Picture History : Anniversaries

Anniversaries

To illustrate the depth one can access in our collections, we have compiled relevant archival imagery to frame a diverse cultural, political and chronological retrospective of noteworthy anniversaries. Be sure to bookmark this section as the calendar is a work in progress and will continue to expand.

June	Year	Anniversary	Event
1	1812	201st	Pres. Madison declares war on the British, triggering the War of 1812
1	1862	151st	Battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks) concludes
2	1912	101st	Universal Studios founded in California
3	1937	76th	Over his mother's objections, England's King Edward VIII marries an American after abdicating the throne
4	1717	296th	Society of Freemasons founded in London
4	1862	151st	Gen. Beauregard evacuates Fort Pillow, built by Confederate Gen. Pillow, leaving it to Gen. Halleck
4	1892	121st	The Sierra Club incorporated in San Francisco
4	1917	96th	The first Pulitzer Prizes for journalism are awarded
5	1862	151st	Union troops find Fort Pillow empty, abandoned by the Confederate Army
5	1917	96th	U.S. men begin to register for the draft in World War I
5	1922	91st	Discoverer of Klondike Gold in Yukon, Robert Carmack, dies
5	1947	66th	Secretary of State George Marshall outlines an aid program for Europe, which becomes "The Marshall Plan"
6	1862	151st	At the Battle of Memphis, Charles Ellet Jr. sinks 4 Confederate ships and captures Memphis before being killed
7	1892	121st	Homer Plessy arrested for refusing to give up a train seat for whites, triggering the Plessy v. Ferguson case
8	1862	151st	Stonewall Jackson and Richard Ewell triumph brilliantly over Generals Banks and Fremont at the Battle of Cross Keys
8	1867	146th	Frank Lloyd Wright, brilliant U.S. architect, born
9	1877	136th	Crazy Horse's surrender makes front page news in New York
10	1692	321st	First hanging of a Salem witch during the Salem Witch Trials
10	1861	152nd	Gen. Winfield Scott, newly retired commander in chief of the U.S. Army, is photographed at West Point by Charles Fredricks
10	1942	71st	Entire male population of Lidice, a Czech village, massacred by Nazis
11	1927	86th	Charles Lindbergh awarded the first Distinguished Flying Cross
11	1937	76th	Joseph Stalin's Soviet "Purge" ends
12	1862	151st	Confederate cavalryman JEB Stuart's first "Ride around McClellan" begins
12	1952	61st	First Chevrolet chassis completed
12	1967	46th	U.S. Supreme Court strikes down state laws forbidding interracial marriage
12	1987	26th	Reagan challenges Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall
13	1777	236th	The Marquis de Lafayette arrives in South Carolina to help the colonists revolt against Britain
13	1802	211st	Harriet Martineau, British essayist and writer, born
13	1807	206th	Thomas Jefferson subpoenaed during Aaron Burr's trial
13	1927	86th	Ticker tape parade for Charles Lindbergh in New York City
13	1967	46th	Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Solicitor-General, becomes first African-American appointed to U. S. Supreme Court
14	1642	371st	Massachusetts is the first colony to pass a compulsory education law (for white males)
14	1777	236th	The American flag adopted by the Continental Congress on June 14, which will become Flag Day
14	1922	91st	Warren Harding is first president broadcast on radio, as he dedicates Frances Scott Key Memorial at Fort McHenry
15	1752	261st	Benjamin Franklin flies a kite with a key tied to its string to show that lightning contains electricity
15	1862	151st	Confederate JEB Stuart completes his first "Ride around McClellan," encircling the Union Army of the Potomac
15	1877	136th	Henry Flipper becomes first African American to graduate West Point Military Academy
15	1917	96th	The U. S. Congress passes the Espionage Act
16	1567	446th	Mary Queen of Scots imprisoned in Lochleven Castle, in Scotland, by Queen Elizabeth
16	1862	151st	Civil War Battle of Secessionville a disaster for the Union Army
16	1897	116th	U.S. government annexes Hawaii
16	1902	111st	The "Wizard of Oz" musical opens at Chicago's Grand Opera House
16	1977	36th	Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev is also elected President of the Supreme Soviet
17	1862	151st	Steam drum of the USS Mound City, hit by shell, explodes: 80 men scalded to death, 40 men drowned
17	1972	41st	Pres. Nixon's employees arrested for burglary inside Watergate, the Democratic headquarters
18	1812	201st	The War of 1812 begins when the U.S. declares war against Britain
18	1877	136th	The creator of Uncle Sam poster illustrations, artist James Montgomery Flagg, born on this day
19	1862	151st	Pres. Lincoln first outlines his "Emancipation Proclamation"
19	1917	96th	George V changes British royal family's name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor, veiling its German origins
19	1937	76th	"Peter Pan" author, Englishman James Barrie, dies
19	1947	66th	European representatives meet to design the Marshall Plan for rebuilding Europe
19	1977	36th	Elvis Presley makes his last concert recordings
20	1782	231st	U. S. Congress approves the Great Seal of the U.S.
20	1837	176th	Victoria becomes Queen of England upon the death of her uncle, William IV
20	1997	16th	The U.S. tobacco industry agrees to a massive settlement to avoid further lawsuits
21	1832	181st	Joseph Rainey, first African American in the U.S. House of Representatives, is born a slave on this day
21	1877	136th	Ten "Molly Maguires," Irish-American militants for mining reforms, are hanged for murder
21	1887	126th	Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign celebrated in Great Britain
21	1942	71st	The day before strict gas rationing begins during WWII, U.S. drivers go to the pumps
21	1989	24th	A jury finds John Hinckley, Jr. innocent by reason of insanity in the shooting of Pres. Reagan and three others
22	1977	36th	Former Attorney General John Mitchell goes to prison for his part in Watergate cover-up
22	1992	21st	U.S. Supreme Court rules hate-crime laws that ban cross-burnings violate the right to free speech
23	1862	151st	Robert E. Lee and his generals plot an attack on McClellan's army before the Seven Days' Battles
23	1947	66th	U.S. Senate and House override Pres. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act
23	1972	41st	President Nixon signs the Higher Education Act
24	1812	201st	Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte orders his army of 500,000, the largest European army in history, to Russia
24	1862	151st	Lincoln consults Winfield Scott, former Army Commander in Chief, about McClellan's stalemate with Lee
24	1922	91st	The American Professional Football Association becomes the National Football League
25	1942	71st	Major General Dwight Eisenhower takes command of U.S. forces in Europe during World War II
25	1962	51st	U. S. Supreme Court rules that prayer in public schools violates 1st Amendment separation of church and state
26	1862	151st	Robert E. Lee stuns Union Gen. McClellan at the Battle of Mechanicsville, first of the Seven Days' Battles
26	1917	96th	First American Expeditionary Force troops arrive in France during World War I
27	1847	166th	New York and Boston are linked by telegraph wires
27	1862	151st	May Irwin, actress, comedienne, and music-hall artist, born
27	1862	151st	Gaines' Mill attacked by Lee, who drives back the Union Army, in the Third of the Seven Days' Battles
28	1577	436th	Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter, born
28	1862	151st	Confederate Capt. Hollins captures the "St. Nicholas," when one of his sailors pretends to be a Frenchwoman
28	1862	151st	Union headquarters at Savage's Station, including a field hospital, accept wounded from Gaines's Mill
28	1972	41st	Nixon announces that no more draftees will go to Vietnam, unless they volunteer
29	1652	361st	Massachusetts declares itself an independent commonwealth
29	1767	246th	Britain passes the Townshend Revenue Act, levying taxes on the American colonies
29	1862	151st	Robert E. Lee assaults Savage's Station as the Union Army retreats, in the Fifth of the Seven Days' Battles
29	1972	41st	U.S. Supreme Court strikes down death penalty as "cruel and unusual"
30	1812	201st	Pres. Madison demands that more officers be commissioned to fight the British in the War of 1812
30	1817	196th	Sir Joseph Hooker, British botanist, born.
30	1862	151st	At Glendale (White Oak Swamp), 6th of the Seven Days' Battles, Lee fails in his attack on the Union Army
30	1957	56th	U.S. government eliminates the Reconstruction Finance Corp. created by Hoover in 1932 and enlarged by FDR