This day in history for June 23rd;
1683 -- William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"
1784 -- 1st US balloon flight (13 year old Edward Warren)
1860 -- US Secret Service created.
1868 -- Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer"
1904 -- The first American motorboat race got underway on the Hudson River in New York.
1925 -- Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre, Wyoming)
1926 -- The first lip reading tournament in America was held in Philadelphia, PA.
1938 -- Marineland opens near St. Augustine, Florida-1st aquarium.
1944 -- 4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153
1949 -- 1st 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School.
1951 -- Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage & $14M property-Kansas)
1955 -- Walt Disney's "Lady & the Tramp" released.
1969 -- Warren E Burger sworn in as Supreme Court Chief Justice
1972 -- Pres Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports.
1975 -- Rocker Alice Cooper falls of stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs.
1976 -- CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555 m) opens.
1981 -- NYC mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy
1982 -- -117ø F; All time low at the South Pole
1982 -- Himmy, of Australia, weighs in at domestic cat record 20.7 kg (45 lb)
1985 -- Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die.
1986 -- Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House.
1992 -- John Gotti was sentenced in New York to life in prison after being convicted of racketeering charges.
1993 -- Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, VA, sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her.
1997 -- Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, died in New York of burns suffered in a fire set by her 12-year old grandson. She was 61.
I hope everyone enjoys this day in history!!
MsPriss *PrissieHuggzz* :)
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