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FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The St. Lawrence Seaway (French: la Voie Maritime du Saint-Laurent) is a system of locks, canals, and channels in Canada and the United States that permits oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America, as far inland as Duluth, Minnesota, at the western […]
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Another World (often shortened to AW) is an American television soap opera that aired on NBC from May 4, 1964, to June 25, 1999.[1][2] It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J. Bell, and was produced by Procter & Gamble Productions at NBC Studios, 1268 JC Studios in Brooklyn. Set in the fictional town of Bay […]
ON THIS DATE IN 1880, CANADA’S NATIONAL ANTHEM, “O CANADA,” WAS FIRST PERFORMED IN QUEBEC CITY, CANADA. FULL STRAWBERRY MOON In 2020, the Full Moon for June rises on June 5 at 3:12 PM EDT. For some Native Americans, this month’s Moon was called the […]
1680s 1683: WILLIAM PENN SIGNED A TREATY OF PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP WITH THE LENNI LENAPE NATIVE AMERICANS IN WHAT IS NOW PENNSYLVANIA 1760s BORN 1763: JOSEPHINE DE BEAUHARNAIS (EMPRESS OF FRANCE) 1840s 1845: TEXAS VOTED FOR ANNEXATION BY THE UNITED STATES AFTER NEARLY TEN YEARS […]
Every Year ST. ALBAN 1610s 1611: HENRY HUDSON, SON, AND 7 CREW SET ADRIFT BY MUTINEERS 1810s 1813: DURING THE WAR OF 1812, LAURA SECORD OF QUEENSTON HIKED 18 HOURS TO WARN BRITISH OF AN UPCOMING ATTACK 1830s BORN 1837: PAUL MORPHY (CHESS MASTER) 1840s […]
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS On Sunday, June 21, 1964, Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies pitched the seventh perfect game in Major League Baseball history, defeating the New York Mets 6-0 in the first game of a doubleheader at Shea Stadium. A father of seven children at the time, Bunning pitched his perfect game on Father’s Day. One of Bunning’s […]
FATHER’S DAY Like Mother’s Day, Father’s Day has a modern origin. The idea came to Mrs. John Dodd as she sat listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. Her father, William Smart, had raised his children alone on his Washington farm after his wife […]
Every Year EMANCIPATION DAY (TEX.) 1620s BORN 1623: BLAISE PASCAL (MATHEMATICIAN AND PHYSICIST) 1840s 1846: FIRST REAL BASEBALL GAME WITH SET RULES WAS PLAYED IN HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY 1860s 1862: SLAVERY ABOLISHED IN U.S. TERRITORIES 1900s BORN 1902: GUY LOMBARDO (BAND LEADER) BORN 1903: LOU […]
1810s 1812: THE UNITED STATES DECLARED WAR ON GREAT BRITAIN 1815: NAPOLEON’S TROOPS WERE DEFEATED AT WATERLOO (PRESENT-DAY BELGIUM) 1850s BORN 1854: E.W. SCRIPPS (NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER) 1860s 1861: FIRST FLY-CASTING TOURNAMENT IN THE UNITED STATES, UTICA, NEW YORK 1870s BORN 1877: JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG (ILLUSTRATOR […]
BUNKER HILL DAY (SUFFOLK CO., MASS.) The Battle of Bunker Hill, one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War, for the most part did not take place on Bunker Hill. After dark on June 16, 1775, about 1,200 colonial soldiers moved onto the […]
