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American inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick patents the reaping machine

Today in History in 1834

 

Would You Believe?

Frank W. Woolworth opens his 1st successful “F. W. Woolworth Great Five Cent Store” on North Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Today in History in 1879

 

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June 22nd

1633 Galileo Galilei forced to recant his Copernican views that the Earth orbits the Sun by the Pope (Vatican only admits it was wrong on Oct 31, 1992!)

1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II

1772 Somerset v Stewart court case finds slavery unsupported by English common law, encouraging the abolitionist movement

1848 Beginning of the June Days uprising in Paris by French workers

1865 The CSS Shenandoah fires the last shot of the American Civil War in the Bering Strait to indicate surrender

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John Dillinger is informally named America’s first Public Enemy Number One

Today in History in 1934

 

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First ring doughnut supposedly created by Hanson Gregory

Today in History in 1847

 

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June 23rd

930 World’s oldest parliament, the Icelandic Parliament, the Alþingi (anglicised as Althing or Althingi), established

1868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents the Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful of its kind

1960 1st contraceptive pill is made available for purchase in the U.S.
 

1972 Hurricane Agnes becomes America’s costliest natural disaster, affecting 15 states, with 119 deaths and $3 billion in damage

1974 1st extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space

1979 Supertramp’s “Breakfast in America” becomes No. 1 album in the US featuring “Take the Long Way Home”

2016 Brexit referendum: United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union

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First editions of “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.” by Washington Irving released, featuring story “Rip Van Winkle”

Today in History in 1819

 

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Longest game in Professional Baseball: Pawtucket Red Sox finally beat Rochester Red Wings 3-2 in 33 innings (game began 18th April)

Today in History in 1981

 

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June 24th

1497 John Cabot claims Eastern Canada for England (believes he has found Asia in Nova Scotia)

1509 Henry VIII is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey, London

1793 1st republican constitution in France adopted

1812 Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grand Armée numbering half a million begin their invasion of Russia by crossing the Nieman River

1853 US President Franklin Pierce signs the Gadsden Purchase, buying 29,670 square-miles (76,800 square km) from Mexico for $10 million (now southern Arizona and New Mexico)

1901 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso aged 19, opens in Paris

1930 1st detection of an airplane using reflected radio waves, a precursor to radar, by US Naval Research Laboratory engineers in Anacostia, Washington, D.C.

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In the longest match in tennis history, American John Isner defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon after 11 hours, 5 minutes of play over 3 days

Today in History in 2010

 

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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

Today in History in 1374

 

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June 25th

1678 Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is awarded a doctorate of philosophy from the University of Padua, 1st woman to receive a university doctoral degree or PhD

1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as “Custer’s Last Stand

1929 US President Herbert Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)

1950 north korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War

2021 WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus confirms the COVID-19 Delta variant is the most transmissible to date, now present in 85 countries and spreading rapidly

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First use of the rainbow flag, symbol of gay pride, made by Gilbert Baker at a march in San Francisco

Today in History in 1978

 

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Fork introduced to American dining by Governor Winthrop

Today in History in 1630

 

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June 26th

363 Roman Emperor Julian is killed during retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by troops on the battlefield.

1794 Battle of Fleurus: major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs) first use of reconnaissance balloon

1857 The first 62 recipients are awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean war by Queen Victoria
 

1917 1st US troops arrive in France during World War I

1945 United Nations Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco

2016 Panama Canal’s third set of locks opens for commercial traffic, doubling the Canal’s capacity at an estimated cost of $5.25 billion

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According to the Lüneburg manuscript, a piper leads 130 children of Hamelin away

Today in History in 1284

 

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The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley’s chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio

Today in History in 1974

 

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June 27th

1542 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sets sail from the Mexican port of Navidad to explore the west coast of North America on behalf of the Spanish Empire

1743 War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: in Bavaria, King George II of Britain personally leads troops into battle. The last time a British monarch commanded troops in the field.

1929 1st color TV demo, performed by Bell Laboratories in NYC
 

1950 North Korean troops reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders US Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict

1954 1st atomic power station opens – Obninsk, near Moscow in Russia

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The world’s first ATM is installed in Enfield, London

Today in History in 1967

 

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New Amsterdam (now New York City) enacts first speed limit law in North America

Today in History in 1652

 

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