TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JUNE 17
0362 Emperor Julian issues an edict banning Christians from teaching in Syria.
1579 Sir Francis Drake claims San Francisco Bay for England.
1631 Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal
1775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed’s Hill)
1837 Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent
1854 The Red Turban revolt breaks out in Guangdong, China.
1856 The Republican Party opens its first national convention in Philadelphia.
1872 George M. Hoover begins selling whiskey in Dodge City, Kansas–a town which had previously been “dry.”
1876 General George Crook’s command is attacked and bested on the Rosebud River by 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne under the leadership of Crazy Horse.
1885 The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.
1913 U.S. Marines set sail from San Diego to protect American interests in Mexico.
1930 The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill becomes law, placing the highest tariff on imports to the United States.
1932 The U.S. Senate defeats the Bonus Bill as 10,000 veterans mass around the Capitol.
1950 Surgeon Richard Lawler performs the first kidney transplant operation in Chicago.
1953 Riots in East Germany for reunification
1963 The U.S. Supreme Court bans the required reading of the Lord’s prayer and Bible in public schools.
1972 Five men are arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.
1975 Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with US
1994 Millions of Americans watch former football player O.J. Simpson–facing murder charges–drive his Ford Bronco through Los Angeles, followed by police.
2002 Australian scientists announced that they had “teleported” a laser beam—breaking it up and reconstructing it in another location.
2005 The Church of England named John Sentamu, a Ugandan-born cleric, as the Archbishop of York, making him the first black person to be appointed as an archbishop in the Church of England.
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