TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JUNE 27
1542 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sets sail from the Mexican port of Navidad to explore the west coast of North America on behalf of the Spanish Empire
1743 War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: in Bavaria, King George II of Britain personally leads troops into battle. The last time a British monarch commanded troops in the field.
1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, is arrested for conducting an academy for black women in Canterbury, Conn.
1844 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints founder Joseph Smith was murdered by a mob in Carthage, Ill. 1871 The yen becomes the new form of currency in Japan.
1905 The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin mutinies.1914 US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia 1924 Democrats offer Mrs. Leroy Springs the vice presidential nomination, the first woman considered for the job.
1927 The U.S. Marines adopt the English bulldog as their mascot.
1929 1st color TV demo, performed by Bell Laboratories in NYC
1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY’s Long Island
1950 The UN Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea.
1954 The world’s first nuclear power plant is activated The reactor at Obninsk in present-day Russia remained in operation for 48 years.
1954 CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala
1969 Police raid the Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, NY, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against the police, it lasts 3 days
1972 Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney found Atari, Inc.
1973 President Richard Nixon vetoes a Senate ban on the Cambodia bombing.
1973 John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon’s “enemies list”
1976 The world’s first recorded Ebola virus epidemic begins making its way through the area. By the time the epidemic is over, 284 cases are reported, with about half of the victims dying from the disease
1985 The legendary Route 66, running from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif., was decertified, the victim of the Interstate Highway System.
1991 Yugoslav troops invade Slovenia The attack, which marked the beginning of the Ten-Day War, followed Slovenia’s declaration of independence
2003 The national do-not-call registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolled almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day.
2008 The North Korean government demolished a nuclear tower, a highly symbolic action of the country’s commitment to comply with ending its nuclear program after talks.
2011 Former governor of the US state of Illinois Rod Blagojevich was found guilty on seventeen of twenty corruption charges after being accused of trying to sell the senate seat that was held by President Obama
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