| On The Way To Today... June 9th |
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Julian: 2454992 Day of Year: 160
Hebrew: 17th of Sivan, 5769
Islamic: Tuesday 16 Jumaada al-THaany 1430 A.H.
Chinese Year: 4707 Ox (Earth-Ox-26-79)
Chinese Lunar: Yi You Day, Geng Wu Month, Ji Chou Year
Chinese Solar: Day 17, Fifth Month, Ji Chou Year
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Only 205 days until the Year 2010
June is:
National Dairy Month
On The Way To Today... June 9th
68 - The Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide.
922 - French republic chooses Robert I, King of France
1075 - Battle at Homburg/Unstrut: German king Henry IV beats Saksen
1456 - 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1525 - Tax revolt in Hertogenbosch
1529 - Zurich declares war on Catholic kantons
1534 - Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St. Lawrence River
1549 - The Church of England adopted The Book of Common Prayer,
compiled by Thomas Cranmer.
1549 - England enforces Act of Supremacy
1572 - Willem van Oranges army occupies Gelderland
1588 - Spanish Armada sails from Lisbon to England
1628 - 1st deportation from what is now U.S., Thomas Morton from Mass
1720 - Sweden and Denmark signs 3rd Treaty of Stockholm
1732 - Royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe
1742 - Battle of Bloody Marsh-Spanish assault on Simons Island,
Georgia
1752 - French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly India
1772 - 1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in
Providence, RI
1789 - Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near
Vancouver I
1790 - The first copyright given to a book was established for "The
Philadelphia Spelling Book".
1800 - In Napoleon's Italian campaign, the first Battle of Montebello
was fought and French forces defeated the Austrians.
1815 - The Congress of Vienna closed with the signing of the Final
Act. Among its provisions, Belgium and Luxembourg united with Holland
to form the Netherlands, Switzerland was neutral, East Poland ceded to
Russia and its western provinces to Prussia. Changes also affected
Italy, Spain and Portugal.
1869 - Charles Elmer Hires sells his 1st root beer, Philadelphia
1883 - 1st commercial electric railway line begins operation in
Chicago
1898 - An agreement was signed under which Hong Kong was leased to
Britain from China for a period of 99 years.
1902 - 1st Automat restaurant opens, 818 Chestnut St, Philadelphia
1904 - The London Symphony Orchestra presented its inaugural concert.
1908 - King Edward VII of Britain met Tsar Nicholas II of Russia on
board the Royal Yacht anchored in the Baltic. It was the first meeting
between a tsar and a British monarch.
1918 - The Noyon-Montidier offensive, a drive by the German army in
northern France to threaten Paris, began.
1923 - Brinks unveils 1st armored security vans
1928 - Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm became the first to fly
across the Pacific when they ended their flight from California to
Brisbane.
1931 - 1st rocket-powered aircraft design patented, Robert Goddard
1934 - Walt Disney created a new cartoon character, the irrascible
Donald Duck.
1940 - Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II.
1942 - German-Neth press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe
1943 - The U.S. Congress authorized legislation to a withhold tax on
payrolls.
1953 - About 100 people died when a tornado struck Worcester,
Massachusetts.
1954 - Army counsel Joseph N. Welch asked Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy,
"Have you no sense of decency, sir?" during the Senate-Army Hearings.
1959 - The first submarine with Polaris missiles, the USS George
Washington, was launched by the U.S.
1963 - Equal Pay Act enacted
1963 - John F. Kennedy names Winston Churchill U.S. honorary citizen
1978 - Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the
Mormon priesthood.
1985 - U.S.S.R.'s Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus
1989 - China began reporting large-scale arrests in the wake of the
crushed pro-democracy movement.
1991 - Mount Pinatubo, a Philippines volcano that had been dormant for
600 years, erupted, causing the evacuation of U.S. troops from their
air base.
1992 - More than 700 known Mafiosi were arrested in a new crackdown in
southern Italy.
1993 - U.S. officials admitted veterans of the Gulf War were suffering
from a mystery illness.
1995 - Japan's parliament passed a controversial resolution designed
to atone for the country's role in World War II.
1996 - China released dissident Ren Wanding after seven years in jail
following the 1989 democracy protests.
1997 - British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires
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