June 25th:
2006 – Warren Buffett donates $30 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
1997 – Christie’s auction house auctions off Princess Di’s clothing for $5.5 million
1990 – Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known
1962 – Supreme Court rules New York school prayer unconstitutional
1961 – Baltimore and California use a record 16 pitchers in a game (8 each) in 14 inns
1953 – 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
1950 – Israeli airline El Al begins service
1949 – Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote
1947 – 1st edition of Anne Frank’s “The Back of House” published
1947 – Tennis shoe introduced
1942 – British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)
1942 – British premier Winston Churchill travels from U.S. to London
1942 – General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of U.S. forces in Europe
1941 – Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination
1941 – Fair Employment Practices Commission established
1868 – FL, AL, LA, GA, North Carolina and South Carolina readmitted to US
1868 – President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day
1867 – 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio
1798 – U.S. passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
1788 – Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify U.S. constitution
1672 – 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in U.S. held, Sandwich, Mass
1638 – Lunar eclipse is 1st astronomical event recorded in U.S
1630 – Fork introduced to American dining by Governor Winthrop
1096 – 1st Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen Germany