历史上的今天(English)

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June 10th

1194: Chartres Cathedral, France, burns down save for the west front. The reconstruction of the cathedral, which begins the same year, heralds the birth of the High Gothic style of architecture.


1776: The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to write a statement of independence from Britain.


1935: Two recovering alcoholics, Bill W. and Dr. Bob S., found Alcoholics Anonymous in Akron, Ohio, to help each other stay sober.


1957: For the first time in 22 years, the Progressive Conservative Party wins control of the Canadian Parliament. They choose John Diefenbaker as prime minister.


1964: After a 75-day filibuster led by Southern senators, the U.S. Senate votes 71-29 to close debate on the Civil Rights Bill, which passes the Senate nine days later.


1978: Affirmed becomes the last horse to take the thoroughbred Triple Crown in the 20th century when he wins the Belmont Stakes. For the third straight race, Affirmed's rival Alydar finishes a close second.

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June 11
1770: British captain James Cook is the first European to discover the Great Barrier Reef off the northeastern coast of Australia.


1950: Alabama governor George Wallace attempts to block the entry of the first black students to the University of Alabama, but he backs down when faced with federal troops.


1950: Seventeen months after suffering life-threatening injuries in a car accident, Ben Hogan returns to win his second of four U.S. Open golf championships.


1963: In Saigon, South Vietnam, Buddhist monk Quang Duc sets himself on fire to protest the treatment of Buddhists by the government of U.S.-backed president Ngo Dinh Diem.


1986: In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a divided Supreme Court upholds its earlier decision in Roe v. Wade protecting a woman's right to have an abortion.


1987: Margaret Thatcher becomes the first prime minister elected to three consecutive terms as prime minister of the United Kingdom in the 20th century.

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June 12th

1630: John Winthrop, the newly selected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company, lands at Salem. He will lead the colony for the next two decades.


1937: In the USSR, as part of Joseph Stalin's purges of Communist Party leadership, eight generals in the Soviet army are executed for conspiracy against the government.


1963: Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and considered the most expensive movie ever made to that point, premieres in New York City.


1963: NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Not until 1994 is white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith convicted of the crime.


1964: Nelson Mandela, along with other members of the African National Congress, is sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage, treason, and conspiracy in South Africa.


1979: Pedalled by cyclist Bryan Allen, the Gossamer Albatross becomes the first human-powered vehicle to fly over the English Channel.

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June 13th
1900: The Boxer Uprising by supporters of the Society of Harmonious Fists begins in China, in opposition to the growth of European influence there.


1911: Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petruschka, performed by Sergey Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, debuts in Paris.


1966: In Miranda v. Arizona, the U.S. Supreme Court holds that police must inform criminal suspects of their legal rights before arresting and questioning them.

1967: President Lyndon Johnson nominates Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall to become the first African American Supreme Court justice.


1971: The New York Times publishes the Pentagon Papers, an internal government report on the Vietnam War that had been leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, a former Defense Department official.


1983: U.S. space probe Pioneer 10 passes Neptune, becoming the first human-made object to leave the solar system.

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June 14th

1777: The Continental Congress votes to adopt a flag with 13 stars and 13 stripes as the national emblem of the new United States of America.


1846: In the Bear Flag Revolt during the Mexican War, American settlers capture Sonoma from Mexican forces and declare an independent Republic of California. Mexico cedes the territory to the United States in 1848.


1940: After sweeping through Belgium and the Netherlands to the north, the German army captures Paris, leading to the surrender of France three days later.


1951: UNIVAC, the first commercial, general-use computer, designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, is demonstrated by the Remington Rand company.

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June  15th

1215: King John of England signs the Magna Carta, a historic agreement with his barons that protects individual liberties and establishes that not even the king is above the law.


1752: Benjamin Franklin and his son conduct the famous experiment involving a kite and key during a thunderstorm, confirming Franklin's theory that lightning is electrical.


1844: Charles Goodyear receives a U.S. patent for the vulcanization of rubber.


1938: Pitcher Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds throws his second straight no-hit game, a feat unequaled in baseball history.

1977: Less than two years after the death of longtime ruler Francisco Franco, Spain holds its first democratic elections in 41 years.


1992: Vice President Dan Quayle, visiting a Trenton, N.J., school, corrects the spelling of a student, telling him that "potato" should be spelled "potatoe."

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June 16th

1654: Queen Christina of Sweden, a convert to Roman Catholicism, abdicates her throne.


1904: The action of James Joyce's novel Ulysses takes place on this day, known as Bloomsday after Leopold and Molly Bloom, two of the novel's main characters.


1937: When the government shuts down the debut of The Cradle Will Rock, a proletarian opera written by Marc Blitzstein and directed by Orson Welles, the production moves to an empty theater nearby.


1958: Former Hungarian prime minister Imre Nagy is executed for his role in the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956.


1963: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, is launched into a three-day orbital flight aboard Vostok 6 to study the problem of weightlessness.


1970: Kenneth A. Gibson is elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey, becoming the first black mayor elected in a major northeastern city in the United States.

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June 17th

1775: In the early days of the Revolutionary War, British troops attack Massachusetts militiamen in the Battle of Bunker Hill. The British suffer high casualties but capture the American position.


1789: As the French Revolution approaches, the French Third Estate, the assembly of commoners, declares itself the National Assembly, in an attempt to wrest political power from King Louis XVI.


1876: In the Battle of Rosebud Creek, Oglala Sioux and Cheyenne forces led by Crazy Horse repel U.S. troops, eight days before joining Sitting Bull to defeat General George Custer at Little Big Horn.


1972: Five men are arrested in a burglary of Democratic Party offices in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C. The cover-up of White House involvement will lead to President Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974.


1976: Four teams from the folded American Basketball Assocation (New York Nets, Indiana Pacers, San Antonio Spurs, and Denver Nuggets) join the National Basketball Association.


1994: Driving a white Ford Bronco, O. J. Simpson leads police on a slow freeway chase before being arrested for the murder of his wife and another man, a crime he was acquitted of the following year.

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June 18th

1155: Frederick I, after consolidating his power in Germany and Italy, is crowned Holy Roman emperor by Pope Adrian IV in Rome.


1812: Aroused by the impressment of American sailors into the British navy and eager to expand the country's western possessions, the U.S. Congress declares war against Britain to begin the War of 1812.


1815: British, Prussian, and Dutch troops led by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher give French emperor and general Napoleon his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.


1940: British prime minister Winston Churchill, speaking to the House of Commons before the Battle of Britain, says British resistance in the battle will be remembered as "their finest hour."


1983: Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space, aboard the space shuttle Challenger.




Born on This Day

Paul McCartney, English rock singer and songwriter (1942)

Bartolommeo Ammanati, sculptor and architect (1511)

Sammy Cahn, songwriter (1913)

Jerome Karle, biophysicist and crystallographer (1918)

Jürgen Habermas, philosopher and social theorist (1929)

Lou Brock, baseball player (1939)

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June 19th

1846: The New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Team, organized by Alexander Cartwright, meets the New York Nine in Hoboken, N.J., in the first baseball game played under Cartwright's rules.

1865: In the day celebrated as Juneteenth, Union general Gordon Granger arrives in Galveston, Texas, to announce the end of slavery, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.


1953: Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of passing nuclear weapons information to the Soviet Union, are executed.


1965: Algerian president Ahmed Ben Bella is overthrown by his defense minister, Houari Boumedienne, who remains in power in the country until his death in 1978.


1973: The Rocky Horror Show, the stage musical later developed into the cult-classic film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, opens in London.

1984: The Chicago Bulls pick Michael Jordan of the University of North Carolina third in the NBA draft, following Hakeem Olajuwon of the University of Houston and Sam Bowie of the University of Kentucky.




Born on This Day

  

Lou Gehrig, baseball player (1903)

Salman Rushdie, novelist (1947)

Blaise Pascal, mathematician and philosopher (1623)

James I of England, English and Scottish king (1566)

Abe Fortas, Supreme Court justice (1910)