Thursday, June 19, 2025
Today: 1846: The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright’s rules on Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey, with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. 1862: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Territorial Slavery Act, which prohibits slavery in all current and future United States territories. 1865: Union […]
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Today: 618 AD: Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China. 1778: During the American Revolutionary War, the British Army evacuates Philadelphia after a nine-month occupation. 1798: President John Adams oversees the passage of the Naturalization Act, the first of the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts. 1812: […]
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Today: In 1673, French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reached the Mississippi River. They were the first Europeans to map and document the northern portion of the river. The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought in 1775 during the American Revolutionary War. Although the British won the battle, the American colonists inflicted heavy casualties, […]
Monday, June 16, 2025
Today: 1487: The Battle of Stoke Field, the final major engagement of the Wars of the Roses, was fought in England. 1775: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was established. On the same day, George Washington was appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. 1858: In his “House Divided” speech in Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, accepting […]
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Today: 1215: England’s King John sealed Magna Carta at Runnymede, a document that greatly influenced constitutional law and limited the power of the monarchy. 1667: The first fully documented human blood transfusion was performed by French physician Jean-Baptiste Denys, transfusing a small amount of sheep blood into a 15-year-old boy. 1775: The Continental Congress voted […]
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Today: 1645: The Parliamentarian New Model Army, led by Oliver Cromwell, decisively defeated the Royalist forces at the Battle of Naseby during the English Civil War. 1775: The Continental Congress established the Continental Army, which is considered the birth of the United States Army. 1777: The Continental Congress adopted the “Stars and Stripes” as the […]
Friday, June 13, 2025
Today: 1381: During the Peasants’ Revolt, a large mob of English peasants led by Wat Tyler marches into London and begins burning and looting the city. 1777: Marie-Joseph Paul Roch Yves Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French aristocrat, arrives in South Carolina with the intent to serve as General George Washington’s second-in-command […]
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Today: 1859: The Comstock Lode, one of the most important silver strikes in American history, was discovered near Virginia City, Nevada. 1898: Filipino rebels, led by Emilio Aguinaldo, declared the independence of the Philippines from Spain. 1939: The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York. 1942: Anne Frank received […]
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Today: In 1509, King Henry VIII of England married Catherine of Aragon, his first of six wives. In 1770, Captain James Cook ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef while exploring the coast of Australia. In 1776, the Continental Congress appointed the “Committee of Five” (Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert […]
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Today: In 1692, Bridget Bishop was hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, becoming the first person executed during the Salem witch trials. In 1752, Benjamin Franklin reportedly flew a kite during a thunderstorm, collecting ambient electrical charge in a Leyden jar and demonstrating the connection between lightning and electricity. In 1854, the U.S. Naval […]