This Week In #History ... June 20th - 26th

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Jun 20
1632 Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
1782 Congress approves Great Seal of U.S. and eagle as it’s symbol
1793 Eli Whitney patents his cotton gin
1863 1st bank chartered in U.S., National Bank of Davenport, Iowa
1895 1st female PhD (science) earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)
1901 Charlotte Manye is 1st native African to graduate from a U.S. college
1909 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham and Eleanor Waring)
1919 Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria
1939 Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
1943 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded
1949 Central Intelligence Agency Act, passes
1960 Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France
1970 British government of Edward Heath forms, with Margaret Thatcher
1981 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 55 days for infection
1990 50,000 die in a 7.6 earthquake in Iran
1996 Space Shuttle STS-78, Columbia 20, launches into space
2010 Presidential elections take place in Poland after the death of President Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash April 10, 2010

Jun 21
1607 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown
1633 Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to “abjure, curse, and detest” his Copernican heliocentric views
1788 U.S. Constitution goes into effect as New Hampshire is 9th to ratify
1893 1st Ferris wheel premieres at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition
1907 E. W. Scripps founded United Press
1919 German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own captured fleet
1932 Heavyweight Jack Sharkey TKOs Max Schmeling (New York City)
1941 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria
1948 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I
1956 Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
1964 Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 years later
1975 “Jaws” by Steven Spielberg opens
1985 American, Brazilian and West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele
1993 English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat
2001 Total solar eclipse in Madagascar – Atlantic Ocean (4m56s)
2010 Dhaka’s University of Engineering and Technology in Bangladesh is shut down after a student rampage injures four people because of 2010 FIFA World Cup fever

Jun 22
1377 Richard II succeeds Edward III as king of England
1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
1772 Slavery outlawed in England
1812 Napoleon’s Grand Army invades Russia
1870 1st Boardwalk in America invented
1910 1st Zeppelin with passengers sets afloat
1915 BMT, then Brooklyn Rapid Transit, begins subway service
1931 RVU, Radio-Volks-University, forms
1940 France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms
1954 Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands
1962 1st test flight of Hoovercraft
1970 President Nixon signs 26th amendment, voting age lowered to 18
1981 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon
1990 Florida passes a law that prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit
2010 Kurdish rebels claim responsibility for a bus bomb in Istanbul, Turkey; five people were killed and twelve people injured

Jun 23
930 World’s oldest parliament, the Iceland Parliament, established
1683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty “not sworn to, nor broken”
1775 1st regatta held on Thames, England
1848 Antoine Joseph Sax patents Saxophone
1868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents “Type-writer”
1902 Gioacchino Rossini’s unveils monument to Santa-Croce
1917 Ammunition factory in Boleweg Bohemia explodes, killing 1,000
1925 British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers
1938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (U.S.) established
1947 Truman’s veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by congress
1958 Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established
1967 Lyndon Baines Johnson and Alexei Kosygin hold 1st of 2 summit meetings in Glassboro, New Jersey
1979 Rock group, the Knack releases “My Sharona”
1989 Movie “Batman” premieres
1996 Nintendo 64 goes on sale in Japan
2010 At last count, 76 people are dead while hundreds have disappeared after a train crash in the Republic of Congo caused the train to fall into a ravine

Jun 24
1314 Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
1441 Eton College founded by Henry VI
1540 Henry VIII divorces his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
1817 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
1894 Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years
1901 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris
1914 King Peter I of Serbia names son Alexander the Prince-regent
1930 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
1941 Germans advanced into Russia and took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk and Kaunas
1957 “I Love Lucy,” last airs on CBS-TV
1964 FTC rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages
1975 Moon tremor perceived, hit by Taurid meteors
1982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
1992 John Gotti begins life sentence in jail
1997 Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom
2010 Brazilian storms in Alagoas and Pernambuco states kill 46 people

Jun 25
1096 1st Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen Germany
1580 Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published
1788 Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify U.S. constitution
1867 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio
1905 Warsaw and Lodz revolt against Russian occupation
1919 1st advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13)
1929 President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam, Hoover Dam
1938 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40 cents per hour
1947 Tennis shoe introduced
1953 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
1962 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) forms
1977 Roy C. Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightning for 7th time
1989 1st U.S. postmark dedicated to Lesbian and Gay Pride
1991 Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia
1997 Christies auctions off Princess Di’s clothing for $5.5 million
2010 Jean Leonard Rugambage, a Rwandan journalist, is shot dead in front of his home in Kigali; the exiled chief editor of Umuvugizi believes the government is responsible

Jun 26
1284 Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away (actually happened)
1498 Toothbrush invented
1857 Cawnpore England massacre
1870 1st section of Atlantic City Boardwalk opens
1902 Order of Merit instituted by King Edward VII
1910 1st federal corrupt election practices law passed
1919 N.Y. Daily News begins publishing
1927 Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth
1936 1st flight of Fw61 helicopter
1945 U.N. Charter signed by 50 nations in SF
1952 Nelson Mandela and 51 others infringe South Africa curfew
1960 Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France
1968 Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched
1989 Canada updates coins with a new potrait of the Queen
1997 Galileo, Ganymede Observations, Orbit 9
2010 Leaders of the twenty largest economies meet for the 2010 G-20 Summit in Toronto, Canada