This Day in History Thread (1 Viewer)

[JohnS]

June 1st

1955: The movie THIS ISLAND EARTH has its premiere.
1964: The movie HORROR OF PARTY BEACH has its premiere.

 

[Rob Gardiner]

June 1, 2007: Get your free donut at participating Krispy Kreme locations in celebration of NATIONAL DONUT DAY. Hooray! http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/st...4596984&EDATE=

 

[Chris]

June 2, 1865 - The American Civil War officially ends. Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, general of the Mississippi Army signs the Union negotiated terms.

June 2, 1935 - Babe Ruth retires from Baseball

June 2, 1886 - President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom. Cleveland became enamored with the 21 year old Folsom, who was viewed by many as one of the most attractive women in Washington. Immediately popular with the public. President Cleveland (49) had been friends with Folsom's parents, and had reportedly purchased her baby carriage when she was born. When she went to college, Cleveland asked for her parent's permission to correspond with her, (she of 16 he *slightly* older).) Their marriage had two children and Frances stayed with Cleveland until his death.

June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II is coronated in England.

June 2, 1997 - Timothy McVeigh convicted of the Oklahoma City bombing. Up to that point, the single largest terrorist attack on US soil, the OKC bombing killed 168, mamed or injured over 2,000. McVeigh was convicted of 15 counts of conspiracy & murder. McVeigh became the first federal execution since 1963 in 2001.

June 2, 1912 - Universal Studios founded. Carl Laemmle (Independent Motion Picture Company) Merges together several smaller studios to form the first real major studio.

 

[Chris]

June 3, 1989 - Chinese troops begin their march into Tienemen Square. Pictures of the tanks coming to push out students still is the stuff of poster material. Estimates say between 300-700 were killed. Thousands injured.

June 3, 1965 - Major Edward H. White II becomes the first American to space walk.

 

[Rob Gardiner]

June 4, 1982 - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan opens

June 4, 1977 - Apple II is released and becomes the first popular home computer

June 4, 1974 - NFL grants franchise to Seattle Seahawks

June 4, 1965 - "When I'm watching my TV, and a man comes on to tell me how white my shirts could be, but he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me"

June 4, 1945 - England, Russia, France, and the USA decide to carve Germany like a turkey

June 4, 1929 - George Eastman demonstrates first Technicolor movie

June 4, 1070 - Roquefort cheese is created in a cave near the town of the same name

 

[Chris]

June 6, 1944 - D-Day. Operation Overlord, the storming of the beach of Normandy begins. On the morning of June 5, 1944, Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for the largest amphibious assault in history, using combined forces of multiple military to storm the beach of Normandy. Eisenhower directed British and Canadian armies to Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches, where their forces were unexpected and quickly victorious. The battle at Omaha beach, comprised mostly of American troops, was considerably more difficult. In a period of around 8 hours, 2,000+ men were killed in combat.

Erwin Rommel, famed German commander was on "forced away leave" of which there is a great deal of debate; Hitler believed the initial attack was a feint and refused to commit armored battalians and Rommel never took full command in the European theater.

June 6, 1932 - Congress initiates first "gas tax" of 1 cent. (Current gas tax ranges around ~62 cents dependent on your state)

June 6, 1949 - Orwell's "1984" Published.

June 6, 1865 - William Quantrill killed by Union soldiers. Far more significant for those in the midwest, Quantrill led a rag-tag faux-confederate raiders who managed to ransack towns. Famous for the sacking and shooting of around 150 innocent civilians in Lawerence, Kansas for their harboring of Union soldiers.

 

[Chris]

June 8, 1968 - James Earl Ray, fugitive wanted in the assassination of Martin Luther King arreested in London

June 8, 632 - Founder of Islam, Mohammad, dies.

June 8, 1968 - Robert Kennedy funeral occurs. Murdered the night of the 5th, Robert Kennedy is laid to rest.

June 8, 1949 - FBI report names Hollywood communists. The report, which was done at the behest of Congressional and executive authorities was the culmination of work begun in 1945. Academy Award Winner Frederic March is one of those specifically singled out.

 

[Chris]

June 9, 1954 - Joseph Welch puts an exclamation point on the McCarthy hearings. "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?" McCarthy managed to keep fair popularity with many republicans and some democrats, for years, but when Eisenhower took office, McCarthy began to lose it. Eisenhower privately referred to him as a "dope" in 1953, which began McCarthy's pronouncements of communism within the military. Enraged at his actions, commanders and former commanders let Eisenhower and congressmen of both parties know. When Welch, who represented the Army, easily deflated McCarthy's trumped up claims McCarthy's agitation and bullying led him to that moment. By the afternoon of June 9, the Eisenhower administration made clear they would make no other military representatives available for hearings and would not support them. In a week, with pressure coming from the white house and senate democrats, hearings were shut down. McCarthy stayed in office until he died in 1957.

June 9, 1934 - The Wise Little Hen by Disney shows the first time Donald Duck appears.

June 9, 1964 - The CIA issues it's overview of LBJ's "Domino Theory" in regards to Vietnam. Johnson's theory, that Vietnam involvement was necessary to prevent a domino effect of communism is widely swept aside by the CIA who announced such a happening would be "doubtful". Johnson largely ignored the analysis, contending that many of those in the CIA were still Eisenhower & JFK's "cronies", a systematic replacement of CIA officials began shortly thereafter.

June 9, 1923 - Final work on the last "Alice" short is completed by Laugh-O-Gram, a company run by Walt & Roy Disney in Kansas City, Missouri. Disney had a small but powerful stable of employees: Ub Iwerks, Hugh Harman, Rudolph Ising, Carmen Maxwell, and Friz Freleng.. but in the end, he was unable to make ends meet. "Alice in the Big League" would not be released until 1927.

 

[Chris]

June 10, 1752 - Benjamin Franklin performs his Kite in a Thunderstorm electricity experiment.

June 10, 1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous founded. Is Paris Hilton a member yet?

June 10, 1953 - Eisenhower, who had been under attack by Senator Robert Taft (R-OH) and Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg for his efforts to have the UN broker a peace agreement to the Korean conflict and for his plan to cut $5 Billion out of the Air Force budget, delivers his "New Look" policy speech, advocating three main goals: (1) Communism is a great threat ("The threat to the soul of mankind"), but the US Needs to work with other nations to contain and cannot act unilaterally, calling that strategy a " 'fortress' theory of defense." (2) He notes that in the age of nuculear weapons, there is no need for a large defense.. noting that just a "small number of aircraft" could "visit on an enemy as much explosive violence as was hurled against Germany by our entire air effort throughout four years of World War II." Thus, the need for a large military was a thing of the past he contended. (3) That by using other nations as brokers, the United States should begin looking for a "bigger bang for the buck" from it's military policy, hold and shake the stick, and let other nations play "thoughtful broker" in military matters.

June 10, 1963 - John F Kennedy signs multiple important legislation, and changes minds. At 8AM EST, Kennedy Announces that the US will cease all atmospheric tests of Nuclear weapons. Kennedy announces that the US does not seek a “Pax Americana”, an American Empire, but rather a 'strategy of peace' He calls his stance on atmospheric test an 'open policy' and invites the USSR, Britain, and France to join in talks - and asks for them to cease testing within 2 months also. Two months later, atmosphere, space or underwater tests of nuclear weapons were banned. Only one of the signor nations has ever broken the treaty (France). At 1PM EST, Kennedy signs into law the Equal Pay Act (EPA), which notes that women cannot be paid significantly less for similar jobs in the workplace. Kennedy wraps up his day by sending a telegram to George Wallace, (D-AL) governor of Alabama asking him to not prevent black students from going to school in light of court cases he had lost. Wallace declines, and Kennedy is forced to call in the national guard. That comes up tomorrow

June 10, 1940 - Italy announces it's alliance with Germany and declares war on Britain and France.

 

[Rob Gardiner]

June 11, 2001 - Timothy McVeigh executed for the Oklahoma City bombing.

June 11, 1994 - Jacksonville, Florida fills the world's largest popcorn container with 6,619.76 cubic feet of popped kernels.

June 11, 1991 - Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0

June 11, 1990 - United States Supreme Court strikes down flag desecration ban.

June 11, 1982 - E.T. - The Extra Terrestrial released.

June 11, 1977 - Disneyland's Main Street Electrical Parade debuts.

June 11, 1967 - United States Supreme Courts hands down its decision in Loving v. Virginia. The ruling holds that state bans against inter-racial marriages are unconstitutional.

 

[Rob Gardiner]

June 13, 1986 - Mary-Kate Olsen born.

June 13, 1986 - Ashley Olsen born.

 

[Chris]

June 13, 1966 - Miranda Rights Established.
June 13, 1967 - Thurgood Marshall appointed to the Supreme Court
June 13, 1970 - The Beatles hit #1 for the last time (as a new release) as "Long and Winding Road" hit #1. (Free As a Bird hit #1 in contemporary years later, but not as a group unified release)

 

[Chris]

June 15, 1215 - Magna Carta Sealed.
June 15,1846 - US Canadian Border Agreed upon.
June 15, 1776 - Deleware declares independence and breaks away from Pennsylvania.

 

[Chris]

June 16, 1884 - The first rollercoaster in the US, the "Switchback" opens on Coney Island.

June 16, 1977 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes elected president of the Supreme Soviet, at the same time he is First Secretary of the Communist party, making him the most powerful soviet leader since Stalin. He's most remembered for his invasion of Afghanistan, which led to Soviet uproar, years of war, and then a succession of several future leaders who tended to die quickly in the 80s.

June 16, 1943 - Charlie Chaplin (54) marries Oona O'Neill (18)

June 16, 1961 - Kennedy agrees with South Vietenamese leadership and sends 900 advisors for training of their military, and offers "small" increases in US forces present. By the end of 1962, that number was 3,200 troops. Around 16,000 by the time of Kennedy's assassination.

June 16, 1965 - LBJ orders a large scale increase of troops in Vietnam, ordering 21,000 more troops to the country. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces that in continuing the goals of predecessors and the goals of the US in the world, the troops would successfully train the South Vietnamese to fight for themselves against the communists.

June 16, 1985- Very few games ever had this kind of craze. Alexey Pajitnov first showed "Tetris" developed on an Electronica 60, which started Vadim Gerasimov working on his IBM PC port, which would appear later. Tetris was an instant hit. But when it appeared on the Nintendo Gameboy a few years later (1989) Tetris officially became unstoppable.

 

[Chris]

June 19, 1885 - Statue of Liberty Arrives in NY

June 19, 1953 - Rosebergs are executed for their involvement in passing atomic secrets to the Soviet government. They denied their involvement to the death. David Greenglass, Ethel's brother and a military worker at Los Almos confessed to his involvement in turning over secrets but quickly named names and turned over his sister & brother in law, as well as others. Shortly thereafter, President Truman had the secret service make all arrests and the trial began March, 1951. Convicted in a short trial and sentenced to death, they remained at Sing Sing prison through the remainder of Truman's term. Pressed to offer them clemency as he left office, Truman denied such an act, saying that the US "must work diligently" to prevent the spread of nuclear technology, as that fate could lead to the death of millions. Before their execution, newly elected President Eisenhower echoed Truman's statement saying that their work may have lead to the potential "death of Millions". As years have passed, both the case has drawn many who believe they were wrongly executed and those who believe that they were spies.

June 19, 1944 - Marianas Turkey Shoot, the largest carrier battle of the Japanese front of WWII occurs. Japan's casualties in this battle lead to major shifts in tactics, resulting in commanders committing suicide on Saipan and urging all troops to fight to the death and use their bodies as weapons.

 

[Chris]

June 20, 1975 - Jaws released
June 20, 1782 - The US Seal is accepted by congress
June 20, 1963 - US and Russia establish the "Hot Line"
June 20, 1986 - Mario Brothers released for the Nintendo Entertainment System

 

[Scott_J]

June 20, 1863 - West Virginia becomes the 35th state.
June 20, 1948 - "Toast of the Town" (later "The Ed Sullivan Show") debuts.

Edit: It would help if I knew the date. So that was yesterday in history.

 

[Rob Gardiner]

June 21, 1947 - Both Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter are born on this day.

 

[Mike Frezon]

I bet we been together for a million years,
And I bet we’ll be together for a million more.
Oh, It’s like I started breathing on the night we kissed,
And I can’t remember what I ever did before.
What would we do baby, without us?

What would we do baby, without us?
And there ain’t no nothing we can’t love each other through.
What would we do baby, without us? Sha la la la.



That IS amazing. Still making my way through the DVDs of Season 1.

 

[Scott_J]

Nevermind.