Saturday, June 17, 2000
History today -- 12:58 pm CST, Update by The Master
Little late today. PERC controller didn't like our new 9gb Ultra-SCSI drives. . .- 1775: The Battle of Bunker Hill took place near Boston.
- 1856: The Republican Party opened its first convention in Philadelphia.
- 1885: The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.
- 1925: 29 countries signed the Geneva Protocol which prohibited the use of poisonous gases in war.
- 1928: Amelia Earhart embarked on a trans-Atlantic flight from Newfoundland to Wales - the first by a woman.
- 1940: France asked Germany for terms of surrender.
- 1945: American soldiers on Okinawa found the body of the Japanese commander, Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima, who had committed suicide.
- 1946: The first mobile telephone commercial service was inaugurated in St. Louis, with the installation of telephones in two automobiles.
- 1971: The United States signed a treaty with Japan under which it would give up control of the island of Okinawa.
- 1972: Five burglars are arrested inside Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.
- 1986: President Reagan announced the retirement of Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger.
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