Legendary magician and escape artist Harry Houdini married Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner on June 22, 1894. Continue reading.

On the evening of June 22, 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt asked his supporters to leave the floor of the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Continue reading.

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A bit of June 22nd history…

168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemelius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending Third Macedonian War (pictured)

1611 - Henry Hudson is set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers on his ship Discovery and is never heard from again

1633 - Galileo Galilei is forced to recant his Copernican views that the Earth orbits the Sun by the pope (Vatican only admits it was wrong on Oct 31, 1992)

1934 - John Dillinger is informally named America’s 1st Public Enemy Number One

1941 - Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union during WWII, the largest military operation in history

2015 - JAMA Internal Medical Journal publishes that the obese in America outnumber those who are just overwieght 

On June 21, 1934, Samuel Herman Gottscho snapped a photograph of the north facade of the Nebraska state capitol in Lincoln, Nebraska. Continue reading.

June 21 marks the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Continue reading.

On June 21, 1945, Japanese troops were defeated on the Pacific island of Okinawa after one of the longest and bloodiest battles of World War II. Continue reading.

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A bit of June 21st history…

68 - Roman General Vespacian conquers Jericho during the Great Jewish Revolt

1834 - Cyrus McCormick patents the reaping machine

1893 - 1st Ferris Wheel premiers in Chicago

2004 - SpaceShipOne becomes 1st privately funded space plane to achieve spaceflight (pictured)

2006 - Pluto’s newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra 

On June 20, 1863, West Virginia became the thirty-fifth state in the Union. Continue reading.

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A bit of June 20th history…

451 - Battle of the Catalaunian Plains: Romans and Visigoths Defeat Attila the Hun in NE France - his only defeat

1782 - Congress approves Great Seal of USA and the bald eagle as it’s symbol

1840 - Samuel Morse patents his telegraph

1867 - US President Johnson announces the Alaska purchase

1893 - Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the 1892 ax murders of her father and step-mother in Massachusetts

1911 - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is incorporated in NY

1949 - Tennis star Gussie Moran shocks Wimbledon by wearing a short dress “to look good and move more freely on the court” (pictured)

1975 - “Jaws” is released

1988 - Supreme court upholds a law that makes it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women and minorities 

President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. signed into law the bill that established Juneteenth National Independence Day, June 19, as a legal public holiday.  Continue reading.

The Statue of Liberty arrived at its permanent home on Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor on June 19, 1885, aboard the French frigate Isere. Continue reading.

On June 19, 1947, the British and French foreign ministers issued a joint communiqué inviting twenty-two European nations to send representatives to Paris to participate in designing a plan for rebuilding war-torn Europe. Continue reading.

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A bit of June 19th history…

1790 - French Revolution: The National Assembly issues a decree abolishing the titles, orders and other privileges of the French nobility

1865 - Juneteenth: Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas, now this date is celebrated as the end of slavery across the US

1941 - Soviet anthropologist Garasimov opens the tomb of Timurid Empire founder Timur and allegedly finds the inscription that whomever opens the tomb shall “unleash an invader more terrible than I”; 3 days later Hitler invades Russia

1964 - Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes

1973 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show stage production opens in London (pictured)

2017 - 1st full genetic study of cats reveals they were domesticated 9000 years ago, and descended from 1 species - the African Wildcat

2019 - UN says over 70 million people in the world are displaced, asylum seekers, or refugees; highest number in 70 years 

On June 18, 1812, President James Madison signed a declaration of war against Great Britain, marking the beginning of the War of 1812. Continue reading.

James Montgomery Flagg, creator of the famous illustration of Uncle Sam during World War I, was born on June 18, 1877, in Pelham Manor, New York. Continue reading.

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