This Week In #History ... June 13th - 19th
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Jun 13
1373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance, world's oldest, signed in London
1774 Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves
1837 1st Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio
1895 Emile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)
1900 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Christians
1910 Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from New York to Philadelphia
1922 Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops
1932 Great Britain and France sign peace treaty
1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head
1950 South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act"
1963 Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut
1971 New York Times began publishing "Pentagon Papers"
1981 Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II
1991 The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication
2010 Ethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan's city of Osh and Jalal-Abad left more than 100 people dead and over 1,400 injured after three days of four days of fighting
Jun 14
1623 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Reverend Gerville Pooley, Virginia files against Cicely Jordan, he loses
1834 Isaac Fischer, Jr. patents sandpaper
1881 Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr. (Cambridge, Mass)
1901 1st golf championship is played
1919 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock and Brown)
1929 Prussia and Vatican sign Concord
1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
1942 Anne Frank begins her diary
1952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub Nautilus
1965 John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published
1975 U.S.S.R. launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
1985 Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
1992 Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female U.S. poet laureate
1998 "Comic Relief" benefit comedy show
2010 China's Premier, Wen Jiabao visits migrant workers at a Beijing construction site and declares the need for better treatment of the country's migrant workers
Jun 15
1215 King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England
1664 New Jersey established
1844 Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber
1869 Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, New York
1898 U.S. Marines attack Spanish off Guantanamo, Cuba
1908 World congress for Woman's rights opens in Amsterdam
1924 J. Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI
1934 Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated
1943 Congress of racial Equality (CORE) forms
1951 Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory
1960 Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races
1972 West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof
1985 Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus
1994 Disney's "Lion King," opens in theaters with $42 million
2010 The inquiry into Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland, 1972, determined British paratroopers first the first shot without warning, and concocted lies to cover up their acts
Jun 16
1487 Battle at Stoke: Henry VII beats John de la Pole and Lord Lovell
1794 1st stone layed at Dutch biggest grain windmill (De Walvisch)
1858 Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
1893 R. W. Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack
1903 Pepsi Cola company forms & Ford Motors incorporates
1909 1st U.S. airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
1923 Sun Yat Sen founds military academy
1933 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law, later struck down
1944 U.S. bombs Kyushu Japan
1953 Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yankees lose ending 18 game win streak and also ending St. Louis Brown 14 game losing streak
1967 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival
1975 Italy's Communist party PCI, wins
1983 European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10
1991 Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR
2010 In response to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, BP agrees to finance a $20 billion fund to compensate those whose livelihood has been damaged
Jun 17
1579 Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of California
1745 American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French
1837 Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent
1885 Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City
1898 U.S. Senate agrees to annex Hawaii
1915 League to Enforce Peace forms in Philadelphia
1928 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)
1938 Japan declares war on China
1946 SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St. Louis
1960 Ted Williams hit his 500th home runs
1967 1st Chinese hydrogen bomb explodes
1973 1st du Maurier Golf Classic (La Canadienne): Jocelyne Bourassa
1982 President Reagan 1st United Nations General Assembly address, "evil empire" speech
1991 South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws
2010 BP CEO Tony Hayward testifies before the U.S. about the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster at the Deepwater Horizon rig that has caused the worst oil spill in U.S. history
Jun 18
1178 5 Canterbury monks report explosion on moon (only known observation)
1580 States of Utrecht forbid catholic worship
1815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington and Blucher
1898 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, New Jersey
1903 1st transcontinental auto trip begins in San Francisco; arrives New York 3-months later
1914 Oscar Egg bicycles world record time (44,247 km)
1924 Pope Pius XI's encyclical Maximam gravissimamque
1936 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, Wisconsin
1945 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) British radio traitor charged with treason
1953 Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president
1963 3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school
1973 NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants
1981 Vaccine to prevent hoof and mouth disease announced
1989 Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion
1994 Gay Games open in New York City
2010 Roza Otunbayeva, interim leader of Kyrgyzstan, estimates the death toll from the country's worst ethnic battle in decades could be as many as 2,000 people
Jun 19
1464 French King Louis XI forms postal service
1829 Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies)
1865 Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas
1910 Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash)
1921 Turk and Christian of Palestine sign a friendship treaty against Jews
1931 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially, West Haven, CT
1940 "Brenda Starr," 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago
1947 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc Ca
1960 Juan Marichal debuts as San Francisco Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter
1970 Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published
1978 Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip
1988 World's Largest Sausage completed at 13 miles long
1992 "Batman Returns" opens
2010 Rival clashes between nomadic groups in the Darfur region of Sudan kills at least 48 people