|
June 21st
1527 ~ Death of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian Historian & Political Author.
1788 ~ The U.S. Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it. 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. 1970 ~ Birthday of Sindee Coxx, Porn actress. 1985 ~ Birthday of Jujubee, drag queen. 1989 ~ Madison Parker, 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. |
June 22nd
1874 ~ Death of Howard Staunton, English chess master, and inspiration for the standard for tournament chess pieces.
1940 ~ WWII: France forced to sign armistice with Germany. 1941 ~ WWII: Germany invaded the USSR. 1969 ~ Death of Judy Garland, Singer & Actress. 1976 ~ Canadian House of Commons voted to abolish capital punishment. 1986 ~ Diego Maradona scored both the Hand of God goal and the Goal of the Century against England during the FIFA World Cup in Mexico City. 1987 ~ Death of Fred Astaire, Dancer & Actor. 1978 ~ Discovery of the first satellite of Pluto, Charon. 1990 ~ Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin was dismantled. 2002 ~ Death of Ann Landers, Columnist. |
June 23rd
1894 ~ Birthday of Alfred Kinsey, Sexologist.
1912 ~ Birthday of Alan Turing, Mathematician. 1927 ~ Birthday of Bob Fosse, Choreographer. 1940 ~ Adolf Hitler toured Paris in now occupied France. 1943 ~ Birthday of Vint Cerf, co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and one of the “Fathers of the Internet". 1947 ~ President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act overridden. 1956 ~ Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt. 1985 ~ An Air India Boeing 747 was blown apart off the coast of Ireland by Sikh extremists. 1993 ~ Lorena Bobbitt sexually mutilated her husband after he allegedly raped her. 1995 ~ Death of Jonas Salk, developer of the Salk polio vaccine. |
June 24th
1314 ~ Scotland regained its independence in the Battle of Bannockburn, when Scotland's King Robert I defeated the English.
1519 ~ Death of Lucrezia Borgia, duchess of Ferrara. 1896 ~ Birthday of Jack Dempsey, Heavyweight boxer. 1910 ~ Japan invaded Korea. 1915 ~ Birthday of Fred Hoyle, cosmologist and science fiction author. 1948 ~ Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the U.S. to organize the Berlin Airlift. 1947 ~ Birthday of Mick Fleetwood, English drummer and actor (Fleetwood Mac) 1957 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment. 1985 ~ STS-51-G Discovery completed its mission, with Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as the Payload Specialist. 1997 ~ The Roswell Incident debunked by the USAF. |
June 25th
1876 ~ Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out in the Battle of Little Big Horn.
1894 ~ Birthday of Hermann Oberth, Physicist & one of the founding fathers of Rocketry and Astronautics. 1903 ~ Birthday of George Orwell, Writer. 1950 ~ The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. 1975 ~ Birthday of Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player. 1991 ~ Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from Yugoslavia. 1993 ~ Kim Campbell became the first female Prime Minister of Canada. 1997 ~ An unmanned cargo ship crashed into Russia's Mir space station, knocking out half of the station's power and rupturing a pressurized laboratory. 1998 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 unconstitutional. 2009 ~ Death of Michael Jackson, Pop Icon. |
June 26th
1824 ~ Birthday of Lord Kelvin, Physicist.
1898 ~ Birthday of Willy Messerschmitt, Aircraft Designer. 1933 ~ Birthday of Claudio Abbado, Conductor. 1934 ~ Initial flight of the first practical helicopter, the Focke-Wulf 61. You must scroll down a bit through the Hanna Reitsch page to get to the FW-61 entry, but her write up of her experience it is an interesting read. 1959 ~ Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower inaugurated the St Lawrence Seaway. 1963 ~ President Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he offered American solidarity to the citizens of West Germany: "Ich bin ein Berliner". 1964 ~ The Beatles released the album A Hard Day's Night. 1997 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Communications Decency Act violated the First Amendment, and thus unconstitutional. 2003 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas. 2007 ~ Liz Claiborne, Belgian born fashion designer. |
2007 ~ Liz Claiborne, Belgian born fashion designer.
Yep, she died. |
June 27th
1829 ~ Death of James Smithson, English scientist and philanthropist.
1838 ~ Birthday of Paul von Mauser, Weapon Designer. 1880 ~ Birthday of Helen Keller, spokeswoman for the Deaf and Blind. 1905 ~ Mutiny on the battleship Potemkin. 1950 ~ The U.S. decided to send armed forces to fight in the Korean War. 1954 ~ The world's first nuclear power station went on line in Obninsk, near Moscow. 1957 ~ First British Smoking Causes Lung Cancer report released. 1967 ~ The world's first ATM installed in Enfield, London. 2001 ~ Death of Jack Lemmon, Actor & Film Director. 2007 ~ Tony Blair resigned as Prime Minister of the UK. |
June 28th
1577 ~ Birthday of Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque Painter.
1712 ~ Birthday of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Franco-Swiss Philosopher. 1880 ~ The Australian bushranger Ned Kelly was captured at Glenrowan. 1919 ~ The Treaty of Versailles was signed, ending World War I. 1926 ~ Birthday of Mel Brooks, Filmmaker. 1969 ~ The Stonewall Riots began in New York City marking an inflexion point in the Gay Rights Movement. 1978 ~ In 'Regents of the University of California v. Bakke', the U.S. Supreme Court barred quota systems in college admissions. 1992 ~ Death of Mikhail Tal, eighth World Chess Champion. 2004 ~ The U.S.-led coalition transferred sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government. 2006 ~ Death of George Unwin, British WWII fighter ace. |
June 29th
1861 ~ Death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet. “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…”
1895 ~ Death of Thomas Henry Huxley, Scientist. "Darwin's Bulldog" 1922 ~ France granted 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes". 1963 ~ Birthday of Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violinist. 1971 ~ Birthday of Kaitlyn Ashley, Porn Actress. 1974 ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet. 1974 ~ Isabel Peron is sworn in as first female president for Argentina. 1995 ~ U.S. Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with Russian space station Mir. 2003 ~ Death of Katharine Hepburn, Actress. 2007 ~ Apple released the iPhone. |
June 30th
1817 ~ Birthday of Joseph Dalton Hooker, Botanist & Champion of Charles Darwin.
1905 ~ During his annus mirabilis, Albert Einstein published the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies (PDF) in which he introduced special relativity. 1908 ~ Tunguska impact event occurred in Siberia. 1934 ~ Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany took place. 1936 ~ ''Gone with the Wind'' by Margaret Mitchell published. 1943 ~ Birthday of Florence Ballard, American Singer (The Supremes). 1971 ~ The crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft died when the landing capsule depressurized after separating from the main craft. 1985 ~ Birthday of Mike Tyson, American boxer. 1990 ~ East and West Germany merged their economies. 1997 ~ The UK returned sovereignty over Hong Kong to the PRC. |
July 1st
1646 ~ Birthday of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German Mathematician & Philosopher.
1863 ~ The American Civil War battle of Gettysburg began. 1916 ~ On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 18,000 British soldiers were killed, and 40,000 wounded. 1925 ~ Death of Erik Satie, French Composer. 1963 ~ The British Government admitted that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent. 1979 ~ Sony introduced the Walkman. 1980 ~ "O Canada" became the national anthem of Canada. 2000 ~ Death of Walter Matthau, Actor. 2004 ~ Cassini-Huygens was successfully inserted into orbit around Saturn. 2004 ~ Death of Marlon Brando, Actor. |
July 2nd
1937 ~ Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.
1947 ~ Something the Army Air Force later said was a weather balloon crashed near Roswell, N.M. Eyewitness accounts gave rise to speculation it might have been an alien spacecraft. 1961 ~ Death of Ernest Hemingway, Author, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1954. 1964 ~ President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. 1966 ~ France began nuclear weapons testing at Moruroa in the South Pacific. 1982 ~ Larry Walters attached 45 helium balloons to a lawn chair and ascended into history and to a height of 11,000 feet. 1997 ~ Death of Jimmy Stewart, Actor. 1999 ~ Death of Mario Puzo, Author (The Godfather). 2002 ~ Steve Fossett became the first man to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon. 2007 ~ Death of Beverly Sills, Opera Soprano. |
July 3rd
1863 ~ The final day of the battle of Gettysburg.
1935 ~ Death of André Citroën, Automobile Pioneer. 1938 ~ World speed record, 126 mph, set for a steam railway locomotive, by the Mallard. 1962 ~ Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule. 1962 ~ Birthday of Birthday of Kate Asabuki, a former Japanese Porn actress. 1965 ~ Death of Trigger, Roy Rogers's horse. 1969 ~ Death of Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones). 1969 ~ A test flight of the Soviet N1 rocket ended in a spectactular failure. 1971 ~ Death of Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors. 1988 ~ USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf. |
July 4th
1776 ~ The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.
1845 ~ American writer Henry David Thoreau began a two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond near Concord, Mass. 1934 ~ Death of Marie Curie, Polish-born scientist, recipient of he Nobel Prize in Physics 1903. 1964 ~ Birthday of Rachel Ashley, a former Porn Actress. 1971 ~ Birthday of Koko, the sign-language gorilla. 1976 ~ The U.S. celebrated its Bicentennial. 1976 ~ Israeli commandos rescued 100 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda. 1982 ~ Birthday of Hannah Harper, English Porn Actress. 2006 ~ North Korea tested four short-range, one medium-range, and a long-range missle over the Sea of Japan. 2012 ~ The discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider was announced at CERN. |
| All times are GMT -5. The time now is 11:40 AM. |
Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.0.10
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.