This day in history.....

May 29th


1453: Ottoman forces under Sultan Muhammad II storm Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire; the empire falls and the city becomes the capital of the Ottoman Empire.


1790: Rhode Island becomes the 13th U.S. state; it is the last of the original colonies to ratify the Constitution.


1854: U.S. President Franklin Pierce signs the Kansas-Nebraska Act, creating two new territories; settlers of the territories would determine the legality of slaveholding.


1953:New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Nepal are the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain.
 
Mare said:
May 29th


1453: Ottoman forces under Sultan Muhammad II storm Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire; the empire falls and the city becomes the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
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and we are still having to put up with them people
genocide anyone? A thousand years of peace?
Ya know nukes make total war an economical option
these days? Better livin' through technology!
 
May 30


1431: After being captured by Burgundian troops and then handed over to English troops, French military leader Joan of Arc is burned as a heretic in Rouen, France.


1783: The Pennsylvania Evening Post and Daily Advertiser is the first daily newspaper to be published in the United States.


1911: Ray Harroun wins the first Indianapolis 500 automobile race.


1971: The U.S. space probe Mariner 9 was launched on its mission to Mars; it becomes the first artificial satellite of another planet when it orbits Mars the following November.
 
May 31st


1790: President George Washington signs the first U.S. copyright act into law.


1889: Over 2000 people die when the South Fork Dam breaks, flooding the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.


1961: South Africa becomes an independent republic and withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.


1962: Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann is hanged by the State of Israel for his role in the extermination of millions of Jews during the Holocaust.


1994: The United States announces that it is no longer aiming long range nuclear missiles at the Soviet Union.
 
June 1st


1792: Kentucky becomes the 15th state in the Union.


1796: Tennessee enters the U.S. as the 16th state.


1813: In the War of 1812, naval commander James Lawrence, fatally wounded, tells his men "to fire faster and not to give up the ship," the source of the motto "Don't give up the ship."


1831: British Arctic explorer John Ross and his nephew James Clark Ross become the first Europeans to reach the magnetic north pole, on the Boothia Peninsula in northern Canada.


1925: Baseball player Lou Gehrig pinch hits for Pee Wee Wanninger, beginning his streak of 2,130 consecutive games played.


1938: Action Comics #1 is released, the first comic book featuring the Superman character created by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel.


2007: Today is the start of this years hurricane season.:rolleyes: :crap:
 
June 2nd


1883: President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom, a family friend 27 years his junior, becoming the first president married in the White House.


1946: Italians vote to replace the country's monarchy with a republic, leading to the abdication of King Humbert II.


1953: Queen Elizabeth II is coronated in Westminster Abbey, after succeeding her father, George VI, to the throne the previous year.


1957: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, interviewed on CBS's Face the Nation, declares, "Your grandchildren in America will live under socialism."


1999: The African National Congress wins 66 percent of the vote in South African elections, leading to the selection two weeks later of the party's leader, Thabo Mbeki, to succeed Nelson Mandela as president.
 
June 3rd


1937: American divorcee Wallis Simpson weds the Duke of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII, who had abdicated the British throne to marry her.


1948: The Hale telescope, the largest telescope in the world at the time, is dedicated at Mount Palomar Observatory in California.

1959: Singapore gains its independence from Britain, becoming a self-governing state in the Commonwealth of Nations.


1968: Valerie Solanas, an actor and author of the SCUM Manifesto, a pamphlet denouncing men, shoots and wounds artist Andy Warhol at his New York studio.


1989: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of Iran's Islamic revolution, dies, sending millions of Iranians into the streets in mourning.


1999: Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic agrees with NATO leaders on a peace plan that calls for the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from Kosovo.
 
June 4th


1827: The inaugural cricket match between Oxford University and Cambridge University takes place at the Lord's ground, London, England.


1896: In Detroit, Henry Ford test-drives his first automobile, the Quadricycle, a two-cylinder engine mounted on four bicycle wheels that has a top speed of 40 km/h (25 mph).


1936: Léon Blum becomes the first Socialist premier of France when he forms a Popular Front coalition government, which introduces a program of extensive social reform.


1942: Near the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean, American and Japanese air and sea forces begin the three-day Battle of Midway. The American victory there halts Japan's eastward push.


1987: After winning 107 straight times in the 400-meter hurdles, Edwin Moses loses his first race in nearly ten years when Danny Harris outruns him in Madrid, Spain.


1989: Months of student-led prodemocracy demonstrations in Beijing's Tiananmen Square end after the Chinese army crushes the protests.


2003: Television star Martha Stewart is indicted under charges including obstruction of justice and securities fraud, stemming from sales of stock in December 2001.
 
June 5th


1884: In response to Republican hopes that he will be the party's nominee for president, General William T. Sherman sends a telegram saying, "If nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve."


1900: Novelist, poet, and journalist Stephen Crane dies of tuberculosis at the age of 28, five years after his novel The Red Badge of Courage gained international acclaim.


1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs legislation taking the United States off the gold standard, which had required that all paper money and coin be redeemable in gold.


1947: The U.S. secretary of state, General George C. Marshall, calls for a European Recovery Program (the Marshall Plan), funded by the United States, to help European countries recover from World War II.

1967: On the first morning of the Six-Day War, Israel attacks Egypt. By the day's end Israeli forces will have virtually destroyed the air forces of both Egypt and Jordan.


1968: On the night he wins the California Democratic presidential primary, Robert F. Kennedy is shot by Sirhan B. Sirhan in Los Angeles. He dies of his wounds the next day.
 
June 6th


1703: Work begins on the city of Saint Petersburg, Russia, meant by Tsar Peter I (the Great) to be a “window on Europe.”


1884: The group of Republican Party dissidents known as the Mugwumps leaves the party convention, refusing to support its nominee for president, James G. Blaine.


1944: In the largest seaborne invasion in history, known as D-Day, over 120,000 Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy in German-occupied northern France.


1978: California voters overwhelmingly approve Proposition 13, which cuts local property taxes by more than two-thirds, sending many local governments into financial crisis.


1984: The Indian army attacks the sacred Golden Temple in Amritsar, killing hundreds of Sikh separatists headquartered there. Four months later, outraged Sikhs assassinate Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
 
June 7th


1832: The British Parliament, led by John Russell, passes the first Reform Bill, which broadly expands voting rights and reforms the borough system.

1864: Three years into the American Civil War, the Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for a second term as president.


1892: Homer Plessy, a Louisiana man of mixed black and white ancestry, takes a seat in a white-only train car, leading to the Plessy v. Ferguson decision upholding segregation.

1905: The Norwegian Störting (parliament) decides on the separation of Norway from Sweden.


1945: One of composer Benjamin Britten's most popular operas, Peter Grimes, makes its debut in London.


1965: In Griswold v. Connecticut, written by Justice William O. Douglas, the Supreme Court rules that laws banning birth control are an unconstitutional violation of privacy.
 
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.
Learn more about Howard Hughes.

632: Muhammad, the founder of Islam, dies in Medina.
 
June 9th


1815: The Congress of Vienna closes, having restored the balance of power in Europe following the end of the Napoleonic Wars.


1870: British novelist Charles Dickens dies of a stroke at age 58.


1954: During televised Senate hearings called by Senator Joseph McCarthy to investigate foreign espionage in the U.S. Army, army counsel Joseph Welch asks McCarthy, "Have you no sense of decency, sir?"


1973: Secretariat becomes the first horse to take the Thoroughbred Triple Crown in 25 years when he runs the Belmont Stakes in a record time, winning by an astounding 31 lengths.


1978: The Boston Celtics select Larry Bird with the sixth pick of the NBA draft. Although Bird returns to college for his senior season, the Celtics retain his rights and sign him the next year.
 
June 11th


1770: British captain James Cook becomes 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 13th


1900: The Boxer Uprising by supporters of the Society of Harmonious Fists begins in China, in opposition to the growth of European influence there.


1911: Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petruschka, performed by Sergey Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, debuts in Paris.


1966: In Miranda v. Arizona, the U.S. Supreme Court holds that police must inform criminal suspects of their legal rights before arresting and questioning them.

1967: President Lyndon Johnson nominates Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall to become the first African American Supreme Court justice.


1971: The New York Times publishes the Pentagon Papers, an internal government report on the Vietnam War that had been leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, a former Defense Department official.


1983: U.S. space probe Pioneer 10 passes Neptune, becoming the first human-made object to leave the solar system.
 
June 14th


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.
 
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."
 
June 17th


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 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.
 
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.
 
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