Today in history

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June 25

841 Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat Lothar at Fontenay.

1658 Aurangzeb proclaims himself emperor of the Moghuls in India.

1767 Mexican Indians riot as Jesuit priests are ordered home.

1857 Gustave Flaubert goes on trial for public immorality regarding his novel, Madame Bovary.

1862 The first day of the Seven Days' campaign begins with fighting at Oak Grove, Virginia.

1864 Union troops surrounding Petersburg, Virginia, begin building a mine tunnel underneath the Confederate lines.

1868 The U.S. Congress enacts legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the federal government.

1876 General George A. Custer and over 260 men of the Seventh Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana.

1903 Marie Curie announces her discovery of radium.

1920 The Greeks take 8,000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna.

1921 Samuel Gompers is elected head of the American Federation of Labor for the 40th time.

1941 Finland declares war on the Soviet Union.

1946 Ho Chi Minh travels to France for talks on Vietnamese independence.

1948 The Soviet Union tightens its blockade of Berlin by intercepting river barges heading for the city.

1950 North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War.

1959 The Cuban government seizes 2.35 million acres under a new agrarian reform law.

1962 The U.S. Supreme Court bans official prayers in public schools.

1964 President Lyndon Johnson orders 200 naval personnel to Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights workers.

1973 White House Counsel John Dean admits President Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.

1986 Congress approves $100 million in aid to the Contras fighting in Nicaragua.

[iQuestor]

1876 General George A. Custer and over 260 men of the Seventh Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana.

Custer uttered his (last) famous quote on this day:

Where'd all them g@dd%mn indians come from?

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June 26

1096 Peter the Hermit's crusaders force their way across Sava, Hungary.

1243 The Seljuk Turkish army in Asia Minor is wiped out by the Mongols.

1541 Former followers murder Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish Conqueror of Peru.

1794 The French defeat an Austrian army at the Battle of Fleurus.

1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition reaches the mouth of the Kansas River after completing a westward trek of nearly 400 river miles.

1844 Julia Gardiner and President John Tyler are married in New York City.

1862 General Robert E. Lee attacks McClellen's line at Mechanicsville during the Seven Days' campaign.

1863 Jubal Early and his Confederate forces move into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

1900 The United States announces it will send troops to fight against the Boxer Rebellion in China.

1907 Russia's nobility demands drastic measures to be taken against revolutionaries.

1908 Shah Muhammad Ali's forces squelch the reform elements of Parliament in Persia.

1916 Russian General Aleksei Brusilov renews his offensive against the Germans.

1917 General Pershing arrives in France with the American Expeditionary Force.

1918 The Germans begin firing their huge 420 mm howitzer, "Big Bertha," at Paris.

1926 A memorial to the first U.S. troops in France is unveiled at St. Nazaire.

1924 After eight years of occupation, American troops leave the Dominican Republic.

1942 The Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter flies for the first time.

1945 The U.N. Charter is signed by 50 nations in San Francisco, California.

1951 The Soviet Union proposes a cease-fire in the Korean War.

1961 A Kuwaiti vote opposes Iraq's annexation plans.

1963 President John Kennedy announces "Ich bin ein Berliner" at the Berlin Wall.

1971 The U.S. Justice Department issues a warrant for Daniel Ellsberg, accusing him of giving away the Pentagon Papers.

1975 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is convicted of election fraud.

1993 Roy Campanella, legendary catcher for the Negro Leagues and the Los Angeles Dodgers, dies.

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1863 Jubal Early and his Confederate forces move into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

This name familiar to anyone else?

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Gettysburg, or Jubal Early?

[Waddley]

Early

[dlbpharmd]

I know a little about him.

[Waddley]

Oh, I meant in modern culture. Jubal Early was also a character on Firefly. Just thought it was interesting that the creator of the show would name a psychopathic bounty hunter after this guy.

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I'd forgotten that!

[iQuestor]

1794 The French defeat an Austrian army at the Battle of Fleurus.

which marks the first and last battle they ever won, not counting the french civil war, mainly because the opponent was also french.

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June 27

363 Roman Emperor Julian dies, ending the Pagan Revival.

1743 English King George defeats the French at Dettingen, Bavaria.

1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, is arrested for conducting an academy for black women in Canterbury, Conn.

1862 Confederates break through the Union lines at the Battle of Gaines' Mill--the third engagement of the Seven Days' campaign.

1864 General Sherman is repulsed by Confederates at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.

1871 The yen becomes the new form of currency in Japan.

1905 The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin mutinies.

1918 Two German pilots are saved by parachutes for the first time.

1923 Yugoslav Premier Nikola Pachitch is wounded by Serb attackers in Belgrade.

1924 Democrats offer Mrs. Leroy Springs the vice presidential nomination, the first woman considered for the job.

1927 The U.S. Marines adopt the English bulldog as their mascot.

1929 Scientists at Bell Laboratories in New York reveal a system for transmitting television pictures.

1942 The Allied convoy PQ-17 leaves Iceland for Murmansk and Archangel.

1944 Allied forces capture the port city of Cherbourg, France.

1950 The UN Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea.

1963 Henry Cabot Lodge is appointed U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam.

1973 President Richard Nixon vetoes a Senate ban on the Cambodia bombing.

1985 The U.S. House of Representatives votes to limit the use of combat troops in Nicaragua.

[Damelon]

June 27

363 Roman Emperor Julian dies, ending the Pagan Revival.

And the Pagans were never the same since.

[danlo]

Jubal Early

The Lil' Abner comic, movie and musical took the name of their local civil war hero from him: Jubilation T. Cornwall

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1864 General Sherman is repulsed by Confederates at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.

When the battle turned, a badly wounded scout made it back from the mountain to report to Sherman before dying. Sherman was heard to curse loudly and recalled his men from the assault:

"Its a trap!!! there's TWO of em up there!!!!!!"

[Cail]

1864 General Sherman is repulsed by Confederates at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.

My understanding is that a Union scout reported a sighting of CSA Colonel Jedediah "Booger" McNash, who had a tremendously repulsive habit, hence the nickname.

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June 28

1635 The French colony of Guadeloupe is established in the Caribbean.

1675 Frederick William of Brandenburg crushes the Swedes.

1709 Russians defeat the Swedes and Cossacks at the Battle of Poltava.

1776 Colonists repulse a British sea attack on Charleston, South Carolina.

1778 Mary "Molly Pitcher" Hays McCauley, wife of an American artilleryman, carries water to the soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth.

1839 Cinque and other Africans are kidnapped and sold into slavery in Cuba.

1862 Fighting continues between Union and Confederate forces during the Seven Days' campaign.

1863 General Meade replaces General Hooker three days before the Battle of Gettysburg.

1874 The Freedmen's Bank, created to assist former slaves in the United States, closes. Customers of the bank lose $3 million.

1884 Congress declares Labor Day a legal holiday.

1902 Congress passes the Spooner bill, authorizing a canal to be built across the isthmus of Panama.

1911 Samuel J. Battle becomes the first African-American policeman in New York City.

1914 Austria's Archduke Francis Ferdinand is assassinated at Sarajevo, Serbia.

1919 Germany signs the Treaty of Versailles under protest.

1921 A coal strike in Britain is settled after three months.

1930 More than 1,000 communists are routed during an assault on the British consulate in London.

1938 Congress creates the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to insure construction loans.

1942 German troops launch an offensive to seize Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus and the city of Stalingrad.

1945 General Douglas MacArthur announces the end of Japanese resistance in the Philippines.

1949 The last U.S. combat troops are called home from Korea, leaving only 500 advisers.

1950 General Douglas MacArthur arrives in South Korea as Seoul falls to the North.

1954 French troops begin to pull out of Vietnam's Tonkin province.

1964 Malcolm X founds the Organization for Afro-American Unity to seek independence for blacks in the Western Hemisphere.

1967 14 people are shot during race riots in Buffalo, New York.

1970 Muhammed Ali [Cassius Clay] stands before the Supreme Court regarding his refusal of induction into the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.

1971 The Supreme Court overturns the draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali.

1972 Nixon announces that no new draftees will be sent to Vietnam.

1976 The first women enter the U.S. Air Force Academy.

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June 29

1236 Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon take Cordoba in Spain.

1652 Massachusetts declares itself an independent commonwealth.

1767 The British parliament passes the Townshend Revenue Act, levying taxes on America.

1862 Union forces, falling back from Richmond, fight at the Battle of Savage's Station.

1880 France annexes Tahiti.

1888 Professor Frederick Treves performs the first appendectomy in England.

1903 The British government officially protests Belgian atrocities in the Congo.

1905 Russian troops intervene as riots erupt in ports all over the country, leaving many ships looted.

1917 The Ukraine proclaims independence from Russia.

1925 An earthquake ravages Santa Barbara, California.

1926 Fascists in Rome add an hour to the work day in an economic efficiency measure.

1932 Siam's army seizes Bangkok and announces an end to the absolute monarchy.

1938 Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, and Olympic National Park, Washington, are founded.

1950 President Harry S. Truman authorizes a sea blockade of Korea.

1951 The United States invites the Soviet Union to the Korean peace talks on a ship in Wonson Harbor.

1955 The Soviet Union sends tanks to Pozan, Poland, to put down anti-Communist demonstrations.

1966 The U.S. Air Force bombs fuel storage facilities near Hanoi, North Vietnam.

1967 Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem.

1970 U.S. troops pull out of Cambodia.

1982 Israel invades Lebanon.

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June 30

1520 Montezuma II is murdered as Spanish conquistadors flee the Aztec capital of Tenochtilan 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 Niagra 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.

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.

1948 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley demonstrate their invention, the transistor, for the first time.

1960 Alfred Hitchcock's film, Psycho, opens.

1971 Three Soviet cosmonauts die when their spacecreaft depressurizes during reentry.

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June 30

1520 Montezuma II is murdered as Spanish conquistadors flee the Aztec capital of Tenochtilan 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 Niagra 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.

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.

1948 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley demonstrate their invention, the transistor, for the first time.

1960 Alfred Hitchcock's film, Psycho, opens.

1971 Three Soviet cosmonauts die when their spacecreaft depressurizes during reentry.

Interesting day.

I'd read that the Tunguska event was possibly a small comet since I don't think they found any meteorite chunks.

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July 1

96 Vespasian, a Roman army leader, is hailed as a Roman emperor by the Egyptian legions.

1543 England and Scotland sign the Peace of Greenwich.

1596 An English fleet under the Earl of Essex, Lord Howard of Effingham and Francis Vere capture and sack Cadiz, Spain.

1690 Led by Marshall Luxembourg, the French defeat the forces of the Grand Alliance at Fleurus in the Netherlands.

1777 British troops depart from their base at the Bouquet river to head toward Ticonderoga, New York.

1798 Napoleon Bonaparte takes Alexandria, Egypt.

1838 Charles Darwin presents a paper on his theory of evolution to the Linnean Society in London.

1862 Union artillery stops a Confederate attack at Malvern Hill, Virginia.

1863 In the first day's fighting at Gettysburg, Federal forces retreat through the town and dig in at Cemetery Ridge and Cemetery Hill.

1867 Canada, by the terms of the British North America Act, becomes an independent dominion.

1876 Montenegro declares war on the Turks.

1898 American troops take San Juan Hill and El Caney, Cuba, from the Spaniards.

1942 German troops capture Sevestapol, Crimea, in the Soviet Union.

1945 The New York State Commission Against Discrimination is established--the first such agency in the United States.

1950 American ground troops arrive in South Korea to halt the advancing North Korean army.

1961 British troops land in Kuwait to aid against Iraqi threats.

1963 The U.S. postmaster introduces the zip code.

1966 The U.S. Marines launch Operation Holt in an attempt to finish off a Vietcong battalion in Thua Thien Province in Vietnam.