What to remember about June 26th…
- 1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition reaches the mouth of Kansas River
- 1819 Major General Abner Doubleday born (d. 1893); popularly believed to be the inventor of baseball
- 1844 President John Tyler marries Julia Gardiner in New York
- 1862 Confederates attack Mechanicsville; Seven Days’ Battle begins
- 1917 American Expeditionary Forces arrive in Europe
- 1918 Conflict that begins June 1st ends today with victory of General Pershing’s American Army and Marine forces at Battle of Belleau Wood
- 1942 1st flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat carrier-based fighter
- 1945 50 delegates sign charter forming the United Nations
- 1948 In response to Soviet blockade of West Berlin the 1st planes depart from England and West Germany for the Berlin Airlift
- 1963 President John F. Kennedy speech at Berlin Wall declaring “Ich bin ein Berliner”; grammar mistake translates to “I am a donut”; meant to say “I am also a citizen of Berlin.”
- 1975 2 FBI agents and member of American Indian Movement die in shootout at Pine Ridge Reservation; Leonard Peltier convicted of murders
- 1996 SCOTUS orders Virginia Military Institute to admit women
- 2000 Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics announce “working draft” of the human genome
- 2008 In District of Columbia v. Heller SCOTUS rules that 2nd Amendment protects an individual’s right to bear arms
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