On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on June 20:
1566 Sigismund III, King of Poland/Sweden
1674 Nicholas Rowe England, poet laureate (Jane Shore, Tamerlane)
1763 Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish nationalist
1819 Jacques Offenbach Cologne, French composer (Tales of Hoffmann)
1823 Jesse Lee Reno, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1824 John Tyler Morgan, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
1868 Helen Miller Shepard philanthropist/established Hall of Fame
1894 George Delacorte NYC, philanthropist/publisher (Dell Books)
1899 Jean Moulin hero of the French Resistance during WW II
1907 Lillian Hellman playwright (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes)
1909 Errol Flynn actor (Captain Blood, Robin Hood, Against All Flags)
1919 Bruce Gordon London England, actor (Frank Nitti-Untouchables)
1920 DeForest Kelley Atlanta Ga, actor (Dr Leonard McCoy-Star Trek)
1924 Audie Murphy Kingston Tx, WWII hero/actor (Destry, Joe Butterfly)
1924 Chet Atkins Luttrell Tenn, guitarist (Me & My Guitar)
1928 Jean-Marie Le-Pen France, leader National Front party
1928 Martin Landau actor (Mission Impossible, Space 1999, Tucker)
1931 Olympia Dukakis, Lowell Mass, actress (Moonstruck, Cemetery Club)
1933 Danny Aiello NYC, actor (Moonstruck, Radio Days)
1942 Brian Wilson Inglewood Calif, singer (Beachboys-In My Room)
1944 Terry Funk, Hammond Ind, pro wrestler (WWF/NWA)/actor (Paradise Alley)
1945 David S Monson, (Rep-R-UT, 1985- )
1945 James F Buchli New Rockford ND, USMC/astr (STS 51C, 61A, 29, 48)
1950 Lionel Richie singer (Commodores, Hello, Penny Lover)
1952 John Goodman actor (Roseanne, Everyone's All American)
1957 Butch Patrick Inglewood Calif, actor (Real McCoys, Eddie-Munsters)
Deaths which occurred on June 20:
1837 King William IV of England, dies
1597 Willem Barents, explorer (discovered Spitsbergen and Bereneil), dies
1837 William IV, King of England, dies
1864 Friend Smith Rutherford, US Union brig-gen, dies in battle at 43?
1883 Olivier Gloux, [Gustave Aimard], French world explorer, dies at 64
1947 Benjamin `Buggsy' Siegel gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
1963 Joseph Self murderer, executed; last Wash state execution in 25 yrs
1963 Ralph Sanford actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 64
1965 Ira Louvin country singer (Louvin Brothers), dies at 41
1984 Estelle Winwood actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 99
1997 Bobby Helms, composer (Jingle Bell Rock), dies at 61
1997 Lawrence Payton, rocker (4 Tops-I'll Be There), dies at 59
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1965 KARI PAUL A.---COLUMBUS OH.
[02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1966 MC DONOUGH JOHN R.---SOUTH ORANGE NJ.
1966 TUNNELL JOHN W.---VISTA CA.
1968 MC CAIN MARVIN RAYMOND JR---BIRMINGHAM AL.
[08/07/73 REMAINS RECOVERED]
POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
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On this day...
0451 Goths, Franks and Romans beat Atiila the Hun at Catalarinische Fields
1212 French and Spanish crusaders unite against the Almohaden at Toledo
1402 Battle of Angora (Ankara)-Tatars defeat Turkish Army
1567 Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique
1632 Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
1675 Abenaki, Massachusetts, Mohegan and Wampanoag indians form anti-English front under Metacom
1756 146 Brit soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most die
1779 Battle of Stone Ferry
1782 Congress approves Great Seal of US & the eagle as it's symbol
1789 Oath of the Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken
1791 King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
1793 Eli Whitney applies for a cotton gin patent
1819 Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)
1837 England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria
1837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901
1855 Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin
1863 1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)
1863 West Virginia admitted as 35th US state
1867 Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
1871 Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford Miss
1874 1st US Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons)
1893 Lizzie Borden found innocent in New Bedford Mass
1895 1st female doctor of science earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)
1895 A Charlois discovers asteroid #404 Arsinoe
1895 Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
1907 1st Portland Rose festival
1910 "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal
1911 NAACP incorporates (NY)
1913 3 of 1st 4 Yankees hit-by-pitch en route to a record 6 hit batsman Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader
1917 J Palisa discovers asteroid #876 Scott
1920 Yanks win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed
1921 29.2 cm (11.5") of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record)
1926 Mordecai W Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University
1936 Jesse Owens of the US sets 100 meter record at 10.2
1939 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1817 Katanga
1939 Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
1942 Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews
1942 German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa
1943 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded
1943 Detroit race riot kills 35
1943 New Quebec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Quebec (3« km dia)
1944 Nazi begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz
1947 Pres Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act
1948 "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV
1949 - Central Intelligence Agency Act, passes
1950 Joe Dimaggio's 2,000th hit, Yanks beat Indians 8-2
1960 Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France
1960 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 5 for heavywgt boxing title
1963 1st Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 6-2
1963 Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income
1963 US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"
1966 Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman
1967 Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services
1967 Phillies Larry Jackson beats NY Mets for 18th straight time
1968 Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds
1969 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear
1970 Oriole's Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run HR
1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2124 Nissen
1977 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
1978 1st 6 teams of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL) granted-Iowa, NJ, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minnesota & Dayton
1980 Roberto Duran takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard at Olympic Stadium in Montreal by unanimous decision
1982 Israeli PM Menachem Begin arrives in Washington
1984 Amber Kvanli, of Minnesota, crowned America's Junior Miss
1986 Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon
1987 Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass
1988 Price is Right model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera
1990 40,000-50,000 die in a (7.6) earthquake in Iran
1994 Bomb attack on Islamic temple in Mashad Iran (70 killed)
1996 Attorney General Janet Reno asked that the Whitewater counsel be allowed to investigate the matter of FBI background checks. A panel of judges agreed the next day.
2001 Houston resident Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the family bathtub, then called police. Yates was later sentenced to life in prison.
2001 American Lori Berenson was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Peruvian court for collaborating with leftist guerrillas.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Argentina : Flag Day
Senegal : Independence Day (1960)
Finland and Sweden : Midsummer Day
West Virginia : Admission Day (1863)
US : Father's Day (TODAY!)..(Gentlemen, take a break)
Black Music Month
Religious Observances
RC : Feast of St Silverius, 58th pope [536-37], martyr
Religious History
1529 Clement VII and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V signed the Peace of Barcelona, which ended attacks on Rome by the Lutheran armies.
1599 The Synod of Diamper reunited a native church in India with Rome. Discovered in 1498 by Portuguese explorers, this isolated pocket of worshipers traced their Christian origins back to the missionary efforts of the Apostle Thomas.
1776 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'A Christian is not of hasty growth...but rather like the oak, the progress of which is hardly perceptible, but in time becomes a deep-rooted tree.'
1779 Birth of Dorothy Ann Thrupp, English devotional writer and author of the hymn, 'Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us.'
1885 A band of Moravian missionaries landed on the shores of Alaska and founded the Bethel Mission. During the first year of their mission work among the, eskimoes, winter temperatures outside their makeshift housing plummeted to 50 degrees below zero!
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life."
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Thought for the day #2:
Fathers, NEVER raise your hand to your kids.
It leaves your groin unprotected.
Things To Do If You Ever Became An Evil Overlord...
One of your advisors must be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in your plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation.
The World's Shortest Books...
Career Opportunities for History Majors
Dumb Laws...
Federal Laws:
Persons may be placed in jail for up to five years for shooting a hole in a penny.
Top 10 signs your family is stressed...
The number of jobs held down by family members exceeds the number of people in the family.
