June 14, 1922 – Warren G. Harding becomes the first U. S. President to broadcast a message over the radio. The event was the dedication of the Francis Scott Key Memorial in Baltimore.
June 15, 1215 – King John set his seal to the Magna Carta guaranteeing certain rights of liberty. It becomes the foundation of modern democracies around the world.
June 18, 1815 – On the fields of Waterloo in central Belgium, 72,000 French troops led by Napoleon suffer a crushing military defeat from a combined army of 113,000 British, Dutch, Belgian, and Prussian troops.
June 19, 1865 (Juneteenth Day) – In Galveston, Texas, Union General Gordan Granger enters the city and reads General Order #3 from President Abraham Lincoln granting emancipation to 256,000 enslaved Texans.
June 15, 1215 – King John set his seal to the Magna Carta guaranteeing certain rights of liberty. It becomes the foundation of modern democracies around the world.
June 18, 1815 – On the fields of Waterloo in central Belgium, 72,000 French troops led by Napoleon suffer a crushing military defeat from a combined army of 113,000 British, Dutch, Belgian, and Prussian troops.
June 19, 1865 (Juneteenth Day) – In Galveston, Texas, Union General Gordan Granger enters the city and reads General Order #3 from President Abraham Lincoln granting emancipation to 256,000 enslaved Texans.