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May 8th
1794 ~ French chemist Antoine Lavoisier was tried, convicted, and guillotined all on one day in Paris.
1873 ~ Death of John Stuart Mill, Empiricist Philosopher. 1895 ~ Birthday of Fulton J. Sheen, bishop and television personality. 1968 ~ Birthday of Jamie Summers, American porn star. 1973 ~ The Second Battle of Wounded Knee ended. 1978 ~ David Berkowitz pleaded guilty to the ''Son of Sam'' killings. 1984 ~ The Soviet Union announced that it would boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics. 1985 ~ Death of Theodore Sturgeon, Science Fiction writer. 1988 ~ Death of Robert Heinlein, Science Fiction writer. 1999 ~ The Citadel, South Carolina's formerly all-male military school, graduated its first female cadet. |
May 9th
1874 ~ Birthday of Howard Carter, British archaeologist.
1901 ~ Australia opened its first parliament in Melbourne. 1903 ~ Death of Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist painter. 1931 ~ Death of Albert Michelson, Physicist, awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics. 1949 ~ Birthday of Billy Joel, American musician. 1961 ~ Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles became the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings. 1972 ~ Israeli commandos liberated a hijacked Sabena airliner at Lod airport in Tel Aviv. 1974 ~ The U.S. Congress’s House Judiciary Committee opened hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon. 1986 ~ Death of Tenzing Norgay, Mountaineer. 1994 ~ Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa's first black president. |
May 11th
1904 ~ Birthday of Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter.
1918 ~ Birthday of Richard Feynman, American Physicist. 1973 ~ Charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed. 1981 ~ Death of Bob Marley, Reggae musician. 1987 ~ The first heart-lung transplant took place in Baltimore, Maryland. 1988 ~ Death of Kim Philby, Spy. 1997 ~ IBM's Deep Blue chess-playing supercomputer defeated Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player. 1998 ~ India announced that it had tested a group of nuclear weapons. 2001 ~ Death of Douglas Adams, Science Fiction author. 2003 ~ Death of Noel Redding, the bass guitarist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience. |
May 12th
1820 ~ Birthday of Florence Nightingale, Nurse.
1845 ~ Birthday of Gabriel Fauré, Composer. 1884 ~ Death of Bedrich Smetana, Composer. 1889 ~ Death of John Cadbury, Chocolate Entrepreneur. 1918 ~ Birthday of Julius Rosenberg, Spy. 1942 ~ The start of Second Battle of Kharkov: During the battle the Soviets recapture the city of Kharkov from the German Army, then were encircled and destroyed. 1943 ~ Axis forces in North Africa surrendered. 1962 ~ Douglas MacArthur delivered his famous "Duty, Honor, Country" valedictory speech at West Point. 1971 ~ Mick Jagger married Bianca Perez Morena de Macias in St Tropez. 2003 ~ Al Qaeda killed 26 people in the Riyadh compound bombings. |
May 13th
1787 ~ Captain Arthur Phillip left Portsmouth, England with eleven ships of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
1842 ~ Birthday of Sir Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert & Sullivan, Composer. 1861 ~ Queen Victoria issued a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognized the breakaway Confederate states as having belligerent rights. 1888 ~ Brazil abolished slavery. 1912 ~ The Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) was established in the U.K. 1940 ~ Winston Churchill made his "blood, tears, toil and sweat" speech to the House of Commons. 1979 ~ Birthday of Lauren Phoenix, Canadian Porn Actress. 1981 ~ Mehmet Ali Agca attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Square in Rome. 1981 ~ Birthday of Sunny Leone, Canadian/American Porn Actress. 1995 ~ Alison Hargreaves became the first woman to climb Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas. |
May 14th
1787 ~ Delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution.
1925 ~ Death of H. Rider Haggard, Author. 1948 ~ The independent state of Israel was proclaimed. 1955 ~ The USSR and seven other communist bloc countries signed a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact. 1969 ~ Birthday of Cate Blanchett, Australian actress (Galadriel). 1973 ~ Skylab 1, the first American space station, was launched. 1978 ~ Death of Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia. 1987 ~ Death of Rita Hayworth, American actress. 1998 ~ Death of Frank Sinatra, Singer & Actor. 2004 ~ Piers Morgan was fired as editor of the Daily Mirror for publishing photographs of alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers that were shown to be fake. |
May 15th
1869 ~ Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association in New York city.
1886 ~ Death of Emily Dickinson, Poet. 1911 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Standard Oil Company, requiring its break up under the Sherman Anti-Trust act. 1919 ~ The Winnipeg General Strike began. 1930 ~ Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess, on a flight from Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois. 1953 ~ Birthday of Mike Oldfield, English composer (Tubular Bells). 1957 ~ Britain tested its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. 1972 ~ George C. Wallace was shot and left paralyzed while campaigning for the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination. 1988 ~ The Soviet Union began withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan. 1991 ~ Edith Cresson became France's first female Prime Minister. |
May 16th
1868 ~ The U.S. Senate failed to convict President Andrew Johnson of the articles of impeachment against him.
1943 ~ The Jewish Warsaw ghetto uprising ended. 1955 ~ Birthday of Olga Korbut, gymnast. 1966 ~ Birthday of Janet Jackson, Super Bowl Half Time Flasher. 1966 ~ The Chinese Cultural Revolution started when The Communist Party issued the "May 16 Notice". 1969 ~ The Soviet space probe Venera 5 landed on Venus. 1979 ~ Birthday of McKenzie Lee, English pornographic actress. 1990 ~ Death of Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer. 2002 ~ Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones opened in theaters. 2005 ~ Newsweek magazine retracted its Koran abuse story that started protests in Afghanistan. |
May 17th
1749 ~ Birthday of Edward Jenner, inventor of vaccination.
1838 ~ Death of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat. 1935 ~ Death of Paul Dukas, French composer. 1936 ~ Birthday of Dennis Hopper, Actor & Director. 1943 ~ The RAF carried out the Dambusters raid. 1954 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court issued their decision in Brown v. Board of Education. 1974 ~ Thirty-three people were killed by terrorist bombings in Ireland. 1992 ~ Death of Lawrence Welk, American musician. 1996 ~ President Bill Clinton signed a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in - Megan's Law. 2004 ~ Same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts. |
May 18th
1872 ~ Birthday of Bertrand Russell, Logician & Philosopher, awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 1950.
1910 ~ The Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet. 1911 ~ Death of Gustav Mahler, Austrian Composer. 1919 ~ Birthday of Dame Margot Fonteyn, Ballet dancer. 1937 ~ Birthday of Brooks Robinson, Baseball Hall of Famer. 1944 ~ Monte Cassino fell to the Allies. 1974 ~ India became the sixth nuclear nation by successfully detonated its first nuclear weapon. 1975 ~ Death of Leroy Anderson, American Composer. 1980 ~ Mount St. Helens in Washington state exploded, leaving 57 people dead or missing. 1993 ~ In a penetrating comment on the European notion of democracy, the second attempt to ratify the Maastricht Treaty, which could not come into effect unless ratified by all members of the European Union, was placed before the Danes. When the result of the referendum was announced, the outcome and frustrations about the referendum being held only a year after the Danes had rejected the previous treaty led to riots in the Nørrebro area of Copenhagen, during which the police fired into a crowd. 11 people were subsequently treated for gunshot wounds. |
May 19th
1536 ~ Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England was beheaded for adultery.
1795 ~ Birthday of Johns Hopkins, Philanthropist. 1890 ~ Birthday of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader. 1921 ~ The U.S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants. 1925 ~ Birthday of Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge leader. 1935 ~ Death of T. E. Lawrence, English soldier ("Lawrence of Arabia"). 1965 ~ Tui Malila, the longest living animal known, died in Tonga at the age of either 188 or 192. 1983 ~ Birthday of Eve Angel, Hungarian Porn Actress. 2001 ~ Sun Zhonghua was killed by People's Republic of China government officials because she refused to be sterilized under the "One child" policy. 2004 ~ PM Blair hit with a purple flour filled condom. |
May 20th
1873 ~ Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
1883 ~ The eruption of Krakatoa began, leading ultimately to the volcano's destruction three months later. 1896 ~ Death of Clara Schumann, German Pianist and Composer. 1901 ~ Birthday of Max Euwe, Dutch world chess champion. 1927 ~ Charles Lindbergh took off from Long Island, New York, on the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, arriving in Paris the next day. 1940 ~ The first prisoners arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp. 1961 ~ U.S. marshals were sent to restore order in Montgomery, Alabama. 1989 ~ Death of Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress. 2000 ~ Death of Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist. 2002 ~ Death of Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist. |
May 21st
1832 ~ The first Democratic National Convention got under way, in Baltimore, Maryland.
1881 ~ Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross. 1921 ~ Birthday of Andrei Sakharov, physicist and human rights activist, awarded the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize. 1924 ~ Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing". 1933 ~ Birthday of Maurice André, trumpeter. 1978 ~ Birthday of Briana Banks, Porn Actress. 1979 ~ Birthday of Jesse Capelli, Canadian Porn Actress. 1991 ~ Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a female suicide bomber. 2000 ~ Death of Sir John Gielgud, British actor. 2004 ~ Stanislav Petrov was awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in 1983. |
May 22nd
1813 ~ Birthday of Richard Wagner, Composer.
1840 ~ Transporting British convicts to the New South Wales colony was abolished. 1856 ~ In one of the more impressive expressions of American democracy, Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beat Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the U.S. Senate because of a speech Sumner had made which attacked Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas. 1859 ~ Birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Physician & Writer. 1885 ~ Death of Victor Hugo, French author. 1907 ~ Birthday of Sir Laurence Olivier, Actor & Director. 1907 ~ Birthday of Hergé, comic book creator. 1947 ~ The Truman Doctrine was enacted. 1969 ~ The lunar module of Apollo 10 separated from the command module and flew to within nine miles of the moon's surface in a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing. 1972 ~ Ceylon became the republic of Sri Lanka, adopted a new constitution, and joined the British Commonwealth. |
May 23rd
1430 ~ Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English.
1701 ~ Captain William Kidd was hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and murder. 1848 ~ Birthday of Otto Lilienthal, aviation pioneer. 1873 ~ Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established. 1906 ~ Death of Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer. 1908 ~ Birthday of John Bardeen, the only man to have been awarded the Nobel prize in Physics twice; 1956 & 1972. 1934 ~ Death of Bonnie and Clyde, Outlaws. 1951 ~ The Tibetan government is forced to sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with the People's Republic of China. 1951 ~ Birthday of Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. 1962 ~ Raoul Salan, the leader of the Secret Army Organisation (OAS) was sentenced to life imprisonment. |
May 24th
1819 ~ Birthday of Queen Victoria.
1844 ~ The first telegram was sent by Samuel Morse, from Baltimore, Maryland to Washington, D.C., saying "What hath God wrought?". 1883 ~ The Brooklyn Bridge was opened. 1941 ~ The German battleship Bismarck sank the battlecruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic, killing all but three crewmen. 1941 ~ Birthday of Bob Dylan, Singer and Songwriter. 1969 ~ Death of Willy Ley, rocket scientist. 1976 ~ BOAC and Air France opened trans-Atlantic Concorde service to Washington. 1995 ~ Death of Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 2001 ~ 23 people were killed and hundreds injured at a wedding party in Jerusalem when the floor collapsed. 2001 ~ Democrats gained control of the U.S. Senate for when Sen. Jeffords of Vermont declared himself an independent. |
May 25th
1803 ~ Birthday of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a Quotable Individual.
1895 ~ Playwright Oscar Wilde was convicted of a morals charge in London and sentenced to prison. 1925 ~ John T. Scopes was indicted in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. 1926 ~ Birthday of Miles Davis, Jazz Musician 1929 ~ Birthday of Beverly Sills, Soprano. 1934 ~ Death of Gustav Holst, English composer. 1953 ~ The U.S. conducted its only nuclear artillery test. 1961 ~ President Kennedy set the US goal to put the first man on the moon by the end of that decade. 1963 ~ The Organisation of African Unity was set up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 1982 ~ HMS Coventry was sunk during the Falklands War. |
May 26th
1703 ~ Death of Samuel Pepys, English civil servant, famous for his diary.
1868 ~ The Senate impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal. 1896 ~ The first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average published 1897 ~ Bram Stoker's novel Dracula went on sale in London. 1907 ~ Birthday of Rachel Carson, Environmental writer. 1908 ~ The first commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made at Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Iran. 1928 ~ Birthday of Jack Kevorkian, Physician. 1951 ~ Birthday of Sally Ride, Astronaut. 1966 ~ Birthday of Zola Budd, South African athlete. 2002 ~ The Mars Odyssey found signs of water ice deposits on the planet Mars. |
May 27th
1877 ~ Birthday of Isadora Duncan, Dancer.
1923 ~ Birthday of Henry Kissinger, American diplomat, recipient of The Nobel Peace Prize 1973. 1933 ~ The Walt Disney Co. released the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? 1934 ~ Birthday of Harlan Ellison, Science Fiction author. 1941 ~ The German battleship Bismarck was sunk. 1963 ~ Jomo Kenyatta led his party, Kenya African Nation Union, to victory in the Kenya’s first general election. 1964 ~ Death of Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India’s first PM. 1976 ~ Birthday of Anita Blonde, Hungarian Porn Actress. 1995 ~ Actor Christopher Reeve (Superman) was paralyzed when he was thrown from his horse during a jumping event. 1997 ~ The Supreme Court ruled that Paula Jones could pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton while he was in office. |
May 28th
1908 ~ Birthday of Ian Fleming, author of James Bond books.
1925 ~ Birthday of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone. 1934 ~ Birthday of The Dionne quintuplets, the world's first surviving quintuplets. 1936 ~ Alan Turing submitted On Computable Numbers for publication. 1964 ~ The Palestine Liberation Organization was formed. 1971 ~ Death of Audie Murphy, American actor & war hero. 1987 ~ Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses. 1984 ~ President Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War. 1996 ~ President Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James & Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, were convicted of fraud. 1998 ~ Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts. |
May 29th
1903 ~ Birthday of Bob Hope, British-born Comedian & Actor.
1906 ~ Birthday of T.H. White, English author. 1913 ~ Igor Stravinsky's ballet score “The Rite of Spring” premiered in Paris. 1917 ~ Birthday of John Kennedy, U.S. President. 1919 ~ Arthur Eddington's observation of shifted star positions during a solar eclipse confirmed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. 1953 ~ Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest. 1972 ~ Three Japanese Red Army gunmen opened fire on crowds at Lod (now Ben Gurion) International Airport, Israel, killing 26 people and injuring dozens more. 1998 ~ Death of Barry Goldwater, U.S. senator & presidential candidate. 1999 ~ The Discovery Space Shuttle completed the first docking with the International Space Station. 2005 ~ French voters rejected the European Union's proposed constitution. |
May 30th
1431 ~ Death of Joan of Arc, Condemned Heretic (burned at the stake in Rouen, France).
1778 ~ Death of Voltaire, French philosopher & Author. 1912 ~ Death of Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer, the elder of the Wright Brothers. 1926 ~ Birthday of Christine Jorgensen, transsexual activist. 1942 ~ 1,047 British bombers launched a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany. 1964 ~ Death of Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American nuclear physicist. 1982 ~ Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr played the first of 2,632 consecutive games. His streak ended on September 20, 1998. 1989 ~ The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue was unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators. 1997 ~ Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka - a case that inspired ''Megan's Law", which requires that communities be notified when sex offenders move in. 2001 ~ Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas was convicted of corruption. Interestingly, that month, prosecutors dropped their case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn – a former finance minister in Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's cabinet, and the same DSK who has now been charged in NYC with sexual assault - for forgery and misappropriation of funds. |
May 31st
1678 ~ The first Godiva Procession, in commemoration of the legendary ride.
1819 ~ Birthday of Walt Whitman, American Poet. 1889 ~ A dam broke near Johnstown, Pa, drowning more than 2,000. 1916 ~ British and German fleets fought the Battle of Jutland off Denmark. 1923 ~ Birthday of Prince Rainier III of Monaco. 1927 ~ The Ford Model T assembly line shut down after a production run of 15,007,003. 1938 ~ Birthday of Peter Yarrow, American folk singer ("Peter, Paul and Mary"). 1957 ~ Playwright Arthur Miller was convicted of contempt of Congress. 1993 ~ Death of Spuds Mackenzie, the original party animal. 1996 ~ Death of Timothy Leary, LSD advocate. |
June 1st
1494 ~ :angel: Friar John Cor :angel: recorded the first known batch of scotch whisky.
1804 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer. 1918 ~ The Battle for Belleau Wood began, during which came forth the famous phrase "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" Heroes indeed! 1926 ~ Birthday of Marilyn Monroe, Actress. 1938 ~ Action Comics issued the first Superman comic. 1958 ~ Charles de Gaulle became premier of France. 1968 ~ Death of Helen Keller, American humanitarian. 1967 ~ The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released. 1990 ~ President Bush and General Secretary Gorbachev signed a treaty to end chemical weapon production. 2009 ~ General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. |
June 2nd
1740 ~ Birthday of Marquis de Sade, Famous French Pervert.
1835 ~ Start of P.T. Barnum’s circus’ first tour of the U.S. 1840 ~ Birthday of Thomas Hardy, Poet & Novelist. 1897 ~ Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he was dead, was quoted as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration." 1946 ~ Italians voted to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. 1953 ~ Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. 1966 ~ First U.S. Lunar soft landing, by Surveyor 1. 1990 ~ Death of Rex Harrison, English actor. 1994 ~ Death of David Stove, Australian philosopher of Science. 2003 ~ ESA’s Mars Express was launched. |
June 3rd
1875 ~ Death of Georges Bizet, French composer.
1888 ~ The poem Casey at the Bat, by Ernest Thayer, was published in the SF Examiner. 1899 ~ Death of Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer. 1924 ~ Death of Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist. 1926 ~ Birthday of Allen Ginsberg, American poet. 1937 ~ The Duke of Windsor married American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson, for whom he had abdicated the British throne. 1965 ~ Edward White became the first American astronaut to walk in space. 1969 ~ The science fiction television series Star Trek aired its final new episode after being canceled by NBC. 1982 ~ The Israeli ambassador to Britain was shot on a London street. 1989 ~ Death of Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader. |
June 4th
1798 ~ Death of Giacomo Casanova, Italian Lover.
1928 ~ Birthday of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, German-American Sex Therapist. 1940 ~ The Allies completed the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk, France. 1944 ~ Birthday of Michelle Phillips, American Singer (The Mamas & the Papas). 1975 ~ Birthday of Angelina Jolie, American Actress. 1984 ~ The album ''Born in the U.S.A.'' by Bruce Springsteen was released. 1919 ~ Birthday of Jenaveve Jolie, Mexican-American Porn Actress . 1986 ~ Jonathan Pollard pleaded guilty to espionage for selling top secret U.S. military intelligence to Israel. 1989 ~ The Tiananmen Square Massacre. 1998 ~ Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. |
June 5th
1723 ~ Birthday of Adam Smith, Scottish Economist.
1883 ~ Birthday of John Keynes, English Economist. 1944 ~ The first of the three Axis capitals, Rome, was liberated. 1947 ~ At a speech at Harvard University, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall called for economic aid to Europe. 1961 ~ Death of Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist. 1963 ~ UK Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigned over a sex scandal. 1967 ~ Israel began the “Six Day War” with a pre-emptive attack on Egypt. 1968 ~ Sen. Robert Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles, CA. 1975 ~ Death of Paul Keres, Estonian chess player. 1977 ~ The first practical personal computer, the Apple II, went on sale. |
June 6th
1844 ~ The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London.
1868 ~ Birthday of Robert Falcon Scott, English Explorer. 1901 ~ Birthday of Sukarno, first President of Indonesia. 1944 ~ D-Day began with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. 1956 ~ Birthday of Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player. 1983 ~ Birthday of Gianna Michaels, Porn Actress. 1984 ~ Indian troops stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar. 1985 ~ Authorities in Brazil exhumed a body later identified as that of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who conducted medical experiments on inmates at Auschwitz. 2002 ~ A Near Earth Object (NEO), estimated at 10 metres diameter, exploded over the Mediterranean Sea. The explosion is estimated to have been roughly equal to that used at Nagasaki. 2002 ~ The Wye Oak, Maryland's honorary state tree, was destroyed in a thunderstorm. |
June 7th
1099 ~ Beginning of Siege of Jerusalem.
1848 ~ Birthday of Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist Painter. 1897 ~ Birthday of George Szell, Hungarian Conductor. 1917 ~ Birthday of Dean Martin, Singer & Actor. 1929 ~ Vatican City became a sovereign state. 1942 ~ The U.S. beat the Japanese in the Battle of Midway. 1954 ~ Death of Alan Turing, Mathematician, Computer Scientist. 1981 ~ The Israeli Air Force destroyed Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor. 2000 ~ U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft. 2008 ~ Death of Jim McKay, Sports Announcer. |
June 8th
632 ~ Death of Muhammad, founder of Islam.
1810 ~ Birthday of Robert Schumann, Composer. 1874 ~ Death of Cochise, Apache leader. 1887 ~ Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punch card calculator. 1916 ~ Birthday of Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS, most noted for being one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1962. 1910 ~ Death of George Mallory, English mountain climber. 1949 ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell was published. 1968 ~ James Earl Ray was arrested in London in connection with the murder of Martin Luther King. 1982 ~ An Argentine air attack sank the Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram supply ships in the Falklands. 1998 ~ Charlton Heston assumed the presidency of the National Rifle Association. |
June 9th
1870 ~ Death of Charles Dickens, English author.
1891 ~ Birthday of Cole Porter, Composer. 1934 ~ Donald Duck debuted in The Wise Little Hen. 1954 ~ Beginning of the end of the McCarthy Era. 1959 ~ The USS George Washington launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles ("Boomers"). 1963 ~ Birthday of Johnny Depp, Actor (Edward Scissorhands, Pirates of the Caribbean++). 1970 ~ Assassination attempt on King Hussein of Jordan. 1973 ~ Secretariat won the Triple Crown. 1983 ~ Birthday of Alektra Blue, Porn Actress. 2004 ~ The FCC agreed to a $1.75 million settlement with Clear Channel to resolve indecency complaints against Howard Stern and other radio personalities. |
June 10th
1829 ~ First Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge.
1846 ~ The California Republic declared independence from Mexico. 1921 ~ Birthday of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. 1922 ~ Birthday of Judy Garland, Singer & Actress. 1967 ~ End of the Six-Day War. 1971 ~ Death of Michael Rennie, English actor (Klaatu in the classic science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still"). 1977 ~ The Apple II personal computer started shipping. 1998 ~ Death of Hammond Innes, English author. 1999 ~ Yugoslav troops departed Kosovo, prompting NATO to suspend its air war. 2004 ~ Death of Ray Charles, Singer & Musician. |
June 11th
1892 ~ The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, opened in Melbourne.
1937 ~ Death of R. J. Mitchell, British aircraft designer, developer of the Spitfire. 1939 ~ Birthday of Jackie Stewart, Race car driver. 1942 ~ The U.S. and the USSR signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in WWII. 1963 ~ Alabama Governor George Wallace stood at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to prevent two black students from attending that school. 1963 ~ Death of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc by self-imolation in Saigon to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam. 1979 ~ Death of John Wayne, Actor. 1987 ~ Margaret Thatcher became the first British PM in 160 years to win a third consecutive term in office. 2001 ~ Death of Timothy McVeigh, terrorist (executed). 2004 ~ Cassini-Huygens made its closest flyby of Phoebe. |
June 12th
1924 ~ Birthday of George Bush senior, 41st President of the U.S.
1942 ~ Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday. 1963 ~ Death of Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist. 1967 ~ In Loving v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court declared all state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. 1975 ~ Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was convicted on electoral corruption charges. 1979 ~ Bryan Allen flew the man powered Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel. 1987 ~ Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. 1991 ~ Boris Yeltsin was elected the first President of the Russian Federation. 1994 ~ Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. 2003 ~ Death of Gregory Peck, Actor. |
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). |
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