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On June 7, 1966, Sony Corporation unveiled its brand new consumer home videotape recorder. The black and white only unit sold for $995...
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On June 8, 632, the prophet Mohammed died...
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On june 9th, in 1954, Army counsel Joseph N. Welch confronted Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy during the Senate-Army Hearings over McCarthy’s attack on a member of Welch’s law firm, Frederick G. Fisher. Said Welch: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
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Also on June 9, 1934, Donald Duck made his debut in the Silly Symphonies cartoon "The Wise Little Hen..."
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On June 10, 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous was founded by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith...
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Also on June 10th in 1967, the Six-Day War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire... which ended all hostilities in the region ever after.
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On June 11, 1963, Buddhist monk Quang Duc immolated himself on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem...
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Also on June 11th in 1942, the United States and the Soviet Union signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II.
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On June 12, 1667, the first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. He successfully transfused the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy...
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On June 13, 1912, Captain Albert Berry made the first successful parachute jump from an airplane in Jefferson, Mississippi...
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Also on June 13th, in 1966, the Supreme Court issued its landmark Miranda vs. Arizona decision, ruling that criminal suspects must be informed of their constitutional rights prior to questioning by police.
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On June 14th, In 1982, Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the disputed Falkland Islands.
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Also on June 14, 1940, the Nazis opened their concentration camp at Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland...
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On June 15th , in 1904, more than 1,000 people died when fire erupted aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York City’s East River.
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On June 15, 1752, Benjamin Franklin experimented by flying a kite during a thunderstorm. The result was a little spark that showed the relationship between lightning and electricity...
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On June 16, 1883, the New York Giants baseball team admitted all ladies for free to the ballpark. It was the first Ladies Day...
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Also on June 16th in 1933, President Roosevelt opened his New Deal recovery program, signing bank, rail, and industry bills and initiating farm aid.
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On June 17, 1872, George M. Hoover began selling whiskey in Dodge City, Kansas. The town had been dry up until this point.''
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On June 18, 1936, Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano was found guilty on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution...
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Also on June 18th in 1948, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.
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On June 19, 1903, the young school teacher, Benito Mussolini, was placed under investigation by police in Bern, Switzerland...
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Also on June 19th in 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
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On June 20, 1756, in India, 150 British soldiers were imprisoned in a cell that became known as the "Black Hole of Calcutta..."
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Also on June 20th, in 1967, boxer Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. The conviction was later overturned by the Supreme Court.
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On June 21st in 1964, three civil rights workers disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss. Their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later. Eight members of the Ku Klux Klan went to prison on federal conspiracy charges; none served more than six years.
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Also on June 21, 1913, Georgia Broadwick became the first woman to jump from an airplane...
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Also on June 21st, in 1788, the U.S. Constitution formally went into effect as New Hampshire became the 9th state to ratify.
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On June 22, 1611, English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers...
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Also on June 22nd in 1940, during World War II, Adolf Hitler gained a stunning victory as France was forced to sign an armistice eight days after German forces overran Paris.
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On June 23, 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention that he called a "Type-Writer..."
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Ok, I give... what's a typewriter?
Also on June 23rd in 1947, the Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. |
On June 24, 1869, Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant officially became the Vodoo Queen in San Francisco, CA...
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Also on June 24th in 1997, the Air Force released a report on the so-called “Roswell Incident,” suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies.
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On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. Custer and the 210 men of U.S. 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana. The event is known as "Custer's Last Stand..."
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Beat me to it and stole my story this morning. No more Scotch and Cokes for you Phil!
Also on June 25th in 1957 The last Packard--the classic American luxury car with the famously enigmatic slogan "Ask the Man Who Owns One"--rolls off the production line at Packard's plant in Detroit, Michigan. |
On June 26, 1819, the bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr...
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Also on June 26th in 1963, President Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he made his famous declaration: “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner).
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On June 27, 1693, "The Ladies' Mercury" was published by John Dunton in London. It was the first women's magazine and contained a "question and answer" column that became known as a "problem page..."
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Also on June 27th in 1950, President Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean War following a call from the United Nations Security Council for member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.
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