A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on June 20th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On June 20, 1787, Connecticut attorney and a Founding Father of the United States, Oliver Ellsworth, made a motion at the Federal Convention to call the government of our new country, the United States of America. On June 20, 1890, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, was first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. On June…

A Brief History On June 20, 1787, Connecticut attorney and a Founding Father of the United States, Oliver Ellsworth, made a motion at the Federal Convention to call the government of our new country, the United States of America. Digging Deeper While not an everyday name taught to school children as a major “Founding Father,” Ellsworth is notable for serving as a Senator from Connecticut, being a framer of the Constitution, serving as the third chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and even winning 11 electoral votes in the presidential election of 1796. A patriot that…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on June 19th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On June 19, 1269, the King of France, Louis IX, ordered that any Jew found in any public place not wearing the obligatory yellow badge would be fined 10 livres of silver. On June 19, 1910, the United States celebrated its first Father’s Day in Spokane, Washington (the city where Major Dan’s sister was born). On June 19, 1960, the first auto…

A Brief History On June 19, 1960, the first auto race under the NASCAR banner was run at Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina.  NASCAR is the premier stock-car racing circuit in the US and the world, as its official name, National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, implies. Digging Deeper While Europe was the venue of many prestigious stock-car races early in the 20th Century, the US took the lead on the sport with the emergence of Daytona Beach as a mecca for fast drivers.  While originally using actual production model cars, hence the name of the sport, in…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on June 18th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On June 18, 1529, both Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon were summoned to appear before an ecclesiastical, legatine court, presided over by a representative of the Pope. On June 18, 1815, the combined forces of the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard von Blucher defeated the French army at the battle of Waterloo. On June 18, 1815, the combined…