On This Day In History
22 June 1986. Diego Maradona scored one of the greatest World Cup goals during a 2-1 victory by Argentina over England in the Quarter Final in Mexico. This goal came after his infamous “Hand of God” goal in the same game. pic.twitter.com/U3F5sb3Hfa
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 22, 2022
22 June 1987. Hollywood dancing legend, Fred Astaire, died (aged 88). He starred in 31 musical films. As a dancer, his most outstanding trait was his uncanny sense of rhythm. His most memorable dancing partnership was with Ginger Rogers. They made 10 films together. pic.twitter.com/UrqjAtWklL
— Prof Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 22, 2022
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
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
Did You Know?
First editions of "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." by Washington Irving released, featuring story "Rip Van Winkle"
Today in History in 1819
Would You Believe?
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
This day 35 years ago – 23 June 1985 – a bomb exploded on Air India Flight 182, killing all 329 people on board.
The flight disappeared from Shannon Airport radar 90 miles from the coast of Ireland.
20 years later, families came to Ahakista, Co Cork, to mark the anniversary. pic.twitter.com/cVlS3iGEMv
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) June 23, 2020
It's the feast day of Marie d'Oignies, a leading member of the Beguines. These medieval women lived a semi-monastic life in shared communities of lay women, devoting themselves to a chaste and religious life without surrendering their property or freedom. https://t.co/1gTIfHoWc9 pic.twitter.com/QLQ8Wnmgmz
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) June 23, 2022
On this day in 1903, a mob of more than 4,000 people in Delaware burned a Black man named George White alive before he could stand trial. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/j4gNCMRmAV
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) June 23, 2022
23 June 2011. Peter Falk died (aged 83). Best known for playing the rumpled TV homicide detective Columbo in 69 episodes. Each begins with a culprit carrying out a murder thereby inverting the traditional “whodunnit” format. Columbo then enters the story and solves each case. pic.twitter.com/rDcbxTU3x5
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 23, 2022
23 June 1995. American medical researcher Dr Jonas Salk died (aged 80). He created the first approved polio vaccine in 1955. Polio cases fell from 58,000 per year in 1952 to 6,000 by 1958. Salk’s vaccine was replaced by a new one developed by Albert Sabin in 1962. pic.twitter.com/TMkdYop9n9
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 23, 2022
Biography: Discovered and developed the first successful inactivated polio vaccine.
When the Salk vaccine was introduced, polio was considered the most frightening public health problem of the post-war United States.
He was uninterested in personal profit and when asked in a televised interview who owned the patent to the vaccine, Salk replied: “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”
Biography from https://www.onthisday.com/people/jonas-salk
23 June 1973. A fire at a house in Kingston upon Hull killed a 6 year old boy. It was initially deemed an accident, but it later emerged that it was the first of 26 deaths by fire deliberately caused over the next 7 years by the serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale (pictured). pic.twitter.com/k64v07oTDq
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 23, 2022
23 June 1944. The Red Army launched the devastating “Operation Bagration” against German forces on Eastern Front. The Red Army completely destroyed German Army Group Centre thereby paving the way to the comprehensive defeat of Germany on the Eastern Front in WW2. pic.twitter.com/ADFdbD4dJX
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 23, 2022
23 June 1894. The International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of French Baron Pierre de Coubertin. It led to the modern revival of the Olympic Games beginning in 1896. pic.twitter.com/TGeA30r4AL
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 23, 2022
1997 Betty Shabazz died #Bronx #OnThisDay civil rights advocate & the wife of Malcolm X @CI @nytimes @IDCrimeFeed pic.twitter.com/my40eAB9op
— #OnThisDay (@Iain_McDougall) June 23, 2016
23 June 1683. William Penn, the English Quaker, signed a peace treaty with the Leni Lenape an indigenous people in order to consolidate his American colony: Pennsylvania. pic.twitter.com/L7FS5jRJkV
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 23, 2022
23 June 2013. Nik Wallenda (aged 34) became the first person to walk a high wire across the Little Colorado River Gorge near the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, USA. He wasn’t wearing a safety harness as he crossed on a 2-inch-thick steel cable, 1,500 feet above the gorge. pic.twitter.com/qBq6scjAlT
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 23, 2022
23 June 1868. Christopher Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the “Type-Writer”. His QWERTY keyboard is still in use today. pic.twitter.com/Y9TRmqbAV1
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 23, 2022
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Annie Edison Taylor, the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel (1901). pic.twitter.com/jQUXYMLl7j
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) June 23, 2022
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.
Did You Know?
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
Would You Believe?
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