This date in history

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1943: an imperial Japanese submarine, I-25, fired shells at Fort Stevens, a Civil War era fort on the Oregon coast at the mouth of the Columbia River, causing little damage. Power lines were damaged, but most of the shells fell into a swamp. The fort's Commander wisely didn't return fire with the forts older artillery, as the submarine was out of range and he didn't want to betray the fort's location with artillery flashes. A passing army air formation spotted and reported the Japanese submarine which was subsequently attacked by a Hudson bomber which the I-25 Commander, Tagami, successfully evaded. Fort Steven's was the only continental US fortification attacked during WW II. .

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1815: Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated for the second time as Emperor of the French...and was incarcerated on the island of St. Helenain the South Atlantic. Attention Donald Trump: the lowest thing in politics is a two-time loser!

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22 June 1476, The Swiss Confederation defeat Charles the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy, at the Battle of Morat during the Burgundian Wars. The Swiss Confederation and its allies were victorious in the Burgundian Wars.


1593, Allied Christian troops from the Kingdom of Croatia and Inner Austria defeat the Islamic Ottomans led by Telli Hasan Pasha at the Battle of Sisak in present-day Croatia.

1807, the warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the frigate USS Chesapeake off Norfolk, Virginia. Four crew members from the American vessel are accused of desertion from the Royal Navy and arrested. One is later hanged.

1813, Laura Secord walks 20 miles to warn the British of an American attack near Niagara. The incident will later give the fledgling Canadian nation its own Paul Revere legend.

1944, France. Piper R. Brown entertaining his pals from 51 "Highland" Infantry Division.


1945, The U.S. defeats the Japanese at the Battle of Okinawa. The battle started on April 1. 12,500 U.S. troops were killed or declared missing. The amphibious invasion was bigger than D-Day in Europe a year earlier.


1945, at HMS Hornet in Portsmouth, surrendered German fast attack boats ('E boats') are tied up as their crews disembark.


1969, U.S. actress and singer Judy Garland, dies at the age of 47 of an overdose. She was born June 10, 1922 in Minnesota.


1998, a manned KPN sub was found tangled in nets near South Korea. Placed under tow by the ROK Navy, the sub sank after possibly being scuttled by its crew. When the sub was salvaged, it was found that the crew had been executed by officers who then committed suicide.


1990, Checkpoint Charlie, the crossing point between East and West Berlin, is dismantled. The Berlin Wall came down beginning on November 9, 1989.

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1807 British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812

1815 After his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates for the second time, in favor of his son Napoleon II

1865 The CSS Shenandoah fires the last shot of the American Civil War in the Bering Strait to indicate surrender.

1911 King George V crowned King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and all his realms and territories beyond the sea.

1939 Princess and future Queen Elizabeth meets future husband Prince Philip of Greece (Midshipman Mountbatten, RN)

1940 France surrenders to Nazi Germany, with the northern half of the country occupied and the south established as the Nazi client state Vichy France.

1941 Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany and its allies invade the Soviet Union during WWII, the largest military operation in history.

1943 617 Squadron (Dambusters) attends investiture at Buckingham Palace, Commanding Officer Guy Gibson awarded the Victoria Cross.

1972 The Irish Republican Army announce that it would call a ceasefire from 26 June 1972 provided that there is a "reciprocal response" from the security forces.

1975 Ulster Volunteer Force try to derail a train by planting a bomb on the railway line near County Kildare, Ireland; a civilian who tries to stop them is stabbed-to-death (his actions delay the explosion to let the train pass safely)

1992 Two skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg, Russia identified as Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.

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1314, Robert the Bruce takes on the English army at Bannockburn. After two days of fighting, Scotland prevails.

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1757, 3,000 British East India Company troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000-man army of the Nawab of Bengal at the Battle of Plassey. The victory helps put the region in company hands and paves the way for the eventual British takeover of the Indian subcontinent.


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1865: Confederate General and Cherokee Chief Stand Watie surrenders the last sizable Confederate army at Fort Towson, in the Oklahoma Territory.


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1888: Former slave Frederick Douglass receives one vote at the Republican convention, making him the first black candidate placed in nomination for U.S. president.


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1915, Royal Navy submarine C24 sunk German U-40, 40 miles off Eyemouth. First success in using decoy vessel to tow submerged submarine, which would slip its tow & torpedo U-boat when it surfaced to attack decoy. C24’s skipper awarded DSO.

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1919 East Oregonian Newspaper prints this photo of the men who forced the United States Army to invade Mexico. The United States Army had invaded Mexico while hunting paramilitary forces of Mexican revolutionary Francisco "Pancho" Villa


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1923, Experts from the leading Allied nations are at work in The Hague on a protocol for rules of bombing in future wars. "Aerial bombardment for the purpose of terrorizing the civilian population, of destroying or damaging private property...is prohibited."

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1942, the Allies capture a German Focke-Wulf fighter intact after a Luftwaffe pilot named Armin Faber lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales. The confused German flyer mistakes the Bristol Channel for the English Channel and believes the runway he is landing on is in France.



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1997, former FBI agent Earl Pitts was sentenced to 27 years in prison for providing classified information to the Russian intelligence services. Pitts was identified as a Russian mole when his KGB handler Aleksandr Karpov himself became a double agent for the FBI.

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930 World's oldest parliament, the Icelandic Parliament is established, the Alþingi (anglicised as Althing or Althingi)

1925 British warship fires on Hong Kong harbour strikers.

1940 After conquering France, Adolf Hitler visits Paris and views the Eiffel Tower and the grave of Napoleon Bonaparte.

1943 RAF discovers Wernher von Braun's V1/V2-base in Peenemunde.

1945 Last organized Japanese defiance broken (Tarakan)

1951 Treacherous British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean flee to USSR

1960 1st contraceptive pill is made available for purchase in the U.S.

1961 The Antarctic Treaty, ensuring that Antarctica is used for peaceful purposes; for international cooperation in scientific research; and does not become the scene or object of international discord, comes into force.

1972 Hurricane Agnes becomes America's costliest natural disaster, affecting 15 states, with 119 deaths and $3 billion in damage.

2016 Brexit referendum: United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union.

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24 June 217 BC, Carthaginian General Hannibal ambushes and defeats the Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.


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1340, Edward III leads an English fleet to victory over the French at Battle of Sluys. The king packs his ships with soldiers and longbowmen and uses superior tactics and favourable winds to capture or destroy 190 enemy vessels for the loss of only two of his own.


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1779, French and Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful Great Siege of Gibraltar against the British during the U.S. Revolutionary War. The unsuccessful siege lasted three years.


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1812, Napoleon and his French army cross the Prussian-Russian border near Kaunas, in modern-day Lithuania, at the Nieman river to begin his invasion of Russia. It would not end well for Napoleon nor his troops.


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1850, Field Marshal Kitchener, army officer, colonial administrator, & Secretary of State for War was born.



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1859, France's Napoleon III and Sardinian King Victor Emmanuel II defeat the Austrian emperor Franz Joseph I at Solferino. It's the last battle in history in which all the armies are commanded by sitting monarchs.


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1908, U.S. President Grover Cleveland dies at the age of 71. He was the 22nd and 24th president, serving from 1885-89 and 1893-1897.


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1922: The American Professional Football Association, which was founded in 1920, consisting of 10 teams from four different states, adopts the name the National Football League.


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1940, The Italians and French sign an armistice to end their brief conflict. Italy declared war on France on June 10, 1940, while France was on the verge of defeat against Germany.


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1948, The Soviets begin the Berlin Blockade, blocking travel over land between West Germany and West Berlin, after West Germany introduced the Deutsche mark.

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1314 Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England.

1374 Sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.

1812 Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand Armée numbering half a million begin their invasion of Russia by crossing the Nieman River.

1853 US President Franklin Pierce signs the Gadsden Purchase, buying 29,670 square-miles (76,800 square km) from Mexico for $10 million (now southern Arizona and New Mexico)

1917 Russian Black Sea fleet mutinies at Sebastopol.

1922 Adolf Hitler begins a month long prison sentence for paramilitary operations; he rails against the 'Jewish sell-out' of Germany to the Bolsheviks.

1930 1st detection of an airplane using reflected radio waves, a precursor to radar, by US Naval Research Laboratory engineers in Anacostia, Washington, D.C.

1942 Village of Ležáky, Czechoslovakia destroyed by Nazis after Gestapo finds a radio transmitter believed to have been involved coordinating the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, 33 adults were executed by firing squad on site, and children were sent to concentration camp gas chambers, and the village was burned down and plowed under.

1948 Soviet Union begins the West Berlin Blockade by stopping access by road, rail and water.

1972 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill 3 British Army soldiers in a land mine attack near Dungiven, County Derry.

1997 USAF reports Roswell 'space aliens' were dummies.

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25 June 1678, Elena Cornaro Piscopia of Venice becomes the first woman to receive a doctoral degree when she earns a doctorate of #philosophy from the University of Padua in what is now Padua, Italy.


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1868, After the Civil War, Congress basically overrides the veto of Omnibus Act, which allows for the readmission of Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina to the Union.

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1876, George Armstrong Custer and five companies of the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry — 268 men in all — are wiped out at Little Bighorn by Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho forces.


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1913, the first of more than 53,000 aging Civil War veterans begin arriving at Gettysburg for a week of commemorations marking the battle's 50th anniversary. "We have found one another again as brothers, enemies no longer."


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1923, Poland's Marshal Josef Pilsudski reviews a military parade from a balcony in Warsaw, flanked by Romanian visitors King Ferdinand and Queen Marie.


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1942, Rottingdean. 11 Armoured Division, passing through. Corporal Stephenson speaking to five year old Pat Brooker.


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1944, The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle fought in the Nordic countries, begins. It was part of the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union. In the battle, the Finns are victorious over Soviets.

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1944. On the right, Squadron Leader Horbaczewski [KIA 18-08-1944] showing how he rescued Warrant Officer Tadeusz Tamowicz (not in picture) who was forced to land in Normandy. Horbaczewski landed nearby Tamowicz and evacuated him in his P-51 Mustang.


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1947: The diary of Anne Frank is published in Dutch.


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1950, 100,000 North Korean troops cross the 38th Parallel kicking off the Korean War. The three-year conflict draws in 19 nations and leaves an estimated 3 million people dead.


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1975, Mozambique gains its independence from Portugal after ten years of fighting.


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1997, French explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, author, who studied the oceans, Jacques Cousteau, dies at the age of 87 in Paris.


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1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as "Custer's Last Stand"

1919 1st advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13)

1929 US President Herbert Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)

1941 Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there.

1947 1st version of Anne Frank's diary "Het Achterhuis" published in The Netherlands.

1950 north korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War.

1979 Failed attack on NATO commander Alexander Haig Jr. in Obourg, Belgium by German terrorist Rolf Klemens Wagner, a former member of the Red Army Faction.

2021 WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus confirms the COVID-19 Delta variant is the most transmissible to date, now present in 85 countries and spreading rapidly.

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1942: Cologne and Essen already having been hit previously(Operation Millenium), the RAF, under 'Bomber' Harris, launched its third so-called "thousand bomber" raid against Bremen, attacking submarine pens, Focke-wulfe facilities and indiscriminate area housing. It was largely a propaganda ploy resulting in the loss of 49 aircraft , a record at the time.

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1942, the Japanese destroyer Yamakaze was torpedoed and sunk by USS Nautilus (SS-168) about 60 nautical miles from the coast of Japan. Yamakaze had sunk USS Shark (SS-174) a few months earlier. This photo was taken through the periscope of the Nautilus.

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1857 The first 62 recipients are awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean war by Queen Victoria.

1915 Germany suppresses "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace.

1917 1st US troops arrive in France during World War I

1918 The Australian steamer Wimmera is sunk by a mine laid north of Cape Maria van Diemen in 1917 by the German raider Wolf; 26 of its 151 passengers and crew were killed.

1945 United Nations Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco.

1963 US President John F. Kennedy gives his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" (intended to mean "I am a Berliner", but may actually mean "I am a doughnut") speech in West Berlin.

1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US

1970 Two young girls die in a premature explosion in Derry after their father, a member of the Irish Republican Army, was making an incendiary device, presumably for use against the British Army.

1972 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill two British Army soldiers in separate attacks during the day and at midnight begins a "bi-lateral truce"

1977 Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, the last performance of his career.

1977 The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.

1993 The U.S. launches a cruise missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H. W. Bush in April in Kuwait.

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26 June 1522, The Ottomans begin their second Siege of Rhodes, which is now part of Greece. This siege was successful, while their first siege in 1480 failed.


1794, the era of aerial warfare begins as the French military successfully uses an observation balloon during the Battle of Fleurus. Aloft for nine hours, the two-man crew takes notes of enemy troop movements, which are dropped over the side to officers below.


1843, The Treaty of Nanking, ending the First Opium War between the United Kingdom and China, comes into effect. As part of the treaty, Hong Kong was ceded to Britain.


1870, Christmas is declared a federal holiday after U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs into law a bill designating the day as a legal, unpaid holiday for federal employees in the District of Columbia.


1918, America wins its first major victory of World War One as the Battle of Belleau Wood ends. General Pershing heaps praise on the USMC for its contribution. "The deadliest weapon in the world is a United States Marine and his rifle," he says.


1942, the Grumman F6F Hellcat makes its maiden flight. More than 12,000 will be built before the end of WW2. Hellcats will down more than 5,000 enemy planes, making it the most effective naval fighter of the era.


1944, Lance Corporal Lodge from 278 Field Company holding a German hollow charge anti-tank magnetic mine.


1944, Germans surrender to American troops today in Cherbourg. By the great Robert Capa.


1944, U.S. Army Private First Class Kiyoshi K. Muranaga of Los Angeles, California, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on 26 June 1944 near Suvereto, Italy.

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27 June 1358, The Republic of Ragusa is founded and centered around the city of Dubrovnik, now part of Croatia after the Treaty of Zadar forced Venice to cede Dalmatia. It existed until 1808 when Napoleon conquered it.


1743, King George II is the last reigning British monarch to participate in conflict, when he led troops in the Battle of Dettingen. British forces and their allies defeated France.


1829, Englishman James Smithson dies and bequeaths his estate to the establishment of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. Interestingly, he never even visited the U.S.


1880, American Helen Keller, political activist, author and lecturer, is born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a college degree. She died in 1968.


1918, while on way to Liverpool, HMHS Llandovery Castle sunk off Ireland by U-86 with loss of 234 of 258 people. 94 Canadian medical personnel onboard. Many survivors machine-gunned in lifeboats. Deadliest Canadian naval disaster of WW1. One of war's worst atrocities.


1923, An airplane is refueled in midflight for the first time. The DHB.4 flown by Army aviators Lowell H. Smith and John P. Richter is filled over San Diego by a 50-foot hose dangled from above by another DHB.4, piloted by Virgil Hine and Frank Seifert.


1944, Captain William Hooper of the 79th Infantry Division escorts German POWs through the streets of Cherbourg, France. Captain Hooper would be killed in action about 1 week from this photo.


1950, President Harry S. Truman orders U.S. forces to Korea as North Korean troops reach Seoul, South Korea. Communist North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25.


1991, violence erupts in Slovenia after the tiny break-away republic declares its independence from Yugoslavia. It's the opening round of nearly 10 years of conflict in the Balkans.