Today in History

18th June

1429 French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeated the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay (slightly north of Orléans, France).

1633 Charles I was crowned King of Scotland, at Holyrood, Edinburgh.

1815 The Battle of Waterloo:- Napoleon Bonaparte suffered defeat at the hands of the Duke of Wellington, bringing an end to the Napoleonic era of European history.

1817 Waterloo Bridge across the River Thames was opened. Originally it was called Strand Bridge but was re-named in honour of the British victory at Waterloo in 1815.

1928 Amelia Earhart, along with pilot Wilmer Stultz and copilot/mechanic Louis Gordon flew from Newfoundland (17th June) landing at Pwll near Burry Port, South Wales on 18th June, thus becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

1963 Henry Cooper knocked Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) to the floor in round four at Wembley Stadium, London, but by the sixth, with Cooper badly cut, the fight was stopped and Clay remained world heavyweight boxing champion.

2016 Tim Peake, the first British ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and the seventh UK-born person in space, returned to earth after his 186 day Principia mission working on the International Space Station.

2020 The death, aged 103, of Dame Vera Lynn. She was known as "The Forces' Sweetheart" and her songs helped raise morale in World War Two.
 

On This Day In History, June 19th

2002 Steve Fossett takes off on his record-breaking balloon flight
The American adventurer lifted off from Northam in Western Australia to commence history's first solo flight around the world in any aircraft. On July 3, after having traveled 33,195 km (20,626 mi), he touched down again in Queensland, Australia.

1987 An ETA car bomb kills 21 in Barcelona
The 1987 Hipercor bombing was one of the bloodiest attacks by Basque separatist organization, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna or ETA.

1978 Garfield, the lazy cat makes his debut
The first Garfield comic strip by Jim Davis appeared in 41 newspapers on that day. It currently holds the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip.

1964 The U.S. Senate passes the Civil Rights Act of 1964
18 Senators unsuccessfully launched a filibuster to prevent passage of the law against discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex, or national origin. Richard Russel stated, “We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states.” The bill was signed into law on July 2, 1964.

1913 South Africa implements the Natives Land Act
The law limited the areas of land that could be owned by black people to “native reserve” areas, which comprised less than 10 percent of the country's total area. It was in force until Apartheid was dismantled in the 1990s.
 

Births On This Day, June 19 🎂

1978 Dirk Nowitzki
German basketball player

1964 Boris Johnson
British politician

1947 Salman Rushdie
Indian author

1945 Aung San Suu Kyi
Burmese politician, Nobel Prize laureate

1861 José Rizal
Filipino polymath

Deaths On This Day, June 19 🪦

2013 James Gandolfini
American actor

1993 William Golding
English author, poet, playwright, and Nobel Prize laureate

1991 Jean Arthur
American actress

1937 J. M. Barrie
Scottish author, playwright

1312 Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall
English nobleman
 
19th June

1975 An inquest jury decided that the missing Lord Lucan murdered the 29-year-old nanny of his three young children.

1980 Iraqi security forces shot dead three gunmen who attacked the British embassy in Baghdad.

1982 The body of a top Italian banker was found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge in London. Known as God's banker for his links with the Vatican, 62-year-old Roberto Calvi was the chairman of Banco Ambrosiano in Milan and a central figure in a complex web of international fraud and intrigue.

1961 Kuwait officially gained its independence after an exchange of notes with the United Kingdom that ended the Anglo-Kuwaiti Treaty of 1899. This day marked the end of the British protectorate and the emergence of Kuwait as a fully sovereign state.

2012 Isle of Man based Excalibur Almaz announced details of a plan to take people to orbit the moon. Budding space-travellers would have to find around £100m first. 🌕
 
1875
formal opening of U.S. Marine Hosptial at Presidio in San Francisco,Calif. It was replaced in 1934 with the Public Health Service Hosptial
1914
Hillcrest Mine Disaster in Alberta, Canada killed 189/237 coal miners. The cause a pocket of methane gas igniting and set off a coal dust explosion. Its worst coal mining disaster in Canadian history
1934
Federal Communications Commission{FCC} is created which provides regulation of interstate& foreign communications by wire, radio ,satellite& cable
1956
Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin end their partnership after 10 yrs & 16 films
2017
Bexit negotations begin between U.K.& European Union
2018
General Electric is dropped from Dow Jones Industrial Average,one of the last original member from 1907
2024
the world's oldest wine, a white is found inside a 1st century CE Roman funeral urn with a man's ashes in a mausoleum in Carmona,Spain
 
On This Day In History, June 20th

1991 The German parliament moves to Berlin
Bonn had been the capital of West Germany until the country's reunification in 1990. The “Hauptstadtbeschluss” (capital decision) stipulated that the seat of government and the parliament also be moved to the “new” capital Berlin.

1975 The film Jaws is premiered
Steven Spielberg's thriller about a rogue great white shark terrorizing a summer resort town is often regarded as one of the greatest films of all time.

1963 The “Red Telephone” is instituted
The hotline between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was established following Cuban Missile Crisis. Contrary to popular belief, communications between the two superpowers occurred via teletype or fax, and today, via email.

1942 Kazimierz Piechowski and three others escaped from Auschwitz concentration camp
In a feat of “exceptional courage and gallantry”, as stated by the Polish author Kazimierz Smoleń, the four prisoners left via the front gate in a stolen SS staff car, dressed as SS officers. During World War II, the Nazi regime murdered 1.1 million people in Auschwitz. Only 144 are known to have escaped.

1837 Victoria becomes Queen of the United Kingdom
During the 64 years of her regency, the United Kingdom became one of the world's most potent powers. The British Empire soon encompassed large parts of the planet. Queen Victoria died in 1901.
 
Births On This Day, June 20th 🎂

1978 Frank Lampard
English footballer

1942 Brian Wilson
American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer

1905 Lillian Hellman
American playwright

1887 Kurt Schwitters
German painter, writer

1819 Jacques Offenbach
German/French composer

Deaths On This Day, June 20th 🪦

1999 Clifton Fadiman
American game show host, author

1966 Georges Lemaître
Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist

1947 Bugsy Siegel
American gangster

1837 William IV of the United Kingdom

1820 Manuel Belgrano
Argentinian economist, lawyer, and politician
 
20th June

1756 In India, the night of the infamous 'Black Hole of Calcutta, where more than 140 British soldiers and civilians were placed in a small prison cell - 18 feet by 14 feet - by the Nawab of Bengal. The following morning only 23 emerged alive.

1887 On Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, Buffalo Bill Cody staged a Royal Command performance of his famous Wild West Show, and four European kings boarded the original Deadwood coach driven by Cody.

1949 American tennis player 'Gorgeous' Gussie Moran caused a sensation at the Wimbledon Championships by wearing lace-trimmed pants under a short skirt.

1976 Nearly 300 Westerners, mostly Americans and Britons, were moved from Beirut and taken to safety in Syria by the US military. Most of the refugees on the beach were Americans responding to their government's call to leave Beirut following the murder of the American ambassador Francis Meloy.
 
On This Day In History, June 21st

2009, Greenland assumed self-rule
The island had been administered by Denmark (earlier Denmark-Norway) for centuries. The Self-Government Act grants Greenland full responsibility for its inner affairs, while Denmark retains control of foreign policy.

2004 SpaceShipOne completes the world's first manned private spaceflight
The privately funded spaceplane reached an altitude of just over 100 kilometers (62 miles). Mike Melvill was the pilot and only occupant.

1985 The body of Josef Mengele is identified
An international team of scientists confirmed that the skeletal remains found in a cemetery in Embu, Brazil are those of the Nazi war criminal. Mengele was a physician in the Auschwitz concentration camp and conducted horrific experiments on some of the inmates.

1963 Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini becomes Pope Paul VI
The Italian pontiff is known for completing the Second Vatican Council, addressing the Roman Catholic Church's relationship with the modern world.

1895 The Kiel Canal is opened by German Emperor Wilhelm II
The 98 km (61 mi) long canal in Northern Germany is one of the world's busiest artificial waterways. It connects the North Sea with the Baltic Sea.
 
Births On This Day, June 21t 🎂

1986 Lana Del Rey
American singer-songwriter, model

1982 Prince William, Duke of Cambridge

1964 David Morrissey
English actor

1953 Benazir Bhutto
Pakistani politician, first female Prime Minister of Pakistan

1905 Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher, writer

Deaths On This Day, June 21st 🪦

1970 Sukarno
Indonesian politician, 1st President of Indonesia

1940 Smedley Butler
American marine general

1908 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian composer

1527 Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian historian, philosopher

1377 Edward III of England
 
21st June

1675 The laying of the foundation stone of the new St Paul's Cathedral in London. The cathedral was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and the site faced that of the church destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666.

1798 The British Army decisively defeated Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill, a major engagement during the Irish Rebellion of that year.

1898 A reporter covering the launch of HMS Albion on the Thames was in such a hurry to file his story that he missed the fact that 38 people drowned when a temporary jetty collapsed.

1919 German sailors scuttled 72 warships at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys even though Germany had surrendered. It was the greatest act of self-destruction in modern military history.

1937 First televising of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships.

1982 Diana, Princess of Wales, gave birth to a boy, (Prince William) sixteen hours after checking in to St Mary's Hospital, in London.
 
1805
Great Stone Face ,later known as 'Old Man In The Mountain' is discovered by Frances Whitcomb& Luke Brooks,sadly it fell off on May 3, 2003. Some experts said it was due to centuries of freezing& thawing
1921
U.K, the Dominions,&India become the British Commonwealth of Nations
1948
Columbia Records unveils the 33 1/2 rpm LP phonograph record, invented by Peter Carl Goldmark. It allowed 20 min per side available in 10 &12 inch over next decade its popularity pushed 75rpm record to cease production
1966
movie' Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" directed by Mike Nichols is released. The story of 2 couples, Eliz Taylor&Richard Burton, Sandy Dennis &George Segal who get together for an all night bitter conversation. The movie won 5 Oscars Best Actress{Taylor} supp actress{Dennis},cinematography, art direction, costume design
1989
U, S Supreme Court ruled 5-4 burning the U.S. flag is legal as a political expression, is protected under the 1st Amendment
2020
a new archaeology discovery was announced near Stonehedge of a large circle of shafts surrounding a village 2500 B.C.,the largest pre historic structure in Britian
 
On This Day In History, June 22nd

1990 Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled
The crossing point on the sector border between East Berlin and West Berlin had become obsolete with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Today, the former checkpoint, including the famous sign stating “You are leaving the American sector”, is a tourist attraction.

1986, Diego Maradona coined the phrase “Hand of God”
The Argentinian football star had scored a goal with his hand during the FIFA World Cup quarter-final against England. The referee allowed the goal, and the Argentinian team were later crowned world champions. After the game, Maradona said that the goal was scored “a little with the head of Maradona and a little with the hand of God”.

1945 Okinawa falls to U.S. troops
The Battle of Okinawa marked a decisive defeat for Japan during World War II as the archipelago represented the last line of defence for mainland Japan. The country surrendered two months after the end of the battle when two atomic bombs were dropped on the mainland.

1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union
The initially successful attack soon proved a disaster for the Germans as wintry conditions and fierce Soviet resistance caused massive losses and ultimately forced them to retreat.

1633 The Catholic Church forces Galileo Galilei to renounce his heliocentric world view
The Holy Office concluded that the Italian scientist, by stating that the Sun, not the Earth, is the centre of the Universe, was “vehemently suspect of heresy”. Galileo spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
 
Births On This Day, June 22nd 🎂

1953 Cyndi Lauper
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

1949 Meryl Streep
American actress

1940 Abbas Kiarostami
Iranian filmmaker, poet

1909 Katherine Dunham
American dancer

1887 Julian Huxley
English biologist

Deaths On This Day, June 22nd 🪦

2008 George Carlin
American comedian, actor, and author

1993 Pat Nixon
American educator, 39th First Lady of the United States

1987 Fred Astaire
American actor, singer, and dancer

1969 Judy Garland
American actress, singer

1874 Howard Staunton
English chess player
 
22nd June

1377 At the age of 10, Richard II became King of England.

1535 Cardinal John Fisher was beheaded on Tower Hill, London, for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the Church of England.

1802 Britain's Health and Morals of Apprentices Act limited children to a maximum twelve hour working day; whilst under nines were banned from the mills.

1981 Chapman plead guilty to murdering John Lennon.

1911 The Coronation of George V and Mary of Teck, the queen consort.

1948 The Empire Windrush ship arrived at Tilbury Docks in Essex. The ship's arrival is often seen as the symbolic start of the Windrush generation, referring to those who emigrated from the Caribbean to Britain between 1948 and 1971
 
June 23rd:
1775
The 1st rowing regettta is held in London on the River Thames
1894
The International Olympic Committee{IOC} is founded at Sorbonne, Paris
1938
Marineland in Florida opens as the 1st marine mammal park
1961
The Antarctic Treaty goes into effect ensuring Antarctica is used for peaceful purposes e.g international cooperation in scientific research not subject to international discord
1976
CN Tower opens in Toronto, at the time it was the world's tallest free standing structure 815.3 ft/ 555m
2005
Reddit is founded by 2 Univ of Virginia students, Steve Huffman& Alexis Ohanean
2016
A Los Angeles court copyright lawsuit decison clears the band "Led Zepplelin" from stealing the riff from 'Stairway to Heaven' from band Spirit with their song' Taurus'
 
On This Day In History, June 24th

2002 Africa's worst ever train disaster kills 281
The crash occurred near Msagali, Tanzania, when a passenger train with some 1200 passengers rolled back down Igandu hill after its brakes had failed.

1982 A British Airways jumbo jet experiences a sudden total engine failure
At the same time, the crew observed a mysterious glow in the darkness. The Boeing 747's pilots had unwittingly flown into a cloud of volcanic ash caused by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, causing all four engines to flame out. The crew eventually succeeded in restarting the engines and landing safely in Jakarta.

1948 The Berlin Blockade begins
In reaction to the currency reform in West Germany, the Soviet Union blocked all access to West Berlin. It was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. Western Allies launched the Berlin airlift to transport supplies to the blocked area. In Germany, the planes became known as “raisin bombers” or “candy bombers”.

1901 Pablo Picasso opens his first exhibition
The 18-year-old Spanish artist was featured for the first time in Ambroise Vollard's gallery in 6 Rue Laffite in Paris. Neither of the two art critics that visited the show thought much about the works. Picasso went on to become one of the most influential artists of all time.

1717 The world's first Masonic Grand Lodge is established
Freemasonry is a fraternal organization that has counted among its members a large number of known intellectuals. Due to its secretive nature, many myths about their underground activities have emerged through the ages. A Grand Lodge is the governing body for a certain geographic area.
 
Births On This Day, June 24th 🎂

1987 Lionel Messi
Argentine footballer

1978 Juan Román Riquelme
Argentine footballer

1895 Jack Dempsey
American boxer

1850 Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
English field marshal

1533 Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester

Deaths On This Day, June 24th 🪦

2000 Rodrigo
Argentinian singer-songwriter

1987 Jackie Gleason
American actor, singer

1908 Grover Cleveland
American lawyer, politician, 22nd President of the United States

1604 Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
English courtier

1398 Hongwu Emperor of China
Founder of the Ming Dynasty
 
June 24th

The Fatal Dance Manias of Medieval Europe
1374 Sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion
 
1441
Eaton College is founded in England by King Henry VI
1902
businessman, George Dayton founds the Goodfellow Dry Goods Store in Minneapolis, name later changed to Target
1938
a 500 ton meteorite lands in Chicora, PA,near Pittsburgh,caused when it entered Earth's atmosphere, caused it to explode& break apart
1964
FTC{ Federal Trade Commission} rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages
1992
singer/ songwriter, Billy Joel{ age 43} gets his diploma from Hicksville ,NY high school 25 yrs after he left missing an English credit. He submitted samples of his writing to earn his degree
2010
At Wimbeldon during the 1st round, U.S. tennis player ,JOhn Isner defeated France's ,Nicolas Mahut in the longest match in tennis history. It took 11hrs, 5 min over 3 days to finish, final score 6-4,3-6,6-7,6-3,70-68
2016
British Prime Minister,David Cameron resigns after U.K. votes to leave European Union
 
On This Day In History, June 25th

1993, both Canada and Turkey elected female heads of government for the first time
Kim Campbell became Canada's and Tansu Çiller Turkey's Prime Minister on this day. Worldwide, women in top political positions are still the exception.

1967 The world's first live global satellite TV program is aired
The BBC program “Our World” featured artists from 19 countries. The Beatles premiered their song “All You Need Is Love” on the show. Some 400 million viewers tuned in.

1950 The Korean War begins as North Korea invades South Korea
The war soon evolved into an international conflict and a proxy war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, leading to fears of a new World War. It was ended by an armistice in 1953.

1947 The Diary of Anne Frank is published
The Jewish girl's account of her life in hiding from the Nazis has become a well-known work of world literature and made Anne one of the most prominent victims of the Nazi regime. She died at age 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

1910, Igor Stravinsky's ballet “The Firebird” premiered
The work was performed by Sergei Diaghilev's legendary ballet company, “Ballets Russes”. It was a huge success, catapulting Stravinsky to stardom.
 
Births On This Day, June 25th 🎂

1963 George Michael
English singer-songwriter, musician, producer, actor

1961 Ricky Gervais
English comedian, actor, writer

1924 Sidney Lumet
American director

1903 George Orwell
English author

1852 Antoni Gaudí
Spanish architect, who designed the Park Güell

Deaths On This Day, June 25th 🪦

2009 Michael Jackson
American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor

1997 Jacques Cousteau
French biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung

1984 Michel Foucault
French philosopher

1822 E. T. A. Hoffmann
German jurist, author
 
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