June 13th
 

1865 ~ Birthday of William Butler Yeats, Poet, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1923.

1944 ~ Germany launched the first V1 “Buzz Bomb” attack on England.

1966 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them (Miranda v. Arizona).

1967 ~ Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall was nominated as the first black Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

1970 ~ "The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' last #1 song.

1985 ~ Birthday of Lela Star, Porn Actress.

1986 ~ Death of Benny Goodman, the ''King of Swing,'.

1995 ~ French president Jacques Chirac announced the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.

1998 ~ Death of Reg Smythe, British comic artist (Andy Capp)

2005 ~ A jury acquitted Michael Jackson of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch.

1775 ~ The U.S. Army was founded.

1919 ~ John Alcock and Arthur Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.

1940 ~ WWII: German troops enter Paris.

1942 ~ Anne Frank began her diary.

1952 ~ The keel was laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.

1982 ~ Birthday of Lang Lang, Chinese pianist.

1982 ~ Argentine forces in the capital Port Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces, bringing the Falklands War to an end.

1991 ~ Death of Dame Peggy Ashcroft, British actress.

1994 ~ Death of Henry Mancini, American composer.

1995 ~ Death of Roger Zelazny, American fantasy and science fiction writer.

June 15th
 

1215 ~ King John put his seal to the Magna Carta at Runnymede, England.

1836 ~ Arkansas became the 25th state.

1844 ~ Charles Goodyear received a patent for a process to strengthen rubber.

1843 ~ Birthday of Edvard Grieg, Norwegian Composer.

1904 ~ More than 1,000 people died in a fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum.

1916 ~ President Wilson signed a bill granting a federal charter to the Boy Scouts of America, stating that their purpose is to:

"... promote, through organization, and cooperation with other agencies, the ability of boys to do things for themselves and others, to train them in scoutcraft, and to teach them patriotism, courage, self-reliance, and kindred virtues ..."

1978 ~ King Hussein of Jordan married Lisa Halaby, who became Queen Noor.

1995 ~ Death of John Vincent Atanasoff, computer pioneer.

1980 ~ Birthday Mary Carey, Candidate for Governor of California in 2003 & Porn Actress.

1996 ~ In Manchester, U.K., a terrorist bomb injured over 200 people.

June 16th
 

1829 ~ Birthday of Geronimo, Apache Warrior & Leader.

1858 ~ Abraham Lincoln gave his “House Divided” speach in Springfield, Illinois. A brilliant piece of argument!

1903 ~ The Ford Motor Company was incorporated.

1912 ~ Birthday of Enoch Powell, British politician.

1933 ~ Start of President Roosevelt’s New Deal.

1938 ~ Birthday of Joyce Carol Oates, novelist.

1963 ~ Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.

1976 ~ Riots broke out in the black South African township of Soweto.

1977 ~ Death of Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist.

1990 ~ Death of Megan Leigh, Porn Actress.

June 17th
 

1631 ~ Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Shah Jahan I, build her a tomb, the Taj Mahal.

1885 ~ The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York.

1898 ~ Birthday of M.C. Escher, Dutch Artist.

1928 ~ Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.

1945 ~ Birthday of Ken Livingstone, English politician (first Mayor of London).

1961 ~ Rudolf Nureyev defected at Le Bourget airport in Paris.

1966 ~ Birthday of Christy Canyon, former Porn Actress.

1974 ~ The Irish Republican Army bombed the UK’s House of Parliament.

1975 ~ Birthday of Chloe Jones, former Porn Actress.

1996 ~ Death of Thomas Kuhn, Philosopher of science (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions).

1945 ~ Birthday of Ken Livingstone, English politician (first Mayor of London).

Didn't Dick Whittington and a few dozen others get in before him?

I think he was the first "elected" Mayor of London. :shrug:

Dick Whittington, I believe, was appointed Lord Mayor of London ... three times maybe.

Dick Whittington was Lord Mayor of London several times.

June 18th
 

1178 ~ Five Canterbury monks saw what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed on the Moon.

1815 ~ British and Prussian troops defeated the French under Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in Belgium.

1928 ~ Death of Roald Amundsen, Explorer, first to the South Pole.

1942 ~ Birthday of Paul McCartney, Singer & Songwriter.

1942 ~ Birthday of Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.

1948 ~ The UN Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.

1967 ~ Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.

1974 ~ Death of Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union.

1979 ~ Presidents Carter and Brezhnev signed the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.

1983 ~ Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.

June 19th
 

1623 ~ Birthday of Blaise Pascal, Mathematician.

1865 ~ More two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas were finally informed of their freedom.

1896 ~ Birthday of Wallis Warfield, the future Duchess of Windsor.

1934 ~ The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was established.

1937 ~ Death of J.M. Barrie, Author, creator of the character Peter Pan.

1944 ~ First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

1945 ~ Birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, Politician, recipient of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.

1953 ~ Death of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, convicted spies.

1964 ~ The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving a filibuster in the Senate.

1982 ~ An Italian banker, Roberto Calvi, was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in London.

1623 ~ Death of Sir William Golding, English writer; Nobel laureate. (Lord of the Flies, Rites of Passage)

1623 ~ Death of Sir William Golding, English writer; Nobel laureate. (Lord of the Flies, Rites of Passage)

Testing us again jseal? 1993.

Dang! I always wince when I see you post to Strange Days, as it usually is to correct an error in my post.

Sorry 'bout that folks, good writer, tho'.

TY!

If an old friend can't keep you on your toes, it leaves room for newbies to horn in.

June 20th
 

1819 ~ Birthday of Jacques Offenbach, Composer.

1837 ~ Queen Victoria ascended to the British throne.

1877 ~ Alexander Graham Bell installed the first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario.

1899 ~ Birthday of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance in WW II.

1909 ~ Birthday of Errol Flynn, Actor.

1942 ~ Birthday of Brian Wilson, one of The Beach Boys.

1948 ~ The Ed Sullivan Show, (née Toast of the Town) debuted.

1967 ~ Muhammad Ali was convicted of violating Selective Service laws.

1995 ~ Shell Oil abandoned plans to dump its Brent Spar oil rig at sea.

2002 ~ Death of Erwin Chargaff, biochemist.

June 21st
 

1527 ~ Death of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian Historian & Political Author.

1905 ~ Birthday of Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher & Playwright, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1964.

1908 ~ Death of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Composer.

1919 ~ Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttled the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney.

1945 ~ The battle for Okinawa ended; 12,520 Americans and 110,000 Japanese were killed in the 83-day campaign.

1964 ~ Three civil rights workers disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss. Their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later.

1984 ~ Birthday of Alicia Alighatti, Porn Actress.

1989 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that flag burning is protected speech under the Constitution.

2004 ~ SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded space plane to achieve spaceflight.

2005 ~ Death of Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila.