1178 - Five monks at Canterbury report explosion on moon (only known observation)

1767 - Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.

1940 - Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour"

1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) charged with treason

2006 - The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.

1621 The first duel in America took place in the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.

1812 The War of 1812 began as the U.S. declared war against Great Britain.

1873 Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote for a U.S. President.

1927 The U.S. Post Office offered a special 10-cent postage stamp for sale. The stamp was of Charles Lindbergh’s "Spirit of St. Louis."

1936 Charles "Lucky" Luciano was found guilty on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution.

1942 The U.S. Navy commissioned its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson.

1948 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.

1953 Seventeen major-league baseball records were tied or broken in a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers.

1959 A Federal Court annulled the Arkansas law allowing school closings to prevent integration.

1959 The first telecast received from England was broadcast in the U.S. over NBC-TV.

1983 Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

1996 Richard Allen Davis was convicted in San Jose, CA, of the 1993 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas.

1998 The Boston Globe asked Patricia Smith to resign after she admitted to inventing people and quotes in four of her recent columns.

1999 Walt Disney's "Tarzan" opened.

2000 In Algiers, Algeria, the foreign ministers of Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a preliminary cease-fire accord and agreed to work toward a permanent settlement of their two-year border war.

2002 In Jerusalem, a suicide bomber killed 19 people and injured at least 50 more on a city bus. The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.


2014 Sailor Steve fell victim to the CopyPasta fad. :dead:

Oh yeah - today is Paul McCarney's 72nd birthday. :sunny:

1306 - The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Robert Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.

1829 - Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies)

1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Man with the Twisted Lip"

1917 - King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles & surnames, they take the name Windsor

1988 - World's Largest Sausage completed at 13 1/8 miles long

June 20
 

0451 - Roman and Barbarian warriors brought Attila's army to a halt at the Catalaunian Plains in eastern France.

1756 - In India, 150 British soldiers were imprisoned in a cell that became known as the "Black Hole of Calcutta."

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.