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2009/06/11 01:02 |
Today is:
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Only 203 days until the Year 2010
Kamehameha Day - Hawaii
1517 Sir Thomas Pert reaches Hudson Bay
1578 England grants Sir Humphrey Gilbert a patent to explore and
colonize US
1644 Florentine scientist describe invention of barometer
1666 Vierdaagse Sea battle (Ruyter-Monk vs Prince Ruprecht)
1676 Battle at land: Danish and Dutch fleet under CM Tromp beats
Sweden
1685 James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, rebels against Catholic king
James II
1690 English king Willem III departs to Ireland
1699 England, France and Netherlands agree on 2nd Extermination
treaty of Spain
1742 Benjamin Franklin invents his Franklin stove
1770 Capt. James Cook discovers Great Barrier Reef off Australia
1774 Jews of Algiers escape attack of Spanish Army
1776 Continental Congress create a committee to draft Declaration
of Independence
1788 1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound
1793 1st American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick
1864 Confederate warship CSS Alabama runs into harbor of Cherbourg
1870 1st-stone Amstel Brewery opens in Amsterdam
1898 600 U.S. Marines land at Guantanamo Cuba
1898 Emperor De Zong proclaims reforms in Peking
1900 Battle at Diamond Hill: British troops chase General Botha
1901 Cook Islands annexed and proclaimed part of New Zealand
1927 Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying
Cross
1939 King and Queen of England taste 1st 'hot dogs' at FDR's party
1941 Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews
1942 German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa
1943 British invades Pantelleria, tiny island south of Sicily
1944 15 U.S. aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas
1947 WW II sugar rationing finally ends in U.S., began May 28, 1942
1951 Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal
1955 1st magnesium jet airplane flies
1964 Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they
attend
1964 West Germany seeks talks with Czechoslovakia
1970 U.S. leaves Wheelus AFB Libya
1971 U.S. and Japan sign accord to return Okinawa to Japan
1971 U.S. ends ban on China trade
1977 Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in
Holland
1982 Israel and Syria stop fighting in Lebanon
1984 Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be
admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been
discovered legally
1985 Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus
1990 Supreme Court says law prohibiting desecration of U.S. flag
unconstitutional
1991 Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0
1994 Cbox is 39'115 long, 20'85 wide, and 8' high in Jacksonville,
Florida Largest popcorn container is 6,619.76 cubic feet full of
popped corn
2001 Timothy McVeigh executed for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
that killed at least 168
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