06-24-2011, 08:41 PM
|
|
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Maryland
Posts: 541,353
|
|
|
June 25th
1876 ~ Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out in the Battle of Little Big Horn.
1894 ~ Birthday of Hermann Oberth, Physicist & one of the founding fathers of Rocketry and Astronautics.
1903 ~ Birthday of George Orwell, Writer.
1950 ~ The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea.
1975 ~ Birthday of Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player.
1991 ~ Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from Yugoslavia.
1993 ~ Kim Campbell became the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
1997 ~ An unmanned cargo ship crashed into Russia's Mir space station, knocking out half of the station's power and rupturing a pressurized laboratory.
1997 ~ Death of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French Explorer, Scientist & Inventor.
1998 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 unconstitutional.
__________________
Eudaimonia
|