On this day:
Friday, June 1:
* Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting in 1980. Who would want to watch news 24 hours a day?
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=517610
Saturday, June 2:
* Graduation comes soon for many. Some interesting information on U.S. high school grade point averages:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=550034
Sunday, June 3:
* Being the traditional month for weddings, we bring you suggested toasts:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=59874
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Monday, June 4:
* Congress approves the 19th Amendment for womens suffrage (1919) and sends it to the states for approval. A timeline leading to signature of the amendment 14 months later:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=586476
Tuesday, June 5:
* National Era, an abolitionist newspaper, begins the serial of Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin':
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=324863
Wednesday, June 6:
* Allied landings in Normandy as part of D-Day, 1944. Code names and missions for each of the operations that day:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=295579
Thursday, June 7:
* Sony launches the Betamax video cassette recorder (1975). A year later VHS arrives and the VCR wars begin:
http://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=71809
Friday, June 8:
* Birthday of American architect Frank Llloyd Wright in 1867. Where his "organic" influence continues today:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=323798
Saturday, June 9:
* Birthday of songwriter Cole Porter (1892). His songs were oftened popularized by others but can be found with him singing:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=369607
Sunday, June 10:
* Edward Everett Hale, noted American author, dies in 1909. His best-know story was "A Man Without a Country," published during the Civil War:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=144463
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Monday, June 11:
* Continental Congress appoints five men to draft the "Declaration of Independence" in 1776. John Adams refuses to pen the draft, leaving it to Thomas Jefferson:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=392606
Tuesday, June 12:
* Nelson Mandela sentenced to life in prison in South Africa (1964). Thirty years later he would become president of the country. His inaugural speech:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=415706
Wednesday, June 13:
* Both Christo and wife Jean-Claude were born on this date in 1935, though in different countries. They are known for "land art", explained here:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=121920
Thursday, June 14:
* Rebellion aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin in 1905 is the first step towards the Russian Revolution. Later becomes a movie revolution with Sergei Eisenstein's film of the same name:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=281897
Friday, June 15:
* Arkansas admitted to the Union as the 25th state:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=277231
Saturday, June 16:
* Ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Kirov Ballet at Le Bourget in France on the verge of flying back to the U.S.S.R. (1961):
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=437059
Sunday, June 17: Father's Day -- U.S., Canada (168)
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=277159
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Monday, June 18:
* Napoleon defeated at Waterloo in 1815. Like Caesar and Castro, he was apparently left-handed:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=273675
Tuesday, June 19:
* Pres. Franklin Roosevelt signed the National Archives Act in 1934, creating the office that would become the cornerstone of genealogical research. How to use it:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=330585
Wednesday, June 20:
* King Louis XVI attempts to flee France via Varennes during the French Revolution in 1791:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=93693
Thursday, June 21: Summer Solstice (172)
* Pluto's two additional moons named Nix and Hydra in 2006. Two months later Pluto is demoted from 'planet' to 'dwarf planet':
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=771728
Friday, June 22:
* How to treat your antique furniture in all seasons:
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=165690
Saturday, June 23:
* Birthday of Alfred C. Kinsey, pioneering researcher on human sexuality, in 1894. His legacy:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=518669
Sunday, June 24:
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Monday, June 25:
* Birthday of George Orwell, author of "1984":
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=366577
Tuesday, June 26:
* Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the National Credit Union Act in 1934. There are now more than 8,900 of them:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=605238
Wednesday, June 27:
* Helen Keller, noted author and spokeswoman for the deaf and blind, born in 1880. Other noted authors who were blind:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=137804
Thursday, June 28:
* Stonewall riots at New York's Stonewall Inn in 1969 start the era of gay rights:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=307408
Friday, June 29:
* Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 signed, meaning that even Hawaii has 'interstates':
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=578248
Saturday, June 30:
* Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant this day in 1864, making the valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias the first protected wildlands. Tips on visiting:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=247965
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