TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JUNE 26
363 Roman Emperor Julian is killed during retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by troops on the battlefield.
1096 Peter the Hermit’s crusaders force their way across Sava, Hungary.
1483 Richard III usurped himself to the English throne.
1541 Former followers murder Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish Conqueror of Peru.
1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition reaches the mouth of the Kansas River after completing a westward trek of nearly 400 river miles.
1819 The bicycle was patented by W. K. Clarkson.
1848 1st pure food law enacted in US
1863 Jubal Early and his Confederate forces move into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1900 The United States announces it will send troops to fight against the Boxer Rebellion in China.
1924 After eight years of occupation, American troops leave the Dominican Republic.
1926 A memorial to the first U.S. troops in France is unveiled at St. Nazaire.
1934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act establishing credit unions
1936 The world’s first practical helicopter lifts off The twin-rotor Focke-Wulf Fw 61 was first tested in Bremen, Germany.
1945 The United Nations Charter is signed
1963 President John Kennedy announces “Ich bin ein Berliner” at the Berlin Wall.
1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
1971 The U.S. Justice Department issues a warrant for Daniel Ellsberg, accusing him of giving away the Pentagon Papers.
1982 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces
1996 The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military Institute to admit women or forgo state support.
1998 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers are always potentially liable for supervisor’s sexual misconduct toward an employee.
2000 The first map of the human genome, which required decoding more than 3 billion biochemical “letters” of human DNA, is completed.
2002 WorldCom Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2013 Justices on the US Supreme Court ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act (Doma) discriminates against same-sex couples.
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