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1688 \u2013 The ‘Immortal Seven’ issue the Invitation to William, Prince of Orange<\/em>, which would culminate in the British Glorious Revolution. The letter informed William that if he were to land in England with a small army, the signatories, 6 Earls, the Bishop of London, and their allies would rise up and support him.\u00a0\u00a0The next year, The English Bill of Rights would become law, which was part of the basis from where our current Bill Of Rights came from, a hundred years later.<\/p>\n 1794 \u2013 During the Northwest Indian War – the ‘northwest’ then being the Ohio region – a greatly superior force of the indian tribes of the Western Confederacy under Shawnee War Chief Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery, in modern Ohio, inflicting heavy casualties but still failing to take the fort and retreat after 2 days fighting.<\/p>\n 1805 \u2013 The earlier act of Congress, dividing part of the Indiana Territory and establishing the Michigan Territory, takes effect<\/p>\n 1859 \u2013 French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.<\/p>\n 1864 \u2013 President Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for “public use, resort and recreation”. Apparently a guy named Sam got all riled up about it.<\/p>\n 1882 \u2013 Charles Guiteau is executed by hanging in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of President Garfield, nearly a year after shooting him.<\/p>\n 1905 \u2013 Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies<\/em>, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in the Annalen der Physik.<\/p>\n 1908 \u2013 The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history by a celestial object, results in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.<\/p>\n 1921 \u2013 President Harding appoints former President Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.<\/p>\n 1922 \u2013 In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes\u2013Peynado agreement, which ends U.S. occupation of the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n 1934 \u2013 The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler’s violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.<\/p>\n 1936 \u2013 Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy’s invasion of his country.<\/p>\n 1937 \u2013 The world’s first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the peninsula and its port to American forces.<\/p>\n 1956 \u2013 Trans World Airlines Flight 2, a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation, and United Airlines Flight 718, a Douglas DC-7, collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 passengers and crew on board both airliners.<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 Ad Astra Per Aspera<\/em> – The crew of Soyuz 11, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev are killed in orbit when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve during reentry preparations.<\/p>\n 1985 \u2013 39 American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.<\/p>\n 1986 \u2013 In the case of Bowers v. Hardwick,<\/em> the Supreme Court rules that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013\u00a0Der Deutschen Einheit – <\/em>East Germany and West Germany merge after 45 years of being politically separated at the end of World War II.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 19 of the 20 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots<\/em> team of the Prescott Arizona Fire Department are killed while attempting to control a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 President Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit North Korea<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 The ‘Tiger Fire’\u00a0caused by a dry lightning strike in the Prescott National Forest, ignites near Black Canyon City, Arizona, and goes on to burn 16,278 acres of land before being fully contained on July 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 30 1688 \u2013 The ‘Immortal Seven’ issue the Invitation to William, Prince of Orange, which would culminate in the British Glorious Revolution. 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