bransonglobe.com HISTORY June 12-13, 2020 • 19 Today in History: Sports, movies and more • 1381 Peasants’ Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath • 1665 New Amsterdam legally becomes an English colony and renamed New York after English Duke of York • 1665 England installs a municipal government in New York City • 1830 Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch • 1838 Iowa Territory forms with Burlington as its capital • 1861 Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers to stop Federates from taking over his state • 1864 The Battle of Trevilian Station, the bloodiest and largest all-cavalry battle of the American Civil War in Louisa County ends with Confederate tactical victory and Union successful retreat • 1898 Filipino revolutionary forces under General Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed the sovereignty and independence of the Philippine Islands from the colonial rule of Spain • 1917 US Secret Service extends protection of the President to include his family • 1923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in NYC • • • 1931 Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition and perjury 1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present in Amsterdam 1942 Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City • 1964 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa • 1967 US Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages • • 1977 Groundbreaking ceremony for John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum 1980 Ronald Reagan says he will submit to periodic medical tests • 1987 US President Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down” the Berlin wall • 2007 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation for his humanitarian work by President Putin • 2018 Singapore Summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump • 2018 AT&T’s $85.4 billion takeover of Time Warner can go ahead according to US district court judge • 2019 Earliest evidence of humans smoking cannabis discovered in 2,500-year-old grave in Pamir Mountains, China, published in “Science Advances” Movies & TV • 1963 “Cleopatra” directed by Joseph Mankiewicz and starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton premieres in NYC, then most expensive film ever made • 1965 Sonny and Cher make their 1st TV appearance on “American Bandstand” • 1966 Dave Clark Five sets record as they appear for 12th time on Ed Sullivan Show • 1967 “You Only Live Twice”, 5th James Bond film starring Sean Connery, screenplay by Roald Dahl, premieres in London • 1981 “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, the first Indiana Jones film directed by Stephen Spiel• • berg, produced by George Lucas and starring Harrison Ford premieres 1997 “Batman and Robin” directed by Joel Schumacher, starring George Clooney, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Chris O’Donnell premieres in Los Angeles 2007 “Transformers”, directed by Michael Bay and starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox premieres in Sydney • 2010 “Toy Story 3”, directed by Lee Unkrich, starring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, premieres at the Taormina Film Fest in Italy - 1st animated film to earn 1 billion • 2016 70th Tony Awards: “Hamilton” wins 11 awards after record 16 nominations Music • 1909 “Shine On, Harvest Moon” by Ada Jones & Billy Murray hits #1 • 1954 Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” is originally released • 1970 Rocker and blues singer Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky • 1990 “Mariah Carey” debut album by Mariah Carey is released Sports • 1880 Worcester pitcher Lee Richmond throws first perfect game in MLB history in 1-0 win over Cleveland • 1922 St Louis Brown Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth 3 straight times • 1928 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 2 triples & 2 HRs to be White Sox 15-7 • 1950 Connie Mack named Honorary Manager of the AllStar Game • 1975 Hank Aaron’s 1st HR in Milwaukee since 1965 • 1981 Larry Holmes TKOs Leon Spinks in 3 for WBC EXP 6/30/20 heavyweight boxing title • 1990 Orioles Cal Ripken plays in his 1,308th consecutive game to move past Everett Scott into 2nd place on the alltime list
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