1454 – Thirteen Years’ War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to Casimir IV of Poland, and the Polish king agrees to help in their struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte captures city of Jaffa, Palestine, after a 5 day siege, defeating the Ottoman Empire
1810 – Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US
1820 – The Missouri Compromise was enacted by the U.S. Congress and signed by U.S. President James Monroe. The act admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory.
1836 – The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army ended. The Mexican army of three thousand men defeated the 189 Texas volunteers.
1854 – At the Washington Monument, several men stole the Pope’s Stone from the lapidarium.
1857 – The U.S. Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision ruled that blacks could not sue in federal court to be citizens.
1869 – The first periodic table of chemical elements is presented. Dmitri Mendeleev presented the system to the Russian Chemical Society on that day.
1900 – After a meeting in Indianapolis, USA, a group forms the Social Democratic Party and nominates Eugene Debs as its candidate for President in the forthcoming election (becomes the Socialist Party in 1901)
1921 – Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
1928 – A Communist attack on Peking, China resulted in 3,000 dead and 50,000 fled to Swatow.
1933 – FDR declares a nationwide bank holiday
1939 – In Spain, Jose Miaja took over the Madrid government after a military coup and vowed to seek “peace with honor.”
1946 – Ho Chi Minh, the President of Vietnam, struck an agreement with France that recognized his country as an autonomous state within the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
1951 – The trial of Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel Rosenberg begins
1957 – The British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana.
1964 – Boxing legend Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and changes his name to “Muhammad Ali”, calling his former title a “slave name”
1967 – Stalin’s daughter defects to the West. The Soviet dictator’s daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, caused an international uproar when she approached the United States embassy in New Delhi and later became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his plan to establish a draft lottery.
1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon imposed price controls on oil and gas. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2007-06-07-0706061080-story.html
1975 – Iran and Iraq announced that they had settled their border dispute.
1978 – Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and his lawyer shot by a militant white supremacist sniper in Georgia, leaving Flynt crippled and wheelchair bound
1981 – U.S. President Reagan announced a plan to cut 37,000 federal jobs.
1983 – The United States Football League began its first season of pro football competition.
1990 – In Afghanistan, an attempted coup to remove President Najibullah from office failed.
1990 – The Russian Parliament passed a law that sanctioned the ownership of private property.
1991 – In Paris, five men were jailed for plotting to smuggle Libyan arms to the Irish Republican Army.
1991 – Following Iraq’s capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, US President George H. W. Bush told Congress that “aggression is defeated. The war is over”
2001 – US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham establishes the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve to be used in emergency circumstances
2007 – Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice trial.
2015 – The NASA space probe Dawn entered orbit around the protoplanet Ceres in the asteroid belt.
2015 – US State Department charges 2 Vietnamese and a Canadian citizen with cyberfraud, for stealing 1 billion email addresses for spam
2017 – US President Donald Trump signs his second executive order barring travelers from 6 mostly-Muslim countries for 90 days but leaves out Iraq
2018 – World’s oldest message in a bottle found in Western Australia, thrown from German ship Paula 132 years ago (12 June 1886)
2018 – American WWII aircraft carrier USS Lexington rediscovered in Australia’s Coral Sea, lost during 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea
2020 – Russia refuses to reduce oil production over COVID-19 fears, breaking with Saudi Arabia and OPEC and prompting a price war
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
