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On This Day In History, June 9th

1967 Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria
Israel's occupation of the territory and the establishment of Israeli settlements in the area continue to hamper negotiations to find a peaceful solution to the ongoing Middle East conflict.

1957 Four Austrian climbers become the first to conquer Broad Peak
Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl reached the 8051 meter-high summit of one of the world's highest mountains on the border of Pakistan and China.

1946 Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned King of Thailand
At the time of his death on October 13, 2016, he was the world's longest reigning head of state, with 70 years on the throne.

1934 Donald Duck makes his film debut in The Wise Little Hen
The short-tempered duck typically wearing a sailor suit is one of Walt Disney's most famous cartoon characters. Donald's first book appearance was in The Adventures of Mickey Mouse, which was published in 1931.

1928 Charles Kingsford Smith completes the world's first trans-Pacific flight
The Australian aviator and his 4-man crew had departed Oakland, California on the morning on May 31. Nine days later, after several stops, they landed safely in Brisbane.
 

Births On This Day, June 9th 🎂

1963 Johnny Depp
American actor, singer, producer, and director

1961 Michael J. Fox
Canadian/American actor, producer, and author

1961 Aaron Sorkin
American screenwriter, producer, and playwright

1915 Les Paul
American guitarist, songwriter who co-designed the Gibson Guitar

1891 Cole Porter
American composer

Deaths On This Day, June 9th 🪦

2013 Iain Banks
Scottish author

2011 M. F. Husain
Indian painter, director

1974 Miguel Ángel Asturias
Guatemalan journalist, author, poet, and Nobel Prize laureate

1870 Charles Dickens
English author

68 Nero
Roman Emperor
 
On This Day In History, June 10th

1999 The Kosovo War ends
Slobodan Milošević, then President of Serbia, agreed to withdraw his troops from the disputed territory following a massive NATO bombing campaign. NATO's involvement has been criticized for its lack of a U.N. mandate.

1967 The Six-Day War ends
Israel and Syria agreed to observe a ceasefire mediated by the United Nations, ending six days of armed conflict. On the previous day, Israel had occupied the Golan Heights.

1936 The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is established
The film studio produced a total of 1530 movies, among them some of the best-known films of the Soviet era, such as Hedgehog in the Fog and The Bremen Town Musicians.

1935 Alcoholics Anonymous is founded
Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith established the mutual aid fellowship to battle alcoholism. Today, the organisation is active in many countries around the world.

1907 Autochrome Lumière color photography is introduced
The process was invented by the legendary Lumière brothers in 1903. It was the first practical and commercially successful technology for the production of color photos.
 


Births On This Day, June 10th 🎂

1953 John Edwards
American politician, lawyer

1922 Judy Garland
American actress, singer

1921 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Greek/English husband of Elizabeth II

1910 Howlin' Wolf
American singer-songwriter, musician

1895 Hattie McDaniel
American actress

Deaths On This Day, June 10 🪦

2004 Ray Charles
American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor

1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
German actor, director, and screenwriter

1967 Spencer Tracy
American actor

1934 Frederick Delius
English composer

1926 Antoni Gaudít
Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell
 
1902
H.F. Callahan patents window envelope
1933
Pres. Franklin Roosevelt issues executive order making Mount Rushmore in Black Hills of South Dakota part of National Park Service
1935
Dr Robert Smith in Akron, Ohio,&Bill Wilson in NYC form ,Alcoholics Anonymous{date of Smith's last drink}
There are 123,000 branches in 180 nations around the world
1947
Saab produces its 1st automobile, URSaab,company ceased production in Dec 2011
1972
Sammy Davis, Jr's version of' The Candy Man' from movie' 'Willy Wonka&The Chocolate Factory' hits #1 on the music charts, stays there for 3 weeks. Its his only #1 hit single
2003
NASA"s 'Spirit Rover' is launched begins Mars Exploration Mission. It ceased communicating in 2010 due to it being trapped in a sand trap
 
On This Day In History, June 11th

2010 Africa hosts the FIFA World Cup for the first time
The 19th Association Football World Cup was opened in Johannesburg, South Africa. The winner of this historic edition was Spain.

1959, Christopher Cockerell first presented the hovercraft
The amphibious air-cushion vehicle first crossed the English Channel just weeks after Cockerell first demonstrated his prototype, the SR.N1. The scheduled “flights” between Dover (U.K.) and Calais (France) were discontinued in 2000.

1955, More than 80 people died in the Le Mans car race disaster
In one of history's worst car racing accidents, Pierre Levegh's Mercedes crashed into a crowd of spectators and burst into flames.

1938, China launches the 1938 Yellow River flood
In what Steven Dutch, a Professor at the University of Wisconsin, called “the world's largest act of environmental warfare in history”, the Chinese government created the flood to halt invading Japanese forces.

1817 The first predecessor of the bicycle is demonstrated
Using his revolutionary Laufmaschine, also known as Draisine, a two-wheeler without pedals, German inventor Karl Drais completed a 14 km test run in less than an hour, presenting a viable alternative to transportation by horse.
 

Births On This Day, June 11th 🎂

1956 Joe Montana
American football player

1933 Gene Wilder
American actor

1910 Jacques Cousteau
French biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung

1864 Richard Strauss
German composer and conductor

1572 Ben Jonson
English writer

Deaths On This Day, June 11th 🪦

1979 John Wayne
American actor, director, and producer

1974 Julius Evola
Italian philosopher

1936 Robert E. Howard
American author

1934 Lev Vygotsky
Russian psychologist

1859 Klemens von Metternich
German/Austrian politician, 1st State Chancellor of the Austrian Empire
 
11th June

1381 Wat Tyler and his rebels arrived at Blackheath, south London, on 11 June 1381. Tyler led the peasants of Southern England in a march to London; the first popular rebellion in English history. His leadership proved one of the chief factors in the success of protest against the harsh taxation of the poorer classes.

1509 Eighteen year old King Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon, the first of his six wives.

1770 Captain James Cook, in his ship Endeavour, ran aground. The Endeavour was sailing through the treacherous Great Barrier Reef. Despite Cook’s precautions, just before midnight on 11 June 1770 the Endeavour hit a reef and stuck fast.

1965 It was announced that all four members of the British group The Beatles, would be awarded MBEs (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in Queen Elizabeth II's birthday honours list. John Lennon returned his MBE to the Queen on 25th November 1969.

1987 Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher celebrated her third general election win after beating Labour by 376 to 229 seats. The victory made her the first prime minister for more than 160 years to win three successive terms of office.

1997 The British House of Commons voted for a total ban on handguns in a free vote.
 
1892
one of the world's 1st film studios,The Limelight Dept officially opens in Melbourne, Austraila
1947
movie' Miracle on 34 Street' directed by George Seaton is released, stars John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Natalie Wood{ age 8},Edmund Gwenn,story of Kris Kringle who meets young girl in Macy's Dept store in NYC who doesn't believe in Santa Claus. He goes on trial to prove he is
The movie won 3 Oscars, best supp actor{ Gwenn},writing, original story
1962
brothers John&Clarence Angun, fellow inmate Frank Morris escape from Alcatraz Island prison in San Francisco,only ones to do so.Their bodies were never found
1982
movie' ET-Extra Terrestrial" directed by Stephen Speilberg is released. The story of a 10yr old boy, Elliott{Henry Thomas} who befriends an alien who is stranded on earth. Others cast members, Dee Wallace, Drew Barrymore,Robert MacNaughton, Peter Coyote opening weekend tally was $12 million
The movie won 4 Oscars: sound effects, editing, visual effects, score by John Williams
1992
retired tennis player, Tracey Austin is inducted to International Tennis Hall of Fame,the youngest ever age 29
She won 2 Grand Slam titles '79,'81 U.S. Open.1980,she &her brother, JOhn won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon. She now is tennis commentator on Tennis Channel
2019
New York Times reports estimated 500,000 song titles including masters of Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong,Ella Fitzgerald were lost in the 2008 warehouse fire at Universal Studios back lot in Los Angeles
 
On This Day In History, June 12th

2016 Mass Shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida Kills 49 People
In what is now thought to be one of the deadliest incidents of violence against LGBTQ people in history, the shooting committed by 29-year old Omar Mateen is also the second deadliest terrorist attack on US soil since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

1994 The world's largest twinjet takes off on its maiden flight
The Boeing 777, or Triple Seven, typically transports up to 451 passengers. It is one of Boeing's commercially most successful planes.

1991 Boris Yeltsin becomes Russia's first President
After the end of the Soviet Union, Yeltsin launched radical economic reforms that aimed at dismantling socialism and restore capitalism.

1987 Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall”
The U.S. President held his famous speech near the Berlin Wall, one of the most important symbols for the division between East and West during the Cold War. The wall was dismantled in 1989, but many observers doubt that Reagan's famous catchphrase had any impact on this decision.

1964 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison
The South African anti-apartheid activist spent 27 years in prison. In 1993, he received the Nobel Peace Prize and one year later he became President of South Africa.
 
Births On This Day, June 12th 🎂

1971 Mark Henry
American weightlifter, wrestler

1941 Roy Harper
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, poet, and actor

1929 Anne Frank
German/Dutch author, Holocaust victim

1924 George H. W. Bush
American politician, 41st President of the United States

1897 Anthony Eden
British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Deaths On This Day, June 12th 🪦

2010 Al Williamson
American illustrator

2006 György Ligeti
Romanian/Austrian composer

1994 Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Russian/French rabbi

1980 Billy Butlin
South African/English businessman, founded Butlins

1963 Medgar Evers
American civil rights activist
 
1902
in Philadelphia,PA Horn&Hardart open the 1st U.S. automat where food& drink are served through vending machines
1939
Baseball Hall of Fame is dedicated in Cooperstown, NY
1964
Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for his involvement of anti-apartheid movement,trying to overthrow the government. He was released 27 yrs later on Feb 11th 1990
1987
President Ronald Reagan gave an address at the Brandenburg Gate in Germany, challenging Russian Pres. Mikhail Gorbachev to 'tear down' Berlin Wall. The wall fell on Nov 9th 1989
2016
29 yr old, Omar Mateen who claimed alliance to Islamatic State opens fire at the Pulse,gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. He killed 49 injuring 53 ,was killed in shootout with Orlando police. An autopsy revealed he was shot 8 times
 
On This Day In History, June 14th

2002 A large asteroid just misses the Earth
2002 MN, a 73-meter lump, was three times closer to Earth than the Moon. It was first discovered three days after its closest approach.

1982 The Falklands War ends
After 74 days of fighting, British troops captured the capital, Stanley, prompting the Argentine forces to surrender and return the islands to British control.

1949 Albert II becomes the first monkey in space
The rhesus monkey was one of several animals used for testing purposes before sending humans into space. Albert II survived his ascent to 134 km (83 mi) altitude but died on his return to Earth due to a parachute failure.

1940 German troops occupy Paris
The fall of Paris marked the end of Germany's attacks on the western front. In the Armistice of Compiègne, three-fifths of France was declared occupied.

1919 Alcock and Brown take off for the first non-stop transatlantic flight
The British aviators began their journey in St. John's, Newfoundland and reached Galway in Ireland less than 16 hours later. One month earlier, Albert Cushing Read flew across the Atlantic, but his flight included a stop in the Azores Islands.
 
Births On This Day, June 14th 🎂

1969 Steffi Graf
German tennis player

1961 Boy George
English singer-songwriter, producer

1950 Rowan Williams
Welsh bishop, poet, theologian, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury

1946 Donald Trump
American businessman, 45th President of the United States

1928 Che Guevara
Argentine/Cuban physician, author, intellectual, diplomat, and theorist


Deaths On This Day, June 14th 🪦

1986 Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine writer

1928 Emmeline Pankhurst
British political activist, suffragette

1920 Max Weber
German economist, sociologist

1886 Alexander Ostrovsky
Russian playwright

1662 Henry Vane the Younger
English/American politician
 
14th June

1381 Richard II met leaders of Wat Tyler's Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The revolt later came to be seen as a mark of the beginning of the end of serfdom in medieval England. Although the revolt itself was a failure it increased awareness in the upper classes of the need for the reform of feudalism in England and the appalling misery felt by the lower classes as a result of their enforced near-slavery.

1645 The Battle of Naseby (Northamptonshire) was fought. It was the key battle of the first English Civil War. 12,000 Royalist forces of King Charles I were beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers commanded by Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell.

1822, Englishman Charles Babbage presented a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society detailing his design for a mechanical calculator called the Difference Engine. This machine was intended to automatically compute polynomial equations, and its design is considered a significant step in the development of the modern computer.

1968 British yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnson set out to sail solo around the world.

1970 Manchester United footballer Bobby Charlton played his 106th and last international match for England against West Germany in the World Cup finals in Mexico.
 
16th June

1890 Stan Laurel, (Arthur Jefferson) English born comedy actor of Laurel and Hardy fame, was born, at Ulverston, Lancashire (now Cumbria).

1930 Mixed bathing was permitted for the first time in Hyde Park, London.

1963 Lieutenant Valentina Tereshkova, a former textile worker from the Soviet Union become the first woman in space.

1989 Former Communist prime minister Imre Nagy, the man who symbolised the 1956 Hungarian uprising, was given a formal public funeral 31 years after he was executed. The capital, Budapest, came to a standstill as thousands came to pay their respects to Nagy who in 1956 formed a government dedicated to freeing itself from Soviet communism.

1992 An explosive new book about the Princess of Wales, including claims that she attempted suicide, was published by author Andrew Morton.

2016 Jo Cox, the Labour MP for Batley and Spen, died after being shot and stabbed multiple times in Birstall, West Yorkshire. On 23rd November 2016 local man Thomas Mair was found guilty of murder and other offences connected to the killing. Mair was sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order.
 
1884
The 1st U.S. roller coaster built roller coaster ride'The Switchback Railway' opened at Coney Island in Brooklyn,NY It was a gravity powered ride top speed reached 6 m.p.h. cost was a nickel. It was the earliest designed coaster for amusement parks
1903
inventor, Caleb Bradham trademarks his invention, Pepsi-Cola
1944
George Stinney, a 14 yrold African American boy was wrongly executed for murders of 2 white girls. He became the youngest person ever executed in 20th century America
1967
3 day Monterey International Pop Festival in Monterey,California was the 1st major rock concert in the U.S. The lineup included Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, Mammas&Papas,Otis Redding, The Byrds, Simon&Garkfunkel,attendance attracted 200,000
2012
Liu Yang became the 1st Chinese female astronaut in space aboard Shenzhou 9,49 yrs to the day when 1st woman Russian cosmonaut, Valentia Tereshva went into space
2022
99yr old cosmetic company, Revon files for bankruptcy due to supply issues and rising costs
 
On This Day In History, June 17th

1972 The arrest of five White House operatives sets off the Watergate scandal
The men were caught attempting to wiretap the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex. The scandal ultimately led to U.S. President Richard Nixon's resignation.

1944 Iceland became a republic
The Nordic island country had previously been included in the Norwegian and Danish monarchies. The Republic's first President was Sveinn Björnsson.

1940, the three Baltic states fell under Soviet occupation
While the world's attention was focused on the recent German invasion of Paris, the Soviet Union annexed Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

1928, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic
Wilmer Stultz piloted the Fokker F.VII aircraft, and Earhart kept the flight log. They arrived at Burry Port in Wales, the United Kingdom, 20 hours and 40 minutes later.

1885 The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York
Hundreds of thousands of spectators welcomed the emblematic statue, which was a gift to the United States from the people of France and has become one of the country's most recognised symbols.
 
Births On This Day, June 17th 🎂

1980 Venus Williams
American tennis player

1945 Ken Livingstone
British politician

1945 Eddy Merckx
Belgian cyclist

1898 M. C. Escher
Dutch illustrator

1882 Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer


Deaths On This Day, June 17th 🪦

2012 Rodney King
American victim of police brutality

1996 Curt Swan
American illustrator

1981 Richard O'Connor
British army general

1898 Edward Burne-Jones
British artist

1025 Bolesław I Chrobry
 
17th June

1239 The birth of King Edward I of England, also known as Edward Longshanks (because of his height) and the Hammer of the Scots.

1940 World War II: The RMS Lancastria was sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. Over 4,000 lives were lost making it the worst ever loss of life in the sinking of a single British ship, and the bloodiest single engagement for UK forces (in terms of lives lost) in the whole of World War II.

1964 The first purpose-built floating trade fair docked at Tilbury in London with 22,000 samples of Japanese goods on board.

1974 An IRA bomb exploded at the Houses of Parliament, causing extensive damage and injuring 11 people.

1980 The locations for the first US nuclear missiles to be stored on British soil (at Greenham Common and Molesworth military bases) were revealed by the government.
 
1837
chemist/inventor, Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber paptent
1901
the college board introduces its 1st standardized test,forerunner to the SAT
1958
a wooden roller coaster opens at Playland in Pacific National Exhibtion in Vancouver, Canada. Its the oldest coaster in Canada, 2,840 ft long, with 75 ft drop reaches speeds of 45 mph
1971
Carole king's album' Tapestry' hits #1 on music charts stays there for 15 weeks. It had 2 hit singles that both hit #1 on the charts, "I Feel The Earth Move, 'Its too Late'
1988
in the 1st product tampering murder case, Stella Nickell kills her husband and a stranger by poisoning them by putting cynanide in Excedrin capsules. She's found guilty on 5 counts of product tapering, sentenced to 90 yrs in prison. She's at a low minimum security facility in Dublin, Calif, now 82 yrs old
2021
Pres Joe Biden signs into law,Juneteenth National Independence Day Act making June 19th a federal holiday,commemorating emancipation
 
On This Day In History, June 18th

1979 Leonid Brezhnev and Jimmy Carter sign SALT II
The second “Strategic Arms Limitation Talks” (SALT) agreement was a ground-breaking arms reduction treaty between the Soviet Union and the United States.

1972 118 die in the Staines Air Disaster
The Hawker Siddeley Trident aircraft entered a deep stall and plummeted to the ground shortly after takeoff from London Heathrow Airport.

1948 The LP record is introduced
The 33⅓ rpm microgroove vinyl Long Playing record developed by Columbia Records soon became the music industry's standard medium. It allowed for a total playing time of 20 minutes per side.

1940 A speech by Charles de Gaulle sparks the French Resistance to German occupation
The Appeal of June 18, transmitted by radio from de Gaulle's exile in the United Kingdom, was pivotal in mobilizing the French after Germany had declared more than half of the country an occupied zone. On August 25, French and Allied troops liberated Paris.

1815 Napoleon suffers a shattering defeat at the Battle of Waterloo
The battle was Napoleon's last. The French Emperor was exiled to Saint Helena where he died six years later. “To meet one's Waterloo” is still a figure of speech today indicating total defeat.
 
Births On This Day, June 18th 🎂

1986 Richard Gasquet
French tennis player

1942 Paul McCartney
English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer

1942 Thabo Mbeki
South African politician, 23rd President of South Africa

1942 Roger Ebert
American journalist, critic, and screenwriter

1929 Jürgen Habermas
German sociologist, philosopher

Deaths On This Day, June 18th 🪦

2010 José Saramago
Portuguese author, Nobel Prize laureate

2003 Larry Doby
American baseball player

1989 I. F. Stone
American journalist, author

1974 Georgy Zhukov
Russian general

1928 Roald Amundsen
Norwegian explorer
 

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