30 June Milestones in Space Exploration

1961 Explorer 12 enters orbit.
1982 The Shuttle Challenger enters service. 

29 June Elevation

2002 Dick Cheney acts as president because George W. Bush is having a colonoscopy.

28 JuneTaking.

1915 Taking of five lines of Ottoman defenses at Gully Ravine in Gallipoli Campaign.

27 June Battle Over Natives Defeated

1876 General Alfred A. Terry Arrives at Little Bighorn to reinforce the remaining 7th Cavalry driving the natives onto reservations.

26 June Laws Struck Down

1997 Communications Decency Act struck down as violation of First Amendment. 2003 U.S. Supreme Court strikes down anti gay sodomy laws.
2008 D.C, handgun ban unconstitutional D.C. V. Heller.

25 June Last Stand Begins

1876 LT. Col. George Armstrong Custer and the 225 troopers are killed attacking an Indian village along the Little Bighorn River.

24 June Scots Gained Independence

1314 End of Battle of Bannokbern Scots defeat English.

23 June Fighting Starts

1314 Battle of Bannokburn begins.

22 June Tyrant Abdicates U.S. Supreme Court Rules On Juries

1815 Napoleon abdicates for final time
1970 Juries of less than 12 are allowed by U.S. Supreme Court.

21 June 9th State Ratifies

1788 New Hampshire votes to ratify the Constitution becoming the last necessary state to do so. Now dates for holding elections under the new constitution have to be set tho choose the members of the new congress and electors for president and vice president.

20 June Trials Begin and End

1871 Ku Klux Act Trials Begin in Oxford Mississippi.
1892 Lizzie Bordon trial end in an acquittal for the Axe murders of her father and stepmother.

19 June State's Occupation Begins

1865 Federal troops land in Texas declaring an end to slavery under the Emancipation Proclamation retroactive to 1863. 

18 June Tyrant Defeated

1815 Napoleon defeated at Waterloo by the British and Prussians. After the defeat Napoleon is exiled to St. Helena where he died in 1821.

17 June First Battle of Revevolution Don't Fire Until Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes

1775 Battle of Breeds (Bunker Hill) first major battle of Revolutionary War leaves 1000 British dead along with 500 Americans. A British Officer said "another such victory will ruin us."

16 June Fighitng in Upstate New York (Now Vermont) Spain Declares War

1777 Hessians under Colonel Frederick Balm routed at Bennington in what was the upstate New York. 1779 Spain declares war on Britain ad begins Siege of Gibraltar.

15 June Famous Spelling Error Near Miss by Asteroid

1992 Dan Quayle relying on a misspelled card instructs a student to spell potato with an e. 2002 Asteroid comes within about 1\3 the distance between the earth and moon 

14 June First National Flag Adopted

1777 British Union Jack dropped from United States Flag and replaced with thirteen stars in varying arrangements the most common being alternating rows of two and three. 

13 June Freedom Obtainted

CE. 313  Edict of Milan granting freedom to worship is posted throughout the Roman Empire . 1966 In Miranda v. Arizona U.S. Supreme Court declares a suspect must be told of the right to remain silent and to have an attorney present before questioning. 

12 June Volunteers Called Empire Forms

1861 Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 Militia to defend the state from a takeover by the Federals. 1867 Austria-Hungary forms it came to include present day Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia,  and Bosnia Herzegovina.

11 June Flag Burnining Allowed Terrorist Executed

1990 U.S. Supreme Court declares flag burning  protected speech under First Amendment. 2001 Convicted Oklahoma City Bomber Timothy Mcveigh becomes the first federal prisoner executed since 1963.

10 June King Killed.

1903 King Alexander of Serbia is assassinated in a military coup led by the king's brother.

9 June Rulers Meet

1815 Congress of Vienna ends setting a new diplomatic system for Eurpoe in which rulers would help each other suppress democracy in their lands and no state or allience would get so powerful as to threaten the peace as France had between the Republic and Napoleon.  1908 Tsar Nicholas II and King Edward VII Meet to talk about Germany's growing power and British plans to reform Macedonia.

8 June Amendments Submitted State Secedes

1789 James Madison submits what ended up being a list of twelve proposed amendments 11 of which have been ratified, the third through 12th proposals were ratified by 1791 the first article  became the 27th amendment in 1992 and the second article is still in theory open to be voted on by the state legislatures however it's up to Congress whether the amendment is ratified in a "reasonable time". 1861 Tennessee secedes from the Union the eastern part of the state is unionist and later sends two congressmen to Washington and not Richmond.   

7 June President's Home Burnt Mines Detonated

1863 Jefferson Davis's home burnt by Federal Troops.
1917 Mines under German-held Messiness Ridge in Ypres Belgium. 

6 June 1st U.S. Victory of WWI

1918 U.S. Marines drive back Germans in Battle of Balleau Wood earning the nickname Devil Dogs.

5 June Segregation Questioned

1950 U.S. Supreme Court indicates it may consider overruling Plessy. 1956 In Gayle V. Browder the court rejects an appeal by the city of Montgomery Alabama against desegregation of the buses.

4 June Offensives Start and Stop

1916 Russians under General Aleksei Brusilov begin a massive offensive on the Eastern Front that nearly ends war with Austria-Hungary. 1918 French and American troops end German offensive across the Marne at Château Thierry.

3 June Cities Change Hands Russian Front in Peril

1915 Crucial city of Przemysl retaken by Austro-Hungarian and German forces Russian Front nearly collapses. 1944 Rome liberated by the Allies

2 June Confederates Get New Commander Pope Goes Behind Iron Curtain

1862 Robert E. Lee takes command of what he renamed the Army of Northern Virginia.1979 John Paul II visits Poland becoming the first pope to visit the Eastern Bloc.

1 June State Admitted Troops Withdraw

1792 Kentucky admitted as 15th state.
1796 Tennessee admitted 16th state? Britain pulls last troops out of America.