Sunday, June 24, 2012

TODAY IN HISTORY

English: Postage stamp, USSR, 1973: Pablo Picasso.
English: Postage stamp, USSR, 1973: Pablo Picasso. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
June 24

1509:Henry VIII was crowned king of England.
1647:Early American feminist Margaret Brent demanded a seat and vote in the Maryland Assembly, but was ejected from that body.
1675:King Philip's War, the most devastating war between the colonists and Indians, began with Indians attacking the Swansea (Mass.) settlement.

1947:Kenneth Arnold, an American pilot, reported seeing strange objects near Mt. Rainier, Washington. He described them as "saucers skipping across the water," hence the term "flying saucers" was born.
1948:The Soviet Union began a blockade of Berlin. Allied forces responded with what would be known as the Berlin Airlift flying in more than 2 million tons of supplies over the next year.
1997:The U.S. Air Force released The Roswell Report, closing the case on the 1947 Roswell, N.M. incident concerning UFOs and alien bodies.

1812:In what would be the downfall of Napoleon, he begins invasion of Russia.

1981:World's longest single-span suspension bridge, the Humber Bridge opens

1939:The country of Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Pibulsonggram (prime minister).

1901:First exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work
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