This Day in History June 15

June 15

1215 King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England
1664 NJ established
1775 George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army
1779 General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx
1804 12th amendment ratified; deals with manner of choosing president
1836 Arkansas becomes 25th state
1844 Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber
1851 Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory
1860 1st White settlement in Idaho (Franklin)
1864 Battle for Petersburg begins as Gen Grant assaults Confederate line
1864 Robert E Lee's home area (Arlington, VA) becomes a miltary cemetery
1869 Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY
1871 Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a US collegiate law school
1876 Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a US presidential convention
1877 Henry O Flipper becomes 1st black graduate at West Point
1889 Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adv "The Stockbroker's Clerk" (BG)
1907 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference
1919 1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland
1924 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile
1924 Native Americans are proclaimed US citizens
1934 Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated
1940 French fortress of Verdun captured by Germans
1944 US forces begin invasion of Saipan in Pacific
1951 1st coml electronic computer dedicated Phil
1969 "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premiers on CBS
1973 "American Graffiti" opens in NYC
1982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat
1986 Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity
1989 Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth

Interesting.

The first one has probably impacted society the most. Prior to the Magna Carta, (Great Charter), common people weren't allowed to own real estate.

Thanks for posting.
A personal one:
1988 Hendrik married his lovely bride (of a blessed 27 years now).

My first granddaughter was born. 15 years ago.

Congratulations to you and your lovely bride ,Hendrik.

Nonsense! The most important was the event in 1969! LOL

Thanks for posting this everyday, I'm a history buff so these posts make for great reading.

I too appreciate the history lesson.
I also appreciate you go back farther than the discovery of America. I also appreciate that you shortened it up to relevant history and took out the scores of baseball games and celebrity junk etc. Keep it up.

It's funny I have a book that states celluloid was invented in New Jersey while searching for a substitute for ivory billiard balls. Everything I just searched has no mention of that and the patent and company was in Albany, NY.

Touche'

I thought you might say that,,,lol ,,,saaaaaaalute!,,whats for dinner grandpa?

check out these three sites dr sportster
one claims 1868, one 1869 and anothere 1870
so theres defintly confusion

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_2947
http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/conflicts-in-chemistry/the-case-of-plastics/invention-case-study.aspx
http://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wesley-Hyatt