June 221558 - The French took the French town of Thioville from the English. 1611 - English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers. 1772 - Slavery was outlawed in England. 1807 - British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812. 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated a second time. 1832 - J.I. Howe patented the pin machine. 1868 - Arkansas was re-admitted to the Union. 1870 - The U.S. Congress created the Department of Justice. 1874 - Dr. Andrew Taylor Still began the first known practice of osteopathy. 1909 - The first transcontinental auto race ended in Seattle, WA. 1911 - King George V of England was crowned. 1915 - Austro-German forces occupied Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat. 1925 - France and Spain agreed to join forces against Abd el Krim in Morocco. 1933 - Germany became a one political party country when Hitler banned parties other than the Nazis. 1939 - The first U.S. water-ski tournament was held at Jones Beach, on Long Island, New York. 1940 - France and Germany signed an armistice at Compiegne, on terms dictated by the Nazis. 1941 - Under the codename Barbarossa, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. 1942 - A Japanese submarine shelled Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River. 1942 - In France, Pierre Laval declared "I wish for a German victory". 1942 - V-Mail, or Victory-Mail, was sent for the first time. 1944 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the "GI Bill of Rights" to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war. 1945 - During World War II, the battle for Okinawa officially ended after 81 days. 1946 - Jet airplanes were used to transport mail for the first time. 1956 - The battle for Algiers began as three buildings in Casbah were blown up. 1959 - Eddie Lubanski rolled 24 consecutive strikes in a bowling tournament in Miami, FL. 1964 - The U.S. Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller's book, "Tropic of Cancer", could not be banned. 1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It required that the voting age in the United States to be 18. 1973 - Skylab astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific after a record 28 days in space. 1974 - In Chicago, the Sears Tower Skydeck opened. (Willis Tower) 1978 - James W. Christy and Robert S. Harrington discovered the only known moon of Pluto. The moon is named Charon. 1980 - The Soviet Union announced a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan. 1989 - The government of Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of the UNITA movement agreed to a formal truce in their 14-year-old civil war. 1990 - Checkpoint Charlie was dismantled in Berlin. 1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias violated free-speech rights. 1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that evidence illegally obtained by authorities could be used at revocation hearings for a convicted criminal's parole. 1998 - The 75th National Marbles Tournament began in Wildwood, NJ. 1999 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that persons with remediable handicaps cannot claim discrimination in employment under the Americans with Disability Act. 2009 - Eastman Kodak Company announced that it would discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film. |