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June 22, 1867 - General George Armstrong Custer and troops with the Seventh Cavalry camped near what is now the town of Benkelman on June 22, 1867.

They stayed there until June 30, after marching from Fort McPherson on a campaign against the Sioux and Cheyenne.


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I've been to Benkelman more than a few times, played the golf course a few times.

Birthdays
1903 John Dillinger
1949 Meryl Streep
1953 Cyndi Lauper
1962 Clyde Drexler

Events
1633 Galileo Galilei recants his "heretical" position that the Earth orbiting the Sun is at odds with the Bible and church teaching (Vatican apologizes in 1992 for how it handled the case) OOps sorry about That keeping you under house arrest for the rest of your life

1847 First ring doughnut is created by Hanson Gregory

1865 The CSS Shenandoah fires the last shot of the American Civil War in the Bering Strait to indicate surrender

1911 World's largest pipe organ debuts at its new home in the Grand Court of Wanamakers department store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; originally built for 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, it filled thirteen railroad freight cars

1934 John Dillinger is informally named America's first Public Enemy Number One

1940 The first Dairy Queen restaurant opens in Joliet, Illinois

1941 Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany and its allies invade the Soviet Union during World War II, the largest military operation in history

1942 Japanese submarine I-25 surfaces at the mouth of Columbia River, Oregon and fires 17 shells at Fort Stevens, a US Navy installation, causing no serious damage

1944 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the GI Bill of Rights, formally known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act

1955 Walt Disney's animated film "Lady and the Tramp" is released

1959 Pitcher Sandy Koufax strikes out 16 Philadelphia Phillies

1969 Cleveland's Cuyahoga River catches fire, ignited by a spark from a passing train over the river that landed on an accumulation of floating oil from a barge

1969 Judy Garland dies

1981 John McEnroe's famous "You cannot be serious" rant in first-round win over Tom Gullikson at Wimbledon

1987 Fred Astaire dies he starred with Judy Garland in Easter Parade

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Edgardo Mortara Kidnapped from Jewish Family after Secret Baptism (1858)
Mortara, the son of a Jewish couple living in the Papal States, was secretly baptized Catholic as an infant by a panicked servant during an infantile illness. The baptism was deemed valid by the Catholic Church and, because canon law forbade non-Christians from raising Christian children, Pope Pius IX ordered the six-year-old Mortara to be taken to Rome as his ward. Several countries objected to the pope's decision and called for the boy to be returned to his parents.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Doctorate in Philosophy Awarded to a Woman for the First Time (1678)
Born to a noble Venetian family, Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to be awarded a doctorate in philosophy. A child prodigy, Piscopia went on to complete a brilliant course of study at the University of Padua. During her graduation ceremony, she spoke in classical Latin for an hour, explaining passages from Aristotle. She spent the next several years devoted to study and charity before dying of tuberculosis at age 38.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

"Ich bin ein Berliner" (1963)
In 1963, US President John F. Kennedy traveled to West Berlin to show support for those living behind the Berlin Wall, hemmed in by Soviet-controlled East Germany. Considered a key moment in the Cold War, Kennedy's speech boosted morale for West Germans, who feared Communist occupation. Kennedy was apparently coached on the pronunciation of the famous line "Ich bin ein Berliner"—"I am a Berliner"—just before taking the stage.

Birthdays
1491 Henry VIII
1703 John Wesley
1960 John Elway
1971 Elon Musk
1948 Kathy Bates
1926 Mel Brooks - During WWII he was drafted at age 18 served as a forward artillery observer.Fought at the Battle of the Bulge, where his duties included detecting land mines, clearing booby traps, and building bridges under fire. In a world that so desparately needs laughter, nice job Mel and a very Happy 100th Birthday


Events
1762 Russian Tsarina Catherine II seizes power, declaring herself sovereign ruler of Russia

1776 Charleston, South Carolina repulses British sea attack

1778 Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" aids American patriots

1820 Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson proves tomatoes are not poisonous by eating a tomato on the steps of a courthouse in Salem, New Jersey

1838 Coronation of Queen Victoria, aged 19, during a five-hour ceremony at Westminster Abbey, London

1865 The Army of the Potomac is disbanded

1894 Labor Day established as a holiday for US federal employees

1902 US buys concession to build Panama Canal from the French Panama Canal Company for $40 million

1907 MLB Washington Senators steal a record 13 bases off of New York Highlanders catcher Branch Rickey

1914 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated by Bosnian-Serb assassin Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, setting off a chain of alliances and events that lead to World War I

1935 FDR orders a federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox, Kentucky

1954 111°F (44°C) at Camden, South Carolina (state record)

1960 10.40" (26.42 cm) of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record)

1965 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Lyndon B. Johnson

1976 First woman is admitted to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado

2019 Highest-ever temperature recorded in France 45.9°C in Gallargues-le-Montueux, southern France

2023 New York Yankees' pitcher Domingo Germán (30) throws a perfect game in 11-0 win over Oakland A’s at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum; it is his first complete game in 7-year MLB career

Born Today in 1906, Maria Goeppert Mayer was the physicist who devised the shell nuclear model and the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics, the first being Marie Curie.