NATIONAL PINK DAY
1611 – The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again.
1780 – The American Revolution: The Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township).
1969 – IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
1972 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the FBI's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
2001 – The 8.4 Mw southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured.
2013 – About 16 militants stormed a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan and killed 10 climbers, as well as a local guide.
2014 – The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
2016 – United Kingdom to hold an in out referendum on membership of the EU.
1812 – War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
1865 – American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
1931 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane. They arrived back on July 1, after traveling 15,474 miles (24,903 km) in the record time of 8 days and 15 hours and 51 minutes. The reception they received rivaled Charles Lindbergh's everywhere they went.
1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
1942 – World War II: The first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris.
1947 – The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. Labor leaders called it the "slave-labor bill" while President Truman argued that it was a "dangerous intrusion on free speech," and that it would "conflict with important principles of our democratic society."
1959 – Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
1961 – Cold War: The Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent, comes into force after the opening date for signature set for the December 1, 1959.
1969 – Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
1969 – IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
1972 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the FBI's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
1985 – A terrorist bomb aboard Air India Flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
2001 – The 8.4 Mw southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured.
2013 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.
2013 – About 16 militants stormed a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan and killed 10 climbers, as well as a local guide.
2014 – The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
2016 – United Kingdom to hold an in out referendum on membership of the EU.
BORN TODAY
1824 – Carl Reinecke, German pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1910)
1894 – Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956)
1912 – Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1954)
1926 – Magda Herzberger, Romanian author, poet and composer, survivor of the Holocaust
1948 – Clarence Thomas, American lawyer and judge (SCOTUS)
1824 – Carl Reinecke, German pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1910)
1894 – Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956)
1912 – Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1954)
1926 – Magda Herzberger, Romanian author, poet and composer, survivor of the Holocaust
1948 – Clarence Thomas, American lawyer and judge (SCOTUS)
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