Post by Evon on Jun 26, 2012 21:03:17 GMT -5
June 27 is the 178th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 187 days remaining until the end of the year
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678 Saint Agatho , who later convened the Third Council of Constantinople to condemn monothelitism as heretical, began his reign as Pope.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monothelitism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Agatho
1299 In his encyclical 'Scimus fili,' Pope Boniface VIII claimed that Scotland owed allegiance to the Catholic Church. "Scimus Fili (Latin for "We know my son") was a Papal Bull issued by Pope Boniface VIII on June 27, 1299. The Bull condemned King Edward I of England's invasion and occupation of Scotland"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scimus_Fili
1571 Elizabeth I of England issued a royal charter establishing Jesus College, the first Protestant college at the University of Oxford.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_College,_Oxford
1652 New Amsterdam (now New York City) enacts first speed limit law in North America. On June 27, 1652, the Director and council of New Netherland, "in order to prevent accidents," passed an ordinance stating that "no Wagons, Carts, or Sleighs shall be run, rode or driven at a gallop with this city of New Amsterdam, that the drivers and conductors of Wagons, Carts and Sleighs with this city shall not sit or stand on them but now henceforth within this City (the Broad Highway alone excepted) shall walk by the Wagons, Carts or Sleighs and so take and lead the horses"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam
The Ladies Mercury
February 27, 1693
1693 First woman's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published by John Dunton in London. It was the first women's magazine and contained a "question and answer" column that became known as a "problem page."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ladies%27_Mercury
1743 Battle of Dettingen. During the War of the Austrian Succession, British forces under the command of King George II defeat the French army. The Battle is highly significant being the only time in modern history that a British Army has been led into battle by a reigning monarch.
1759 General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfe#Siege
1778 Liberty Bell came home to Philadelphia after the British departure. On the 18th of September that year, however, the Liberty Bell was hurriedly removed from the steeple of the State House, and, with the chimes of Christ Church and St. Peter, was carried by the Colonial soldiers to Allentown, to prevent their capture by the British. On its first trip, escorted by 200 North Carolina and British soldiers, the bell traveled from Philadelphia to Germantown to Bethlehem, to Allentown. While at Allentown it was kept in Zion Church. The Liberty Bell was away from Philadelphia until June 27, 1778, when it was brought back to remain until its first triumphal journey through the country in 1884.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Bell
1787 Edward Gibbon completed "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." In 1764 Gibbon visited Rome and was inspired to write the history of the city from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the year 1453. After his father died Gibbon found himself in some difficulties, but he was able to settle in London to proceed with his great work. The first volume appeared in 1776, with a certain amount of public reaction to Gibbon's ironical treatment of the rise of Christianity and the actions of early church fathers. The last three volumes of Decline and Fall were published in 1788.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire
Hyrum Smith
1844 Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage,_Illinois#History
1847 New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires. This enabled the New York newspapers to receive foreign news brought by Cunard's steamers to the Boston port about 190 miles away. When the Cambria next arrived in Boston, three New York Newspapers on 18 Jul 1846 carried identical brief first-day telegraphic summaries of the Cambia's news. This telegraph link opened three years after the first U.S. telegraph line was opened on 24 May 1844 with a message sent by Samuel Morse 80 miles from Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Md
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy
1859 Louisville, Ky., schoolteacher Mildred Hill wrote a tune for her students and called it "Good Morning To You." Her sister, Patty, wrote the lyrics and later added a verse that began "Happy Birthday To You."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_To_You
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_J._Hill
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyrum_Smith
1864 American Civil War - Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. Confederate forces repel a frontal assault by Union troops in the Civil War Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia.
1874 The Second Battle of Adobe Walls was fought between Comanche forces and a group of 28 U.S. bison hunters defending the settlement of Adobe Walls, in what is now Hutchinson County, Texas. "Adobe Walls was scarcely more than a lone island in the vast sea of the Great Plains, a solitary refuge uncharted and practically unknown.
After the "enormous slaughter" of the buffalo in the north during 1872 and 1873, the hunters moved south and west "into the good buffalo country, somewhere on the Canadian . . . in hostile Indian country". In June 1874 (ten years after the first battle) a group of enterprising businessmen had set up two stores near the ruins of the old trading post in an effort to rekindle the town of Adobe Walls. The complex quickly grew to include a store and corral (Leonard & Meyers), a sod saloon owned by James Hanrahan, a blacksmith shop (Tom O'Keefe) and a sod store used to purchase buffalo hides (Rath & Wright, operated by Langton), all of which served the population of 200-300 buffalo hunters in the area. By late June "two hunters had been killed by Indians twenty-five miles down river, on Chicken Creek" and two more were killed in a camp on "a tributary of the Salt Fork of Red River" north of present-day Clarendon. "The story of the Indian depredations had spread to all the hunting camps, and a large crowd had gathered in from the surrounding country" at the "Walls".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Adobe_Walls
1876 First National Leaguer to get 6 hits in 9 inn game (Dave Force, Philadelphia Athletics)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Force
1876 Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as US presidential candidate. The 12th Democratic National Convention assembled in St. Louis in June 1876. Five thousand people jammed the auditorium in St. Louis, hoping for the Democrats' first presidential victory in 20 years. The platform called for immediate and sweeping reforms following the scandal-plagued Grant administration. Tilden won more than 400 votes on the first ballot and the nomination by a landslide on the second.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._Tilden
1893 The "Panic of 1893" began as the value of the U.S. silver dollar fell to less than 60 cents in gold.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893
1895 The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Blue_(train)
The 36′ 9″ (11.2 m) gaff rigged sloop oyster boat named Spray.
1898 The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Slocum#The_Spray:_First_solo_circumnavigation_of_the_earth
1905 The Battleship Potemkin uprising: During the Russo-Japanese war sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war. It later came to be viewed as an initial step towards the Russian Revolution of 1917, and was the basis of Sergei Eisenstein's silent film The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_Potemkin_uprising
1915 Thermometer hits 100° in Fort Yukon, AK
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Yukon,_Alaska
1917 First baseball player (Hank Gowdy) to enter WW I military service. Hank Gowdy a major league catcher and coach was the 1st baseball player to enter WW I military service with the United States Army. He's believed to be the only big league baseball player to serve in both WWI and WWII. Some considered him to be the best catcher not elected to Hall of Fame.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Gowdy
Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter receiving the first mid-air refueling on June 27, 1923, from a plane flown by 1st Lt. Virgil Hine and 1st Lt. Frank W. Seifert.
1923 Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_refueling#History_and_development
1929 First color TV demo (NYC)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_television
1941 Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaºi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Jews#Antonescu.27s_regime
1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a submarine off NY's Long Island
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pastorius
1941 German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa
1941 Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iași, resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania_in_World_War_II
1944 WW II - Allied troops liberate Chebourg, France. The Battle of Cherbourg starts after the successful Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944. After a month-long campaign, the fortified port and town is liberated from German occupation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW8oBa4Y1KY
1949 Captain Video and His Video Rangers premiered on the Dumont Television Network Captain Video was initially played by Richard Coogan. The voice of radio's "Green Hornet", Al Hodge, replaced Coogan in 1951. Don Hastings played the roll of the ranger until the series ended in 1955.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Video
1950 President Truman intervenes in the Korean War. To enforce the Security Council's Resolution 83, President Harry S. Truman mobilizes the U.S. air and naval forces to help the democratic South Korea to fend off an invasion by the communist North Korea.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#Factors_in_U.S._intervention
Captain Video Chapter 01: Journey into Space - ComicWeb Serial Cliffhanger Theater
1954 The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_station#History
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obninsk#Science_and_education
Johnny Horton - Battle of New Orleans Lyrics
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL7XS_8qgXM
1959 "Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton topped the charts. "Battle of New Orleans" won the 1959 Grammys for Song of the Year (for composer Jimmy Driftwood) and Best Country and Western Performance for Johnny Horton. A parody version by Homer and Jethro ("Battle of Kookamonga") also won a Grammy for Best Musical Comedy Performance.This was written by Jimmy Driftwood, an Arkansas high school principal and history teacher who loved singing and writing songs. He often wrote songs to help students learn about historical events like this battle.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Horton
1960 Chlorophyll "a" was first synthesized by Robert Burns Woodward. This molecule consists of 55 carbon atoms linked with 72 hydrogen atoms, 5 atoms of oxygen and 1 atom of magnesium. The research was performed at the Converse Memorial Laboratory of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns_Woodward
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophyll_a#See_also
Arthur Michael Ramsey
1961 In England, Arthur Michael Ramseywas enthroned as the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury, the principal see of the Established Church of England.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Michael_Ramsey
1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 4105 mph, 37,700 m. Walker made the first NASA X-15 flight on March 25, 1960. He flew the research aircraft 24 times and achieved its fastest speed and highest altitude. He attained a speed of 4,104 mph (Mach 5.92) during a flight on June 27, 1962, and reached an altitude of 354,300 feet on August 22, 1963 (his last X-15 flight).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_A._Walker
1963 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 124,694 feet. Major Robert Rushworth flew the X-15, the world's fastest and highest-flying winged aircraft, a record 34 times. He was the second Air Force X-15 pilot to attain the astronaut rating then awarded only to military pilots for flights 50 or more miles high. Later he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for an emergency recovery of the X-15 after premature extension of the nose gear at near Mach 5 speeds, and the Legion of Merit for overall accomplishments in the national interest of initial space flights.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Rushworth
1967 The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield Town, England, United Kingdom
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield_Town#History
1974 U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_trips_made_by_the_President_of_the_United_States#President_Richard_Nixon
1976 Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_139#Hijack
1977 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates_v._State_Bar_of_Arizona
1978 The first pen with truly erasable ink, the Gillette Eraser Mate, was invented.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasermate
1978 Seasat, an experimental U.S. ocean surveillance satellite was launched. Each day, Seasat made 14 orbits of the Earth, and in a period of 36 hours was able to monitor nearly 96% of the oceanic surface. The measurement equipment on board was able to penetrate cloud cover and report measurements such as wave height, water temperature, currents, winds, icebergs, and coastal characteristics. Although it operated for only 99 days before a power failure, it had already shown the viability of the use of a satellite for collecting oceanic data. The information collected was shared with scientists and was used to aid transoceanic travel by ships and aircraft.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasat
1979 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled private employers could give special preferences to blacks to eliminate "manifest racial imbalance" in traditionally white-only jobs.
supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/443/193/case.html
O Canada
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwDvF0NtgdU
1980 The the "National Anthem Act", made "O Canada" Canada's national anthem.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Canada
1982 Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-4
1984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_football_on_television
1985 Route 66 decertified. After 59 years, the iconic Route 66 enters the realm of history on this day in 1985, when the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials decertifies the road and votes to remove all its highway signs.
Measuring some 2,200 miles in its heyday, Route 66 stretched from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California, passing through eight states. According to a New York Times article about its decertification, most of Route 66 followed a path through the wilderness forged in 1857 by U.S. Navy Lieutenant Edward Beale at the head of a caravan of camels. Over the years, wagon trains and cattlemen eventually made way for trucks and passenger automobiles.
The idea of building a highway along this route surfaced in Oklahoma in the mid-1920s as a way to link the state to cities like Chicago and Los Angeles. Highway Commissioner Cyrus S. Avery touted it as a way of diverting traffic from Kansas City, Missouri and Denver. In 1926, the highway earned its official designation as Route 66. The diagonal course of Route 66 linked hundreds of mostly rural communities to the cities along its route, allowing farmers to more easily transport grain and other types of produce for distribution. The highway was also a lifeline for the long-distance trucking industry, which by 1930 was competing with the railroad for dominance in the shipping market.
Route 66 was the scene of a mass westward migration during the 1930s, when more than 200,000 people traveled from the poverty-stricken Dust Bowl to California. John Steinbeck immortalized the highway, which he called the "Mother Road," in his classic 1939 novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
Beginning in the 1950s, the building of a massive system of interstate highways made older roads increasingly obsolete, and by 1970, modern four-lane highways had bypassed nearly all sections of Route 66. In October 1984, Interstate-40 bypassed the last original stretch of Route 66 at Williams, Arizona, and the following year the road was decertified. According to the National Historic Route 66 Federation, drivers can still use 85 percent of the road, and Route 66 has become a destination for tourists from all over the world.
Often called the "Main Street of America," Route 66 became a pop culture mainstay over the years, inspiring its own song (written in 1947 by Bobby Troup, "Route 66" was later recorded by artists as varied as Nat "King" Cole, Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones) as well as a 1960s television series. More recently, the historic highway was featured prominently in the hit animated film "Cars" (2006).
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/route-66-decertified
1986 In Nicaragua v. United States, the International Court of Justice ruled that the United States had violated international law by supporting the Contras in their rebellion against the Nicaraguan government.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_v._United_States
1989 The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, ILO 169 convention, was adopted.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILO_169
1991 Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten-Day_War
1991 Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black to sit on the nation's highest court, announced his retirement.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall#U.S._Supreme_Court
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush_Supreme_Court_candidates
1997 The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraftpassed within 1,200 km (750 mi) of asteroid Mathilde and took many multispectral images. It was on course to the asteroid Eros, which it was to orbit in 1999 and study for approximately a year.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Earth_Asteroid_Rendezvous
2002 In a landmark church-state decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that tuition vouchers were constitutional.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_voucher#Legal_challenges
2003 The Federal Trade Commission opened a long-awaited nationwide registry for those who want to block unwanted telemarketing calls.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Do_Not_Call_Registry
2005 U.S. crude oil prices closed at a record $60 a barrel.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_energy_crisis
2005 Dennis Rader, the so-called "BTK" killer (bind, torture, kill), pleaded guilty to 10 slayings in the Wichita, Kan., area.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rader
2007 Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. Former Treasury chief Gordon Brown replaces him.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_for_the_Labour_Party_(UK)_leadership_elections,_2007
2011 Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted by a federal jury in Chicago of a wide range of corruption charges, including the allegation that he'd tried to sell or trade President Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat. (Blagojevich was later sentenced to 14 years in prison.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich#Federal_trial
2011 The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a California law that banned the sale of violent video games to minors under 18 years old in a major First Amendment case.
usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-06-27-supreme-court-violent-video-games_n.htm
2012: Historic handshake: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and former Irish Republican Army commander Martin McGuinness offer each other the hand of peace during a private meeting inside Belfast's riverside Lyric Theatre.
2013 NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Region_Imaging_Spectrograph
2014 At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAIL
2015 A midair explosion from flammable powder at a recreational water park in Taiwan injures at least 510 people with about 183 in serious condition in intensive care.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formosa_Fun_Coast_explosion
Births:
1696 William Pepperrell, (d 1759) merchant and soldier in Colonial Massachusetts. He is widely remembered for organizing, financing, and leading the 1745 expedition that captured the French garrison at Fortress Louisbourg during King George's War. During his day Pepperrell was called "the hero of Louisburg," a victory celebrated in the name of Louisburg Square in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pepperrell
1787 Thomas Say (d. 1834). American self-taught naturalist often considered to be the founder of descriptive entomology in the United States. His taxonomic work was quickly recognized by European zoologists. Say was a founding member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. He was chief zoologist of Major Stephen Long's exploring expedition to the tributaries of the Missouri River in 1819 and in 1823 for the expedition to the headwaters of the Mississippi. During the 1819 expedition, Say first described the coyote, swift fox, western kingbird, band-tailed pigeon, Say's phoebe, rock wren, lesser goldfinch, lark sparrow, lazuli bunting, and orange-crowned warbler. His important work, American Entomology, remains a classic. He also wrote on paleontology and conchology.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Say
1862 May Irwin US comedienne/singer (A Hot Time in the Old Town)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Irwin
1869 Mary Williams (d. 1961), who wrote pseudonymously as Kate Carew, was a caricaturist self-styled as "The Only Woman Caricaturist". She worked at the New York World from 1890 to 1901, providing illustrated celebrity interviews.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Williams_(caricaturist)
1869 Emma Goldman, Lithuanian/American anarchist and feminist (d 1940)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman
1870 Frank Rattray Lillie (d. 1947) American zoologist and embryologist, known for his discoveries concerning the fertilization of the egg (ovum) and the role of hormones in sex determination. In 1914, Lillie hypothesized the existence of a substance, fertilizin, in the jelly coat of eggs which causes sperm cells to clump together. In 1916, he demonstrated the role of sex hormones in freemartinism. His embryological investigations reached into all aspects of cellular and embryonic development. He is best known for his dedicated efforts in shaping the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Oceanographic Institute at Woods Hole, Mass. He wrote The Development of the Chick (1908), a leading embryology text, and The Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory (1944)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Rattray_Lillie
1872 Heber Doust Curtis (d 1942) American astronomer whose study of nebulae indicated they lay far outside our own galaxy. After his early work measuring radial velocities of the brighter stars, he turned in 1910 to study spiral nebulae which he believed were isolated independent star systems. By 1917, from study of nebula photography he concluded the nebulae lay well beyond our galaxy. He estimated the Andromeda nebula to be 500,000 light-years away. At a meeting of the National Academy of Sciences (1920) he engaged in a famous debate with Harlow Shapley who proposed that our galaxy was 300,000 light-years in diameter and included the spiral nebulae. In 1924, when Edwin Hubble confirmed that the Andromeda nebula was, in fact, far beyond our own galaxy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heber_Doust_Curtis
1872 Paul Laurence Dunbar (d 1906) African-American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Much of his popular work in his lifetime used a Negro dialect, which helped him become one of the first nationally-accepted African-American writers. Much of his writing, however, does not use dialect; these more traditional poems have become of greater interest to scholars.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Laurence_Dunbar
1880 Helen Keller, (d 1968) American deaf and blind activist
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller
1888 (Mary) Antoinette Perry (d 1946), actress, director, and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing. The Tony Awards are her namesake.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoinette_Perry
1899 Juan Trippe, (d 1981) American airline entrepreneur and pioneer, founder of Pan American World Airways
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Trippe
1900 Otto E Passman, (d 1988) conservative Democratic congressman from Monroe in northeastern Louisiana, who served from 1947 to 1977. He is primarily remembered for his detailed knowledge and mostly opposition to foreign aid. He was unseated in the 1976 primary election by the more moderate challenger, Thomas Jerald "Jerry" Huckaby of Ringgold, a town in Bienville Parish.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Passman
1901 Merle Antony Tuve (d. 1982) American research physicist and geophysicist who (with Gregory Breit) made the first use pulsed radio waves to explore the ionosphere. He devised the necessary detecting equipment to measure the time between receiving a direct radio pulse and a second pulse reflected from the ionosphere. The observations he made provided the theoretical foundation for the development of radar. Tuve, with Lawrence R. Hafstad and Norman P. Heydenburg, made the first and definitive measurements of the nuclear force between proton-proton force at nuclear distances. During WW II he developed the proximity fuse. Following the war, he made important contributions to experimental seismology, radio astronomy, and optical astronomy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Antony_Tuve
Mosconi (left) with "Cowboy Jimmy" Moore at the 1953 World's Invitational1913 Willie Mosconi, (d 1993) American billiards player, nicknamed "Mr. Pocket Billiards," among the first Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame inductees. Between the years of 1941 and 1957, he won the World Straight Pool Championship an unmatched fifteen times.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Mosconi
1920 I.A.L. Diamond, born Iţec (Itzek) Domnici in Ungheni, Iaşi County, Bessarabia, screenwriter (1960 Academy Award-The Apartment)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.A.L._Diamond
1927 Bob Keeshan aka Capt Kangaroo/Clarabelle (Good Morning Captain)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Keeshan
1930 H Ross Perot Texas billionaire best known for running for President of the United States in 1992 and 1996. Perot founded Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1962, sold the company to General Motors in 1984, and founded Perot Systems in 1988. Perot Systems was bought by Dell for $3.9 billion in 2009.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H_Ross_Perot
1932 Anna Moffo, (d 2006) Italian-American opera singer and one of the leading lyric-coloratura sopranos of her generation. She possessed a warm and radiant voice of considerable range and agility, and was an affecting singing-actress of great physical beauty
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Moffo
1933 Gary Crosby son of Bing, actor (Which Way to the Front)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Crosby_(actor)
1937 Joseph P Allen IV Crawfordsville Ind, PhD/astronaut (STS-5, STS 51A)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-51-A
1938 Bruce Babbitt, American politician and Secretary of the Interior and 16th governor of Arizona, from 1978 to 1987.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Babbitt
1940 Daniel Gray Quillen American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1978 for contribution of geometric and topological techniques to the study of algebraic K-theory.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gray_Quillen
1942 Bruce Johnston, American musician (The Beach Boys)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Johnston
1949 Vera Wang, American fashion designer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Wang
1951 Sidney M Gutierrez Albuquerque NM, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 40)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_M._Gutierrez
1963 Johnny Benson, American NASCAR driver
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Benson
1964 Chuck Person, American basketball player and coach
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Person
1966 J.J. Abrams, American director, producer, and screenwriter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Abrams
1967 Jeff Conine, American baseball player and sportscaster
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Conine
1968 Kelly Ayotte, American politician who served as a United States Senator from New Hampshire from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Republican Party, she was the second-youngest of the 20 female senators, and the twelfth-youngest overall.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Ayotte
1970 Jim Edmonds, American baseball player and sportscaster
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Edmonds
1973 George Hincapie, American cyclist
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hincapie
1974 Christian Kane, American actor and singer-songwriter. He is known for his roles in the television shows Angel, Leverage, The Librarians and Into the West, and the movies Just Married, Taxi, and Secondhand Lions.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Kane
1974 Christopher O'Neill, American-British financier and the husband of Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, a daughter of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_O%27Neill
1975 Ace Darling, Michael "Mike" Maraldo American professional wrestler, best known by his ring name Ace Darling. Darling has wrestled in various independent promotions in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, most notably for the East Coast Wrestling Association, Jersey All Pro Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Darling
1975 Tobias Vincent "Tobey" Maguire American actor and producer. He began his career in the late 1980s. His first appearance in a feature film was a non-speaking part in The Wizard (1989). He is known for playing the title character in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy (2002, 2004, and 2007), as well as for his roles in Pleasantville (1998), The Cider House Rules (1999), Wonder Boys (2000), Seabiscuit (2003), The Good German (2006), Brothers (2009), and The Great Gatsby (2013).
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1975 Daryle Lamar Ward American professional baseball first baseman and left fielder. He played eleven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1998 to 2008 for the Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Nationals, Atlanta Braves, and Chicago Cubs. He is the son of former major leaguer Gary Ward. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryle_Ward
1976 Johnny Pulado Estrada, American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks, Milwaukee Brewers and the Washington Nationals.
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1980 Jennifer Goodridge, American keyboard player
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1980 Craig Terrill, American football defensive tackle.[2] He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the sixth round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Purdue.
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1983 Jim Johnson, American professional baseball relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for the Baltimore Orioles, Oakland Athletics, Detroit Tigers, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Johnson was an All-Star in 2012, and won the Rolaids Relief Man Award that year while leading MLB in saves.
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1986 Drake Bell, American actor, voice actor, and musician. Born in Newport Beach, California, he began his career as an actor in the early 1990s at the age of five with his first televised appearance on Home Improvement. Bell also appeared in several commercials, such as one for Pokémon Red and Blue, but is best known for his starring roles on Nickelodeon's The Amanda Show, and its spin-off, Drake & Josh. Bell starred in a trilogy of The Fairly OddParents movies on Nickelodeon. Bell was the voice of Peter Parker / Spider-Man in the animated series Ultimate Spider-Man on Disney XD. He appeared on ABC's reality TV series Splash.
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1986 Bryan Fletcher, American Nordic combined skier who has competed since 2002 and in the world cup since 2009.
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1988 Kate Marie Ziegler, American competition swimmer who specializes in freestyle and long-distance events. Ziegler has won a total of fifteen medals in major international competition, including eight golds, five silvers, and two bronze spanning the World Aquatics and the Pan Pacific Championships. She was a member of the 2012 United States Olympic Team, and competed in the 800-meter freestyle event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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1829 James Smithson (b. 1765) English scientist who provided funds in his will for the founding of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." He had inherited his fortune chiefly through his mother's family. He was a chemist and minerologist who published 27 scientific papers. The mineral smithsonite (carbonate of zinc) was named for him.
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1844 Hyrum Smith, (b 1800) Mormon leader killed by a mob in Carthage Ill.
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1844 Joseph Smith, Jr., (b 1805) founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, killed by a mob in Carthage Ill.
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1907 Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (b. 1822) (née Cary) U.S. naturalist and educator who was the first president of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass. She married the Swiss naturalist, Louis Agassiz, in 1850. They traveled together on scientific expeditions, and founded the Anderson School of Natural History, a Marine laboratory, located on Penikese Island in Buzzard's Bay, Mass. When her husband died in1873, Elizabeth became interested in the idea of college for women to be taught by the "Harvard Annex" in Cambridge. In 1894 the Annex became Radcliffe College. She served as president until 1899, then honorary president until 1903. Her books include A First Lesson in Natural History (1859), A Journey in Brazil (1867)
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1932 Louis Winslow Austin (born 30 Oct 1867)
American physicist known for research on long-range radio transmissions. In 1904 he began work on radio transmissions for the U.S. Bureau of Standards. In 1908 Austin became head of a naval radiotelegraphy laboratory (later to become the Naval Research Laboratory) and became chief of the bureau's laboratory for special radio transmission research (1923-32). His work involved long-range transmission experiments, most notably a study (1910) that tested radio contact between ships travelling between the US and Liberia. Austin and collaborator Louis Cohen developed the Austin-Cohen formula for predicting the strength of radio signals at long distances. Austin's later work centred on the study of radio atmospheric disturbances, i.e., "static."
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1973 Ernest Truex actor (Pop-Pete & Gladys, Mr Peepers ), dies at 73
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1953 Mary Anderson (b February 19, 1866) American real estate developer, rancher, viticulturist and inventor of the windshield wiper blade. In November 1903 Anderson was granted her first patent for an automatic car window cleaning device controlled inside the car, called the windshield wiper
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1983 Maxie Anderson (b. 1934) Maxie Leroy "Max" Anderson who (with fellow Albuquerque, NM, residents Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman) made the first transatlantic balloon flight aboard their Double Eagle II balloon, 3108 miles from Presque Isle, Maine to Miserey, France. After a dozen failed attempts, their successful crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by gas balloon was achieved 11-16 August 1978, (landing 17 Aug), setting a new duration record with a flight time of 137 hours. Two years later, 12-18 May 1980, with his son Kristian, he made the first nonstop balloon flight across North America. This record helium balloon flight aboard the Kitty Hawk began at San Francisco, California, lasted four days and ended near Matane, Quebec, Canada, 3,100 miles from their launch site. His later round-the-world attempts failed. He was killed in 1983 when refused permission to fly across the East German border and a faulty release clamp used at landing caused them to crash.
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1986 Don Rogers (b 1962) of the Cleveland Browns, dies of cocaine poisoning.
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2001 John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III , (b 1925) American actor and musician. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts (for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger (for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing (for which he won 'Best Actor' at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival), Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.
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2002 Robert L. J. Long, four star admiral in the United States Navy who served as Vice Chief of Naval Operations from 1977–1979 and Commander in Chief Pacific from 1979 to 1983. (b. 1920)
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2003 David Newman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
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2004 Darrell Russell, American NHRA drag racer. He was the 2001 NHRA Rookie Of The Year. At the time, he was the third driver to win in his Professional debut. (b. 1968)
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2004 George Patton IV, (b 1923) Major General in the United States Army and the son of World War II General George Patton.
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2005 Shelby Foote, (b 1917) American historian and novelist who wrote The Civil War: A Narrative, a massive, three-volume history of the war. With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta, Foote's life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South. Foote was relatively unknown to the general public for most of his life until his appearance in Ken Burns's PBS documentary The Civil War in 1990, where he introduced a generation of Americans to a war that he believed was "central to all our lives."
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2005 John T. Walton, (b 1946) United States war veteran and a son of Walmart founder Sam Walton. He was also the chairman of True North Partners, a venture capital firm. Walton cofounded the Children's Scholarship Fund, providing tuition scholarships for disadvantaged youth.
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2008 Michael Laayne Turner, American comics artist known for his work on Witchblade, Fathom, Superman/Batman, Soulfire, and various covers for DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He was also the president of the entertainment company Aspen MLT. (b 1971
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2009 Fayette Pinkney, American singer (The Three Degrees) (b. 1948)
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2009 Gale Storm, (b 1922) American actress and singer who starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show.
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2010 Corey Allen, American film and television director, writer, producer, and actor. He began his career as an actor but eventually became a television director. He may be best known for playing the character Buzz Gunderson in Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause (1955).(b. 1934)
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2013 Bill Henry Robertson, American businessman and politician (b. 1938)
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2014 Allen Grossman, American poet, critic, and academic (b. 1932)
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2014 Bobby Womack, Robert Dwayne Womack (b March 4, 1944) American singer-songwriter and musician, and producer. Since the early 1960s, when he started his career as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career spanned more than 60 years, during which he played in the styles of R&B, soul, rock and roll, doo-wop, gospel, and country.
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Christian Feast Day:
Cyril of Alexandria (Coptic Church, Roman Catholic Church, and Lutheran Church)
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Crescens, one of the Seventy Disciples
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Ladislaus I of Hungary
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Our Lady of Perpetual Help
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June 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Venerable Sampson the Hospitable of Constantinople (530)
Saint Severus of Interocrea in Italy, presbyter (6th century)
Saint Joanna the Myrrh-bearer (1st century)
Martyr Anectus of Caesarea in Cappadocia
Blessed Martin of Turov (12th century)
Russian New Martyr Gregory Nikolsky (1918)
Saint Luke the Hermit
Martyrs Mark and Marcia
Hieromartyr Pierius of Antioch, presbyter
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678 Saint Agatho , who later convened the Third Council of Constantinople to condemn monothelitism as heretical, began his reign as Pope.
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1299 In his encyclical 'Scimus fili,' Pope Boniface VIII claimed that Scotland owed allegiance to the Catholic Church. "Scimus Fili (Latin for "We know my son") was a Papal Bull issued by Pope Boniface VIII on June 27, 1299. The Bull condemned King Edward I of England's invasion and occupation of Scotland"
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1571 Elizabeth I of England issued a royal charter establishing Jesus College, the first Protestant college at the University of Oxford.
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1652 New Amsterdam (now New York City) enacts first speed limit law in North America. On June 27, 1652, the Director and council of New Netherland, "in order to prevent accidents," passed an ordinance stating that "no Wagons, Carts, or Sleighs shall be run, rode or driven at a gallop with this city of New Amsterdam, that the drivers and conductors of Wagons, Carts and Sleighs with this city shall not sit or stand on them but now henceforth within this City (the Broad Highway alone excepted) shall walk by the Wagons, Carts or Sleighs and so take and lead the horses"
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The Ladies Mercury
February 27, 1693
1693 First woman's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published by John Dunton in London. It was the first women's magazine and contained a "question and answer" column that became known as a "problem page."
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1743 Battle of Dettingen. During the War of the Austrian Succession, British forces under the command of King George II defeat the French army. The Battle is highly significant being the only time in modern history that a British Army has been led into battle by a reigning monarch.
1759 General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
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1778 Liberty Bell came home to Philadelphia after the British departure. On the 18th of September that year, however, the Liberty Bell was hurriedly removed from the steeple of the State House, and, with the chimes of Christ Church and St. Peter, was carried by the Colonial soldiers to Allentown, to prevent their capture by the British. On its first trip, escorted by 200 North Carolina and British soldiers, the bell traveled from Philadelphia to Germantown to Bethlehem, to Allentown. While at Allentown it was kept in Zion Church. The Liberty Bell was away from Philadelphia until June 27, 1778, when it was brought back to remain until its first triumphal journey through the country in 1884.
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1787 Edward Gibbon completed "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." In 1764 Gibbon visited Rome and was inspired to write the history of the city from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the year 1453. After his father died Gibbon found himself in some difficulties, but he was able to settle in London to proceed with his great work. The first volume appeared in 1776, with a certain amount of public reaction to Gibbon's ironical treatment of the rise of Christianity and the actions of early church fathers. The last three volumes of Decline and Fall were published in 1788.
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Hyrum Smith
1844 Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
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1847 New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires. This enabled the New York newspapers to receive foreign news brought by Cunard's steamers to the Boston port about 190 miles away. When the Cambria next arrived in Boston, three New York Newspapers on 18 Jul 1846 carried identical brief first-day telegraphic summaries of the Cambia's news. This telegraph link opened three years after the first U.S. telegraph line was opened on 24 May 1844 with a message sent by Samuel Morse 80 miles from Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Md
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1859 Louisville, Ky., schoolteacher Mildred Hill wrote a tune for her students and called it "Good Morning To You." Her sister, Patty, wrote the lyrics and later added a verse that began "Happy Birthday To You."
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1864 American Civil War - Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. Confederate forces repel a frontal assault by Union troops in the Civil War Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia.
1874 The Second Battle of Adobe Walls was fought between Comanche forces and a group of 28 U.S. bison hunters defending the settlement of Adobe Walls, in what is now Hutchinson County, Texas. "Adobe Walls was scarcely more than a lone island in the vast sea of the Great Plains, a solitary refuge uncharted and practically unknown.
After the "enormous slaughter" of the buffalo in the north during 1872 and 1873, the hunters moved south and west "into the good buffalo country, somewhere on the Canadian . . . in hostile Indian country". In June 1874 (ten years after the first battle) a group of enterprising businessmen had set up two stores near the ruins of the old trading post in an effort to rekindle the town of Adobe Walls. The complex quickly grew to include a store and corral (Leonard & Meyers), a sod saloon owned by James Hanrahan, a blacksmith shop (Tom O'Keefe) and a sod store used to purchase buffalo hides (Rath & Wright, operated by Langton), all of which served the population of 200-300 buffalo hunters in the area. By late June "two hunters had been killed by Indians twenty-five miles down river, on Chicken Creek" and two more were killed in a camp on "a tributary of the Salt Fork of Red River" north of present-day Clarendon. "The story of the Indian depredations had spread to all the hunting camps, and a large crowd had gathered in from the surrounding country" at the "Walls".
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1876 First National Leaguer to get 6 hits in 9 inn game (Dave Force, Philadelphia Athletics)
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1876 Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as US presidential candidate. The 12th Democratic National Convention assembled in St. Louis in June 1876. Five thousand people jammed the auditorium in St. Louis, hoping for the Democrats' first presidential victory in 20 years. The platform called for immediate and sweeping reforms following the scandal-plagued Grant administration. Tilden won more than 400 votes on the first ballot and the nomination by a landslide on the second.
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1893 The "Panic of 1893" began as the value of the U.S. silver dollar fell to less than 60 cents in gold.
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1895 The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
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The 36′ 9″ (11.2 m) gaff rigged sloop oyster boat named Spray.
1898 The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
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1905 The Battleship Potemkin uprising: During the Russo-Japanese war sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war. It later came to be viewed as an initial step towards the Russian Revolution of 1917, and was the basis of Sergei Eisenstein's silent film The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
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1915 Thermometer hits 100° in Fort Yukon, AK
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1917 First baseball player (Hank Gowdy) to enter WW I military service. Hank Gowdy a major league catcher and coach was the 1st baseball player to enter WW I military service with the United States Army. He's believed to be the only big league baseball player to serve in both WWI and WWII. Some considered him to be the best catcher not elected to Hall of Fame.
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Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter receiving the first mid-air refueling on June 27, 1923, from a plane flown by 1st Lt. Virgil Hine and 1st Lt. Frank W. Seifert.
1923 Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
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1929 First color TV demo (NYC)
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1941 Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaºi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
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1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a submarine off NY's Long Island
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1941 German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
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1941 Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iași, resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
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1944 WW II - Allied troops liberate Chebourg, France. The Battle of Cherbourg starts after the successful Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944. After a month-long campaign, the fortified port and town is liberated from German occupation.
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1949 Captain Video and His Video Rangers premiered on the Dumont Television Network Captain Video was initially played by Richard Coogan. The voice of radio's "Green Hornet", Al Hodge, replaced Coogan in 1951. Don Hastings played the roll of the ranger until the series ended in 1955.
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1950 President Truman intervenes in the Korean War. To enforce the Security Council's Resolution 83, President Harry S. Truman mobilizes the U.S. air and naval forces to help the democratic South Korea to fend off an invasion by the communist North Korea.
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Captain Video Chapter 01: Journey into Space - ComicWeb Serial Cliffhanger Theater
1954 The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
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Johnny Horton - Battle of New Orleans Lyrics
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1959 "Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton topped the charts. "Battle of New Orleans" won the 1959 Grammys for Song of the Year (for composer Jimmy Driftwood) and Best Country and Western Performance for Johnny Horton. A parody version by Homer and Jethro ("Battle of Kookamonga") also won a Grammy for Best Musical Comedy Performance.This was written by Jimmy Driftwood, an Arkansas high school principal and history teacher who loved singing and writing songs. He often wrote songs to help students learn about historical events like this battle.
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1960 Chlorophyll "a" was first synthesized by Robert Burns Woodward. This molecule consists of 55 carbon atoms linked with 72 hydrogen atoms, 5 atoms of oxygen and 1 atom of magnesium. The research was performed at the Converse Memorial Laboratory of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
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Arthur Michael Ramsey
1961 In England, Arthur Michael Ramseywas enthroned as the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury, the principal see of the Established Church of England.
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1967 The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield Town, England, United Kingdom
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1974 U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R.
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1976 Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda
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1977 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise
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1978 The first pen with truly erasable ink, the Gillette Eraser Mate, was invented.
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1978 Seasat, an experimental U.S. ocean surveillance satellite was launched. Each day, Seasat made 14 orbits of the Earth, and in a period of 36 hours was able to monitor nearly 96% of the oceanic surface. The measurement equipment on board was able to penetrate cloud cover and report measurements such as wave height, water temperature, currents, winds, icebergs, and coastal characteristics. Although it operated for only 99 days before a power failure, it had already shown the viability of the use of a satellite for collecting oceanic data. The information collected was shared with scientists and was used to aid transoceanic travel by ships and aircraft.
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1979 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled private employers could give special preferences to blacks to eliminate "manifest racial imbalance" in traditionally white-only jobs.
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O Canada
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1980 The the "National Anthem Act", made "O Canada" Canada's national anthem.
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1982 Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
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1984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts.
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1985 Route 66 decertified. After 59 years, the iconic Route 66 enters the realm of history on this day in 1985, when the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials decertifies the road and votes to remove all its highway signs.
Measuring some 2,200 miles in its heyday, Route 66 stretched from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California, passing through eight states. According to a New York Times article about its decertification, most of Route 66 followed a path through the wilderness forged in 1857 by U.S. Navy Lieutenant Edward Beale at the head of a caravan of camels. Over the years, wagon trains and cattlemen eventually made way for trucks and passenger automobiles.
The idea of building a highway along this route surfaced in Oklahoma in the mid-1920s as a way to link the state to cities like Chicago and Los Angeles. Highway Commissioner Cyrus S. Avery touted it as a way of diverting traffic from Kansas City, Missouri and Denver. In 1926, the highway earned its official designation as Route 66. The diagonal course of Route 66 linked hundreds of mostly rural communities to the cities along its route, allowing farmers to more easily transport grain and other types of produce for distribution. The highway was also a lifeline for the long-distance trucking industry, which by 1930 was competing with the railroad for dominance in the shipping market.
Route 66 was the scene of a mass westward migration during the 1930s, when more than 200,000 people traveled from the poverty-stricken Dust Bowl to California. John Steinbeck immortalized the highway, which he called the "Mother Road," in his classic 1939 novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
Beginning in the 1950s, the building of a massive system of interstate highways made older roads increasingly obsolete, and by 1970, modern four-lane highways had bypassed nearly all sections of Route 66. In October 1984, Interstate-40 bypassed the last original stretch of Route 66 at Williams, Arizona, and the following year the road was decertified. According to the National Historic Route 66 Federation, drivers can still use 85 percent of the road, and Route 66 has become a destination for tourists from all over the world.
Often called the "Main Street of America," Route 66 became a pop culture mainstay over the years, inspiring its own song (written in 1947 by Bobby Troup, "Route 66" was later recorded by artists as varied as Nat "King" Cole, Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones) as well as a 1960s television series. More recently, the historic highway was featured prominently in the hit animated film "Cars" (2006).
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1986 In Nicaragua v. United States, the International Court of Justice ruled that the United States had violated international law by supporting the Contras in their rebellion against the Nicaraguan government.
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1989 The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, ILO 169 convention, was adopted.
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1991 Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
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1991 Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black to sit on the nation's highest court, announced his retirement.
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1997 The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraftpassed within 1,200 km (750 mi) of asteroid Mathilde and took many multispectral images. It was on course to the asteroid Eros, which it was to orbit in 1999 and study for approximately a year.
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2002 In a landmark church-state decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that tuition vouchers were constitutional.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_voucher#Legal_challenges
2003 The Federal Trade Commission opened a long-awaited nationwide registry for those who want to block unwanted telemarketing calls.
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2005 U.S. crude oil prices closed at a record $60 a barrel.
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2005 Dennis Rader, the so-called "BTK" killer (bind, torture, kill), pleaded guilty to 10 slayings in the Wichita, Kan., area.
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2007 Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. Former Treasury chief Gordon Brown replaces him.
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2011 Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted by a federal jury in Chicago of a wide range of corruption charges, including the allegation that he'd tried to sell or trade President Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat. (Blagojevich was later sentenced to 14 years in prison.)
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2011 The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a California law that banned the sale of violent video games to minors under 18 years old in a major First Amendment case.
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2012: Historic handshake: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and former Irish Republican Army commander Martin McGuinness offer each other the hand of peace during a private meeting inside Belfast's riverside Lyric Theatre.
2013 NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.
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2014 At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
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2015 A midair explosion from flammable powder at a recreational water park in Taiwan injures at least 510 people with about 183 in serious condition in intensive care.
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1787 Thomas Say (d. 1834). American self-taught naturalist often considered to be the founder of descriptive entomology in the United States. His taxonomic work was quickly recognized by European zoologists. Say was a founding member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. He was chief zoologist of Major Stephen Long's exploring expedition to the tributaries of the Missouri River in 1819 and in 1823 for the expedition to the headwaters of the Mississippi. During the 1819 expedition, Say first described the coyote, swift fox, western kingbird, band-tailed pigeon, Say's phoebe, rock wren, lesser goldfinch, lark sparrow, lazuli bunting, and orange-crowned warbler. His important work, American Entomology, remains a classic. He also wrote on paleontology and conchology.
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1869 Mary Williams (d. 1961), who wrote pseudonymously as Kate Carew, was a caricaturist self-styled as "The Only Woman Caricaturist". She worked at the New York World from 1890 to 1901, providing illustrated celebrity interviews.
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1869 Emma Goldman, Lithuanian/American anarchist and feminist (d 1940)
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1870 Frank Rattray Lillie (d. 1947) American zoologist and embryologist, known for his discoveries concerning the fertilization of the egg (ovum) and the role of hormones in sex determination. In 1914, Lillie hypothesized the existence of a substance, fertilizin, in the jelly coat of eggs which causes sperm cells to clump together. In 1916, he demonstrated the role of sex hormones in freemartinism. His embryological investigations reached into all aspects of cellular and embryonic development. He is best known for his dedicated efforts in shaping the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Oceanographic Institute at Woods Hole, Mass. He wrote The Development of the Chick (1908), a leading embryology text, and The Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory (1944)
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1872 Heber Doust Curtis (d 1942) American astronomer whose study of nebulae indicated they lay far outside our own galaxy. After his early work measuring radial velocities of the brighter stars, he turned in 1910 to study spiral nebulae which he believed were isolated independent star systems. By 1917, from study of nebula photography he concluded the nebulae lay well beyond our galaxy. He estimated the Andromeda nebula to be 500,000 light-years away. At a meeting of the National Academy of Sciences (1920) he engaged in a famous debate with Harlow Shapley who proposed that our galaxy was 300,000 light-years in diameter and included the spiral nebulae. In 1924, when Edwin Hubble confirmed that the Andromeda nebula was, in fact, far beyond our own galaxy.
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1872 Paul Laurence Dunbar (d 1906) African-American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Much of his popular work in his lifetime used a Negro dialect, which helped him become one of the first nationally-accepted African-American writers. Much of his writing, however, does not use dialect; these more traditional poems have become of greater interest to scholars.
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1880 Helen Keller, (d 1968) American deaf and blind activist
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1888 (Mary) Antoinette Perry (d 1946), actress, director, and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing. The Tony Awards are her namesake.
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1900 Otto E Passman, (d 1988) conservative Democratic congressman from Monroe in northeastern Louisiana, who served from 1947 to 1977. He is primarily remembered for his detailed knowledge and mostly opposition to foreign aid. He was unseated in the 1976 primary election by the more moderate challenger, Thomas Jerald "Jerry" Huckaby of Ringgold, a town in Bienville Parish.
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1901 Merle Antony Tuve (d. 1982) American research physicist and geophysicist who (with Gregory Breit) made the first use pulsed radio waves to explore the ionosphere. He devised the necessary detecting equipment to measure the time between receiving a direct radio pulse and a second pulse reflected from the ionosphere. The observations he made provided the theoretical foundation for the development of radar. Tuve, with Lawrence R. Hafstad and Norman P. Heydenburg, made the first and definitive measurements of the nuclear force between proton-proton force at nuclear distances. During WW II he developed the proximity fuse. Following the war, he made important contributions to experimental seismology, radio astronomy, and optical astronomy.
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Mosconi (left) with "Cowboy Jimmy" Moore at the 1953 World's Invitational
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1930 H Ross Perot Texas billionaire best known for running for President of the United States in 1992 and 1996. Perot founded Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1962, sold the company to General Motors in 1984, and founded Perot Systems in 1988. Perot Systems was bought by Dell for $3.9 billion in 2009.
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1932 Anna Moffo, (d 2006) Italian-American opera singer and one of the leading lyric-coloratura sopranos of her generation. She possessed a warm and radiant voice of considerable range and agility, and was an affecting singing-actress of great physical beauty
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1933 Gary Crosby son of Bing, actor (Which Way to the Front)
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1937 Joseph P Allen IV Crawfordsville Ind, PhD/astronaut (STS-5, STS 51A)
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1940 Daniel Gray Quillen American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1978 for contribution of geometric and topological techniques to the study of algebraic K-theory.
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1942 Bruce Johnston, American musician (The Beach Boys)
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1949 Vera Wang, American fashion designer
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1951 Sidney M Gutierrez Albuquerque NM, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 40)
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1963 Johnny Benson, American NASCAR driver
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1964 Chuck Person, American basketball player and coach
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1966 J.J. Abrams, American director, producer, and screenwriter
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1967 Jeff Conine, American baseball player and sportscaster
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1968 Kelly Ayotte, American politician who served as a United States Senator from New Hampshire from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Republican Party, she was the second-youngest of the 20 female senators, and the twelfth-youngest overall.
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1970 Jim Edmonds, American baseball player and sportscaster
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1973 George Hincapie, American cyclist
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1974 Christian Kane, American actor and singer-songwriter. He is known for his roles in the television shows Angel, Leverage, The Librarians and Into the West, and the movies Just Married, Taxi, and Secondhand Lions.
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1974 Christopher O'Neill, American-British financier and the husband of Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, a daughter of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
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1975 Ace Darling, Michael "Mike" Maraldo American professional wrestler, best known by his ring name Ace Darling. Darling has wrestled in various independent promotions in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, most notably for the East Coast Wrestling Association, Jersey All Pro Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling.
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1975 Tobias Vincent "Tobey" Maguire American actor and producer. He began his career in the late 1980s. His first appearance in a feature film was a non-speaking part in The Wizard (1989). He is known for playing the title character in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy (2002, 2004, and 2007), as well as for his roles in Pleasantville (1998), The Cider House Rules (1999), Wonder Boys (2000), Seabiscuit (2003), The Good German (2006), Brothers (2009), and The Great Gatsby (2013).
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1975 Daryle Lamar Ward American professional baseball first baseman and left fielder. He played eleven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1998 to 2008 for the Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Nationals, Atlanta Braves, and Chicago Cubs. He is the son of former major leaguer Gary Ward. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryle_Ward
1976 Johnny Pulado Estrada, American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks, Milwaukee Brewers and the Washington Nationals.
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1980 Jennifer Goodridge, American keyboard player
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1980 Craig Terrill, American football defensive tackle.[2] He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the sixth round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Purdue.
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1983 Jim Johnson, American professional baseball relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for the Baltimore Orioles, Oakland Athletics, Detroit Tigers, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Johnson was an All-Star in 2012, and won the Rolaids Relief Man Award that year while leading MLB in saves.
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1986 Drake Bell, American actor, voice actor, and musician. Born in Newport Beach, California, he began his career as an actor in the early 1990s at the age of five with his first televised appearance on Home Improvement. Bell also appeared in several commercials, such as one for Pokémon Red and Blue, but is best known for his starring roles on Nickelodeon's The Amanda Show, and its spin-off, Drake & Josh. Bell starred in a trilogy of The Fairly OddParents movies on Nickelodeon. Bell was the voice of Peter Parker / Spider-Man in the animated series Ultimate Spider-Man on Disney XD. He appeared on ABC's reality TV series Splash.
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1986 Bryan Fletcher, American Nordic combined skier who has competed since 2002 and in the world cup since 2009.
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1988 Kate Marie Ziegler, American competition swimmer who specializes in freestyle and long-distance events. Ziegler has won a total of fifteen medals in major international competition, including eight golds, five silvers, and two bronze spanning the World Aquatics and the Pan Pacific Championships. She was a member of the 2012 United States Olympic Team, and competed in the 800-meter freestyle event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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1829 James Smithson (b. 1765) English scientist who provided funds in his will for the founding of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." He had inherited his fortune chiefly through his mother's family. He was a chemist and minerologist who published 27 scientific papers. The mineral smithsonite (carbonate of zinc) was named for him.
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1844 Hyrum Smith, (b 1800) Mormon leader killed by a mob in Carthage Ill.
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1844 Joseph Smith, Jr., (b 1805) founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, killed by a mob in Carthage Ill.
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1907 Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (b. 1822) (née Cary) U.S. naturalist and educator who was the first president of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass. She married the Swiss naturalist, Louis Agassiz, in 1850. They traveled together on scientific expeditions, and founded the Anderson School of Natural History, a Marine laboratory, located on Penikese Island in Buzzard's Bay, Mass. When her husband died in1873, Elizabeth became interested in the idea of college for women to be taught by the "Harvard Annex" in Cambridge. In 1894 the Annex became Radcliffe College. She served as president until 1899, then honorary president until 1903. Her books include A First Lesson in Natural History (1859), A Journey in Brazil (1867)
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1932 Louis Winslow Austin (born 30 Oct 1867)
American physicist known for research on long-range radio transmissions. In 1904 he began work on radio transmissions for the U.S. Bureau of Standards. In 1908 Austin became head of a naval radiotelegraphy laboratory (later to become the Naval Research Laboratory) and became chief of the bureau's laboratory for special radio transmission research (1923-32). His work involved long-range transmission experiments, most notably a study (1910) that tested radio contact between ships travelling between the US and Liberia. Austin and collaborator Louis Cohen developed the Austin-Cohen formula for predicting the strength of radio signals at long distances. Austin's later work centred on the study of radio atmospheric disturbances, i.e., "static."
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1953 Mary Anderson (b February 19, 1866) American real estate developer, rancher, viticulturist and inventor of the windshield wiper blade. In November 1903 Anderson was granted her first patent for an automatic car window cleaning device controlled inside the car, called the windshield wiper
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1983 Maxie Anderson (b. 1934) Maxie Leroy "Max" Anderson who (with fellow Albuquerque, NM, residents Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman) made the first transatlantic balloon flight aboard their Double Eagle II balloon, 3108 miles from Presque Isle, Maine to Miserey, France. After a dozen failed attempts, their successful crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by gas balloon was achieved 11-16 August 1978, (landing 17 Aug), setting a new duration record with a flight time of 137 hours. Two years later, 12-18 May 1980, with his son Kristian, he made the first nonstop balloon flight across North America. This record helium balloon flight aboard the Kitty Hawk began at San Francisco, California, lasted four days and ended near Matane, Quebec, Canada, 3,100 miles from their launch site. His later round-the-world attempts failed. He was killed in 1983 when refused permission to fly across the East German border and a faulty release clamp used at landing caused them to crash.
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1986 Don Rogers (b 1962) of the Cleveland Browns, dies of cocaine poisoning.
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2001 John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III , (b 1925) American actor and musician. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts (for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger (for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing (for which he won 'Best Actor' at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival), Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.
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2002 Robert L. J. Long, four star admiral in the United States Navy who served as Vice Chief of Naval Operations from 1977–1979 and Commander in Chief Pacific from 1979 to 1983. (b. 1920)
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2003 David Newman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
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2004 Darrell Russell, American NHRA drag racer. He was the 2001 NHRA Rookie Of The Year. At the time, he was the third driver to win in his Professional debut. (b. 1968)
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2004 George Patton IV, (b 1923) Major General in the United States Army and the son of World War II General George Patton.
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2005 Shelby Foote, (b 1917) American historian and novelist who wrote The Civil War: A Narrative, a massive, three-volume history of the war. With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta, Foote's life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South. Foote was relatively unknown to the general public for most of his life until his appearance in Ken Burns's PBS documentary The Civil War in 1990, where he introduced a generation of Americans to a war that he believed was "central to all our lives."
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2005 John T. Walton, (b 1946) United States war veteran and a son of Walmart founder Sam Walton. He was also the chairman of True North Partners, a venture capital firm. Walton cofounded the Children's Scholarship Fund, providing tuition scholarships for disadvantaged youth.
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2008 Michael Laayne Turner, American comics artist known for his work on Witchblade, Fathom, Superman/Batman, Soulfire, and various covers for DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He was also the president of the entertainment company Aspen MLT. (b 1971
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2009 Fayette Pinkney, American singer (The Three Degrees) (b. 1948)
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2009 Gale Storm, (b 1922) American actress and singer who starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show.
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2010 Corey Allen, American film and television director, writer, producer, and actor. He began his career as an actor but eventually became a television director. He may be best known for playing the character Buzz Gunderson in Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause (1955).(b. 1934)
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2013 Bill Henry Robertson, American businessman and politician (b. 1938)
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2014 Allen Grossman, American poet, critic, and academic (b. 1932)
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2014 Bobby Womack, Robert Dwayne Womack (b March 4, 1944) American singer-songwriter and musician, and producer. Since the early 1960s, when he started his career as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career spanned more than 60 years, during which he played in the styles of R&B, soul, rock and roll, doo-wop, gospel, and country.
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Christian Feast Day:
Cyril of Alexandria (Coptic Church, Roman Catholic Church, and Lutheran Church)
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Crescens, one of the Seventy Disciples
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Ladislaus I of Hungary
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Our Lady of Perpetual Help
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June 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Venerable Sampson the Hospitable of Constantinople (530)
Saint Severus of Interocrea in Italy, presbyter (6th century)
Saint Joanna the Myrrh-bearer (1st century)
Martyr Anectus of Caesarea in Cappadocia
Blessed Martin of Turov (12th century)
Russian New Martyr Gregory Nikolsky (1918)
Saint Luke the Hermit
Martyrs Mark and Marcia
Hieromartyr Pierius of Antioch, presbyter
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