This Week In #History ... June 6th - 12th
#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk
Jun 6
1536 Mexico begins it's inquisition
1664 New Amsterdam renamed New York City
1797 Napoleon forms Ligurische Republic
1882 Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, New York City
1904 National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, New Jersey
1914 1st air flight out of sight of land, Scotland to Norway
1925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp, Iacocca is 8 months old
1936 Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro, New Jersey
1944 D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France
1960 Steve Allen Show last airs on NBC-TV
1971 Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
1979 Royal Air force receives 1st F-16
1991 NBC announces Jay Leno will replace Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992
2010 Fighting over the past three days in Darfur, Sudan's western region, has killed 41 people
Jun 7
1099 1st Crusaders arrive in Jerusalem
1340 Rotterdam, Netherlands founded
1628 English king Charles I accepts Petition of Rights
1775 United Colonies change name to United States
1898 Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chicago
1906 Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches
1916 Germany troop march into Fort Faux, Verdun
1929 Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
1938 1st play telecast with original Broadway cast, "Susan and God"
1948 Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; President Bernes resigns
1958 Battles between Turkish and Greeks Cypriots break out
1969 "Johnny Cash Show," debuts on ABC-TV
1979 Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched
1989 For one second this morning, the time is 01:23:45, 6-7-89
1997 Cosmos 2344 Proton-K Launch (Russia), Failed
2010 German Chancellor Angela Merkel agrees to spread $80 million pounds in savings across four years with her coalition cabinet
Jun 8
570 Religion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca
1786 Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised, Mr Hall, New York City
1824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
1886 1st Civil Rights Act passes
1911 Belgium government of Schollaert falls
1928 1st U.S. to Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
1936 1st parking meters are invented
1944 Allies occupy Port-and-Bessin Normandy
1953 Cluster of 6 tornadoes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113
1965 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 6; missed Moon
1974 Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group "Yes"
1983 Charlos Vieira begins 191 hour "nonstop" cycling in Leiria, Portugal
1991 Former New York Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds
2010 The trial of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich begins today; Blagovich faces corruption charges regarding his alleged attempt to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat
Jun 9
1549 England enforces Act of Supremacy
1772 1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, RI
1790 1st book copyrighted under constitution, "Philadelphia Spelling Book"
1883 1st commercial electric railway line begins operation in Chicago
1902 1st Automat restaurant opens, 818 Chestnut St, Philadelphia
1919 General steel strike in France
1928 Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm are 1st to fly across the Pacific when they end their flight from California to Brisbane
1931 1st showing of a Donald Duck cartoon & 1st rocket-powered aircraft design patented, Robert Goddard
1940 Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II
1949 Mrs Georgia Neese Clark of Kansas becomes 1st woman treasurer of U.S.
1959 1st ballistic missile sub launched, George Washington
1970 Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton
1980 Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth
1989 "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," premieres in USA
1997 British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires
2010 President Obama meets with Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority, and promises Palestinians $400 million in U.S. assistance for the West Bank and Gaza
Jun 10
1605 Valse Dimitri crowned Russian tsar for 1st time
1639 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)
1793 1st public zoo opens in Paris
1847 Chicago Tribune begins publishing
1902 Patent for window envelope granted to H F Callahan
1915 Girl Scouts founded
1924 1st political convention broadcast on radio - Republicans at Cleveland
1934 U.S.S.R. and Romania regain diplomatic relations
1944 Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France
1955 1st separation of virus into component parts reported
1963 John F. Kennedy signs law for equal pay for equal work for men and women
1973 NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit
1984 U.S. missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time
1996 Intel releases 200 mhz pentium chip
2000 Stanley Cup Finals, New Jersey Devils beat Dallas Stars 4 games to 2
2010 Russia announces its plan to sell Iran S-300 ground-to-air missiles, claiming that new U.N. sanctions do not cover stationary air defense weaponry
Jun 11
1509 King Henry VIII marries wife #1 Catharina of Aragon
1644 Florentine scientist describe invention of barometer
1793 1st American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick
1870 1st stone Amstel Brewery opens in Amsterdam
1901 Cook Islands annexed and proclaimed part of New Zealand
1911 UNIA founded by Garvey
1921 Brazil adopts women suffrage
1928 Alfred Hitchcock's 1st film, "Case Of Jonathan Drew," is released
1939 King and Queen of England taste 1st "hot dogs" at FDR's party
1947 WW II sugar rationing finally ends in U.S., began May 28, 1942
1955 1st magnesium jet airplane flies
1966 Janis Joplin plays her 1st gig in San Francisco
1975 1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield
1984 Funeral for S Nakagawa and burial of half of his ashes
2001 Timothy McVeigh executed for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed at least 168
2010 Flash floods on the Little Missouri River kill at least 20 people near a campground in the Ouachita Mountains, west of Little Rock, Arkansas
Jun 12
1776 Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights
1839 1st baseball game played in America
1867 Austro-Hungarian Empire forms
1900 German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power
1913 "Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released
1923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in New York City
1931 Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition and perjury
1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present, Amsterdam
1952 U.S.S.R. declares peace treaty with Japan invalid
1962 3 convicts used spoons to dig their way out of Alcatraz
1967 Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages
1978 U.S. House of Representatives allows live radio coverage
1988 Andy Hampton is 1st American to win Round of Italy
2010 Chinese Buddhist monks and archaeologists reveal part of a skull believed to be Buddhism's founder, Siddartha Gautama
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