Today in History June 22 Galileo 1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his viewthat the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy. 1783 – A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki...
451 – Germans and Romans beat Attila the Hun at Catalarinische Fields 1837 – Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV. She ruled for 63 years ending in 1901 1840 – Samuel Morse patents his telegraph 1867 – President Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska The...
Alaska. Some interesting facts about the great state of Alaska.
Its largest lake, Lake Iliamna is about the size of Connecticut.
It has more coastline that the rest of the country (34,000 miles of it)
Dog mushing is the official state sport and
if Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, it would amount to 28 people inhabiting Manhattan island.
1464 – French King Louis XI forms postal service 1862 – Slavery outlawed in US territories 1864 – CSS “Alabama” sunk by USS “Kearsarge” off Cherbourg, France 1917 – King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles & surnames, they take the name Windsor. George V was King of the...
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were US citizens who spied for the Soviet Union. They were tried, convicted and executed. They provided top-secret information about radar, sonar, and jet propulsion engines to the USSR and were accused of transmitting nuclear weapon designs to the Soviet Union.
618 – Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty’s rule over China. 860 – Swedish Vikings attack Constantinople 1178 – Five monks at Canterbury report explosion on moon (only known observation) 1682 – William Penn founds Philadelphia 1812...
1578 – England grants Sir Humphrey Gilbert a patent to explore and colonize North America 1644 – Florentine scientists describe invention of the barometer 1742 – Benjamin Franklin invents his Franklin stove, a metal lined fireplace with a hollow baffle and inverted siphon. The stove serves to produce more heat but less smoke than an ordinary stove....
1895 - Charles Edgar Duryea was the engineer of the first-ever working American gasoline-powered car and co-founder of Duryea Motor Wagon Company
1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins. 1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law. It was passed by the House of Commons in 1628 in response to years of abuse by the King regarding forced billeting of soldiers,...
