On This Date In 1611 After spending a
winter trapped by ice in present-day Hudson Bay,
the starving crew of the Discovery
mutinied against its captain, English navigator Henry Hudson, and set him, his
teenage son, and seven supporters adrift in a small, open boat. Hudson and the
eight others were never seen again.
On This Date In 1774 The Quebec Act of
1774 was passed by the Parliament of Great Britain. Referred to as one of the
Intolerable Acts leading to the American Revolution, the act annexed the region
of the Northwest Territories to the province of Quebec, suppressed religious and
political freedoms, and was designed as punishment for the Boston Tea Party and
other protests.
On This Date In 1775 The Continental Congress
issued $2 million in bills of credit. The bills, known at the time as “Continentals,”
notably lacked the then de rigueur rendering of the British king. Instead, some
of the notes featured likenesses of Revolutionary soldiers and the inscription
“The United Colonies.” Whatever their novelty, the Continentals proved to be a
poor economic instrument: backed by nothing more than the promise of “future
tax revenues” and prone to rampant inflation, and ultimately had little fiscal
value. The Continental failed and left the young nation saddled with a hefty
war debt.
On This Date In 1864 During the American
Civil War, the Battle of Kolb's Farm was fought between Union forces under Maj.
Gen. Joseph Hooker and Confederate forces under Lt. Gen. John B. Hood. Hood
attempted an attack on the Union force, but poor terrain conditions led to its
failure.
On This Date In 1864 During the American
Civil War, Union forces attempted to capture a railroad that had been supplying
Petersburg, Virginia,
from the south, and extend their lines to the Appomattox
River. The Confederates thwarted the attempt, and the two sides
settled into trenches for a nine-month siege.
On This Date In 1893 HMS Victoria, the
lead ship in her class of two battleships of the Royal Navy, collided with HMS
Camperdown near Tripoli, Lebanon during maneuvers and quickly sank, taking 358
crew with her, including the commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet,
Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon. Of the 357 survivors was second-in-command, John
Jellicoe, later commander-in-chief of the British Grand Fleet at the Battle of
Jutland.
On This Date In 1912 Former U.S. President
Theodore Roosevelt asked his supporters to leave the floor of the Republican
National Convention in Chicago.
Republican progressives reconvened in Chicago's
Orchestra Hall and endorsed the formation of a national progressive party. When
formally launched later that summer, the new Progressive Party chose Roosevelt as its presidential nominee. Questioned by
reporters, Roosevelt said he felt as strong as
a “bull moose.” Thenceforth known as the “Bull Moose Party,” the Progressives
promised to increase federal regulation and protect the welfare of ordinary
people. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jun22.html
On This Date In 1918 The Hammond
circus train wreck occurred, one of the worst train wrecks in U.S. history. Eighty-six people
died and another 127 were injured when a locomotive engineer fell asleep and
ran his train into the rear of another near Hammond, Indiana.
On This Date In 1937 In Chicago's
Comiskey Park, Joe Louis won the world
heavyweight boxing title when he defeated American Jim Braddock in an
eighth-round knockout. Louis was the first African American heavyweight champ
since Jack Johnson, who lost the title in 1915. During his subsequent reign,
the longest in the history of the heavyweight division, Louis successfully
defended his title 25 times, scoring 21 knockouts.
On This Date In 1940 During World War II,
German forces forced the surrender of France,
while successfully conquering the Luxembourg,
Netherlands and Belgium in the
prior month. These victories persuaded Benito Mussolini of Italy to join the war on Adolph
Hitler's side on June 10, 1940.
On This Date In 1941 Operation Barbarossa,
the code name for Germany's
invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second
World War, began. The largest invasion in the history of warfare, it was fought
through December 5, 1941, and ultimately resulted in 95% of all German Army
casualties from 1941 to 1944 and 65% of all Allied military casualties
accumulated throughout the war.
On This Date In 1941 During the opening
stage of Operation Barbarossa, and fought from June 22 - July 3, 1941, the
Battle of Białystok–Minsk achieved its goal: the encirclement of the Soviet Red
Army forces by the German invaders around Minsk.
On This Date In 1944 Codenamed Operation
Bagration, the Soviet 1944 Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation during
World War II, was fought from June 22 - August 14, 1944, which cleared German
forces from the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and eastern Poland.
The Soviet victory resulted in the almost complete destruction of the German
Army Group Centre and three of its component armies.
On This Date In 1944 U.S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the G.I.
Bill, an unprecedented act of legislation designed to compensate returning
members of the armed services - known as G.I.s - for their efforts in World War
II.
On This Date In 1945 During World War II,
the U.S. 10th Army overcame the last major pockets of Japanese resistance on
Okinawa Island, ending one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. The same
day, Japanese Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima, the commander of Okinawa's defense, committed suicide with a number of
Japanese officers and troops rather than surrender.
On This Date In 1951 Pan Am Flight 151,
flown by the Lockheed L-049 Constellation propliner Clipper
Great Republic
crashed into a West African hill at an elevation of 1,050 ft (320 m) near the village of Sanoyie
in Bong County, Liberia. All 31 passengers and nine
crew on board were killed. The Civil Aeronautics Board investigation concluded
that the probable cause of the accident was the action of the captain in
descending below his en route minimum altitude without positive identification
of the flight's position.
On This Date In 1955 “Lady and the Tramp,”
an American animated film produced by Walt Disney, was released by Buena Vista
Distribution. The 15th animated film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics
series, it was the first animated feature filmed in the CinemaScope widescreen
film process. At the time, the film took in a higher figure than any other
Disney animated feature since Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs. Lady and the
Tramp was named number 95 out of the “100 Greatest Love Stories of All Time”
by the American Film Institute in their 100
Years...100 Passions special, as one of only two animated films to appear
on the list, along with Disney's Beauty
and the Beast (which ranked 34th).
On This Date In 1962 An Air France Boeing
707 crashed on the island
of Guadeloupe, killing
all 113 passengers and crew members aboard. This crash was only one of five
major accidents involving Boeing 707s during the year. Altogether, the five
crashes killed 457 people. The flight occurred before the advent of the black
box flight recorder and no reason for the crash was ever found.
On This Date In 1969 An oil slick and
debris in the Cuyahoga River caught fire in Cleveland, Ohio.
This Cuyahoga River fire lasted just thirty minutes,
but it did approximately fifty thousand dollars in damage - principally to some
railroad bridges spanning the river. Drawing national attention to
environmental problems in Ohio and elsewhere
in the United States,
this event helped spur an avalanche of water pollution control activities
resulting in the Clean Water Act, Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, and the
creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Ohio
Environmental Protection Agency. http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1642
On This Date In 1971 During the Vietnam War,
in a major engagement near the Demilitarized Zone, some 1,500 North Vietnamese
attacked the 500-man South Vietnamese garrison at Fire Base Fuller. Despite
U.S. B-52 raids dropping 60 tons of bombs on June 21 and a 1,000-man
reinforcement on June 24, the South Vietnamese had to abandon the base, since a
North Vietnamese bombardment had destroyed 80 percent of their bunkers. Their
effectual return to sweep the area in the following days pushed back some 300
North Vietnamese, who suffered significant casualties.
On This Date In 1972 During the Vietnam
War, South Vietnam's
21st Division, decimated by repeated attempts to relieve An Loc, was replaced
by the 25th Division. At the same time, U.S. helicopters flew 18th Division
troops to positions south of An Loc to replace badly battered 9th Division
troops that had also been trying to get to the city. The arrival of the fresh
South Vietnamese soldiers would eventually result in the lifting of the siege
at An Loc. The 18th Division troops successfully attacked the North Vietnamese
forces surrounding the city and most of the communist troops within An Loc had
been eliminated by the end of the month.
On This Date In 1977 “The Rescuers,” an
American animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions, was released by Buena
Vista Distribution. The 23rd film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series,
the film earned $48 million at the box office and became Disney's most
successful film to that date. It is based on a series of books by Margery
Sharp, most notably The Rescuers and Miss
Bianca. Due to the film's success, a sequel entitled The Rescuers Down Under was released in 1990.
On This Date In 1986 At the quarter-finals
of the 1986 FIFA World Cup, played between Argentina
and England at the Estadio
Azteca in Mexico City,
two of the most famous goals in football history were both scored by Diego
Maradona. His first, after fifty-one minutes, was the infamous Hand of God
goal, in which Maradona scored a goal by using his hand. His second, after
fifty-four minutes, saw him dribble past six England players, Beardsley, Reid,
Butcher, Fenwick, Butcher (again), and finally goalkeeper Peter Shilton. In
2002 this was voted Goal of the Century by FIFA.com voters. Argentina won the game 2–1 and went on to win
the 1986 World Cup with a victory over West Germany.
On This Date In 1990 Through June 24, 1990,
the infamous music festival took the name of the Glastonbury Festival for
Contemporary Performing Arts for the first time, to reflect the diversity of
attractions within the Festival. It was the twentieth anniversary of the first
Festival, but unfortunately ended with a confrontation between the security
teams and travelers who were looting the emptying festival site. This resulted
in 235 arrests and £50,000 worth of damage to property and hired plant. 1990
was the first year that a professional car parking team was employed to
encourage the best use of space. Donations of £100,000 were made to CND and
other local charities. Acts included: The Cure, Happy Mondays, Sinead O’Connor
and World Party, and attendance was 70,000.
On This Date In 1993 Thelma Catherine “Pat”
Ryan Nixon (March 16, 1912 - June 22, 1993), wife of Richard Nixon, 37th
President of the United States,
and First Lady of the United States
from 1969 to 1974, died of lung cancer at their home in Park Ridge, New Jersey,
the day after their 53rd wedding anniversary. She was buried at the Richard
Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba
Linda, California.
Her husband, Richard Nixon, was buried next to her in less than a year's time. http://tech.mit.edu/V113/N29/nixon.29w.html
On This Date In 1999 “Significant Other,”
the second album by American rock band Limp Bizkit, was released by
Flip/Interscope Records. The album saw the band expanding its sound from that
of its debut album, Three Dollar Bill,
Yall$, to incorporate further rock and hip hop influences. Coproduced by
Terry Date and Limp Bizkit, Significant
Other climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 643,874 copies in its
first week of release. In its second week of release, the album sold an
additional 335,000 copies. The band promoted the album by appearing at Woodstock 1999 and headlining the year's Family Values Tour.
On This Date In 2001 “The Fast and the
Furious,” an American street
racing action film starring Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and
Jordana Brewster, was released. Directed by Rob Cohen, The Fast and the Furious was the first mainstream film to feature
the Asian automotive import scene in North America.
The first film in The Fast and the
Furious film series, it’s concept was inspired by a Vibe magazine article
about street racing in New York City,
and its plot is loosely based on No Man's
Land, and Point Break.
On This Date In 2003 “Dangerously in Love,”
the debut solo album by American R&B recording artist Beyoncé Knowles, was
released by Columbia Records. The tracks in the album are a mixture of uptempos
and ballads, which are basically inspired by R&B and soul genres; it also
features elements of hip hop and Arabic music. Dangerously in Love propelled Knowles in becoming a viable solo
star, as well as one of the most marketable singers in the recording industry.
It became a worldwide commercial success, earning multi-platinum certifications
in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The album debuted at
number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 317,000 copies in its first
week, and earned Knowles five Grammy Awards.
On This Date In 2004 “Inferno,” the
seventeenth album by the British band Motörhead, was released. It features some
heavy tracks (like Terminal Show and In the Name of Tragedy), but also some
rock'n'roll tracks (Killers, Life's a Bitch). Whorehouse Blues is an acoustic track, which reflects on the thirty
years of Motörhead's existence. Guitarist Steve Vai plays on Terminal Show and Down on Me. In the Black was featured in the video
game Brütal Legend.
On This Date In 2004 “Unbreakable,” the
fifteenth studio album by the German heavy metal band Scorpions, was released
by BMG International. In this album, Scorpions return to their original, more
raw style of music after many concept albums and experimenting with different
styles. This was the first album with Pawel Maciwoda on bass guitar. Unbreakable is the first album since Face the Heat to use the classic version
of the Scorpions logo.
On This Date In 2008 George Denis Patrick
Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008), American stand-up comedian, social
critic, satirist, actor and writer/author, who won five Grammy Awards for his
comedy albums, was admitted to Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica after
experiencing chest pain, and died later that day of heart failure. In
accordance with his wishes, he was cremated, his ashes scattered, and no public
or religious services of any kind were held.
On This Date In 2009 Christopher Kelly, a
former adviser and chief fundraiser for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, was
sentenced to 37 months in prison on federal tax fraud charges for concealing
his use of corporate funds to cover gambling debts. http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2009/06/blagojevich-fundraiser-chris-kelly-gets-37-months-in-prison-on-tax-charges.html
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Happy Birthday Ralph Waite (1928), Prunella
Scales (1932), Kris Kristofferson (1936), Brit Hume (1943), Peter Asher (1944),
Todd Rundgren (1948), Lindsay Wagner (1949), Meryl Streep (1949), Cyndi Lauper
(1953), Bruce Campbell (1958), Erin Brockovich (1960), Tracy Pollan (1960), Clyde
Drexler (1962), Nicholas Lea (1962), Stephen Chow (1962), Randy Couture (1963),
Amy Brenneman (1964), Emmanuelle Seigner (1966), Mary Lynn Rajskub (1971), Kurt
Warner (1971), Carson Daly (1973), Donald Faison (1974)
RIP Marguerite de la Motte (1902 1950), Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906 – 2001), Konrad
Zuse (1910 – 1995), Gower Champion (1919 – 1980), Paul Frees (1920 – 1986), Ed
Bradley (1941 – 2006), Pete Maravich (1947 – 1988), Octavia Butler (1947 –
2006), Freddie Prinze (1954 – 1977), Dan Wheldon (1978 – 2011)
Quotes
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news: The news is
that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can
accomplish! Anne Frank
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the
years can make it wise. Sara Teasdale
One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is
that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either
intellect or fortune. William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Life is filled with so many exciting twists and turns. Hop
off the straight and narrow whenever you can and take the winding paths.
Experience the exhilaration of the view from the edge. Because the moments
spent there, that take your breath away, are what make you feel truly alive. Stacey
Charter
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and
direction. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Voyager 1 has flown into or is on the cusp of a place no man
or spacecraft has been before - Interstellar Space. For 35 years, the NASA
probe has been on a journey that would take it outside the Sun's heliosphere,
leaving the Solar System.
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Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger became the first female four-star
general in the Air Force and assumed the top position of the major command
responsible for the technology, acquisition, test and sustainment of the
service's current and future weapon systems
There are those who work all
day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before
setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because
there’s virtually no competition. Steven J Ross
Freedom is but the
possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the
exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom,
therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt
consciousness of its absence. Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
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