# Today in History **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 10, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530 "2016-07-10T04:53:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 63
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1244 "2018-06-24T20:42:56Z")
**June 24, 1948** : The Soviet Union initiates the Berlin Blockade. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1245 "2018-06-25T05:36:39Z")
\*\*June 25, 1985 \*\*: [The Aerlex Fireworks Factory Explosion](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.thetulsavoice.com/June-B-2017/Darkness-on-the-edge-of-town/&ved=2ahUKEwik1PS3iu7bAhWWbysKHR3dBKIQFjAGegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw20B6WfPklq1vW93Q_la47s) in Oklahoma kills 21. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1246 "2018-06-25T06:35:06Z")
**June 25, 1987** — 1987-06-25 is the last date until June 17, 2345 when the digits in yyyy-mm-dd format are all different (2345-06-17). That is a span of almost 358 years. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1247 "2018-06-25T18:37:41Z")
\*\*June 25, 1876 — \*\*The Battle of Little Big Horn begins. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1248 "2018-06-26T04:58:40Z")
**June 26, 1977** : [42 are killed in a prison fire in Columbia, Tennessee.](https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/06/28/Jail-fire-had-national-impact/8776551851200/) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1249 "2018-06-26T07:11:31Z")
**June 26, 2015:** The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1250 "2018-06-26T17:53:13Z")
**June 26, 2000:** The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a “rough draft” sequence of human DNA. ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1251 "2018-06-26T20:12:06Z")
**June 26, 1964:** Beatles release “A Hard Day’s Night” album. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1252 "2018-06-27T04:44:17Z")
**June 27, 1966** : _Dark Shadows_ premieres on ABC. ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1253 "2018-06-27T15:10:45Z")
**June 27, 1929** : Scientists at Bell Laboratories in New York reveal a system for transmitting television pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1254 "2018-06-28T05:05:45Z")
**June 28, 1896** : [The Twin Shaft Mining Disaster](http://usminedisasters.miningquiz.com/saxsewell/twin_shaft.htm) A mine shaft in Pittston, Pennsylvania collapses. 58 are killed in the cave-in. Mostly Lithuanian and Irish immigrants, the miners are entombed 434 below the surface and the bodies never recovered. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1255 "2018-06-29T04:09:06Z")
**June 28, 1969** : The Stonewall Riots begin after police raid the bar and begin transporting the customers to jail. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1256 "2018-06-29T04:37:10Z")
**June 29, 1864** : [The St-Hilaire Train Disaster](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://interestingcanadianhistory.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/the-great-st-hilaire-train-disaster/&ved=2ahUKEwixx8TxgfjbAhXB1lMKHfEOCi4QFjAaegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw0H0-vD2sGsDaQwsw-4eBes) in Quebec kills 99 and leaves another 100 injured. This is Canada’s deadliest rail accident in history. The eleven train cars and engine were crossing a swing bridge over the Richelieu River. But the swing bridge was not closed. The cars dropped onto each other and a passing barge below. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1257 "2018-06-30T05:31:29Z")
**June 30, 1903** : [The Hanna Mine Explosion](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Mine_disasters&ved=2ahUKEwi9u47f0frbAhVvpVkKHQueDzAQFjAAegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw1xZStVNh4ffHEPrtMJX8L0) in Wyoming kills at least 169. A miner’s carelessness is blamed for the tragedy and therefore little if any safety precautions are enacted as a result. Five years later in 1908, the mine would again explode, this time killing 59. ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1258 "2018-06-30T21:34:10Z")
**June 30, 1948:** John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley demonstrate their invention, the transistor, for the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1259 "2018-07-01T05:43:02Z")
**July 1, 1946** : [Test Able— Bikini Atoll.](https://www.ctbto.org/specials/testing-times/1-july-1946-test-able-bikini-atoll/) ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1260 "2018-07-02T04:07:54Z")
**July 2, 1990** : [The 1990 Mecca Tunnel Stampede](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Mecca_tunnel_tragedy&ved=2ahUKEwiSxKaSw__bAhXCwFkKHRmZBVAQFjAAegQIABAB&usg=AOvVaw06CiGINUiYRETvVcWko2F_) kills 1426. ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1261 "2018-07-02T21:36:12Z")
**July 2, 1980:** President Jimmy Carter reinstates draft registration for males 18 years of age. (Also, BTW, July 2, 1930, my Mother was born. Happy Birthday, Mother!) ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1262 "2018-07-04T05:01:01Z")
**July 4,1898** : [The SS _La Bourgogne_ Disaster.](http://www.earlofcruise.com/2016/11/history-ss-la-bourgogne-women-and.html) In thick fog the French passenger ship _La Bourgogne_ collides with the British ship _Cromartyshire_ in the open waters of the North Atlantic. Of the 726 passengers and crew, 549 lives were lost. The deaths included all the children aboard and all the 300 women but one. Stories abound of crew members killing passengers for their spot on the few available lifeboats. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1263 "2018-07-04T14:44:03Z")
**July 4, 1939:** Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself “The luckiest man on the face of the earth”, then announces his retirement from major league baseball. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530.md?page=62) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530.md?page=64)