TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JUNE 3
1098 Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seize Antioch, Turkey.
1492 Martin Behaim presents the world’s first globe The German geographer called his terrestrial globe Erdapfel, or Earth Apple. It is kept in a darkened room at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, Germany.
1539 Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain.
1621 Dutch West India Company (WIC) receives charter for The West Indies (The Americas, Caribbean and West Africa)
1864 Some 7,000 Union troops are killed within 30 minutes during the Battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia.
1888 The classic baseball poem “Casey at the Bat,” written by Ernest L. Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
1916 ROTC established by Act of Congress
1918 Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional
1923 In Italy, dictator Benito Mussolini grants women the right to vote
1938 The German Third Reich votes to confiscate so-called “degenerate art.”
1943 A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots
1948 Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore
1961 Clarence Gideon is arrested and charged with breaking into a poolroom in Florida. His case managed to change one the chief principles of American criminal justice. In Gideon v. Wainwright, in the Supreme Court it was ruled that a fair trial “cannot be realized if the poor man charged with [the] crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.” Due to Clarence Gideon’s perseverance, every criminal suspect is entitled to representation by a lawyer.
1965 Astronaut Edward White becomes the first American to walk in space when he exits the Gemini 4 space capsule.
1968 Andy Warhol the American artist and a major driving force in the movement known as Pop art is shot and wounded in his New York film studio, The Factory, by actress Valerie Solanas who founded the “group” called S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting up Men).
1974 Charles Colson, an aide to President Richard Nixon, pleads guilty to obstruction of justice.
1979 Ixtoc I rig in the Gulf of Mexico blows, spilling 3 million barrels of oil in one of the worst oil spills in history
1982 The Israeli ambassador to the U.K. is shot
Shlomo Argov survived the assassination attempt by a Palestinian terrorist group, but he was permanently paralyzed. The event triggered the 1982 Lebanon War.
1989 Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing
1989 A natural gas pipeline leaks gas close to a railroad track in the Ural Mountains and as two trains pass the build up of gas an explosion occurs creating a massive fireball which engulfs the trains killing over 500 of the passengers.
2008 Over four hundred children in Texas who had been taken from a polygamist sect began returning to their families after a court ruled the officials who had conducted the raid on the ranch did not provide sufficient evidence that the children were in immediate danger.
2013 The trial against whistleblower Bradley Manning begins
The American soldier, a trans woman now called Chelsea Manning, was responsible for leaking classified videos documenting U.S. war atrocities during the Iraq War. She was sentenced to 35 years confinement.
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