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JUNE 25
Phil McManus was born.
Louise Racy was born.
Karolina Wrzesniewski was born.
Chris Kalisak was born.
Ellen Blum Gray was born
1950 – Communist North Korean troops invaded South Korea beginning the Korean War.
JUNE 26
The Rockaway Times was born.
Doreen Mingino was born.
Jean Condon was born.
Darlene DiResta was born.
2000 – The first map of the human genome, which required decoding more than 3 billion biochemical “letters” of human DNA, is completed.
JUNE 27
Claire Young was born.
Joanne Briody was born.
1969 – Police and gays clashed at the Stonewall Inn in NYC, fostering the gay rights movement.
2003 – The do-not-call registry formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls, enrolled almost 750,000 numbers on day one.
JUNE 28
Carl Perrara was born.
Charlie Greenberg was born.
1894 – Labor Day became a federal holiday by an act of Congress.
1997 – Boxer Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield’s ear during their heavyweight title fight.
JUNE 29
Laura Cryan was born.
Sal Lopizzo was born.
Ronnie Keegan was born.
1972 – The Supreme Court ruled in Furman v. Georgia that the death penalty could constitute as cruel and unusual, prompting some states to revise their laws.
JUNE 30
Sean McVeigh was born.
Theodore Stathis was born.
Michele Dickesheid was born.
Alison McGovern was born.
Meg Greene Riley was born
1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin, AKA Jean Francois Gravelet, walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1971 – The 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18, was ratified.
JULY 1
Ray Agoglia was born.
Bridget O’Connor was born.
John T. Meier was born.
James Bulloch was born.
1863 – The Battle of Gettysburg, which marked the turning point in the Civil War, began.
1997 – After 156 years of British colonial rule, Hong Kong was returned to China.
