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…
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A Brief History On June 5, 1893, the murder trial of Lizzie Borden began. Borden was accused of killing her father and stepmother with an axe. Despite the popular assumption of her guilt, she was acquitted in one of the most famous trials in US history. Digging Deeper Some of the other candidates as the most famous American trial include the following: In The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial of 1921 for robbery and murder, the men were believed by many to be railroaded because they were immigrants and anarchists in a case that saw worldwide attention. The Scopes Monkey Trial…
A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on June 4th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On June 4, 1411, King Charles VI of France granted a monopoly to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon for the ripening of Roquefort cheese. On June 4, 1784, Élisabeth Thible became the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon, soaring for a 4 kilometer trip that took 45 minutes and reached perhaps 5000 feet above the ground, making her the…
A Brief History On June 4, 2010, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster made its first flight, and since then has been used as the launch booster for well over 200 launches, only one of which was a failure and one other a partial failure. Digging Deeper A reusable heavy lift orbital launch booster, the Falcon 9 is famous as the only privately made rocket to have carried humans into orbital flight, and is the only current US sourced rocket certified for manned flight. In 2021, the amazing Falcon 9 set a space launch record by launching a mind boggling…
A Brief History Hello, everyone! I am Dr. Matt Zarzeczny (or Dr. Zar for short), owner of History and Headlines and co-author of Simply Napoleon with my friend, J. David Markham. Today, June 3, 2023, I want to thank the first 30,000 subscribers to my YouTube channel (a milestone reached on June 1, 2023) and also share with you that two of my favorite history themed YouTube channels also happen to be run by authors named Matt. Digging Deeper These are Matt Baker of UsefulCharts and Matt Beat of Mr. Beat. You can visit their respective channels by clicking on…