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United States June anniversaries

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June 1

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• 1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
• 1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th U.S. state.
• 1812 – President James Madison asks Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
• 1868 – The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo people to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
• 1926 – Marilyn Monroe (pictured), actress, singer, model, pop culture icon, eminent sex symbol, and reported mistress of President John F. Kennedy, is born.
• 1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.

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June 2

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• 1855 – The Portland Rum Riot, which broke out in response to an 1851 law that outlawed the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the state of Maine, broke out.
• 1886 – President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion (pictured).
• 1924 – President Calvin Coolidge signs Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
• 1966 – Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on another world.
• 1997 – In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
• 2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74 game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!.

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June 3

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• 1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
• 1808 – Jefferson Davis (pictured), the first and only President of the Confederate States of America, was born.
• 1889 – The first long distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
• 1916 – The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
• 1943 – In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
• 1968 – Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate artist Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.

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June 4

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• 1792 – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Great Britain. Roanoke Colony and its colonists would have a difficult history, and would eventually disappear, never to be conclusively relocated.
• 1912 – Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
• 1919 – Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed suffrage to women, and sends it to the states for ratification.
• 1939 – The SS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, after already having been turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, many of its passengers later died in Nazi concentration camps.
• 1942 – The Battle of Midway begins when Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Atoll (pictured) with much of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
• 1973 – A patent for the automated teller machine is granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.

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June 5

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• 1947 – At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war–torn Europe.
• 1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
• 1968 – Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.
• 1977 – The Apple II (pictured), the first practical personal computer, goes on sale.
• 1981 – In what later turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have developed a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems.

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June 6

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• 1889 – The Great Seattle Fire destroys the entirety of downtown Seattle, Washington.
• 1894 – Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
• 1925 – The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.
• 1932 – The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per gallon sold.
• 1934 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
• 2005 – The Supreme Court rules in Gonzales v. Raich that Congress may criminalize the production and use of marijuana even where states approve its use for medicinal purposes (pictured).

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June 7

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• 1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and leads to the Declaration of Independence.
• 1862 – The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.
• 1942 – Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands chain off of Alaska as part of an effort by the Axis powers to expand their defensive perimeter.
• 1965 – The Supreme Court rules in Griswold v. Connecticut that laws prohibiting the use of contraception by married couples are unconstitutional.
• 1971 – The Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment.
• 1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland (interior pictured), Elvis Presley's estate in Memphis, Tennessee, to the public.

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June 8

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• 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
• 1949 – Celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
• 1959 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail (pictured).
• 1968 – The body of assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
• 1972 – Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm. The photograph would become one of the most iconic images of the Vietnam War.
• 1995 – Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.

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June 9

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• 1856 – Five hundred Mormons, latter called the Mormon handcart pioneers, leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
• 1862 – American Civil War Confederate general Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.
• 1916 – Robert McNamara (pictured), who as Secretary of Defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson played a pivotal role in both the escalation of the Vietnam War and the deescalation of the Cuban Missile Crisis, was born.
• 1954 – Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?". The rebuke is considered the symbolic end of McCarthyism.

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June 10

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• 1805 – Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
• 1898 – American Marines land on the island of Cuba as part of the Spanish–American War.
• 1928 – Maurice Sendak, best known as the author of the book Where the Wild Things Are, is born.
• 1935 – Dr. Robert Smith and Bill Wilson found Alcoholics Anonymous in Akron, Ohio.
• 1944 – In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall (pictured) of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever to play in a major-league game.
• 2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. It would land on Mars in January of 2004 and operate though 2010, despite only being expected to operate for 90 days.

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June 11

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• 1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
• 1837 – The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
• 1935 – Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
• 1944 – USS Missouri (BB-63) the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
• 1963 – Alabama Governor George Wallace stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school (pictured). Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register.

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June 12

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• 1963 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot dead in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
• 1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
• 1987 – President Ronald Reagan delivers his famous speech (full speech included) at Brandenburg Gate challenging Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
• 1991 – Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls win their first NBA Championship.
• 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside Simpson's home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit.

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June 13

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• 1777 – Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army for combat in the American Revolutionary War.
• 1893 – Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; an operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
• 1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
• 1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall (pictured) to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.

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June 14

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• 1775 – The Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.
• 1777 – The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
• 1811 – Harriet Beecher Stowe (pictured), author and abolitionist most famous for writing the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, was born.
• 1900 – Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
• 1938 – Action Comics issue one is released, introducing Superman.
• 1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance.

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June 15

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• 1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity.
• 1836 – Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
• 1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
• 1846 – The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border (pictured) between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
• 1864 – Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81 km²) around Arlington Mansion, formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee, are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
• 1916 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.

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June 16

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• 1858 – Abraham Lincoln (pictured) delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
• 1897 – A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
• 1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
• 1911 – A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
• 1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.

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June 17

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• 1876 – In the Battle of the Rosebud (pictured), 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne Native Americans led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
• 1898 – The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
• 1930 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law. The act would later be viewed as one of the most disastrous bills in American history, unnecessarily prolonging and worsening the Great Depression.
• 1963 – The United States Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
• 1972 – Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition. The Watergate scandal would eventually lead to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

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June 18

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• 1812 – The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom, beginning the War of 1812.
• 1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
• 1923 – Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
• 1979 – The SALT II treaty is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union. It is the first nuclear arms treaty which produced real reductions in weapon and delivery mechanism stocks by both parties.
• 1981 – A disease cluster, which will later be known as AIDS, is recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California.
• 1983 – Astronaut Sally Ride (pictured), a crew member in the STS-7 shuttle mission, becomes the first American woman in space.

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June 19

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• 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball match, played under Alexander Cartwright's rules, takes place in Hoboken, New Jersey.
• 1862 – Congress prohibits slavery in the American territories, nullifying the Dred Scott Case.
• 1870 – After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States of America, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist.
• 1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
• 1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the Federal Communications Commission (seal pictured).
• 1978 – Garfield appears in his first comic strip.

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June 20

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• 1782 – Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States (original seal die pictured).
• 1819 – The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail.
• 1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
• 1863 – West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
• 1963 – The so-called "red telephone" is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• 2003 – The WikiMedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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June 21

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• 1898 – The United States captures Guam from Spain.
• 1942 – A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland during World War II.
• 1948 – Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album (LP) in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
• 1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
• 1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California, the Supreme Court establishes the Miller Test for obscenity in U.S. law.
• 2004 – SpaceShipOne (pictured) becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.

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June 22

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• 1807 – In the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair (pictured), the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
• 1825 – The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
• 1944 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
• 1945 – The Battle of Okinawa, the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II, ends when organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island. Over 12,000 American and British servicemen would die over the 82 day long battle, including commanding Lt. General Simon B. Buckner.
• 1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire, which spurs an avalanche of water pollution control activities and results in the Clean Water Act, the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, and the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.

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June 23

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• 1812 – Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons behind the War of 1812.
• 1860 – Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
• 1868 – Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for the Typewriter.
• 1938 – The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
• 1967 – President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference (pictured).
• 1972 – U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.

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June 24

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• 1916 – Mary Pickford (pictured) becomes the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract.
• 1664 – The colony of New Jersey is founded.
• 1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
• 1949 – The first Television Western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.
• 1957 – In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
• 2010 – John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history.

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June 25

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• 1788 – Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• 1876 – The Battle of the Little Bighorn (pictured), also known as Custer's Last Stand, takes place.
• 1950 – The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea. The United States, as authorized by UN Resolution 84, provides extensive military assistance to the South. Although combat has ceased between North and South Korea, the war has not officially ended, and the United States still maintains troops to defend the Southern side of the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
• 1976 – Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
• 1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.

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June 26

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• 1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
• 1892 – Pearl S. Buck (pictured), humanitarian and author whose bestselling Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize in Literature winning novel The Good Earth created popular American sympathy for China, is born.
• 1917 – The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain, France, Italy, and Russia against Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I.
• 1934 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
• 1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
• 2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.

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June 27

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• 1844 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
• 1895 – Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue, the first U.S. passenger train to use electrified rail, makes its inaugural run traveling from Washington, D.C. to New York City.
• 1923 – Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane.
• 1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
• 1985 – U.S. Route 66 (pictured) ceases to be an official U.S. highway.
• 1986 – The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in Nicaragua v. United States.

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June 28

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• 1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• 1964 – Malcolm X (pictured) forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
• 1902 – Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
• 1978 – The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
• 2004 – Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the American–led rule of that nation.
• 2005 – A final design for Manhattan's Freedom Tower is formally unveiled.

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June 29

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• 1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest city in area and second largest in population in the United States.
• 1956 – The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System (original routes pictured).
• 1972 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
• 1995 – During the mission STS-71, Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
• 2006 – The Supreme Court rules in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
• 2007 – Apple Inc. releases the iPhone.

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June 30

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• 1805 – The U.S. Congress organizes Michigan Territory.
• 1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley (pictured) to California for "public use, resort and recreation."
• 1882 – Charles Guiteau hanged in Washington, DC for the shooting death of President James Garfield.
• 1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
• 1921 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft to be Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
• 1971 – Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, lowering the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.

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