(1963) Dr. King delivers a speech of dreams in Washington, DCStanding in front of the Lincoln Memorial, his voice ringing out to some 250,000 listeners, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers a stirring speech that will galvanize the civil rights movement and be heralded as one of the greatest orations in American history.“I Have a Dream” is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the Civil Rights Movement. wiki/I_Have_a_Dream(1968) Protesters clash with police at Chicago conventionTens of thousands of anti-war activists and an even larger number of police officers and federal troops meet in a fray of batons, fists, and tear gas in Chicago, and TV cameras capture the melee as it arrives on the doorstep of the Democratic National Convention at the Hilton Hotel.Protest activity took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. In 1967, counterculture and anti-Vietnam War protest groups had been promising to come to Chicago and disrupt the convention, and the city promised to maintain law and order. For eight days, the protesters and the Chicago Police Department met in the streets and parks of Chicago while the U.S. Democratic Party met at the convention in the International Amphitheater.
Date: 1968 1968 Democratic National Convention, Chicago. Sept 68 C15 8 1313 , Photo by Bea A Corson, Chicago. Purchased at estate sale in 2011 by Victor Grigas Released Public Domain
(1483) King Richard III begins his rule of EnglandThe House of York sends their last king to the throne of England, as Richard III begins his rule. His reign will be brief, ending two years later at the Battle of Bosworth Field, but his infamy will live on, as a future scribe named Shakespeare will find inspiration in Richard’s reputed villainy.Richard III was King of England from 1483 until his death in 1485, at the age of 32, in the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. His defeat at Bosworth Field, the last decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses, marked the end of the Middle Ages in England. He is the subject of the historical play Richard III by William Shakespeare.
Lived: Oct 02, 1452 – Aug 22, 1485 (age 32) Height: 5′ 8″ (1.73 m) Spouse: Anne Neville (m. 1472 – 1485) Buried: Greyfriars, Leicester Children: Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (Son) · John of Gloucester (Son) · Katherine Plantagenet (Daughter) Siblings: Edward IV of England (Brother) · Edmund, Earl of Rutland (Brother) · Margaret of York (Sister) · George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (Brother)
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1472: Edward IV set up the Council of the North as an administrative body in 1472 to improve government control and economic prosperity and benefit the whole of Northern England.
1472: Following a decisive Yorkist victory over the Lancastrians at the Battle of Tewkesbury, Richard married Anne Neville, the younger daughter of the Earl of Warwick, on 12 July 1472.
1483: Arrangements were made for Edward’s coronation on 22 June 1483; but, before the young king could be crowned, his father’s marriage to his mother Elizabeth Woodville was declared invalid, making their children illegitimate and ineligible for the throne.
1483: The first, in October 1483, was led by staunch allies of Edward IV and Richard’s former ally, Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham; but the revolt collapsed.
1485: In August 1485, Henry Tudor and his uncle, Jasper Tudor, led a second rebellion.
1485: In 1485, following his death in battle against Henry Tudor at Bosworth Field, Richard III’s body was buried in Greyfriars Church in Leicester.
wiki/Richard_III_of_England(1925) Chaplin’s Little Tramp stakes his Klondike claimSilent-film star Charlie Chaplin hits a rich vein of comedy with a tale pitting his ‘Little Tramp’ against severe snowstorms, vicious villains, and dance hall dames. Two months after its Hollywood premiere, ‘The Gold Rush’ will go into wide release, striking box office gold.During the Gold Rush, prospectors brave Alaska’s dangerous Chilkoot Pass, hoping to strike it rich in the snowy mountains. Just as Big Jim McKay discovers gold on his claim, a storm arises, prompting a Lone Prospector to take refuge in a cabin. Unknown to him, the cabin’s occupant is desperado Black Larsen, who attempts to throw the vagabond Prospector out. Strong winds, however, repeatedly blow the little man back inside, and soon after, Jim is also swept into the cabin. Jim fights with Larsen over his shotgun, and after Jim prevails, the Prospector claims him as a close friend in order to remain safe. Over the next few days, the three men live together uneasily, their hunger growing as the storm rages on.
Release date: Aug 17, 1925 (United States) Director: Charlie Chaplin Gross revenue: $2.50 million USD Music by: Charlie Chaplin · James L. Fields · Max Terr Screenwriter: Charlie Chaplin Awards: Kinema Junpo Award for Best Foreign Language Film
wiki/The_Gold_Rush(1963) Kennedy is a Berliner in key Cold War speechAlmost two years after communist East Germany built a wall separating East and West Berlin, US President John F. Kennedy speaks in front of a crowd of 450,000 in West Berlin and assures the city, surrounded by Soviet-backed East Germany, ‘Ich bin ein Berliner,’ or, ‘I am a Berliner.’“Ich bin ein Berliner” is a quotation from a June 26, 1963, speech by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in West Berlin. Kennedy aimed to underline the support of the United States for West Germany 22 months after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall to prevent mass emigration to the West. The message was aimed as much at the Soviets as it was at Berliners and was a clear statement of U.S. policy in the wake of the construction of the Berlin Wall. Another phrase in the speech was also spoken in German, “Lasst sie nach Berlin kommen”, addressed at those who claimed “we can work with the Communists”, a remark at which Nikita Khrushchev scoffed only days later. wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner(1997) Harry meets Hogwarts in a spellbinding storyA boy learns he is not merely a muggle, and is summoned to study at a school of sorcery, in the debut children’s novel published on this day by an unknown British writer. ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ will spawn six sequels and make a household name of author J.K. Rowling.Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is the first novel in the Harry Potter series and J. K. Rowling’s debut novel, first published in 1997 by Bloomsbury. It was published in the United States as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by Scholastic Corporation in 1998. The plot follows Harry Potter, a young wizard who discovers his magical heritage as he makes close friends and a few enemies in his first year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. With the help of his friends, Harry faces an attempted comeback by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry’s parents, but failed to kill Harry when he was just 15 months old.
Author: J. K. Rowling Number of pages: 223 Word count: 77,325 Series: Harry Potter Characters: Harry Potter · Lord Voldemort · Hermione Granger · Ron Weasley · Professor Albus Dumbledore · Rubeus Hagrid · Severus Snape · Draco Malfoy · Professor Quirinus Quirrell · Dudley Dursley · The Sorting Hat · Newt Scamander · Sirius Black · Gellert Grindelwald · Vernon Dursley Adaptations: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
(1884) A new thrill ride debuts at Coney IslandA nickel gets you on Coney Island’s Switchback Railway, a new amusement park ride carrying passengers on an undulating railroad track at up to 6 mph, running a length of 600 feet and an overall drop of 43 feet. America’s first roller coaster will be a hit, spawning ever-bigger thrills.The original Switchback Railway at Coney Island was the first roller coaster designed as an amusement ride in America. It was designed by LaMarcus Adna Thompson in 1881 and constructed in 1884. It appears Thompson based his design, at least in part, on the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway which was a coal-mining train that had started carrying passengers as a thrill ride in 1827.
Opened: Jun 16, 1884 Height: 50′ 0″ (15.24 m) Max speed: 6.03 mph (9.70 km/h) G-force: 2.90 g Track length: 600 feet (182.88 m) Duration: 1 minutes
wiki/Switchback_Railway(1911) Early computing companies merge to form a tech powerhouseCharles Flint founds the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R) after merging smaller specialized firms, some of which got their start inventing new computing technology to tabulate the 1890 US Census. C-T-R will be renamed International Business Machines (IBM) in 1924.International Business Machines, or IBM, nicknamed “Big Blue”, is a multinational computer technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. Ginni Rometty is the president, chairman and CEO of IBM. wiki/History_of_IBM(1963) Soviet cosmonaut is the first woman in spaceBorn into a decidedly earthbound proletariat family in rural Russia, Valentina Tereshkova has been chosen from over 400 applicants to become the world’s first woman in space. She will orbit Earth 48 times on a flight lasting almost three days, and parachute into re-entry at 20,000 feet.Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a retired Russian cosmonaut and politician. She is the first woman to have flown in space, having been selected from more than 400 applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. She completed 48 orbits of the Earth in her three days in space.
Born: Mar 06, 1937 (age 80) · Bolshoye Maslennikovo, Russia Spouse: Yuli Shaposhnikov · Andriyan Nikolayev (m. 1963 – 1982) Children: Elena Andrianovna Nikolaeva-Tereshkova (Daughter) Space missions: Vostok 6 Parents: Elena Fyodorovna Tereshkova (Mother) · Vladimir Tereshkov (Father)
Highlights
1962: On 16 February 1962, Valentina Tereshkova was selected to join the female cosmonaut corps.
1963: She is the first woman to have flown in space, having been selected from more than 400 applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963.
1963: Valentina Tereshkova married Andriyan Nikolayev on November 03, 1963; their marriage lasted 19 years till 1982.
1982: She and Nikolayev divorced in 1982.
1997: In 1997, London-based electronic pop group Komputer released a song entitled “Valentina” which gives a more-or-less direct account of her career as a cosmonaut.
1997: In 1997, she was retired from the Russian Air Force and the cosmonaut corps by presidential order.
wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova(1967) The counterculture comes together for music at MontereyKicking off the Summer of Love, the Monterey Pop Festival will blow everyone’s minds with a roster of new rock stars including The Who, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, and soul superstar Otis Redding. A young guitarist, Jimi Hendrix, will literally be the show’s hottest act.The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. Crowd estimates for the festival have ranged from 25,000-90,000 people, who congregated in and around the festival grounds. The fairgrounds’ enclosed performance arena, where the music took place, had an approved festival capacity of 7,000, but it was estimated that 8,500 jammed into it for Saturday night’s show, with many extra attendees standing around the sides of the arena. Festival-goers who wanted to see the musical performances were required to have either an ‘all-festival’ ticket or a separate ticket for each of the five scheduled concert events they wanted to attend in the arena: Friday night, Saturday afternoon and night, and Sunday afternoon and night. Ticket prices varied by seating area, and ranged from $3 to $6.50. wiki/Monterey_Pop_Festival4.2.m17
(1898) Philippines struggles to cast off colonial ruleAt the ancestral home of Emilio Aguinaldo, 98 delegates sign a Declaration of Independence asserting the end of Spain’s rule in the Philippines. Aguinaldo and US forces will overthrow the Spanish two months later, but the islands will then be ceded to the US at the end of the Spanish-American War.The Philippine Declaration of Independence was proclaimed on June 12, 1898 in Cavite II el Viejo, Philippines. With the public reading of the Act of the Declaration of independence, Filipino revolutionary forces under General Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed the sovereignty and independence of the Philippine Islands from the colonial rule of Spain. wiki/Philippine_Declaration_of_Independence(1963) Civil rights leader is assassinated at his homeA WWII veteran and civil rights leader working on high-profile cases, including the deaths of Emmet Till and James Meredith, Medgar Evers, 37, is shot in the back and through the heart as he arrives at his home. His murderer will be twice acquitted and not be sent to prison until 1994.Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist from Mississippi who worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi and to enact social justice and voting rights. He was murdered by a white supremacist and Klansman.
Lived: Jul 02, 1925 – Jun 12, 1963 (age 37) Spouse: Myrlie Evers-Williams (m. 1951 – 1963) Children: James Van Evers (Son) · Darrell Kenyatta Evers (Son) · Reena Denise Evers (Daughter) Education: Alcorn State University Siblings: Charles Evers (Brother) · Ruth Evers (Sister) · Elizabeth Evers (Sister) · Gene · Eva Lee Parents: James Evers (Father) · Jesse Evers (Mother)
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1948: In 1948, Evers enrolled at Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College (a historically black college, now Alcorn State University) majoring in business administration.
1951: On December 24, 1951, he married classmate Myrlie Beasley.
1954: Evers was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens’ Council, a group formed in 1954 to resist integration of schools and civil rights activity.
1954: On November 24, 1954, Evers was named the NAACP’s first field secretary for Mississippi.
1963: In 1963, he was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP.
1963: On June 7, 1963, Evers was nearly run down by a car after he emerged from the NAACP office in Jackson.
wiki/Medgar_Evers(1987) President Reagan demands a demolitionSpeaking at the 750th anniversary of Berlin’s founding, US President Ronald Reagan makes his case for ending the arms race, then directly challenges the Soviet premier with a phrase that will prove prophetic as the Cold War draws to a close: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”“Tear down this wall!” is a line from a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961.
Date: Jun 12, 1987
wiki/Tear_down_this_wall!(1994) O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife and her friend are murderedNicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of football superstar O.J. Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman are stabbed to death on the walkway of Nicole’s condo in the upscale Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. The investigation and trial that follows will transfix America for 16 months.The O. J. Simpson murder case was a criminal trial held at the Los Angeles County Superior Court, in which former National Football League player and actor O. J. Simpson was tried on two counts of murder for the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend and restaurant waiter Ron Goldman on June 12, 1994. The trial spanned eleven months, from the jury’s swearing-in on November 9, 1994. Opening statements were made on January 24, 1995, and the verdict was announced on October 3, 1995, when Simpson was found not guilty of murder on both counts. According to the USA Today, the case has been described as the “most publicized” criminal trial in history.
(1956) The Milton Berle Show features a scandalous ElvisNew singing sensation Elvis Presley makes his second appearance on NBC’s ‘Milton Berle Show,’ this time to perform his single ‘Hound Dog.’ Teenagers swoon, while the older set and most critics are outraged at Presley’s indecent gyrations. Future TV gigs will film Elvis from the waist up.Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer-songwriter and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as the “King of Rock and Roll” or simply “the King”.
Lived: Jan 08, 1935 – Aug 16, 1977 (age 42) Height: 6′ 0″ (1.82 m) Spouse: Priscilla Presley (m. 1967 – 1973) Partner: Linda Thompson (1972 – 1976) Children: Lisa Marie Presley (Daughter) Buried: Graceland
wiki/Elvis_Presley(1963) ‘Profumo Affair’ rocks the British governmentTeenage showgirls, possible prostitution, and the British War Secretary sharing a lover with a Soviet diplomat are the ingredients in a stew of a scandal forcing the resignation of John Profumo, and ultimately leading to the fall of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s Conservative government.The Profumo affair was a British political scandal that originated with a brief sexual relationship in 1961 between John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan’s government, and Christine Keeler, a 19-year-old would-be model. In March 1963, Profumo denied any impropriety in a personal statement to the House of Commons, but was forced to admit the truth a few weeks later. He resigned from the government and from Parliament. The repercussions of the affair severely damaged Macmillan’s self-confidence, and he resigned as prime minister on health grounds in October 1963. His Conservative Party was marked by the scandal, which may have contributed to its defeat by Labour in the 1964 general election. wiki/Profumo_affair(1967) Israel launches preemptive attack on Egyptian air powerCiting an Arab military build-up near its border with Egypt, Israel launches air strikes on Egyptian airfields, destroying upwards of 400 aircraft. The Six-Day War will grow to include Syria and Jordan, and Israel will capture the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, and the Golan Heights.The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
Start date: Jun 05, 1967 End date: Jun 10, 1967
wiki/Six-Day_War(1968) Robert F. Kennedy brought down by assassin’s bulletsPresidential candidate Robert Kennedy is shot three times as he departs the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after giving a victory speech following his California Democratic Primary win. He will die the next day from his wounds, almost five years after his brother John was assassinated.On June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after winning the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election, and died the next day while hospitalized.
(1963) Dr. King delivers a speech of dreams in Washington, DC
(1968) Protesters clash with police at Chicago convention
(1483) King Richard III begins his rule of England
(1925) Chaplin’s Little Tramp stakes his Klondike claim
(1963) Kennedy is a Berliner in key Cold War speech
(1997) Harry meets Hogwarts in a spellbinding story
(1884) A new thrill ride debuts at Coney Island
(1911) Early computing companies merge to form a tech powerhouse
(1963) Soviet cosmonaut is the first woman in space
(1967) The counterculture comes together for music at Monterey![Philippine Independence - Medgar Evers - 'Tear down this wall']](https://majormike.us/mmb-wp-content/uploads/2017/06/061217.1.jpg)
(1898) Philippines struggles to cast off colonial rule
(1963) Civil rights leader is assassinated at his home
(1987) President Reagan demands a demolition
(1994) O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife and her friend are murdered
(1956) The Milton Berle Show features a scandalous Elvis
(1963) ‘Profumo Affair’ rocks the British government
(1967) Israel launches preemptive attack on Egyptian air power
(1968) Robert F. Kennedy brought down by assassin’s bullets