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June 9th:
1970 – King Hussein of Jordan survives an assassination attempt. A gunman fired at his car but only injured the driver.
1959 – America launches the USS George Washington – the first submarine to be armed with ballistic missiles.
1870 – English novelist, Charles Dickens, dies following a brain hemorrhage.
1923 – Bulgaria’s military takes over the government in a coup.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
17 Sivan
5704 / 1944
yartzheit of Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Teger the author of ‘Maged Shamayim’
5704 / 1944
yartzheit of Rabbi Moshe Farand of Makave the author of ‘Ohel Moshe’
June 10th:
1977 – Apple Computer ships its first Apple II personal computer.
1965 – Vietnam War: Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
1947 – Saab produces its first automobile.
1942 – World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice as reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
1940 – World War II: Norway Surrenders to German forces.
1935 – Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.
1898 – US Marines land on the island of Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
1854 – The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate.
1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts
I hadn’t noticed that all I’ve found are yartzheits! I’ll have to do more digging! 🙂
I’ll have to skip today since I’ve found only more yarzheits and death al kiddush Hashem. Maybe tomorrow?
June 11th:
2001 – Timothy McVeigh executed for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed at least 168 people
1990 – Supreme Court says law prohibiting desecration of U.S. flag unconstitutional
1984 – Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally
1982 – Israel and Syria stop fighting in Lebanon
1963 – John F. Kennedy says segregation is morally wrong and that it is “time to act”
1962 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted an honorary degree from Yale
1941 – Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews
1941 – 2nd great raid on Jews of Amsterdam
1939 – King and Queen of England taste 1st “hot dogs” at FDR’s party
1878 – DC is given a new government by Congress, 3 commissioners appointed by president (change in 1974)
1876 – Republicans pick Rutherford B Hayes as presidential candidate
1690 – English king Willem III departs to Ireland
mod39: i give you the great honour today, of doing the date in history! a gutten shobbos to you!
June 14th:
1991 – The Gulf War: In excess of a thousand Kurds besiege the U.S. military base near the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk, begging the American troops not to withdraw from Iraq.
1985 – TWA Flight 847 from Athens to Rome is hijacked by Hezbollah terrorists.
1777 – In America, Congress adopts the Stars and Stripes as its official flag.
1775 – The Continental Congress establishes The United States Army.
1645 – The English Civil War: Parliamentary forces commanded by Oliver Cromwell defeat the Royalist troops of Charles I at the Battle of Naseby in Northampton shire.
1989 – Queen Elizabeth II knights Ronald Reagan
1954 – President Eisenhower signs order adding words ‘under God’ to the Pledge
1953 – Eisenhower condemns McCarthy’s book burning proposal
1942 – Anne Frank begins her diary
1940 -Auschwitz concentration camp opens
1936 – Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens
1922 – President Harding is 1st U.S. president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore
1946 – Donald Trump’s birthday, billionaire/master builder, Trump Towers/Plaza/Castle
June 15th:
1982 – Supreme Court rules all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to a public education
1963 – Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion resigns
1924 – J. Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI
1924 – Native Americans are proclaimed U.S. citizens
1915 – U.S. government mints 1st $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo
1898 – U.S. House of Representatives accept annexation of Hawaii
1898 – U.S. Marines attack Spanish off Guantanamo, Cuba
1878 – 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done
to see if all 4 of a horse’s hooves leave the ground
1877 – Henry O. Flipper becomes 1st black graduate at West point
1864 – Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers
1864 – Robert E. Lee’s home area, Arlington, Virginia, becomes a military cemetery
1836 – Arkansas becomes 25th state
1804 – 12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president
1775 – George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army
mod39: today’s your day to post the this date in history post!
“Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farms.“
Israel withdrew from every last square inch of Lebanon.
This was even certified by the U.N., which is no fan of Israel.
Lebanon and Syria then manufactured the claim that Shebaa Farms was part of Lebanon (a claim never put forward previously) in order to give Hezbolla an excuse to continue attacking Israel.
June 17th:
1994 – O.J. Simpson doesn’t turn himself in on murder charges, Los Angles police chase his Ford Bronco for 1 hours, eventually gives up
1991 – President Zachary Taylor’s body is exhumed to test how he died
1988 – Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0
1988 – Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case
1982 – President Reagan 1st United Nations General Assembly address, “evil empire” speech
1972 – 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate
1963 – Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools
1954 – Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends
1953 – Supreme Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary
1950 – 1st kidney transplant, Chicago
1928 – Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)
1898 – U.S. Senate agrees to annex Hawaii
1775 – Battle of Bunker Hill, actually it was Breed’s Hill
June 18th:
1991 – Mud storm in Antofagasta Chile, kills 80
1982 – Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
1981 – Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires, replaced by Sandra Day O’Connor, 1st woman on high court
1979 – Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager (2nd time), replacing Bob Lemon
1979 – President Carter and Leonid I Brezhnev sign SALT 2 treaty
1968 – Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing
1940 – Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that “this was their finest hour”
1938 – Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season
1936 – 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, Wisconsin
1928 – Amelia Earhart becomes 1st female to fly across Atlantic Ocean
1873 -Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President
1872 – Woman’s Suffrage Convention held at Mercantile Liberty Hall
1682 – William Penn founds Philadelphia
mod39: today’s your day to post this date in history!
p.s. the dates June 19th!
p.s.s. have you noticed my pattern of when i give you to do the days dates?!
since it maybe shobbos for 39…here goes….
June 19th:
1988 – World’s Largest Sausage/hot dog completed at 13 miles long
1988 – 32 divers finish cycling underwater on a standard tricycle,to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hours 20 minutes
1964 – Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27
1961 – Kuwait declares independence from U.K.
1948 – Panama and Costa Rica recognize Israel
1948 – U.S.S.R. blocks access road to West Berlin
1944 – Japanese troops conquer Changsha China
1944 – Heavy air raid on U.S. fleet at Guam “Turkey Shoot”
1941 – Cheerios Cereal invents an O-shaped cereal
1941 – Romania orders Jews to evacuate Darabani
1941 – U.S. president Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act
1917 – After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames, they take the name Windsor
1910 – Father’s Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash) .
1862 – Slavery outlawed in U.S. territories
1861 – Anaheim Post Office established
1286 – Rabbenu Mir of Rothenbur imprisoned in fortress of Ensisheim
1269 – King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame
June 21st:
1990 – U.S. House of Representatives vote 254-177 to stop U.S. flag burning, doesn’t pass
1989 – Supreme Court rules ok to burn U.S. flag as a political expression
1986 – President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments
1982 – John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity
1981 – 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000
1977 – Menachem Begin (Likud), becomes Israel’s 6th PM
1950 – Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit
1942 – President Roosevelt/premier Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C.
1913 – Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane
1895 – British Roseberry government falls
1893 – 1st Ferris wheel premieres at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition
1887 – Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria
1858 – Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe
1788 – U.S. Constitution goes into effect as New Hampshire is 9th to ratify
1768 – 1st U.S. bachelor of medicine degree, Dr. John Archer
1684 – King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter
1498 – Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian
June 22nd:
1992 – 2 skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg ID’ed as Czar Nicholas II and wife
1992 – Supreme Court rules hate crime laws violated free-speech rights
1983 – 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle
1983 – NHL institutes a 5 minute sudden death overtime period
1982 – Manhattan institutes bus-only lanes
1982 – Prince Chuck and Lady Di take Prince William home from hospital
1970 – President Nixon signs 26th amendment, voting age lowered to 18
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt signs “GI Bill of Rights”, Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
1939 – Future Queen Elizabeth of England meets future husband Philip
1911 – King George V of England crowned
1870 – Congress creates Department of Justice
1868 – Arkansas re-enters U.S.
1377 – Richard II succeeds Edward III as king of England
June 23rd:
1996 – Nintendo 64 goes on sale in Japan
1994 – South Africa reclaims its seat in U.N.
1993 – U.N. authorizes worldwide oil embargo against Haiti
1992 – Rabin wins Israeli parliamentary election
1991 – Mazda becomes 1st Japanese car to capture Le Mans 24 hour race
1983 – Syria throws out PLO leader Arafat
1983 – U.S. Supreme Court ruled Congress could not veto presidential decisions
1981 – New York City mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy
1980 – 1st solar-powered coast-to-coast two-way radio conversation
1974 – 1st extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space
1972 – Nixon and Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
1963 – President Kennedy tours West-Europe
1951 – Most expensive U.S. hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage and $14M property-Kansas)
1888 – Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for president
1860 – U.S. Secret Service created
Jax, your post yesterday mentioning that Arkansas reentered the US in 1868 surprised me. I hadn’t realized (or maybe I learned but forgot) how long it took after the end of the Civil War in 1865 before the seceded states rejoined. And although most states were back in the Union by the end of 1868, Mississippi didn’t rejoin until Feb. 1870, almost 5 years after the war ended.
anon for this: i’m actually an American History freak & find such info so much fun!
39: if your around…jump in! today’s your day mate!
I should have realized that Jax. I don’t know as much about American history as I’d like, but I’m fascinated by the Civil War, because of the way it has shaped & is still shaping attitudes in this country.
June 24th, 1994- The Lion King hits the top of box office charts. (Not terribly significant, except that I was a little kid then. My parents took me to see the movie and I got scared and started crying.)
June 24th, 1994- Pilot Bud Holland loses control of a U.S. Air Force plane during a practice flight. All four crew members die.
June 24th, 1885- Woodrow Wilson marries Ellen Louise Axson.
anon for this: yeah the civil war was a fascinating war! lots of interesting facts there!
June 25th:
2006 – Warren Buffett donates $30 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
1997 – Christie’s auction house auctions off Princess Di’s clothing for $5.5 million
1990 – Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known
1962 – Supreme Court rules New York school prayer unconstitutional
1961 – Baltimore and California use a record 16 pitchers in a game (8 each) in 14 inns
1953 – 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
1950 – Israeli airline El Al begins service
1949 – Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote
1947 – 1st edition of Anne Frank’s “The Back of House” published
1947 – Tennis shoe introduced
1942 – British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)
1942 – British premier Winston Churchill travels from U.S. to London
1942 – General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of U.S. forces in Europe
1941 – Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination
1941 – Fair Employment Practices Commission established
1868 – FL, AL, LA, GA, North Carolina and South Carolina readmitted to US
1868 – President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day
1867 – 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio
1798 – U.S. passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
1788 – Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify U.S. constitution
1672 – 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in U.S. held, Sandwich, Mass
1638 – Lunar eclipse is 1st astronomical event recorded in U.S
1630 – Fork introduced to American dining by Governor Winthrop
1096 – 1st Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen Germany
Today is Friday, June 26, the 177th day of 2009. There are 188 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On June 26, 1963, President John F. Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he expressed solidarity with the city’s residents by declaring: ”Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner).
On this date:
In 1870, the first section of Atlantic City’s Boardwalk was opened to the public in New Jersey.
In 1919, the New York Daily News was first published.
In 1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.
In 1948, the Berlin Airlift began in earnest after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes to the isolated western sector of Berlin.
In 1950, President Harry S. Truman authorized the Air Force and Navy to enter the Korean conflict.
In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower joined Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II in ceremonies officially opening the St. Lawrence Seaway. Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson knocked out Floyd Patterson in the third round of their match at New York’s Yankee Stadium to win the heavyweight title.
In 1973, former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an ”enemies list” kept by the Nixon White House.
In 1977, 42 people were killed when a fire sent toxic smoke pouring through the Maury County Jail in Columbia, Tenn.
In 1988, three people were killed when a new Airbus A320 jetliner carrying more than 130 people crashed into a forest during an air show demonstration flight in Mulhouse, France.
In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled the death penalty may be imposed for murderers who committed their crimes as young as age 16, and for mentally retarded killers as well.
Ten years ago: An advance contingent of Russian troops flew into Kosovo to help reopen a strategic airport and join an uneasy alliance with NATO peacekeepers.
Five years ago: President George W. Bush won support from the 25-nation European Union for an initial agreement to help train Iraq’s armed forces. A memorial service was held in Egg Harbor Township, N.J., for Paul M. Johnson Jr., an engineer slain by kidnappers in Saudi Arabia.
One year ago: The Supreme Court struck down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia as it affirmed, 5-4, that an individual right to gun ownership existed. Juan Alvarez, who triggered a 2005 rail disaster in Glendale, Calif., by parking an SUV on the tracks, was convicted of 11 counts of first-degree murder. (Alvarez was later sentenced to 11 consecutive life terms.)
Thought for Today: “When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her — but, alas, she was waiting for the perfect man.” — Robert Schuman, French statesman (1886-1963).
Here is a list of things which happened on the 29th of June over the years:
The Virginia state constitution was adopted. (1776)
Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada’s worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec. (1864)
France annexes Tahiti. (1880)
The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York both opened. (1928)
The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System. (1956)
The U.S. Supreme Court rules the death penalty could constitute “cruel and unusual punishment”. (1972)
A divided Supreme Court ruled that women have a constitutional right to abortion, but the justices also weakened the right as defined by the Roe v. Wade decision. (1992)
President George W. Bush transferred presidential powers to Vice President Dick Cheney for more than two hours during a routine colon screening that ended in a clean bill of health. (2002)
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush’s plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law. (2006)
The first Apple iPhones went on sale. (2007)
Also:
British authorities arrested more than 2,700 Jews in Palestine in an attempt to stamp out alleged terrorism. (1946)
Someone please verify or correct me if I am wrong: Today 7 Tamuz is the yartzeit of The Gerrer Rebbe, The Lev Simcha.
Here is a list of things which happened on the 30th of June over the years:
French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope. (1859)
Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the shooting death of President James Garfield. (1882)
Albert Einstein publishes the article “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”, in which he introduces special relativity. (1905)
The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act. (1906)
U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States. (1921)
The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler’s ym”s violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place. (1934)
The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan. (1953)
A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 (Flight 718) collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States, killing all 128 on board the two planes. (1956)
The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve. (1971)
Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, lowering the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect. (1971)
Thirty-nine American hostages from a hijacked TWA jetliner are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days. (1985)
Doctors implanted a dual-purpose pacemaker in Vice President Dick Cheney’s chest. (2001)
The international Cassini spacecraft entered Saturn’s orbit after a nearly seven-year journey. (2004)
A car crashes into Glasgow International Airport in Scotland,a terrorist attack. (2007)
This date in Jewish History – July 1st
70 c.e. Titus set up battering rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem.
1388 Jews of Lithuania received a Charter of Privilege.
1776 First Jew to lose his life in the American Revolution.
1862 Russian Jews granted permission to print Jewish books.
1920 Sir Herbert Samuel became first British High-Commissioner of Palestine.
1941 Pogrom in Jassy, the cradle of Rumanian anti-Semitism claimed 5000 Jewish
lives.
July 1st, 2004- Israeli Supreme Court mandates reroute of fence to balance security and humanitarian needs.
100th Post!!
Here is a list of things which happened on the 3rd of July over the years:
American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts. (1775)
American Revolutionary War: British forces massacre 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre. (1778)
The first savings bank in the United States (The Bank of Savings in New York City) opens. (1819)
Congress establishes the United States’s 2nd mint in San Francisco, California. (1852)
Dow Jones published its 1st stock average. (1884)
The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand. (1886)
Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state. (1890)
World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration. (1944)
The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad. (1969)
US President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. (1979)
US President Ronald Reagan presides over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty. (1986)
United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard. (1988)
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic refused to enter a plea on war crimes charges in his first appearance before a U.N. tribunal at The Hague. (2001)
A NASA space probe, Deep Impact, hit its comet target as planned in a mission to learn how the solar system formed. (2005)
Here is a list of things which happened on the 4th of July over the years:
The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. (1776)
The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people. (1803)
At Rome, New York, United States, construction on the Erie Canal begins. (1817)
Death claimed the second and third presidents of the United States: John Adams died at age 90 in Braintree, Mass., while Thomas Jefferson died at 83 at Monticello, his home near Charlottesville, Va. (1826)
The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States. (1886)
Baseball player Lou Gehrig, afflicted with a fatal illness, bid a tearful farewell at Yankee Stadium in New York, telling fans, “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.” (1939)
A 49th star was added to the American flag to represent the new state of Alaska. (1959)
The number of stars on the American flag was increased to 50 to honor the new state of Hawaii. (1960)
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act goes into effect the next year. (1966)
Israeli commandos raided Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing almost all of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by pro-Palestinian hijackers. (1976)
Klaus Barbie, the former Gestapo chief known as the “Butcher of Lyon,” was convicted by a French court of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison. (1987)
July 6, 1886: French scientist Louis Pasteur (also famous for developing the process of pasteurization of milk) successfully tested his rabies vaccine on a 9-year-old boy who had been bitten by a rabid dog, thereby saving him from certain death.
July 6, 1947: In the Soviet Union, production began on the AK-47 assault rifle (also known as the Kalashnikov, after the man who created it).
Here’s one for the supergeeks, and I do mean that. All others are forewarned.
2009 – Approximately 35 minutes after noon, the time/date will be 12:34:56 on 7/8/9.
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July 8th, 1283- The Crown of Aragon defeated the Kingdom of Naples in the Battle of Malta (War of the Sicilian Vespers.)
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