Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as “Robin Hood of El Dorado”, is killed.
- American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
- The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
- Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
- The Japanese daimyo begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
- The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time.
- The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
- The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico.
- Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
- Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes.
- RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.
- Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a “temporary” measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
- France captures Damascus.
- Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
- The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
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- General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
- Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.
- World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
- World War II: Operation Spring: One of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: One thousand five hundred casualties, including 500 killed.
- Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.
- At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
- The U.S. non-incorporated territory of Puerto Rico adopts a constitution.
- Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
- The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
- The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
- SR.N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais, France to Dover, England in just over two hours.
- Lloyd J. Old introduced BCG, a tuberculosis vaccine, into experimental cancer research as a way to stimulate non-specific resistance to tumor growth. BCG was FDA-approved in 1991 and is now widely used as a first line treatment for superficial bladder cancer.
- In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
- Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
- Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the “Vietnamization” of the war.
