I shall start this today and do my best to post in it daily
any help from the rest of the members can be much appreciated

My source is from seeveral sites But mainly from lycos.com

at first it will be abit limited with few events But as days pass I shall increase the data base accordingly
here we GO now
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March 21

1556
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, was burned at the stake as a heretic.

1804
The French civil code, the Code Napoleon, was officially put forth.

1963
Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay, a harsh maximum security jail which once housed gangster Al Capone, closed.

1965
Martin Luther King, Jr., led the start of a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

Nice idea Thugy ,,

i got a book about this ,, so might put soemthing in here !

It is a great idea Thug4life, knowing this date of the day will allow us to understand the general history. waiting for more.....

1820
U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel with dishonored former Chesapeake captain James Barron.

1895
Auguste and Louis Lumiere first demonstrated motion pictures using celluloid film in Paris.

1903 Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought .



1914 World's 1st airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins

1922 British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison


1945
The Arab League was formed in Cairo, by Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.

1946 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
and same year Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan

1965 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong

1982 Iran offensive against Iraq


1997
Comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth in the skies over the northern hemisphere. The comet’s next pass is predicted for the year 4397.

1839 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post)


1840 Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype)

1857 Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC)

1903 Wright brothers obtain airplane patent

1910 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st US auto speedway)

1929 1st telephone installed in White House

1933 Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers

1934 US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945

1950 UN World Meteorological Organization established

1956 Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day)


1956 Sudan becomes independent

1965 Gemini 3 l

1839 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post)


1840 Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype)

1857 Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC)

1903 Wright brothers obtain airplane patent

1910 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st US auto speedway)

1929 1st telephone installed in White House

1933 Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers

1934 US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945

1950 UN World Meteorological Organization established

1956 Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day)


1956 Sudan becomes independent

1965 Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young)

1983 US President Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars"-plan (SDI)

1998 70th Academy Awards: Titanic, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt win

hmmmm ...... thats a great idea ...... keep going ....... more infromation .......:color:

1603 Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England

1837 Canada gives blacks the right to vote


1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB


1887 Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)

1898 1st automobile sold

1906 "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world

1910 83ºF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1913 Netherlands soccer team's 1st victory over England


1930 Planet Pluto named

1952 Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa

1986 US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra

1989 Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 million gallons off Alaska

1997 69th Academy Awards: "The English Patient", Tom Cruise & Frances McDormand win
1997 Australian parliament overturns world's 1st & only euthanasia law (which is as called mercy killing!!!)))

1668 1st horse race in America takes place

1669 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000

1807 1st railway passenger service began in England
1807 British Parliament abolishes slave trade

1817 Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians

1821 Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)

1857 Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse

1896 Modern Olympics begin in Athens Greece

1937 Washington Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page

1943 97% of all Dutch physicians strike againt Nazi registration

1944 RAF Sergeant Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute !!!!!


1957 Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Market)


1961 Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km)
1961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered


1970 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)


1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), shot by nephew


1992 British scientists find new largest perfect number (2 756839 -1 2 756839)

Originally posted by Thug4Life
1965 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong

Great thread Thugy and I might post something too along the way. View the current situation with the US war against Iraq, what a coincidence to read what you said above (quote).

indeed...quite a good thread to to learn about history....keep up the good work thug.

Originally posted by X-press
Great thread Thugy and I might post something too along the way. View the current situation with the US war against Iraq, what a coincidence to read what you said above (quote).

Clever from u that uve quoted that x press ;) Ive choosen to put it purposlley

1668 England takes control of Bombay India

1780 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette & Sunday Monitor)

1799 Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine

1812 Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas; about 20,000 die

1931 Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty

1931 New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capitol of British-Indies

1934 Driving tests introduced in Britain

1942 German offensive in North-Africa under Colonel-General Rommel

1943 1st woman to receive air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott)

1945 Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto

1953 Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine to prevent polio [myelitis]

1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945

1971 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence

1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt

1989 1st free elections in USSR: 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins

good job :)

p.s. 26th March: lotus B'day :)

ooh very good ... excelent .......:color:

27 march

simply click here :D
27 March (http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/all42day/history/h4mar/h4mar27.html)

waiting for 26 april ..next month ..:D maybe i 'll be with some of the famous ppl

since choosing specific events by me seems not to be satisfactory to some :D I shall stop and u can all go according to fahad's everyday links ;)

Originally posted by Thug4Life
since choosing specific events by me seems not to be satisfactory to some :D I shall stop and u can all go according to fahad's everyday links ;)

Thug4life,
if there are only some, still there are many injoying your thread here, so please we are reading them, and behalf of members i would like you to continue, and lets have some disscusion in some thing specific and interesting in those events, whishing dont to give up unless if it is your excuse:D

that was my Aim( Equality )to choose specific events and accordingly U guys can build a discussion about them in the specified appropriate sablas.....

so far...x press picked up something that was intresting above...and that couldve been a good discussion in Politics sabla ;)

any ways
Thank u Equality OK... I shall continue ;)

sounds an intresting idea thug..
i think it will be better to discuss issues in the past...

so what about 28th anybody intrested to feed us about what hapenned in this day in history

no one said we're not interested.. it's just to add some joy to the dry historical news :) that's all.. and sorry for interrupting the way u wanted the thread to go..

1794 Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August)

1796 Bethel African Methodist Church of Philadelphia is 1st US-African church

1834 Senate censure President Jackson for taking federal deposits from Bank of US

1866 1st ambulance goes into service

1930 Constantinople & Angora changes names to Istanbul & Ankara

1959 11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government & installs Panchen Lama

1962 Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees

1967 UN Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam

1979 Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown PA (no deaths)

1986 Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India

1990 Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 points in a game

1995 Julia Roberts & Lyle Lovett split-up

I know :D
thanx for ur comment ;)

29th March

0502 Bourgundy King Gundobar delegates royal power

1461 Battle near Towton Field, 33,000 die (War of the Roses)

1795 Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna

1798 Republic of Switzerland forms

1827 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna

1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam sounds funny

1852 Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 & women to work more than 10 hours a day

1864 Great Britain gives Isotope Islands back to Greece

1871 Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria in London

1886 Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Cola (with cocaine)

1940 Joe Louis KOs Johnny Paycheck in 2 to retain heavyweight boxing title

1943 Meat, butter & cheese rationed in US during WWII (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's)

1946 1st Test Cricket between Australia & New Zealand

1949 Turkey recognizes Israel

1951 23rd Academy Awards: "All About Eve", Jose Ferrer & Judy Holliday win

1961 After a 4½ year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge

1966 Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1970 Manchester City wins 10th Europe Cup II

1982 54th Academy Awards: "Chariots of Fire", Henry Fonda & Katharine Hepburn win

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what do u think about the blue highlighted points.. does anybody know anything about them...

0239 -BC- 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet (this is new to me...I thought it was known just recently!!!)

1858 Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Philadelphia)

1867 US purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2¢ an acre-Seward's Folly) (I wonder why did the russian do such a ThinG!!!)

1870 Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union

1919 Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act

1932 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic (see what can women do :D)

1953 Einstein announces revised unified field theory <===u know this theory ;)

1967 Cover picture of Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper" is photographed

1976 Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation <==and still killing more!!!!! :(

1981 President Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley Jr


1984 US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force

1996 Prince Edward & girl-friend Sophie Rhys-Jones visited Greystoke Castle (i wonder why this was documented!!!))) LOL

1683 Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey

1745 Jews are expelled from Prague

1808 French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names

1814 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris France

1841 1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B

1850 US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%))

1870 Thomas P Mundy became 1st black to vote in US (Perth Amboy NJ) <===intresting indeed

1878 Jack Johnson is 1st black to hold a heavyweight boxing title

1889 300 meter Eiffel Tower officially opens (commemorates French Revolution) <===Wish to climb it!!!

1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity

1932 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall

1932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine

1933 German Republic gives power to Hitler

1944 Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars

1954 USSR offers to join NATO

1958 USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US & Britain to do same

1959 Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India

1965 US ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam

1966 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in New York NY

1967 Jimi Hendrix begins his tradition of burning his guitar

1990 Dionisio Castro cycles world record 20 km (57:18.4)

1992 UN Security Council voted to ban flights & arms sales to Libya

1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity that was a wonderful thing
i think the lecture given by his driver..:cool:

1st april 1987 my bro was born .........:p

1578 William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation (I have some doubts!! that he was the first!!!)

1778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$"

1873 British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die
1873 Steamer 'Atlantic' sank off Nova Scotia drowning 481

1910 Dumitru Dan (Romania) completed a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk

1916 1st US national women's swiming championships held

1918 England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force


1931 Jackie Mitchell became 1st female in professional baseball


1945 US forces launch invasion of Okinawa during WW II

1952 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow (U know about this ?;) )

1971 United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership

1979 Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah

1984 8 men record longest distance rowed in 24 hours at 13 miles

1986 World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel

1991 US minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour

1792 US authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins
& silver dollar, « dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime

1845 H.L. Fizeau & J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of Sun

1877 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn

1902 1st motion picture theater opens (LA)

1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power

1935 Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer

1935 Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR

1954 Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced

1958 National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA

1958 Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, TX (record)

1968 Beatles form Python Music Ltd
1968 Chad creates Union of Central African States

1969 Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor)

1970 Qatar gains independence from Britain

1982 Argentina seizes Malvinas (Falklands) Islands

1989 Wrestlemania V-Hulk Hogan beats Randy "Macho Man" Savage
:D :D :D
:gap:

1776 Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College

1868 An Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50' tidal wave

1908 Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in 2 hrs

1910 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley climbed

1933 1st airplane flight over Mt Everest

1936 Shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts only 10 seconds


1948 1st US figure skating championships held
1948 Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)

1964 US & Panam agree to resume diplomatic relations
1965 1st atomic powered spacecraft (snap) launched

1968 N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks

1970 Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try (hehhee and some complains about their 6th test here in oman!!!!!)

1974 Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris

1977 Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter

1981 Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumped 6' 8.25", with 1 leg (woww)

1982 UN Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands

1581 Frances Drake completres circumnavigation of the world

1818 Congress decided US flag is 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars

1887 Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS)

1905 Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 370,000

1912 Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet

1929 1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held

1939 Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq

1944 British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia
1945 Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (Liberation Day)
1947 Largest group of sunspots on record

1947 UN's International Civil Aviation Organization established
1948 84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie (
:eyes: :gap:

1964 Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks

((1969 Dr Denton Cooley implants 1st temporary artificial heart))

1979 Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago Ill

1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's last NBA game in Seattle

1990 Gloria Estefan released from the hospital after her accident

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How come am the only one posting here?? I need some arabic events as well that happend in specific dates ! so far i lack a good source!

1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Yellow Face" (BG)

1927 Using phone lines TV is sent from Wash DC to NYC

1943 NFL adopts free substitution rule

1948 World Health Organization established by UN (happy Birthday Medicals)

1953 Dag Hammarskj”ld of Sweden elected 2nd UN general-secretary

1956 Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco
1959 Radar 1st bounced off sun, Stanford Calif

1963 Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic

1966 US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)

1978 Pres Carter defers production of the neutron bomb

1979 Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water

1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis

1981 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woww (mashallah)

1989 Soviet sub sinks in Norweign Sea, with about a dozen deaths

1990 John Poindexter (Natl Sec Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal

Not much intresting events realy on this day!!! few!

5 April

1614
Pocahontas married John Rolfe.

1951
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for giving away atomic secrets to the Russians.

1955
Winston Churchill resigned as prime minister of Britain.

1971
Canadian Fran Phipps became the first woman to reach the North Pole.

6 April

1830
Joseph Smith and five others organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Fayette, New York.

1896
First modern Olympic Games opened in Athens, Greece.

1909
Robert Peary and Matthew Henson became the first to reach the North Pole.

1917
U.S. declared war on Germany and entered World War I.

1994
The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed in a plane crash.

7 April

1862
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh.

1927
U.S. secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover’s Washington speech was seen and heard in New York in the first long-distance television transmission.

1994
Civil war erupted in Rwanda.

Sorry Thug I didn't c ur post for 7 April :D

Thanx for the help :D

1730 1st Jewish congregation in US consecrates synagogue (NY)
1766 1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley & chain

1943 Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya convicted of involvement with Mau Mau

1947 Largest recorded sunspot (7,000) observed

1985 India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster

1986 Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California, Make his day

1991 Oakland A's stadium becomes 1st outdoor arena to ban smoking

1992 After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" final issue

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Closed Eyes on this day:

1973 Pablo Picasso artist, dies near Mougins, France, at 91

1981 Gen Omar Bradley last 5-star general, dies in NY at 88

1987 Francis C Denebrink US Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea) dies at 90

1990 Ryan White hemophiliac aids sufferer, dies at 18. The Ryan White Foundation was founded later in 1991 by Jeanne White and Phil Donahue

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Opend eyes to this world:

1948 Richard Alan Litchfield Mass, bank robber (FBI most wanted)

1962 Izzy Stradin rocker (Guns 'n' Roses-Welcome to the Jungle)

9 April

1739
Robert Jenkins's ear was cut off, sparking the War of Jenkins’s Ear between Spain and England.

1914
The first full-color film, The World, The Flesh and the Devil, was shown in London.

1963
Winston Churchill became the first honorary U.S. citizen, posthumously.

10 April

1790
The U.S. patent system was formed.

1849
The safety pin was patented by Walter Hunt, in New York.

1866
The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was chartered.

1912
Titanic set sail on its fateful voyage.

1970
Paul McCartney announced the official split of the Beatles.

1998
The Northern Ireland "Good Friday Accord" was reached.

11 April

1814
Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba.

1921
Iowa imposed the first state cigarette tax.

1945
Allies liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.

1951
President Harry Truman fired General Douglas McArthur.

1968
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1968 Civil Rights Act.

1979
Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was overthrown.

12 April

1861
The Civil War began when Fort Sumter was attacked.

1892
Voters in Lockport, N.Y., became the first in the nation to use voting machines.

1945
President Franklin Roosevelt died.

1955
The polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was called "safe, effective, and potent."

1961
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin became the first human in space and also the first human to orbit the earth in a spacecraft.

13 April

1598
The Edict of Nantes gave religious tolerance to the Huguenots in France.

1796
The first elephant was brought to America from India.

1964
Sidney Poitier became the first African American to win the Academy Award for best actor.

1970
Apollo 13 announced "Houston, we've got a problem," when an oxygen tank burst on the way to the Moon.

1975
Civil War began in Lebanon when gunmen killed 4 Christian Phalangists who retaliated by killing 27 Palestinians.

1997
Tiger Woods became the youngest person to win the Masters Tournament and the first of African descent to win a major golf title.

14 April

1828
Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary.

1865
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

1894
The first kinetoscope parlor opened in New York City.

1969
In a record breaking night at the Academy Awards, a tie between Katherine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand resulted in the two sharing the the Best Actress Oscar and Hepburn broke the record as the only actress to win three Best Actress Oscars.

15 April

1452
Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist, was born near Vinci, a hill village in Tuscany.

1817
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet opened the first free American school for the deaf in Hartford, Conn.

1912
Titanic sank off the coast of Newfoundland on its maiden voyage after it struck an iceberg.

1947
Jackie Robinson made his Brooklyn Dodger debut and scored the game-winning run. On April 15, 1997, his number, 42, was retired.

1955
Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald's in Des Plaines, Illinois.

1996
The 100th Boston Marathon was won by Moses Tanui of Kenya.

16 April

1746
The Jacobite uprising in England ends when Charles “Bonnie Prince Charlie” Stuart is defeated by the Duke of Cumberland.

1889
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin), English film actor, director, producer, writer, and composer, was born in London.

1912
Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.

1917
Lenin returned to Russia after 10 years in exile in Switzerland.

1947
Most of Texas City, Tex., destroyed when French ship Grandcamp exploded.

1972
China sent President Nixon two giant pandas as a gift.

I appreciate ur help indeed needed it :)

we need to spice up this thread abit...MMM let me see if i will come out with new ideas in it!

Originally posted by floret
good job :)

p.s. 26th March: lotus B'day :) hey :eyes: ....me too ! :)

0295 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1770 Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales
1775 British begin siege of Boston
1777 New York adopts new constitution as an independent state
1792 France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia

1799 Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews

1841 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue") published

1879 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus

1910 Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km

1917 Pravda (Lenin names Russia "Free land of world")

1920 Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate

1940 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia PA

1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to an altitude of 63,250 meters

1965 People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid

1986 Michael Jrdan sets NBA playoff record with 63 points in a game

1992 Madonna signs $60-million deal with Time Warner

1993 Uranus passes Neptune (this occurs once every 171 years)

1994 Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed

1910 : Mark Twain died !

1913 : Launch of Aquitania , world's largest Liner , in Scotland .

1946 : E Germany : social Democrats merge with Communists .

1960 : Brasilia inuagurated as new capital of Brazil.

1967 : Stalin's daughter Svetlana defects to US .

- Right-wing army officers seize power in Greece .

1971 : Haitan dictator "Papa Doc "Duvalier dies.

22 April

1500
Pedro Alvares Cabral discovered Brazil and claimed it for Portugal.

1509
Henry VIII became king of England.

1616
The Spanish poet Cervantes died in Madrid.

1864
Congress authorized the inscription "In God We Trust" on coins minted as U.S. currency.

1889
The land rush in Oklahoma began when it was opened to settlers.

1994
Richard M. Nixon died of a stroke at the age of 81.

23 April

1564, William Shakespeare, an English dramatist and poet, born in Stratford-on-Avon. He is considered the greatest playwright who ever lived.

1616
Playwright William Shakespeare died in Stratford-on-Avon, England.

1954
Hank Aaron hit the first of his 755 home runs.

1985
Coca-Cola announced that it was changing its formula and introduced New Coke.

24 April

1800
Library of Congress was established.

1898
Spain declared war on the U.S..

1915
Turks began deportation of Armenians that led to the massacre of between 600,000 and 1.5 million Armenians.

1916
The Easter Rebellion begins in Dublin, Ireland. Although unsuccessful, the uprising was an important symbolic event leading to the establishment of the Republic of Ireland.

1953
Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

April 25, 2003 on this day:

In 1859 workers in Egypt broke ground on the Suez Canal.
The Suez Canal is one of the greatest engineering accomplishments in human history.

Workers removed 75 million cubic meters of sand to construct the
artificial waterway, which is 163 kilometers long and connects the
Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea. The project took ten years to complete, today the canal remains one of the busiest waterways in the world.

Also on this day:

In 1862, during the American Civil War, U.S. Admiral David Farragut occupied New Orleans.

In 1945 during World War II, American and Russian forces met at the Elbe River.

26 April

1607
Colonists land at Cape Henry, Va., They would found Jamestown the next month.

1865
John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassin, was surrounded by federal troops in a barn in Virginia. He was shot and killed, either by the soldiers or by his own hand.

1937
The German Luftwaffe (air force) destroyed the Spanish town of Guernica.

1964
The Rolling Stones released their first album, The Rolling Stones.

1986
The worst nuclear power plant accident in history occurred at Chernobyl, near Kiev, U.S.S.R.

1994
The first multi-racial elections were held in South Africa.

27 April

1521
Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed in a fight with natives of the Philippines.

1865
The worst steamship disaster in the history of the United States occurred when there was an explosion aboard the Sultana; more than 1,400 people were killed.

1956
Rocky Marciano retired as undefeated world heavyweight boxing champion.

1961
Sierra Leone gained independence from Great Britain.

1983
Pitcher Nolan Ryan surpassed Walter Johnson’s strikeout record—one that had held since 1927.

28 April

1788
Maryland became the 7th state in the United States.

1789
Fletcher Christian led the mutiny aboard the British ship Bounty against Captain William Bligh.

1945
Benito Mussolini was executed.

1947
Thor Heyerdahl and five others began their Pacific Ocean crossing on the raft, Kon-Tiki.

1967
Boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army.

1992
The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture unveiled its first “food pyramid.”

29 April

1429
Joan of Arc entered the city of Orléans. She would end its months-long siege and would become known as the "Maid of Orléans."

1945
American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp.

1978
Japan's Naomi Uemura, traveling by sled dog, became the first person to reach the North Pole alone.

1980
Film director Alfred Hitchcock died at age of 80.

1986
Pitcher Roger Clemens set a major league baseball record by striking out 20 batters in a regular nine-inning game. He repeated his feat in 1996.

1992
A Los Angeles jury acquitted four police officers accused of beating Rodney King. Massive rioting and looting ensued.

1997
The first joint U.S.-Russian space walk was made by Jerry Linenger and Vasily Tsibliyev from space station Mir.

30 April

1803
France sold Louisiana and adjoining lands to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase.

1812
Louisiana became the 18th state in the United States.

1939
U.S. commercial television made its official debut was made at the New York World’s Fair.The signal was transmitted from the Empire State Building.

1945
Adolf Hitler and his newly married mistress Eva Braun committed suicide.

1948
The Organization of American States was created in Bogotá, Colombia.

1975
The Vietnam War ended with South Vietnam's surrender to North Vietnam.

1991
Over 131,000 were killed and as many as 9 million left homeless when a cyclone struck Bangladesh.

1 May

1707
The Act of Union joined England and Scotland to form Great Britain.

1931
The Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 102 stories, it would be the world's tallest building for the next 41 years. Click to see the current tallest.

1941
Orson Welles's Citizen Kane, considered by many the greatest film ever made, premiered in New York.

1948
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was established with Kim Il Sung as president.

1967
Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu. (They divorced in 1973.)

1991
44-year-old Texas fireballer Nolan Ryan hurled his seventh no-hitter in a 3-0 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays.

2 May

1885
Good Housekeeping magazine went on sale for the first time.

1939
Lou Gehrig established a new major-league baseball record when he played his 2,130th game. It would take another 57 years before Cal Ripken, Jr., broke it.

1945
The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin.

1955
Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

1969
The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II departed on her maiden voyage to New York.

1997
The Labour Party’s Tony Blair became Prime Minister of Britain, ending 18 years of conservative rule. At 44, he was the youngest prime minister in 185 years.

3 May

1494
Columbus discovered St. Iago, the island that would later be known as Jamaica.

1937
Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Gone With the Wind.

1979
Margaret Thatcher became the first woman elected prime minister of England.

1986
At the age of 54, legendary horse jockey Bill Shoemaker became the oldest person to win the Kentucky Derby, riding Ferdinand to victory.

1998
At a conference in Brussels, European leaders agreed to a single currency (the euro) for the entire continent. It was not introduced (electronically) until Jan. 1, 1999.

4 May

1626
Peter Minuit landed in Manhattan, which he later bought for $24 worth of cloth and brass buttons.

1932
Public Enemy Number One, Al Capone, was jailed for tax evasion.

1959
The first Grammy Awards were held.

1970
Four Kent State University students were shot down by National Guard members during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration.

1998
The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, was sentenced to four life terms plus 30 years for his series of bombings that killed three and injured 23.

5 May

1809
Mary Kies of South Killingly, Conn., became the first woman to be granted a patent. The patent was for the rights to a technique for weaving straw with silk and thread.

1847
The American Medical Association was organized in Philadelphia, Pa.

1891
Carnegie Hall (then known as Music Hall) opened in New York City.

1961
Alan Shepard became the first American in space.

1981
Bobby Sands of the Irish Republican Army died in a prison hospital on the 66th day of his hunger strike.

6 May

1889
The Universal Exposition opened in Paris, marking the completion and dedication of the Eiffel Tower.

1937
The German airship Hindenburg blew up and burst into flames at Lakehurst, N.J.

1941
Dictator Joseph Stalin became the premier of Russia.

1954
British athlete Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under four minutes (3:59:4).

1994
The Chunnel between England and France officially opened.

7 May

1824
Beethoven's 9th Symphony premiered in Vienna.

1915
The British ocean liner Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine in World War I off the coast of Ireland.

1945
Germany unconditionally surrendered to the allies in Rheims, France.

1992
The 27th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting mid-term Congressional pay raises, was ratified.

1994
Edvard Munch's painting, The Scream was recovered a few months after it had been stolen.

1999
During action against Yugoslavia, NATO jets mistakenly bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, killing three and injuring 20.

8 May

1877
The first Westminister Dog Show was held.

1902
Mount Pelee on Martinique erupted, destroying the town of St. Pierre, and killing 40,000 people.

1945
V-E Day marks the European victory of the Allies in World War II.

1978
David Berkowitz, a.k.a. the “Son of Sam,” plead guilty to killing six people in New York City.

1985
The first cans of New Coke rolled out of bottling and canning plants on this day—the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola.

1999
The Citadel in South Carolina graduated its first female cadet, Nancy Mace

9 May

1914
Mother's Day became a public holiday.

1926
Explorers Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett flew over the North Pole.

1960
The U.S. became the first country to legalize the birth control pill.

1962
The Beatles signed their first recording contract and hired George Martin to be their producer.

1978
The body of slain former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro was found in an automobile in Rome.

1984
It took the Chicago White Sox 25 innings, eight hours, and six minutes, over two days, to finally defeat the Milwaukee Brewers, 7-6. It was the longest game (in elapsed time) in major-league history.

10 May

1863
Confederate General Stonewall Jackson died after being accidentally shot by his own troops.

1869
The United States’ first transcontinental railroad was completed with a ceremony in Promontory Point, Utah.

1924
J. Edgar Hoover became director of the FBI.

1940
Winston Churchill succeeded Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister.

1994
Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first black president.

11 May

1858
Minnesota became the 32nd state in the United States.

1927
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded.

1949
Siam changed its name to Thailand.

1981
Reggae performer Bob Marley died of cancer in Miami at the age of 36.

1997
IBM's supercomputer, Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov, the reigning world champion, in a six game chess match (2 for blue, 1 for Kasparov, and 3 ties).

1998
India set off atomic blasts.

12 May

1870
Manitoba became a province of Canada.

1888
Charles Sherrill of the Yale track team became the first runner to use the crouching start for a fast break in a foot race.

1937
Britain’s King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.

1970
Harry A. Blackmun was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice.

1970
Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks, swatted his 500th home run.

13 May

1568
Mary Queen of Scots was defeated at the Battle of Langside and immediately fled to North England.

1846
The United States formally declared war on Mexico after several days of fighting.

1938
Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded the New Orleans's jazz classic, When the Saints Go Marching In, on Decca Records.

1973
Tennis male chauvinist Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Smith Court, 6-2, 6-1 in front of a world-wide television audience. He would lose to Billie Jean King later that year.

1981
Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Agca as he drove through a crowd in St. Peter's Square, Rome.

14 May

1862
Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patented the chronograph—a timepiece that allows for split second timing of sporting events.

1904
The Olympic Games were held in the United States for the first time, in St. Louis, Missouri.

1948
British rule in Palestine came to an end as The Jewish National Council proclaimed the State of Israel. Within hours, Israel was under attack from Arab forces.

1955
The Warsaw Pact was signed by the Soviet Union and seven other Communist bloc countries. It finally dissolved in 1991.

1973
Skylab, the United States’ first space station, was launched into orbit.

1998
Frank Sinatra died at the age of 82.

15 May

1718
London lawyer James Puckle patented the world’s first machine gun.

1862
The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress on this day.

1918
The first air mail route in the U.S. was established between New York and Washington, DC, with a stop at Philadelphia.

1930
On a United Airlines flight between San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wash., Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.

1940
Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the United States.

1972
Alabama Governor George Wallace was shot and crippled as he campaigned for the presidency.

1988
The Soviet Union began to withdraw its estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan

16 May

1770
Marie Antoinette married the future King Louis XVI of France.

1929
The first Academy Awards were given on this night. The term, Oscars, was not used to describe the statuettes given to actors and actresses until 1931.

1946
The Irving Berlin musical, Annie Get Your Gun, opened on Broadway.

1975
Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest.

1985
Michael Jordan was named "Rookie of the Year" in the National Basketball Association.

1997
President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire ended 32 years of autocratic rule when rebel forces led by Laurent Kabila expelled him from the country.

17 May

1792
The New York Stock Exchange was established when a group of 24 brokers and merchants met by a tree on what is now Wall Street and signed the Buttonwood Agreement.

1875
The first Kentucky Derby was held at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Kentucky.

1900
Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranian Shiite religious leader was born.

1938
NBC aired the Information Please quiz show on the radio for the first time.

1954
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously against segregation in schools in Brown v. Board of Education.

1973
Televised Watergate hearings opened, headed by North Carolina senator Sam Ervin.

1987
An Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S.S. Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors and wounding 62.

18 May

1804
Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate.

1896
The Supreme Court affirmed racial segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson as "separate but equal."

1920
Pope John Paul II was born near Krakow, Poland.

1953
Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound.

1974
India became the 6th country to become a nuclear power.

1980
Mount St. Helens, in Washington state, erupted after being dormant for 123 years.

2000
A bill was finally passed that removed the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse.

19 May

1536
Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was beheaded.

1921
Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, establishing national quotas for immigrants.

1925
Malcolm X, militant black leader in the United was born.

1928
The first annual Calaveras County "Frog Jumping Jubilee" was held in Angel's Camp, California.

1935
British author and soldier, T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash.

1994
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in New York.

20 May

1861
North Carolina voted to secede from the Union.

1927
Charles Lindbergh began the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight, departing from Long Island aboard the Spirit of Saint Louis.

1932
Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

1978
Mavis Hutchinson, 53, became the first woman to run across America. The 3,000-mile trek took her 69 days. She ran an average of 45 miles each day.

1996
In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court rejected a Colorado measure banning laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination.

21 May

1542
Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto died while searching for gold on the banks of the Mississippi River.

1881
Clara Barton founded what became the American Red Cross.

1927
Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly across the Atlantic (from New York to Paris) in his monoplane, The Spirit of St. Louis.

1932
Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean (from Newfoundland to Ireland).

1956
The first hydrogen bomb to be dropped by air exploded over the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

1989
In Hong Kong, approximately one million people took to the streets to show their support for students protesting for democratic reforms in China’s Tiananmen Square.

1998
Indonesian President Suharto resigned.

22 May

1455
The first battle in the 30-year War of Roses took place at St. Albans.

1761
The first life insurance policy in the United States was issued in Philadelphia.

1849
Abraham Lincoln received patent number 6469 for his floating dry dock.

1927
An earthquake near Xining, China, measuring 8.3 claimed approximately 200,000 victims.

1972
Richard Nixon arrived in Moscow, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the Soviet Union.

19--
Pharmacy113, a member of the English Sabla was born in Muscat.

1992
Johnny Carson hosted the last episode of his Tonight Show.

23 May

1788
South Carolina became the 8th state in United States.

1873
The North West Mounted Police force was formed in Canada. It would later be known as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

1911
The New York Public Library, the largest marble structure ever built in the United States, was dedicated in New York City after 16 years of construction.

1934
Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Barrow) were killed in a police shootout.

1949
The German Federal Republic came into existence.

1960
Israeli agents captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

24 May

1844
Samuel Morse transmitted the first telegraph message, in which he asked, "What hath God wrought?"

1883
The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic.

1899
W.T. McCullough of Boston, Mass., opened the first public garage. One could rent space for selling, storing and repairing vehicles.

1935
Major League Baseball’s first night game was played under the lights at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field as the hometown Reds defeated Philadelphia, 2–1.

1941
Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) was born in Duluth, Minn.

1958
The United Press and the International News Service merged to form United Press International (UPI).

1976
The British and French Concordes made their first commercial flights.

2000
Israeli troops pulled out of Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.

25 May

1787
The Constitutional Convention convened in Philadelphia under the leadership of George Washington, in order to establish a new U.S. government.

1925
John Scopes was indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.

1935
American track star Jesse Owens broke three world records and tied another in just 45 minutes.

1935
The legendary Babe Ruth hit his 714th and final home run against the Pittsburgh Pirates. His record stood until Hank Aaron broke it in 1974.

1965
Muhammad Ali knocked Sonny Liston out cold in the first round, after 1 minute and 56 seconds, for the world heavyweight title.

1968
The Gateway Arch was dedicated in St. Louis.

1969
Midnight Cowboy, the only x-rated film to win a best picture Oscar, was released.

1979
The worst air disaster in U.S. history (excluding the Sept. 11 attacks) occurred when a DC-10 crashed at Chicago's O'Hare airport, killing over 270 people.

26 May

1521
Martin Luther's writings were banned by the Edict of Worms.

1868
President Andrew Johnson avoided conviction for impeachment charges of "high crimes and misdemeanors" by one vote.

1959
Pittsburgh Pirates’ Harvey Haddix pitched 12 perfect innings against the Milwaukee Braves before losing, 1–0, in the 13th.

1977
George Willig, "the human fly," scaled the World Trade Center in New York City by attaching himself to the window washer mechanism and walking straight up until falling into police custody when he reached the top. It took Willig three and a half hours to make the climb, and $1.10 in fines—a penny per floor.

1978
The first legal casino to be operated in the United States outside of Nevada was opened in Atlantic City.

27 May

1647
The first recorded execution of a witch reportedly took place in Massachusetts when Achsah Young was hanged.

1703
St. Petersburg was founded by Czar Peter the Great.

1936
The Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage, arriving in France four hours later.

1937
Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opened.

1941
British ships sank the German battleship Bismarck off the coast of France, resulting in the loss of 2,300 lives.

1994
Nobel-prize winning dissident, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile.

1996
After a year and a half of bloodshed, Russian President Boris Yeltsin met with the leader of the Chechen rebels and negotiated a cease-fire.

28 May

1865
Robert Gould Shaw, leading the first northern all-black regiment, leaves Boston for the Civil War.

1929
The first all-color talking picture, On With the Show, debuted.

1957
Baseball owners voted to allow the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants to move to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively. Many New Yorkers still haven’t recovered. See other baseball city and nickname changes.

1987
Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old pilot from West Germany, landed his private plane in Moscow’s Red Square. He was arrested and sentenced to four years in a labor camp, but was released after just one.

1997
Linda Finch completed Amelia Earhart's attempted around-the-world flight.

29 May

1765
Patrick Henry bitterly denounced the Stamp Act in the Virginia House of Burgesses.

1790
Rhode Island became the 13th state in the United States, the last of the original colonies to ratify the Constitution.

1848
Wisconsin became the 30th state in the United States.

1917
John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Mass.

1942
Bing Crosby recorded his version of “White Christmas.” It would go on to sell over 30 million copies.

1953
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

1998
Pakistan staged nuclear tests in response to India's nuclear tests two weeks earlier.

30 May

1431
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake as a heretic.

1536
King Henry VIII of England married his 3rd wife, Jane Seymour, 11 days after he had his 2nd wife, Anne Boleyn executed.

1911
The first Indianapolis 500 was won by Ray Harroun.

1922
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, was dedicated by Chief Justice William Howard Taft.

1998
An earthquake in Northern Afghanistan (and subsequent aftershocks) killed an estimated 5,000 and injured at least 1,500. A quake on Feb. 4 in the same area had killed about 2,300.

31 May

1790
The first U.S. Copyright Law was enacted, protecting books, maps, and other original materials.

1889
Heavy rains caused the South Fork Dam to collapse, sending 20 million tons of water into Johnstown, Pa. Over 2,200 people were killed and the town was nearly destroyed.

1907
Taxis first began running in New York City.

1911
The Titanic was launched in Belfast. At the ceremony, a White Star Line employee claimed, “Not even God himself could sink this ship.”

1961
South Africa became an independent republic.

1970
An earthquake in Peru left more than 50,000 dead.

1 June

1792
Kentucky became the 15th state in the United States.

1796
Tennessee became the 16th state in the United States.

1938
The first issue of Action Comics, featuring Superman, was published.

1958
General Charles De Gaulle became the premier of France.

1968
Helen Keller, blind and deaf author-lecturer, died.

1980
Cable News Network (CNN) debuted.

2 June

1886
Grover Cleveland became the first U.S. president to get married in the White House.

1896
Guglielmo Marconi patented the radio in Britain.

1924
Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians.

1941
Baseball great, Lou Gehrig died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, ALS, a rare type of paralysis now referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease.

1953
Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1997
Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.

3 June

1861
Stephen Douglas, U.S. politician, died.

1942
The Battle of Midway, a decisive Allied victory in World War II, began.

1965
Maj. Edward White became the first U.S. astronaut to walk in space, during the Gemini 4 mission.

1979
The world's worst oil spill occurred when an exploratory oil well, Ixtoc 1, blew out, spilling over 140 million gallons of oil into the Bay of Campeche off the coast of Mexico.

1989
Chinese army troops head to Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.

4 June

1892
The Sierra Club, led by John Muir, was incorporated in San Francisco.

1896
Henry Ford took his first car out for a test drive.

1944
The U.S. Fifth Army entered Rome, leading to the liberation of the city during World War II.

1968
Dorothy Gish, American actress who starred in many silent-film classics, died.

1989
People's Army of China opened fire on crowds of prodemocracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, killing thousands.

1992
The U.S. Post Office announced that in a poll people preferred the "young Elvis" stamp to the "old Elvis" stamp.

5 June

1783
Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier made the first successful balloon ascension.

1884
Civil War hero Gen. William T. Sherman refused the Republican nomination for president with the words, “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”

1933
The United States went off the gold standard.

1947
Sen. George Marshall proposed a plan (Marshall Plan) to help Europe recover financially from the effects of World War II.

1968
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot by an assassin and died the next day.

6 June

1844
The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London.

1933
The first drive-in movie theater opened in Camden, New Jersey.

1934
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was established to protect investors and maintain the integrity of the securities markets.

1944
Thousands of Allied troops invaded the beaches of Normandy, France, on D-Day.

1982
Israel invaded Lebanon to drive out the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

7 June

1494
Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the New World between the two countries.

1654
Louis XIV was crowned king of France.

1776
Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution in the Continental Congress proposing a Declaration of Independence.

1929
Vatican City became a sovereign state.

1967
Dorothy Parker, American short story writer, poet, and critic, died.

Originally posted by pharmacy113
7 June

1494
Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the New World between the two countries.

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This made me laugh....how history repeats its self but the actors differ!! same process! though!

8 June

1845
Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the United States, died in Tennessee.

1861
Tennessee became the 11th and last state to secede from the Union.

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

1968
James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, assassin, was arrested.

1969
Baseball legend Mickey Mantle formally retired from Major League Baseball at Yankee Stadium.

9 June

1870
Author Charles ****ens died.

1898
China agreed to lease Hong Kong to Britain for 99 years.

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

1973
Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes and became the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.

10 June

1770
Capt. James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off Australia.

1865
Wagner's opera, Tristan and Isolde, premiered in Munich.

1946
Italy replaced its monarchy with a republic.

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

11 June

1509
King Henry VIII married his first wife, Katharine of Aragon.

1919
Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to capture the Triple Crown.

1963
Vivian Malone and James Hood successfully enrolled at the University of Alabama following Gov. George Wallace’s famous "stand in the schoolhouse door."

1977
Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown.

12 June

1880
John Lee Richmond pitched baseball's first perfect game. A perfect game occurs when no batter reaches a base during a complete game of at least nine innings.

1898
Emilio Aguinaldo, head of the Philippine nationalists, proclaimed independence from Spain.

1939
The Baseball Hall of Fame opened to the public in Cooperstown, New York.

1942
Anne Frank received a diary for her birthday.

1963
Civil rights leader Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi.

1997
Interleague play began in baseball, ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series.

13 June

1900
The Boxer Rebellion began in China.

1966
The U.S. Supreme Court set forth in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must advise suspects of their rights upon taking them into custody.

1967
Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

1971
The New York Times began publishing the "Pentagon Papers."

1983
The U.S. space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system.

1986
Bandleader and clarinetist Benny Goodman died.

14 June

1775
The United States Army was founded.

1777
The Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the U.S.

1922
Warren Harding became the first president to be heard on the radio.

1951
The first commercial computer, Univac I, was unveiled.

1982
Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the Falkland Islands.

15 June

1215
King John sealed the Magna Carta.

1836
Arkansas became the 25th state in the United States.

1844
Charles Goodyear was granted a patent for rubber vulcanization.

1849
James Polk, the 11th president of the United States, died in Nashville, Tennessee.

1996
Ella Fitzgerald, the ''first lady of song,'' died in Beverly Hills, California.

16 June

1487
The Battle of Stoke ended the War of the Roses.

1858
Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln declared, "a house divided against itself cannot stand."

1904
Events in James Joyce's novel Ulysses took place on this day, which is celebrated as Bloomsday, for the main character, Leopold Bloom.

1933
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Industrial Recovery Act.

1963
Valentina Tereshkova of the USSR became the first woman in space.

1996
Russia voted in its first independent presidential election. Boris Yeltsin eventually won in a runoff.

17 June

1775
The Battle of Bunker Hill took place during the American Revolution.

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

1928
Amelia Earhart embarked on the first trans-Atlantic flight by a woman.

1972
Burglary of Democratic Party headquarters in Washington, DC, started the Watergate political scandal.

18 June

1812
The War of 1812 began.

1815
Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by British, German, and Dutch forces.

1873
Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.

1928
Aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. She completed the flight from Newfoundland to Wales in about 21 hours.

1983
Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.

19 June

1862
Congress abolished slavery in the U.S. territories.

1934
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was created.

1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved.

1977
Pope Paul VI proclaimed John Neumann, the first male saint from the United States.

1987
The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring any public school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creationism as well.

20 June

1782
The Great Seal of the United States was adopted.

1819
The 320-ton Savannah became the first steamship to cross the Atlantic.

1837
Queen Victoria ascended the British throne.

1863
West Virginia became the 35th state in the United States.

1967
Muhammad Ali was convicted of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted.

21 June

1527
Italian statesman, diplomat, and author of “The Prince,” Niccolo Machiavelli died.

1788
New Hampshire became the 9th state in the United States, paving the way for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

1982
John Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted murder of President Ronald Reagan.

1993
English mathematician, Andrew Wiles proved Fermat's last theorem. It took the Princeton University professor seven years to come up with the 200-page proof that solved the 350-year-old problem, which many mathematicians had declared was unsolvable.

1997
The WNBA made its debut.

22 June

1815
Napoleon abdicated his throne for the second time after his defeat at Waterloo.

1870
The U.S. Justice Department was created.

1874
Dr. Andrew Still became the first to practice osteopathy.

1943
W.E.B. DuBois became the first black member of the National Institute of Letters.

1969
Singer-actress Judy Garland died.

1987
Actor-dancer-singer Fred Astaire died.

23 June

1868
Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called a ''Type-Writer.''

1947
The Senate overrode President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.

1976
The CN tower in Toronto opened, the world's tallest free-standing structure.

1995
Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the first polio vaccine, died.

24 June

1509
Henry VIII was crowned king of England.

1908
The 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, died in Princeton, N.J.

1947
Kenneth Arnold, an American pilot, reported seeing strange objects near Mt. Rainier, Washington. He described them as "saucers skipping across the water," hence the term "flying saucers" was born.

1948
The Soviet Union began a blockade of Berlin. Allied forces responded with what would be known as the Berlin Airlift flying in more than 2 million tons of supplies over the next year.

25 June

1788
Virginia became the 10th state in the Union.

1876
Lt. Col. George A. Custer and all his men were killed by Sioux and Cheyanne Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana.

1950
Communist North Korean troops invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War.

1951
The first commercial color TV program was transmitted by CBS from New York to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, DC.

26 June

1819
The bicycle was patented by W. K. Clarkson.

1843
Hong Kong was proclaimed a British crown colony.

1906
The first Grand Prix motor race was held in Le Mans, France.

1959
The St. Lawrence Seaway, connecting the Great Lakes and the Atlantic, was opened.

1963
President Kennedy gave his, "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) speech in West Berlin.

2000
The first map of the human genome, which required decoding more than 3 billion biochemical "letters" of human DNA, is completed.

27 June

1844
Mormon church founder Joseph Smith was murdered by a mob in Carthage, Ill.

1898
Joshua Slocum became the first person to successfully circumnavigate the earth alone when he landed his sloop Spray in Newport, R.I., a 46,000-mile trip.

1922
The Newbery Medal for children’s literature was first awarded.

1950
President Harry S. Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean War.

1954
The world's first atomic power station opened at Obninsk, near Moscow.

28 June

1836
The fourth president of the United States, James Madison, died at Montpelier, his Virginia estate.

1894
Labor Day became a federal holiday by an act of Congress.

1914
Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were assassinated, setting off World War I.

1919
The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I.

1978
The Supreme Court ruled in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke that the use of quotas in affirmative action programs was not permissible.

1996
The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, voted to admit women.

29 June

1613
London's Globe Theatre, where most of Shakespeare's playes debuted, burned down.

1767
The British Parliament approved the Townshend Acts.

1972
The Supreme Court ruled in Furman v. Georgia that the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual" prompting some states to revise their laws.

1995
The shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit Earth.

30 June

1859
French acrobat Charles Blondin, AKA Jean Francois Gravelet, walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

1908
A powerful natural explosion from an unknown cause rocked Tunguska, in eastern Siberia, flattening hundreds of square miles of forest and resulting in tremors that could be felt hundreds of miles away.

1921
President Warren G. Harding appointed former president William H. Taft chief justice of the United States.

1936
Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind was published.

1971
The 26th Ammendment, which lowered the voting age to 18, was ratified by the states.

1998
The remains of a Vietnam War serviceman buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers were identified as those of Air Force pilot Michael J. Blassie.

1 July

1863
The Battle of Gettysburg, which marked the turning point in the Civil War, began.

1867
Canada became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain under the British North America Act.

1962
Burundi and Rwanda achieved independence.

1963
The U.S. Post Office inaugurated its five-digit ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) codes.

1968
The United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and 58 other nations signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

1997
After 156 years of British colonial rule, Hong Kong was returned to China.

2 July

1566
French astrologer, physician, and prophet Nostradamus died.

1890
Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.

1937
Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to fly around the world.

1964
President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.

1976
In Gregg v. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.

1997
Actor James Stewart died in Beverly Hills, Calif.

3 July

1608
Samuel de Champlain founded the city of Quebec.

1775
Commander in chief George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass.

1863
The Battle of Gettysburg ended.

1890
Idaho became the 43rd state in the United States.

1962
Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule.

4 Huly

1776
The U.S. declared independence from Great Britain.

1826
Former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died.

1831
Former president James Monroe died.

1845
Henry David Thoreau moved into his shack on Walden Pond.

1865
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was first published.

1884
The Statue of Liberty was presented to the United States in Paris.

1895
Katharine Lee Bates published America the Beautiful.

1976
The United States celebrated its bicentennial.

1997
The U.S. Pathfinder probe landed on Mars.