| William Penn signed a friendship treaty with the Lenni Lenape Native Americans. This agreement was notable because it was the only such treaty "not sworn to, nor broken" -- "not sworn to" because Penn was a Quaker and would swear no oaths, "nor broken" because Penn's treaty stands almost alone as an honorable unbroken agreement between colonists and Native Americans. |
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| A newspaper account of it says that the river from London Bridge to the "Ship" at Millbank was covered with pleasure boats and barges. Twelve boats, each with two men, were to row from Westminster Bridge against the tide to London Bridge and back, and the first boat which passed through the centre arch of Westminster Bridge westward was the winner. The boats were divided into three squadrons-red, white, and blue. The first prize was a new boat with furniture complete, and an ensign with the word "Regatta" in gilt, and coats and badges. |
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| An emission totaling $3,000,000 payable in Spanish milled dollars, or the equivalent in gold or silver, was authorized by the Continental Congress resolution of May 10, 1775 and approved by resolutions of June 23-24 and July 25, 1775 and put into circulation in August. The money, for "The United Colonies", was to be used to pay war expenses and was to be redeemed from taxes collected by the colonies. |
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| In 1784, in Baltimore, America's first balloonist, was a teenager,13-year-old Edward Warren, who soloed in a 35-foot diameter hot-air balloon held in place from the ground with a tether. The balloon was built by Baltimore attorney, Peter Carnes. Warren volunteered for the flight after the craft was unable to lift its builder. |
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| Virtually all of continental Europe was under Napoleon's control, and the invasion of Russia was an attempt to force Tsar Alexander I to submit once again to the terms of a treaty that Napoleon had imposed upon him four years earlier. Having gathered nearly half a million soldiers, from France as well as all of the vassal states of Europe, Napoleon entered Russia at the head of the largest army ever seen. |
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| Established on June 23, 1860, by Congressional Joint Resolution No. 25, the Government Printing Office (GPO) has provided publication supplies and services to the U.S. Congress, the executive departments, and all other agencies of the federal government. |
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| The Enforcement of Counterfeiting Prevention Act was handled through U.S. marshals and district attorneys until an act of June 23, 1860, transferred responsibility to the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secret Service Uniformed Division, initially a force comprised of a few members of the military and the Metropolitan Police Department, began formalized protection of the White House and its grounds in 1860. This unit was under the direction of the White House Military Aide until 1922 when President Warren G. Harding prompted the establishment of a White House Police Force. |
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| In 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule of Milwaukee, Wisconsin received a patent for an invention he called a "Type-Writer." It only had capital letters and fit in a box about 2 feet square and 6" high. The typists didn't know if they were making errors because the paper could not be seen as it was being typed; it was inside the machine. The new features were "a better way of working the type-bars, of holding paper on the carriage, of holding, applying, and moving the inking-ribbon, a self-adjusting platen, and a rest or cushion for the type-bars to follow." |
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| The first known motorboat race was held on June 23rd. The boat Standard covered the 32-mile course onn the Hudson River in the shortest time, averaging a wave-busting speed of 19.67 nautical miles an hour, to win the gold cup. |
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| Babe Ruth punched an umpire with his fist after he was given the "Yer outta here, Bub!" in a baseball game between Boston and Washington. Ruth, pitching at the time, threw four pitches, all called balls by the home plate umpire. Ruth stomped off the pitcher's mound to the plate and tongue-lashed Brick Owens with a volley of unmentionable cuss words. Ruth was ejected and fined $100. Ernie Shore came into the game and pitched what would have been the fourth perfect game in major-league baseball history as the Red Sox defeated Washington 4-0. In truth it was the only perfect game ever thrown by a relief pitcher. However, Shore came into the game with Ruth's walk on first so the entire game was not perfect. The base runner was cut down stealing second. |
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| It is believed that the landslide occurred on June 23, 1925, after several weeks of heavy rain. The landslide created a huge dam across the Gros Ventre River, backing up the water and forming Lower Slide Lake. Approximately 50 million cubic yards of primarily sedimentary rock slid down the north face of Sheep Mountain, crossed over the Gros Ventre river and raced up the opposing mountainside a distance of 300 feet (100 m). The landslide created a huge dam over 200 feet (60 m) high and 400 yards (400 m) wide across the Gros Ventre River, backing up the water and forming Lower Slide Lake. |
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| Post and his navigator, Harold Gatty, left Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York in the Winnie Mae with a flight plan that would take them around the world, making fourteen stops along the way in Newfoundland, England, Germany, the Soviet Union, Alaska, Alberta, Canada and Cleveland, Ohio before returning to Roosevelt Field. They arrived back on July 1 after traveling 15,474 miles in the record time of 8 days and 15 hours and 51 minutes. The reception they received rivaled Lindbergh's everywhere they went. |
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| In 1933, McNeill drove to Chicago to audition for a struggling morning program called "The Pepper Pot." McNeill took over the show on June 23rd and renamed it "The Breakfast Club." Within a decade, "The Breakfast Club" had become radio's first, and most, successful morning program. |
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| In 1938, the Civil Aeronautics Act transferred the federal civil aviation responsibilities from the Commerce Department to a new independent agency, the Civil Aeronautics Authority. The legislation also expanded the government's role by giving them the authority and the power to regulate airline fares and to determine the routes that air carriers would serve. |
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| Opening day for Marineland, June 23, 1938, must have been a grand affair, as 30,000 people clogged the two-lane road and saw the blue arches above one of the nation's first oceanariums. Originally called Marine Studios. Marineland was built as an underwater studio for filming marine life. |
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| In June 1941, she was the featured vocalist on a series of recordings made by Henry Levine & the Dixieland Jazz Group of the show for RCA, cutting a selection of W.C. Handy tunes for a 78-rpm album called The Birth of the Blues. She also sang on recordings by Artie Shaw and Teddy Wilson (who was her accompanist at Café Society). |
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| Eleven home runs-a ML record-drive in all the runs scored in a 10-9 Tiger win over the Yankees before 51,000 Detroit fans. Detroit has four home runs in the 4th inning as Dizzy Trout, Gerry Priddy, Vic Wertz, and Hoot Evers connect. Pitcher Dizzy Trout's home run, off Tommy Byrne, is his 2nd lifetime grand slam. Hoot Evers hits another home run, an inside-the-park 2-run game winner in the 9th off Joe Page to win it. For New York, Hank Bauer connects for two homers, including one in the 4th inning. Joe DiMaggio, Jerry Coleman, Yogi Berra, and pinch hitter Tommy Henrich also belt round trippers. It is the first time that nine different players connect for homers in a game. |
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| Cole scored his fourth number one pop hit and gold record with "Too Young," which topped the charts on June 23, 1951. His recording of "Unforgettable" peaked at only number 12 on February 2, 1952, but it went on to become one of his better remembered recordings. |
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| The idea for the film came from a short story by Ward Greene entitled "Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog." The film was enlivened by such songs as "He's a Tramp" and "The Siamese Cat Song," by Sonny Burke and Peggy Lee. In early script versions, Tramp was first called Homer, then Rags and Bozo. A 1940 script introduced the twin Siamese cats. Eventually known as Si and Am, they were then named Nip and Tuck. |
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| Known as "The Kid in White Buck Shoes", Boone sported a clean-cut image that appealed to white teens and parents. His singing style, a rich baritone, followed in the tradition of his idol, Bing Crosby. Preferring to carry on in the Crosby tradition, he soon began turning more and more to ballads. Some of his biggest hits included "Love Letters in the Sand" (with the instrumental break featuring Boone's whistling), "April Love", "Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)", and "Don't Forbid Me". |
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| This joint program by NASA, the Air Force, the Navy, and North American operated the most remarkable of all the rocket research aircraft. Composed of an internal structure of titanium and a skin surface of a chrome-nickel alloy known as Inconel X, the X-15 had its first, unpowered glide flight on June 8, 1959, while the first powered flight took place on September 17, 1959. Because of the large fuel consumption of its rocket engine, the X-15 was air launched from a B-52 aircraft at about 45,000 ft and speeds upward of 500 mph. The airplane first set speed records in the Mach 4-6 range with Mach 4.43 on March 7, 1961, then Mach 5.27 on June 23, 1961. |
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| Charles was known as a Gospel and R&B singer, but he defied convention and decided to record an album of Country and Western songs. His producer, Sid Feller, put together tapes containing about 150 classic Country songs so Charles could choose which ones to record. Included on the tapes was "I Can't Stop Loving You," which Charles remembered from when he would listen to The Grand Ole Opry. It became a huge hit and went to #1 on the US Pop, R&B and Easy Listening charts. |
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| Jimmy Piersall of the New York Mets hits the 100th home run of his ML career-and his only one in the National League-and celebrates by running around the bases backwards. Dallas Green of the Phillies, who gave up the home run, is not amused. Neither is Commissioner Ford Frick, who is in the stands. Nor are the Mets who will hand Jimmy his walking papers in a few days. |
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| In 1964, Arthur Melin obtained a patent for the hula-hoop. An Australian visiting California told Melin that in his country, children twirled bamboo hoops around theirs waists in gym class. Melin, who started toy giant Wham-O in 1948 with his boyhood friend Richard Knerr with slingshots and named their mail-order company after the sound a slingshot made when its projectile struck a target. They branched into other sporting goods, including pellet guns, crossbows and daggers. They added toys in 1955, when building inspector Fred Morrison sold them a plastic flying disc he had developed after watching Yale University students toss pie tins. Wham-O began selling the disc they called the Pluto Platter two years later before modifying it and renaming it the Frisbee. |
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| In 1966, at age nineteen, Jim Ryun set the world record in both the mile and the half-mile runs, and received Sports Illustrated magazine's "Sportsman of the Year" award, as well as the James E. Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athlete. In 1967 he lowered his world-record time in the mile to 3:51.1, a record that stood for nine years. He also held world records in the 1500 meter run, the indoor half-mile, the sprint medley, and the distance medley relays. |
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| The final blow came with the decision by the Supreme Court to order Nixon to release more White House tapes. One of these became known as the 'smoking gun' tape when it revealed that Nixon had participated in the Watergate cover-up as far back as June 23, 1972 |
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| The Title IX legislation was signed into law by President Richard Nixon, June 23, 1972. Prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity, within an institution receiving any type of Federal financial assistance. |
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| In early 1973, McCartney added ex-Spooky Tooth guitarist Henry McCullough, and re-christened the band Paul McCartney and Wings for the album Red Rose Speedway which yielded the first big Wings hit, the romantic ballad "My Love". |
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| "Devil Went Down to Georgia" took The Charlie Daniels Band out of a Southern Rock music style and into the world of Pop music. The song was a #1 hit on the Country charts, but also crossed over to the Pop charts. The song drove the album to a status of multi-platinum, but the band had trouble following up until 1989. In this song, Satan himself pays a visit to Georgia and challenges a boy named Johnny to a fiddle duel: If johnny can play the fiddle better than the devil, he would get a golden fiddle but if he lost the devil gets his soul. |
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| "My Sharona" is about a friend of band member Doug Fieger who he fancied. Doug was going out with another girl and he wrote the song to try to woo Sharona. They ended up dating. In the US, this was the best-selling single of 1979. |
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| "Hot Stuff" was used in the movie "The Full Monty" in a scene where the guys hear it on the radio and get the idea to take it all off in their show. |
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| The PawSox played the longest game in professional baseball history, a 33 inning game against the Rochester Red Wings at McCoy Stadium. The game started on April 18, 1981. Play was suspended at 4:07AM at the end of the 32nd inning. The game did not resume again until June 23 when the Red Wings returned to Pawtucket. Only one inning was needed, with the PawSox winning 3-2 in the bottom of the 33rd. Future Major League Baseball stars Cal Ripken Jr. and Wade Boggs played in the game. |
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| At first, "The Reflex" seems to have a very deep concept, but really the band just recorded it over a couple of bottles of wine. Simon LeBon himself said he has no clue what it means. |
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| "Batman" is a 1989 Academy Award-winning superhero film based on the Batman character created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger and appearing in DC Comics. It is the first entry in the original four-part Batman film series, the first directed by Tim Burton and the first to star Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne/Batman. It also starred Jack Nicholson as the Joker. |
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1683 William Penn signs friendship
treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania
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1775 First regatta held on Thames, England
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1775 First Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)
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1784 First US balloon flight (13 year old Edward
Warren)
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1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins
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1860 Congress establishes the Government Printing
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1860 US Secret Service created
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1868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer"
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1904 The first American motorboat race got underway
on the Hudson River in New York
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1917 The ‘Sultan of Swat’ did just that
on this day ... he swatted an umpire!
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1925 Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide
Lake" (Gros Ventre Wyoming)
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1931 Wiley Post & Harold Gatty took off for
flight around world
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1933 "The Pepper Pot" radio program
welcomed a new host - Don McNeill
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1938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) established
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1938 Marineland opens in Florida-first aquarium
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1941 Lena Horne recorded "St. Louis Blues"
for Victor Records
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1950 Yanks & Tigers hit record 11 HRs, Tigers
win 10-9
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1951 "Too Young" by Nat 'King' Cole
topped the charts
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1955 Walt Disney's "Lady & the Tramp"
released
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1956 “I'll Be Home" by Pat Boone topped
the charts
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1961 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 107,715
feet
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1962 "I Can't Stop Loving You" by Ray
Charles topped the charts
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1963 NY Mets Jimmy Piersall, hits his 100th HR,
he circles bases backwards
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1964 Arthur Melin obtained a patent for the Hula-hoop
in 1964
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1967 Jim Ryun sets mile record of 3 min, 51.1
sec (Bakersfield, CA)
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1972 Nixon & Haldeman agree to use CIA to
cover up Watergate
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1972 President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination
in college sports
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1973 "My Love" by Paul McCartney &
Wings topped the charts
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1979 The Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil
Went Down to Georgia"
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1979 The rock group, the Knack releases "My
Sharona"
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1979 "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer topped
the charts
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1981 33-inning game ends, Pawtucket 3, Rochester
2
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1984 "The Reflex" by Duran Duran topped
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1989 The movie "Batman" premiers
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