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Post by mrmatt on May 31, 2008 22:26:17 GMT -5
No Prob. Joker has been a favorite since I was a kid. I'm very excited for the new movie.
May 30 continued...
1806 - Revolutionary war veteran and future President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel.
1861 - In an attempt to secure the approaches to Washington D.C. from attack Union troops occupy Grafton, Virginia.
1862 - Confederates abandon the city of Corinth. After the epic struggle at Shiloh in April 1862, the Confederate army, under the command of P.T. Beauregard, concentrated at Corinth, while the Union army, under Henry Halleck, began a slow advance from the Shiloh battlefield toward the rail center at Corinth. Halleck had no intention of taking on Beauregard's army directly; he was more concerned with controlling the railroad junction.
1864: After avoiding the Confederate trap at the North Anna River, the Union Army of the Potomac continues its move south by the left flank. Confederates, desperate to slow the Union juggernaught attack at Bethesda Church, Virginia. The attack does little and Grant's forces continue on towards the Cross Roads at Cold Harbor.
1913 - A peace treaty is signed ending the First Balkan War, in which the newly aligned Slavic nations of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece had driven Turkish forces out of Macedonia, a territory of the Ottoman Empire located in the tumultuous Balkans region of southeastern Europe.
1942 - A thousand-plane raid on the Nacospeak city of Cologne is launched by Great Britain. Almost 1,500 tons of bombs rain down in 90 minutes, delivering a devastating blow to the Germans' medieval city as well as its morale.
1966 - In the largest raids since air attacks on North Vietnam began in February 1965, U.S. planes destroy five bridges, 17 railroad cars, and 20 buildings in the Thanh Hoa and Vinh areas (100 and 200 miles south of Hanoi, respectively). Others planes hit Highway 12 in four places north of the Mugia Pass and inflicted heavy damage on the Yen Bay arsenal and munitions storage area, which was located 75 miles northeast of Hanoi. A U.S. spokesman attributed the unprecedented number of planes taking part in the raids to an improvement in weather conditions.
1969 - South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, concluding a four-day visit to South Korea, tells reporters at a news conference that he would "never" agree to a coalition government with the National Liberation Front (NLF). Regarding the role of the NLF in possible elections, Thieu said, "If the communists are willing to lay down their weapons, abandon the communist ideology, and abandon atrocities, they could participate in elections."
1990 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Washington, D.C., for three days of talks with President George Bush. The summit meeting centered on the issue of Germany and its place in a changing Europe.
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1775 - The committeemen of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, meet and respond to news of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the American Revolution, with a series of 20 patriotic resolutions.
1862 - A major storm on May 31 threatened to cut the only bridge links between the two wings of the Major General George McClellan's Union army during the Penisular Campaign of 1862. Confederate General Joseph Johnston attacked one of McClellan's corps south of the river on May 31 in a promising assault. The plan called for three divisions to hammer the Federal corps from three sides, but the inexperienced Confederates were delayed and confused. By the time the attack came, McClellan had time to muster reinforcements and drive the Rebels back. A Confederate attack the next day also produced no tangible results. The Yankees lost 5,000 casualties to the Rebels' 6,000.
1864: Follow the inconclusive battle at Bethesda Church, Grant once agian moves his lines by the left flank and heads towards Cold Harbor.
1916 - A British naval force commanded by Vice Admiral David Beatty confronts a squadron of Nacospeak ships, led by Admiral Franz von Hipper, some 75 miles off the Danish coast. The two squadrons opened fire on each other simultaneously, beginning the opening phase of the greatest naval battle of World War I, the Battle of Jutland.
1941 - The last of the Allies evacuate after 11 days of battling a successful Nacospeak parachute invasion of the island of Crete. Crete is now Axis-occupied territory.
1965 - Operation Rolling Thunder continues as U.S. planes bomb an ammunition depot at Hoi Jan, west of Hanoi, and try again to drop the Than Hoa highway bridge.
1970 - About 75 communist soldiers who had seized key outposts in the city of Dalat, 145 miles northeast of Saigon, manage to slip past 2,500 South Vietnamese militiamen and soldiers who had surrounded their positions. In earlier fighting, 47 communist soldiers were reported killed; South Vietnamese reported that 16 soldiers were killed and 2 were wounded.
1988 - President Ronald Reagan ends his first trip to Moscow, and his fourth summit meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, on notes of both frustration and triumph. Although there were no breakthroughs or agreements on substantive issues, the "Great Communicator," as Reagan was known in the United States, was a hit with Soviet audiences.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Jun 1, 2008 9:30:08 GMT -5
June 1
193 - Roman Emperor Didius Julianus assassinated. 987 - Hugh Capet is elected King of France. 1204 - King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen. 1215 - Beijing, then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Beijing. 1252 - Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and León. 1283 - Treaty of Rheinfelden: Duke Rudolph II of Austria waives his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria. 1485 - Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna from Frederick III 1495 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky. 1533 - Anne Boleyn crowned Queen of England. 1660 - Mary Dyer hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1779 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold court-martialed for malfeasance. 1792 - Kentucky admitted as the 15th state of the United States. 1796 - Tennessee admitted as the 16th state of the United States. 1812 - War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom. 1813 - James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, cries out "Don't give up the ship!" 1815 - Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France. 1831 - James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole. 1855 - American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua. 1857 - Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal is published. 1862 - American Civil War Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks) - Engagement ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory. 1868 - Treaty of Bosque Redondo signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico. 1869 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric voting machine. 1879 - Napoleon Eugene killed in the Anglo-Zulu War. 1886 - The railroads of the Southern United States convert 11,000 miles of track from a five foot rail gauge to standard gauge, beginning May 31. 1890 - The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns. 1910 - Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England. 1918 - World War I Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood - Allied Forces under John J. Pershing & James Harbord engage Imperial Nacospeak Forces under Wilhelm, Nacospeak Crown Prince. 1920 - Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico. 1921 - Tulsa Race Riot: Civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 1922 - Royal Ulster Constabulary founded . 1925 - Lou Gehrig plays the first game in his streak of 2,130 consecutive games; it was the longest such streak until broken by Cal Ripken Jr. in 1995. 1935 - The first driving tests are introduced in the United Kingdom. 1939 - Maiden flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger (D-OPZE) fighter aeroplane 1940 - The Leninist Communist Youth League of the Karelo-Finnish SSR holds its first congress. 1941 - World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Nacospeaky. 1941 - The Farhud, a pogrom in Iraqi Jews, took place in baghdad. 1942 - World War II: The Warsaw paper Liberty Brigade publishes the first news of the concentration camps. 1943 - British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by Nacospeak Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. 1946 - Ion Antonescu executed. 1956 - First international flight (to YUL) from the Atlanta Municipal Airport (ATL; now Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and currently the world's busiest airport) 1958 - Charles de Gaulle brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months. 1962 - Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel. 1963 - Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day). 1967 - The groundbreaking Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album by The Beatles is released 1974 - Flixborough disaster: Explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people. 1974 - Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims published in the journal Emergency Medicine. 1978 - FIFA World Cup kicks off in Argentina with a match held in Buenos Aires between cup holder West Nacospeaky and Poland 1978 - The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty filed. 1979 - Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India. 1979 - The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power. 1980 - Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting. 1985 - Alan García is proclaimed President of Peru. 1990 - George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production. 1997 - Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia. 2000 - The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) signed. 2001 - Dipendra of Nepal slaughters his family during dinner. 2001 - Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv. 2003 - The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam. 2005 - The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection. 2005 - The longest oil/natural gas explosion in the Houston, Texas area occurred in Crosby, Texas. The drill was owned by the Louisiana Oil and Gas Company. 2007 - Jack Kevorkian was released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County, Michigan.
Observances Children's Day in some countries. Poland - Thanksgiving Day Kenya - Madaraka Day 1963. Roman Empire - Festival in honour of Carna. National Day Against Homophobia in Canada
June 2 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks. 1098 - First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7. 1615 - First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France. 1692 - Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, is found guilty, and would go on to be hanged on June 10. 1763 - Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort. 1774 - Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to let British soldiers into their homes, is reenacted. 1780 - The Derby horse race is held for the first time. 1793 - Jean-Paul Marat recites the names of 29 people to the French National Convention. Almost all of these are guillotined, followed by 17,000 more over the course of the next year during the Reign of Terror. 1800 - First smallpox vaccination in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland. 1835 - P. T. Barnum and his circus begins their first tour of the United States. 1848 - Slavic congress in Prague begins. 1855 - The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine. 1886 - U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion. 1896 - Guglielmo Marconi receives a patent for his newest invention: the radio. 1909 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time. 1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States. 1946 - Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum Italians decide to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After this referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia is exiled. 1953 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised. 1955 - USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948. 1965 - Vietnam War: The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in South Vietnam. 1966 - Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first US spacecraft to soft land on another world. 1967 - Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June. 1975 - French sex workers occupied a Lyon church in protest against excessive fines and taxes, as well as a lack of police action against violence, thereby sparking the birth of the modern sex worker rights movement. 1979 - Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country. 1990 - Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 88 confirmed tornados in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana was the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths. 1992 - Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty by a thin margin in a national referendum. 1995 - United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone. 1997 - In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1998 - The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan. 1999 - The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time. 2003 - Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan. 2004 - Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!.
Observances Italy's Festa della Repubblica (Republic Day), which commemorates the birth of the Repubblica Italiana and the end of the monarchy. Xenia name day in Slovakia. Shavuoth (Judaism) (2006). The death of Hristo Botev in Bulgaria. Independence day Samoa 1962
June 3 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators. 1098 - First Crusade: Antioch falls to the crusaders after an eight-month siege. 1140 - French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy. 1326 - Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark. 1539 - DeSoto claims Florida for Spain 1608 - Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec. 1620 - Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. 1621 - The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands. 1658 - The Pope appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France. 1665 - James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch Fleet off the coast of Lowestoft. 1770 - Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo is founded in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. 1800 - U.S. President John Adams takes up residence in Washington, DC (in a tavern – the White House was not yet completed). 1850 - The traditional founding date of Kansas City, Missouri. This was the date on which it was first incorporated by Jackson County, Missouri as the "City of Kansas". 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor - Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia. 1866 - Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario, into the United States to a heroes' welcome. 1885 - Last military engagement fought on Canadian soil: Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North West Mounted Police. 1888 - The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner. 1889 - The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast. 1889 - The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. 1907 - Centro Escolar University was established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in Manila, Philippines. 1916 - The ROTC is established by the U.S. Congress. 1916 - The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men. 1935 - One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario. 1937 - The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson. 1940 - World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris. 1940 - World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a Nacospeak victory and with Allied forces in full retreat. 1943 - A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beats up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots. 1956 - British Rail renames 'Third Class' passenger facilities as 'Second Class' (Second Class facilities had been abolished in 1875, leaving just First Class and Third Class). 1962 - An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashed after aborted takeoff from Paris, killing 130. The largest single plane accident to date. 1963 - A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101. 1965 - Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. 1965 - For 21 minutes, Edward H. White floats free outside the space vehicle Gemini IV for the first time. 1968 - Valerie Solanas, author of The SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times. 1969 - Melbourne-Evans collision - Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half. 1973 - A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft. 1979 - A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date. 1982 - The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed. 1984 - The Indian Army storms the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), the most sacred shrine of Sikhism, near Amritsar. 1989 - The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation. 1991 - Mount Unzen erupts in Japan in Kyūshū killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists. 1998 - Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Nacospeaky, causing 101 deaths. 2006 - The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
Observances Roman Empire - Festival to Bellona. Confederate Memorial Day observed in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee. Vladimirskaya (in Russia)
June 4 781 BC - The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China. 1039 - Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor. 1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh establishes first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina). 1615 - Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan. 1760 - Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia Canada taken from the Acadians. 1769 - A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in the historical past. 1783 - The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon). 1792 - Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Great Britain. 1794 - British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti. 1804 - Grieving over the death of his wife, Marie Clothilde, king Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel. 1812 - Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri Territory. 1859 - Italian Independence wars: in the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeats an Austrian army. 1862 - American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee. 1876 - An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City. 1878 - Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title. 1912 - Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage. 1913 - Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the king's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled and dies a few days later, never having regained consciousness. 1917 - The very first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World. 1919 - Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification. 1920 - Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris. 1928 - President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin assassinated by Japanese agents. 1939 - Holocaust: The SS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, United States, after already having been turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, many of its passengers later died in Nazi concentration camps. 1940 - World War II: Dunkirk evacuation ends; British forces complete evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. 1940 - World War II: Nacospeak forces enter Paris. 1942 - World War II: Reinhard Heydrich dies in Prague due to the assassination by Czechoslovak paratroopers (Operation Anthropoid). 1942 - World War II: Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island with much of the Imperial Japanese navy. 1943 - Military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo. 1944 - World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy capture the Nacospeak submarine U-505, marking the first time a U.S. Navy vessel captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century. 1944 - World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall. 1967 - Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew. 1970 - Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom. 1973 - Patent for the ATM granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain. 1979 - Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after military coup in which General Akuffo is overthrown. 1986 - Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel. 1989 - Ali Khamenei was elected as the new Supreme Leader of Islamic republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. 1989 - Tiananmen Square protests were violently ended in Chinese capital city - Beijing with People's Liberation Army soldiers and tanks. Many innocent people were killed. 1989 - Solidarity's victory in the first partly free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe and leads to creation of the so-called Contract Sejm. 1989 - Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline. 1991 - The United Kingdom's Conservative government announces that some British regiments would disappear or be merged into others—the largest armed forces cuts in almost twenty years. 1998 - Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. 2001 - Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace.
Observances Tonga - National Day. Finland - National flag day of the Finnish Defence Forces (on Mannerheim's birthday). Hong Kong - Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 memorial day.
June 5
70 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem 1257 - Kraków, Poland received city rights. 1305 - Pope Clement V is elected. 1798 - Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated. 1817 - First Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched. 1829 - HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba. 1832 - Parisian student uprisings of 1832 begin. 1837 - Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas. 1849 - Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution. 1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper. 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners. 1888 - Rio de la Plata Earthquake 1888: Uruguay 3.20 UTC-3, 5,5 Richter Scale, 34º36'00S, 57º53'59'W. 1900 - Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria. 1915 - Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage. 1916 - Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. 1917 - World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day." 1933 - The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold. 1941 - Four thousands Chongqing residents were asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing. 1944 - World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on Nacospeak gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day. 1945 - Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power. 1946 - A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, kills 61 people. 1947 - Marshall Plan: At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe. 1956 - Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements. 1959 - The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in. 1963 - British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal. 1963 - Movement of 15 Khordad: protest against arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators were confronted by tanks and paratroopers. 1967 - Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. 1968 - U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day. 1969 - International communist conference begins in Moscow. 1970 - Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. 1975 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War. 1975 - The UK holds its first and only UK-wide referendum, on remaining in the EEC. 1976 - Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States. 1977 - A coup takes place in Seychelles. 1977 - The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale. 1981 - The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS. 1984 - Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion. 1986 - A 52-year old man in Auburn, Washington, United States, dies after taking an Excedrin capsule laced with cyanide; this is the first of two Excedrin deaths. 1989 - The Inuvialuit Final Agreement is signed in Canada to give the Inuit of western Canada the first comprehensive land claim agreement north of the 60th parallel. 1989 - The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. 1995 - Bose-Einstein condensate is first created. 1998 - A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks). 2001 - U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party. 2001 - Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history. 2003 - Severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region. 2006 - Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro
Observances World Environment Day, since the United Nations General Assembly resolution in 1972. National holiday of Denmark (Constitution Day). Suriname - Indian Arrival Day Seychelles - Liberation Day. Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Núr (Light) - First day of the fifth month of the Bahá'í calendar.
June 6 1508 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year truce and cede several territories to Venice. 1513 - Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored. 1523 - Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union. 1644 - the Qing Dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming Dynasty. The Manchus would rule China until 1912 when the Republic of China was established. 1654 - Charles X succeeds his abdicated cousin Queen Christina to the Swedish throne. 1683 - The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum. 1752 - A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes. 1808 - Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte is crowned King of Spain. 1809 - Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of Enlightened absolutism. 1813 - War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek - A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeat an American force three times its size under William Winder and John Chandler. 1832 - The barricades fall and the Paris student uprisings of 1832 end. 1833 - U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train. 1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London. 1857 - Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway. 1859 - Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day). 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Memphis - Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates. 1882 - More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour. 1882 - The Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River. 1889 - The Great Seattle Fire destroys the entirety of downtown Seattle, Washington. 1894 - Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike. 1906 - Paris Métro Line 5 is inaugurated with a first section from Place d'Italie to the Gare d'Orléans (today known as Gare d'Austerlitz). 1912 - Eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. Second largest volcanic eruption in historic time. 1918 - Battle of Belleau Wood begins. 1919 - Republic of Prekmurje end. 1921 - Southwark Bridge in London, is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary. 1925 - The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler. 1932 - The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold. 1933 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States. 1934 - New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Judge Joseph Crater was declared dead in absentia. 1939 - Nacospeak dictator Adolf Hitler gives a public address to returning Nacospeak volunteers who fought as Legion Kondor during the Spanish Civil War. 1944 - World War II: Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history. 1944 - Alaska Airlines commenced operations. 1946 - The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City. 1946 - Soviet Union established diplomatic relations with Argentina. 1950 - Turkey: The Adhan in Arabic is legalized. 1956 - David Marshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister, resigns. 1964 - Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany, are terminated, though they never resume. 1966 - James Meredith, civil rights activist, is shot while trying to march across Mississippi. 1968- Don Drysdale, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher throws record 58th consecutive inning shutout, a major league record. 1968 - The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy 1971 - Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 launches. 1971 - A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a U.S. Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California claims 50 lives. 1974 - A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy. 1981 - A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed. 1982 - 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut. 1984 - The Indian Army attacks the Golden Temple in Amritsar in an effort to flush out terrorists, following an order from Indira Gandhi. Official casualties are 576 combatants killed and 335 wounded; independent observers estimate that thousands of unarmed Sikh civilians are also killed in the crossfire. A total death count adds up to almost 2000. 1985 - The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remains found are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979. 1990 - U.S. District court judge Jose Gonzales rules that the rap album As Nasty As They Wanna Be by the 2 Live Crew violates Florida's obscenity law; he declares that the predominant subject matter of the record is "directed to the 'dirty' thoughts and the loins, not to the intellect and the mind." 1993 - Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections. 1999 - In Australian Rules Football, Tony Lockett breaks the record for career goals, previously 1299 by Gordon Coventry and which had stood since 1937. 1999 - At the Putim maximum security prison in Brazil, 345 prisoners run from the main gate in the largest jailbreak in Brazilian history, marking the 10th escape for the three-year-old facility. In the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally jailed. 2002 - Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb. 2004 - Tamil was established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament. 2005 - the United States Supreme Court votes to ban medical marijuana in Gonzales v. Raich.
Observances D-Day landings - Europe. Memorial Day - South Korea. National holiday of Sweden. Queensland Day.
June 7 1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins. 1494 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries. 1654 - Louis XIV is crowned King of France. 1692 - Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1600 people are killed and 3000 are seriously injured. 1776 - Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and leads to the United States Declaration of Independence. 1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba. 1832 - Asian cholera brought to Quebec by Irish immigrants kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada. 1862 - The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade. 1863 - During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops. 1866 - 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec. 1880 - War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign) . 1892 - Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game. 1893 - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience. 1905 - Norway dissolves its union with Sweden. 1906 - Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow(Clydebank), Scotland. 1917 - World War I: Battle of Messines - Allied ammonal mines underneath Nacospeak trenches in Mesen Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 Nacospeak troops. 1919 - Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four are killed. 1936 - The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president. 1938 - The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight. 1940 - King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London. 1942 - World War II: The Battle of Midway ends. 1942 - Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, as the Axis power continues to expand its defensive perimeter. 1944 - Nazi Panzer SS troops murder 23 Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy. 1945 - King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile. 1948 - Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a Constitution making his nation a Communist state. 1955 - Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films. 1965 - The US Supreme Court decides Griswold v. Connecticut effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples. 1966 - Former movie star, Ronald Reagan, becomes the 33rd governor of the state of California. 1967 - The Israeli forces enter Jerusalem during the Six-Day War. 1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. 1971 - The US Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment. 1975 - Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public. 1977 - 500 million people watch on television as the high day of Jubilee gets underway for Queen Elizabeth II. 1981 - The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. The Israelis charged the facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons. 1982 - Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits. 1987 - Washington Dulles International Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport are transferred to The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. 1989 - A Surinam Airways DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname, killing 168. 1991 - Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 km (4.5 miles) high. 1995 - The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines 1998 - James Byrd, Jr is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime. 2001 - Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election. 2006 - British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert.
Observances Roman Empire - first day of the Vestalia (penus vestae) in honor of Vesta. Norway - Union Dissolution Day, observing the 1905 decision to dissolve the Union between Sweden and Norway. Malta - Sette giugno - Riot in Malta that began the road to self government and then independence. Colman, bishop of Dromore
June 8 68 - The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba. 536 - St. Silverius becomes Pope (probable date). 1191 - Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade. 1405 - Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, executed in York on Henry IV's orders. 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières - American invaders are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec. 1783 - The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine. 1789 - James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives. 1856 - The community of Pitcairn Islands and descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty consisting of 194 people arrived on the Morayshire at Norfolk Island Commencing the Third Settlement of the Island 1861 - American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union. 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys - Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan. 1887 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator. 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value. 1912 - Carl Laemmle incorporated Universal Pictures. 1928 - Second Northern Expedition: NRA captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing. 1941 - World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon. 1942 - World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle. 1948 - Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater. 1949 - Such celebrities as Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members. 1950 - Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history. 1953 - Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado hits the U.S. city of Flint, Michigan, and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives. 1953 - The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons. 1959 - The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail. 1966 - One of the XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and USAF test pilot Carl Cross were both killed. 1966 - Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed. [1] 1967 - Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171. 1968 - James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. 1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. 1974 - An F4 tornado strikes the U.S. city of Emporia, Kansas, killing six. 1984 - Homosexuality is declared legal in the state of New South Wales, Australia. 1986 - Former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria. 1987 - New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels. This makes New Zealand the first and (as at June 2006) only nation to ban these things from its territory. 1992 - The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1995 - Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia. 1996 - Panama becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
Observances Norfolk Island Anniversary Day, also known as Bounty Day Roman Empire - second day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta. World Ocean Day.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Jun 19, 2008 10:05:30 GMT -5
June 19 1179 - The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars. 1269 - King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver. 1306 - The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven. 1770 - Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion. 1807 - Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos. 1816 - Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 1821 - Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drãgãºani (in Wallachia). 1846 - The first baseball game under recognizable modern rules is played in Hoboken, New Jersey, United States. 1850 - Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway. 1862 - U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying the Dred Scott Case. 1865 - Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth. 1867 - Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro. 1870 - After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist. 1910 - The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington. 1914 - A radiotelegraphic link is established between Germany and the United States. Nacospeak Emperor Wilhelm II and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson exchange telegrams to mark the event. 1934 - The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC). 1943 - Race riots occur in Beaumont, Texas. 1944 - World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea. 1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York. 1961 - Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom. 1970 - The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed. 1982 - In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped. 1982 - The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London. 1987 - The ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45. 2006 - Prime ministers of several northern European nations participate in a ceremonial "laying of the first stone" at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Spitsbergen, Norway.
Observances Juneteenth – celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation. Garfield the Cat Day
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Post by Nutzkie on Dec 24, 2008 22:33:28 GMT -5
And now, a very special Christmas Eve edition of this thread... Forty years ago, our world and western civilization were in turmoil. In the jungles of Vietnam, war raged, while thousands of miles away the world's superpowers stood locked in a nuclear standoff that threatened the very survival of the planet itself. Eleven months before, civil rights leader Doctor Martin Luther King Junior had been gunned down in Memphis, and five months later Robert Kennedy had met the same fate in Los Angeles. In September, Grant Park in Chicago erupted in violence. It seemed as though society itself was endanger of self-destructing. The long-term survival of our species was in doubt. And then on this day in that turbulent year, forty years ago this very night, came a glimmer of hope, as three men did something that no other human being had ever done before. On this night, Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders became the first humans to leave the confines of earth's gravity and orbit another celestial body. They were the first beings of our planet to leave this world, to take those first, hesitant steps into the vast grandeur of the cosmos. They were the first to ever see our planet in its entirety. They laid the groundwork for the lunar landing of Apollo 11 that followed, and perhaps most memorably, they captured one of the most momentous events in human history for posterity. For as these three brave explorers watched the earth rise over the lunar surface, and two billion earthbound souls listened with bated breath, Commander Borman and his crew read from the Genesis account of creation, and wished all those back on earth a merry Christmas. And now, as then, merry Christmas to all... All on the good earth.
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