the day in the history

26 June

1975 India declares state of emergency
A state of emergency was declared in India on this day, following the conviction of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on charges of electoral fraud. Political leaders who opposed Gandhi were rounded up and press censorship was imposed.

26 June

1797 Charles Newbold patents an iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, because they fear the effects of iron on the soil!
1896 The first movie theatre is opened in the U.S. with 10 cent movies.
1934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act,establishing Credit Unions.
1945 UN Charter written in San Francisco.

June 26

1284 - The Pied Piper exacted his revenge upon the German town of Hamelin this day. The townspeople had promised to pay the piper a large fee if he could rid their town the nasty rats running all over the place. He had played his trusty pipe and the rats had followed him out of town and into the River Weser. But once the rodents were eliminated, the local folks decided not to pay after all. The piper was not pleased and repaid the townspeople by playing his pipe for the children of Hamelin, just like he had done for the rats. And just like the rats, the children followed him out of town. The Pied Piper of Hamelin led the kiddies into a hole in a hillside. They were never seen again.

:wink:

1897 - Thomas Lynch and John Heydler were umpires in a baseball doubleheader in Washington, D.C. "Yeah, so?" you ask. Well, smarties, each of these umpires went on to become a president of the National League. So there.

1933 - The Kraft Music Hall debuted. It turned out to be one of radio's longest-running hits. The first program presented Paul Whiteman and his orchestra. Singer Al Jolson became the host of the show shortly thereafter. Several years later, crooner Bing Crosby was named the host. The Kraft Music Hall continued on NBC radio until 1949 and then on TV for many more years; the first year as Milton Berle Starring in the Kraft Music Hall, then Kraft Music Hall Presents: The Dave King Show followed by Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall for four seasons. From 1967 on, The Kraft Music Hall featured a different host. Bring on the Velveeta and the Philadelphia brand cream cheese!

1949 - Entertainer Fred Allen closed out his amazing radio career. Allen was making the transition to TV. His final radio guest was his old pal, Jack Benny. Allen's caustic wit didn't play well on TV and he found himself out of the medium in short order. Benny went on to become a television legend.

1959 - CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow interviewed his 500th -- and final -- guest on Person to Person: actress Lee Remick. Just hours before this final broadcast, Murrow had presented his last news broadcast on the CBS radio network. CBS-TV had reportedly made $20 million from Murrow's Person to Person series.

1964 - A Hard Day's Night was released by United Artists Records. The album featured all original material by The Beatles and became the top album in the country by July 25, 1964.

1965 - Mr. Tambourine Man, by The Byrds, reached the number one spot on the pop music charts. The song was considered by many to be the first folk-rock hit. The tune was written by Bob Dylan, as were two other hits for the group: All I Really Want to Do and My Back Pages. The group of James Roger McGinn, David Crosby, Gene Clark, Chris Hillman and Mike Clarke charted seven hits. The Byrds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.

1979 - Muhammad Ali announced that he was retiring as world heavyweight boxing champion. The 37-year-old fighter said, "Everything gets old, and you can't go on like years ago." The "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" act was no more.

1981 - We take you now to Mountain Home, Idaho and a supermarket frequented by Virginia Campbell. Mrs. Campbell took her clipped coupons and rebates and bought some groceries. A lot of them. Checkers totaled some $24,460 worth, in fact! How much did Campbell end up paying with all of those coupons and rebates? Only 67 cents! Reports indicated that she would have received a refund of $12.97, but she decided to get film and flashbulbs after the bill was totaled.

1985 - You've heard of players, managers and owners being ejected from baseball games, right? But have you ever heard of an organist being given the heave-ho? It happened at Jack Russell Stadium in Clearwater, Florida (the home of the Philadelphia Phillies during spring training; a Class A League team uses the stadium the rest of the season). Wilbur Snapp played Three Blind Mice following a call by umpire Keith O'Connor. The umpire was not amused and saw to it that Mr. Snapp was sent to the showers.

1985 - Big River, later to be a Tony Award-winning cast album, became the first cast soundtrack LP to be recorded in Nashville, TN. The celebrated album was released on MCA Records and tapes.

1987 - "Just the facts, ma'am. Thank you." Dragnet, starring Dan Aykroyd in the Jack Webb role of Sgt. Joe Friday; and Tom Hanks in the Harry Morgan role of detective Stribeck, opened around the U.S. The movie became the first Hollywood film to feature a "condom-conscious" bedroom scene ... just right for the social mores of the 1980s. Dragnet was a smash theatrical hit, as it had been on radio and TV in the 1940s and 1950s. "This is the city..."

1990 - The Arizona Republic reported it was 122 degrees in Phoenix, hot enough to cancel some flights at the airport.

1996 - The North Manchester, Indiana News Journal ran a commentary by Worth Weller on this day, called Publisher Discovers Meaning of Life Driving Across Kansas. His observations: 1) Kansas is quite pretty -- like the ocean. 2) The pioneers must have been driven insane by the boredom while travelling across Kansas. 3) A billboard just outside of Russell KS proudly proclaims this little smudge in the prairie is the home of Bob Dole. And, as the heat and grain elevators began to get to him: 4) Politics is no longer about leadership, just as the press is no longer about information. Both are now about entertainment. 5) It's amusing how we either ignore history or rewrite it to suit our own view of the world.

1998 - Doctor Dolittle opened in the U.S. Eddie Murphy stars as Dr. John Dolittle, who can converse with, and heal, animals. Audiences loved it: $29.01 million the opening weekend.

1998 - found this Viagra report at the Poison News Headlines Web site, which said it had grabbed it from The New Straits Times: A 50-year-old Dutch tourist in the Spanish resort of Benidorm was admitted to the hospital when the Viagra he took left him with a 36-hour erection. The man, who had no history of impotency, told doctors he had taken the drug merely to enhance his sexual performance. In Beirut, a Lebanese woman filed assault charges against her husband who took three Viagra pills at once, lost control over himself and savagely attacked her in a state of excitement she said she had never seen in him before. And in Taipeh, a prostitute confessed to killing a 70-year-old client, saying she could not bear his excessive sexual demands after he took two Viagra tablets.

2000 - Principal photography for Star Wars: Episode II started in Australia, where shooting would last for two months before moving on to Italy, Tunisia and Spain. George Lucas directs Hayden Christiansen who plays the young Darth Vader (Anakin Skywalker). Natalie Portman is Padmé Amidala and Ewan McGregor plays Obi-Wan Kenobi. Samuel L. Jackson stars as Mace Windu, Christopher Lee plays Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus and Jimmy Smits is Bail Organa.

june26

1976 CN Tower opens in Toronto
Early into the 1970s, the folks in Toronto, Canada were having problems with their TV and radio reception. Interference from the many skyscrapers being built in the city were causing TV shows to be superimposed on top of each other. To remedy the situation, the Canadian National Railway Company was commissioned to build an antenna that would tower over every building ever built. The antenna design turned into a tourist attraction design by John Andrews Architects and Webb Zerafa Menkes Housden Architects; and after 40 months, the completed CN Tower opened ... on this day in 1976.

and finally for today

june 26

Birthdays

Abner Doubleday 1819
Sidney Howard 1891
Pearl S. Buck 1892
William P. Lear 1902
Peter Lorre 1904
Col. Tom Parker 1909
Roy Plunkett 1910
Richard Maltby 1914
Babe Didrikson Zaharias 1914
Charlotte Zolotow 1915
Eleanor Parker 1922
Frances Rafferty 1922
Dave Grusin 1934
Billy Davis ( The 5th Dimension) 1940
Larry Taylor (Canned Heat) 1942
Pamela Bellwood 1943
Georgie Fame (Clive Powell) 1943
Mick Jones (Clash, Big Audio Dynomite) 1955
Chris Isaak 1956
Patty Smyth 1957
Greg LeMond 1961
Terri Nunn (Berlin) 1961
Harriet Wheeler (The Sundays) 1963
Colin Greenwood (Radiohead) 1969
Chris O'Donnell 1970
Jason Schwartzman 1980
Kaitlin Cullum 1986

1747 - Composer Leopold Jan Antonin Kozeluh was born.

1977 - Elvis Presley's final concert took place at Market Square Arena, Indianapolis.

1985 - The album, "Big River" became the first soundtrack album to be recorded in Nashville, TN.

1986 - James Hetfield (Metallica) broke his wrist while trying to skateboard down a hill. One show was cancelled and the remainder of dates on the tour James was on vocals only and John Marshall (later with Metal Church) was on guitar.

1998 - At 10 a.m. PDT, Marcy Playground debuted the video for "Saint Joe On The Schoolbus," on the Internet.

1998 - Stefano Salvati sued Madonna, claiming that her "Ray of Light" video was stolen from a clip he shot in 1994 for Italian pop star Biagio Antonacci.


1096 - Peter the Hermit's crusaders forced their way across Sava, Hungary.

1243 - The Seljuk Turkish army in Asia Minor was wiped out by the Mongols.

1483 - Richard III usurped himself to the English throne.

1541 - Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish Conqueror of Peru, was murdered by his former followers.

1794 - The French defeated an Austrian army at the Battle of Fleurus.

1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the mouth of the Kansas River after completing a westward trek of nearly 400 river miles.

1870 - The first section of the boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ, was opened to the public.

1894 - The American Railway Union called a general strike in sympathy with Pullman workers.

1900 - The United States announced that it would send troops to fight against the Boxer rebellion in China.

1900 - A commission that included Dr. Walter Reed began the fight against the deadly disease yellow fever.

1907 - Russia's nobility demanded drastic measures to be taken against revolutionaries.

1908 - Shah Muhammad Ali's forces squelched the reform elements of Parliament in Persia.

1917 - General John "Black Jack" Pershing arrived in France with the American Expeditionary Force.

1925 - Charlie Chaplin's comedy, "The Gold Rush," premiered in Hollywood.

1926 - A memorial to the first U.S. troops in France was unveiled at St. Nazaire.

1924 - After eight years of occupation, American troops left the Dominican Republic.

1942 - The Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter was flown for the first time.

1945 - The U.N. Charter was signed by 50 nations in San Francisco, CA.

1948 - The Berlin Airlift began as the U.S., Britain and France started ferrying supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin.

1951 - The Soviet Union proposed a cease-fire in the Korean War.

1959 - CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow interviewed Lee Remick. It was his 500th and final guest on "Person to Person."

1959 - U.S. President Eisenhower joined Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in ceremonies officially opening the St. Lawrence Seaway.

1961 - A Kuwaiti vote opposed Iraq's annexation plans.

1963 - U.S. President John Kennedy announced "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) at the Berlin Wall.

1971 - The U.S. Justice Department issued a warrant for Daniel Ellsberg, accusing him of giving away the Pentagon Papers.

1975 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency due to "deep and widespread conspiracy."

1976 - The CN (Canadian National) Tower in Toronto, Canada, opened.

1979 - Muhammad Ali, at 37 years old, announced that he was retiring as world heavyweight boxing champion.

1981 - In Mountain Home, Idaho, Virginia Campbell took her coupons and rebates and bought $26,460 worth of groceries. She only paid 67 cents after all the discounts.

1985 - Wilbur Snapp was ejected after playing "Three Blind Mice" during a baseball game. The incident followed a call made by umpire Keith O'Connor.

1987 - The movie "Dragnet" opened in the U.S.

1996 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military Institute to admit women or forgo state support.

1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act of 1996 that made it illegal to distribute indecent material on the Internet.

1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld state laws that allow for a ban on doctor-assisted suicides.

1998 - The U.S. and Peru open school to train commandos to patrol Peru's rivers for drug traffickers.

1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers are always potentially liable for supervisor's sexual misconduct toward an employee.

2000 - The Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics Corp. jointly announced that they had created a working draft of the human genome.

2000 - Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid declared a state of emergency in the Moluccas due to the escalation of fighting between Christians and Muslims.

2001 - Ray Bourque (Colorado Avalanche) announced his retirement just 17 days after winning his first Stanley Cup. Bouque retired after 22 years and held the NHL record for highest-scoring defenseman and playing in 19 consecutive All-Star games.

2002 - David Hasseloff checked into The Betty Ford Center for treatment of alcoholism.

2002 - WorldCom Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

june 27th

1771 Russia completed its conquest of the Crimea.
1795 A British force landed at Quiberon to aid the revolt in Brittany.
1795 French forces recaptured St Lucia.
1801 Cairo fell to English forces.
1932 A Constitution was proclaimed in Siam.
1940 The USSR invaded Romania on the refusal of King Carol to cede Bessarabia and Bukovina; Romania appealed for German aid in vain.
1941 Hungary declared war on Russia.
1944 In World War II, Allied forces took Cherbourg in France.
1996 The Galileo spacecraft passed by Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, taking pictures and revealing surface-structure details.
1997 The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft flew within 1,200 km/746 mi of the asteroid Mathilde, taking high-resolution photographs and revealing a 25-km/15.5-mi crater covering the asteroid.

June 27

1787 - Edward Gibbon completed The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
1884 - Lawrence Corcoran pitched his third no-hit baseball game, leading Chicago to a 6-0 win over Providence. Corcoran set a baseball record for no-hitters for the feat.

1885 - Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter applied for a patent for the gramophone. The patent was granted on May 4, 1886.

1949 - Captain Video and His Video Rangers premiered on the Dumont Television Network. Captain Video was initially played by Richard Coogan. The voice of radio's Green Hornet, Al Hodge, replaced Coogan in 1951. Don Hastings played the roll of the ranger until the series ended in 1955. Maybe, if you check the basement or the attic, you'll find your Captain Video decoder ring. Now's the time to use it, kids!

1955 - The first Wide Wide World was broadcast on NBC-TV. Dave Garroway, of the Today show, was the program host.

1958 - After nearly three years on NBC-TV, Matinee Theatre was seen for the final time. And a good thing, too. Critics called the show one of the most successful failures in theatrical history.

1959 - West Side Story, with music by Leonard Bernstein, closed after 732 performances on Broadway. The show remains one of the brightest highlights in the history of the Great White Way.

1962 - Two albums of melancholy music by Jackie Gleason received gold record honors. Music, Martinis and Memories and Music for Lovers Only got the gold. Both were issued by Capitol Records in Hollywood.

1963 - Brenda Lee inked a new recording contract with Decca Records. She was guaranteed one million dollars over the next 20 years.

1964 - Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman were married. It did not turn out to be one of Hollywood's most enduring marriages. The couple broke up 38 days later.

1969 - New York City police, attempting to serve a search warrant, charged into the well-known gay hangout, the Stonewall Inn. Events quickly got out of hand. Police ejected customers, managers, bouncers. Everyone got booted outside onto the sidewalk. The crowd became increasingly unruly and someone threw a bottle at the police. The plain-clothes police team was trapped inside the bar for over two hours before the the NYPD Tactical Patrol Force arrived and drove the mob from in front of the Stonewall. Police arrested and jailed many of the chanting gays. For the next few nights, the Stonewall Inn became the focal point of gay protests. The gay community began to organize and form committees to bring about change. Many feel that the Gay Liberation Movement had its beginnings with the Stonewall Inn Riots. (See 1999 below.)

1970 - The Jackson 5: Marlon, Tito, Jackie, Randy and Michael, jumped to number one on the music charts with The Love You Save. The song stayed at the top of the charts for two weeks. It was the third of four number one hits in a row for the group. The other three were I Want You Back, ABC and I'll Be There. In 15 years (from 1969 to 1984), The Jackson 5/Jacksons had 23 hits, scored two platinum singles (Enjoy Yourself and Shake Your Body [Down to the Ground]) and one gold record (State of Shock).

1971 - Promoter Bill Graham closed the Fillmore East in New York City. It was a spin-off of San Francisco's legendary rock 'n' roll palace, Fillmore West (closed several days later). The Allman Brothers and J. Geils Band were among those performing on the final night. The New York City landmark and its San Francisco sister hosted just about every major rock group of the 1960s.

1972 - Bobby Hull signed a 10-year hockey contract for $2,500,000, as he became a player and coach of the Winnipeg Jets of the World Hockey Association.

1975 - Sonny and Cher (Bono) called it quits as husband and wife. They were divorced soon after their CBS-TV variety show was canceled. Sonny went on to become mayor of Palm Springs and then a U.S. Congressman from California. (He was killed Jan. 5, 1998 in a skiing accident.) Cher married rocker Gregg Alman just days after saying "bye-bye" to Sonny. She continued her recording career and became an Academy Award-winning actress.

1980 - The the National Anthem Act, making O Canada Canada's national anthem, was unanimously accepted by the House of Commons and the Senate. Royal assent was also given this day. O Canada, written by Calixa Lavallee and Adolphe-Basile Routhier, was officially proclaimed Canada's national anthem on July 1, 1980.

1981 - Hi Infidelity, by REO Speedwagon, was replaced at number one by the LP, Mistaken Identity, by singer Kim Carnes. Hi Infidelity had been number one on the album charts for 14 weeks.

1984 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that individual colleges could make their own TV package deals. The National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) contracts with ABC, CBS and Turner Broadcasting were said to violate federal anti-trust laws.

1984 - The Federal Communications Commission moved to deregulate U.S. commercial TV by lifting most programming requirements and ending day-part restrictions on advertising.

1987 - After spending a decade with NBC News, Linda Ellerbee gave her last, "And so it goes." NBC had tried to encourage Ellerbee to take a 40 percent cut in pay. And so she went. She wrote a most interesting book on her broadcasting career titled And So It Goes.

1988 - Mike Tyson quickly retained his undisputed world heavyweight title by knocking out Michael Spinks in the first round. Fight fans at Atlantic City Convention Hall had paid big bucks (up to $1,500) to see this one. The match, touted in advance as "Once and for All" was all over in 91 seconds. No report on how many people blinked at the wrong time.

1992 - Michael Jackson kicked off the Dangerous Tour in Munich, Germany. 70,000 fans saw Jackson, with a helmet on and a fake rocket pack on his back, appear to fly off stage (or, maybe he really did). The tour would continue through November 11 stopping in some 42 cities.

1999 - Juli Inkster won the LPGA Championship in Wilmington, Delaware. She was the second woman to win the modern Grand Slam in the LPGA. Of the eight players who have won the four major championships of their era, no one took as long as Inkster: 16 seasons from the time she won the Dinah Shore as a rookie [1984] to her victory in the LPGA Championship as a 39-year-old mother.

1999 - Sporting leather thongs, feather boas and political banners, gays and lesbians took to streets around the world in festive pride parades. The 29th annual Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Parade and Celebration took place in San Francisco, New York, Berlin, Manila and many other cities. Among the organizations taking part were the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a gay veterans group, an antique auto club for gays and Roman Catholics in favor of gay rights. The pride marches commemorate the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, when patrons of a gay bar in Greenwich Village (New York) fought back against a police raid. The bar, the Stonewall Inn, is now on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. (See 1969 above.)

1921 Four-time thief escapes Baumes law


Marcley pleads guilty to attempted larceny of a motorcycle in New York. Since this was his first offense, he received a suspended sentence, which, after the establishment of Baumes law five years later, saved him from later serving a life sentence.

In 1922, Marcley stole a couple of chickens from a chicken house and then some auto parts from a local store. For this, he was given a three-year sentence to Sing Sing state prison in Ossining, New York. Shortly after his release, Marcley was caught stealing a car-his fourth felony.

In 1926, New York passed the Baumes law, which stated that criminals must automatically be sentenced to life imprisonment on their fourth felony conviction. An early precursor to California's Three Strikes law, New York's Baumes law removed all sentencing discretion from the trial judge.

In 1930, when New York's Court of Appeals took up Marcley's case, a loophole allowed him to escape the harsh penalty: the majority concurred that his 1921 suspended sentence did not count as a conviction and Marcley was released.

1960: Welsh pit blast kills 37 miners

At least 37 men are killed in a gas explosion at a coal mine in Monmouthshire, Wales.

One of the accused men, Costas Georgiou 1976: Death sentence for mercenaries
Three Britons and an American are sentenced to death by firing squad for their roles during the Angolan civil war.

Prisoners wave goodbye from back of a truck 1958: Algeria prisoners freed to win Muslim support
France orders the release of 30 political prisoners to win Muslim support for plans on Algeria's future.

Margaret and Dennis Thatcher 1991: Thatcher to retire from Commons
Margaret Thatcher is to give up her seat in the House of Commons at the general election.

1978
The Supreme Court ruled in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke that the use of quotas in affirmative action programs was not permissible.

2000
Elian Gonzalez was returned to his father in Cuba.

2001
Serbia handed over Slobodan Milosevic over to the UN war crimes tribunal.

june 28

1992 Burhanuddin Rabbani becomes president of Afghanistan
Afghanistan's president Sibghatullah Mojadidi relinquished leadership to guerilla forces on this day. Burhanuddin Rabbani became president and quickly set a course for unity among the warring guerilla factions.


1950 North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea
The Republic of Korea Army was destroyed on this day, when North Korean troops captured the South Korean capital of Seoul.


1921 Russian Red Army troops enter Mongolia
On this day, Russian Red Army troops crossed into Mongolia. Mongol troops, with the help of these Russian forces and advisors, captured the ruling Baron Roman Nikolus von Ungern-Sternberg in August and executed him. Ungern-Sternberg was a Russian anti-Bolshevik general who had set up a puppet government in Mongolia in 1920 with the help of a military force that was supplied and financed by Japan. An independent Provisional People's Government was established and the theocratic monarchy, its powers limited, was retained until 1924, when the last Living Buddha died. At that time the Mongolian People's Republic, modeled on Soviet lines, was founded.

1635 - The French colony of Guadeloupe was established in the Caribbean.

1675 - Frederick William of Brandenburg crushed the Swedes.

1709 - The Russians defeated the Swedes and Cossacks at the Battle of Poltava.

1776 - American Colonists repulsed a British sea attack on Charleston, SC.

1778 - Mary "Molly Pitcher" Hays McCauley, wife of an American artilleryman, carried water to the soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth and, supposedly, took her husband's place at his gun after he was overcome with heat.

1869 - R. W. Wood was appointed as the first Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy.

1995: US shuttle docks with Russian space station

American and Russian spacecrafts successfully dock in orbit for the first time in 20 years.

Isabel Peron 1974: First female president for Argentina
Isabel Peron is sworn in as interim leader of the Argentine Republic after her husband falls ill.

Virgin Challenger II powerboat 1986: Branson beats Atlantic speed record
Millionaire Richard Branson smashes the world record for the fastest powerboat crossing of the Atlantic.

Princess Diana 2001: Diana fountain given go-ahead
The government announces a memorial in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales, is to be built in London's Hyde Park.

June 29th

1613 Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down
1767 British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America
1776 Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay
1776 Va state constitution adopted & Patrick Henry made governor
1854 Gadsden Purchase (parts of Az, NM) from Mexico for $10 million
1858 Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia
1862 Day 5 of the 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station
1863 Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, PN
1863 Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
1864 Grand Trunk Railway accident; 100 killed
1891 100ø F (San Fransisco, CA)
1897 Chicago beats Louisville 36-7 (baseball)
1899 Brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage
1913 Beginning of the 2nd Balkan War
1914 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #791 Ani
1916 Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time
1922 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #979 Ilsewa
1927 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
1929 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca
1931 109ø F (43ø C), Monticello, Florida (state record)
1936 Empire State Building emanates high definition TV-343 lines
1936 Pope Pius XI encyclical to US bishops "On motion pictures"
1939 Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe
1940 US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register
1941 DiMaggio extends hitting streak to 42 breaking Sisler's record
1945 Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR
1946 British arrest 2,700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorists
1947 Yanks beat Senators 3-1 starting a 19 game win streak
1949 South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
1949 US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
1952 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany
1954 Atomic Energy Comm voted against reinstating Dr J Robert Oppenheimer
1956 Charles Dumas, makes 1st high jump over 7' (2.13 m)-LA, Calif
1956 Federal interstate highway system act signed
1958 Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 in soccer's 6th World Cup at Stockholm
1959 Pope John XXIII encyclical "On truth, unity, & peace, in charity"
1960 KYA-AM in San Francisco changes call letters to KDBQ (for 2 weeks)
1961 Launch of Transit 4a, with 1st nuclear power supply (SNAP-3)
1962 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner
1963 Beatles' 1st song "From Me to You" hits the UK charts
1964 1st draft of Star Trek's pilot "The Cage" released
1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate
1965 USAF Capt Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15
1966 US bombs fuel storage facilities near N Vietnamese cities
1967 Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem
1967 Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge
1969 1st Jewish worship service at White House
1970 US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia
1971 Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days
1972 Supreme Court-death penalty usually was "cruel & unusual punishment"
1972 USSR launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km)
1975 20.57 cm (8.10") of rainfall, Litchville, N. Dakota (state 24-hr rec)
1976 Seychelles gains independence from Britain
1977 Supreme Court ruled out death penalty for rapists of adults
1978 VP Walter F Mondale begins trip to Mid-East
1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended
1983 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1984 USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI
1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
1985 STS 51-F vehicle moves to the launch pad
1986 Boston Red Sox trade for Tom Seaver
1986 Sparky Anderson is 1st to win 600 games as manager in both leagues
1987 Yanks blow 11-4 lead but trailing 14-11 Dave Winfield's 8th inning
grand slammer beats Toronto 15-14; Mattingly also grand slams
1989 Susan Lucci loses the daytime emmy for 10th straight year
1990 Marla Maples father sues the National Enquirer for $12M
1990 NY Mets tie their team career high 11 game win streak
A's Dave Stewart no-hits the Blue Jays & Dodger's Fernando
Valenzuela no-hits St Louis 6-0, 1st time no-hitters in both leagues

1236 - Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon took Cordoba in Spain.

1652 - Massachusetts declared itself an independent commonwealth.

1767 - The British Parliament approved the Townshend Revenue Acts. The acts imposed import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea shipped to America.

1776 - The Virginia constitution was adopted and Patrick Henry was made governor.

1804 - Privates John Collins and Hugh Hall of the Lewis and Clark Expedition were found guilty by a court-martial consisting of members of the Corps of Discovery for getting drunk on duty. Collins received 100 lashes on his back and Hall received 50.

1860 - The first iron-pile lighthouse was completed at Minot's Ledge, MA.

1880 - France annexed Tahiti.

1888 - Professor Frederick Treves performed the first appendectomy in England.

1897 - The Chicago Cubs scored 36 runs in a game against Louisville, setting a record for runs scored by a team in a single game.

1901 - The first edition of "Editor & Publisher" was issued.

1903 - The British government officially protested Belgian atrocities in the Congo.

1905 - Russian troops intervened as riots erupted in ports all over the country. Many ships were looted.

1917 - The Ukraine proclaimed independence from Russia.

1925 - Marvin Pipkin filed for a patent for the frosted electric light bulb.

1926 - Fascists in Rome added an hour to the work day in an economic efficiency measure.

1932 - Siam's army seized Bangkok and announced an end to the absolute monarchy.

1932 - "Vic and Sade" debuted on NBC radio.

1941 - Joe DiMaggio got a base hit in his 42nd consecutive game. He broke George Sisler's record from 1922.

1946 - British authorities arrested more than 2,700 Jews in Palestine in an attempt to end alleged terrorism.

1950 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorized a sea blockade of Korea.

1951 - The United States invited the Soviet Union to the Korean peace talks on a ship in Wonson Harbor.

1953 - The Federal Highway Act authorized the construction of 42,500 miles of freeway from coast to coast.

1954 - The Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer's access to classified information.

1955 - The Soviet Union sent tanks to Pozan, Poland, to put down anti-Communist demonstrations.

1956 - Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller were married. They were divorced on January 20, 1961.

1966 - The U.S. bombed fuel storage facilities near the North Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong.

1967 - Jayne Mansfield, at age 34, and two male companions died when their car struck a trailer truck east of New Orleans.

1967 - Israel removed barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem.

1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment." The ruling prompted states to revise their capital punishment laws.

1982 - Israel invaded Lebanon.

1987 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Le Pont de Trinquetaille" was bought for $20.4 million at an auction in London, England.

1995 - The shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.

1995 - 501 people were killed when a department store in Seoul, South Korea collapsed. 900 others were injured.

1998 - With negotiations on a new labor agreement at a standstill, the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced that a lockout would be imposed at midnight.

2000 - In Santa Rosa, CA, the official groundbreaking ceremony took place for the Charles M. Schulz Museum.

June 30th

296 St Marcellinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1294 Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
1607 Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published
1741 Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms
1794 Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio
1834 Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
1859 Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope
1862 Day 6 of the 7 Days-Battle of White Oak Swamp
1870 Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate
1871 Guatemala revolts for agarian reforms
1881 Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia
1893 Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
1900 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die
1902 S I Bailey discovers asteroid #504 Cora
1906 John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College
1906 Pure Food & Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act adopted
1908 Boston's Cy Young's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Highlanders, 8-0
1908 Giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (Tunguska Event)
1911 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes
1913 2nd Balkan War begins
1913 NY Giants score 10 in 10th to beat Phillies 11-1
1914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa
1916 Chick Evans Jr wins golf's US Open
1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica
1927 Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico
1927 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes
1928 Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are
to be changed to conform with international standards
1929 Bobby Jones wins golf's US Open
1930 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY
1933 Card's Dizzy Dean strikesout 17 Cubs to win 8-2
1933 US Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise Id & Salt Lake City Utah closes
1934 "Night of the Long Knives," Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party
1934 French Equitorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit
1934 NFL's Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions
1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1784 Benguella
1936 "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, published
1936 40 hour work week law approved (federal)
1938 Final game at Phila's Baker Bowl, Giants beat Phils 14-1
1939 Heinkel He. 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemnde
1940 "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears
1940 US Fish & Wildlife Service established
1942 US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation
1948 Cleve Indian Bob Lemon no-hits Detroit Tigers, 2-0
1948 Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs)
1950 Pres Truman orders US troops into Korea
1951 NAACP begins attack on school segregation & discrimination
1952 "The Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV
1954 Yank pitcher Tom Morgan ties record by hitting 3 batters in 1 inning
This was also Bobby Brown's last game; he retired to become a doctor
1956 United DC-7 & TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128
1959 During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time
1960 Za‹re (then Belgian Congo) gains independence from Belgium
1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
1962 LA Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits NY Mets, 5-0
1962 Murie Lindstrom wins US Women's Golf Open
1962 Rwanda & Burundi become independent
1963 Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church
1964 Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit
1965 NFL grants Atlanta Falcons a franchise
1966 Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour
1967 Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named 1st black astronaut
1967 Phillies Cookie Rojas pitches, plays 9th positions since joining Phils
1969 Derek Clayton of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:34
1969 Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco
1970 1st baseball game at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium
1970 Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City
1970 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2139 Makharadze
1971 Ohio becomes the 38th state to approve of lower the voting age to
18, thus ratifying the 26th admendment
1972 1st leap second day; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985
1972 Cincinnati Reds are 11 games back in NL, & go on to win the pennant
1973 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse
1974 Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that
torches "Gulliver's" nightclub. 24 die (Port Chester NY)
1975 Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado
1975 Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg Allman
1976 John Walker of New Zealand sets record for 2000 m, 4:51.4
1977 Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"
1977 Marvel Comics publish the "Kiss book" tributing the rock group Kiss
1977 US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Wash DC)
1977 Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive HRs in Toronto
1978 Larry Doby becomes manager of the Chicago White Sox
1978 Willie McCovey becomes the 12th to hit 500 HRs
1979 Johnny Rotten & Joan Collins appear together on BBC's Juke Box Jury
1981 China's Communist Party condemns the late Mao Tse-tung's policy
1982 Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification
1982 Orbiter Challenger (OV-099) rolled out at Palmdale
NJ NHL franchise officially named the Devils by fan balloting,
runner-up names are Blades, Meadowlanders & Americans
1984 Longest pro football game, LA Express beats Mich Panthers 27-21 in
USFL playoffs, games lats 93 minutes 33 seconds
1985 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
1985 LA Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 HRs in June
1986 Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4)
1987 Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in the high jump
1988 Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason
1989 Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to the UK
1989 Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl
1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile & Guam
1989 NY State Legislature passes Staten Island seccession bill