历史上的今天(English)

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05.30
1431: After being captured by Burgundian troops and then handed over to English troops, French military leader Joan of Arc is burned as a heretic in Rouen, France.

1783: The Pennsylvania Evening Post and Daily Advertiser is the first daily newspaper to be published in the United States.

1911: Ray Harroun wins the first Indianapolis 500 automobile race.

1971: The U.S. space probe Mariner 9 was launched on its mission to Mars; it becomes the first artificial satellite of another planet when it orbits Mars the following November.

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05.31(sorry!late for today's information)

1709: President George Washington signs the first U.S. copyright act into law.

1889: Over 2000 people die when the South Fork Dam breaks, flooding the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

1961: South Africa becomes an independent republic and withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations

1962: Former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann is hanged by the State of Israel for his role in the extermination of millions of Jews during the Holocaust.

1994: The United States announces that it is no longer aiming long range nuclear missiles at the Soviet Union.

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06.01
1792: Kentucky becomes the 15th state in the Union.

1796: Tennessee enters the U.S. as the 16th state.

1813: In the War of 1812, naval commander James Lawrence, fatally wounded, tells his men "to fire faster and not to give up the ship," the source of the motto "Don't give up the ship."

1831: British Arctic explorer John Ross and his nephew James Clark Ross become the first Europeans to reach the magnetic north pole, on the Boothia Peninsula in northern Canada

1925: Baseball player Lou Gehrig pinch hits for Pee Wee Wanninger, beginning his streak of 2,130 consecutive games played.

1938: Action Comics #1 is released, the first comic book featuring the Superman character created by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel.

Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortenson on this day in 1926.

This day is also Children's Day

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June 2nd
1883: President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom, a family friend 27 years his junior, becoming the first president married in the White House.

1946: Italians vote to replace the country's monarchy with a republic, leading to the abdication of King Humbert II.

1953: Queen Elizabeth II is coronated in Westminster Abbey, after succeeding her father, George VI, to the throne the previous year

1957: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, interviewed on CBS's Face the Nation, declares, "Your grandchildren in America will live under socialism."

1999: The African National Congress wins 66 percent of the vote in South African elections, leading to the selection two weeks later of the party's leader, Thabo Mbeki, to succeed Nelson Mandela as president

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June 3th
1937: American divorcee Wallis Simpson weds the Duke of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII, who had abdicated the British throne to marry her.

1948: The Hale telescope, the largest telescope in the world at the time, is dedicated at Mount Palomar Observatory in California.

1959: Singapore gains its independence from Britain, becoming a self-governing state in the Commonwealth of Nations.

1968: Valerie Solanas, an actor and author of the SCUM Manifesto, a pamphlet denouncing men, shoots and wounds artist Andy Warhol at his New York studio.

1989: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of Iran's Islamic revolution, dies, sending millions of Iranians into the streets in mourning.

1999: Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic agrees with NATO leaders on a peace plan that calls for the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from Kosovo.

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June 4th
1827: The inaugural cricket match between Oxford University and Cambridge University takes place at the Lord's ground, London, England.

1896: In Detroit, Henry Ford test-drives his first automobile, the Quadricycle, a two-cylinder engine mounted on four bicycle wheels that has a top speed of 40 km/h (25 mph).

1936: Léon Blum becomes the first Socialist premier of France when he forms a Popular Front coalition government, which introduces a program of extensive social reform.

1942: Near the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean, American and Japanese air and sea forces begin the three-day Battle of Midway. The American victory there halts Japan's eastward push.

1987: After winning 107 straight times in the 400-meter hurdles, Edwin Moses loses his first race in nearly ten years when Danny Harris outruns him in Madrid, Spain.

1989: Months of student-led prodemocracy demonstrations in Beijing's Tiananmen Square end after the Chinese army crushes the protests.

2003: Television star Martha Stewart is indicted under charges including obstruction of justice and securities fraud, stemming from sales of stock in December 2001.

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June 5th
1884: In response to Republican hopes that he will be the party's nominee for president, General William T. Sherman sends a telegram saying, "If nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve."

1900: Novelist, poet, and journalist Stephen Crane dies of tuberculosis at the age of 28, five years after his novel The Red Badge of Courage gained international acclaim.

1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs legislation taking the United States off the gold standard, which had required that all paper money and coin be redeemable in gold.

1947: The U.S. secretary of state, General George C. Marshall, calls for a European Recovery Program (the Marshall Plan), funded by the United States, to help European countries recover from World War II.

1967: On the first morning of the Six-Day War, Israel attacks Egypt. By the day's end Israeli forces will have virtually destroyed the air forces of both Egypt and Jordan.

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June 6th
1703: Work begins on the city of Saint Petersburg, Russia, meant by Tsar Peter I (the Great) to be a “window on Europe.”

1884: The group of Republican Party dissidents known as the Mugwumps leaves the party convention, refusing to support its nominee for president, James G. Blaine.


1925: Under Walter P. Chrysler, a former General Motors executive, the Maxwell Motor Corporation becomes the Chrysler Corporation.

1944: In the largest seaborne invasion in history, known as D-Day, over 150,000 Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy in German-occupied northern France.


1978: California voters overwhelmingly approve Proposition 13, which cuts local property taxes by more than two-thirds, sending many local governments into financial crisis.


1984: The Indian army attacks the sacred Golden Temple in Amritsar, killing hundreds of Sikh separatists headquartered there. Four months later, outraged Sikhs assassinate Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

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June 7th
1832: The British Parliament, led by John Russell, passes the first Reform Bill, which broadly expands voting rights and reforms the borough system, decreasing the power of aristocratic landowners.

1864: Three years into the American Civil War, the Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for a second term as president.


1892: Homer Plessy, a Louisiana man of mixed black and white ancestry, takes a seat in a white-only train car, leading to the Plessy v. Ferguson decision upholding segregation.

1905: The Norwegian St鰎ting (parliament) decides on the separation of Norway from Sweden.


1945: One of composer Benjamin Britten's most popular operas, Peter Grimes, makes its debut in London.


1965: In Griswold v. Connecticut, written by Justice William O. Douglas, the Supreme Court rules that laws banning birth control are an unconstitutional violation of privacy.

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June 8th

1869: Inventor Ives McGaffey receives a U.S. patent for a "sweeping machine," the first vacuum cleaner.


1915: U.S. secretary of state William Jennings Bryan resigns, believing that President Woodrow Wilson's response to the sinking of the Lusitania will lead the United States into World War I.


1948: The Texaco Star Theatre debuts on NBC. Its host, Milton Berle, goes on to become one of the biggest stars of early television.


1969: James Earl Ray, later convicted for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., is arrested at London Airport while traveling under the name Ramon George Sneyd.


1978: A Nevada jury decides that a will in which reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes allegedly left his fortune to a medical institute, four universities, and a number of individuals, is a forgery.


632: Muhammad, the founder of Islam, dies in Medina.

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June 9th
1869: Inventor Ives McGaffey receives a U.S. patent for a "sweeping machine," the first vacuum cleaner.


1915: U.S. secretary of state William Jennings Bryan resigns, believing that President Woodrow Wilson's response to the sinking of the Lusitania will lead the United States into World War I.


1948: The Texaco Star Theatre debuts on NBC. Its host, Milton Berle, goes on to become one of the biggest stars of early television.


1969: James Earl Ray, later convicted for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., is arrested at London Airport while traveling under the name Ramon George Sneyd.


1978: A Nevada jury decides that a will in which reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes allegedly left his fortune to a medical institute, four universities, and a number of individuals, is a forgery.


632: Muhammad, the founder of Islam, dies in Medina.