Historical Events In June - 30
1097 The Battle of Nicaea ends in defeat for a Muslim army at the hands of a combined force of Crusaders and Byzantine Greeks who take the Seljuk Turks' capital
1607 Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published
1741 Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms
1794 Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio
1859 Charles Blondin is first to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope
1862 Day 6 of the 7 Days-Battle of White Oak Swamp
1870 Ada Kepley becomes first female law college graduate
1871 Guatemala revolts for agarian reforms
1881 Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia
1893 Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
1900 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die
1902 S I Bailey discovers asteroid #504 Cora
1906 John Hope becomes first black president of Morehouse College
1906 Pure Food &Drug Act &Meat Inspection Act adopted
1908 Giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (Tunguska Event)
1911 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes
1913 2nd Balkan War begins
1914 Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa
1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica
1927 Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico
1927 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes
1933 US Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise Id &Salt Lake City Utah closes
1934 "Night of the Long Knives,"the murderous purge of the S.A.
1934 French Equitorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit
1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1784 Benguella
1936 "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, published
1936 40 hour work week law approved (federal)
1939 Heinkel He. 176 rocket plane flies for first time, at Peenemnde
1940 "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, first appears
1940 US Fish &Wildlife Service established
1941 HMAS WATERHEN (RAN), lost in the Eastern Mediterranean off Bardia, east Libya by German divebombers on the 29th June.
1941 HMAS Waterhen sunk on Tobruk run
1942 Australian troops raid Salamaua
1942 US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation
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