June 30 in Pop Culture History
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 debate) at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History took place.
1886 – The United States …
June 29 in Pop Culture History
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 States Interstate Highway System.
1967 – Actress Jayne Mansfield died in car crash on Interstate 90, …
June 28 in Pop Culture History
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.
1895 – The US Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’ claim to Barony of Arizona is “wholly fictitious …
June 27 in Pop Culture History
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 Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
1949 – The first sci-fi TV show, Captain Video …
June 26 in Pop Culture History
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 the bicycle, was issued to William K. Clarkson Jr. of New York.
1870 – Christmas was declared …
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 – Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) received a patent (#140,245) for a self-pasting Scrapbook.
1916 – Mary Pickford became the first female …
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 keyboard’ in 1873.
1894 – The International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris.
1926 – The College Board …
June 21 in Pop Culture History
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 people on 36 cars, and was 264 feet tall.
1913 – The first successful parachute jump …
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.
1840 – Samuel Morse received the patent (#1647) for the telegraph.
1893 – Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the murders …
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 and replenishment were delayed due to the Anglo-Spanish War. The only clue found in the empty colony was the word …
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 vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1923 – Checker Taxi put its first taxi on the streets of Chicago.
1930 – …
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. The success of his company came after he died in 1860.
1852 – W.H. Fancher and C.M. French of …
