On this day ......

[MassRuss]

June 21, 1919 - Admiral von Reuter scuttles the German Fleet @ Scapa Flow, Scotland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttling_of_the_German_fleet_in_Scapa_Flow

 

[MassRuss]

June 22, 1941 - Nazi Germany invades the USSR. Operation Barbarossa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa

 

[MassRuss]

June 23, 1946 - 7.3 Quake strikes Vancouver Island, BC Canada. Only 2 deaths, 1 from a heart attack & 1 from drowning. Canada's strongest on land EQ to date

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_Vancouver_Island_earthquake

 

[ScottishBiTeen]

June 24th 1982 - British Airways Flight 9 files into an ash cloud thrown up by Mount Galunggung, causing all four engines to fail.
(Aircraft involved pictured below)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9

 

[MassRuss]

June 24, 1948 - Beginning of the Berlin Blockade. USSR makes travel impossible between the West & West Berlin by land.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Blockade

 

[unloadonme]

24 June 1850 – Birth of Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, ADC, PC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Kitchener,_1st_Earl_Kitchener

 

[unloadonme]

25 June 1900 – Birth of Admiral of the Fleet Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Mountbatten,_1st_Earl_Mountbatten_of_Burma

 

[MassRuss]

June 25, 1906 - Millionaire Harry K Thaw shoots & kills architect Stanford White

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Thaw

 

[MassRuss]

June 26, 1718 (O S) - Mysterious death of Alexei Petrovich - son of Peter the Great

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsarevich_Alexei_Petrovich_of_Russia

 

[MassRuss]

June 27 - 1556 - Death by burning of the Stratford Martyrs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratford_Martyrs

 

[MassRuss]

June 28, 1919 - Signing of Versailles Treaty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles

 

[ScottishBiTeen]

June 29th 1956 - The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Aid_Highway_Act_of_1956

 

[MassRuss]

June 30, 1882 - Charles Guiteau is hanged in DC for the assassination of President Garfield

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_J._Guiteau

 

[MassRuss]

Skipping to the 4th.

July 4, 1802 - US Military academy opens @ West Point, NY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Point,_New_York

 

[MassRuss]

July 5, 1948 - Death (by suicide - drug OD) of actress Carole Landis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Landis

 

[unloadonme]

5 July 1805 - Birth of Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy, English captain, meteorologist and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_FitzRoy

 

[MassRuss]

July 6, 1483 - Richard III is crowned King of England

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_of_England

 

[unloadonme]

6 July 1535 – Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More

 

[Pickwick]

July 9 1789 – In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.

 

[Pickwick]

July 10 1584 – William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.