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Birthdays
1877 1877 James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator - “I Want You” Uncle Sam poster
1886 George MalloryMallory is particularly remembered for his legendary response to the question "Why climb Everest?" to which he replied, "Because it's there."
1901 Anastasia Nikolaevna,the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II
1915 Red Adair, American oil well firefighter
1917 Richard Boone, American actor
1924 George Mikan NBA Center
1939 Lou Brock
1942 Paul McCartney
1963 Bruce Smith, American College-Pro Football HOF defensive end
1966 Sandy Alomar Jr., Majo League baseball catcher
1980 Antonio Gates, American football tight end

Events
1682 English Quaker William Penn founds Philadelphia, in the Pennsylvania Colony

1812 War of 1812 begins when the US declares war against Britain

1873 Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 ($2,200 in 2020 value) for voting for US President in Rochester, New York; she refuses to pay, and no further action against her is taken

1911 Detroit Tigers trail Chicago White Sox, 13-1 at Bennett Park, Detroit; recover to win, 16-15 for the biggest comeback in Major League Baseball history

1928 American aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean (as a passenger), landing at Burry Port, Wales

1950 Cleveland Indians score an American League record 14 runs in 1st inning; beat Philadelphia A's, 21-2 at Cleveland Stadium

1967 Closing day of the Monterey International Pop Festival, Southern California, featuring first major US appearances of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, and Otis Redding

1972 BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118

1972 US Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws (Flood v. Kuhn)

1976 Bowie Kuhn voids Oakland A's sales of players, totaling $35 million - Joe Rudi & Rollie Fingers to Boston Red Sox, and Vida Blue to NY Yankees

1977 Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson get into a dugout altercation

1979 Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager (2nd time), replacing Bob Lemon

2018 Ferry sinks on Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia, with 193 suspected dead

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Mexican Emperor Maximilian I Executed by Firing Squad (1867)
In the 1860s, France sought to establish an empire in Mexico. Ferdinand Maximilian, an Austrian navy chief and member of the Habsburg dynasty, accepted Napoleon III's offer of the throne, naively believing that the Mexicans had voted him their king. In reality, Maximilian's only support came from the French army, and the empire was doomed. In 1866, Napoleon withdrew his troops. Maximilian refused to abdicate and was captured and executed, ending the empire.

My Juneteenth Commemoration:

In early September, 1862 my great-great grandfather crossed the Ohio River and marched up the hill in Kentucky . . . On a hot day, in a wool uniform, carrying a heavy musket, ammunition, and other supplies.

Joshua DeWees joined the 97th OVI (Ohio Volunteer Infantry) because he thought the anti-slavery part of his Quaker beliefs was more important than the pacifist part.

We are in Cincinnati for the weekend and I drove the kids up that enormous hill (I71/75 just South of the river) to explain to them what he did.

Dad Joke Warning:
I used to say the the Quaker Church Ex-Communicated Joshua for joining the army but that isn't technically correct. Ex-Communicate is a Catholic Term. The Quakers are known as the Society of Friends so they unfriended him.


In Joshua's diary he wrote that of the 100 men originally in his Regiment, 28 made it through the whole war.

Slavery ended in North America because of people like Joshua, the 72 members of his Regiment who didn't make it, and his older brother Caleb who was killed at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863 while serving in the 73rd OVI.

Birthdays
1909 Errol Flyn
1942 Brian Wilson
1949 Lionel Richie
1952 John Goodman
1967 Nicole Kidman

Events
1783 American Revolution: Battle of Cuddalore, a naval battle between British and French fleets off the coast of India fought before word of a peace agreement arrived from Europe was the final battle of the war

1819 The SS Savannah reaches Cork, Ireland, after a 29-day, 11-hour voyage from Savannah, Georgia, becoming the first steamship to cross the Atlantic or any other ocean

1837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV. She rules for 63 years till 1901.

1840 American inventor Samuel Morse receives a patent for his telegraph

1863 West Virginia admitted as 35th US state of the Union

1867 US President Andrew Johnson announces the Alaska Purchase

1893 Lizzie Borden acquitted of the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts(When she seen what she had done, she gave her father forty one) 

1895 First woman to earn a PhD in Physics from an American university, Caroline Willard Baldwin (25), receives her degree from Cornell University

1909 Roger Burnham and Eleanor Waring spend four hours above Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on the first balloon honeymoon

1936 American sprinter Jesse Owens sets a 100m world record of 10.2 seconds

1945 U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius Jr. approves transfer of German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and his specialists to the US


1948 Cleveland draws then record 82,781 for doubleheader

1956 At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits 2 Billy Hoeft pitches into right center field bleachers, the only player to ever do so

1967 Mohammed Ali [Cassius Clay] sentenced to 5 years by jury after 21 minutes of deliberation for refusing to be inducted into the armed forces during the Vietnam War


1969 200,000 attend Newport '69, then largest-ever pop concert in Northridge, California. Jimi Hendrix paid $120,000 to perform.

1973 SF Giants Bobby Bonds sets NL record with 22 lead off HRs

1980 Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard at Olympic Stadium in Montreal by unanimous points decision

1975 Film "Jaws," based on Peter Benchley's novel, directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Roy Scheider, is released

2020 Highest-ever temperature recorded in the Arctic Circle, 38°C (100°F) in Verkhoyansk, Siberia

2020 Historic dust cloud from the Sahara desert reaches the Caribbean, largest for half a century

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

Gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel Murdered (1947)

He sort of had it coming juuust a bit ,even Meyer Lansky an old friend couldn't save his bacon. He finally gave the OK to do it,Lansky had never been prosecuted for violence just tax evasion and money laundering. Even buying a Swiss Bank offshore back in the day


https://youtu.be/p9uvqn9O7c0

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
SpaceShipOne Completes First Privately Funded Human Spaceflight (2004)
Unlike its privately funded predecessors, SpaceShipOne was actually manned, by a pilot and two passengers, when it flew to the edge of space in 2004. Developed by aerospace engineer Burt Rutan and funded by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the suborbital space plane won the $10 million Ansari X Prize for launching three people—or their weight equivalent—into space twice within two weeks in a privately developed, reusable spacecraft.