Post by MacBeth on Jun 4, 2009 5:57:54 GMT -5
In 1647, the English army seized King Charles I as a hostage.
In 1783, the Montgolfier brothers first publicly demonstrated their hot-air balloon, which did not carry any passengers, over Annonay, France.
In 1784, opera singer Elizabeth Thible became the first woman to fly aboard a Montgolfier hot-air balloon, over Lyon, France.
In 1878, Turkey turned Cyprus over to the British.
In 1892, the Sierra Club was incorporated in San Francisco.
In 1896, Henry Ford made a successful pre-dawn test run of his horseless carriage, called a quadricycle, through the streets of Detroit.
In 1919, Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing citizens the right to vote regardless of their gender, and sent it to the states for ratification.
In 1939, after already having been turned away by Cuba, the SS St. Louis is also denied permission to land in Florida. So it is forced to return to Europe with its cargo of 963 Jewish refugees, most of whom will later die in Nazi concentration camps.
In 1940, the Allied military evacuation from Dunkirk, France, ended.
In 1947, The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows the president to intervene in labor disputes.
In 1954, French Premier Joseph Laniel and Vietnamese Premier Buu Loc signed treaties in Paris according "complete independence" to Vietnam.
In 1967, the Emmy for best comedy TV series is won by The Monkees. Good heavens.
In 1979, Joe Clark of the Progressive Conservatives became the 16th prime minister of Canada.
In 1985, the US Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling striking down an Alabama law providing for a daily minute of silence in public schools.
In 1989, Chinese troops, firing a few warning shots, manage to push tens of thousands of student protesters out of Tiananmen Square without killing any of them. This changes once they're out of the Square, however. In the end, hundreds of unarmed citizens on the streets of Beijing are massacred by the army. Later, several leaders of the pro-democracy demonstration are publicly executed. "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" won best musical at the 43rd annual Tony Awards; "The Heidi Chronicles" by Wendy Wasserstein won best play.
In 1998, a federal judge sentenced Terry Nichols to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
In 1999, using a provision of the Constitution allowing him to bypass the Senate, President Bill Clinton appointed openly gay San Francisco businessman James C. Hormel ambassador to Luxembourg while Congress was in recess. On the 10th anniversary of China's crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests, tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong held a candlelight vigil.
In 2004, President George W. Bush nominated former Missouri Sen. John Danforth to be America's U.N. ambassador.
In 2008, Barack Obama, having clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, picked Caroline Kennedy to help him choose a running mate.
In 1783, the Montgolfier brothers first publicly demonstrated their hot-air balloon, which did not carry any passengers, over Annonay, France.
In 1784, opera singer Elizabeth Thible became the first woman to fly aboard a Montgolfier hot-air balloon, over Lyon, France.
In 1878, Turkey turned Cyprus over to the British.
In 1892, the Sierra Club was incorporated in San Francisco.
In 1896, Henry Ford made a successful pre-dawn test run of his horseless carriage, called a quadricycle, through the streets of Detroit.
In 1919, Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing citizens the right to vote regardless of their gender, and sent it to the states for ratification.
In 1939, after already having been turned away by Cuba, the SS St. Louis is also denied permission to land in Florida. So it is forced to return to Europe with its cargo of 963 Jewish refugees, most of whom will later die in Nazi concentration camps.
In 1940, the Allied military evacuation from Dunkirk, France, ended.
In 1947, The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows the president to intervene in labor disputes.
In 1954, French Premier Joseph Laniel and Vietnamese Premier Buu Loc signed treaties in Paris according "complete independence" to Vietnam.
In 1967, the Emmy for best comedy TV series is won by The Monkees. Good heavens.
In 1979, Joe Clark of the Progressive Conservatives became the 16th prime minister of Canada.
In 1985, the US Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling striking down an Alabama law providing for a daily minute of silence in public schools.
In 1989, Chinese troops, firing a few warning shots, manage to push tens of thousands of student protesters out of Tiananmen Square without killing any of them. This changes once they're out of the Square, however. In the end, hundreds of unarmed citizens on the streets of Beijing are massacred by the army. Later, several leaders of the pro-democracy demonstration are publicly executed. "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" won best musical at the 43rd annual Tony Awards; "The Heidi Chronicles" by Wendy Wasserstein won best play.
In 1998, a federal judge sentenced Terry Nichols to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
In 1999, using a provision of the Constitution allowing him to bypass the Senate, President Bill Clinton appointed openly gay San Francisco businessman James C. Hormel ambassador to Luxembourg while Congress was in recess. On the 10th anniversary of China's crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests, tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong held a candlelight vigil.
In 2004, President George W. Bush nominated former Missouri Sen. John Danforth to be America's U.N. ambassador.
In 2008, Barack Obama, having clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, picked Caroline Kennedy to help him choose a running mate.