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Friday, June 20, 2025
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Important Events From This day in History June 20
1975 U.S.A. Jaws
1975 : The summer blockbuster movie "Jaws" is released about a great white shark attacking swimmers at Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town.
1893 U.S.A. Lizzie Borden
1893 : In the case of the murder of her father Andrew Jackson Borden, and her stepmother, Abby Borden despite incriminating circumstances but with no murder weapon found and no blood evidence found. A jury in New Bedford, Mass., found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother. The case was is best remembered by the popular jump-rope rhyme: Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks. And when she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one.
1923 U.S.A. Rum Smugglers
1923 : A large fleet of Seaplanes are to be mobilized in an attempt to catch rum smugglers off the Atlantic Coast, it is believed these will be more successful than current means of catching the rum runners who are equipped with very fast boats that are outrunning federal agents.
1929 U.S.A. Rum Smugglers
1929 : Exchanges of gunfire on the Detroit river between rum runners and federal agents ended with federal agents using machine guns to sink the smugglers vessel, French boats are anchored off the coast outside of US jurisdiction and the rum runners are going between shore and the ships anchored off shore carrying cases of rum.
1937 U.S.A. "Pirates of Penzance"
1937 : W2XBS (later WCBS-TV) televised the first TV operetta. The work was the "Pirates of Penzance" by Gilbert and Sullivan. The operetta became the duo's most popular creation and is still parodied in cartoons and other pop culture references today.
1947 U.S.A. Mob Killing
1947 : Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel is murdered at the Beverly Hills, Calif., mansion of his girlfriend, Virginia Hill, at the order of mob associates angered over the soaring costs of Siegel’s pet project, the Flamingo resort now costing in the region of $6,000,000 in Las Vegas, Nev. In the 1972 movie the Godfather the character of Moe Greene is heavily based on Siegel.
1956 Plane Crash
1956 : Venezuelan airliner plunges into Atlantic.
1963 Hot Line Established Between US and Soviet Union
1963 : To lessen the threat of an accidental nuclear war, the United States and the Soviet Union agree to establish a "hot line" communication system between the two nations.
1967 U.S.A. Muhammad Ali
1967 : After appearing for his scheduled induction into the U.S. Armed Forces on April 28th, 1967 in Houston, he refused three times to step forward at the call of his name. On 20th June Muhammad Ali is convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. The decision is later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
1976 Lebanon Evacuation over Continued Fighting
1976 : As the fighting continues to escalate in Beirut and with westerners now facing increasing danger after the murder of the American ambassador Francis Meloy. Westerners are being evacuated by the US military and taken to safety in Syria.
1977 U.S.A. Alaska Oil Pipeline
1977 : Crude oil from North Alaska begins flowing south down the trans-Alaska pipeline to the ice-free port of Valdez, Alaska.
1984 UK O'Levels and CSE's To Be Replaced By GCSE's
1984 : General Certificate of Education / GCE O-Level and CSE exams are to be abolished and replaced by a new examination for 16 year olds in Great Britain. General Certificate of Education / GCE O-Level and GCE A-Level were introduced in Great Britain replacing the older School Certificate (SC) and Higher School Certificate (HSC) in 1951. Certificate of Secondary Education (CSE) were introduced in 1965 designed for those students who were not capable of taking the "O Levels". The A-Level Examinations are still taken in the UK and are still used by most British Universities as a de facto university entrance examination, though some universities also require applicants to take separate entrance examinations.
Today in Labor History June 20, 2025
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Eugene V. Debs
Eugene Debs formed the American Railway Union (ARU), one of the earliest unions to organize by industry and regardless of race or ethnicity (see Knights of Labor and IWW). Within a few months, the union was leading an 18-day strike against the Great Northern Railroad, successfully forcing management to reverse three wage cuts despite the fact that the nation was in the midst of a terrible depression. The victory set the union on a remarkable course in which it averaged 2,000 new members a day. – 1893
Police shot 14 Wobblies (members of the Industrial Workers of the World) during a labor clash in Butte, Montana. In April, company guards at the Anaconda mine fired on striking Wobblies, killing one. Vigilantes or company goons lynched IWW organizer Frank Little in Butte in 1917. – 1920
A newspaper strike halted publication of The Butte Miner, the Anaconda Standard, and the Butte Daily Post until July 4. – 1927
Henry Ford recognized the United Auto Workers and signed the first-ever contract for workers at the River Rouge plant. – 1941
Striking African-American auto workers were attacked by the KKK, National Workers League, and armed white workers at Belle Isle amusement park in Detroit. Two days of riots followed, 34 people were killed and more than 1,300 arrested. – 1943
The Taft-Hartley Labor Management Relations Act that curbed strikes was vetoed by President Harry S Truman. The veto was overridden three days later by a Republican-controlled Congress. – 1947
Oil began traveling through the Alaska pipeline. Seventy thousand people worked on building the pipeline, history’s largest privately-financed construction project. – 1977
Evelyn Dubrow, described by the New York Times as organized labor’s most prominent lobbyist at the time of its greatest power, died at age 95. The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union lobbyist once told the Times that “she trudged so many miles around Capitol Hill that she wore out 24 pairs of her size 4 shoes each year.” She retired at age 86. – 2006
Thursday, June 19, 2025
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Juneteenth June 19th, 1865
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Important Events From This day in History June 19
1846 U.S.A. First official Game of Baseball
1846 : The first official game played under New York Knickerbockers Baseball Club rules was in 1846 in Hoboken, New Jersey, between the Knickerbockers and the New York Base Ball Club. .
1905 U.S.A. Nickelodeon
1905 : The world's first nickelodeon opened showing a silent film called The Great Train Robbery the name nickelodeon was used as it cost 5 cents or a nickel to watch the movie or live vaudeville acts.
1910 U.S.A. Fathers Day
1910 : The First Father's Day was celebrated for the first time in Spokane, Washington.
1917 UK Royal Family
1917 : During the first World War as sentiment against Germany by the British People worsened King George V ordered the British royal family to end using the German-sounding surname, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and to take on the name Royal House of Windsor.
1923 Italy Mount Etna
1923 : Walls of lava one mile wide are descending Mount Etna towards the town of Lingauglossa in Italy, the lava is travelling slowly giving time for evacuation of the area, another flow of Lava over 50ft high and a mile wide is heading for the town of Giarre with a population of 17,000 the town will be doomed as the lava will cover all buildings in the town.2002 Australia Solo Round The World Balloon Flight
2002 : Steve Fossett sets off in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom from Northam, Western Australia on his fifth attempt at flying a balloon solo around the world.
1938 U.S.A. Train Crash
1938 : A flood in Custer Creek in Terry, Montana washes out a bridge over the Custer Creek river used by trains and when the Olympian Special came through, it crashes into the raging waters with the loss of 46 lives.1953 U.S.A. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
1953 : Following the conviction for spying on behalf of the Soviet Union and passing U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing Prison. Spying by both sides in the Fifties was a part of the Cold War.
1968 U.S.A. The Poor Peoples March
1968 : 50,000 people participated in " The Poor Peoples March " organised by Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to address issues of economic justice. The campaign culminated on Washington, D.C. to demand economic aid be given to the poorest communities in the United States. Unlike many of Martin Luther King Jr's campaigns The Poor People’s Campaign did not focus on just poor blacks but addressed all poor people of every minority.
1970 UK Edward Heath New Prime Minister
1970 : The conservative party led by Edward Heath wins in the general election. The win was considered unusual because all the opinion polls held in the few days prior to the General Election had predicted an easy win for the Labour party led by Harold Wilson.
Today in Labor History June 19th
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Slaves were declared free in Texas, a date now celebrated each year as the holiday “Juneteenth.” – 1865
The kangaroo trial of eight anarchists for the Haymarket bombing began in Chicago on this date. – 1886
Silk workers struck in Paterson, New Jersey. The event escalated into a riot. Silk workers had struck several times in the 19th century and again in 1913, led by the IWW. – 1902
An eight-hour workday was adopted for federal employees. – 1912
AFL President Samuel Gompers and Secretary of War Newton Baker signed an agreement establishing a three-member board of adjustment to control wages, hours and working conditions for construction workers employed on government projects. The agreement protected union wage and hour standards for the duration of World War I. – 1917
The first important sit-down strike in American history was conducted by workers at a General Tire Company factory in Akron, Ohio. The United Rubber Workers union was founded a year later. – 1934
The Women’s Day Massacre: during the Great Ohio Steel Strike of 1937, there were numerous street battles between workers and police, including the Youngstown Riots and Poland Avenue Riot on June 21st. On June 19th, there were smaller battles that some believe were initiated by the cops to test the likely extent of union resistance in a real fight. When the cops in Youngstown couldn’t find any union leaders to beat up, they went after women picketers who were sitting in chairs to support the strike. One union organizer later recalled, “When I got there I thought the Great War had started over again. Gas was flying all over the place and shots flying and flares going up and it was the first time I had ever seen anything like it in my life…” – 1937
The ILWU organized a four-day strike of sugar, pineapple, and allied workers to protest convictions under the anti-communist Smith Act of seven activists, “the Hawai’i Seven.” The convictions were later overturned by a federal appeals court. – 1953
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
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Important Events From This day in History June 18
1923 U.S.A. First Checker Cab
1923 : The First Checker Cab is produced by the Checker Cab Manufacturing Company, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. By 1925 the Checker Cab Company is the largest manufacturer of Cabs in the country. In 1956 Checker made a passenger vehicle for the first time the Checker Marathon but never really took off.
1928 U.S.A. Amelia Earhart
1928 : Amelia Earhart completes the flight from Newfoundland to Wales, becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean as a passenger.
1941 France World War II
1941 : British troops bombard the German-occupied French coast with explosives during the night before and early into the morning. Other British troops also bombarded parts of western Germany, including Dusseldorf and Cologne. It was rumored that Britain's heavy attack on the industrial cities in Germany was to put a damper on preparations for a German invasion of Britain.
1948 U.S.A. Long Playing Phonograph Record / LP
1948 : Columbia Records publicly unveiled its new long-playing phonograph record, the 33 1/3, in New York City. Today, Columbia Records is the oldest record brand in the industry, dating back to 1888 when sound was recorded on black cylinders rather than albums, and begin mass production.
1948 United Nations Commission on Human Rights
1948 : The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted an International Declaration of Human Rights and a "Draft Declaration of Human Rights."
1952 Japan China
1952 : Japan announced that they recognized the Chinese Nationalist government as opposed to the Communist regime. A treaty that was signed between the two nations stated that there was no more state of war between the nations.
1964 Soviet Union Agriculture
1964 : Soviet leader Khrushchev toured Denmark's agricultural sites but concluded that the Soviet Union cannot learn much from the country. He also vowed that the Soviet Union's agricultural problems would be solved within seven to eight years, and if they weren't he would leave the communist party.
1965 Vietnam B52 Bombers Bombing
1965 : B52 Bombers are used to fly-bomb a Viet Cong concentration in a heavily forested area of Binh Duong Province northwest of Saigon. Releasing bombs from 30,000 feet, the B-52s could neither be seen nor heard from the ground as they inflicted awesome damage.
1965 UK New Drink Driving Laws
1965 : The British government following increasing numbers of accidents caused through drink driving announces it will introduce a blood alcohol limit for drivers. The new laws were implemented on January 1st the following year with 80mg of alcohol in 100cc of blood (0.08%) becoming an offence to drive when over this limit.
Today in Labor History June 18th, 2025
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A Phillip Randolph
The American Federation of Teachers issued a charter to the St. Paul Federation of Women Teachers Local 28. One year later, they issued a charter to the men’s teachers’ local. Both locals participated in the first organized teachers’ strike in the nation in 1946. – 1918
Union leader A. Philip Randolph met with President Franklin Roosevelt about a demonstration being organized for July 1 to protest discrimination in the military and defense industries. Randolph told the president that 100,000 people were planning to march on Washington, D.C. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802: “There shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color, or national origin.” – 1941
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
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Important Events From This day in History June 17
1885 U.S.A. Statue of Liberty
1885 : The French gift to the United States to mark the Centennial of the American Declaration of Independence From Great Britain "The Statue of Liberty" arrives in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.
1930 U.S.A. Smoot Hawley Tariff Bill
1930 : Following the stock market crash in 1929, President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff bill which raised duties on imports to preserve the domestic market for American-made goods making it difficult if not nearly impossible for other countries to export goods into the U.S.A. . In retaliation large numbers of foreign nations retaliated by enacting their own hefty tariffs, as well as quotas on imports. Many economists at the time and today believe this made the problems for America even worse than they already were. More about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff
1934 Cuba ABC Society Members
1934 : Twelve people die and another fifty one are injured during an attack on a parade. 30,000 ABC society members marched through the streets of Havana and as they reached Prado boulevard the radical guerrillas attacked. The guerrillas carefully planned their attack and opened fire on the paraders. The ABC marchers returned fire but casualties were still inflicted.
1940 France Surrenders To Germany
1940 : France surrenders to Germany but many thousands flee to England to continue the fight or join the the French Underground Resistance.
1947 U.S.A. Universal Military Training
1947 : President Truman declares that universal military training is necessary in the fight against totalitarian nations.
1948 U.S.A. DC-6 Plane Crash
1948 : A United Airlines DC-6, flying from San Diego to New York, crashed in Pennsylvania as it attempted an emergency landing.
1951 Korea Casualties
1951 : James A. Van Fleet, an American Lieutenant General, reports that his Army troops inflicted 215,989 casualties on Chinese and North Korean communists since the Spring.
1953 East Germany Riots
1953 : Following riots in East Berlin which began among construction workers, who took to the streets on June 16, 1953 , to protest against the communist government of East Germany which grew to over 50,000 workers from many jobs. The Soviet Union sent an entire armored division of its troops into East Berlin to crush the rebellion.
1958 Canada Second Narrows Bridge Collapses
1958 : The Second Narrows Bridge being built to connect eastern and northern Vancouver in western Canada collapses, killing 59 workers.
1967 China Hydrogen Bomb
1967 : Chinese scientists successfully launched the country's first hydrogen bomb.
Today in Labor History June 17th, 2025
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Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
Mary Harris “Mother” Jones led a rally in Philadelphia to focus public attention on children mutilated in the state’s textile mills. Three weeks later, the 73-year-old would go on to lead a march to New York City to plead with President Theodore Roosevelt to help improve conditions for the children. – 1903
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) initiated a sit-down strike at the Studebaker auto plant. – 1913
The Steel Workers Organizing Committee was founded in Pittsburgh, by Philip Murray, John L. Lewis, and nine other labor organizers. The Steel Workers Organizing Committee evolved into the United Steelworkers of America. Within one year, more than 125,000 people had joined the union, rallying around the goal of raising wages to $5 per day. – 1936
Nine firefighters were killed and eight more injured when a large section of Boston’s Hotel Vendome collapsed on them. Firefighters were performing cleanup when the collapse occurred, having successfully struck a fire at the luxury hotel earlier in the day. -1972
20 workers were killed and many others were seriously injured in an explosion at the US Arsenal in Washington, D.C. The workers were girls and young women, mostly Irish immigrants, making ammunition for the Union Army. The funeral procession, which included President Abraham Lincoln, stretched for more than a mile. A monument was erected in the Congressional Cemetery, where 17 of the workers were buried. – 1864
Susan B. Anthony went on trial in Canandaigua, N.Y. for casting her ballot in a federal election the previous November, in violation of existing statutes barring women from the vote. – 1873
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Important Events From This day in History June 14
1954 U.S.A. Cold War Civil Defense Drill
1954 : As the continuing Cold War jitters hit America in the Fifties a large scale nationwide civil defense drill is held where the simulation of over 12 million Americans die in a mock nuclear attack. The event stood as a stark reminder that the United States and the world was now living under a nuclear shadow. This in turn did help to get the leaders of the worlds 2 largest nuclear powers to work together to stop the spread of nuclear proliferation and eventually to agree to dismantle many nuclear weapons . At that time many believed that any nuclear war would end in both countries being destroyed with no winner only losers.
1929 U.S.A. Population 120 Million
1929 : The population in the US continues to grow at a rate of 1.4 million a year with current census estimates predicting 120,000,000 next year.
1939 U.S.A.transatlantic commercial service
1939 : A second transatlantic commercial service is planned using the latest in flying boats.
1939 U.S.A. Electricity Prices Decreasing
1939 : As the use of electricity increases the cost has come down an example below:
In 1921 the cost to light a 100 watt lamp for two hours was 1 1/2 cents
In 1939 the cost to light a 100 watt lamp for two hours was 3/4 cent
1940 German Tanks Arrive In Paris
1940 : German tanks rolled into Paris and took control of the city and the German Gestapo went to work with arrests and interrogations as a gigantic swastika flew beneath the Arc de Triomphe.
1942 Holland Anne Frank Diary
1942 : Anne Frank began her diary after she receives it for her 13th birthday, the diary details her life in hiding from the Nazis in hidden rooms in her father Otto Frank's office building and has become one of the world's most widely read books. She died while held in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp of typhus in March 1945.
1943 U.S.A. Salute The Flag
1943 : In the case of West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, the United States Supreme Court decided that schoolchildren cannot be forced to give a salute to the United States flag.
1954 U.S.A. Pledge of Allegiance
1954 : President Eisenhower signed a bill to add the words "under God" to the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
1961 UK Zebra Crossings
1961 : Following increasing numbers of accidents at uncontrolled zebra crossings a new type of road crossing with push button controls which will allow pedestrians to stop traffic with flashing lights is to be introduced next year.
1967 U.S.A. Mariner 5 Spacecraft
1967 : The Mariner 5 spacecraft raced a heavier Soviet probe toward Venus to penetrate with electronic fingers the planet's mysterious veil of clouds and help scientists see if Venus is a fit place to live, In the end the glory did go the Soviet Probe which did reach Venus 1 day ahead of Mariner 5.
Today in Labor History June 14th, 2025
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UNIVAC I
UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer, was installed at the U.S. Census Bureau. – 1951
In West Virginia, which was under martial law due to ongoing violence between miners and thugs hired by the mining companies, state police and vigilantes raided the Lick Creek tent colony. 47 strikers were arrested. Within a few months, much of Southwestern West Virginia would be engaged in the largest civil uprising in US history, as 10,000-15,000 coal miners battled cops and scabs. – 1921
In San Pedro, California, the Ku Klux Klan attacked members of the Industrial Workers of the World at the IWW’s meeting hall during a benefit for the families of two workers killed in a railroad accident. The KKK beat many of the 300 members. They kidnapped, tarred, and feathered others scalded two children by burning them - 1924
Friday, June 13, 2025
Important Events From This day in History June 13
1944 England V1 rockets / Doodlebugs
1944 : Germany launches 10 of its new V1 rockets doodlebugs which were pilot less, jet-propelled planes capable of unleashing a ton of cruise missile explosives against Britain. Over time the Germans increased the number of doodlebugs to nearly 100 per day which fell over London.
1925 USA Gangster Battle
1925 : A running gunfight between Police and Gangsters in Chicago left 3 dead and others injured today , the battles between law enforcement and gangsters in Chicago who are linked to beer running continues on a daily basis with different gangs fighting between themselves for controlling areas of the city.
1927 USA Charles Lindbergh
1927 : Just 3 weeks ago on May 21 Charles Lindbergh in his aircraft completed the epic journey from New York to Paris and became a hero to the American people with his aircraft "The Spirit of St Louis" , in New York today millions of ordinary people came on to the streets to honor their hero in this monster parade which stopped the cities business.
1933 USA Great Depression Home Owners Refinancing Act
1933 : This was one of the worst years of the Great Depression in the 1930s and homeowners got some relief as Congress gave the nod to the Home Owners Refinancing Act as part of the larger NEW DEAL initiative to get America moving again from President Franklin Roosevelt. The act provided mortgage assistance to homeowners or would-be homeowners by providing them money or refinancing existing mortgages, over the next few years the "Home Owners' Loan Corporation" had refinanced nearly 1 in 5 urban homes in the country. What is often forgotten is most mortgages back then were for much shorter duration often from 10 to 15 years term. ( What the "Home Owners Loan Corporation" did was to offer longer period 20 to 25 years typically which made the payments much lower).
1953 USA Heatwave
1953 : A Heatwave has been affecting many states with unofficial temperatures recorded in Pittsburgh of 112 degrees and an overall temperature across many states of 100 degrees plus, The Heatwave is forecast to end in the next few days with severe storms predicted as the cool air from the Rockies hits the hot air.
1967 Soviet Union 6 Day War
1967 : The Soviet Union has demanded the United Nations Security Council for an immediate vote on a resolution condemning Israel's aggression in the six-day war and demanding the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Arab territories.
1971 USA Pentagon Papers
1971 : The New York Times begins to publish sections of the Pentagon Papers , a top-secret Department of Defense study of America's involvement in the Vietnam War. The papers indicated that the American government had been lying to the people for years about the Vietnam War and the papers damaged the credibility of America's Cold War foreign policy.
1972 Hurricane Agnes
1972 : Hurricane Agnes was the first major storm of the 1972 hurricane season and it quickly raced across the Caribbean toward Cuba. Apalachicola, Florida, took the brunt of Agnes as it hit the coastline and suffered about $10 million in damages.
1986 South Africa Bishop Desmond Tutu
1986 : Following the civil unrest in South Africa Bishop Desmond Tutu , winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize for Peace, meets with South African President P.W. Botha to discuss the nationwide state of emergency declared by Botha.
1991 Russia Boris Yeltsin
1991 : Boris Yeltsin wins first Russian elections for Russia's first popularly-elected president. The vote inflicts a heavy defeat on the ruling Communist Party which has ruled since the revolution in 1917.
2002 USA Colorado Fires
2002 : After nearly 1 week forest fires which began in Pike National Forest on Saturday in Colorado have destroyed nearly 100,000 acres of land are coming under control by the 2,800 firefighters fighting the fires but some homes are still in danger near the main city of Denver.
Today in Labor History June 13, 2025
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Tony Mazzocchi
A riot erupted at the Miner’s Union Day parade in Butte, Montana. Acting Mayor Frank Curran was pushed out of a second-story window. Frustration and mistrust had been growing for decades. In 1914, miners were being paid $3.50 a day, the same as in 1878, despite the fact that the price of copper had more than doubled in that same time period. – 1914
Tony Mazzocchi was born in Brooklyn, NewYork. An activist and officer in the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, he was a mentor to Karen Silkwood, a founder of the Labor Party and a prime mover behind the 1970 passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act. – 1926
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Thursday Morning in the Blogosphere
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Important Events From This day in History June 12
1994 USA O.J. Simpson
1994 : Nicole Brown Simpson, O.J. Simpson's ex-wife, and her friend Ron Goldman are brutally stabbed to death outside Nicole's home in Brentwood, California. OJ Simpson was later tried for the murders and although the evidence against Simpson was extensive he was found not guilty.
1917 Greece King Constantine I
1917 : King Constantine I of Greece, abdicates his throne in the face of pressure from Britain and France and internal opponents.
1922 USA Ferris Wheel
1922 : An unusual Hurricane and Tornadoes hit the New York Metropolitan Area causing billions of dollars in damage and loss of life. The storm hit suddenly and in Clasons Point a pleasure park near city Island a Ferris wheel with a large number of young riders broke away from it's mountings and crashed to the ground.
1929 Mexico Students
1929 : 2000 Students on strike take over the main building of the Mexican National University. The students held hostages and put a red flag over the building. They demanded the university rector to resign, but he refused. Eventually the students let the hostages go, but they still kept guard over the building.
1935 USA Ella Fitzgerald
1935 : At age 17, Ella Fitzgerald recorded her first songs - "Love and Kisses" and "I'll Chase the Blues Away." They came to be big hits for her.
1942 World War II Coral Sea
1942 : The news of A great Naval Battle between Naval forces from the United States and Japan in the Coral Sea between March 19th and May 9th resulted in the loss of the US aircraft carrier Lexington and 2 other US ships and the loss of 15 ships from the Japanese Navy. The naval battle is considered a major win for the US Navy.
1964 South Africa Nelson Mandela
1964 : The leader of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa, Nelson Mandela, is jailed for life for sabotage.
1965 Vietnam Phan Huy Quat Resigns
1965 : South Vietnamese Premier Phan Huy Quat resigns following civil unrest and a military government is put in place headed by Army General Nguyen Van Thieu.
1967 USA Interracial Marriages
1967 : Interracial marriages declared constitutional by the Supreme Court and barred Virginia and by implication other states from making interracial marriage a crime.
1975 India Indira Gandhi
1975 : Indira Gandhi , the prime minister of India, is found guilty of electoral corruption in her successful 1971 campaign. Gandhi refused to give up India's top office and later declared martial law in the country when public demonstrations threatened to topple her administration.
Today in Labor History June 12, 2025
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Fifty thousand members of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen employed in meatpacking plants walked off their jobs; their demands included equalization of wages and conditions throughout US plants. – 1904
Massachusetts became the first state to adopt a minimum wage law. Other states passed similar laws later that year. – 1912
The US Supreme Court invalidated two sections of a Florida law: one required state licensing of paid union business agents, the other required registration with the state of all unions and their officers. – 1945
A Major League Baseball strike began, forcing the cancellation of 713 games. Most observers blamed team owners for the strike; they were trying to recover from a court decision favoring the players in free agency. – 1981
Farmworker, labor leader, and Asian American civil rights activist Philip Vera Cruz died Vera Cruz was one of the founders of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, composed mainly of Filipino workers. Their strike in 1965 against Delano, California grape growers was joined by the mostly Latino union, the National Farm Workers Association. The two groups went on to merge to become the United Farm Workers. Vera Cruz remained an activist for social justice throughout his life. – 1994
This day marks the World Day Against Child Labour, an annual observance established in 2002 by the UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO) to raise awareness about and activism around the issue of child labor, defined as “work performed by children who are under the minimum age legally specified for that kind of work, or work which, because of its detrimental nature or conditions, is considered unacceptable for children and is prohibited.” – 2013
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Wednesday Night in the Blogosphere
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Important Events From This day in History June 11
1959 USA Naval Dirigible
1959 : A new form of transport which is a cross between an aircraft, a boat and a land vehicle, propelled on a cushion of air created by its own fan power the "Hovercraft", has it's official launch at the Solent on the South Coast of England. The Hovercraft (SRN1) which is still at the experimental level is just 29 ft long, but developers believe the technology will allow the production of full scale Hovercraft capable of speeds 50 knots and up to 300 ft long. The SRN1 Hovercraft was designed by Sir Christopher Cockerell.
1927 USA Rum Runners
1927 : The continued crackdown on Rum Runners has resulted in arrests throughout the country with many of those caught implicating local politicians and local police. During the last week alone over 20,000 cases of liquor have been seized.
1937 Unions Call for Protests
1937 : Union Men from the United Automobile Workers of America wanting to join the Pickets at steel mills in Michigan were turned back today by deputies using tear gas, the Union has now called for mass protests by all members of the Union at Monroe, Michigan.
1944 France D-Day Landings
1944 : Five days after the D-Day landing on June 6th, the five Allied landing groups, made up of some 330,000 troops, converge in Normandy.
1955 France 24 Hours Le Mans
1955 : During the 24 Hours Le Mans race a car looses control and crashes into stands filled with spectators, killing 82 people.
2009 World H1N1 influenza strain
2009 : The World Health Organization declares H1N1 influenza strain, commonly referred to as "swine flu", as a global pandemic. Due to it's highly contagious nature spreading from human to human. Most people infected suffer a mild symptoms, but the small minority who suffer more severe symptoms (less than 0.04% )are hospitalized and end up in an intensive-care unit suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome, which kills in half of all cases. Specific vaccines are developed and released in North America in late October.
1963 Alabama Governor Attempts to Stop Enrollment
1963 : Alabama Governor George Wallace trying to ensure continued segregation is forced to end his blockade of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and allows two African American students to enroll.
1967 Middle East Six Day War Ends
1967 : Israel and Syria agree to observe the UN mediated cease-fire ending six days of Israeli fighting against Egypt, Jordan and Syrian forces.
1979 USA John Wayne
1979 : Film star John Wayne, also known as the "Duke," died of cancer.
1987 USA Earthquake Midwest
1987 : A rare earthquake hit 14 states in the Midwest and parts of Canada stretching down to the South. The quake measured 5.0 on the Richter scale and damaged some highway overpasses, also many thousands lost telephone services. The quake lasted between 3 to 15 seconds at 6:49 PM.
1987 UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
1987 : Margaret Thatcher celebrates her third general election win after another landslide victory over the Labour Party.
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