This Day in History

chuck · Post by **chuck** » Sun June 14th, 2009, 3:03 pm

June 14th,1969.... United States Marines are the first combat units to be withdrawn from Vietnam under President Richard Nixon orders....."Peace with Honor" Vietnamination plan actually escalated the war and later Kissinger would call Nixon's P&H as the "The Betrayal of Vietnam"......

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Tue June 16th, 2009, 12:33 am

June 15, 1215 - Signing of the Magna Carta by King John

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Tue June 16th, 2009, 12:33 am

June 15, 1330 - Birth of Edward, the Black Prince, son of Edward III, father of Richard II, at Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Tue June 16th, 2009, 12:34 am

June 15, 1519 - Birth of Henry Fitzroy, Henry VIII's illegitimate son
Henry Fitzroy was the only illegitimate child Henry VIII acknowledged.

Rowan · Post by **Rowan** » Wed June 17th, 2009, 4:30 pm

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

June 17, 1885 the Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor. She was dedicated in October of 1886.

annis · Post by **annis** » Wed June 17th, 2009, 7:20 pm

June 18 marks the anniversary of the decisive engagement during the Battle of Waterloo, in 1815, which led to Napoleon's defeat.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/waterloo.htm

Alaric · Post by **Alaric** » Thu June 18th, 2009, 12:14 pm

Indeed.

A monumental day in history.

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Thu June 18th, 2009, 11:59 pm

June 18, 1536 - Death of Henry Fitzroy, Henry VIII's illegitimate son

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Fri June 19th, 2009, 12:00 am

June 18, 1815 - Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Waterloo

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Fri June 19th, 2009, 12:01 am

June 18, 1901 - Birth of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia