June Calendar: Today in History |
NATIONAL CARIBBEAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH: Celebrate! |
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1924 - United States citizenship was granted to Native American Indians by the U.S. Congress. 1953 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. |
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1937 - The Duke of Windsor (previously King Edward VIII of Great Britain) and Wallis Simpson were married.
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1989 - Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing, China.
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1933 - Gold Standard abandoned by the United States. 2004 - Death of former American president, Ronald Reagan. |
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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 U.S. President George W. Bush. |
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1494 - Treaty of Tordesillas was signed by Portugal and Spain. 1654 - Coronation of France's Louis XIV. 1929 - Vatican City became independent of Italy. |
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632 C.E. - Muhammad, Islam's prophet, died. 1861 - Tennessee seceded from the United States. |
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1978 - Men of African descent were first permitted to become clergy in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons).
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1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous was founded. 1946 - Italy became a republic. |
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1509 - Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon (part of modern Spain), his first wife. |
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1898 - Emiliano Aguinaldo declared the Philippines' independence from Spain.
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1900 - Start of China's Boxer Rebellion. 1966 - Miranda rights set forth in the Miranda v. Arizona U.S. Supreme Court decision. |
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1775 - Founding of the United States Army. 1777 - Adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the U.S. flag. 1940 - Auschwitz concentration camp was opened in Poland. FLAG DAY (U.S.A.) |
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1215 - Magna Carta was 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 U.S. state. |
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1487 - Battle of Stoke. 1775 - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was mandated by the Continental Congress. 1963 - Soviet cosmonaut (astronaut) Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. |
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1775 - Battle of Bunker Hill. 1944 - Iceland became independent. 1994 - O.J. Simpson's low-speed police chase was broadcast live on American television. |
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1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated at Waterloo. 1983 - Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. |
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1934 - Creation of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Juneteenth: Emancipation (or Freedom) Day honoring the end of the enslavement of African Americans. |
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1863 - West Virginia became a U.S. state. 1893 - Lizzie Borden was found not guilty of her parents' axe murder. |
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1834 - Patent granted for Cyrus McCormick's mechanical reaper, an important invention in the Agricultural Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. 1997 - Debut of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). |
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1535 - Cardinal John Fisher was executed under England's Henry VIII.
1870 - Creation of the United States Justice Department. 1944 - G.I. Bill of Rights signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
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1868 - Patent issued for Christopher Sholes's typewriter.
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1509 - Coronation of England's Henry VIII. 1948 - Start of the Berlin Blockade. |
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1788 - Virginia became a U.S. state. 1950 - Start of the Korean War. |
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1819 - Patent issued for W.K. Clarkson's bicycle. 1843 - Hong Kong became a crown colony of Great Britain, a status which lasted until 1993. 2000 - Completion of the first map of the human genome. |
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1969 - Stonewall Incident in New York City sparked the gay rights movement. 2003 - Opening of the national Do-Not-Call Registry in the United States. |
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1894 - Congress declared Labor Day a federal holiday. 1914 - Assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which sparked World War I. 1919 - Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. 2012 - The U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision declaring the Affordable Care Act (popularly known as Obamacare) constitutional. |
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1767 - The Townshend Act was approved by Great Britain's Parliament.
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1971 - Ratification of the 26th Amendment.
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