This date in history

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0632​

Muhammad, the founder of Islam and unifier of Arabia, dies.

0793​

The Vikings raid the Northumbrian coast of England.

1861​

Tennessee votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy.

1862​

At the Battle of Cross Keys, Confederate Gen. Richard Ewell and his men defeat Union Gen. John C. Fremont, setting up Stonewall Jackson to move the next day against Union forces at nearby Port Republic.

1863​

Residents of Vicksburg flee into caves as General Ulysses S. Grant's army begins shelling the town.

1867​

Frank Lloyd Wright, influential American architect is born.

1904​

U.S. Marines land in Tangiers, Morocco, to protect U.S. citizens.

1953​

The Supreme Court forbids segregated lunch counters in Washington, D.C.

1965​

President Lyndon Johnson authorizes commanders in Vietnam to commit U.S. ground forces to combat.

1966​

Gemini astronaut Gene Cernan attempts to become the first man to orbit the Earth untethered to a space capsule, but is unable to when he exhausts himself fitting into his rocket pack.

1968​

James Earl Ray, the alleged assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., is captured at the London Airport.

 

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[Chevy1]

National Flag day was created

 

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1381​

The Peasants' Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, climaxes when rebels plunder and burn the Tower of London and kill the Archbishop of Canterbury.

1642​

Massachusetts passes the first compulsory education law in the colonies.

1775​

The U.S. Army is founded when the Continental Congress authorizes the muster of troops.

1777​

The Continental Congress authorizes the "stars and stripes" flag for the new United States.

1789​

Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty arrives in Timor in a small boat. He had been forced to leave his ship when his crew mutinied.

1846​

A group of settlers declare California to be a republic.

1893​

The city of Philadelphia observes the first Flag Day.

1907​

Women in Norway win the right to vote.

1919​

John William Alcott and Arthur Whitten Brown take off from St. John's, Newfoundland, for Clifden, Ireland, on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.

1922​

President Warren G. Harding becomes the first president to speak on the radio.

1940​

German forces occupy Paris.

1944​

Boeing B-29 bombers conduct their first raid against mainland Japan.

1945​

Burma is liberated by the British.

1951​

UNIVAC, the first computer built for commercial purposes, is demonstrated in Philadelphia by Dr. John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr.

1954​

Americans take part in the first nation-wide civil defense test against atomic attack.

1982​

Argentina surrenders to the United Kingdom ending the Falkland Islands War.

 

[pequa1]

Flag Day. When a bunch of politicos stole it from the rightful Birth of the United States Army.

 

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0240​

Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of Earth using two sticks.

1778​

General George Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge after a winter of training.

1821​

The Ottomans defeat the Greeks at the Battle of Dragasani.

1846​

The New York Knickerbocker Club plays the New York Club in the first baseball game at Elysian Field, Hoboken, New Jersey.

1862​

President Abraham Lincoln outlines his Emancipation Proclamation. News of the document reaches the South.

1867​

Mexican Emperor Maximilian is executed.

1885​

The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York City from France.

1897​

Moe Howard, comic actor, one of the Three Stooges is born.

1903​

The young school teacher, Benito Mussolini, is placed under investigation by police in Bern, Switzerland.

1933​

France grants Leon Trotsky political asylum.

1942​

Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington D.C. to discuss the invasion of North Africa with President Franklin Roosevelt.

1944​

U.S. Navy carrier-based planes shatter the remaining Japanese carrier forces in the Battle of the Marianas.

1951​

President Harry S. Truman signs the Universal Military Training and Service Act, which extends Selective Service until July 1, 1955 and lowers the draft age to 18.

1958​

Nine entertainers refuse to answer a congressional committee's questions on communism

1961​

Kuwait regains complete independence from Britain.

1963​

Soviet cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, becomes the first woman in space.

1987​

The U.S. Supreme Court voids the Louisiana law requiring schools to teach creationism.

 

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80 years ago, Hitler picked a fight that may have cost him World War II

Before dawn on June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched the largest invasion in the history of warfare and a battle that may have cost it the war.

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Just after 3 a.m. on June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, the largest invasion in the history of warfare.

Over 3.5 million Axis troops, along with more than 3,400 tanks and 2,700 aircraft, blitzed across the 1,800-mile border separating the Axis powers from the Soviet Union.

 

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1520​

Montezuma II is murdered as Spanish conquistadors flee the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan during the night.

1857​

Charles Dickens reads from A Christmas Carol at St. Martin's Hall in London--his first public reading.

1859​

Jean Francois Gravelet aka Emile Blondin, a French daredevil, becomes the first man to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

1908​

A mysterious explosion, possibly the result of a meteorite, levels thousands of trees in the Tunguska region of Siberia with a force approaching twenty megatons.

1917​

Lena Horne, American singer is born.

1919​

Susan Hayward, actress is born.

1934​

Adolf Hitler orders the purge of his own party in the "Night of the Long Knives."

1936​

Margaret Mitchell's novel, Gone With the Wind, is published.

1960​

Alfred Hitchcock's film, Psycho, opens.

 

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1776​

The Declaration of Independence is first printed by John Dunlop in Philadelphia.

1806​

A Spanish army repels the British during their attempt to retake Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1810​

P.T. Barnum, American showman is born.

1814​

U.S. troops under Jacob Brown defeat a superior British force at Chippewa, Canada.

1832​

The German government begins curtailing freedom of the press after German Democrats advocate a revolt against Austrian rule.

1839​

British naval forces bombard Dingai on Zhoushan Island in China and occupy it.

1892​

Andrew Beard is issued a patent for the rotary engine.

1941​

German troops reach the Dnieper River in the Soviet Union.

1943​

The Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history, begins.

1944​

The Japanese garrison on Numfoor, New Guinea, tries to counterattack but is soon beaten back by U.S. forces.

1950​

American forces engage the North Koreans for the first time at Osan, South Korea.

 

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25 year’s ago on this day in 1996 TWA flight 800 exploded over the ocean killing all 230 people on board.?

 

[pequa1]

We were at Old Ironsides in Boston harbor with the kids when the USCG boats went tearing out to sea. In a motel the night before, never turned on the TV and had no idea until I put the car radio to AM. Nelson DeMille has a conspiracy novel, "Nightfall?"

 

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I was up at the Kings Park Bluff with my daughter. Don't remember why we were there but when we got in the car to head home - the radio was on News Radio 88 & that's how/when I heard about it.

 

[pequa1]

For us locals this does seem like "where were you" for 911, NYC blackout, Moon Landing, JFK shot, OKC bombing, Challenger, etc.

(us oldsters anyway, lol)

 

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40 years ago today - MTV premiered