CMRivdogs Posted June 19 Author Posted June 19 June 19 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-19 Quote In what is now known as Juneteenth, on June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrive in Galveston, Texas with news that the Civil War is over and slavery in the United States is abolished. A mix of June and 19th, Juneteenth has become a day to commemorate the end of slavery in America. Despite the fact that President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was issued more than two years earlier on January 1, 1863, a lack of Union troops in the rebel state of Texasmade the order difficult to enforce. Some historians blame the lapse in time on poor communication in that era, while others believe Texan slave-owners purposely withheld the information. Quote 1856 In Music Fund Hall in Philadelphia, the first national convention of the Republican Party, founded two years before, comes to its conclusion. John Charles Fremont of California, the famous explorer of the West, was nominated for the presidency, and William Lewis Dayton of New Jersey was chosen as the candidate for the vice presidency. Quote On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. Both refused to admit any wrongdoing and proclaimed their innocence right up to the time of their deaths, by the electric chair. The Rosenbergs were the first U.S. citizens to be convicted and executed for espionage during peacetime and their case remains controversial to this day. Quote Chinese American Vincent Chin, 27, is beaten in the head with a baseball bat by two white autoworkers in Detroit on June 19, 1982. Chin died in a hospital four days later, on June 23. During his bachelor party at a club on the night of June 19, Chin and three friends were singled out by Ronald Ebens, 43, and Michael Nitz, 23, his stepson, according to NBC News, who, witnesses said, blamed the men for being out of work because of car imports from Japan. Following a fight, Ebens and Nitz searched for the group, finding them at a McDonald's, where Ebens used a baseball bat to smash Chin in the head while Nitz held him down. Convicted of manslaughter in a plea deal, Ebens and Nitz were sentenced to three years probation and a $3,000 fine with no jail time. The verdict led to outrage and protests in the Asian American community. Kin Yee, the president of the Detroit Chinese Welfare Council, called the sentence "a license to kill for $3,000, provided you have a steady job or are a student and the victim is Chinese,'' according to The New York Times. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted June 19 Author Posted June 19 The building will be called the "Wonder of Jena" when it's completed in 1926. The wonder is the planetarium, however, and the orbs that are projected on an artificial sky; the lightweight construction method, initially at least, inspires no imitators. 2/ In the 1950s, U.S. architect Buckminster Fuller rediscovers the 1920s design, which he renames the geodesic dome (Bauersfeld hadn't coined any name). Fuller touts these polyhedrons as the buildings of the future for their simplicity and durability; thousands have been built. 3/3 One of my favorite exhibits visiting the Henry Ford Museum is the Buckminster Fuller house...I felt that would be an interesting building to live in, for a while Quote
CMRivdogs Posted June 20 Author Posted June 20 June 20 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-20 Quote On June 20, 1782, Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States after six years of discussion. The front of the seal depicts a bald eagle clutching an olive branch in its right talon and arrows in its left. On its breast appears a shield marked with 13 vertical red and white stripes topped by a bar of blue. The eagle’s beak clutches a banner inscribed, E pluribus unum, a Latin phrase meaning “Out of Many One.” Above the eagle’s head, golden rays burst forth, encircling 13 stars. Charles Thomson outlined the symbolic connotations of the seal’s elements when he presented his design to Congress. The bottom of the shield (or pale) represents the 13 states united in support of the blue bar at the top of the shield (or chief), “which unites the whole and represents Congress.” The motto E Pluribus Unum serves as a textual representation of the same relationshiptho. The colors used in the shield are the same as those in the flag: alternating red and white for the important balance between innocence and valor, topped by the blue of “vigilance, perseverance and justice.” The eagle’s talons hold symbols of Congress power to make peace (the olive branch) and war (arrows). The constellation of stars indicates that “a new State [is] taking its place and rank among other sovereign powers.” Quote During the Civil War, West Virginia is admitted into the Union as the 35th U.S. state, or the 24th state if the secession of the 11 Southern states were taken into account. The same day, Arthur Boreman was inaugurated as West Virginia’s first state governor. When Virginia voted to secede after the outbreak of the Civil War, the majority of West Virginians opposed the secession. Delegates met at Wheeling, and on June 11, 1861, nullified the Virginian ordinance of secession and proclaimed “The Restored Government of Virginia,” headed by Francis Pierpont. Confederate forces occupied a portion of West Virginia during the war, but West Virginian statehood was nonetheless approved in a referendum and a state constitution drawn up. In April 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the admission of West Virginia into the Union effective June 20, 1863. Quote After a long and bitter struggle on the part of Henry Ford against cooperation with organized labor unions, Ford Motor Company signs its first contract with the United Automobile Workers of America and Congress of Industrial Organizations (UAW-CIO) on June 20, 1941. Paradoxically, Ford gave its workers more generous terms than had either GM or Chrysler: In addition to paying back wages to more than 4,000 workers who had been wrongfully discharged, the company agreed to match the highest wage rates in the industry and to deduct union dues from workers’ pay. Quote
romad1 Posted June 20 Posted June 20 On 6/19/2025 at 9:38 AM, CMRivdogs said: The building will be called the "Wonder of Jena" when it's completed in 1926. The wonder is the planetarium, however, and the orbs that are projected on an artificial sky; the lightweight construction method, initially at least, inspires no imitators. 2/ In the 1950s, U.S. architect Buckminster Fuller rediscovers the 1920s design, which he renames the geodesic dome (Bauersfeld hadn't coined any name). Fuller touts these polyhedrons as the buildings of the future for their simplicity and durability; thousands have been built. 3/3 One of my favorite exhibits visiting the Henry Ford Museum is the Buckminster Fuller house...I felt that would be an interesting building to live in, for a while there was a house for sale in South Lyon or Milford about a year ago that had this design. The mold damage caused by the hard to reach places in the dome was insane. There are practical reasons for practical designs. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted June 20 Author Posted June 20 The dictator acts in the face of a trade deficit, especially with the wheat-rich U.S., and a recent decline in Italian yields. The Fascist regime will tout his grain war relentlessly, issuing heroic posters of wheat, and Mussolini personally poses shirtless in the fields. By the late 1930s Mussolini declares victory— Italian wheat production has soared and imports are steeply down. His claim neglects that by devoting so many resources to grain, production of other Italian staples such as wine, fruit, cheese and meat has sharply fallen. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted June 21 Author Posted June 21 June 21 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-21 Quote June 21, 1788: New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last necessary state to ratify the Constitutionof the United States, thereby making the document the law of the land. By 1786, defects in the post-Revolutionary War Articles of Confederation were apparent, such as the lack of central authority over foreign and domestic commerce. Congress endorsed a plan to draft a new constitution, and on May 25, 1787, the Constitutional Convention convened at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. On September 17, 1787, after three months of debate moderated by convention president George Washington, the new U.S. constitution, which created a strong federal government with an intricate system of checks and balances, was signed by 38 of the 41 delegates present at the conclusion of the convention. As dictated by Article VII, the document would not become binding until it was ratified by nine of the 13 states. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted June 22 Author Posted June 22 June 22 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-22 Quote On June 22, 1944, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the G.I. Bill, an unprecedented act of legislation designed to compensate returning members of the armed services—known as G.I.s—for their efforts in World War II. As the last of its sweeping New Deal reforms, Roosevelt’s administration created the G.I. Bill (officially the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944) hoping to avoid a relapse into the Great Depression after the war ended. FDR particularly wanted to prevent a repeat of the Bonus March of 1932, when 20,000 unemployed veterans and their families flocked in protest to Washington. The American Legion, a veteran’s organization, successfully fought for many of the provisions included in the bill, which gave returning servicemen access to unemployment compensation, low-interest home and business loans, and—most importantly—funding for education. Quote On June 22, 1775, Congress authorizes the issue of $2 million in bills of credit. By the spring of 1775, colonial leaders, concerned by British martial law in Boston and increasing constraints on trade, had led their forces in battle against the crown. But, the American revolutionaries encountered a small problem on their way to the front: they lacked the funds necessary to wage a prolonged war. Though hardly the colonies’ first dalliance with paper notes—the Massachusetts Bay colony had issued its own bills in 1690—the large-scale distribution of the revolutionary currency was fairly new ground for America. Moreover, the bills, known at the time as “Continentals,” notably lacked the then de rigueur rendering of the British king. Instead, some of the notes featured likenesses of Revolutionary soldiers and the inscription “The United Colonies.” But, whatever their novelty, the Continentals proved to be a poor economic instrument: backed by nothing more than the promise of “future tax revenues” and prone to rampant inflation, the notes ultimately had little fiscal value. As George Washington noted at the time, “A wagonload of currency will hardly purchase a wagonload of provisions.” Thus, the Continental failed and left the young nation saddled with a hefty war debt. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted June 23 Author Posted June 23 June 23 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-23 Quote On June 23, 1992, Mafia boss John Gotti, who was nicknamed the “Teflon Don” after escaping unscathed from several trials during the 1980s, is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty on 14 accounts of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering. Moments after his sentence was read in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, hundreds of Gotti’s supporters stormed the building and overturned and smashed cars before being forced back by police reinforcements. Quote On June 23, 1972, President Richard Nixon’s advisor, H.R. Haldeman, tells the president to put pressure on the head of the FBI to “stay the hell out of this [Watergate burglary investigation] business.” In essence, Haldeman was telling Nixon to obstruct justice, which is one of the articles Congress threatened to impeach Nixon for in 1974. Quote On June 23, 1989, Tim Burton’s noir spin on the well-known story of the DC Comics hero Batmanis released in theaters. Michael Keaton starred in the film as the multimillionaire Bruce Wayne, who has transformed himself into the crime-fighting Batman after witnessing his parents’ brutal murder as a child. As the film’s action begins, mob henchman Jack Napier (Jack Nicholson) is gruesomely disfigured after Batman inadvertently drops him in a vat of acid during a stand-off in a chemical factory. After killing his boss (Jack Palance), Napier—now known as the Joker—goes on the loose in Gotham City, wreaking havoc and trying to turn its people against the caped crusader. When Batman’s affection for a beautiful newspaper reporter, Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger), is revealed, the Joker uses her to draw his rival out into the open, with dramatic results. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted June 23 Author Posted June 23 June 23, 1775. Peyton Randolph convenes a meeting of Williamsburg’s inhabitants "to consider of the expedience of stationing a number of men here for the publick safety, as well as to assist the citizens in their nightly watches, to guard against any surprise from our enemies." The citizens unanimously agreed to invite from a number of counties, 250 men. In the meantime, surrounding counties are furnishing guards. Quote
romad1 Posted June 23 Posted June 23 3 hours ago, CMRivdogs said: June 23 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-23 Do not over-validate Tim Burton Quote
oblong Posted June 23 Posted June 23 The story of Batman is great. It was in the works for about 5 years until they got Burton. They originally had the Superman writer, then talked about Ivan Reitman. Names like Mel Gibson and Bill Murray were thrown out and considered. Robin was going to be in it, played by names like Michael J Fox or Eddie Murphy. Lithgow as joker. That stalled so they turned it over to Tim Burton who only wanted Michael Keaton. It was the right choice and he remains the best Batman. 1 Quote
romad1 Posted June 23 Posted June 23 2 minutes ago, oblong said: The story of Batman is great. It was in the works for about 5 years until they got Burton. They originally had the Superman writer, then talked about Ivan Reitman. Names like Mel Gibson and Bill Murray were thrown out and considered. Robin was going to be in it, played by names like Michael J Fox or Eddie Murphy. Lithgow as joker. That stalled so they turned it over to Tim Burton who only wanted Michael Keaton. It was the right choice and he remains the best Batman. not a fan of Chris Nolan apparently Quote
oblong Posted June 23 Posted June 23 I'm a fan of his work and can respect his art... I just didn't get those movies. They were wonderfully made and top notch cinema. But I wasn't entertained as much. Felt no need to watch them again. I blame them for not getting into Marvel until about 5 years ago, I figured I didn't like these kinds of movies, other than Star Wars. I'm not criticizing them because it's ok for people to have different tastes in life. They didn't do it for me but I know most people love them. That's ok. Quote
romad1 Posted June 23 Posted June 23 7 minutes ago, oblong said: I'm a fan of his work and can respect his art... I just didn't get those movies. They were wonderfully made and top notch cinema. But I wasn't entertained as much. Felt no need to watch them again. I blame them for not getting into Marvel until about 5 years ago, I figured I didn't like these kinds of movies, other than Star Wars. I'm not criticizing them because it's ok for people to have different tastes in life. They didn't do it for me but I know most people love them. That's ok. Fine. Just know my comment about Tim Burton is criticism of him and his fans. I always found it tiresome. Quote
gehringer_2 Posted June 23 Posted June 23 (edited) 4 hours ago, oblong said: I'm a fan of his work and can respect his art... I just didn't get those movies. They were wonderfully made and top notch cinema. But I wasn't entertained as much. Felt no need to watch them again. I blame them for not getting into Marvel until about 5 years ago, I figured I didn't like these kinds of movies, other than Star Wars. I'm not criticizing them because it's ok for people to have different tastes in life. They didn't do it for me but I know most people love them. That's ok. Similar view. I don't really care for 'brooding' Nolan; "Dark Knight", "Interstellar", for the same reason - I'm just not entertained by that kind of darkness. It's art for sure, but he's not telling me anything I need to hear anymore in it (maybe that's a product of age?). Nolan with a twinkle in his eye - "Inception" - is just more fun. Edited June 23 by gehringer_2 1 1 Quote
gehringer_2 Posted June 23 Posted June 23 5 hours ago, oblong said: The story of Batman is great. It was in the works for about 5 years until they got Burton. They originally had the Superman writer, then talked about Ivan Reitman. Names like Mel Gibson and Bill Murray were thrown out and considered. Robin was going to be in it, played by names like Michael J Fox or Eddie Murphy. Lithgow as joker. That stalled so they turned it over to Tim Burton who only wanted Michael Keaton. It was the right choice and he remains the best Batman. For me one of the things I liked in Burton's Batman is that the way he created a visual style that looked drawn as much as photographed - i.e. a comic book brought to life. Considering his work in animation I guess that fits. 1 Quote
oblong Posted June 24 Posted June 24 4 hours ago, gehringer_2 said: For me one of the things I liked in Burton's Batman is that the way he created a visual style that looked drawn as much as photographed - i.e. a comic book brought to life. Considering his work in animation I guess that fits. If you watched Better Call Saul someone on Reddit said that they should make a joke movie with the you who played Lalo. But you base it around the Cesar Romero version. my other issue with the Nolan films, which is my fault, is I didn’t understand the concept of rebooting comic book franchises. So I was expecting some kind of continuation of the movies we saw with Keaton and Clooney and Kilmer. Quote
gehringer_2 Posted June 24 Posted June 24 14 minutes ago, oblong said: If you watched Better Call Saul someone on Reddit said that they should make a joke movie with the you who played Lalo. But you base it around the Cesar Romero version. my other issue with the Nolan films, which is my fault, is I didn’t understand the concept of rebooting comic book franchises. So I was expecting some kind of continuation of the movies we saw with Keaton and Clooney and Kilmer. LOL, the dreaded 'ret con'. My daughter was/is a big aficionado of 'graphic lit' (don't call me comics). She came of age just before all the ret con-ing started and was not a fan of having her carefully constructed youthful literary worlds torn asunder by barbarian Hollywood profiteers. 1 Quote
oblong Posted June 24 Posted June 24 I mean one that did work was obviously Marisa Tomei as Aunt May. My God she doesn’t age. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted June 24 Author Posted June 24 June 24 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-24 Quote On June 24, 1997, U.S. Air Force officials release a 231-page report dismissing long-standing claims of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell, New Mexico, almost exactly 50 years earlier. Public interest in Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, began to flourish in the 1940s, when developments in space travel and the dawn of the atomic age caused many Americans to turn their attention to the skies. The town of Roswell, located near the Pecos River in southeastern New Mexico, became a magnet for UFO believers due to the strange events of early July 1947, when ranch foreman W.W. Brazel found a strange, shiny material scattered over some of his land. He turned the material over to the sheriff, who passed it on to authorities at the nearby Air Force base. On July 8, Air Force officials announced they had recovered the wreckage of a “flying disk.” A local newspaper put the story on its front page, launching Roswell into the spotlight of the public’s UFO fascination. Quote 1675 In colonial New England, King Philip’s War begins when a band of Wampanoag warriors raid the border settlement of Swansea, Massachusetts, and massacre the English colonists there. In the early 1670s, 50 years of peace between the Plymouth colony and the local Wampanoag Indians began to deteriorate when the rapidly expanding settlement forced land sales on the tribe. Reacting to increasing Native American tensions, the English met with King Philip, chief of the Wampanoag, and demanded that his forces surrender their arms. The Wampanoag did so, but in 1675 a Christian Native American who had been acting as an informer to the English was murdered, and three Wampanoag were tried and executed for the crime. Quote 1948 One of the most dramatic standoffs in the history of the Cold War begins as the Soviet Union blocks all road and rail traffic to and from West Berlin. The blockade turned out to be a terrible diplomatic move by the Soviets, while the United States emerged from the confrontation with renewed purpose and confidence. Quote June 24, 1775. “When Dunmore refused to let the assembly have the arms in the Palace and a slim majority in the house voted not to seize them, a group of young men led by Theodorick Bland and including James Monroe, Benjamin Harrison, Jr., and the treasurer’s son, George Nicholas, broke into the mansion on the afternoon of June 24, just as the legislators met to adjourn. Removing over two hundred pistols and muskets and a number of swords from the front hallway, the raiders carted them to the magazine where Bland issued them to anyone in need of weapons.” John Selby, The Revolution in Virginia 1775-1783, p. 46 Quote June 24, 1775. The House of Burgesses and the Virginia Council elect commissioners to replace Gov. Dunmore. James Wood, technically still a Burgess, leaves for the Ohio as a Commissioner of Virginia to restrain the Ohio Indians and organize a treaty conference at Fort Pitt in September. The General Assembly adjourns to October 12, but never meets again with a quorum. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted June 25 Author Posted June 25 Quote Quote Some hypotheses are: collective poisoning, epilepsy, shared stress, mental illness or even that it was all staged. This was the first big outbreak and spread to as Cologne, Flanders, Franconia, Hainaut, Metz, Strasbourg, Tongeren, Utrecht, Italy and Luxembourg. (2/2) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/strange-case-dancing-mania-struck-germany-six-centuries-ago-today-180959549/ Quote
CMRivdogs Posted June 25 Author Posted June 25 June 25 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-25 Quote On June 25, 1876, Native American forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn near southern Montana’s Little Bighorn River. Quote On June 25, 1950, armed forces from communist North Korea smash into South Korea, setting off the Korean War. The United States, acting under the auspices of the United Nations, quickly sprang to the defense of South Korea and fought a bloody and frustrating war for the next three years. Quote The last Packard—the classic American luxury car with the famously enigmatic slogan “Ask the Man Who Owns One”—rolls off the production line at Packard’s plant in Detroit, Michigan on June 25, 1956. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted Thursday at 01:09 PM Author Posted Thursday at 01:09 PM June 26 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-26 Quote On June 26, 1948, U.S. and British pilots begin delivering food and supplies by airplane to Berlinafter the city is isolated by a Soviet Union blockade. When World War II ended in 1945, defeated Germany was divided into Soviet, American, British and French zones of occupation. The city of Berlin, though located within the Soviet zone of occupation, was also split into four sectors, with the Allies taking the western part of the city and the Soviets the eastern. In June 1948, Josef Stalin’s government attempted to consolidate control of the city by cutting off all land and sea routes to West Berlin in order to pressure the Allies to evacuate. As a result, beginning on June 24 the western section of Berlin and its 2 million people were deprived of food, heating fuel and other crucial supplies. Quote 1917 During World War I, the first 14,000 U.S. infantry troops land in France at the port of Saint-Nazaire. The landing site had been kept secret because of the menace of German submarines, but by the time the Americans had lined up to take their first salute on French soil, an enthusiastic crowd had gathered to welcome them. However, the “Doughboys,” as the British referred to the green American troops, were untrained, ill-equipped, and far from ready for the difficulties of fighting along the Western Front. Quote In the Herbst Theater auditorium in San Francisco, delegates from 50 nations sign the United Nations Charter, establishing the world body as a means of saving “succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” The Charter was ratified on October 24, and the first U.N. General Assembly met in London on January 10, 1946. Quote On June 26, 1956, the U.S. Congress approves the Federal-Aid Highway Act, which allocates more than $30 billion for the construction of some 41,000 miles of interstate highways; it will be the largest public construction project in U.S. history to that date. Among the pressing questions involved in passing highway legislation were where exactly the highways should be built, and how much of the cost should be carried by the federal government versus the individual states. Several competing bills went through Congress before 1956, including plans spearheaded by the retired general and engineer Lucius D. Clay; Senator Albert Gore Sr.; and Rep. George H. Fallon, who called his program the “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways,” thus linking the construction of highways with the preservation of a strong national defense. Quote
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