August 24 in Pop Culture History 79 (Volcano Eruption) Mount Vesuvius erupted. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae were buried in volcanic ash, although some scholars believe it was October 24th. Pop/Rock band Bastille wrote a song about the event in 2013. 1215 – Pope Innocent III declared Magna Carta invalid. 1456 – The […]
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August 23 in Pop Culture History 79 – Mount Vesuvius began stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. 1305 – Sir William Wallace was executed for high treason at Smithfield in London. 1775 – King George III delivered his ‘Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St. James’s’ stating that […]
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August 22 in Pop Culture History 565 – Columba, an Irish missionary, reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland. 1791 – Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue began. It ended with the founding of the Republic of Haiti in 1804. 1831 – Nat Turner’s slave rebellion began just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading […]
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August 21 in Pop Culture History 1883 – An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic. 1888 – The first practical adding machine in the United States was patented (#’s 388,116-388,119) by William Seward Burroughs. 1911 – The Mona Lisa was stolen by a Louvre employee, Vincenzo Peruggia. It […]
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August 20 in Pop Culture History 1000 – The foundation of the Hungarian state by Saint Stephen. 1858 – Charles Darwin first published his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 1882 – Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture debuted in Moscow, Russia. 1910 – The Great […]
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August 19 in Pop Culture History 295 BC – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, was dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges 1612 – The “Samlesbury witches”, three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, were put on trial, accused of practicing witchcraft, with all three of […]
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August 18 in Pop Culture History 1227 – RIP – Genghis Khan (c. 1162 – August 18, 1227) is said to have fathered between 1,000-2,000 children, making him the man with most children in human history. He is also the male-line ancestor of ~0.5% of the world’s population. 1587 – Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White […]
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August 17 in Pop Culture History 1807 – Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat left New York, New York, to Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. 1896 – Bridget Driscoll was run over by a Benz car in the grounds of The Crystal Palace, London. She […]
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August 16 in Pop Culture History 1858 – President James Buchanan inaugurated the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom. “Europe and America are united by telegraphy. Glory to God in the highest; on earth, peace and good will toward men.” 1896 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack […]
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August 15 in Pop Culture History 1483 – Pope Sixtus IV consecrated the Sistine Chapel and dedicated it to the Virgin Mary. 1519 – Panama City, Panama, was founded. 1549 – Jesuit priest Francis Xavier came ashore at Kagoshima, Japan. 1843 – Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, […]
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August 14 in Pop Culture History 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan’s “The Lost Chord”, one of the first recordings of music ever made, was played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison’s phonograph in London, England. 1893 – France became the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration. 1933 – […]
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August 13 in Pop Culture History 1521 – Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes captured Aztec leader Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. 1868 (Earthquake & Tsunami) Arica, Chile 1889 – Samuel Leeds Allen was issued a patent (#408,681) for his Flexible Flyer sled. 1898 – Carl Gustav Witt discoverd 433 Eros, the first near-Earth […]
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August 12 in Pop Culture History 30 BC – Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, committed suicide, by means of an asp bite. 1851 – Isaac Singer was granted a patent (#8,294) for his sewing machine. 1877 – Asaph Hall discovered the Mars moon Deimos. 1883 – The last quagga, […]
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August 11 in Pop Culture History 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, began. This was the calendar that caused the Friday, December 21, 2012 ‘end of the world’ fears. 1858 – The Eiger in the Bernese Alps was ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington, along […]
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August 10 in Pop Culture History 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Seville, Spain to circumnavigate the globe. 1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England was laid. 1846 – The Smithsonian Institution was chartered by the United States Congress. 1873 – Louvre Museum opened in France. 1932 – […]
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August 9 in Pop Culture History 1483 – Opening of the restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. Renaissance painters Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino, Pinturicchio, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Cosimo Roselli contributed. Michelangelo added his work on the ceiling in 1508-1512. 1854 – Henry David Thoreau published Walden or Life in the Woods. 1892 – Thomas Edison received […]
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August 8 in Pop Culture History 1786 – Mont Blanc on the French/Italian border was climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard. 1786 – Coinage of US money was established by Congress 1876 – Thomas Edison received a patent (#180,857) for his mimeograph (Autographic Printing). 1908 – Wilbur Wright made […]
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August 7 in Pop Culture History 1782 – George Washington ordered the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It was later renamed the Purple Heart. 1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three other women became the first women to complete a transcontinental automobile trip, taking 59 days to […]
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August 6 in Pop Culture History NASA programmed the Curiosity Rover to sing itself “Happy Birthday” every year, on the anniversary of it’s landing date August 6, 2012. 1787 – 60 copies of the Constitution of the United States were delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New […]
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August 5 in Pop Culture History 1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, was captured by the English near Glasgow. Mel Gibson starred in a dramatization of the story in Braveheart. 1620 – The Mayflower departed from Southampton, England, headed towards North America. 1861 – In order to help pay for […]
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August 4 in Pop Culture History 70 – The Second Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans. 1693 – Celebratory date for Dom Perignon’s invention of Champagne. 1790 – A tariff act created the need for the Revenue Cutter Service, later renamed The United States Coast Guard. 1892 – The father and stepmother of […]
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August 3 in Pop Culture History 1492 – Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain towards, he expected to find Asia. 1769 – The La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California were discovered. 1852 – Harvard University won the first Boat Race against Yale University. The race was the first American […]
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August 2 in Pop Culture History 1610 – Henry Hudson sailed into what is now known as Hudson Bay (he thought he had made it through the Northwest Passage, and reached the Pacific Ocean). 1776 – The signing of the Declaration of Independence didn’t occur on July 4. After the Continental Congress voted to declare […]
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August 1 in Pop Culture History 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley re-discovered oxygen (the gas), verifying the discovery of it by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele. 1790 – The first U.S. Census, there were 3,929,326 people living here. 1794 – The Whiskey Rebellion Western. Pennsylvania farmers revolted, protesting the excise duty (tax) on stills […]
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July 31 in Pop Culture History 781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan. 1492 – Jews were expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree took effect. 1790 – The first US patent (X000001) as issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process. 1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow […]
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July 30 in Pop Culture History 762 – Baghdad was founded by caliph Al-Mansur. 1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time. 1729 – Founding of Baltimore, Maryland. 1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States was constituted […]
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July 29 in Pop Culture History 1148 – The Siege of Damascus ended with a crusader defeat and lead end of the Second Crusade. 1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile (Arch of Triumph of the Star) in Paris, France. 1914 – The 7 mile long Cape Cod Canal opened in Massachusetts. […]
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July 28 in Pop Culture History 1854 – The USS Constellation, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy, was commissioned. 1868 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was certified, establishing African American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law. 1896 – The city of Miami, Florida was incorporated. 1945 […]
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July 27 in Pop Culture History 1694 – A Royal charter was granted to the Bank of England. 1789 – The first US federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, was established (later renamed the Department of State). 1866 – The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable was successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland, […]
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July 26 in Pop Culture History 1745 – “The greatest cricket match that was played in this part of England was on Friday, the 26th of last month, on Gosden Common, near Guildford, between eleven maids of Bramley and eleven maids of Hambledon, all dressed in white. The Bramley maids had blue ribbons and the […]
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July 25 in Pop Culture History 306 – Constantine I (Constantine The Great) was proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. 1593 – Henry IV of France converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. 1668 (Earthquake) China 1788 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed his Symphony No. 40 in G minor. 1861 – The United States Congress passed […]
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July 24 in Pop Culture History REMINDER: If you have promised your significant other that you will love them 7/24, TODAY is 7/24. 1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots, was forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI, after the sudden death of one husband and the quick marriage to another. 1823 […]
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July 23 in Pop Culture History 1829 – In the United States, William Austin Burt patented (#5581X) the typographer, an early typewriter. 1926 – Fox Film bought the patents of the Movietone sound system, for recording sound onto film. 1961 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front was founded in Nicaragua. 1962 – Telstar relayed the […]
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July 22 in Pop Culture History 1587 – A second group of English settlers arrived on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony. 1796 – Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company named an area in Ohio “Cleveland” after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party. 1933 – Wiley Post became […]
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July 21 in Pop Culture History 356 BC – The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, was destroyed by arson. 1865 – In Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt, in what is considered as the first western showdown. 1873 – Near Adair, Iowa, Jesse […]
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July 20 in Pop Culture History 1903 – The Ford Motor Company shipped its first car. 1938 – The United States Department of Justice filed suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. 1940 – California opened its first freeway, […]
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July 19 in Pop Culture History 64 – Great Fire of Rome occurred, destroying half of the city. Contrary to rumors, Nero did not play the fiddle while it burned, but he did blame “the Christians.” 1553 – Lady Jane Grey was replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after only nine […]
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July 18 in Pop Culture History 1870 – The First Vatican Council decreed the dogma of papal infallibility. 1925 – Adolf Hitler published Mein Kampf. 1960 – #1 Hit July 18, 1960 – August 7, 1960: Brenda Lee – I’m Sorry 1968 – Intel was founded in Mountain View, California. 1964 – #1 Hit July […]
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July 17 in Pop Culture History 1429 – Charles VII of France was crowned the King of France in the Reims Cathedral after a successful campaign by Joan of Arc. 1856 – The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, injured over 100, and killed over 60 people. 1899 – NEC Corporation is […]
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July 16 in Pop Culture History 622 – The 354 day Islamic Calendar was established. 1661 – The first banknotes in Europe were issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco. 1769 – Father Junípero Serra founded California’s first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá, alter known as San Diego, California. 1790 – The District of […]
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July 15 in Pop Culture History 850 (Earthquake) Iran 1149 – The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre was consecrated in Jerusalem. 1799 – The Rosetta Stone was found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign. 1823 – A fire destroyed the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul […]
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July 14 in Pop Culture History 1789 – Bastille Day. Tens of thousands of the citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille, the Paris fortress used as a prison to hold political prisoners, and released the seven prisoners inside at the onset of the French Revolution. 1798 – The Sedition Act became law in the United […]
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July 13 in Pop Culture History 1787 – The Continental Congress enacted the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also established procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery. 1923 – The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It […]
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July 12 in Pop Culture History 927 – Æthelstan, King of England, secured a pledge from Constantine II of Scotland that the latter would not ally with Viking kings, beginning the process of unifying Great Britain. This is considered by most historians to the closest thing that England has to a foundation date. 1533 – […]
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July 11 in Pop Culture History 1796 – The United States took possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty. 1798 – The United States Marine Corps was re-established (they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War). 1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, was founded. 1893 – The first cultured pearl was […]
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July 10 in Pop Culture History 1553 – Lady Jane Grey began her 9 day reign on the throne of England. 1892 – The first concrete-paved street was built, on Court Avenue, around the Logan County Court House, in Bellefountaine, Ohio. 1913 – Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (57 °C), the highest temperature recorded […]
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July 9 in Pop Culture History 1540 – King Henry VIII of England annulled the marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. 1595 – Johannes Kepler published Mysterium cosmographicum (Mystery of the Cosmos) 1776 – George Washington ordered the Declaration of Independence to be read out loud to members of the Continental Army in […]
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July 8 in Pop Culture History 1776 – The Liberty Bell rang at Pennsylvania State House (now Independence Hall) in Philadelphia, inviting citizens to the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence. 1800 – Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse gave the smallpox vaccination to his son, Daniel. It was performed in the US, using cowpox serum […]
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July 7 in Pop Culture History 1456 – A retrial verdict acquitted Joan of Arc of heresy, authorized by Pope Callixtus III, 25 years after she was burned alive for heresy. 1520 – Spanish conquistadores defeated a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba. 1898 – US President William McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution […]
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July 6 in Pop Culture History 1189 – Richard I “the Lionheart” acceded to the English throne. 1348 – Pope Clement VI issued a papal bull (rule) protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death. 1415 – Jan Hus, an early church reformer, was condemned as a heretic and then burned at the […]
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50 United States Quick Facts US State #1. Delaware – Capitol: Dover, joined on Dec. 7, 1787, nickname: The First State US State #2. Pennsylvania – Capitol: Harrisburg, joined on Dec. 12, 1787, nickname: Keystone State US State #3. New Jersey – Capitol: Trenton, joined on Dec. 18, 1787, nickname: Garden State US State #4. […]
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July 5 in Pop Culture History 1687 – Isaac Newton published Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. (Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica) 1841 – Thomas Cook organized the first package excursion (planned vacation tour), from Leicester to Loughborough. 1865 – William Booth and his wife Catherine establish the Christian Mission, later known as the Salvation Army (1878). […]
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The Declaration of Independence When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a […]
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July 4 in Pop Culture History 1054 – A supernova was seen for several months by Chinese, Arab near the star Zeta Tauri – its remnants form the Crab Nebula. 1776 – The United States’ Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress. 1803 – The Louisiana Purchase was announced.. 1826 – John […]
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July 3 in Pop Culture History 1035 – William the Conqueror became the Duke of Normandy, 1819 – The Bank of Savings in New York City, an early savings bank in the United States, opened. Many think it was the oldest, but the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society (PSFS), was founded in December 4, 1816 and […]
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July 2 in Pop Culture History 1698 – Thomas Savery patented the first steam engine. 1776 – The Continental Congress adopted a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain, although the final wording of the formal Declaration of Independence was not approved until July 4. 1839 – 53 African slaves took over the […]
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July 1 in Pop Culture History 1770 – Lexell’s Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history. 1819 – Johann Georg Tralles discoverd the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago. 1874 – The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first […]
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June 30 1831 – A patent for a platform scale was issued to brothers Erastus and Thaddeus S. Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury, Vermont. 1859 – Jean-Francois Gravelet, known as Emile Blondin, became the first daredevil to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. 1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate (Huxley-Wilberforce debate or the Wilberforce-Huxley […]
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June 29 1613 – The Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground. 1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships voted to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population. 1956 – The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 was signed, officially creating the United […]
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June 28 in Pop Culture Madness 1635 – Guadeloupe became a French colony. 1832 – The first American case of a cholera epidemic was reported in New York City. 1838 – Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. 1846 – Adolphe Sax patented the saxophone. 1894 – Labor Day became an official US holiday. […]
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June 27 1556 – The thirteen Stratford Martyrs were burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs. 1844 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Mormons, and his brother Hyrum Smith, were murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail. 1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe was completed by […]
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June 26 1498 – The bristle toothbrush was invented in China. 1797 – Charles Newbold was issued a patent (#X000177) for an improvement for the cast-iron plow 1807 – Lightning struck a gunpowder factory in Luxembourg, killing more than 300 people. 1819 – The first US patent (#X003115) for a velocipede, a predecessor of […]
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June 25 1867 – Barbed wire was patented (#66,182) by Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio. 1876 – Native American forces, led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, defeated the US Army troops lead by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in a battle near southern Montana’s Little Bighorn River. 1910 – The US Congress […]
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June 24 in History 1374 – An early morning, sudden outbreak of ‘St. John’s Dance’ caused people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapsed from exhaustion. 1509 – Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon were crowned King and Queen of England. 1873 – […]
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Popular Music has two special seasons – Christmas and Summer. Each Year, One Song Becomes The Song Of The Summer The Top 100 Summer Songs 1920- 2019: 2019: Old Town Road by Lil Nas X Featuring Billy Ray Cyrus 2018: In My Feelings – Drake 2017: Despacito – Luis Fonsi feat Daddy Yankee (and sometimes Justin Bieber) 2016: Closer – Chainsmokers […]
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June 23 in Pop Culture History 1683 – William Penn signed a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania. 1860 – The United States Congress established the Government Printing Office. 1868 – Christopher Latham Sholes received the patents (#79265 & #79868) for an invention he called the “Type-Writer.” He also invented the ‘QWERTY […]
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June 22 1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forced Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe 1870 – US Congress created the United States Department of Justice. 1937 – Joe Louis won the world heavyweight boxing title when he defeated Jim Braddock. 1942 […]
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June 21 1834 – Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent (#X008277) for his grain reaping machine. 1877 – The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, were hanged in Pennsylvania prisons, in Schuylkill County and Carbon County. 1893 – The first Ferris wheel premiered at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition, and could hold up to 2000 […]
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June 20 in Pop Culture History June 20 is National Vanilla Milkshake Day. 1214 – The University of Oxford received its Royal charter. 1782 – Congress adopted the Great Seal of the United States, with the Bald Eagle clutching both an olive branch and thirteen arrows. 1837 – Queen Victoria succeeded to the British throne. […]
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June 19 1586 – Some English colonists left the Roanoke Island Colony that was established in 1585, and it was found empty in July of 1857. It was decided to re-establish the colony leaving 90 men, 17 women, and 11 children at the encampment, instead of bringing them further north, in the Chesapeake Bay. Supplies […]
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June 18 1178 – A meteor crached into the Moon or exploded between Earth and the Moon. 1812 – The U.S. Congress declares war on Great Britain, Canada, and Ireland, starting The War of 1812. 1815 – Napoleon defeated at Waterloo, in Belgium. 1873 – Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to […]
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June 17 1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempted to assassinate Mehmed II, forcing him to retreat from Wallachia, in Romania. 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, spent the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal. 1837 – Charles Goodyear obtained his first rubber-processing patent. […]
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June 16 1816 – Lord Byron read Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests – Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspired his challenge that each guest write a ghost story. 1858 – Abraham Lincoln gave his “a house divided against itself cannot stand” speech. 1884 – The first public roller coaster, […]
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June 15 763 BC – Assyrians recorded a solar eclipse, and that detail was later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. 1215 – The signed (sealed) Magna Carta guaranteed King John would respect feudal rights and privileges, uphold the freedom of the church within his kingdom. This was probably the same King John […]
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