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NATIONAL CARIBBEAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH: Celebrate!
1 1792 - Kentucky Became a State
1796 - Tennessee Became a State
1980 - Cable News Network (CNN) Launched
2 1924 - United States Citizenship Granted to Native American Indians by Congress
1953 - Coronation of Elizabeth II
3 1937 - Duke of Windsor (previously Edward VIII of Great Britain) and Wallis Simpson Married
4 1989 - Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing, China
5 1933 - Gold Standard Abandoned by the United States
2004 - Death of Former American President Ronald Reagan
6 1844 - Founding of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in London, England
1944 - D-Day Invasion: Allied Troops Landed in Normandy, France
2002 - Department of Homeland Security Proposed by President George W. Bush
7 1494 - Treaty of Tordesillas Signed by Portugal and Spain
1654 - Coronation of France's Louis XIV
1929 - Vatican City Became Independent
8 632 C.E. - Muhammad, Islam's Prophet, Died
1861 - Tennessee Seceded from the United States
9 1944 - Iceland Became Independent
1978 - Men of African Descent Permitted o Become Clergy in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons)
10 1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous Founded
1946 - Italy Became a Republic
11 1509 - Henry VIII Married Catherine of Aragon
12 1898 - Emiliano Aguinaldo Declared the Philippines' Independence from Spain
13 1900 - Start of China's Boxer Rebellion
1966 - Miranda Rights Set Forth in the Miranda v. Arizona U.S. Supreme Court Decision
14 1775 - Founding of the United States Army
1777 - Adoption of the
Stars and Stripes as the U.S. Flag
1940 - Auschwitz Concentration Camp Opened in Poland
15 1215 - Magna Carta Sealed by England's King John
1752 - Benjamin Franklin Performed His Famous Experiment, Tying a Key to the End of a Kite to Verify the Existence of Electricity
1836 -
Arkansas Became a State
16 1487 - Battle of Stoke
1775 -
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mandated by the Continental Congress
1963 - Soviet Cosmonaut
Valentina Tereshkova Became the First Woman in Space
17 1775 - Battle of Bunker Hill
1944 - Iceland Independent
1994 - O.J. Simpson's Low-Speed Police Chase Broadcast Live on American Television
18 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte Defeated at Waterloo
1983 - Sally Ride Became First American Woman in Space
19 1934 - Creation of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
JUNETEENTH: Emancipation (or Freedom) Day Honoring the End of the Enslavement of African Americans
20 1863 - West Virginia Became a State
1893 - Lizzie Borden Found Not Guilty of Her Parents' Axe Murder
21 1834 - Patent Granted for Cyrus McCormick's Mechanical Reaper
1997 - Debut of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
22 1870 - Creation of the United States Justice Department
1944 - G.I. Bill of Rights Signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt
23 1868 - Patent Issued for Christopher Sholes's Typewriter
24 1509 - Coronation of England's Henry VIII
1948 - Start of the Berlin Blockade
25 1788 - Virginia Became a State
1950 - Start of the Korean War
26 1819 - Patent Issued for W.K. Clarkson's Bicycle
1843 - Hong Kong Became a Crown Colony of Great Britain
2000 - Completion of the First Map of the Human Genome
27 1969 - Stonewall Incident in New York City Sparked the Gay Rights Movement
2003 - Opening of the National Do-Not-Call Registry
28 1894 - Congress Declared Labor Day a Federal Holiday
1914 - Assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand
1919 - Treaty of Versailles Formally Ended World War I
29 1767 - Townshend Act approved by Great Britain's Parliament
30 1971 - Ratification of the 26th Amendment

 

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