Today In History

[Henderson]

Thought I'd try something new. I'll try to update it every day. Feel free to add if you like.

Today In History:

June 6
1523 Gustav Vasa becomes king of Sweden.

1641 Spain loses Portugal.

1674 Sivaji crowns himself King of India.

1813 The United States invasion of Canada is halted at Stony Creek, Ontario.

1862 The city of Memphis surrenders to the Union navy after an intense naval engagement on the Mississippi River.

1865 Confederate raider Wiliam Quantrill dies from a wound received while escaping a Union patrol near Taylorsville, Kentucky.

1918 U.S. Marines enter combat at the Battle of Belleau Wood.

1924 The German Reichstag accepts the Dawes Plan, an American plan to help Germany pay off its war debts.

1930 Frozen foods are sold commercially for the first time.

1933 First drive-in movie theater opens in Camden, New Jersey.

1934 President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act, establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission.

1941 The U.S. government authorizes the seizure of foreign ships in U.S. ports.

1944 D-Day: Operation Overlord lands 400,000 Allied American, British, and Canadian troops on the beaches of Normandy in German-occupied France.

1949 George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.

1961 Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, one of the founders of modern psychiatry, dies.

1966 African American James Meridith is shot and wounded while on a solo march in Mississippi to promote voter registration among blacks.

1982 Israel invades southern Lebanon.

1985 The body of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele is located and exhumed near Sao Paolo, Brazil.

Born on June 6

1606 Pierre Corneille, French author.

1755 Nathan Hale, American revolutionary.

1756 John Trumball, American painter.

1799 Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer (Boris Godunov, The Queen of Spades).

1868 Robert F. Scott, British explorer.

1872 Alexandra, the last Russian Czarina.

1875 Thomas Mann, German novelist and essayist, forced into exile by the Nazis.

1902 Jimmie Lunceford, bandleader.

1907 Bill Dickey, professional baseball player.

1925 Maxine Kumin, poet novelist and children's author.

1934 Bill Moyers, American broadcast journalist, press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson.

1939 Marian Wright Edelman, first African-American woman to be admitted to the Mississippi Bar, founder of the Children's Defense Fund.

 

[Henderson]

Sorry, I missed a couple days...

June 9
1064 Coimbra, Portugal falls to Ferdinand, king of Castile.

1534 Jacques Cartier sails into the mouth of the St. Lawrence River in Canada.

1790 Civil war breaks out in Martinique.

1861 Mary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke begins working in Union hospitals.

1863 At the Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia, Union and Confederate cavalries clash in the largest cavalry battle of the Civil War.

1923 Bulgaria's government is overthrown by the military.

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

1942 The Japanese high command announces that "The Midway Occupation operations have been temporarily postponed."

1945 Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declares that Japan will fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender.

1951 After several unsuccessful attacks on French colonial troops, North Vietnam's General Vo Nguyen Giap orders Viet Minh to withdraw from the Red River Delta.

1954 At the Army-McCarthy hearings, attorney Joseph Welch asks Senator Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency?"

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

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

1986 NASA publishes a report on the Challenger accident.

Born on June 9

1640 Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor.

1672 Peter I, Russian Czar (1682-1725).

1781 George Stephenson, English engineer, inventor of the steam locomotive.

1791 John Howard Payne, American playwright and actor.

1865 Carl Nielsen, Danish composer.

1877 Meta Vaux Warrick, sculptor.

1891 Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist.

1901 George Price, cartoonist.

1915 Les Paul, American guitarist and electric guitar innovator.

1916 Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense under presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

 

[Henderson]

June 10

1190 Frederick Barbarossa drowns in a river while leading an army of the Third Crusade.

1692 Bridget Bishop is hanged in Salem, Mass., for witchcraft.

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

1801 Tripoli declares war on the U.S. for refusing to pay tribute.

1854 The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, holds its first graduation.

1861 Dorothea Dix is appointed superintendent of female nurses for the Union army.

1863 At the Battle of Brice's Crossroads in Mississippi, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats the numerically superior Union troops.

1898 U.S. Marines land in Cuba.

1905 Japan and Russia agree to peace talks brokered by President Theodore Roosevelt.

1909 An SOS signal is transmitted for the first time in an emergency when the Cunard liner SS Slavonia is wrecked off the Azores.

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

1920 The Republican convention in Chicago endorses woman suffrage.

1924 The Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti is kidnapped and assassinated by Fascists in Rome.

1925 Tennessee adopts a new biology text book denying the theory of evolution.

1940 The Norwegian army capitulates to the Germans.

1942 Germany razes the town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia and kills more than 1,300 citizens in retribution of the murder of Reinhard Heydrich.

1943 The Allies begin bombing Germany around the clock.

1944 The U.S. VII and V corps, advancing from Normandy's beaches, link up and begin moving inland.

1948 The news that the sound barrier has been broken is finally released to the public by the U.S. Air Force. Chuck Yeager, piloting the rocket airplane X-1, exceeded the speed of sound on October 14, 1947.

1963 Buddhist monk Ngo Quang Duc dies by self immolation in Saigon to protest persecution by the Diem government.

1970 A 15-man group of special forces troops begin training for Operation Kingpin, a POW rescue mission in North Vietnam.

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

1999 Serb forces begin their withdrawl from Kosovo after signing an agreement with the NATO powers.

Born on June 10
1735 John Morgan, physician-in-chief of the American Continental Army.

1895 Hattie McDaniel, African-American actress.

1901 Frederick Loewe, songwriter.

1915 Saul Bellow, American novelist (Herzog, Humboldt's Gift).

1922 Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm), American actress and singer (The Wizard of Oz, Easter Parade).

1925 Nat Hentoff, journalist.

1928 Maurice Sendak, children's author and illustrator (Where the Wild Things Are).

1933 F. Lee Bailey, American defense attorney.

 

[Henderson]

June 11
1346 Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected Holy Roman Emperor.

1509 Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.

1770 Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.

1798 Napoleon Bonaparte takes the island of Malta.

1861 Union forces under General George B. McClellen repulse a Confederate force at Rich Mountain in western Virginia.

1865 Major General Henry W. Halleck finds documents and archives of the Confederate government in Richmond, Virginia. This discovery will lead to the publication of the official war records.

1895 Charles E. Duryea receives the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.

1903 King Alexander and Queen Draga of Belgrade are assassinated by members of the Serbia army.

1915 British troops take Cameroon in Africa.

1930 William Beebe, of the New York Zoological Society, dives to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda, in a diving chamber called a bathysphere.

1934 The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ends in failure.

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

1943 The Italian island of Pantelleria surrenders after a heavy air bombardment.

1944 U.S. carrier-based planes attack Japanese airfields on Guam , Rota, Saipan and Tinian islands, preparing for the invasion of Saipan.

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

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

1987 Margaret Thatcher wins her third consecutive term as Prime Minister.

Born on June 11
1572 Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet.

1769 Anne Newport Royall, American newspaper reporter.

1823 James L. Kemper, Confederate general during the American Civil War.

1880 Jeannette Rankin, U.S. Representative from Montana, the first
woman in Congress.

1895 Nikolai A. Bulganin, premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958.

1910 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French oceanic explorer, filmaker, author and inventor of the aqualung.

1913 Vince Lombardi, American football coach.

1925 William Styron, American novelist (The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice).

1932 Athol Fugard, South African playwright, director and actor (The Blood Knot, "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys).

 

[Henderson]

June 12

1442 Alfonso V of Aragon is crowned King of Naples.

1812 Napoleon Bonaparte and his army invade Russia.

1849 The gas mask is patented by L. P. Haslett.

1862 Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart begins his ride around the Union Army outside of Richmond, Virginia.

1901 Cuba agrees to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment.

1918 The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurs in France.

1920 Republicans nominate Warren G. Harding for president and Calvin Coolidge for vice president.

1921 President Warren Harding urges every young man to attend military training camp.

1926 Brazil quits the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany.

1931 Gangster Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen are indicted for violating Prohibition laws.

1937 Eight of Stalin's generals are sentenced to death during purges in the Soviet Union.

1942 American bombers strike the oil refineries of Ploesti, Rumania for the first time.

1963 Black civil rights leader Medgar Evers is assassinated by a gunman outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi.

1967 The Supreme Court rules that states cannot ban interracial marriages.

1972 At a hearing in front the of a U.S. House of Representatives committee, Air Force General John Lavalle defends his orders on engagement in Vietnam.

1977 David Berkowitz gets 25 years to life for the Son of Sam murders in New York.

1985 The U.S. House of Representatives approves $27 million in aid to the Nicaraguan Contras.

1991 Mount Pinatubo in the Phillipines begins erupting for the first time in 600 years.

Born on June 12

1806 John Roebling, civil engineer, pioneer in designing suspension bridges.

1829 Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (Heidi).

1897 Anthony Eden, British Prime Minister (1955-1957).

1915 David Rockefeller, international banker.

1924 George Bush, 41st President of the United States (1989-1993).

1929 Anne Frank, German diarist, victim of the Holocaust.

 

[Henderson]

June 13

1777 The Marquis de Lafayette arrives in the American colonies to help in their rebellion against Britain.

1863 Confederate forces on their way to Gettysburg clash with Union troops at the Second Battle of Winchester, Virginia.

1920 The U.S. Post Office Department rules that children may not be sent by parcel post.

1923 The French set a trade barrier between occupied Ruhr and the rest of Germany.

1927 Charles Lindbergh receives the Flying Cross and is treated to a ticker tape parade to celebrate his successful crossing of the Atlantic.

1940 Paris is evacuated as the Germans advance on the city.

1943 German spies land on Long Island, New York, and are soon captured.

1944 The first Germany V-1 buzz-bomb hits London.

1949 Installed by the French, Bao Dai enters Saigon to rule Vietnam.

1971 The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers.

1978 Israelis withdraw the last of their invading forces from Lebanon.

1979 Sioux Indians are awarded $105 million in compensation for the 1877 U.S. seizure of the Black Hills in South Dakota.

1983 Pioneer 10, already in space for 11 years, leaves the solar system.

Born on June 13

40 Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general.

1752 Fanny Burney, English writer.

1786 Winfield Scott, U.S. Army general.

1831 James C. Maxwell, scientist.

1865 William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and dramatist.

1893 Dorothy Leigh Sayers, English detective writer, creator of Lord Peter Wimsey.

1894 Mark Van Doren, American poet, writer and educator.

1903 Harold "Red" Grange, American football player.

 

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