| 1743 | English King George II defeats the French at Dettingen, Bavaria. | |
| 1833 | Prudence Crandall, a white woman, is arrested for conducting an academy for black women in Canterbury, Conn. | |
| 1862 | Confederates break through the Union lines at the Battle of Gaines’ Mill–the third engagement of the Seven Days’ campaign. | |
| 1864 | General William Sherman is repulsed by Confederates at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. | |
| 1871 | The yen becomes the new form of currency in Japan. | |
| 1905 | The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin mutinies. | |
| 1918 | Two German pilots are saved by parachutes for the first time. | |
| 1923 | Yugoslav Premier Nikola Pachitch is wounded by Serb attackers in Belgrade. | |
| 1924 | Democrats offer Mrs. Leroy Springs the vice presidential nomination, the first woman considered for the job. | |
| 1927 | The U.S. Marines adopt the English bulldog as their mascot. | |
| 1929 | Scientists at Bell Laboratories in New York reveal a system for transmitting television pictures. | |
| 1942 | The Allied convoy PQ-17 leaves Iceland for Murmansk and Archangel. | |
| 1944 | Allied forces capture the port city of Cherbourg, France. | |
| 1950 | The UN Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea. | |
| 1963 | Henry Cabot Lodge is appointed U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam. | |
| 1973 | Nixon vetoes a Senate ban on the Cambodia bombing. | |
| 1985 | The U.S. House of Representatives votes to limit the use of combat troops in Nicaragua. |
Bell began his experiments with tetrahedral box kites in 1898, eventually developing elaborate structures comprised of multiple compound tetrahedral kites covered in maroon silk, constructed with the aim of being to carry a human through the air. Named Cygnet I, II, and III (for they took off from water) these enormous tetrahedral beings were flown both unmanned and manned during a five year period from 1907 until 1912.You can see a gallery of pictures taken during that time at the Public Domain Review.
The Secret Plan To Bury Soldiers Alive Inside The Rock Of Gibraltar Rear Admiral John Henry Godfrey, the Director of the Naval Intelligence Division of the British Admiralty, suggested that they establish at Gibraltar a covert observation post which would remain operational even if Gibraltar fell into enemy hands. This observation post would be located in a hidden chamber within the Rock of Gibraltar with two small openings to watch for movements on the harbor. Six men were selected to be sealed inside the cave, and while there were enough supplies to last one year, there was to be no way out of the chamber, and if any men were to die they were to be embalmed and cemented into the brick floor. Only if Germany was defeated within the first year would they be released.The cave was built, and six men were trained, but Operation Tracer was never put into service because Hitler turned his attention away from the Mediterranean. Read about the plans and see pictures of the cave at Amusing Planet.
A small border town and some of the largest cities in Texas will ask a
federal judge on Monday to block a new state law to punish “sanctuary
cities,” arguing it promotes racial profiling, diverts resources from
police and is unconstitutional. 
Sensationalism was a major part of journalism in the early 20th century, but Thomas helped reshape this. How did he manage that?Read the rest of the interview at Smithsonian.
The early 20th century was a time when a lot of people “improved” stories. It was a less fact-obsessed world than the one we live in and therefore a less accurate world. Lowell was a pretty sensational journalist in Chicago himself. Lowell got caught making something up in Chicago, but he learned a lesson.
When he got his great gig, hosting what at the time was a network radio newscast, he was aware of the responsibilities that went with it. He helped pioneer a more sober style of journalism. Lowell quickly realized that there were people among his hundreds of thousands and then millions of listeners who would write letters and complain to his network if he got things wrong. Because [the radio broadcast] had so many listeners and he was such a dominant figure, what happened there also spread to other iterations of radio, then TV, then newspapers. Lowell contributed to the fact obsession that journalists have today.
