This Day in History...

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Here we are in March, already!  Hope everyone has a wonderful month and earns that extra cash for whatever you may need it for! 

** On March 1 **


1692    The Salem Witch Hunt begins as Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne and Tituba, an Indian slave from Barbados, are charged with the illegal practice of witchcraft in Salem Village, Massachusetts.

1781    In America, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.

1872    Yellowstone becomes the world’s first National Park.

1907    In New York, the Salvation Army opened an anti-suicide bureau.

1912    Captain Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.

1913    Federal income tax takes effect in the United States as per the 16th amendment.

1932    Charles Lindbergh Jr., twenty-month-old son of the famous American aviator, is kidnapped from the nursery of the Lindbergh home in Hopewell, New Jersey.

1937    The first permanent automobile license plates are issued in Connecticut.

1950    Klaus Fuchs was convicted of giving U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.

1966    Venera 3, a Soviet probe, collides with the planet Venus. Although the mission is unsuccessful, it is the first unmanned spacecraft to land on the surface of another planet.

1969    Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from Major League Baseball.

1971    A bomb exploded in a restroom in the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol. There were no injuries. A U.S. group protesting the Vietnam War claimed responsibility.

1974    Seven people are indicted in connection with the Watergate break-in on charges of conspiring to obstruct justice.

2000    Operation Anaconda began in eastern Afghanistan. Allied forces were fighting against Taliban and Al Quaida fighters.

2003    In New York, a $250,000 Salvador Dali sketch was stolen from a display case in the lobby at Rikers Island jail. On June 17, 2003, it was announced that four corrections officers had surrendered and plead innocent in connection to the theft. The mixed-media composition was a sketch of the crucifixion.

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On March 5


1750    King Richard III was performed in New York City. It was the first Shakespearean play to be presented in America.

1770    "The Boston Massacre" took place when British troops fired on a crowd in Boston killing five people. Two British troops were later convicted of manslaughter.

1868    The U.S. Senate was organized into a court of impeachment to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson.

1910    In Philadelphia, PA, 60,000 people left their jobs to show support for striking transit workers.

1918    The Soviets move the capital of Russia from Petrograd to Moscow.

1922    Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee broke all existing records for women's trap shooting. She hit 98 out of 100 targets.

1924    The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corporation becomes IBM.

1933    U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered a four-day bank holiday in order to stop large amounts of money from being withdrawn from banks.

1943    Germany called fifteen and sixteen year olds for military service due to war losses.

1946    Winston Churchill delivers his “Iron Curtain Speech.”

1953    Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin passes away.

1956    The United States Supreme Court affirms the ban on segregation in public schools.

1970    A nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect after 43 nations ratify it.

1982    Comedian John Belushi dies of a drug overdose at the age of 33.

1984    The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cities had the right to display the Nativity scene as part of their Christmas display.

1985    Mike Bossy, of the New York Islanders, became the first National Hockey League player to score 50 goals in eight consecutive seasons.

1993    Cuban President Fidel Castro said that Hillary Clinton is "a beautiful woman."

1993    Sprinter Ben Johnson was banned from racing for life by the Amateur Athletic Association after testing positive for banned performance-enhancing substances for a second time.

1997    North Korea and South Korea met for first time in 25 years for peace talks.

1997    Chuck Niles received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1998    NASA announced that an orbiting craft had found enough water on the moon to support a human colony and rocket fueling station.

1998    It was announced that Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins would lead crew of Columbia on a mission to launch a large X-ray telescope. She was the first woman to command a space shuttle mission.

2004    Martha Stewart was found guilty of lying about the reason for selling 3,298 shares of ImClone Systems stock, conspiracy, making false statement and obstruction of justice.

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On May 8:


1794    The United States Post Office was established.

1846    The first major battle of the Mexican War was fought. The battle occurred in Palo Alto, Texas.

1886    Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called "Coca-Cola."

1933    Gandhi began a hunger strike to protest British oppression in India.

1943    The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.

1945    U.S. President Harry Truman announced that World War II had ended in Europe.

1958    U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.

1967    Muhammad Ali was indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army.

1973    Militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered.

1978    David R. Berkowitz pleaded guilty to six murder charges. He was known as the "Son of Sam".

1984    The Soviet Union announced it would not participate in the Summer Olympics planned for Los Angeles.

1985    "New Coke" was released to the public on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola.

1986    Reporters were told that 84,000 people had been evacuated from areas near the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Soviet Ukraine.

1998    A pipe burst leaving a million residents without water in Malaysia's capital area. This added to four days of shortages that 2 million already faced.

1999    The first female cadet graduated from the Citadel military school.

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May 11

1858
Minnesota became the 32nd state.

1894
Workers at the Pullman Palace Car Co. in Illinois went on strike. (The job action spread and crippled railroad service nationwide before the federal government intervened to end the strike in July.)

1904
Artist Salvador Dali was born in Figueras, Spain.

1910
Glacier National Park in Montana was established.

1947
The B.F. Goodrich Co. of Akron, Ohio, announced the development of a tubeless tire.

1949
Israel was admitted to the United Nations.

1949
Siam changed its named to Thailand.

1981
Reggae musician Bob Marley died of cancer at age 36.

1996
A ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board

1997
The Deep Blue IBM computer defeated Garry Kasparov to win a six-game chess match between man and machine in New York.

1998
India set off three underground atomic blasts, its first nuclear tests in 24 years.

1998
A French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency, the euro.

2010
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown resigned, ending 13 years of the Labour Party government. (He was succeeded by Conservative David Cameron.)

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On May 8:


1794    The United States Post Office was established.

1846    The first major battle of the Mexican War was fought. The battle occurred in Palo Alto, Texas.

1886    Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called "Coca-Cola."

1933    Gandhi began a hunger strike to protest British oppression in India.

1943    The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.

1945    U.S. President Harry Truman announced that World War II had ended in Europe.

1958    U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.

1967    Muhammad Ali was indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army.

1973    Militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered.

1978    David R. Berkowitz pleaded guilty to six murder charges. He was known as the "Son of Sam".

1984    The Soviet Union announced it would not participate in the Summer Olympics planned for Los Angeles.

1985    "New Coke" was released to the public on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola.

1986    Reporters were told that 84,000 people had been evacuated from areas near the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Soviet Ukraine.

1998    A pipe burst leaving a million residents without water in Malaysia's capital area. This added to four days of shortages that 2 million already faced.

1999    The first female cadet graduated from the Citadel military school.

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On May 14


1643    Louis XIV became King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.

1787    Delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution.

1811    Paraguay gained independence from Spain.

1897    "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Phillip Sousa was performed for the first time. It was at a ceremony where a statue of George Washington was unveiled.

1897    Guglielmo Marconi made the first communication by wireless telegraph.

1904    For the first time Olympic games were held in the U.S in St. Louis.

1940    The Netherlands surrendered to *bleep* Germany.

1948    Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the independent State of Israel as British rule in Palestine came to an end.

1955    The Warsaw Pact, an Eastern European mutual-defense treaty, was signed in Poland by eight communist bloc countries including the Soviet Union.

1961    A bus carrying Freedom Riders was bombed and burned in Alabama.

1973    Skylab One was launched as the first U.S. manned space station.

1975    U.S. forces raided the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and recaptured the American merchant ship Mayaguez. All 40 crew members were released safely by Cambodia. About 40 U.S. servicemen were killed in the military operation.

1980    U.S. President Carter inaugurated the Department of Health and Human Services.

1992    Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev addressed members of the U.S. Congress, appealing to them to pass a bill to aid the people of the former Soviet Union.

1998    The TV series "Seinfeld" signed off after nine years on NBC.

1999    North Korea returned the remains of six U.S. soldiers that had been killed during the Korean War.

1999    Jess Marlow received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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May 15:

 1602 - Cape Cod was discovered by Bartholomew Gosnold.

 1614 - An aristocratic uprising in France ended with the treaty of St.Menehould.

 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovered his harmonics law.

 1702 - The War of Spanish Succession began.

 1768 - Under the Treaty of Versailles, France purchased Corsica from Genoa.

 1795 - Napoleon entered the Lombardian capital of Milan.

 1849 - Neapolitan troops entered Palermo, and were in possession of Sicily.

 1856 - Lyman Frank Baum, author of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," was born.

 1862 - The U.S. Congress created the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

 1911 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

 1916 - U.S. Marines landed in Santo Domingo to quell civil disorder.

 1918 - Regular airmail service between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC, began under the direction of the Post Office Department, which later became the U.S. Postal Service.

 1926 - Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth were forced down in Alaska after a four-day flight over an icecap. Ice had begun to form on the dirigible Norge.

 1926 - The New York Rangers were officially granted a franchise in the NHL. The NHL also announced that Chicago and Detroit would be joining the league in November.

 1930 - Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.

 1940 - Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the U.S.

 1941 - Joe DiMaggio began his historic major league baseball hitting streak of 56 games.

 1942 - Gasoline rationing began in the U.S. The limit was 3 gallons a week for nonessential vehicles.

 1948 - Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon only hours after declaring its independence.

 1951 - AT&T became the first corporation to have one million stockholders.

 1957 - Britain dropped its first hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean.

 1958 - Sputnik III, the first space laboratory, was launched in the Soviet Union.

 1963 - The last Project Mercury space flight was launched.

 1964 - The Smothers Brothers, *bleep* and Tom, gave their first concert in Carnegie Hall in New York City.

 1970 - U.S. President Nixon appointed America's first two female generals.

 1970 - Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, were killed when police opened fire during student protests.

 1972 - Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, MD while campaigning for the U.S. presidency. Wallace was paralyzed by the shot.

 1975 - The merchant ship U.S. Mayaguez was recaptured from Cambodia's Khmer Rouge.

 1980 - The first transcontinental balloon crossing of the United States took place.

 1983 - In Boston,MA, the Madison Hotel was destroyed by implosion.

 1988 - The Soviet Union began their withdrawal of its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan. Soviet forces had been there for more than eight years.

 1990 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" was sold for $82.5 million. The sale set a new world record.

 1997 - The Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a mission to deliver urgently needed repair equipment and a fresh American astronaut to Russia's orbiting Mir station.

 1999 - The Russian parliament was unable a attain enough votes to impeach President Boris Yeltsin.

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May 15:

 1602 - Cape Cod was discovered by Bartholomew Gosnold.

 1614 - An aristocratic uprising in France ended with the treaty of St.Menehould.

 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovered his harmonics law.

 1702 - The War of Spanish Succession began.

 1768 - Under the Treaty of Versailles, France purchased Corsica from Genoa.

 1795 - Napoleon entered the Lombardian capital of Milan.

 1849 - Neapolitan troops entered Palermo, and were in possession of Sicily.

 1856 - Lyman Frank Baum, author of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," was born.

 1862 - The U.S. Congress created the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

 1911 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

 1916 - U.S. Marines landed in Santo Domingo to quell civil disorder.

 1918 - Regular airmail service between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC, began under the direction of the Post Office Department, which later became the U.S. Postal Service.

 1926 - Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth were forced down in Alaska after a four-day flight over an icecap. Ice had begun to form on the dirigible Norge.

 1926 - The New York Rangers were officially granted a franchise in the NHL. The NHL also announced that Chicago and Detroit would be joining the league in November.

 1930 - Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.

 1940 - Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the U.S.

 1941 - Joe DiMaggio began his historic major league baseball hitting streak of 56 games.

 1942 - Gasoline rationing began in the U.S. The limit was 3 gallons a week for nonessential vehicles.

 1948 - Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon only hours after declaring its independence.

 1951 - AT&T became the first corporation to have one million stockholders.

 1957 - Britain dropped its first hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean.

 1958 - Sputnik III, the first space laboratory, was launched in the Soviet Union.

 1963 - The last Project Mercury space flight was launched.

 1964 - The Smothers Brothers, *bleep* and Tom, gave their first concert in Carnegie Hall in New York City.

 1970 - U.S. President Nixon appointed America's first two female generals.

 1970 - Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, were killed when police opened fire during student protests.

 1972 - Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, MD while campaigning for the U.S. presidency. Wallace was paralyzed by the shot.

 1975 - The merchant ship U.S. Mayaguez was recaptured from Cambodia's Khmer Rouge.

 1980 - The first transcontinental balloon crossing of the United States took place.

 1983 - In Boston,MA, the Madison Hotel was destroyed by implosion.

 1988 - The Soviet Union began their withdrawal of its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan. Soviet forces had been there for more than eight years.

 1990 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" was sold for $82.5 million. The sale set a new world record.

 1997 - The Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a mission to deliver urgently needed repair equipment and a fresh American astronaut to Russia's orbiting Mir station.

 1999 - The Russian parliament was unable a attain enough votes to impeach President Boris Yeltsin.

Thank you for this info for today!  It's really interesting delving into the past like that.  Have a great day! 

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Joan of Arc martyred, 1431
American Revolution Patriot and future President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson, 1806
Automotive First Indianapolis 500 held, 1911
Civil WarConfederates evacuate Corinth, Mississippi,1862
Cold WarGorbachev arrives in Washington for summit, 1990
Crime Jonathan Levin is tortured and killed by his former student,1997
Disaster Waters of Kentucky River peak,1927
General InterestAndrew Jackson wins duel,1806
Civil War dead honored on Decoration Day,1868
Republic of Biafra proclaimed,1967
Mariner 9 departs for Mars, 1971
Hollywood-Sex and the City movie released, 2008
Literary-Christopher Marlowe killed in tavern brawl, 1593
Music-Lesley Gore sings "It's My Party" on American Bandstand, 1963
Old West-Pearl Hart holds up an Arizona stagecoach, 1899
Presidential-Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in duel,1806
Former President Taft dedicates Lincoln Memorial,1922
Sports-First Indianapolis 500 is run, 1911
Vietnam War-U.S. aircraft carry out new raids,1966
Thieu vows never to agree to a coalition government, 1969
World War I-The First Balkan War ends, 1913
World War II-Brits bombard Cologne in Operation Millennium, 1942

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On June 2


1851    Maine became the first U.S. state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.

1883    The first baseball game under electric lights was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

1886    Grover Cleveland became the first U.S. President to get married while in office.

1897    Mark Twain, at age 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration." He was responding to the rumors that he had died.

1924    All American Indians were granted U.S. citizenship by the U.S. Congress.

1928    Nationalist Chiang Kai-Shek captured Peking, China.

1935    George Herman "Babe" Ruth announced that he was retiring from baseball.

1941    Lou Gehrig died in New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

1953    Elizabeth was crowned queen of England at Westminster Abbey.

1966    Surveyor 1, the U.S. space probe, landed on the moon and started sending photographs back to Earth of the Moon's surface. It was the first soft landing on the Moon.

1979    Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.

1995    Captain Scott F. O'Grady's U.S. Air Force F-16C was shot down by Bosnian Serbs. He was rescued six days later.

1997    Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in which 168 people were killed.

1998    Voters in California passed Proposition 227. The act abolished the state's 30-year-old bilingual education program by requiring that all children be taught in English.

1999    In South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) won a major victory. ANC leader Thabo Mbeki was to succeed Nelson Mandela as the nation's president.

2003    In the U.S., federal regulators voted to allow companies to buy more television stations and newspaper-broadcasting combinations in the same city. The previous ownership restrictions had not been altered since 1975.

2003    In Seville, Spain, a chest containing the supposed remains of Christopher Columbus was exhumed for DNA tests to determine whether the bones were really those of the explorer. The tests were aimed at determining if Colombus was currently buried in Spain's Seville Cathedral or in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

2003    The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that companies could not be sued under a trademark law for using information in the public domain without giving credit to the originator. The case had originated with 20th Century Fox against suing Dastar Corp. over their use of World War II footage.

2003    William Baily was reunited with two paintings he had left on a subway platform. One of the works was an original Picasso rendering of two male figures and a recreation of Picasso's "Guernica" by Sophie Matisse. Sophie Matisse was the great-granddaughter of Henri Matisse.

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WOW! so many thing to remember this day. So many people so informed, good for you. Thanks for the info. I give thanks to God I'm here today! 

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June 5

 
 1595 - Henry IV's army defeated the Spanish at the Battle of Fontaine-Francaise.

 1752 - Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity.

 1783 - A hot-air balloon was demonstrated by Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier. It reached a height of 1,500 feet.

 1794 - The U.S. Congress prohibited citizens from serving in any foreign armed forces.

 1827 - Athens fell to the Ottomans.

 1851 - Harriet Beecher Stow published the first installment of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in "The National Era."

 1865 - The first safe deposit vault was opened in New York. The charge was $1.50 a year for every $1,000 that was stored.

 1884 - U.S. Civil War General William T. Sherman refused the Republican presidential nomination, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."

 1917 - American men began registering for the World War I draft.

 1924 - Ernst F. W. Alexanderson transmitted the first facsimile message across the Atlantic Ocean.

 1927 - Johnny Weissmuller set two world records in swimming events. Weissmuller set marks in the 100-yard, and 200-yard, free-style swimming competition.

 1933 - President Roosevelt signed the bill that took the U.S. off of the gold standard.

 1940 - During World War II, the Battle of France began when Germany began an offensive in Southern France.

 1942 - In France, Pierre Laval congratulated French volunteers that were fighting in the U.S.S.R. with Germans.

 1944 - The first B-29 bombing raid hit the Japanese rail line in Bangkok, Thailand.

 1946 - The first medical sponges were first offered for sale in Detroit, MI.

 1947 - U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University in which he outlined the Marshall Plan.

 1956 - Premier Nikita Khrushchev denounced Josef Stalin to the Soviet Communist Party Congress.

 1967 - The National Hockey League (NHL) awarded three new franchises. The Minnesota North Stars (later the Dallas Stars), the California Golden Seals (no longer in existence) and the Los Angeles Kings.

 1967 - The Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan began.

 1973 - The first hole-in-one in the British Amateur golf championship was made by Jim Crowford.

 1975 - Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping, eight years after it was closed because of the 1967 war with Israel.

 1981 - In the U.S., the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five men in Los Angeles were suffering from a rare pneumonia found in patients with weakened immune systems. They were the first recognized cases of what came to be known as AIDS. 

 1986 - A federal jury in Baltimore convicted Ronald W. Pelton of selling secrets to the Soviet Union. Pelton was sentenced to three life prison terms plus 10 years.

 1987 - Ted Koppel and guests discussed the topic of AIDS for four hours on ABC-TV’s "Nightline".

 1998 - A strike began at a General Motors Corp. parts factory near Detroit, MI, that closed five assembly plants and idled workers across the U.S. for seven weeks.

 1998 - Volkswagen AG won approval to buy Rolls-Royce Motor Cars for $700 million, outbidding BMW's $554 million offer.

 1998 - C-Span reported that Bob Hope had died. The report was false and had begun with an inaccurate obituary on the Associated Press website.

 1998 - A strike at a General Motors parts factory began. It lasted for seven weeks.

 2001 - Amazon.com announced that it would begin selling personal computers later in the year.

 2004 - The U.S.S. Jimmy Carter was christened in the U.S. Navy in Groton, CT.

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On June 17


1837    Charles Goodyear received a patent for rubber.

1856    The Republican Party opened its first national convention in Philadelphia.

1861    U.S. President Abraham Lincoln witnessed Dr. Thaddeus Lowe demonstrate the use of a hot-air balloon.

1876    General George Crook’s command was attacked and bested on the Rosebud River by 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne under the leadership of Crazy Horse.

1885    The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.

1928    Amelia Earhart became the first woman to successfully fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

1950    Dr. Richard H. Lawler performed the first kidney transplant in a 45-minute operation in Chicago, IL.

1963    The U.S. Supreme Court banned the required reading of the Lord's prayer and Bible in public schools.

1972    Five men were arrested for burglarizing the Democratic Party Headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, DC. The event was the beginning of the Watergate affair.

1994    O.J. Simpson drove his Ford Bronco across Los Angeles with police in pursuit and millions of people watching live on television. After the slow speed chase ended Simpson was arrested and charged with the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

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What happened on June 18
o   June 18, 0618 "Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty's rule over China."
o   June 18, 1178 Five Canterbury monks see what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the moon's distance (on the order of metres) are a result of this collision.
o   June 18, 1264 "The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature."
o   June 18, 1429 French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc crush the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
o   June 18, 1767 "Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sighted Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island."
o   June 18, 1778 American forces enter Philadelphia as the British withdraw during the Revolutionary War.
o   June 18, 1812 War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
o   June 18, 1815 UK hist The Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena
o   June 18, 1816 Celebration of first Thanksgiving Day in Upper Canada: deliverance from Americans in War of 1812.
o   June 18, 1822 Part of US-Canadian boundary determined
o   June 18, 1835 UK hist William Cobbett dies
o   June 18, 1858 Charles Darwin receives from Alfred Russel Wallace a paper that included nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own. This prompts Darwin to publish his theory.
o   June 18, 1863 "After long neglect, Confederates hurriedly fortify Vicksburg"
o   June 18, 1864 "At Petersburg, Grant ends 4 days of assaults"
o   June 18, 1872 Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall
o   June 18, 1873 Suffragist Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
o   June 18, 1873 Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
o   June 18, 1887 The Reinsurance Treaty is closed between Germany and Russia.
o   June 18, 1892 Macademia nuts first planted in Hawaii
o   June 18, 1898 "Amusement pier opens, Atlantic City, NJ"
o   June 18, 1899 The CP line from Lethbridge through Crows Nest Pass to Kootenay Landing is opened for traffic. This was built with subsidies afforded by the Crows Nest Pass Agreement of 1897 which also set fixed rates on grain traffic.
o   June 18, 1900 "Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families."
o   June 18, 1908 Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the Kasato-Maru ship
o   June 18, 1923 Checker Cab puts its first taxi on the streets.
o   June 18, 1928 "Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon,mechanic)."
o   June 18, 1930 Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute held.
o   June 18, 1934 US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized
o   June 18, 1936 "The first bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, WI"
o   June 18, 1940 """Finest Hour"" speech by Winston Churchill."
o   June 18, 1940 Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
o   June 18, 1940 The French cruiser Emile Bertin arrives in Canada with $305 million in gold from the Bank of France; gold released after the war.
o   June 18, 1940 The RAF's 242 'Canadian' Squadron withdraws from France.
o   June 18, 1940 "Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that ""this was their finest hour"""
o   June 18, 1942 "Bernard W Robinson, becomes first black ensign in US Navy"
o   June 18, 1942 Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m
o   June 18, 1942 James Paul McCartney of The Beatles is born in Liverpool England
o   June 18, 1945 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) Brit radio traitor charged with treason
o   June 18, 1946 "Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist called for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim."
o   June 18, 1948 American Library Association adopts the Library Bill of Rights
o   June 18, 1948 National Security Council authorizes covert operations for first time
o   June 18, 1948 UN Commission on Human Rights adopts Intl Decl of Human Rights
o   June 18, 1953 Australian POWs released at Panmunjon
o   June 18, 1953 "Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president"
o   June 18, 1953 The Republic of Egypt is declared and the monarchy is abolished.
o   June 18, 1953 USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen
o   June 18, 1954 Pierre Mends-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
o   June 18, 1956 Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt (British and French forces attempted to seize the Canal)
o   June 18, 1959 Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane.
o   June 18, 1959 The First telecast transmitted from England to US
o   June 18, 1963 "3,000 blacks boycot Boston public school"
o   June 18, 1967 Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.
o   June 18, 1968 Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing
o   June 18, 1972 BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118
o   June 18, 1973 NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants
o   June 18, 1977 Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation
o   June 18, 1977 Number one hit on UK music charts - Kenny Rogers - Lucille
o   June 18, 1977 "Space Shuttle test model ""Enterprise"" carries a crew aloft for first time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747"
o   June 18, 1979 SALT II is signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
o   June 18, 1980 "Blues Brothers"" with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi premiers"
o   June 18, 1980 Mrs Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec
o   June 18, 1981 "The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California."
o   June 18, 1983 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride first US woman
o   June 18, 1983 IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in NYC
o   June 18, 1983 Sally Ride becomes the first U.S. woman in space.
o   June 18, 1984 "Major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 miners' strike. Incident later known as the Battle of Orgreave."
o   June 18, 1986 52 die in plane/helicopter collision over Grand Canyon
o   June 18, 1988 Number one hit on UK music charts - Timelords - Doctorin' The Tardis
o   June 18, 1989 Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion
o   June 18, 1991 Pres Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died
o   June 18, 1996 "Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts."
o   June 18, 1999 A global Carnival against Capitalism.
o   June 18, 2001 Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India.
o   June 18, 2006 "The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched."
o   June 18, 2010 Campbell Soup Co. recalls nearly 15 million pounds of canned SpaghettiOs with meatballs because of possible under-processing - USA