalist and longtime British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is executed by Britain for treason.


1940: Painter Paul Klee dies at age 60, succumbing to the skin and muscle disease that forced him to adopt a simpler style in his final works.


1954: The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission refuses to reinstate the security clearance of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic bomb," citing his past ties to Communists.


1956: At the U.S. Olympic Trials in Los Angeles, Glenn Davis breaks the 50-second barrier in the 400-meter hurdles on the same day that Charles Dumas becomes the first man to high jump seven feet.


1956: The U.S. Congress passes the Federal Highway Act, which provides for the construction of 68,000 km (42,500 mi) of interstate highways, based on a plan announced by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in June 1954.
 
June 30th


1859: French acrobat Charles Blondin, known as the Little Wonder, crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

1886: Nineteen-year-old Arturo Toscanini makes an acclaimed conducting debut in Brazil as a substitute for the scheduled conductor of the opera Aïda.


1921: President Warren Harding names former president William Howard Taft chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.


1934: In the "night of the long knives," Adolf Hitler purges the National Socialist, or Nazi, party of its paramilitary stormtrooper wing, killing hundreds of the party's most dedicated followers.


1936: Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia appeals in vain to the League of Nations to halt the Italian invasion of his country.


1936: Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind is published. An immediate bestseller, it becomes one of the most popular novels of the century.
 
July 1st


1823: The former Spanish colonies of Guatemala, San Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica form the Confederation of the United Provinces of Central America.

1863: The Union army takes heavy losses on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, considered the pivotal battle in the American Civil War.


1867: The British North America Act, passed by the British Parliament, goes into effect, joining four North American colonies in the Dominion of Canada.


1898: Theodore Roosevelt leads a group of volunteers known as the Rough Riders in their charge on San Juan Hill in Cuba at the beginning of the Spanish-American War.


1997: At the end of its 99-year lease on the territory, Britain returns Hong Kong to Chinese control.
 
July 3rd


1608: French explorer Samuel de Champlain establishes the first permanent European settlement in Canada, a trading post along the St. Lawrence River that becomes the city of Québec.


1775: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army of the American colonies at Cambridge, Massachusetts.


1819: The first savings bank in the United States opens: the Bank for Savings in New York City.


1863: A Confederate charge led by General George E. Pickett fails to break the Union line in the Battle of Gettysburg, sealing a Union victory and turning the tide of the Civil War.


1962: After a long and brutal colonial war and a vote by Algerians for independence, French president Charles de Gaulle proclaims the independence of Algeria from France.


1971: American rock singer Jim Morrison, leader of the Doors, dies in Paris of a drug overdose. :crap:
 
July 4th


1776: The American Continental Congress votes to approve the Declaration of Independence, in which the American colonies proclaim their separation from Britain.


1826: Fifty years to the day after the approval of the Declaration of Independence, which they both had a hand in drafting, former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on the same day.

1845: Writer Henry David Thoreau moves to a small hut by Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, where he lives alone for two years, writing a journal that is published as Walden in 1854.


1910: In Reno, Nevada, Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion, knocks out Jim Jefferies, who had retired in 1905 rather than face him. Afterwards, films of the fight are banned in many U.S. cities.

1934: Chemist Marie Curie, who discovered radium, dies of leukemia, a disease caused by prolonged exposure to radiation during her research.


1976: A midnight Israeli commando raid at Entebbe airport in Uganda, planned by future prime minister Ehud Barak, frees more than 100 hostages from an airliner hijacked by pro-Palestinian guerrillas.


Happy 4th of July!!!!!!!!!
 
July 5th


1811: Venezuela declares its independence from Spain under the leadership of Simón Bolívar and Francisco de Miranda.


1865: Methodist minister William Booth founds the Christian Mission in London, an evangelical and social-welfare ministry that becomes the Salvation Army in 1878.


1932: António de Oliveira Salazar becomes prime minister of Portugal, a country he rules as a dictator for the next 36 years.

1947: Outfielder Larry Doby debuts for the Cleveland Indians, becoming the first black player in baseball's American League. Three months earlier, Jackie Robinson joined the National League's Brooklyn Dodgers.

1948: The British government adopts the National Health Service Act, which establishes a national system of publicly funded medical services.


1954: Nineteen-year-old Elvis Presley has his first recording session at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. The session produces Presley's rendition of Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup's "That's All Right."
 
July 6th


1415: Religious reformer Jan Hus is burned at the stake as a heretic by the Catholic Church.


1699: Pirate captain William Kidd is arrested in Boston. Sent to trial in England, he is convicted and hanged two years later.


1854: The Republican Party is founded as an antislavery party by former members of the Whig, Democratic, Free Soil, and Know Nothing parties.


1885: French biologist Louis Pasteur uses his newly developed vaccine against rabies to save the life of a young boy, Joseph Meister, who was bitten by a rabid dog.


1917: Arab forces rebelling against the Ottoman Empire capture the port of Al 'Aqabah with the help of British adventurer T. E. Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia.


1957: Tennis player Althea Gibson becomes the first African American to win the Wimbledon championship. She wins the U.S. Open later that year and repeats the performance in 1958.
 
July 7th


1704: Stanislaw Leszczynski is elected king of Poland as Stanislaw I, at King Charles XII of Sweden's instigation, after the deposition of Augustus II the Strong in January.


1754: King's College opens in New York City under a grant from King George II. After the American Revolution it will be renamed Columbia University.


1946: Italian-born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini is canonized, becoming the first U.S. citizen to become a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.


1969: The Canadian government, led by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, designates English and French as the official languages of the country.


1981: President Ronald Reagan nominates Arizona judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court.


1987: Former National Security Council aide Oliver North begins his televised testimony in the Iran-Contra hearings, testifying that he took no action that was not approved by his superiors.
 
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