TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JUNE 25
1178 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon
1630 Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop
1767 Mexican Indians riot as Jesuit priests are ordered home.
1788 Virginia became the 10th state in the Union.
1798 US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
1857 Gustave Flaubert goes on trial for public immorality regarding his novel, Madame Bovary.
1868 The U.S. Congress enacts legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the federal government.
1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as “Custer’s Last Stand”
1929 US President Herbert Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1941 Finland declares war on the Soviet Union.
1947 The Diary of Anne Frank is published
1950 North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
1962 The U.S. Supreme Court bans official prayers in public schools.
1964 President Lyndon Johnson orders 200 naval personnel to Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights workers.
1967 The world’s first live global satellite TV program is aired The BBC program “Our World” featured artists from 19 countries.
1973 White House Counsel John Dean admits President Richard Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.
1981 Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional
1991 Croatia and Slovenia proclaimed their independence from Yugoslavia, beginning the Yugoslavian civil war.
1998 The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the line-item veto thereby striking down presidential power to cancel specific items in tax and spending legislation.
1999 Germany’s parliament approved a national Holocaust memorial to be built in Berlin.
2000 U.S. and British researchers announced that they had completed a rough draft of a map of the genetic makeup of human beings. The project was 10 years old at the time of the announcement.
2000 A Florida judge approved a class-action lawsuit to be filed against America Online (AOL) on behalf of hourly subscribers who were forced to view “pop-up” advertisements.
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