https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2

1889 – North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.

1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.

• 1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
• 1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established by an act of Parliament.
• 1940 – World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
• 1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
• 1956   – Suez Crisis: Israel occupies the Gaza Strip.
• 1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
• 1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
• 1965 – Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
• 1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
• 1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
• 1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
• 1988 – The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
• 2016 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_5

1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested.

• 1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
• 1862   – American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to death. Thirty-eight are ultimately hanged and the others reprieved.
• 1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
• 1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.

Guy Fawkes Day: A Brief History

The British holiday, celebrated with fireworks and bonfires, commemorates the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

https://www.history.com/news/guy-fawkes-day-a-brief-history

Our previous moderator, Alex explained this one to me as being big in Great Britain.

                Happy Guy Fawkes Day Alex!            

                            4 responses |         

                Started by metmike - Nov. 7, 2021, 1:17 p.m.      

      https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/77297/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_8

1933 – Great Depression: New Deal: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed.

1966   – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.

• 1994 – Republican Revolution: On the night of the 1994 United States midterm elections, Republicans make historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses of Congress (54 seats in the House and eight seats in the Senate, additionally), thus bringing to a close four decades of Democratic domination.
• 2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441: The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences".

2011 – The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.

November 7, 1917

On November 7, 1917, the Bolshevik party seized power in Russia's capital, starting the communist October Revolution and leading to the founding of the Soviet Union.

IMHO, everything else pales in comparison to this one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_11

HAPPY VETERANS DAY!

1911 – Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.

Great Blue Norther of November 11, 1911

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blue_Norther_of_November_11,_1911

On Saturday, November 11, 1911, a cold snap, known as the Great Blue Norther or 11/11/11, affected the Central United States. Many cities broke record highs, going into the 70s and 80s early that afternoon. By nightfall, cities were dealing with temperatures in the teens and single-digits on the Fahrenheit scale. This is the only day in many midwest cities' weather bureau jurisdictions where the record highs and lows were broken for the same day. Some cities experienced tornadoes on Saturday and a blizzard on Sunday.^[2] A blizzard even occurred within one hour after an F4 tornado hit Rock County, Wisconsin.^[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_14

• 1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.^[1]
• 1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.^[2]
• 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: At the Battle of Smoliani, French Marshals Victor and Oudinot are defeated by the Russians under General Peter Wittgenstein.^[3]
• 1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.^[4]
• 1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.^[5]
• 1979 – US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_16

• 1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
• 1920 – Qantas, Australia's national airline, is founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.
• 1933 – The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.
• 1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.^[1]
• 1973 – Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.^[3]
• 1973   – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.^[4]
• 1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_18

• 1910 – In their campaign for women's voting rights, hundreds of suffragettes march to the British Parliament in London. Several are beaten by police, newspaper attention embarrasses the authorities, and the march is dubbed Black Friday.^[4]
• 1928 – Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
• 1978   – In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
• 1988 – War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.
• 1991 – Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.
• 1991   – After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.
• 1993 – In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is approved by the House of Representatives.
• 2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
• 2003 – The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4–3 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives the state legislature 180 days to change the law making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_24

1835 – The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).

1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.

1917 – In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.

1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.

1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby.

• 1973 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.
• 1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
• 1989 – After a week of mass protests against the Communist regime known as the Velvet Revolution, Miloš Jakeš and the entire Politburo of the Czechoslovak Communist Party resign from office.  This brings an effective end to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. ^[7]
• 2013 – Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions

Chronology of the Velvet Revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_29

• 1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission: Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
• 1963 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
• 1963   – "I Want to Hold Your Hand", recorded on October 17, 1963, is released by the Beatles in the United Kingdom.^[4]
• 1967 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
• 1972 – Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_3

1898 – The Duquesne Country and Athletic Club defeats an all-star collection of early football players 16–0, in what is considered to be the very first all-star game for professional American football.

1910 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).

• 1979 – In Cincinnati, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert.
• 1979   – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.
• 1982 – A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri, that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
• 1984 – Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom later died from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
• 1989 – In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between NATO and the Warsaw Pact may be coming to an end.
• 1992 – The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching A Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
• 1992   – A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_5

1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).

• 1776 – Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., holds its first meeting at the College of William & Mary.^[4]
• 1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
• 1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_9

• 1835 – Texas Revolution: The Texian Army captures San Antonio, Texas.
• 1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.
• 1856 – The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
• 1861 – American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress.
• 1868 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
• 1872 – In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of a U.S. state.
• 1953 – Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
• 1965 – Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.
• 1968 – Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
• 1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (rinderpest in 2011 being the other).
• 2008 – The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for crimes including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.

2017 – The Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal assent and comes into effect, making Australia the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_11

1816 – Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.

1934 – Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time.

• 1941 – World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on them.
• 1941   – World War II: Poland declares war on the Empire of Japan.
• 1941   – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy suffers its first loss of surface vessels during the Battle of Wake Island.
• 1946 – The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.
• 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, creating a Conciliation Commission to mediate the conflict.
• 1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
• 1978 – The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time.
• 1980 – The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
• 1997 – The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.
• 2001 – China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO).
• 2008 – Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_15

1791 – The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

1939 – Gone with the Wind (highest inflation adjusted grossing film) receives its premiere at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

2001 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_18

• 1777 – The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.
• 1787 – New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
• 1833 – The national anthem of the Russian Empire, "God Save the Tsar!", is first performed.
• 1865 – US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the USA.
• 1966 – Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.
• 2019 – The United States House of Representatives impeaches Donald Trump for the first time.^[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_19

• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.^[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Forge

Valley Forge functioned as the third of eight winter encampments for the Continental Army's main body, commanded by General George Washington, during the American Revolutionary War. In September 1777, Congress fled Philadelphia to escape the British capture of the city. After failing to retake Philadelphia, Washington led his 12,000-man army into winter quarters at Valley Forge, located approximately 18 miles (29 km) northwest of Philadelphia.^[1][2] They remained there for six months, from December 19, 1777 to June 19, 1778.^[3] At Valley Forge, the Continentals struggled to manage a disastrous supply crisis while retraining and reorganizing their units. About 1,700 to 2,000 soldiers died from disease, possibly exacerbated by malnutrition.

Today, Valley Forge National Historical Park protects and preserves over 3,500 acres of the original encampment site.^[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_21

In the Northern Hemisphere, December 21 is often the shortest day of the year and is sometimes regarded as the first day of winter.

1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.

1965 – International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is adopted.

• 2020 – A great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn occurs, with the two planets separated in the sky by 0.1 degrees. This is the closest conjunction between the two planets since 1623.^[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_27

• 1657 – The Flushing Remonstrance articulates for the first time in North American history that freedom of religion is a fundamental right.^[5]
• 1831 – Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate his theory of evolution.^[8]
• 1836 – The worst ever avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, Sussex, killing eight people.^[9]
• 1845 – Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia.^[10]
• 1845   – Having coined the phrase "manifest destiny" the previous July, journalist John L. O'Sullivan argued in his newspaper New York Morning News that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country.^[11]
• 1922 – Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world.
• 1927 –  Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.
• 1929 – Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".
• 1945 – The International Monetary Fund is created with the signing of an agreement by 29 nations.
• 1949 – Indonesian National Revolution: The Netherlands officially recognizes Indonesian independence. End of the Dutch East Indies.
• 1966 – The Cave of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft in the world, is discovered in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
• 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon.
• 1978 – Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of fascist dictatorship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_4

• 1958 – Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.^[21]
• 1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
• 2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6

January 6th

• 1912   – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.^[23
• 1929   – Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.^[25]
• 1930 – Clessie Cummins arrives at the National Automobile Show in New York City, having driven a car powered by one of his diesel engines from Indianapolis.^[26]
• 1941 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.^[27]
• 1974 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States
• 2021 – Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump attack the United States Capitol to disrupt certification of the 2020 presidential election, resulting in five deaths and evacuation of the US Congress.^[48]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_10

• 1861 – American Civil War: Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union.
• 1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.^[14]
• 1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
• 1920 – The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
• 1962 – Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
• 1984 – Holy See–United States relations: The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_14

1943   – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.^[13]

1967 – Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love

1973 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.

2004 – The national flag of the Republic of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_15  Birthday

1929   – Martin Luther King Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_17

• 1920 – Alcohol Prohibition begins in the United States as the Volstead Act goes into effect.^[12]
• 1950   – United Nations Security Council Resolution 79 relating to arms control is adopted.
• 1961 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military–industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.
• 1996 – The Czech Republic applies for membership in the European Union.
• 1998 – Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair on his Drudge Report website.
• 2007 – The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea's nuclear testing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_20

1887 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.

1929 – The first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, In Old Arizona, is released.

• 1949 – Point Four Program, a program for economic aid to poor countries, is announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as president.
• 1954 – In the United States, the National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
• 1961 – John F. Kennedy is inaugurated the 35th President of the United States of America, becoming the youngest man to be elected into that office, and the first Catholic.
• 1981 – Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States of America, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
• 1986 – In the United States, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_25

1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.

1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.

1918 – The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Soviet Russia.

• 1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
• 1932 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins the defense of Harbin.
• 1937 – The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.

1980 – Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_30

1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched

• 1920 – Japanese carmaker Mazda is founded, initially as a cork-producing company.^[8]
• 1925 – The Government of Turkey expels Patriarch Constantine VI from Istanbul.
• 1930 – The Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union orders that a million prosperous peasant families be driven off their farms.
• 1933 – Adolf Hitler's rise to power: Hitler takes office as the Chancellor of Germany.
• 1948   – Following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in his home compound, India's prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, broadcasts to the nation, saying "The light has gone out of our lives".^[10][11] The date of the assassination becomes observed as "Martyrs' Day" in India.
• 1956 – In the United States, Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery bus boycott.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_3

1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to male citizens regardless of race.

metmike: Black men could vote but NOT women..until 1920, with the 19th Amendment!

1959 – Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed in a plane crash along with the pilot near Clear Lake, Iowa, an event later known as The Day the Music Died.

1961 – The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.

1995 – Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

1984   – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5

• 1778 – South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.^[7]

1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal

• 1917 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
• 1917   – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto
• 1958   – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
• 1971 – Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
• 2020 – United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.^[21]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_7

1979 – Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.

• 1992 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.^[15]
• 1995 – Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
• 2013 – The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.
• 2014 – Scientists announce that the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, date back to more than 800,000 years ago, making them the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa.^[18]
• 2016 – North Korea launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 into outer space violating multiple UN treaties and prompting condemnation from around the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_9

1870 – US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.

1907 – The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).

• 1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.^[13]
• 1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a record-setting audience of 73 million viewers across the United States.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops in-country without an official advisory or training mission.
• 1971 – The 6.5–6.7 M_w  Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring 2,000.
• 1971   – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro league player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 1986 – Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
• 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Voters in Lithuania vote for independence from the Soviet Union.

1996   – Copernicium is discovered, by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al.

• 2021 – Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump began.^[25]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_12

1855 – Michigan State University is established

1915 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.

1924 – George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.

1947 – The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.

1963 – Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.

• 1999 – United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
• 2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
• 2004 – The city of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_18

1977 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.

1979 – Richard Petty wins a then-record sixth Daytona 500 after leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crash on the final lap of the first NASCAR race televised live flag-to-flag.

• 2010 – WikiLeaks publishes the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by the soldier now known as Chelsea Manning.
• 2014 – At least 76 people are killed and hundreds are injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in Kyiv, Ukraine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_21

1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.

• 1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
• 1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.

1948 – NASCAR is incorporated.

• 1972 – United States President Richard Nixon visits China to normalize Sino-American relations.
• 1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
• 1995 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_25

metmike: Look at all the conflicts going on.........just a fraction actually. Humans have  had a huge problem historically avoiding major conflicts and with constant human rights and other violations.

• 1916 – In the Battle of Verdun, a German unit captures Fort Douaumont, keystone of the French defences, without a fight.^[8]
• 1918 – German forces capture Tallinn to virtually complete the occupation of Estonia.^[9]
• 1921 – Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.^[10]
• 1932 – Hitler, having been stateless for seven years, obtains German citizenship when he is appointed a Brunswick state official by Dietrich Klagges, a fellow Nazi. As a result, Hitler is able to run for Reichspräsident in the 1932 election.^[11]
• 1933 – Launch of the USS Ranger at Newport News, Virginia. It is the first purpose-built aircraft carrier to be commissioned by the US Navy.^[12]
• 1941 – The outlawed Communist Party of the Netherlands organises a general strike in German-occupied Amsterdam to protest against Nazi persecution of Dutch Jews.^[14]
• 1947 – The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council, the Prussian government having already been abolished by the Preußenschlag of 1932.^[15]
• 1947   – Soviet NKVD forces in Hungary abduct Béla Kovács—secretary-general of the majority Independent Smallholders' Party—and deport him to the USSR in defiance of Parliament. His arrest is an important turning point in the Communist takeover of Hungary.^[16]
• 1948 – In a coup d'état led by Klement Gottwald, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in Prague to end the Third Czechoslovak Republic.^[17]
• 1956 – In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, denounces Stalin.^[19]
• 1980 – The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.^[20]
• 1986 – People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first woman president.^[21]
• 1991 – Disbandment of the Warsaw Pact at a meeting of its members in Budapest.^[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_28

1947 – February 28 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians.

• 1991 – The first Gulf War ends.
• 1993 – The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four ATF agents and six Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
• 2004 – Over one million Taiwanese participate in the 228 Hand-in-Hand rally form a 500-kilometre (310 mi) long human chain to commemorate the February 28 Incident in 1947.
• 2005 – A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
• 2013 – Pope Benedict XVIresigns as the pope of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pope to do so since Pope Gregory XII, in 1415.^[14]
• 2022 – Russo-Ukrainian War - The first round of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are held near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border.^[15]

You should note in these posts, that there are usually numerous dates in history related to major wars, battles, riots, peace settlements and bad stuff in the past because humans couldn't get along or do the right thing. Human beings have had many hundreds of wars and been very corrupt in the past too. Recent times have actually been on the quiet side with regards to wars,  historically. 

You know exactly why I'm bringing this up right now.

Here's some positive stuff today!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_5

1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

1904 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.

1961 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.

1973 – Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:592⁄5, an as-yet unbeaten record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_9

Again, if you read from this link, you will note, numerous significant daily historic accounts of wars or battles from the past. Humans have always acted this way. We've made progress in recent decades in some realms......but still have an extremely long way to go!

1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally

1960 – Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.

• 1987 – Chrysler announces its acquisition of American Motors Corporation^[37]
• 1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.^[38]
• 2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.^[4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_14

• 1903 – Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.^[12]
• 1942 – Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead.^[17]
• 1964 – Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.^[22]
• 1967 – The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.^[23]
• 1995 – Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.^[30]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_22

• 1894 – The Stanley Cup ice hockey competition is held for the first time, in Montreal, Canada.^[11]
• 1896 – Charilaos Vasilakos wins the first modern Olympic marathon race with a time of three hours and 18 minutes
• 1933 – Cullen–Harrison Act: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act, legalizing the manufacture and sale of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines.^[17]
• 1933   – Nazi Germany opens its first concentration camp, Dachau.^[18]
• 1934 – The first Masters Tournament is held at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia.^[19]
• 1945 – World War II: The city of Hildesheim, Germany is heavily damaged in a British air raid, though it had little military significance and Germany was on the verge of final defeat.^{[21][22][23][24]}
• 1945   – The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
• 1946 – The United Kingdom grants full independence to Transjordan.^[25]
• 1960 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
• 1963 – The Beatles release their debut album Please Please Me.^[26]
• 1972 – The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
• 1972   – In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.
• 1975 – A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
• 1978 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• 1982 – NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
• 1988 – The United States Congress votes to override President Ronald Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987
• 1997   – Comet Hale–Bopp reaches its closest approach to Earth at 1.315 AU
• 2019 – The Special Counsel (corrupt) investigation on the 2016 United States presidential election concludes when Robert Mueller submits his report to the United States Attorney General.

https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/75018/#75019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2

• 1902 – Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
• 1902   – "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
• 1911 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
• 1912 – The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials.
• 1917 – American entry into World War I: President Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
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• 1956 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.
• 1964 – The Soviet Union launches Zond 1.
• 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
• 1973 – Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
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• 1979 – A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
• 1980 – United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act.
• 1982 – Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
• 1986 – Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist, best known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987.
• 1989 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba, to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations
• 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: The total number of confirmed cases reach 1 million.^[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_6

1712 – The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Slave_Revolt_of_1712

1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany.

1973   – The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.

1998 – Nuclear weapons testing: Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_8

1943 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.

1952 – U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the 1952 steel strike.

1975 – Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_17

1521 – Trial of Martin Luther over his teachings begins during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. Initially intimidated, he asks for time to reflect before answering and is given a stay of one day.

1907 – The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.

• 1961 – Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
• 1969 – Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.

2014 – NASA's Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_20

1535 – The sun dog phenomenon is observed over Stockholm,^[4] as later depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog

• 1861   – Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, attempting to display the value of balloons, makes record journey, flying 900 miles from Cincinnati to South Carolina.^[6]
• 1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.

1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.

• 1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
• 1961 – Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_6

• 1935 – New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.^[4]
• 1937 – Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
• 1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
• 1998 – Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his fifth career start.
• 2010 – In just 36 minutes, the Dow-Jones average plunged nearly 1,000 points in what is known as the 2010 Flash Crash. (metmike-Traders will vividly remember where they were at that moment!-I was at the Pit Barbell Club)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_13

1958   – Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey.

• 2013 – American physician Kermit Gosnell is found guilty in Pennsylvania of murdering three infants born alive during attempted abortions, involuntary manslaughter of a woman during an abortion procedure, and other charges.^[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_17

• 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.^[1]

1933 – New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.

1980 – Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.

1994 – Israeli troops finish withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, ceding the area to the Palestinian National Authority to govern

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_25

1985 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.....BEFORE the hoopla blaming everything on climate change started!

1986 – The Hands Across America event takes place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands_Across_America

Hands Across America was a public fundraising event on Sunday, May 25, 1986, when 5 to 6.5 million people held hands for 15 minutes to form a continuous human chain across the contiguous United States.^[1][2]

Many participants donated $10 each to reserve their place in line. The proceeds were donated to local charities to fight hunger and homelessness and help those in poverty.

The event raised about $15 million for charities after operating costs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_28

• 585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_29

1919 – Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.

1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1

• 1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.^[9]  metmike: I used this to save my daughter around 1984.
• 2004 – Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols is sentenced to 161 consecutive life terms without the possibility of a parole, breaking a Guinness World Record

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_6

• 1934 – New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.^[26]
• 2002 – Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.^[37]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Eastern_Mediterranean_event

The 2002 Eastern Mediterranean Event was a high-energy upper atmosphereexplosion over the Mediterranean Sea, around 34°N 21°E (between Libya and Crete) on June 6, 2002.^[1] This explosion, similar in power to a small atomic bomb, has been related to a small asteroid undetected while approaching Earth. The object disintegrated as a meteor air burst over the sea, and no meteorite fragments were recovered.

The event occurred during the 2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff, and there were concerns by General Simon Worden of the U.S. Air Force that if the upper atmosphere explosion had occurred closer to Pakistan or India, it could have sparked a nuclear war between the two countries.^[2]

https://dontdontoperate.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/asteroid-explosion-almost-caused-a-nuclear-war-in-2001/

https://www.spacedaily.com/news/deepimpact-02s.html

Near-Earth Objects Pose Threat, General Says

D-Day:

https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/85373/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_12

1817 – The earliest form of bicycle, the dandy horse, is driven by Karl von Drais.

1899 – New Richmond tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200. metmike: Back they had no warning.

• 1939   – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
• 1940 – World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
• 1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
• 1954 – Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
• 1963 – NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during the civil rights movement.
• 1987   – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate, U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
• 1988 – Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 46, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81, crashes short of the runway at Libertador General José de San Martín Airport, killing all 22 people on board.^[20]
• 1990 – Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
• 1991 – Russians first democratically elected Boris Yeltsin as the President of Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_20

1943 – The Detroit race riot breaks out and continues for three more days.  metmike: Most people are familiar with the 1967 race riot in Detroit(which was around 4 miles east of our house) but even I didn't know about this riot in 1943 until around 10 years ago). Dad was in the army then and missed it.

1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_24

1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.

1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, is aired on NBC.

1957 – In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.

This one totally got my attention with intrigue!

It is NOT a joke or made up. This is FOR REAL!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_29

1956 – The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.

1972 – The United States 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

2006 – Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law

metmike: People are suddenly very tuned into the Supreme Court....so we have a couple other decisions by them today!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_7

• 1863 – The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
• 1865 – Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
• 1892 – The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
• 1898 – US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.

1911 – The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.

1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.

1981 – US President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_13

1863 – New York City draft riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.

1973 – Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_draft_riots

The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863), sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as Draft Week,^[3] were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of white working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. The riots remain the largest civil and most racially charged urban disturbance in American history.^[4]  According to Toby Joyce, the riot represented a "civil war" inside the Irish Catholic community, in that "mostly Irish American rioters confronted police, [while] soldiers, and pro-war politicians ... were also to a considerable extent from the local Irish immigrant community."^[5]

President Abraham Lincoln diverted several regiments of militia and volunteer troops after the Battle of Gettysburg to control the city. The rioters were overwhelmingly Irish working-class men who did not want to fight in the Civil War and resented that wealthier men, who could afford to pay a $300 (equivalent to $6,600 in 2021^[6] though a typical laborer's wage was between $1.00 and $2.00 a day in 1863^[7][8]) commutation fee to hire a substitute, were spared from the draft.^[9][10]

Initially intended to express anger at the draft, the protests turned into a race riot, with white rioters attacking black people, in violence throughout the city. The official death toll was listed at either 119 or 120 individuals. Conditions in the city were such that Major General John E. Wool, commander of the Department of the East, said on July 16 that, "Martial law ought to be proclaimed, but I have not a sufficient force to enforce it."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_7

• 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle.^[13] It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
• 1786 – The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
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  • 1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).^[26]
• 1978 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently
• 2007 – At AT&T Park, Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron's 33-year-old record

This is real pollution!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal

CO2 is a beneficial gas and the building block for all life, NOT pollution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_20

1866 – President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.

1940   – World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".

• 1988 – "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park

*Today, this record fire would have been blamed on the fake climate crisis. In 1988, the severe drought that led to this fire was caused by the natural La Nina in the tropical Pacific. 

Exactly the same reason for the current drought here in 2022 in the West(being blamed on the fake climate crisis).  Exactly the same reason for the Midwest Cornbelt's last severe widespread drought in 2012. During the last 30 years, the Midwest has had the LEAST amount of drought in history BECAUSE OF beneficial climate change during the current climate OPTIMUM for life on this greening planet. 

https://ggweather.com/enso/oni.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_9

• 1739 – Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain's mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
• 1776 – The Continental Congress officially names its union of states the United States.
• 1791 – Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.

1942 – World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.

1947 – First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.

1965   – Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion in unadjusted damage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_14

1901 – U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.

1960 – The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.

1975 – The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.

1994 – The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.

2001 – Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_25

1974 – Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.

metmike: I had the great fortune of having a gifted, world renowned doctor, Hill Hasting do a 3 hour left elbow reconstructive surgery that restored almost all of its functionality(after 4 failed, previous surgeries), including being able to throw batting practice, 2 times/week to the baseball teams  that I coached for my son, Quinn for 8 years after that. 

https://www.healthtap.com/experts/10049294-dr-hill-hastings/
https://www.healthtap.com/experts/10049294-dr-hill-hastings/

He co-invented an elbow replacement surgery!

https://www.vjortho.com/2002/06/total-elbow-arthroplasty-soft-tissue-and-early-bone-preparation/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_28

1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.

• 1948 – Paul Hermann Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
• 1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis ends and Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
• 1965 – Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Roman Catholic Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths.
• 2020- The Hunter Biden laptop cover up continues ahead of the 2020 presidential election in order to protect Joe Biden. The media and democrats insist that it's  just a conspiracy theory started by the Russians.