On This Day In History
#OTD in 2019, Thelma Cabrera—a campaigner for indigenous rights—finished 4/19 in the Guatemalan presidential election. “I didn’t ask for this role or buy it—I was elected for this mission by the people, and I’m daring to break the silence as a Mam woman." https://t.co/olO9lQSVHF
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) June 16, 2022
On this day in 1944, George Stinney Jr., a 90-pound, 14-year-old boy, was executed in the electric chair in Columbia, SC. He remains the youngest person executed in the U.S. in the 20th century. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/HmGMqKVzHI
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) June 16, 2022
Remembering legendary George Reeves who died 58 years ago, today.
🌹#FlashbackFriday pic.twitter.com/2Atum6GWRj
— Superman (@SupermanTweets) June 16, 2017
16 June 1722. John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, died (aged 72). After the victory of his armies at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704, he was rewarded by Queen Anne with a palace near Oxford. He was an ancestor of Winston Churchill who was brought up in Blenheim Palace. pic.twitter.com/frECQRjChT
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 16, 2022
16 June 2016. Labour MP, Helen Joanne (“Jo”) Cox (aged 41), was killed by a far right extremist in Birstall, West Yorkshire. She was the first sitting UK MP to be assassinated since the Conservative Party’s Ian Gow, who was killed by an IRA car bomb on 30 July 1990. pic.twitter.com/QB3TRNQzmZ
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 16, 2022
16 June 1982. England midfielder, Bryan Robson, scored against France after just 27 seconds in their opening Group B World Cup game in Bilbao, Spain which resulted in a 3-1 England win. It’s the fastest England World Cup tournament goal ever. pic.twitter.com/F8v8AG4ZUp
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 16, 2022
Quote from Forrest on June 15, 2022, 11:05 pm15th June 2022 – Forrest returned for a fleeting visit to see what’s happening in the wonderful world of the Privates Benjamin
Fleeting or not Forrest it's always good to see you posting here !😉
16 June 1903. Henry Ford and other leading stockholders in the Ford Motor Company signed the official paperwork required to create a new corporation, The Ford Motor Company, commonly known as Ford. Its headquarters was in Detroit, Michigan, USA. pic.twitter.com/lyY8MoW68j
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 16, 2022
16 June 1824. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), was founded, on St. Martin’s Lane at the Old Slaughter’s Coffee House during a meeting. The term “Royal” was later added to the society’s title to form the well known acronym RSPCA. pic.twitter.com/FspHgjG4pL
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 16, 2022
16 June 1883. 183 children were killed at the Victoria Hall theatre, Sunderland. It happened after an announcement was made that children with numbered tickets would be presented with a prize. Many of the 1,100 children in the gallery surged down a staircase and were crushed. pic.twitter.com/tW81p8StSw
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 16, 2022
PHOTO OF THE DAY. The Rolling Stones (1969). Left to right: Charlie Watts, Mick Taylor, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Bill Wyman. pic.twitter.com/6FZbIFtZND
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 16, 2022
June 17th
656 Ali ibn Abu Talib elected the 4th Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate
1579 English navigator Francis Drake lands on the coast of California at Drakes Bay, names it "New Albion"
1631 Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal
1789 French Revolution: During the meeting of the Estates-General, the Third Estate proclaims itself the 'National Assembly'
1837 Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent
1856 Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia
Did You Know?
"Things Fall Apart" by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe published by Heinemann - considered most widely read book in African literature
Today in History in 1958
Would You Believe?
Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre
Today in History in 1939
This day 98 years ago – 17 June 1920 – the 'Listowel Mutiny' began.
Officers in the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) barracks in Listowel were reassigned to rural stations to assist the army in combating the IRA, but 14 of them refused to obey the order, or to shoot IRA suspects. pic.twitter.com/jAm6EOvzgT
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) June 17, 2018
#OTD in 1974, Mary Wallace became Chicago Transit Authority's (CTA) first female bus driver. It had taken her 3 years to persuade the CTA to hire her. She drove for 33 years. “I would get cheers from the ladies and stares from the guys,” she said in 2007. https://t.co/ByOD5JdUg2 pic.twitter.com/Iq8Ln98Nve
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) June 17, 2022
On this day in 2015, a 21-year-old opened fire on a group of Black worshippers at A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/bBpYikRlIB
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) June 17, 2022
17 June 1885. The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbour from Paris, France. It was a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, designed by French sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel. pic.twitter.com/pWAnScMPRm
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 17, 2022
17 June 1940. RMS Lancastria was sunk by the Luftwaffe near, Saint-Nazaire, France. Modern estimates of the death toll range between 3,000 and 5,800, making it the largest single-ship loss of life in British maritime history. pic.twitter.com/Enqv5tXMnx
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 17, 2022
17 June 1950. Dr. Richard Lawler performed the first kidney transplant in a 45-minute operation in the Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The patient was 44 year old Ruth Tucker. pic.twitter.com/dmhrM6DvPk
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 17, 2022
17 June 1972. Five White House employees were arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee (in the Watergate Building, Washington, DC), in an attempt to illegally wiretap the Democratic opposition. It was the start of the Watergate Scandal. pic.twitter.com/aO5hDTvA8V
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 17, 2022