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May 27th ~ What happend on this day

1281 Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brugge

1328 French king Philip VI Valois crowned

1529 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake

1647 1st woman known to be executed as a witch, Achsah Young in Mass

1660 Denmark & Sweden sign ceasefire

1679 Habeaus Corpus act passes in UK

1689 Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as pension advisor of Holland

1703 St Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great

1738 Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov

1813 Americans capture Ft George, Canada

1844 Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line

1850 Mormon Temple in Nauvoo Illinois destroyed by tornado

1854 Marine Telegraph from Ft Point to SF completed

1856 Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning

1857 H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #44 Nysa

1862 Battle of Hanover Court House, VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station)

1863 CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die
and Siege of Port Hudson LA

1864 Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop), Virginia
1873 1st Preakness Stakes won by Survivor (2:43)

1887 A Charlois discovers asteroid #267 Tirza

1893 Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland

1895 British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector

1896 1st major tornado to strike urban US (St Louis & E St Louis Mo)
and Bay District Race Track closes

and Tornado (900 kph?) hits St Louis Missouri; 306 die

1898 Arthur Pinero's "Trelawney of the 'Wells'," premieres in London

1900 Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in S Africa

1903 Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam

1904 NL record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, NY Giants)

1905 Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima

1906 1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen

1907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in SF

1916 Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in Bronx

1917 Race riot in East St Louis Illinois, 1 black killed

1918 Battle of Aisne

1919 1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days

1920 Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR

1921 After 84 years of British control, Afgh nist n achieves sovereignty

1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
and Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president

1931 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va
and Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon

1933 Austrian communist party banned
and Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago
and Trailing 11-3, Yanks score 12 runs in 8th & beat White Sox 15-11
and Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released

1935 Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional

1936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage

1937 Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game (since July 17, 1936)
and Golden Gate Bridge, SF, dedicated

1940 British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)

1941 Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta
and FDR proclaims an "unlimited national emergency"
and German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force

1942 Dorie Miller, awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor
and Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered
and Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim

1943 French defiance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris
and US forbid racial discrimination in war industry

1944 Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)
and Japanese advance in Hangkhou China
and Jean-Paul Sartres "Huis Clos," premieres in Paris

1948 Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid

1949 Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin

1950 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens

1951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, SF opens

1952 European Defense Community forms

1953 Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections

1955 Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0

1956 French riot in Algiers
and US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)

1958 Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS
and Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)

1960 1st use of oversized catching mitt (Balt Oriole Clint Courtney)
and Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey

1961 Fiorentina wins 1st Europe Cup II in Florence
and Pres Kennedy announces US goal to reach Moon
and Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' «"

1963 3 NJ businessman purchase NHL Colorado Rockies, & get approval
to move them to NJ Meadowlands (Devils)

1964 "From Russia With Love" premieres in US
and Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna

1965 Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan

1966 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes
and 6 French fighters crash above Spain

1968 6th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-3
and NL awards Montreal & SD major league franchises
and Nuclear submarine Scorpion is lost

1969 Walt Disney World construction begins

1970 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I
and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1971 UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship

1973 Rick Wohlhuter runs record 880 yards in 1:44.6

1975 Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars"
and Phila Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
and Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; bus full of elderly women plunges
Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38

1977 NYC fines George Willig 1› for each of 110 stories he climbed

1979 Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop

1980 South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed

1981 A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #2434 Bateson
and John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol
and Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but ump says no
and Liverpool wins 26th Europe Cup 1 at Paris
and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1982 C & E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3194 Dorsey

1983 Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress

1984 Beth Henley's "Miss Firecracker contest," premieres in NYC
and C & E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3671 Dionysius
and Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day

1985 Inaugural bands parade for Pres Reagan

1986 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
and Norway Showcase groundbreaking

1987 Jim & Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal
and Postage wins 32nd Europe Cup 1 in Vienna
and Yank Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher to make 700th start (Young & Sutton)

1990 74th Indianapolis 500 runs
and C‚sar Gaviria Trujillo chosen pres of Colombia
and Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow

1991 Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die

1993 Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6

1994 Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show
and Radio conservative Rush Limbaugh (43) weds Marta Fitzgerald (35)
 
May 28th in History

 585 -BC- Battle at the Halys between Medi‰ & Ludi‰ ends
and -BC- Thales Miletus predicts solar eclipse Persian-Lydian battle ends

640 Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope (elected in 638)

1037 German emperor Koenraad II removes "Constitutio the Feudis"

1156 Battle at Brindisi: King Willem of Sicily beats Byzantine fleet

1349 60 Jews murdered in Breslau Silesia

1358 Daint-Leu at Oise begins French boer uprising

1521 Pope Leo X signs treaty with German emperor Charles V

1533 England's archbishop voids King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn's marriage

1539 Hernando de Soto lands in Florida

1608 Claudio Monteverdi's "Arianna," premieres in Mantua

1635 Zorilla's "El Desafio de Carlos V," premieres in Madrid

1664 1st Baptist Church organized (Boston)

1674 German Parliament declares war on France

1731 All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated

1741 Spain & Bavaria sign treaty

1742 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)

1754 George Washington defeats French & indians at Ft Duquesne (Pitts)

1774 1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia)

1830 Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to western prairie

1845 Fire in Quebec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed

1849 Princess WFLC Marianne & Albrecht of Prussia separate

1851 Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention

1858 Dion Boucicault's "Foul Play," premieres in London

1863 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War

1866 Dutch govt of Zuylen van Nijevelt/Heemskerk forms

1868 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #99 Dike

1871 Paris communards revolt put down

1880 Grenanda wins Preakness

1892 Sierra Club forms in SF, for conservation of nature

1894 Belgium Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern

1900 Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony)

1901 Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous)
and Parader wins Preakness

1904 Bryn Mawr wins Preakness

1905 P Gotz discovers asteroids #566 Stereoskopiab & #567 Eleutheria

1906 Shields/Cobbs musical "His honor, the Mayor," premieres in NYC

1907 Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy, 1st held

1918 Tatars declares Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, independent

1919 Armenia declares it's Independence

1926 Military coup by Gen Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal
and US Customs Court created by congress

1929 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited, NYC

1930 Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of NZ

1932 Dam closed, at current monument (South Seas)

1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1712 Angola

1937 Golden Gate Bridge in SF opens to vehicular traffic
and Neville Chamberlain becomes PM of England

1938 Foundation for Tel Aviv harbor laid
and Hindemiths opera "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Z�rich

1940 Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up
and British-French strike captures Narvik Norway
and Irving Berlin's musical "Louisiana Purchase," premieres in NYC

1941 1st night game at Wash DC, Griffith stadium (Yanks 6, Senators 5)
and British army begins evacuation of Kreta

1942 1,800 Czechs murdered by Nazis during attack on Heydrich

1943 British militia reaches Tito

1946 1st night game at Yankee stadium (Senators 2, Yanks 1)

1948 Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement

1951 Bernardus J Alfrink appointed bishop's asst of Utrecht
and Willie Mays gets his 1st major league hit, a home run

1953 Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody"

1955 Bob Sweikert wins Indianapolis 500
and Nashua wins Preakness

1956 Dale Long becomes 1st to hit HRs in 8 straight games

1957 NL approves Bkln Dodgers' & NY Giants' move to west coast
and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
and WPSD TV channel 6 in Paducah, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting

1958 French govt of Pflimlin resigns

1959 Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts
and Johnson & Bart's musical "Lock up your daughters," premieres in London
and Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter
missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission

1961 Amnesty Intl founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
and Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years)

1962 Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester NY
and US stock market drops $20.8 B in 1 day
and Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio

1963 Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed
and Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India)
and Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st PM of Kenya

1964 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 9th String quartet
and Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli
and PLO forms in Jerusalem
and Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit

1965 Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400

1966 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj's 11th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad

1967 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 2nd Violin concert
and Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip
and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1968 AL announces it is splitting into 2 divisions
and NL grants San Diego Padres a franchise
and Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democrate primary in Oregon

1969 AC Milan wins 14th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid

1971 Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram"
and USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars

1972 White House "plumbers" break into Democratic Natl HQ at Watergate

1973 Chic White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game started 5/26)

1974 E F Helin discovers asteroid #2050 Francis
and Italians fascist bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed
and Stephen Schwartz' musical "Magic Show," premieres in NYC

1975 Bayern M�nchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 in Paris
and Soyuz 18 launches

1977 165 killed in a fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky

1978 Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500, 3 times
1979 European Market accepts Greece as member

1980 2 Oakland A's steal home in 1st inning
and Joe Darby does a standing long jump of 12'5"
and Nottingham Forrest wins 25th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid

1982 Leonard Maltin's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
and Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain

1983 Hamburger ZV wins 28th Europe Cup 1 in Athens

1985 David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon
and Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-G

1986 Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados

1987 Mathias Rust, 19, W German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR
and Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta
and Southern League no-hit record-Bob Milacki pitches 11 1/3 no-hit inn
and Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed

1989 Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad)
and Emerson Fittipaldi wins Indianapolis 500

1990 C‚sar Gaviria Trujillo installed as president of Colombia
and Eugenia Charles' Dom'n Freedom Party wins election in Dominica

1991 Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa

1993 200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror
and Polish govt of Suchocka falls

1995 Southwestern Florida outside of Tam
pa begins using new area code 941
 
May 29th ~ What happened today?
 149th day of year with 216 days left

526 Antioch struck by Earthquake; about 250,000 die

757 St Paul I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1138 Anti-Pope Victor IV (Gregorio) overthrows self for Innocentius II

1176 Battle at Legnano: Lombardi League beats Frederik Barbarossa

1415 Council of Konstanz

1453 Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire
and French banker Jacques Coeurs possessions confiscated

1506 Earl Willem I van Nassau-Dillenburg weds countess Walburg van Egmont

1576 Spanish army under Mondrag¢n conquerors Zierik sea

1630 Gov John Winthrop begins "History of New England"

1652 English Admiral Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under lt-adm Tromp

1660 Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth
and King Charles II's entry into London

1692 Battle at La Hogue: English & Dutch fleet beat France
and Royal Hospital Founders Day 1st celebrated

1721 South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony

1727 Peter II Aleksei (11) becomes czar of Russia

1753 Joseph Haydns "Krumme Teufel," premieres

1787 "Virginia Plan" proposed

1790 Rhode Is becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifying Constitution

1848 Battle at Curtazone: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte
and Wisconsin becomes 30th state

1849 Patent for lifting vessels granted to Abraham Lincoln

1861 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #72 Feronia (Ital goddess of groves)
and Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army

1864 Mexican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz

1874 Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect

1884 1st steam cable trams start in highgate

1889 A Charlois discovers asteroid #284 Amalia
and August Strindbergs "Hemsoborna," premieres in Copenhagen

1900 Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co

1902 Dutch State Mine law forms

1905 Pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk Lithuania

1909 Frank "Home Run" Baker's 1st career home run

1910 Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers

1911 1st running of Indianapolis 500

1912 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing "Turkey Trot"
during their lunch break

1914 Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St Lawrence R; 1024 die

1916 NY Giants win 17th consecutive road game
and Official flag of president of US adopted
and US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924

1919 Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington

1922 Ecuador becomes independent
and US Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport & not a
business & thus not subject to antitrust laws

1928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car

1935 Hague local museum opens

1940 Adolf Kiefer swims world record 100 yards backstroke (58.8 sec)
and Arthur Seyss-Inquart installed as Reich commissar of Hague

1942 Bing Crosby records "White Christmas," greatest selling record to date

1943 Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower)
and Meat & cheese rationed in US

1944 British troops occupy Aprilia Italy

1945 US 1st Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa

1946 KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands

1951 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair

1952 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles & Suriname ends

1953 Edmund P Hillary & Tensing Norkay are 1st to reach summit of Everest

1954 Kirk & Anne Douglas married
and Pope Pius X issues holy declaration

1955 Jordan government of Tewfik Abdul Huda resigns

1956 Arnold Sch”nberg's "Modern Psalm," premieres
and WESH TV channel 2 in Daytona Beach-Orlando, FL (NBC) 1st broadcast

1957 Algerian rebels kill 336 collaborators
and Laos govt of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns

1958 Real Madrid wins 3rd Europe Cup 1 in Brussels

1959 Charles de Gaulle forms French govt

1960 Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1

1962 Barbra Streisand appears on "Garry Moore Show"

1965 Phillies Dick Allen hits 529' HR out of Connie Mack Stadium

1967 Australian Paul McManus water skis barefoot for 1:30:19

1968 Manchester United wins 13rd Europe Cup 1 in London

1970 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)

1971 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2127 Tanya

1973 Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles Calif
Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating
and $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records

1977 A J Foyt wins Indianapolis 500 for a record 4th time
and NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) ends on radio
and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Janet Guthrie becomes 1st woman to drive in Indy 500
and Sue Press is 1st woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one

1978 1st class postage now 15› (13› for 3 years)
and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1979 Radio's 1st rock network "Source" premieres

1980 Attempted assassination of Vernon Jordan Jr, National Urban League pres
and J Turners "Juliet & her Nurse" sold for $6,400,000 in NYC
and Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year

1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1983 Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m

1984 Boston Red Sox retires #9 (Ted Williams) & #4 (Joe Cronin)

1985 35 die in rioting between British & Italians at European Cup soccer
and Juventus wins 30th Europe Cup 1 in Brussels

1987 "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor
and Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains
and Robin Ventura set a college baseball record with hits in 57 games

1988 President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakistan

1989 Student protesters in China construct a replica of Statue of Liberty

1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,870.49
and NY Mets fire manager Davey Johnson & hire Bud Harrelson
and Rickey Henderson steals record 893rd base, breaking Ty Cobb's record

1991 Crevena Zvezda wins 36th Europe Cup I

1992 NY Mets score in 9th to end home shut-out streak at 3 games

1993 Nazi's kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany

1994 Al Unser Jr wins 78th Indianapolis 500 in 3:06:29.006 (255.89 kph)
and Great comet-iceball seen above North sea
and Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election

 
May 30th ~ Today in History

1035 Boudouin V van Rijsel becomes earl of Flanders

1087 German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad

1100 Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht

1381 English boer uprising begins in Essex

1416 Jerome of Prague burned as a heretic by Church

1434 Battle at Lipany

1498 Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America

1522 French troops driven out of Genoa

1527 U of Marburg (Germany) founded

1536 English king Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour

1539 Spanish explorer Fernando de Soto lands in Florida

1574 Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France
and Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)

1584 Earl Adolf van Nieuwenaar/Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland

1588 Spanish Aramada under Medina-Sidonia departs Lisbon to invade England

1631 France/Maximilian van Bavarian signs Accord of Fontainebleau

1635 Emperor Ferdinand II & Saksen sign Peace of Prague

1646 Spain & Netherlands signs temporary cease fire

1793 Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public

1814 1st Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon's 1st abdication

1822 House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)

1832 �variste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31)

1848 2nd battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
and William Young patents ice cream freezer

1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery
and Territories of Kansas & Nebraska created

1858 Hudson's Bay Co rights to Vancouver Island revoked

1862 Battle of Booneville MS - captured Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth
and Battle of Front Royal, VA

1864 Battle of Bethesda Church VA
and Cavalry fight at Old Church (Totopotomoy Creek) Virginia

1866 Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague)

1868 Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi
placed flowers on both Confederate & Union graves

1879 92øF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May
and Gilmore Garden (NYC) renamed Madison Square Garden

1889 Brassier is invented

1894 Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game

1901 Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated
and Memorial Day 1st observed in US

1903 R S Dugan discovers asteroid #511 Davida

1904 Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader

1908 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
and Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
and Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
and US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized

1909 Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv

1911 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 75 MPH (120 KPH)

1912 US Marines sent to Nicaragua

1913 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London
and Conclusion of 1st Balkan War
and New country of Albania, formed

1921 Lord Dunsany's "If," premieres in London
and Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany

1922 Latvia & Vatican sign accord
and Lincoln Memorial dedicated Cubs

1923 Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic," premieres

1924 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1032 Pafuri
and Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists

1925 British mariners shoot on demonstrators
and Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy

1930 Bill Arnold wins Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph)

1932 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins

1933 Patent on invisible glass installation

1935 Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies

1937 Denny Shute wins PGA golf tournament
and Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die
and Pitcher Carl Hubbell's 24th consecutive victory
and Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago

1938 Yanks sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium

1941 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia
and English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government
and German capture Kreta

1942 1st Bombing attack on Cologne (1,000 bombers)
and Reichsf�hrer Himmler arrives in Prague
and US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor

1943 French general De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
and US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians

1944 Transport nr 75 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany

1946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 die

1949 East Germans constitution approved
and NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname
and WRTV TV channel 6 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting

1951 Heavyweight Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in Chicago

1952 Darius Milhaud's "West Point Suite," premieres

1953 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2

1954 Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs
and Emile Zatopek runs world record 5K (13:57.2)
and Hector Villa-Lobos' "Odisseia de Uma Raca," premieres

1955 KMVT TV channel 11 in Twin Falls, ID (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
and Said el-Mufti forms Jordan govt
and Tunisia begins domestic self governing

1956 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida
and US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)

1957 Real Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup 1 in Madrid

1958 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)

1959 Pres Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua
and Pres Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament
and World's 1st hovercraft tested at Cowes England

1961 Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die
and Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 HRs

1962 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)
and Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem," premieres

1964 Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is #1 in Australia
and Beatles' "Love Me Do," single goes #1

1965 France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground)
and Viet-cong offensive against US base Da Nang
and Vivian Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama

1966 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
and Graham Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph)
and US launches Surveyor 1 to Moon

1967 Biafra declares independence from Nigeria
and King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo
and Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles

1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles"
and President De Gaulle disbands French parliament
and University church in Leipzig German DR, blown up
and West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law

1969 Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:08:33.6) at Antwerp
and Gibraltar adopts constitution
and People revolt in Willemstad, Cura‡ao

1971 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice
and Train crash at Pigeon droppings, 5 die
and US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched

1972 3 Jap PFL terrorists kills 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod Intl airport

1973 Ajax wins 3rd Europe Cup

1974 10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4

1975 European Space Agency (ESA) forms
and Wings release "Venus & Mars" album

1976 Bobby Unser sets world record for fastest pit stop (4 seconds)

1977 Cleve Indian Dennis Eckersley no-hits Calif Angels, 2-0

1979 Nottingham Forrest wins 24th Europe Cup 1 at Munich
and Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80
and Ted Coombs begins a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC

1980 Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million

1981 "Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday)

1982 Closest Indy 500, Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds
and Spain becomes 16th member of NATO

1984 Liverpool wins 29th Europe Cup 1 in Rome

1985 Edmonton Oilers beat Flyers 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup

1986 Ariane-2 (ESA) launched
and Bobby Rahal is 1st to avg over 170 mph in Indianapolis 500
and France performs nuclear test

1987 West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square

1989 Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house

1990 135 die in a (6.4) earthquake in Peru
and Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,878.56

1991 Arturo Barrios runs world record time (21,096 km)

1992 Minn Twin Bert Blyleven becomes 2nd to win as teenager & 40 year old
and NY Lotto pays $30 million to one winner (#s are 12-15-30-33-40-48)
and NY Yankee Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams
and Paul Simon weds Edie Brickell

Websleuther's having birthdays today ~ SieSie! :HappyBday:HappyBday
 
May 31st - something had to happen today

70 Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem

1417 Jacoba van Bavarian becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen

1531 "Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted

1564 Battle on Gotland: L�beck & Denmark beat Sweden

1621 Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night

1634 US colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony

1659 Netherlands, England & France sign Treaty of The Hague

1665 Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah

1696 John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius

1727 France, England & Netherlands sign accord of Paris

1744 French troops conquer Kortrijk

1790 US copyright law enacted

1821 1st catholic minster of US initiated in Baltimore Md

1836 HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape the Good Hope

1837 NY's Astor Hotel opens . . . most elaborate in US

1847 Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens

1853 Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves NY aboard Advance

1861 Gen Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line
and Mint at New Orleans closes

1862 Battle of Seven Pines VA (Fair Oaks)

1864 Raid at Morgan's Kentucky

1870 Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks)

1879 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition
and Madison Square Garden opens its doors

1883 French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar

1884 John Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"

1889 Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Penn

1891 Work on trans-Siberian railway begins

1900 British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg

1902 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal

1905 Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger

1906 Attack on King Alfonso XIII & Victoria von Battenberg in Madrid

1908 Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium)

1909 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)

1910 Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa

1912 US marines land on Cuba

1913 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified

1914 Chic White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleve Indians, 6-1

1915 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London

1916 Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead)

1917 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)

1918 M Wolf discovers asteroids #892 Seeligeria & #893 Leopoldina

1919 NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic

1921 Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700

1923 China & USSR exchange diplomats

1926 Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo flees after coup
and Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia

1927 Ford Motor Company produces last "Tin Lizzie"
and Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play

1928 1st aerial cross of Pacific takes off from Oakland

1929 Atlantic City Convention Center opens
and K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1108 Demeter

1930 Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium

1935 Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat
and Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan

1937 Bkln Dodgers snap NY Giant Carl Hubbell's 24-game winning streak
and German battleships bomb Almeria Spain

1938 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1466 Mundleria

1940 Gen-major Bernard Montgomery leaves Duinkerken
and Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris

1941 -June 1) 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington Kansas (state record)
and 41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton)
and British troops vacate Kreta
and German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools

1942 Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury
and Sam Snead wins PGA golf tournament

1943 Joe Namath was born & Sharon Gless was born

1944 Allied breakthrough in Italy

1947 Communists grab power in Hungary
and Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft Deposit & Perryville Md, kills 53
and Italian govt of Gasperi forms

1949 Sam Snead wins PGA golf tournament
Charley Lupica begins stay on 4ý' platform atop a 60' pole, vowing
and to stay until Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, & stays 117 days)

1950 Due to rain, Indy 500 shortened to 345 miles, Johnny Parson wins

1951 Neth & South Africa sign cultural accord
and S Arend discovers asteroid #1591 Baize

1953 Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government
and WSUN TV channel 38 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast

1955 Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities
and Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike
and Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"

1956 Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof

1957 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)

1958 Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin"
and US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)

1961 Benfica wins 6th Europe Cup 1 at Bern
and Dominican Republic president Trujillo assassinated
and JFK visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris
and Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Ed of New Rochelle, to integrate
and Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth

1964 Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim
and SF Giants beat NY Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hrs 32 mins)

1965 Jim Clark becomes 1st foreigner in 49 years to win Indy & Brooke Shields was born

1967 Bayern M�nchen wins 7th Europe Cup II at Neurenberg

1969 John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"
and Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore"

1970 7.75 Earthquake aftershocks hit Peru; 50-70,000 die
and At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by earthquake (50-70,000 die)
and KDUB TV channel 40 in Dubuque, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting

1971 WDXR (now WKPD) TV channel 29 in Paducah, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting

1972 Ajax wins Europe Cup in Rotterdam

1974 Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights
and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1975 Fred Newman makes 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition

1976 Loudest PA (76 KW) for Who's Quadrophenia in London

1977 Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes heir apparent to throne of Qatar
and Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed

1979 J Kveton discovers asteroid #2672 Pisek
and Radio City Music Hall (NYC) reopens
and Zimbabwe proclaims independence

1980 Police & youthful rebels battle in Zurich

1983 Phila 76ers sweep Lakers for NBA championship in 4 games

1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1985 41 tornadoes hit Northeast US, killing 88
and Guatemala adopts constitution
and New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000

1987 Edmonton Oilers beat Flyers 4 games to 3 for Stanley Cup
and Saul Ballesteros drives 3 golf balls off Mt McKinley, Alaska

1989 "Rambling with Gambling" 20,000th radio program on WOR-AM (NYC)
and 1st presentation of rock n roll Elvis awards
and Speaker of House Jim Wright resigns

1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 3rd victim, Joseph Ponce

1991 Oldest bride - Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia

1992 46th Tony Awards: Dancing at Lughnasa & Crazy For You win

1993 President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees

Websleuther's having birthdays today ~ Rudy96 :HappyBday
 

Today is June 1st - 152nd day of year with 213 days left

794 Charles the Great opens general synod in Frankfurt

1283 Albrecht I van Habsburg becomes ruler of Austrian/Bull market

1459 Pope Pius II opens congress of Mantua

1495 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls
of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller

1533 Anna Boleyn crowned queen of England

1562 Emperor Ferdinand & Sultan Suleiman signs treaty

1568 Duke van Alva beheads 18 nobles in Brussels

1608 Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-govt

1638 1st earthquake recorded in US, at Plymouth, Mass

1641 France & Portugal sign anti-Spanish covenant

1649 Czar Aleksei throws out English merchants from Moscow

1657 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY)

1670 Engl king Charles II & Fr king Louis XIV sign anti-Dutch treaty

1676 Sea battle at ™land: Danish/Dutch fleet beat Sweden

1679 Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scottish

1746 French troops conquer Antwerp

1774 British govt orders Port of Boston closed

1789 1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)

1792 Kentucky admitted as 15th US state

1794 English fleet under Richard Earl Howe defeats French

1796 Tennessee admitted as 16th US state

1808 1st US land-grant university founded-Ohio Univ, Athens, Ohio

1813 Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship"

1834 HMS Beagle for anchor in Port Famine, Magallanes Street

1835 6th national black convention (Phila)

1836 Charles Darwin returns to Capetown

1843 It snows in Buffalo & Rochester NY & Cleveland Ohio

1845 Homing pigeon completes 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days

1855 US adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery

1861 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va

1862 2nd/last day of battle at Fair Oaks/7 Pines Va (11,165 casualties)
and Gen Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines
and Slavery abolished in all US possessions

1864 -Nov] Shenandoah Valley campaign
and Battle of Cold Harbor, VA (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm)
and Confederate cruiser The Georgia sold to The English

1866 General Dutch Typographer Union forms
and Renegade Irish Fenians invade Ft Erie Ontario from US

1868 Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin

1869 Voting Machine patented by Thomas Edison

1877 US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico

1880 US census at 50,155,783

1881 Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange

1888 California gets its 1st seismograph

1890 US census at 62,622,250

1893 Opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin)

1898 Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha

1900 British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa

1902 Blue-White United soccer team of Amsterdam forms

1905 Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon

1907 -27øF (-33øC), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)

1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle

1910 SC Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede

1911 1st US group insurance policy written, Passaic, NJ

1912 Stormvogels soccer team forms in Ijmuiden

1914 Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km)

1915 1st Zeppelin air raid over England

1916 German attack on Fort Vaux, Verdun

1918 Excelsior Maassluis soccer team forms in Maassluis
and Yanks turn triple-play, beat Tigers 5-4

1919 Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden

1920 RKSV Volendam soccer team forms in Volendam

1921 Race riot in Tulsa Okla (21 whites & 60 blacks killed)

1923 NY Giants beat Phillies, 22-5

1925 Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp (1st of record 2130 consec games)

1926 Ignacy Mocicki elected president of Poland

1930 Alphense Boys soccer team forms in Alphen on Rhine

1931 Rozenburg soccer team forms in Rozenburg

1932 Lunteren soccer team forms in Lunteren

1933 Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago

1934 AFC '34 soccer team forms in Alkmaar

1935 Driving test & license plates introduced in England
and Yanks set solo HR record with 6 beat Boston 7-2

1937 Chic White Sox Bill Dietrich no-hits St Louis Browns, 8-0
and Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier

1938 Superman Comics launched

1939 1st night game at Phil's Shribe Park (Pirates 5, Phillies 2)
and 1st televised heavyweight boxing match-Max Baer vs Lou Nova
and British sub "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard
and Retired German Col-gen Gerd von Runstedt returns to service

1940 Coffee & tea rationed in Holland
and Gen-mjr Bernard Montgomery returns to London
and Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard

1941 12.59" (31.98 cm) rainfall, Burlington Kansas (state 24-hr record)
and British troops occupy Bagdad Iraq
and Germany bans all Catholic publications
and Germany occupies Kreta

1944 Gen Montgomery/Patton/Bradley/Dempsey/Crerar meet in Portsmouth

1945 WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minn changes call letters to KUOM

1946 Assault wins 78th Belmont Stakes (2:30.8) & Triple Crown
and Sp˜kenisse soccer team forms in Sp˜kenisse

1947 OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands

1948 Israel & Arabs agree to a cease fire

1949 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek)
and British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence

1951 1st self-contained titanium plant opened Henderson Nevada
and International Cheese treaty signed
and S Arend discovers asteroids #1592 Mathieu & #1593 Fagnes

1952 Catholic church puts Andre Gides "Labor" on the index

1953 KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
and WDAY TV channel 6 in Fargo, ND (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting

1954 Emile Zatopek runs record 6 mile: (27:59.2)/10,000m (28:54.2)

1955 Habib Bourguiba ends exile from Tunisia

1957 1st US runner breaks 4 minute mile (Don Bowden) [see May 5, 1956]

1958 Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election
and Charles de Gaulle becomes premier of France

1959 Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)

1960 WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, WV (CBS) begins broadcasting

1962 Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit
and Roda JC soccer team reforms in Kerkrade
and USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m

1963 Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st premier of Kenya
and King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, becomes Emperor of Ethiopia

1965 A Penzias & R Wilson detect 3øK primordial background radiation
and Explosion at Fukuoka, Japan kills 237 coal miners

1966 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights

1967 Beatles release Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in US & goes gold
and Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, DC

1968 Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs Robinson" hits #1

1969 Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV

1970 Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days

1971 Ed Sullivan's final TV show on CBS

1972 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj's 15th Symphony, premieres in West Berlin
and Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa
and West German police arrest RAF-leader Andreas Baader

1973 Greek Pres Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic"
and Paul McCartney & Wings release "Live & Let Die"

1974 Bundy victim Brenda Ball disappears from Burien, Wash
and Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 29 in UK

1975 Calif Angel Nolan Ryan 4th no-hitter beats Balt Orioles, 1-0
and Cars in Netherlands must have seatbelts
and Kathy Whiteworth, wins LPGA
and Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist

1976 Great-Britain & Iceland terminate codfish war

1977 British Virgin Islands adopts constitution
and SC Heerenveen soccer team forms in Heerenveen

1978 High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten

1979 Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier
and Supersonics beat Bullets for NBA championship, 4 games to 1
and Wings release "Old Siam, Sir"

1980 1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network
and ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa
and Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in Calif
and H Debehogne discovers asteroids #2543 Machado & #3411
and Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting

1984 Douglas H Mitchell, QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner
and KWK-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD
and Netherlands' Lubbers govt gives 48 sites for cruise missiles
and Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg

1986 40th Tony Awards: I'm Not Rappaport & Mystery of Edwin Drood win
1988 Train crash in Zeeland Neth, kills 2

1989 Robin Givens & Mike Tyson granted final divorce in NJ

1990 Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
and Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland for 1st time since 1974
and Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97

1991 Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years

1992 E Lamps (20 year lightbulb) introduced
and Pitts Penguins sweep Chicago Blackhawks to win Stanley Cup
and Snowfall in Colorado

1993 Brooklyn NY begins recycling
and Connie Chung joins Dan Rather as anchors of CBS Evening News
and Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by the army
and Melchior Ndadaye elected pres of Burundi

1939 British sub 'Thetis' sank in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard.

1965 Explosion at Fukuoka, Japan kills 237 coal miners.

1991 Mount Pinatubo (Phillipines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years.

2004 - Double Murder Trail for Scott Peterson begins!!! Yay!!


 
It's June 2nd ~ what happened today?

 455 Gaiseric & Vandals sack Rome

575 Benedict I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

657 St Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1129 Fulco V's son Godfried marries king Henry I's daughter Mathildis

1619 England & Netherlands signs treaty about business in the Indies

1625 Prince Frederik Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand

1627 English king Charles I establishes Guyana Company

1633 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Rhine at Cologne

1676 Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch/Spanish fleet

1697 Monarch August van Saksen becomes Catholic

1746 Russia & Austria sign agreements

1780 Anti Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London

1797 1st ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack NY (C Broadhead)

1834 5th national black convention meet (NYC)

1835 P T Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US

1851 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)

1857 James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine

1858 Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer

1862 Gen Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E VA & NC

and Raid at Early's: Maryland towards Washington DC

1863 Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves

1864 Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2

1865 At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders Trans-Mississippi Dept

1866 Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces

1869 Cleveland's Forest City play their 1st game (vs Cin Red Stockings)

1873 Ground broken on Clay St (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad

1875 James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US

1881 Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens

1882 Pierre de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris

1883 1st night baseball under lights, Ft Wayne Indiana
and Chicago's "E" opens to traffic

1886 Grover Cleveland is 1st to wed during presidency (Frances Folsom)

1899 Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings

1902 2nd statewide initiative & referendum law adopted, in Oregon

1910 1st roundtrip flight over English Channel (C S Rolls, England)
and Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea

1913 1st strike settlement mediated by US Dept of Labor-RR clerks
and Demonstrations for general voting right in Neth

1914 Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome

1919 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)

1920 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon)

1922 Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances

1924 US citizenship granted to all American Indians

1925 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig begins his 2,130 consecutive game streak

1930 1st baby born on a vessel passing through Panama Canal
and Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati

1932 Franz von Papen "Cabinet of the Baron" premieres

1933 WNJ-AM in Newark NJ goes off the air

1936 Gen Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua

1940 Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach

1943 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy)
and German assault on Sebastopol Krim, begins

1944 Generals Eisenhower & Montgomery dine in Portsmouth
and Judendurchgangslager Vught disbands

1946 Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)

1947 Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns

1948 Jerry Mathers (Leave it to Beaver) is born

1949 Transjordan renamed Jordan

1951 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones

1952 650,000 metal workers go on strike in US

1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey

1954 John Costello (Cons) becomes premier of Ireland

1955 Dana Carvey (Comedian) is born

1956 Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow

1957 US TV interviews Khrushchev

1958 Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio

1959 Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid," SF

1964 Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India
and Rolling Stones 1st US concert tour debuts in Lynn, Mass

1965 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India)

1966 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing

1967 Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston

1968 Canadians must get govt permission to export silver
and WBLG (now WTVQ) TV channel 62 in Lexington, KY (ABC) 1st broadcast

1969 Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices US destroyer
"Frank E Evans" in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)

1971 Ajax wins Europe Cup

1972 Dion & the Belmonts reunion concert at Madison Square Garden

1974 Mali adopts constitution
and Malta's constitution goes into effect

1975 1st time snow fell in London in June
and James A Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)

1976 East-Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation through Indonesia

1977 NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City

1979 John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland)
and NASA launches space vehicle S-198

and Pope John Paul II visits Poland

1981 Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be

1983 Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati

1984 Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy
and B A Skiff discovers asteroid #3617
and Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines

1985 39th Tony Awards: Biloxi Blues & Big River win
and Andreas Papandreous PASOK-party wins election in Greece
and Nancy Lopez beats Alice Miller for the LPGA

1986 NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
and Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins

1989 14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee
and Cincinnati Red Eric Davis hits for cycle
and Rolling Stones Bill Wyman marries Mandy Smith
10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting
and students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing

1991 45th Tony Awards: Lost in Yonkers & Will Rogers Follies win

1992 Former NY Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgery
and Wilson Phillips release their 2nd album "Shadows & Light"

1994 Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland (29 killed)
and Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List"

2004 Websleuther "Hugh" announces he is having a baby!

Wesbsleuther Birthdays today - Graybar-Hotel :HappyBday:HappyBday
 
On This Day - June 3

959AD: Edgar, first King of All England, was crowned on Whit Sunday by Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the Saxon abbey on the site of the present Bath Abbey.

1899: Johann Strauss the Younger, Austrian composer, violinist and conductor who wrote The Blue Danube waltz, died.

1899: England cricket captain WG Grace played his final Test match, aged 50, against Australia at Trent Bridge.
1901 - Maurice Evans was born
actor: Macbeth, Planet of the Apes, Batman, Bewitched;

1925 - Tony Curtis was born
actor: Some Like It Hot, The Great Impostor, The Defiant Ones, Houdini, Trapeze, The Boston Strangler, Christmas in Connecticut, The Count of Monte Cristo

1929 - Chuck Barris was born
producer: Dating Game, Newlywed Game, Three’s a Crowd; producer/host: The Gong Show; songwriter: Palisades Park; novelist: You and Me, Babe

 1931: The Baird Company televised the Epsom Derby, which was transmitted by the BBC.

1937: The Duke of Windsor, the abdicated King Edward VIII, married Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson in France.

1946: The first bikini bathing suit was unveiled in Paris, invented by Louis Reard, a former motor engineer.

1956: Third class rail travel was abolished in Britain and renamed second class.

1965: The Gemini 4 spaceship was launched, with James McDivitt and Edward White on board. During the flight White became the first American to walk in space.

1971: The longest running comedy in theatre history, No Sex Please We’re British, opened in London, with Michael Crawford in the cast. It closed on September 5, 1987.

1978: The Guinness Book of Records went into the Guinness Book of Records – as the most stolen book from British libraries.
 
Casshew you have a big day soon, June the 6th, TV full of remembrance programmes over here.
 
June 4th ~ Today in History!


1674 - Horse racing became a nag to the good people of Massachusetts, because the sport was prohibited in the state.

1816 - The Washington, the first stately double-decker steamboat, was launched at Wheeling, WV.

1738 - King George III - was born
King of Great Britain and Ireland [1760-1811] during time of the American Revolutionary War against the British; died Jan 29, 1820

1831 - The independent constitutional monarchy of Belgium named Prince Leopold as its first king. 109 years later, less one week, King Leopold’s descendant, Leopold III, surrendered to Germany.

1896 - Henry Ford took a trial run in his Ford automobile around the streets of Detroit, MI.

1917 - Laura E. Richards and Maude H. Elliott, along with their assistant, Florence Hall, received the first Pulitzer Prize for a biography. The title of their work was Julia Ward Howe. With Americans of Past and Present Days, by Jean Jules Jusserand, received the first prize for history; while Herbert B. Swope picked up the first reporter’s Pulitzer. He wrote for the New York World. Altogether, these were the very first Pulitzer Prizes ever awarded.


1924 - In memory of all the soldiers from the state of New York who died in the first World War, an eternal light was dedicated at Madison Square in New York City.

1924 - Dennis Weaver - was born
actor: Gunsmoke, McCloud, Gentle Ben, Disaster at Silo 7, Lonesome Dove: The Series

1931 - The first rocket-glider flight was made by William Swan in Atlantic City, NJ.

1934 - The Dorsey Brothers, Tommy and Jimmy, recorded Annie’s Cousin Fanny on the Brunswick label. The track featured trombonist Glenn Miller, who also vocalized on the tune.

1939 - Sylvan Goldman introduced the first grocery-store shopping cart in Oklahoma City, OK. The original shopping cart was actually a folding chair mounted on wheels.

1942 - Glenn Wallichs did what was called ‘promotion’ for Capitol Records in Hollywood. He came up with the idea that he could send copies of Capitol’s new records to influential radio announcers all around the U.S. and, maybe, add to the chances that stations would play the records. The practice would soon become common among most record labels.

1944 - Leonidas Witherall was first broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Witherall was a detective who looked just like William Shakespeare.

1949 - Jack Kramer defeated Bobby Riggs and won the men’s pro-tennis title.

1962 - The legendary sportscaster Clem McCarthy died. McCarthy was the first to announce the running of the Kentucky Derby back in 1928.

1964 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers tied Bob Feller’s 1951 record by pitching a third career no-hit baseball game. Koufax blanked the Philadelphia Phillies 3-0. He struck out a dozen Phillies’ batters.

1974 - Cleveland Indians public relations experts thought that ‘Ten Cent Beer Night’ would bring out the fans and otherwise help the slumping Indians -- a team no one cared to watch. The promotion was a disaster. Oh, sure, there was plenty of dime brew sold at Municipal Stadium that night. But there were soon plenty of drunken, surly, unruly fans, too, which made it possible for the Indians to forfeit the ball game to the Texas Rangers. Municipal Stadium could seat some 60,000 fans and only 22,000 showed up for the frolic and merriment.

1975 - Angelina Jolie - was born
Academy Award-winning supporting actress: Girl, Interrupted; Gia, George Wallace, Cyborg 2, Foxfire, Playing by Heart, Tomb Raider, Original Sin; daughter of actor Jon Voight)

1984 - For the first time in 32 years, golfing-great Arnold Palmer failed to make the cut for the U.S. Open golf tournament. Palmer missed making the tourney by two strokes.

1987 - Edwin Moses, who had won a total of 122 consecutive victories in the 400-meter hurdles, was defeated by Danny Harris in Madrid, Spain. It had been ten years since Moses had lost the event.

1989 - Democracy took a hard blow this day in Peking as the People’s Army of China opened fire on crowds of demonstrators. What began as a student demonstration on behalf of democracy a month and a half earlier, had become a demonstration of hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life defying the government ban on the students’ action. Armored tanks of the People’s Army literally rolled over demonstrators as the world watched in horror as the tragedy unfolded on live TV. The government issued statements claiming that only a few had died. Other estimates of the deaths in Tiananmen Square ranged from hundreds to several thousand. There is no contradiction of the fact that thousands of demonstrators were later jailed.
 
June 5 - What happened today?


1783 - Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier were brothers. They made their first balloon ascension on this day. This means that their balloon went up, successfully, we might add, to 1,500 feet for about ten minutes.

1865 - Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould listened quietly and with pride as his composition, Onward Christian Soldiers, was presented for the first time in Horbury, England.

1876 - For one thin dime, visitors to Philadelphia’s Centennial Exposition were able to buy foil-wrapped bananas, a popular taste treat in the United States. We tried one as an experiment for lunch today -- and heartily agree! It is especially interesting how the aluminum foil creates a kind of buzzing feeling on your teeth as the banana gets chewed up!

1927 - Johnny Weissmuller set a pair of world records in swimming events. Weissmuller, who would soon become Tarzan in the movies, set marks in the 100-yard, and 220-yard, free-style swimming competition.

1941 - Roy Eldridge was featured on trumpet and vocal as drummer Gene Krupa and his band recorded After You’ve Gone for Okeh Records.

1942 - Sammy Kaye and his orchestra recorded the classic I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen for Victor Records.

1952 - ‘Jersey’ Joe Walcott defended his heavyweight-boxing title by out-pointing Ezzard Charles in Philadelphia, PA. Jersey Joe would lose the heavyweight crown four months later to Rocky Marciano.

1956 - Elvis Presley made his second appearance on Milton Berle’s Texaco Star Theatre. Presley sang Heartbreak Hotel, his number one hit. The TV critics were not kind to Elvis’ appearance on the show. They panned him, saying his performance looked “like the mating dance of an aborigine.”

1959 - Bob Zimmerman graduated from high school in Hibbing, MN. Zimmerman was known as a greaser to classmates in the remote rural community, because of his long sideburns and leather jacket. Soon, Zimmerman would be performing at coffee houses at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and later, in Greenwich Village in New York City. He would also change his name to Bob Dylan (after poet Dylan Thomas, so the story goes).

1964 - David Jones and The King Bees had their first record, Liza Jane, released by Vocalion Records of Great Britain. Less than a decade later, we came to know Jones better as David Bowie.

1967 - Ongoing political problems (control and reunification of Jerusalem, access through the strait of Tiran, control of the West Bank of the Jordan River, etc.) came to a head, causing a major outbreak of hostilities (later referred to as the Six Day War) between Israel and Egypt. The Israelis, who had at first met strong Egyptian resistance, destroyed 50 of Egypt’s tanks and stormed through Gaza, and this was only Day One; the beginning of a quick and ferocious victory for the Israeli ground and air forces, led by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan; and a humiliating defeat for Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser. Both sides are still blaming the other for firing the first shot.

1967 - New franchises in the National Hockey League were awarded to the Minnesota North Stars, the California Golden Seals and the Los Angeles Kings. The North Stars moved to Dallas in the mid-1990s and the Golden Seals are now nonexistent.

1968 - While celebrating his victory in the California Democratic presidential primary in Los Angeles, Senator Robert F. Kennedy (brother of assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy) was shot in the head. He died the following day. The gunman, Sirhan Sirhan, was later convicted of the murder.

1972 - Maureen McGovern quit her job as a full-time secretary for a new career as a full-time singer. Maureen was part of a trio before recording as a solo artist in July, Her first song, The Morning After, from the movie, The Poseidon Adventure, was a million-seller. She also sang the theme, Different Worlds, from ABC-TV’s Angie, and Can You Read My Mind from the movie, Superman. Ms. McGovern starred in Pirates of Penzance for 14 months on Broadway.

1973 - The first hole-in-one in the British Amateur golf championship was made this day -- by Jim Crowford of Winston-Salem, NC.

1985 - Steve Cauthen rode Slip Anchor to the winner’s circle. He was the first American jockey in 79 years to win the Epsom Derby, Great Britain’s premier flat racing event.

1987 - Ted Koppel and guests discussed the topic of AIDS for four hours on ABC-TV’s Nightline. It is believed that this was a record for the longest live-TV broadcast, other than of space coverage and political conventions.

Websleuthers having a birthday today ~ sleepingbeauty :blowkiss:
 
1674 - Sivaji crowned himself King of India.

1813 - The U.S. invasion of Canada was halted at Stony Creek, Ontario.

1833 - Andrew Jackson became the first U.S. president to ride in a train. It was a B&O passenger train.

1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association was founded in London.

1865 - Confederate raider Wiliam Quantrill died from shot in the back that he received while escaping from a Union patrol near Taylorsville, KY.

1882 - The first electric iron was patented by H.W. Seely.

1890 - The United States Polo Association was formed in New York City, NY

1904 - The National Tuberculosis Association was formed in Atlantic City,NJ

1924 - The German Reichtag accepted the Dawes Plan. It was an American plan to help Germany pay off its war debts.

1925 - Chrysler Corporation was founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.

1932 - In the U.S. the first federal tax on gasoline went into effect. It was a penny per gallon.

1933 - In Camden, N.J. the first drive-in movie theater opened.

1934 -U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Securities Exchange Act, which established the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

1935 - The Dalai Lama was born.

1936 - The first helicopter was tested in a building in Berlin, Germany.

1941 - The U,S, government authorized the seizure of foreign ships in U.S. ports.

1942 - The first nylon parachute jump was made by Adeline Gray in Hartford,
CT

1942 - Japanese forces retreated in the World War II Battle of Midway. The battle had begun on June 4.

1944 - The D-Day invasion of Europe took place on the beaches of Normandy, France. 400,000 Allied American, British and Canadian troops were involved.

1946 - The Basketball association of American was formed in New York City, NY
1966 - James Meridith was shot and wounded while on a solo march in Mississippi to promote voter registration among blacks.

1968 - U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy died at 1:44am in Los Angeles after being shot by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy was was shot the evening before while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination.

1971 - "The Ed Sullivan Show" aired for the last time. It was canceled after 23 years on the air. Gladys Knight and the Pips were the musical guests on show.

1978 - "20/20" debuted on ABC.

1982 - Israel invaded southern Lebanon in an effort to drive PLO guerrillas out of Beirut.

1985 - The body of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele was located and exhumed near Sao Paolo, Brazil. Mengele was known as the "Angel of Death."

1993 - Mongolia held its first direct presidential elections.

2001 - U.S. District Court Judge Matsch rejected a request to delay the execution of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The date was left at June 11
 
June 7th ~ here is what happened on this day

1498 - Christopher Columbus left on his third voyage of exploration.

1546 - Peace of Ardes ended the war between France and England.

1654 - Louis XIV was crowned king of France.

1712 - The Pennsylvania Assembly banned the importation of slaves.

1775 - The United Colonies changed their name to the United States

1776 - Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence.

1860 - The book, "Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter" by Mrs. Ann Stevens, was offered for sale for a dime. It was the first "dime novel."

1863 - Mexico City was captured by French troops.

1892 - J.F. Palmer patented the cord bicycle tire.

1892 - John Joseph Doyle became the first pinch-hitter in baseball when he was used in a game.

1900 - Boxer rebels cut the rail links between Peking and Tientsin in China.

1903 - Professor Pierre Curie revealed the discovery of Polonium.

1909 - Mary Pickford made her motion picture debut in "The Violin Maker of Cremona."

1917 - Dean Martin was born

1929 - The sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.

1932 - Over 7,000 war veterans marched on Washington, demanding their bonuses.

1935 - Pierre Laval received emergency powers to save the franc.

1937 - The cover of "LIFE" magazine showed the latest in campus fashions of the times, which included saddle shoes.

1939 - King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived in the US It was the first visit to the US by a reigning British monarch.

1942 - The Battle of Midway ended. The sea and air battle lasted 4 days. Japan lost four carriers, a cruiser, and 292 aircraft, and suffered 2,500 casualties. The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the destroyer USS Hammann, 145 aircraft, and suffered 307 casualties.

1942 - Japan landed troops on the islands of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutians. The U.S. invaded and recaptured the Alutians one year later.

1944 - Off of the coast of Normandy, France, the Susan B. Anthony sank. All 2,689 people aboard survived.

1948 - The Communists completed their takeover of Czechoslovakia.

1955 - "The $64,000 Question" premiered.

1965 - Sony Corporation unveiled its brand new consumer home videotape recorder. The black and white only unit sold for $995.

1965 - In the U.S., the Gemini 4 mission was completed. The mission featured the first spacewalk by an American.

1968 - In Operation Swift Saber, US Marines swept an area 10 miles northwest of Danang in South Vietnam.

1972 - The musical "Grease" opened on Broadway. It had been playing off-Broadway for about 4 months.

1976 - "The NBC Nightly News", with John Chancellor and David Brinkley, aired for the first time.

1981 - Anna Kournikova was born

1993 - Woody Allen lost his custody battle against Mia Farrow.

1993 - Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol.

1994 - The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia declared the RMS Titanic, Inc. (RMST) salvor-in-possession of the wreck and the wreck site of the RMS Titanic.

1998 - James Byrd Jr., at age 49, was murdered in Jasper, TX Byrd had been dragged to death behind a pickup truck. On February 25, 1999 William King was sentenced to the death penalty for the racial crime while two other men charged awaited trial.

2000 - U.S. Federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corporation.

2002 - Michael Skakel was convicted of beating his neighbor Martha Moxley to death in 1975. The two were 15 years old at the time.

2002 - In Chicago, IL - R. Kelly was booked on child *advertiser censored* charges. He had been arrested two days before and released after posting bond.

Websleuther's having a birthday today ~ Checko :blowkiss:
 
On June 7, 1958 I was going to have my first child in THREE days'!

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It is June 8th ~ What happened today?

0452 - Italy was invaded by Attila the Hun.

0793 - The Vikings raided the Northumbrian coast of England.

1783 - Iceland’s Laki volcano erupted and continued to spew lava for eight months. 9,350 people were killed and famine started and lasted until 1790.

1786 - In New York City, commercial ice cream was manufactured for the first time.

1790 - The first loan for the US was repaid. The Temporary Loan of 1789 was negotiated and secured on September 18, 1789 by Alexander Hamilton.

1861 - Tennessee voted to secede from the Union and joined the Confederacy.

1866 - Prussia annexed the region of Holstein.

1869 - Ives W. McGaffey received a US patent for the suction vacuum cleaner.

1872 - The penny postcard was authorized by the US Congress.

1904 - US Marines landed in Tangiers, Morocco, to protect US citizens.

1915 - US Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement over US handling of the sinking of the Lusitania.

1947 - "Lassie" debuted on ABC radio. It was a 15-minute show.

1948 - Milton Berle hosted "Texaco Star Theater" NBC-TV. It was the show's debut.

1953 - The US Supreme Court outlawed segregated restaurants in Washington, DC

1961 - The Milwaukee Braves set a mjor league baseball record when four consecutive home runs in the seventh inning.

1965 - US troops in South Vietnam were given orders to begin fighting offensively.

1967 - Israeli airplanes attacked the USS Liberty in the Mediterranean during the 6-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors. 34 US Navy crewmen were killed. Israel later called the incident a tragic mistake due to the mis-identification of the ship. The US has never publicly investigated the incident.

1968 - James Earl Ray was captured at the London Airport. He was suspected of assassinating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

1969 - The New York Yankees retired Mickey Mantle's number (7).


1978 - A jury in Clark County, Nevada ruled that the "Mormon will," was a forgery. The work was supposedly written by Howard Hughes.

1982 - US President Reagan became the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament.

1986 - The Boston Celtics won their 16th NBA championship.

1987 - Fawn Hill began testifying in the Iran-Contra hearings.

1991 - A victory parade was held in Washington, DC to honor veterans of the Persian Gulf War.

1994 - The warring factions in Bosnia agreed to a one-month cease-fire.

1995 - US Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady was resuced byUS Marines after surviving alone in Bosnia after his F-16 fighter was shot down.

1996 - China set off an underground nuclear test blast.

1998 - The National Rifle Association elected Charlton Heston to be its president.

1998 - In the USthe FTC brought an antitrust complaint against Intel Corp., alleging its policies punished other developers of microprocessor chips.

1998 - Honda agreed to pay $17.1 million for disconnecting anti-pollution devices in 1.6 million cars.

1998 - The space shuttle Discovery pulled away from Mir, ending Americas three-year partnership with Russia.

2000 - The Dallas Stars and the New Jersey Devils played the NHL's longest scoreless game in Stanley Cup finals history. The fifth game of the series lasted 106 minutes and 21 seconds. The game ended with a goal by Mike Madano that allowed the Stars to play a game six back in Dallas.

2001 - Marc Chagall's painting "Study for 'Over Vitebsk" was stolen from the Jewish Museum in New York City. The 8x10 painting was valued at about $1 million. A group called the International Committee for Art and Peace later announced that they would return the painting after the Israelis and Palestinians made peace

2004 - The transit of Venus. The planet Venus moves between the Earth and the Sun, visable for the first time in over 120 years.

Websleuther's Birthdays today ~ Coolmomof4 :blowkiss:
 
Welcome to June 9th

68 A.D. - Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide.

1064 - Coimbra, Portugal fell to Ferdinand, the King of Castile.

1534 - Jacques Cartier became the first to sail into the river he named Saint Lawrence.

1790 - John Barry copyrighted "Philadelphia Spelling Book." It was the first American book to be copyrighted.

1790 - Civil war broke out in Martinique.

1860 - "Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter" was published. It was the first dime novel.

1861 - Mary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke began working in Union hospitals.

1923 - Bulgaria’s government was overthrown by the military.

1931 - Robert H. Goddard patented a rocket-fueled aircraft design.

1934 - Donald Duck made his debut in "The Wise Little Hen."

1940 - Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II.

1943 - The withholding tax on payrolls was authorized by the U.S. Congress.

1945 - Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declared that Japan would fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender.

1946 - Mel Ott (with the New York Giants) became the first manager to be ejected from a doubleheader (both games).

1953 - A tornado struck Worcester, Massachusetts, killing about 100 people.

1959 - The first ballistic missile carrying submarine, the USS George Washington, was launched.

1965 - Michel Jazy ran the mile in 3 minutes, 53.6 seconds. He broke the record set by Peter Snell in 1964.

1972 - American advisor John Paul Vann was killed in a helicopter accident in Vietnam.

1978 - Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.

1980 - Richard Pryor was severely burned by a "free-base" mixture that exploded. He was hospitalized more than two months.

1985 - Thomas Sutherland, an American educator, was kidnapped in Lebanon. He was not released until November 1991.

1985 - The Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA title by defeating the Boston Celtics.

1986 - The Rogers Commission released a report on the Challenger disaster. The report explained that the spacecraft blew up as a result of a failure in a solid rocket booster joint.

1998 - In Jasper, TX, three white men were charged in the dragging death of African-American James Byrd Jr.

1999 - NATO and Yugoslavia signed a peace agreement over Kosovo.

2000 - The U.S. Justice Department announced that it had not uncovered reliable evidence of conspiracy behind 1968 assissination of Martin Luther King Jr.

2000 - Canada and the United States signed a border security agreement. The agreement called for the establishment of a border-enforcement team.

2000 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal gift and estate taxes. The bill called for the taxes to be phased out over 10 years.

2001 - Patrick Roy (Colorado Avalanche) became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to win three Conn Smythe Trophies. The award is given to the playoff's Most Valuable Player.

Websleuther's having birthday today ~ Mountaingal :p :)
 
It's June 10th ~ something interesting must have happened today

1190 - Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River while leading an army of the Third Crusade to free Jerusalem.

1776 - The Continental Congress appointed a committee to write a Declaration of Independence.

1793 - The Jardin des Plantes zoo opened in Paris. It was the first public zoo.

1801 - The North African State of Tripoli declared war on the US The dispute was over merchant vessels being able to travel safely through the Mediterranean.

1806 - New York's "Commercial Advertiser" became the first US newspapter to cover the sport of harness racing.

1854 - The USNaval Academy in Annapolis, MD held its first graduation.

1889 - Hattie McDaniel was born. She, for her role in "Gone With the Wind," was the first African-American to win an Academy Award.

1898 - USMarines landed in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

1902 - The "outlook" or "see-through" envelope was patented by Americus F. Callahan.

1909 - The SOS distress signal was used for the first time. The Cunard liner SS Slavonia used the signal when it wrecked off the Azores.

1916 - Mecca, under control of the Turks, fell to the Arabs during the Great Arab Revolt.

1920 - The Republican convention in Chicago endorsed woman suffrage.

1924 - The Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti was kidnapped and murdered by Fascists in Rome.

1924 - The Republican National Convention was broadcast by NBC radio. It was the first political convention to be on radio.

1925 - The state of Tennessee adopted a new biology text book that denied the theory of evolution.

1935 - Alcoholic Anonymous was founded by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.

1940 - Italy declared war on France and Britain. In addition, Canada declared war on Italy.

1942 - The Gestapo massacred 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official.

1943 - Laszlo Biro patented his ballpoint pen. Biro was a Hungarian journalist.

1943 - The Allies began bombing Germany around the clock.

1944 - The youngest pitcher in major league baseball pitched his first game. Joe Nuxhall was 15 years old (and 10 months and 11 days).

1946 - Italy established a republic replacing its monarchy.

1948 - Chuck Yeager exceeded the speed of sound in the Bell XS-1.

1954 - General Motors announced the gas turbine bus had been produced successfully.

1967 - Israel and Syria agreed to a cease-fire that ended the Six-Day War.

1970 - A fifteen-man group of special forces troops began training for Operation Kingpin. The operation was a POW rescue mission in North Vietnam.

1971 - The US ended a 21-year trade embargo of China.

1977 - James Earl Ray escaped with 6 others from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennesee Ray was recaptured June 13, 1977.

1983 - Johnny Bench announced his plans to retire. He was a catcher in the major leagues for 16 years.

1984 - The US Army successfully tested an antiballistic missile.

1985 - Frank Sinatra was portrayed as a friend of organized crime in a "Doonesbury" comic strip. Over 800 newspapers carried the panel.

1985 - The Israeli army pulled out of Lebanon after 1,099 days of occupation.

1987 - An earthquake hit 15 states from Iowa to SC

1988 - Author Louis L'Amour died at age 80.

1990 - The Civic Forum movement won Czechoslovakia's first free elections since 1946. The movement was founded by President Vaclav Havel.

1990 - Bulgaria's former Communist Party won the country's first free elections in more than four decades.

1993 - It was announced by scientists that genetic material was extracted from an insect that lived when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

1994 -US President Clinton intensified sanctions against Haiti's military leaders. US commercial air travel was suspended along with most financial transactions between Haiti and the US

1995 - 26 people were killed in Medellin, Columbia, by a bomb blast that was blamed on drug traffickers.

1996 - The Colorado Avalanche defeated the Florida Panthers in a 1-0 triple overtime game. The win ended a four-game sweep for the Stanley Cup.

1996 - Britain and Ireland opened Northern Ireland peace talks. The IRA's political arm Sinn Fein was excluded.

1997 - Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot killed his defense chief Son Sen and 11 members of his family. He then fled his northern stronghold. The news did not emerge for three days.

1998 - The WI Supreme Court ruled that poor children in Milwaukee could attend religious schools at taxpayer expense.

1999 - NATO suspended air strikes in Yugoslavia after Slobodan Milosevic agreed to withdraw his forces from Kosovo.

Websleuther's having birthdays today ~ Zak :blowkiss:
 
On this Day ~ June 11th

1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany.
1488 - James III of Scotland was murdered after his defeat at the Battle of Sauchieburn, Stirling. He was succeeded by his son James IV.

1509 - King Henry VIII married his first of six wives, Catherine of Aragon.

1770 - Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off of Australia when he ran aground.

1776 - In America, the Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence from Britain.

1793 - Robert Haeterick was issued the first patent for a stove.

1798 - Napoleon Bonaparte took the island of Malta.

1847 - Sir John Franklin died in Canada while attempting to discover the Northwest Passage. Franklin was an English naval officer and an Arctic explorer.

1880 - Jeanette Rankin was born. She became the first woman elected to the US Congress.

1889 - The Washington Business High School opened in Washington, DC It was the first school devoted to business in the U.S.

1895 - Charles E. Duryea received the first US patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.

1903 - King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia were murdered in a coup by members of the Serbian army.

1910 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born. He was the French underwater explorer that invented the Aqua-Lung diving apparatus.

1912 - Silas Christoferson became the first pilot to take off from the roof of a hotel.

1915 - British troops took Cameroon in Africa.

1919 - Sir Barton became the first horse to capture the Triple Crown when he won the Belmont Stakes in New York City.

1927 - Charles A. Lindberg was presented the first Distinguished Flying Cross.

1930 - William Beebe dove to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda. He used a diving chamber called a bathysphere.

1934 - The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ended in failure.

1936 - The Presbyterian Church of America was formed in Philadelphia,PA

1940 - The Italian Air Force bombed the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean.

1942 - The US and the Soviet Union signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviets in their effort in World War II.

1943 - During World War II, the Italian island of Pantelleria surrendered after a heavy air bombardment.

1945 - Adrienne Barbeau was born

1947 - The US government announced an end sugar rationing.

1950 - Ben Hogan returned to tournament play after a near fatal car accident. He won the US Open.

1955 - In France, 80 people were killed and more than 100 were injured when three cars crashed on the Le Mans racetrack. The cars had ploughed into the spectator's grandstand.

1956 - Joe Montana was born

1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants.

1963 - Buddhist monk Quang Duc immolated himself on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.

1963 - Alabama Gov. George Wallace allowed two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama.

1967 - Israel and Syria accepted a U.N. cease-fire.

1972 - Hank Aaron tied the National League record for 14 grand-slam home runs in a career.

1973 - After a ruling by the Justice Department of the State of Pennsylvania, women were licensed to box or wrestle.

1977 - In the Netherlands, a 19-day hostage situation came to an end when Dutch marines stormed a train and a school being held by South Moluccan extremist. Two hostages and the six terrorists were killed.

1981 - The first major league baseball player's strike began. It would last for two months.

1981 - In Iran, more than 1,000 people were killed in an earthquake that measured 6.8 on the Richter Scale. The town of Golbaf in the Kermin province was destroyed.

1982 - Steven Spielberg's movie "E.T." opened.

1985 - Karen Ann Quinlan died at age 31. Quinlan was a comatose patient whose case prompted a historic right-to-die court decision.

1987 - Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term of office.

1990 - The US Supreme Court struck down a law that would prohibit the desecration of the American Flag.

1991 - Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted. The eruption of ash and gas could be seen for more than 60 miles.

1993 - The US Supreme Court ruled that people who commit "hate crimes" could be sentenced to extra punishment. The court also ruled in favor of religious groups saying that they indeed had a constitutional right to sacrifice animals during worship services.

1993 - Steven Spielberg's movie "Jurassic Park" opened.

1994 - A car bomb blew up in Guadalajara, Mexico killing five people. The bombing was believed to be drug related.

1998 - Mitsubishi of America agreed to pay $34 million to end the largest sexual harassment case filed by the U.S. government. The federal lawsuit claimed that hundreds of women at a plant in Normal, IL had endured groping and crude jokes from male workers.

1998 - Pakistan announced moratorium on nuclear testing and offered to talk with India over disputed Kashmir.

Websleuther's having birthdays today ~ Shae209 :HappyBday

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Henry VIII marries by far his best wife and Joe Montana was born, those pesky scots lost a king as well I may have a few beers on that lot tonight
 
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