June 21<\/p>\n
1768 \u2013 In a speech to the Massachusetts General Court, James Otis Jr. is noted for offending the King and Parliament, when he refers to the British House of Commons as a gathering of “button-makers, horse jockey gamesters, pensioners, pimps, and whore-masters.<\/em>” being denounced by the colony’s royal governor as the most “insolent, treasonable declamation that perhaps was ever delivered<\/em>.”<\/p>\n 1788 \u2013 New Hampshire becomes the 9th and last necessary state to ratify The Constitution of the United States.<\/p>\n 1898 \u2013 The U.S. captures Guam from Spain during the Spanish-American War.<\/p>\n 1900 \u2013 By edict of the Empress Dowager Cixi, China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, during the Boxer Rebellion.<\/p>\n 1905 \u2013 The New York Central Railroad’s flagship passenger train, the 20th Century Limited<\/em>, is derailed in an apparent act of sabotage in Mentor, Ohio, killing 21 people.<\/p>\n 1915 \u2013 In the case of\u00a0Guinn v. United States, t<\/em>he Supreme Court rules that the Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation, which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 During World War II, the Japanese submarine I-25, commanded by Lt Cmdr Meiji Tagami, surfaces off the coast of Oregon, and fires at Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia river, missing all shots fired and being quickly attacked in return and forced to submerge by a U.S. Army bomber<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 During World War II, the Battle of Okinawa ends when organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the island.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 In the case of Miller v. California<\/em>, the Supreme Court rules that all of the 3 parts<\/strong><\/em> of the ‘Miller Test’: 1970 \u2013 The Penn Central Railroad declares Section 77 bankruptcy in what is the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy to date.<\/p>\n 1982 \u2013 John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. 40 years later, he is released from any form of restriction and set totally free.<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013 In the case of\u00a0Texas v. Johnson<\/em>, the Supreme Court rules that American flag burning is a form of political protest protected by the 1st Amendment<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a 1 Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded space plane to achieve spaceflight.<\/p>\n 2006 \u2013 Pluto’s moons, newly discovered by the Hubble space telescope, are officially named Nix<\/em> and Hydra.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 21 1768 \u2013 In a speech to the Massachusetts General Court, James Otis Jr. is noted for offending the King and Parliament, when he refers to the British House of Commons as a gathering of “button-makers, horse jockey gamesters, pensioners, pimps, and whore-masters.” being denounced by the colony’s royal governor as the most “insolent, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56154"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93745,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56154\/revisions\/93745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhether “the average person, applying contemporary community standards”, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest.<\/em>
\nWhether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions specifically defined by applicable state law.<\/em>
\nWhether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.<\/em>
\nmust be met<\/em><\/strong> for speech or expression is obscene and not protected under the 1st amendment to the U.S. constitution.<\/p>\n