NATIONAL DONALD DUCK DAY
68 ― Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging.
1534 ― Explorer Jacques Cartier first sails into the mouth of St. Lawrence River.
1790 ― The first book is copyrighted under the U.S. Constitution, "Philadelphia Spelling Book".
1802 ― The U.S. Military Academy at West Point is founded.
1856 ― 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1864 ― Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, GA (a.k.a., Pine Mountain, Pine Knob, Golgotha).
1869 ― Charles Elmer Hires sells his first root beer in Philadelphia.
1898 ― China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years.
1900 ― In China, Boxers destroy the race course in Peking, a few miles from the legations and the center and symbol of diplomatic social life and Western privilege.
1908 ― Kind Edward VII of Great Britain visits his cousin, Tsar Nicholas II, at Reval, Russia, where the two discuss the growing power of Germany and British plans for reform in Macedonia.
1910 ― A passenger on the SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard which was found June 6, 1983 in Queensland.
1928 ― Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm are the first to fly across the Pacific when they end their flight from California to Brisbane. -- National Museum Australia
1940 ― Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II.
1942 ― Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, which had been implicated in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi controller of Bohemia and Moravia, and Hitler’s order was given to “teach the Czechs a final lesson of subservience and humility”.
1944 ― Russia penetrates into East Karelia, in Finland, as it fights to gain back control of territory that had already been ceded to it.
1946 ― 66,545 fans help the New York Yankees break the one million attendance mark, the earliest to date.
1958 ― HM Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, (LGW), Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
1968 ― Yugoslav president Tito promises reforms.
1972 ―14" of rain in 6 hrs bursts Rapid City, SD dam, drowns 237.
1972 ― In a show of support for Iraq, OPEC moves to prevent companies whose interests were nationalized in Iraq from increasing production elsewhere.
1973 ― With a record-breaking 31-length victory at the Belmont Stakes, Secretariat becomes the first horse since Citation in 1948 to win America’s coveted Triple Crown―the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes.
1997 ― British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires.
1999 ― Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty.
2010 ― Hungary leaves the recession after experiencing 0.9% growth in the first quarter as a result of growing exports and effective government spending measures.
2013 ― Edward Snowden publicly makes his identity known as the leaker of NSA documents.
1772 ― On this day in 1772, colonists, angered by the British Parliament’s passing of the Townshend Acts restricting colonial trade, blacken their faces and board the HMS Gaspee, an armed British customs schooner that had run aground off the coast of Rhode Island. They then wounded the ship’s commander and set it aflame.
1790 ― The first book is copyrighted under the U.S. Constitution, "Philadelphia Spelling Book".
1802 ― The U.S. Military Academy at West Point is founded.
1856 ― 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1864 ― Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, GA (a.k.a., Pine Mountain, Pine Knob, Golgotha).
1869 ― Charles Elmer Hires sells his first root beer in Philadelphia.
1898 ― China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years.
1900 ― In China, Boxers destroy the race course in Peking, a few miles from the legations and the center and symbol of diplomatic social life and Western privilege.
1908 ― Kind Edward VII of Great Britain visits his cousin, Tsar Nicholas II, at Reval, Russia, where the two discuss the growing power of Germany and British plans for reform in Macedonia.
1910 ― A passenger on the SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard which was found June 6, 1983 in Queensland.
1928 ― Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm are the first to fly across the Pacific when they end their flight from California to Brisbane. -- National Museum Australia
1940 ― Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II.
1942 ― Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, which had been implicated in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi controller of Bohemia and Moravia, and Hitler’s order was given to “teach the Czechs a final lesson of subservience and humility”.
1944 ― Russia penetrates into East Karelia, in Finland, as it fights to gain back control of territory that had already been ceded to it.
1946 ― 66,545 fans help the New York Yankees break the one million attendance mark, the earliest to date.
1968 ― Yugoslav president Tito promises reforms.
1972 ―14" of rain in 6 hrs bursts Rapid City, SD dam, drowns 237.
1972 ― In a show of support for Iraq, OPEC moves to prevent companies whose interests were nationalized in Iraq from increasing production elsewhere.
1973 ― With a record-breaking 31-length victory at the Belmont Stakes, Secretariat becomes the first horse since Citation in 1948 to win America’s coveted Triple Crown―the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes.
1997 ― British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires.
1999 ― Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty.
2010 ― Hungary leaves the recession after experiencing 0.9% growth in the first quarter as a result of growing exports and effective government spending measures.
2013 ― Edward Snowden publicly makes his identity known as the leaker of NSA documents.
BORN TODAY
1672 – Peter the Great, Russian emperor (d. 1725)
1768 – Samuel Slater, English-American engineer and businessman, "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" (d. 1835)
1903 – Marcia Davenport, American author and music critic (d. 1996)
1915 – Les Paul, American guitarist and songwriter, one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar (d. 2009)
1672 – Peter the Great, Russian emperor (d. 1725)
1768 – Samuel Slater, English-American engineer and businessman, "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" (d. 1835)
1903 – Marcia Davenport, American author and music critic (d. 1996)
1915 – Les Paul, American guitarist and songwriter, one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar (d. 2009)
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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