June 20th
Today in America's Present Past
1633 | The charter for Maryland is given to Lord Cecil Baltimore.
1675 | Indian Wars: King Philip’s War begins.
1770 | Educator Moses Waddel was born.
1779 | War of Independence: Battle of Stono Ferry near Charleston, South Carolina.
1782 | Congress: Approved the Great Seal of the United States of America with the bald eagle as its symbol.
1783 | War of Independence: The naval Battle of Cuddalore occurred off the coast of India.
1787 | Congress: Oliver Ellsworth moved at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
1837 | SCOTUS: Justice David Josiah Brewer was born.
1840 | Inventor Samuel Morse patents a telegraph.
1858 | Writer Charles W. Chesnutt was born.
1860 | Entrepreneur Alexander Winton was born.
1863 | Statehood: West Virginia was created and granted statehood.
1864 | Civil War: Battle of Kinston, North Carolina.
1868 | Philanthropist Helen Miller Shepard was born.
1871 | Civil Rights: Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford, Mississippi.
1876 | Novelist John Neal died.
1893 | Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the axe murders in Fall River, Massachusetts.
1895 | Civil Rights: First female PhD from an American University, earned by Caroline Willard Baldwin at Cornell University.
1909 | Actor Errol Flynn was born.
1911 | Civil Rights: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is formed.
1917 | Conservationist Ash Brownridge was born.
1925 | Soldier and actor Audie Murphy was born.
1929 | Activist Edith Windsor was born.
1942 | Musician Brian Wilson was born.
1943 | Civil Rights: Detroit race riots start.
1945 | Secretary of State Edward Stettinius approves the transfer of German scientists to the U.S., initiating “Operation Paperclip.”
1947 | POTUS: Democrat President Truman vetoes the Taft-Hartley Act.
1947 | Outlaw Bugsy Siegel died.
1949 | Musician Lionel Richie was born.
1949 | Congress: Charters the Central Intelligence Agency.
1952 | Actor John Goodman was born.
1967 | Actress Nicole Kidman was born.
1968 | Director Robert Rodriguez was born.
1972 | Entrepreneur Howard Johnson died.
1975 | Film: The movie Jaws is released.
1980 | Film : The movie Blues Brothers is released.