E06011813 the US Navy gets the motto "Don't give up the ship!" from Captain James Lawrence during a losing battle with a British frigate.
E06011925 Lou Gehrig starts in the first of 2,130 consecutive games.
E06011937 Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan begin their around-the-world trip.
E06011967 the Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
E06011968 "The Prisoner" premieres on American television (CBS).
E06011975 Nolan Ryan strikes out 9 pitching his fourth no-hitter, beating Baltimore 1-0.
E06011980 Cable News Network (CNN) goes on the air.
E06021858 the Donati Comet is first seen.
E06021883 the first regular night baseball game is played under lights in Ft. Wayne, IN.
E06021924 the US Congress grants citizenship to all American Indians.
E06021966 the US space probe Surveyor I lands on the moon.
E06031621 the Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands - now known as New York.
E06031888 "Casey at the Bat" is first published by the San Francisco Examiner.
E06031916 the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) is established by an Act of Congress.
E06031942 the Battle of Midway, Japan's first major defeat in WWII.
E06031949 "Dragnet" is first broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles).
E06031965 US astronaut Ed White becomes the first American to "walk" in space.
E06041647 the English army seizes King Charles I as a hostage.
E06041896 Henry Ford makes a successful test run with his car on a nighttime drive through the streets of Detroit.
E06041937 the first shopping carts are used in Oklahoma City, OK.
E06041940 the British complete the Miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops.
E06041942 the Battle of Midway begins, resulting in America's first significant victory over the Japanese.
E06041944 the Allies liberate Rome.
E06041959 Columbia Pictures releases the 190th, and last, Three Stooges short, "Sappy Bullfighters".
E06041989 the Chinese military puts down a student demonstration for democracy in Beijing's Tienanmen Square.
E06051783 the Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their hot-air balloon over France.
E06051933 the US goes off the gold standard.
E06051967 the Six-Day War begins between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
E06061844 the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London, England.
E06061918 the Battle of Belleau Wood, the first US victory of WWI.
E06061925 Walter Chrysler starts Chrysler Corporation.
E06061933 the first drive-in movie theatre opens in Camden, NJ.
E06061944 D-Day.
E06061978 "20/20" premieres on ABC-TV.
E06061985 authorities in Embu, Brazil exhume a body later identified as Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele.
E06071494 Spain and Portugal agree to divide up the known world.
E06071769 Daniel Boone begins his exploration of Kentucky.
E06071864 Abraham Lincoln is nominated for a second term as president.
E06071896 George Harpo and Frank Samuelson leave New York to try to row across the Atlantic Ocean.
E06071929 Vatican City is created.
E06071948 the communists complete their takeover of Czechoslovakia.
E06081786 the first commercially-made ice cream is sold in New York.
E06081861 Tennessee secedes from the Union.
E06081869 I.W. McGaffey receives a patent for the vacuum cleaner.
E06081950 in the most lopsided major league baseball game, the Red Sox beat the St. Louis Browns 29-4.
E06081967 Israeli forces mistakenly attack the US ship "Liberty" during the Six-Day War, killing 34 Americans.
E06081968 federal authorities announce the capture of James Earl Ray for the assassination of Martin Luther King.
E06091940 Norway surrenders to Nazi Germany in WW II.
E06091969 Warren E. Burger becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
E06091973 in the most lopsided Triple Crown race in history, Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths, in a record 2:24, becoming the first horse in 25 years to win the Triple Crown.
E06091985 American Thomas Sutherland is taken hostage in Lebanon.
E06101772 the burning of the Gaspee, a British revenue cutter, by Rhode Islanders.
E06101898 the US Marines land on Cuba during the in Spanish-American War.
E06101935 Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is founded in Akron, OH.
E06101942 the Gestapo massacres 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official.
E06101944 Joe Nuxhall becomes the youngest player in major league baseball history when he pitches a game for the Cincinnati Reds at age 15.
E06101966 the Beatles release "Paperback Writer" b/w "Rain".
E06101967 the Six-Day War comes to an end.
E06101977 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II.
E06101977 James Earl Ray escapes from a Tennessee prison with six others. He is recaptured on June 13.
E06101985 Claus von Bulow is acquitted in his second trial for the attempted murder of his wife Sunny.
E06111770 Capt. James Cook, commander of the British ship "Endeavour", discovers the Great Barrier Reef off of Australia by running into it.
E06111919 Sir Barton becomes the first horse to win the Triple Crown.
E06111935 Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, OH., by Bill W., and Doctor Bob.
E06111970 the last US detachment leaves Wheelus Air Base in Libya.
E06111990 Nolan Ryan strikes out 14 pitching his sixth no-hitter, beating Oakland 5-0.
E06121665 England installs a municipal government in New York.
E06121839 the first baseball game is played in America.
E06121939 the Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY.
E06121963 the movie "Cleopatra" premieres in New York.
E06121967 the Supreme Court strikes down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.
E06121978 David Berkowitz is sentenced to 25 years to life for the "Son of Sam" murders in New York.
E06121981 the third baseball strike starts.
E06121991 Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian Republic, the first free election in Russia's history.
E06131886 Bavarian King Ludwig II drowns.
E06131898 the Yukon Territory of Canada is organized.
E06131905 the mutiny on the Russian battleship "Potemkin" occurs in Odessa, Russia.
E06131944 Germany begins launching flying bombs (rockets) against England.
E06131966 the Supreme Court rules that criminal suspects must be informed of their constitutional rights before questioning by police. (Miranda vs. Arizona).
E06131983 Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the solar system 11 years after its launch.
E06131991 "The National", a sports daily, publishes its last issue.
E06141775 the US Army is founded.
E06141777 the Stars and Stripes is adopted as the US flag, replacing the Grand Union flag.
E06141846 settlers proclaim the free republic of California.
E06141847 Bunson invents a gas burner.
E06141919 the first direct airplane crossing of the Atlantic.
E06141940 Nazi Germany enters Paris.
E06141948 Dr. Peter Goldmark of CBS Records demonstrates the first successful long-playing record.
E06141952 the keel is laid for first nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus.
E06141971 the first Hard Rock Cafe opens in London.
E06141982 the war for the Falkland Islands ends.
E06151215 King John signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede, England.
E06151752 Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning.
E06151775 Washington is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the American Army.
E06151804 the 12th Amendment is ratified, manner of choosing President & V.P.
E06151836 Arkansas becomes the 25th state.
E06151844 Charles Goodyear receives a patent for his process to strengthen rubber.
E06151878 the first attempt at motion pictures, using 12 cameras, each taking one picture, (done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground during a gallop. Leland Stanford bet they didn't (and lost)).
E06151940 France surrenders to Nazi Germany.
E06160455 Rome is sacked for the second time in 45 years, this time by King Gaiseric and the Vandals.
E06161883 baseball's first "Ladies Day" is held.
E06161903 the Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
E06161961 ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to the west in Paris.
E06161963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman astronaut when the USSR launches Vostok VI.
E06161967 the first Monterey Pop Festival opens.
E06161991 the last Soviet soldiers leave Hungary after 46 years of occupation.
E06161991 Nolan Ryan strikes out number 5,500, ??? of the Yankees.
E06171094 El Cid (nee Don Rodrigo Diaz), captures Valencia from the Arabs after a 20-month siege.
E06171775 the Battle of Bunker Hill (actually Breed's Hill).
E06171856 the Republican Party holds its first convention in Philadelphia.
E06171885 the Statue of Liberty arrives in New York City aboard the French ship "Isere".
E06171928 Amelia Earhart is the first woman to embark on a trans-Atlantic flight from Newfoundland to Wales.
E06171972 the Watergate burglary occurs.
E06171987 American Charles Glass is taken hostage in Lebanon.
E06181155 Frederick Barbarossa is crowned Roman Emperor; at least 1,000 Romans die in the rioting which followed.
E06181812 the War of 1812 begins.
E06181815 Napoleon is defeated by Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo.
E06181941 Joe Louis fights Billy Conn for the first time.
E06181953 Egypt is proclaimed a republic.
E06181967 the first Monterey Pop Festival ends.
E06181968 Nolan Ryan strikes out number 100, Denny Le Master of Houston.
E06181971 Southwest Airlines begins service.
E06181983 Sally Ride becomes the first US woman in space.
E06191778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge.
E06191862 slavery is outlawed in US territories.
E06191910 the first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane.
E06191936 Max Schmeling knock's out Joe Louis to capture the heavyweight boxing title.
E06191977 Pope Paul proclaims 19th-century bishop John Neumann the first US male saint.
E06200451 Atilla and the Huns are defeated by the Romans and their allies at the Battle of Catalaunian Fields.
E06201632 Lord Baltimore is granted settlement rights to an area surrounding Chesapeake Bay, most of which is now Maryland.
E06201782 the United States chooses the eagle as it's symbol.
E06201837 Queen Victoria ascends to the English throne when King William IV dies.
E06201863 West Virginia becomes the 35th state.
E06201886 John Briggs becomes the first to document the effects of peyote.
E06201893 a New Bedford, MA., jury finds Lizzy Borden not guilty of killing her parents with an ax.
E06201947 mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel is assassinated in Beverly Hills.
E06201948 "Toast of the Town", or better known as "The Ed Sullivan Show", premieres on CBS-TV.
E06201963 the US and the USSR agree to set up a hotline between Washington and Moscow.
E06201977 oil begins flowing through the trans-Alaskan pipeline.
E06211788 New Hamshire becomes the 9th state.
E06211879 F.W. Woolworth opens his first store.
E06211945 the Japanese surrender Okinawa to the US.
E06211963 Pope Paul VI succeeds Pope John XXIII.
E06221808 Zebulon Pike reaches Pike's Peak.
E06221815 Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates for the second time.
E06221847 the doughnut is invented.
E06221868 Arkansas is re-admitted to the Union.
E06221870 Congress creates the Department of Justice.
E06221937 Joe Louis knock's out Jim Braddock to win the heavywieght boxing title.
E06221938 Joe Louis knock's out Max Schmeling to retain the heavyweight boxing title.
E06221940 Nazi Germany accepts the surrender of France.
E06221941 Nazi Germany, under Hitler, invades Russia.
E06221978 the planet Pluto's partner, Charon, is discovered.
E06221979 Julius Sommer, invented the Orange Julius, dies.
E06221983 the first time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by the Space Shuttle.
E06231868 the typewriter is patented by Christopher Latham Sholes.
E06231938 the Civil Aeronautics Authority (CAA) is established.
E06231956 Gamal Nasser is elected president of Egypt.
E06231969 Warren Burger is sworn in as chief justice of the Supreme Court.
E06241497 the first recorded discovery of North America by John Cabot.
E06241509 Henry VIII is crowned king of England.
E06241812 France, under Napoleon, invades Russia.
E06241948 the Communists cut off West Berlin from the west, prompting the US to organize an airlift of supplies into the city.
E06241949 "Hopalong Cassidy" premieres on NBC-TV.
E06241957 CBS-TV broadcasts the last episode of "I Love Lucy".
E06241974 Grand Funk Railroad releases "Shinin' On".
E06251178 five Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon (the only known observation of an impact on the moon by human beings).
E06251630 the fork is introduced to American dining by Governor Winthrop.
E06251788 Virginia becomes the 10th state.
E06251857 Gustave Flaubert goes on trial for obscenity for "Madame Bovary".
E06251950 the Korean War starts as North Korea invades South Korea.
E06251951 the first color telecast by CBS from New York to four other cities.
E06261870 the first section of Atlantic City's Boardwalk is opened.
E06261917 the first US troops land in France in WWI.
E06261919 the New York Daily News is first published.
E06261934 FDR signs the Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions.
E06261945 the UN Charter is signed in San Francisco.
E06261963 President Kennedy delivers his "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" speech.
E06271950 President Truman orders the Air Force and Navy into the Korean War.
E06271966 "Dark Shadows" premieres on ABC-TV.
E06271975 ABC-TV broadcasts the last episode of "Kung Fu".
E06281820 the tomato is proved to be non-poisonous.
E06281838 Victoria is crowned queen of England.
E06281919 the Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, is signed.
E06291767 the British Parliament approves the Townshend Revenue Acts on the Colonies.
E06291854 Congress ratifies the Gadsden Purchase, adding parts of New Mexico and Arizona to the US.
E06291863 the very first First National Bank opens in Davenport, IO.
E06291949 South Africa bans racially mixed marriages and suspends automatic citizenship for immigrants.
E06291955 R. Gordon Wasson and an assistant are the first to describe the effects of the psilocybe mushroom.
E06291967 Jerusalem is re-unified.
E06291972 the Supreme Court rules the way the death penalty is usually enforced constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment".
E06291977 Elvis Presley gives his last concert in Indianapolis.
E06301834 the Indian Territory is created by Congress.
E06301859 Emile Blondin is the first to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
E06301862 Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" is first published.
E06301870 Ada Kepley becomes the first woman to graduate law school.
E06301893 the Excelsior diamond (blue-white, 995 carats) is discovered.
E06301906 the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act become law.
E06301914 Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest, in a campaign for Indian equal rights, in South Africa.
E06301923 the Ku Klux Klan claims membership of one million people.
E06301936 "Gone With the Wind" is published.
E06301952 "The Guiding Light" premieres on CBS-TV.
E06301963 Pope Paul VI, (nee Giovanni Battista Montini), is installed as the 262nd Pope in Rome.
E06301971 the 26th Amendment is ratified, giving the vote to 18-year-olds.
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D06011868 James Buchanan, the 15th President, dies at age 77.
D06011939 British sub 'Thetis' sank in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard.
D06011943 Leslie Howard, actor, dies.
D06011965 Explosion at Fukuoka, Japan kills 237 coal miners.
D06011971 Reinhold Niebuhr, philosopher, dies at age 78.
D06011990 Sir Rex Harrison, actor, dies at age 82.
D06011991 Mount Pinatubo (Phillipines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years.
D06011991 David Ruffin, singer, dies at age 50.
D06021875 Georges Bizet, composer, dies at age 37.
D06021941 Lou Gehrig, baseball player, dies.
D06021965 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month that killed 35,000 to 40,000 living at the mouths of the Ganges River. (India)
D06021969 Australian aircraft carrier 'Melbourne' sliced U.S. destroyer 'Frank E. Evans' in half, killing 74. (South Vietnam)
D06031860 Comanche, Iowa completely destroyed by 1 of a series of tornadoes.
D06031962 Air France 707 crashes on takeoff from Orly Airport, killing 130, including 121 socially prominent from Atlanta, Georgia.
D06031989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, religious leader, dies.
D06031991 Mount Unzen erupts in Japan. Worst eruption in Japanese history.
D06041912 Cone of Mount Katmai (Alaska) collapses, spewing 7 cubic miles of ash & cinders burying an area as big as Connecticut from 10 inch to 10 feet deep.
D06051805 1st recorded tornado in 'Tornado Alley' , Southern Illinois.
D06051942 Elwood Ordnance Plant near Joliet, Illinois kills 54.
D06051946 Fire behind a false wall in the cocktail lounge flashes through the lobby, killing 61. (LaSalle Hotel, Chicago, Ill.)
D06051968 Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles at age 42.
D06051980 20 people are killed when a bus crashes into a ravine near Jasper, AR.
D06051991 Sylvia Porter, financial columnist, dies at age 77.
D06071692 Porte Royale, Jamaica slides into the harbor after earthquake.
D06061816 10 inches of snow fall on the northeastern U.S. during 'Year without Summer' caused by the Tambora eruption (04/05/1815)
D06061882 Cyclone in Arabian Sea pushes waves into Bombay, India. Drowning 100,000.
D06061971 Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over Los Angeles, California. All 50 die except radarman on Phantom.
D06061972 Explosion at the world's largest coal mine kills 427 at Wankie, Rhodesia.
D06061991 Stan Getz, musician, dies at age 64.
D06071967 Dorothy Parker, author/critic, dies.
D06080632 the prophet Mohammed, the founder of Islam, dies at age 62.
D06081845 Andrew Jackson, the 7th President, dies at age 78.
D06081953 Cluster of 6 tornaodes touch down in Flint, Michigan killing 113.
D06081953 tornadoes in Ohio and Michigan kill more than 110 people.
D06081970 Abraham Maslow, psychologist, dies at age 62.
D06081975 2 passenger trains collided near Munich, Germany killing 35.
D06090068 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide.
D06091870 Charles Dickens, author, dies at age 58.
D06091946 19 guests at Canfield Hotel die in fire. (Dubuque, Iowa)
D06091972 14 inches of rain in 6 hrs. burst a 40 year old dam above Rapid City, South Dakota destroying 80 blocks of buildings and drowning 200 people despite the mayor's efforts to warn the city.
D06091975 Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners & 1 guard. (Sanford, Fla
D06091991 Claudio Arrau, pianist, dies at age 88.
D06091991 Joe Hamilton, TV producer, dies at age 62.
D06111960 House packed with wedding celebrants collapses from combined weight. 30 die in Lahore, Pakistan.
D06111969 John L. Lewis, labor leader, dies at age 89.
D06121889 Single tornado kills 119, injures 146. (New Richmond, Wisconsin)
D06121897 Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam, India. Shock waves felt over an area the size of Europe. Negligible death toll.
D06131930 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista, Greece.
D06131955 Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans, France.
D06141801 Benedict Arnold, traitor?, dies.
D06141931 French 'St. Philbert' overturned off Saint Nazaire, France in a gale, drowning 450 people.
D06141962 the Boston Strangler kills his first victim, Anna Slesers, at age 55.
D06141986 Alan Lerner, songwriter, dies at age 67.
D06141986 Jorge Borges, author, dies at age 86.
D06141986 Marlin Perkins, TV personality, dies at age 81.
D06151849 James K. Polk, the 11th President, dies at age 53.
D06151896 Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on the beach at Sanriku, Japan. 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed.
D06151904 Side-wheeler 'General Slocum' burns in New York's East River with the loss of 1,031 lives.
D06151972 Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel caused crash of 2 trains, inside the tunnel, killing 107. (Soissons, France)
D06151991 A.B. (Happy) Chandler, baseball commissioner, dies at age 92.
D06161964 Quake strikes Niigata, Japan where shock resistant building survive only to sink as the ground under it liquified.
D06161989 Victor French, actor, dies.
D06171850 Paddle-wheeler 'G.P. Griffith' burns off Mentor, Ohio with the loss of 286 lives.
D06181928 Roald Amundsen, explorer, dies at age 55.
D06181953 USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen.
D06181972 BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118.
D06181984 Alan Berg, a Denver radio host is killed. (The inspiration for the film "Talk Radio".
D06181991 Joan Caulfield, actress, dies at age 69.
D06191938 'Olympian Flyer' express train crashed into storm-damaged bridge, drowning 47 in Custer Creek below. (Montana)
D06191953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are execuited for wartime espionage.
D06191956 Thomas Watson, founder of IBM, dies at age 82.
D06191991 Jean Arthur, actress, dies at age 90.
D06211946 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas, Texas.
D06211991 George McNeff, inventor of the outdoor gas grill, dies at age 75.
