Browsing: June

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on June 7th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On June 7, 1769, frontiersman and American legend Daniel Boone first laid eyes on the forests, hills and valleys of Kentucky, and this epic moment in US History is commemorated by the Kentucky Historical Society as National Daniel Boone Day each year on June 7th. On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy, an African-American, was arrested for refusing to vacate his seat in…

A Brief History On June 7, 1938, the government of Nationalist China, at war with the Japanese invaders in the Second Sino-Japanese War, destroyed the embankments of the Yellow River, creating a massive flood in order to halt the advance of the Japanese Army. Digging Deeper The event called “The 1938 Yellow River Flood” was part of a war strategy of “scorched earth” policy, leaving little or nothing for the invaders to use in their conquest.  Described as the “largest act of environmental warfare in history,” the resulting flood killed between 500,000 and 900,000 Chinese civilians and created about 3…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on June 6th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On June 6, 1822, a Canadian fur trapper “voyageur” was accidentally shot in the stomach with a musket, leaving him with a hole that healed open, leading to extensive study of the human digestive tract. On June 6, 1944, American, British, and Canadian forces stormed the heavily defended beaches of Normandy, France, signaling the doom of the Third Reich. On June 6, 1944,…

A Brief History On June 6, 2002, high above the Mediterranean Sea, an asteroid estimated at about 10 meters in diameter exploded in the upper atmosphere with a similar effect to a 26 kiloton nuclear bomb, a larger blast than either the Hiroshima or Nagasaki bombs.  What is really scary is that scientists failed to detect the approach of this chunk of space stuff and there would have been no warning had it hit the surface of the Earth! Digging Deeper Known as “The 2002 Eastern Mediterranean event,” another scary “what if” scenario involved the tense military stand-off happening between…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on June 5th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On June 5, 1829, the British ship, HMS Pickle, a 5 gun schooner, captured an armed slave ship, the Voladora, off the coast of Cuba. On June 5, 1893, the murder trial of Lizzie Borden began, Borden was accused of killing her father and stepmother with an axe. On June 5, 1916, Louis Brandeis was sworn in as the first Jewish Justice…