May 14th
 

1265 ~ Birthday of Dante Alighieri, Italian Poet.

1787 ~ In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates began arriving to write a new Constitution for the United States.

1796 ~ Edward Jenner administered the first smallpox vaccination.

1885 ~ Birthday of Otto Klemperer, Conductor.

1925 ~ Death of H. Rider Haggard, Author.

1944 ~ Birthday of George Lucas, film Director and Producer.

1955 ~ Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries including the Soviet Union signed a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.

1973 ~ Skylab, the first American space station, was launched.

1978 ~ Death of Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia

2004 ~ Piers Morgan was fired as editor of the Daily Mirror, when photographs that had been published in the newspaper of alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers were proved to be fake.

May 15th
 

1567 ~ Birthday of Claudio Monteverdi, Italian Composer.

1864 ~ American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia - Students from the Virginia Military Institute fought alongside the Confederate Army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.

1869 ~ Woman's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association.

1886 ~ Death of Emily Dickinson, Poet.

1914 ~ Birthday of Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa and mountaineer.

1919 ~ The Winnipeg General Strike began. By 11 AM, virtually the entire working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job.

1930 ~ Aboard a Boeing tri-motor, Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess, on a flight from Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois.

1957 ~ Britain tested its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.

1988 ~ Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army began its withdrawal from Afghanistan.

2004 ~ The largest prime number to be discovered, 2^24036583 − 1, was found by Josh Findley and the GIMPS collaborative effort.

May 16th
 

1620 ~ Death of William Adams, English Navigator and Japanese Samurai. In James Clavell's Shogun, John Blackthorne is loosely based on Adams.

1770 ~ 14-year old Marie Antoinette married 15-year old Louis-Auguste who later became king of France.

1866 ~ Charles Elmer Hires invented root beer.

1912 ~ Birthday of Louis "Studs" Terkel, Author.

1919 ~ Birthday of Liberace, American pianist.

1929 ~ In Hollywood, California the first Academy Awards are handed out.

1955 ~ Birthday of Olga Korbut, gymnast.

1966 ~ Birthday of Janet Jackson, Singer & Super Bowl Half Time Flasher.

1969 ~ Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.

2002 ~ Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones opened in theaters.

May 17th
 

1749 ~ Birthday of Edward Jenner, inventor of vaccination.

1829 ~ Death of John Jay, first Chief Justice of the U.S.

1838 ~ Death of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat.

1846 ~ The saxophone patented by Adolphe Sax.

1900 ~ Birthday of Ayatollah Khomeini.

1900 ~ Boer War: British troops relieved Mafeking.

1935 ~ Death of Paul Dukas, French composer.

1954 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court handed down their decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

1974 ~ Thirty-three people were killed by terrorist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland.

2004 ~ Same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts.

May 18th
 

1765 ~ Fire destroyed a large part of Montreal, Quebec.

1783 ~ First United Empire Loyalists reach New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the U.S.

1850 ~ Birthday of Oliver Heaviside, Physicist.

1910 ~ The Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet.

1911 ~ Death of Gustav Mahler, Austrian Composer.

1919 ~ Birthday of Dame Margot Fonteyn, Ballet dancer.

1937 ~ Birthday of Brooks Robinson, Baseball Hall of Famer.

1974 ~ Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonated its first nuclear weapon, becoming the sixth nuclear nation.

1975 ~ Death of Leroy Anderson, American Composer.

1980 ~ Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington state, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.

2005~ BIBI is having a strange day.

When this post was started... it was my Birthday... Little did I know I shared a B-Day so close to DicksBro

May 19th
 

1536 ~ Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England was beheaded for adultery.

1795 ~ Birthday of Johns Hopkins, Philanthropist.

1802 ~ The Légion d'Honneur was created by Napoleon Bonaparte.

1864 ~ Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Author.

1890 ~ Birthday of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader.

1897 ~ Oscar Wilde was released from Reading Gaol.

1925 ~ Birthday of Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge leader.

1935 ~ Death of T. E. Lawrence, English soldier ("Lawrence of Arabia").

1965 ~ Tui Malila, the longest living animal known, died in Tonga at the age of either 188 or 192.

2001 ~ One child policy: Zhonghua Sun was killed by People's Republic of China government officials because she refused to be sterilized.

May 20th
 

1772 ~ Birthday of Sir William Congreve, English inventor.

1806 ~ Birthday of John Stuart Mill, English philosopher.

1873 ~ Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.

1883 ~ The eruption of Krakatoa began, leading ultimately to the volcano's destruction three months later.

1896 ~ Death of Clara Schumann, German Pianist and Composer.

1901 ~ Birthday of Max Euwe, Dutch world chess champion.

1927 ~ By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognized the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merged to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

1980 ~ In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejected by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.

2000 ~ Death of Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist.

2002 ~ East Timor gained independence from Indonesia.

May 21st
 

1471 ~ Birthday of Albrecht Dürer, German painter and graphic artist.

1881 ~ Clara Barton established the American Red Cross.

1895 ~ Death of Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer.

1921 ~ Birthday of Andrei Sakharov, physicist and human rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Prize.

1924 ~ Nathan Leopold, Jr. and Richard Loeb murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".

1933 ~ Birthday of Maurice André, trumpeter.

1956 ~ Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean is nearly obliterated by the first airborne explosion of a hydrogen bomb.

1991 ~ Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.

2000 ~ Death of Sir John Gielgud, British actor.

2004 ~ Stanislav Petrov was awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in 1983.

May 22nd
 

1176 ~ Assassination attempt by the Hashshashin (Assassins) on Saladin near Aleppo.

1455 ~ At the First Battle of St Albans, which opened England’s Wars of the Roses, Richard, Duke of York, defeated and captured King Henry VI.

1813 ~ Birthday of Richard Wagner, Composer.

1840 ~ The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony was abolished.

1859 ~ Birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Physician and Writer.

1885 ~ Death of Victor Hugo, French author.

1907 ~ Birthday of Sir Laurence Olivier, Actor, Director.

1907 ~ Birthday of Hergé, comic book creator.

1972 ~ Ceylon adopts a new constitution, changed its name to Sri Lanka, and joined the British Commonwealth.

1998 ~ A federal judge ruled that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal, involving President Bill Clinton.

May 17th
 

1568 ~ Netherlands declared independence from Spain.

1701 ~ After being convicted of piracy, Captain William Kidd was hanged in London.

1805 ~ Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned King of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Cathedral of Milan.

1848 ~ Birthday of Otto Lilienthal, aviation pioneer.

1906 ~ Death of Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer.

1908 ~ Birthday of John Bardeen, the only person to have won two Nobel prizes in Physics.

1934 ~ Death of Bonnie and Clyde, outlaws.

1951 ~ Birthday of Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion.

1967 ~ Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran and blockaded the port of Eilat at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping, laying the foundations for the Six Day War.

1969 ~ Rock band The Who released Tommy, the first rock opera.

May 24th
 

1819 ~ Birthday of Queen Victoria.

1844 ~ The first telegram was sent by Samuel Morse, from Baltimore, Maryland to Washington, D.C., saying "What hath God wrought?".

1941 ~ The German battleship Bismarck sank the battlecruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic, killing all but three crewmen.

1941 ~ Birthday of Bob Dylan, Singer and Songwriter.

1959 ~ Death of John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State.

1969 ~ Death of Willy Ley, rocket scientist.

1988 ~ Section 28 was passed as law by Parliament in the U.K.

1991 ~ Israel executed Operation Solomon, which evacuated Ethiopian Jews to Israel.

1995 ~ Death of Harold Wilson, British statesman and P.M.

2000 ~ Israeli troops withdrew from southern Lebanon after 22 years.

May 25th
 

1803 ~ Birthday of Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher.

1889 ~ Birthday of Igor Sikorsky developer of the helicopter.

1895 ~ Oscar Wilde was convicted of sodomy and gross indecency and sentenced to serve two years in prison.

1926 ~ Birthday of Miles Davis, jazz musician and composer.

1929 ~ Birthday of Beverly Sills, Soprano.

1934 ~ Death of Gustav Holst, English composer.

1953 ~ At the Nevada Test Site, the U.S. conducted its first and only nuclear artillery test.

1963 ~ In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity was established.

1973 ~ Mike Oldfield released Tubular Bells.

1979 ~ The movie Alien opened, starring Tom Skerritt and Sigourney Weaver.

May 26th
 

1703 ~ Death of Samuel Pepys, English civil servant, famous for his diary.

1799 ~ Birthday of Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author.

1897 ~ Bram Stoker's novel Dracula went on sale in London.

1907 ~ Birthday of Rachel Carson, Environmental writer.

1908 ~ The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made at Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the U.K.

19928 ~ Birthday of Jack Kevorkian, Physician.

1940 ~ Battle of Dunkirk - In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk.

1951 ~ Birthday of Sally Ride, Astronaut.

2002 ~ The Mars Odyssey found signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet Mars.

2004 ~ The New York Times published an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skepticism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.

May 27th
 

1837 ~ Birthday of Wild Bill Hickok, Gunfighter.

1840 ~ Death of Nicolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer.

1877 ~ Birthday of Isadora Duncan, Dancer.

1932 ~ The Sydney Harbour Bridge opened.

1923 ~ Birthday of Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1973.

1934 ~ Birthday of Harlan Ellison, Science Fiction author.

1933 ~ The Walt Disney Co. released the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"

1937 ~ The Golden Gate Bridge opened to pedestrian traffic.

1968 ~ Future U.S. president George W. Bush enlisted in the Texas Air National Guard.

1999 ~ The International War Crimes Tribunal indicted Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.

May 28th
 

1588 ~ The Spanish Armada, started out from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.

1892 ~ In San Francisco, California, John Muir organized the Sierra Club.

1908 ~ Birthday of Ian Fleming, author of James Bond books.

1925 ~ Birthday of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone.

1934 ~ Birthday of The Dionne quintuplets, the world's first surviving quintuplets.

1939 ~ Alan Turing submitted On Computable Numbers for publication.

1964 ~ The Palestine Liberation Organization was formed.

1971 ~ Death of Audie Murphy, American actor and war hero.

1982 ~ Falklands War: British forces defeated the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.

1987 ~ 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evaded Soviet air defenses and landed a private plane in Red Square in Moscow.

May 29th
 

1452 ~ Ottoman armies captured Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.

1860 ~ Birthday of Isaac Albéniz, Spanish Composer.

1874 ~ Birthday of G. K. Chesterton, English author.

1886 ~ John Pemberton placed his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in the Atlanta Journal.

1906 ~ Birthday of T.H. White, English author.

1913 ~ Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring premiered in Paris.

1917 ~ Birthday of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the U.S.

1919 ~ Observation of shifted star positions during a solar eclipse confirmed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.

1953 ~ Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

1972 ~ Terrorism: Three Japanese Red Army gunmen opened fire on crowds at Lod International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 26 people and injuring dozens more.

May 30th
 

1431 ~ Death of Joan of Arc, French commander and saint (burned at the stake by a pro-English tribunal)

1640 ~ Death of Peter Paul Rubens, German painter.

1778 ~ Death of Voltaire, French philosopher, author.

1814 ~ The first Treaty of Paris returned French borders to their 1792 limits. Napoleon I of France was exiled to Elba on the same day.

1926 ~ Birthday of Christine Jorgensen, transsexual activist.

1942 ~ World War II: 1000 British bombers launched a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.

1964 ~ Death of Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American nuclear physicist.

1967 ~ The Nigerian state of Biafra seceded, sparking a civil war.

1982 ~ Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr played the first of 2,632 consecutive games. His streak ended on September 20, 1998.

1989 ~ The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue was unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.

May 31st
 

1669 ~ Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys made the last entry in his diary.

1809 ~ Death of Joseph Haydn, Composer.

1819 ~ Birthday of Walt Whitman, American poet.

1884 ~ John Harvey Kellogg patented corn flakes.

1916 ~ World War I: The German and British navies fought the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval battle of the war.

1923 ~ Birthday of Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

1927 ~ The Ford Model T assembly line shut down after a production run of 15,007,003.

1938 ~ Birthday of Peter Yarrow, American folk singer ("Peter, Paul and Mary").

1961 ~ Creation of the Republic of South Africa.

1996 ~ Death of Timothy Leary, LSD advocate.

June 1st
 

1495 ~ Friar John Cor :wingang: recorded the first known batch of scotch whisky.

1660 ~ Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for defying a law banning Quakers from the colony. She is considered to be the last religious martyr in North America.

1801 ~ Birthday of Brigham Young, Mormon church leader and American western settler.

1804 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer.

1890 ~ The U.S. Census Bureau began using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.

1918 ~ World War I: Battle for Belleau Wood began, during which came forth the famous phrase "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" Heroes indeed!

1926 ~ Birthday of Marilyn Monroe, Actress.

1938 ~ Action Comics issued the first Superman comic.

1965 ~ Birthday of Nigel Short, English chess player.

1967 ~ The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released.

June 2nd
 

1740 ~ Birthday of Marquis de Sade, French author.

1800 ~ First smallpox vaccination in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland.

1835 ~ Start of P.T. Barnum’s circus’ first tour of the U.S.

1840 ~ Birthday of Thomas Hardy, Poet & Novelist.

1857 ~ Birthday of Edward Elgar, English composer.

1896 ~ Marconi received a patent for his newest invention: the radio.

1897 ~ Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he was dead, was quoted as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."

1953 ~ Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised.

1987 ~ Death of Andres Segovia, Spanish guitarist.

1990 ~ Death of Rex Harrison, English actor.

June 3rd
 

1875 ~ Death of Georges Bizet, French composer.

1888 ~ The poem Casey at the Bat, by Ernest Thayer, was published in the San Francisco Examiner.

1889 ~ The coast to coast Canadian Pacific Railway was completed.

1899 ~ Death of Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer.

1924 ~ Death of Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist.

1925 ~ Birthday of Tony Curtis, Actor.

1926 ~ Birthday of Allen Ginsberg, American poet.

1937 ~ The Duke of Windsor married Wallis Simpson.

1969 ~ The science fiction television series Star Trek aired its final new episode after being canceled by NBC.

1989 ~ The PRC government sent troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.

June 4th
 

1798 ~ Death of Giacomo Casanova, Italian lover.

1876 ~ The Transcontinental Express arrived in San Francisco, California via the first American transcontinental railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.

1917 ~ Order of the British Empire introduced.

1919 ~ Birthday of Robert Merrill, American baritone.

1919 ~ The U.S. Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.

1928 ~ Birthday of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, German-American sex therapist, author.

1940 ~ As the last Allied soldier left Dunkirk, British P.M. Churchill vowed his forces "shall never surrender".

1986 ~ Jonathan Pollard pleaded guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.

1989 ~ Several hundred civilians were shot dead by the PRC army during the military operation to crush the democratic uprising in Tiananmen Square.

1998 ~ Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

June 5th
 

1723 ~ Birthday of Adam Smith, Scottish economist.

1849 ~ Denmark became a constitutional monarchy.

1883 ~ Birthday of John Maynard Keynes, English economist.

1910 ~ Death of O. Henry, American author.

1933 ~ The U.S. Congress abrogated the United States' use of the gold standard.

1947 ~ At a speech at Harvard University, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall called for economic aid to Europe.

1975 ~ Death of Paul Keres, Estonian chess player.

1977 ~ The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, went on sale.

1995 ~ The first Bose-Einstein condensate was created.

2004 ~ Death of Ronald Reagan.

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June 6th
 

1683 ~ Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum opened as the world's first university museum.

1844 ~ The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London.

1859 ~ Queen Victoria made Queensland into a separate colony.

1868 ~ Birthday of Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer.

1901 ~ Birthday of Sukarno, first President of Indonesia.

1903 ~ Birthday of Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer.

1944 ~ D-Day (Operation Overlord) began with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France.

1961 ~ Death of Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist.

1972 ~ David Bowie released The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

1985 ~ The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" was exhumed; the remains found were later shown to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz' "Angel of Death".

June 7th
 

1099 ~ Beginning of Siege of Jerusalem.

1329 ~ Death of Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland.

1848 ~ Birthday of Paul Gauguin, French impressionist painter.

1862 ~ The U.S. and U.K. agreed to suppress the slave trade.

1897 ~ Birthday of George Szell, Hungarian conductor.

1914 ~ The first vessel passed through the locks of the Panama Canal.

1917 ~ Birthday of Dean Martin, Singer & Actor.

1929 ~ Vatican City became a sovereign state.

1954 ~ Death of Alan Turing, mathematician, computer scientist.

1981 ~ The Israeli Air Force destroyed Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor.

June 8th
 

632 ~ Death of Muhammad, founder of Islam.

1810 ~ Birthday of Robert Schumann, Composer.

1866 ~ The Canadian Parliament met for the first time in Ottawa.

1876 ~ Death of George Sand, Author.

1887 ~ Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punch card calculator.

1910 ~ Birthday of John W. Campbell Jr., Science Fiction Writer, Publisher, & Editor.

1916 ~ Birthday of Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS, most noted for being one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule.

1949 ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell was published.

1950 ~ Sir Thomas Blamey became the only Field Marshal in Australian history.

998 ~ Charlton Heston assumed the presidency of the National Rifle Association.

June 9th
 

68 ~ Suicide of Nero, Roman Emperor.

1810 ~ Birthday of Otto Nicolai, Composer.

1815 ~ End of the Congress of Vienna: a new European political situation was set.

1860 ~ Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter was the first dime novel to be published.

1870 ~ Death of Charles Dickens, English author.

1916 ~ Birthday of Robert McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense, former president of the World Bank.

1934 ~ Donald Duck debuted in The Wise Little Hen.

1959 ~ The USS George Washington launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.

1973 ~ Secretariat won the Triple Crown.

1999 ~ Kosovo War: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO signed a peace treaty.

June 10th
 

323 BC ~ Death of Alexander the Great.

1829 ~ First Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge.

1836 ~ Death of André-Marie Ampère, French physicist.

1846 ~ The California Republic declared independence from Mexico.

1915 ~ Birthday of Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1921 ~ Birthday of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

1977 ~ Apple Computer began shipping the Apple II personal computer.

1991 ~ New York City hosted “The Mother of All Parades", welcoming back troops from Operation Desert Storm.

1997 ~ Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot ordered the killing of his defense chief Son Sen. Paranoia seems to be a common ailment among losing dictators.

2004 ~ Death of Ray Charles, Singer & Musician.

June 11th
 

1770 ~ Captain James Cook ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef.

1776 ~ Birthday of John Constable, English painter.

1864 ~ Birthday of Richard Strauss, Composer & Conductor.

1892 ~ The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, opened in Melbourne.

1918 ~ Birthday of Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, Nobel Peace prize winner.

1937 ~ Death of R. J. Mitchell, British aircraft designer, developer of the Spitfire.

1963 ~ Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burned himself with gasoline in a Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.

1998 ~ Compaq Computer purchased Digital Equipment Corporation.

2001 ~ Death of Timothy McVeigh, terrorist (executed).

2004 ~ Cassini-Huygens made its closest flyby of Phoebe.

June 12th
 

1665 ~ England installed a government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.

1897 ~ Birthday of Anthony Eden, U.K. Prime Minister.

1942 ~ Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

1963 ~ Death of Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist.

1967 ~ The U.S.Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declared all state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.

1979 ~ Bryan Allen flew the man powered Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel.

1987 ~ Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

1990 ~ The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declared its sovereignty.

1994 ~ Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home in Los Angeles. O. J. Simpson was acquitted of the killings, but held liable in a civil suit.

2003 ~ Death of Gregory Peck, Actor.

June 13th
 

1777 ~ Marquis de Lafayette arrived to help America train its army.

1865 ~ Birthday of William Butler Yeats, Poet, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1923.

1886 ~ A fire razed much of Vancouver, British Columbia.

1892 ~ Birthday of Basil Rathbone, Actor.

1944 ~ Germany launched the first V1 “Buzz Bomb” attack on England.

1966 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.

1967 ~ Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall was nominated as the first Black Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

1970 ~ "The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' last #1 song.

1982 ~ Fahd became King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.

1995 ~ French president Jacques Chirac announced the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.

June 14th
 

1671 ~ Birthday of Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer.

1736 ~ Birthday of Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French mathematician. The unit of electrical charge, the coulomb, and Coulomb's law are named after him.

1872 ~ Trade unions legalized in Canada.

1903 ~ Birthday of Alonzo Church, Mathematician & Logician.

1909 ~ Birthday of Burl Ives, American Folk Singer, Author & Actor.

1919 ~ John Alcock and Arthur Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.

1952 ~ The keel was laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.

1982 ~ Argentine forces in the capital Port Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces, bringing the Falklands War to an end.

1985 ~ TWA Flight 847 was hijacked by Hezbollah.

1995 ~ Death of Roger Zelazny, science fiction author.

June 15th
 

1215 ~ King John of England put his seal to the Magna Carta.

1330 ~ Birthday of Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales.

1752 ~ Benjamin Franklin showed that lightning is electricity.

1844 ~ Charles Goodyear received a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.

1843 ~ Birthday of Edvard Grieg, Norwegian Composer.

1914 ~ Birthday of Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1916 ~ U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America.

1995 ~ Death of John Vincent Atanasoff, computer pioneer.

1996 ~ In Manchester, U.K., a terrorist bomb injured over 200 people.

1996 ~ Death of Ella Fitzgerald, Jazz singer.

June 16th
 

1829 ~ Birthday of Geronimo, Apache warrior and leader.

1890 ~ Birthday of Stan Laurel, Comedian.

1912 ~ Birthday of Enoch Powell, British politician.

1938 ~ Birthday of Joyce Carol Oates, novelist.

1948 ~ The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by the Cathay Pacific airline, marked the first skyjacking of a commercial plane.

1961 ~ Rudolf Nureyev defected at Le Bourget airport in Paris.

1963 ~ Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.

1977 ~ Death of Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist.

1977 ~ Leonid Brezhnev became president of the USSR.

1983 ~ Yuri Andropov became president of the USSR.

June 17th
 

1631 ~ Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spent more than 20 years to build her tomb, the Taj Mahal.

1775 ~ Battle of Bunker Hill - The British forces took Bunker Hill outside of Boston.

1818 ~ Birthday of Charles Gounod, French Composer.

1882 ~ Birthday of Igor Stravinsky, Russian Composer.

1885 ~ The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor.

1898 ~ Birthday of M. C. Escher, Dutch Artist.

1942 ~ Birthday of Mohamed El Baradei, IAEA Director.

1945 ~ Birthday of Eddy Merckx, Belgian Cycling Champion.

1972 ~ Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives were arrested while burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee.

1974 ~ The Irish Republican Army bombed the U.K.’s House of Parliament.

June 18th
 

1178 ~ Five Canterbury monks saw what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed.

1815 ~ Battle of Waterloo lead to Napoleon Bonaparte abdicating the throne of France for a second, final time.

1873 ~ Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.

1915 ~ Birthday of Red Adair, Firefighter.

1928 ~ Death of Roald Amundsen, Explorer, first to the South Pole.

1942 ~ Birthday of Paul McCartney, Singer & Songwriter.

1945 ~ William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) was charged with treason.

1967 ~ Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.

1979 ~ U.S. President Jimmy Carter and U.S.S.R. leader Leonid Brezhnev signed Salt II.

1983 ~ Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.

June 19th
 

1623 ~ Birthday of Blaise Pascal, Mathematician.

1865 ~ Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas were finally informed of their freedom.

1896 ~ Birthday of Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor.

1912 ~ Establishment of the 8-hour work day in the U.S.

1934 ~ The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was established in the United States.

1937 ~ Death of J. M. Barrie, Author, creator of the character Peter Pan.

1945 ~ Birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, Politician & recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1953 ~ Death of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, convicted spies.

1978 ~ First appearance of the comic strip Garfield.

2005 ~ Father’s Day (U.S.)