June 26th
Today in America's Present Past
1703 | Educator Thomas Clap was born.
1742 | Founder Arthur Middleton was born.
1788 | Statehood: New York granted statehood.
1797 | Charles Newbold patented the iron plow.
1819 | General Abner Doubleday was born.
1844 | POTUS: President Tyler wed Julia Gardiner.
1863 | Admiral Andrew Hull Foote died.
1876 | Indian Wars: Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho victory over U.S. forces at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
1892 | Novelist Pearl Buck is born.
1894 | The Pullman Strike starts.
1898 | General Chesty Puller was born.
1934 | POTUS: President Franklin Roosevelt signs the National Firearms Act into law.
1938 | Poet James Weldon Johnson died.
1958 | Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan, opened.
1959 | POTUS: President Eisenhower opens the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1963 | POTUS: President Kennedy gives his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in West Berlin, Germany.
1970 | Actor Chris O’Donnell was born.
1980 | Actor Jason Schwartzman was born.
1993 | Entertainer Ariana Grande was born.
2003 | SCOTUS: Court decided Lawrence v. Texas.
2007 | Designer Liz Claiborne died.
2008 | SCOTUS: Court decided District of Columbia v. Heller.
2015 | SCOTUS: Court decided Obergefell v. Hodges.
2015 | Conservationist Ash Brownridge died.