29 June, 2016

29 June Music Recorded

1888 Handel's Israel in Egypt recorded on wax cylinder.

28 June, 2016

28 June Serbs Defeated

1389 Battle of Kosovo ends with defeat of Serbs by Ottomans

27 June, 2016

27 June Defeat.

1916 Russians beat off German attack at Riga.

26 June, 2016

26 June Charter Signed

1948 United Nations Charter Signed in San Fransisco.

24 June, 2016

24 June War Begins Constitution Adopted

1675 Natives massacre settlers in the Plimouth Colony town of Swansee now Swansea Massachusetts. 1793 France adopts Republican Constitution.

23 June, 2016

23 June Former Slave Nominated

1888 Fredrick Douglass name placed in nomiation for President. He loses to Benjamin Harrison.

22 June, 2016

22 June King Advances Science Court Aboliton

1675 King Charles II commissions Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
1772 Slavery found not supported by common law in British case Somoset V. Stewart.

21 June, 2016

21 June British Out of India

1948  Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General (Representative of Crown)  in India which becomes independent.

20 June, 2016

20 June Occucation Begins

1968 Catholics squat (illegally occupy) homes in County Tyrone Northern Ireland.

19 June, 2016

19 June Nominations

1900 William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt win the nominations for President  and Vice President.

18 June, 2016

18 June Speech Given

1940 Churchill gives his Finest Hour Speech in House of Commons.

17 June, 2016

15 June, 2016

15 June Charter Signed

1215 King John Signs Magna Carta Great Charter guaranteeing English Rights to freemen.

14 June, 2016

14 June School Required

1652 Massachusetts passes first law requiring school attendance.

13 June, 2016

13 June Tsar Loses and Gains

1916 Central Powers chase Russians away from Baranovichi but gain Torchin and get near Lutsk.

12 June, 2016

12 June Space Rock Strikes

2004 A 13 ton Asteroid hits a house in Melbourne Australia no one dies.

11 June, 2016

11 June Hate Crime Allowed Greater Punishment

1993 U.S. Supreme Court rules that greater punishment is allowed if a crime is motivated because of color or any other group the law wants to protect.

10 June, 2016

10 June Trials begin

1793 French Republic begins trials of Royalists.

09 June, 2016

9 June Accuser Acussed

1954 Senator Joseph McCarthy asked "have you decency sir?"  by attorney Joe Welsh during hearings on infiltration of the army.

08 June, 2016

8 June Hands Up!!!

1916 Reports of  13000 prisoners taken by Russians.

07 June, 2016

7 June War Delayed

1850 Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850  delaying secession and civil war.

06 June, 2016

6 June Look Out Hereics

1536 Inquisition against Indians  who had converted but were suspected of continuing Native Practice in private begins.

04 June, 2016

4 June Military Service Limited Offensive Beginns

1794 Congress bans Americans from serving in foreign armies.
1916 Russian General Alexi Brusolov begins offensive that nearly forces Austro-Hungarian withdrawal from the war and makes it a second rate power then on dependent on Germany to stay in the war in which it no longer played a large part but the offensive is halted through a combination of Austria-Hungary shifting soldiers from the Italian Front and fatigue and overextension in the Russian army.

03 June, 2016

3 June Men in Space

1965 Gemini 4 launched with Astronauts McDevitt and white aboard becomes the second successful space launch of 2 men.. 

02 June, 2016

2 June Fire!!!!!!

1983 Toilet catches fire on Air Canada flight in Cincinnati 23 die.

01 June, 2016

1 June Convetion Held

1868 Texas holds Constitutional Convention to enfranchise blacks and end military rule.