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A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on June 29th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On June 29, 1971, the first human space travelers to die while in space perished when their Soyuz 11 space capsule depressurized after leaving the Soviet space station, Salyut 1. On June 29, 1972, the Supreme Court of the United States stunned the nation by ruling in Furman v. Georgia that the death penalty violated the 8th and 14th Amendments. On June…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on June 28th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On June 28, 1651, and lasting through June 30, 1651, the Battle of Berestechko was fought in the area between what is now modern Poland, modern Belarus and the modern Ukraine, between the army of Poland and the upstart Ukrainian Cossacks and Tatars. On June 28, 1776, an incident that may have escaped your elementary school education occurred when one of General…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on June 27th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On June 27, 1844, Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), was shot to death by a mob with blackened faces in a Carthage, Illinois jail while awaiting trial for treason. On June 27, 1980, President Jimmy Carter authorized Helen Keller Day to commemorate her 100th birthday. On June 27, 1981, the Chinese Communist Party issued its report on…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on June 26th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On June 26, 1409, the Roman Catholic Church reached a low point of unity when a third pope was crowned by the Council of Pisa. On June 26, 1483, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, proclaimed himself King Richard III of England! On June 26, 1794, the army of the First Republic of France (the result of the French Revolution) made the first…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on June 25th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On June 25, 1843, Marie Anne Lenormand, France’s most famous fortune teller and cartomancer (card reader), died. On June 25, 1906, heir to a railroad and coal fortune, Harry Kendall Thaw of Pittsburgh shot and killed famed architect Stanford White. On June 25, 1923, Lt. John Richter and Capt. Lowell Smith of the US Army performed the first aerial refueling of an airplane in flight…