Today in History Tuesday June 25

1630 – Fork introduced to American dining by Governor Winthrop
1638 – Lunar eclipse is first astronomical event recorded in the American Colonies
1672 – First recorded Quaker meeting in US held in Sandwich, Massaxhusetts
1798 – US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
1868 – President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hour day
1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn: 7th Cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne, Custer killed

	June Lockhart is remembered as the mother in two 1950s and 60s TV series, Lassie and Lost in Space.

1910 – Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
1938 – Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25 cents per hour(rising to 40 cents by 1945) and a maximum 44 hour working week
1940 – Adolf Hitler views Eiffel tower and grave of Napoleon in France
1953 – 86°F in Anchorage Alaska
1960 – Earthquake in NE Belgium
1961 – Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)
1987 – Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim
1988 – 104°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June
1988 – Cal Ripken Jr plays in his 1,000th consecutive game

1865 – Robert Henri, US painter, leader of Ashcan school

The Ashcan School, also called the Ash Can School, was an artistic movement in the US during the early twentieth century that is best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York, often in the city’s poorer neighborhoods.
1903 – George Orwell, [Eric A Blair], Bihar, British India, British writer (Animal Farm, 1984), (d. 1950)
1924 – Sidney Lumet, Phila, director (Group, Pawnbroker, Fail Safe)
1925 – June Lockhart, NYC, actr (Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction)
1945 – Carly Simon, NYC, singer (Anticipation, You’re So Vain

1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German late-barok composer, dies at 86
1876 – Boston Custer, brother of George Custer, dies at Little Bighorn
1876 – Thomas W Custer, brother of George Custer, dies at Little Bighorn
1906 – Stanford White, Architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Gardenwhich he designed, by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit
1916 – Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844)
1979 – Philippe Halsman, American photographer (b. 1906)
1995 – Warren Earl Burger, Supreme Court Justice, dies of heart failure at 78
1997 – Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer, dies of heart attack at 87
2009 – Michael Jackson, American recording artist, entertainer and King of Pop music (The Jackson 5, Thriller, Dangerous) dies of cardiac arrest at 50