1932 – Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the US Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits
0362 – Emperor Julian issued an edict banning Christians from teaching in Syria.
1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia
1579 – Sir Francis Drake claimed San Francisco Bay for England. (California)
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
1700 – Massachusetts orders priest to leave the colony
1775 – The British took Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed’s Hill) outside of Boston.
1789 – The Third Estate in France declared itself a national assembly, and began to frame a constitution.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte incorporated Italy into his empire.
1824 – US Bureau of Indian Affairs established
1839 – King of Hawaii Kamehameha III issues Edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is later established
1854 – The Red Turban revolt broke out in Guangdong, China.
1872 – George M. Hoover began selling whiskey in Dodge City, Kansas. The town had been dry up until this point.
1876 – General George Crook’s command was attacked and defeated 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.
1902 – US Congress pass the New Lands Reclamation Act, which establishes a fund from sale of public lands to build irrigation dams for arid Western lands
1916 – US troops under General Pershing march into Mexico
1930 – The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill became law. It placed the highest tariff on imports to the U.S.
1932 – Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the US Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits https://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/17/this-day-in-politics-june-17-1932-239562
1939 – Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre
1942 – Yank, a weekly magazine for the U.S. armed services, began publication. The term “G.I. Joe” was first used in a comic strip by Dave Breger.
1944 – Iceland dissolves its union with Denmark and declares itself a Republic
1950 – Dr. Richard H. Lawler performed the first kidney transplant in a 45-minute operation in Chicago, IL.
1953 – Soviet tanks fought thousands of Berlin workers that were rioting against the East German government.
1953 – US Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary
1956 – Golda Meir begins her term as Israel’s foreign minister
1963 – The U.S. Supreme Court banned the required reading of the Lord’s prayer and Bible in public schools.
1972 – Five men arrested after trying to bug Democratic National Committee office in Watergate Complex, Washington
1974 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army bombs the Houses of Parliament in London, injuring 11 people and causing extensive damage
1987 – With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct
1992 – Slaughtering by Inkhata-followers at Boipatong, South Africa, kills 42
1994 – O. J. Simpson’s slow-speed chase by the police, watched by millions on TV, ended in his arrest.
1996 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which removes the prohibition on divorce, is signed into law following a vote the previous year
2002 – Australian scientists announced that they had “teleported” a laser beam—breaking it up and reconstructing it in another location.
2015 – 9 people are shot and killed inside Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a 21 year old gunman
2019 – Mayor of Phoenix, Arizona, Kate Gallego apologies for local police threatening to shoot African American family after their four-year shoplifted a doll
2021 – US President Joe Biden signs into law the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act making June 19th a federal holiday commemorating emancipation
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
