1632 - Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area

1782 - Congress approves Great Seal of US & eagle as it's symbol

1941 - German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US battleship Texas

1963 - Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income

1547 - Great fire in Moscow

1854 - First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands (Crimean War)

1913 - Tiny Broadwick is first woman to parachute from an airplane

June 22
 

1772 - Slavery was outlawed in England.

1911 - King George V of England was crowned.

1915 - Austro-German forces occupied Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat.

1945 - During World War II, the battle for Okinawa officially ended after 81 days.

1946 - Jet airplanes were used to transport mail for the first time.

168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War.

1812 - Upon learning of plans by the Americans to execute a surprise attack, Laura Secord walks 32 km to warn the British troops, which results in a British surprise victory at the Battle of Beaver Dams

1815 - 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)

1865 - 1st class cricket debut of Dr W G Grace

6/23
 

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This guy is "born"!

6/24: big moments in military history-a banner year??
 

June 24
 

1314 - Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce won over Edward II of England at the Battle of Bannockburn in Scotland.

1340 - The English fleet defeated the French fleet at Sluys, off the Flemish coast.

1910 - The Japanese army invaded Korea.

1940 - France signed an armistice with Italy.

1397 - Sultan Bajezid I releases captured crusaders for ransom

1540 - English King Henry VIII commands his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves, to leave the court

1917 - Russian Black Sea fleet mutinies at Sebastopol

1939 - Pan Am's 1st US to England flight

behind every great man there is a greater woman!?
 

6/25 Good ideas and bad planning=great art!
 

June 25
 

1910 - The U.S. Congress authorized the use of postal savings stamps.

1917 - The first American fighting troops landed in France.

1920 - The Greeks took 8,000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna.

1941 - Finland declared war on the Soviet Union.

1999 - Germany's parliament approved a national Holocaust memorial to be built in Berlin.