Post by soup on Jun 28, 2009 8:09:51 GMT -6
1894: Congress establishes Labor Day as a holiday for federal employees, which leads to it becoming a national holiday.
1902: The U.S. buys the concession to build a Panama canal from the French for $40 million.
1919: The Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, is signed in France.
1939: Pan American Airways began regular trans-Atlantic air service with a flight that departed New York for Marseilles, France
1965: President Johnson authorizes the use of U.S. ground combat forces in Vietnam.
1973: A lawsuit, filed in Detroit, challenges Little League's "no girls" rule.
1997 U.S.A. Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield's Ear
2004 : The US has transferred sovereignty of Iraq back to Iraq ending 15 months of US control in Iraq. Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and his cabinet have now been sworn in and have made a televised address to the people of Iraq after formally taking office
Birthdays of note:
CIA Director Leon Panetta is 71
Actress Kathy Bates is 61
Football Hall of Famer John Elway is 49
Actor John Cusack is 43
Country singer Kellie Pickler is 23
1902: The U.S. buys the concession to build a Panama canal from the French for $40 million.
1919: The Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, is signed in France.
1939: Pan American Airways began regular trans-Atlantic air service with a flight that departed New York for Marseilles, France
1965: President Johnson authorizes the use of U.S. ground combat forces in Vietnam.
1973: A lawsuit, filed in Detroit, challenges Little League's "no girls" rule.
1997 U.S.A. Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield's Ear
2004 : The US has transferred sovereignty of Iraq back to Iraq ending 15 months of US control in Iraq. Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and his cabinet have now been sworn in and have made a televised address to the people of Iraq after formally taking office
Birthdays of note:
CIA Director Leon Panetta is 71
Actress Kathy Bates is 61
Football Hall of Famer John Elway is 49
Actor John Cusack is 43
Country singer Kellie Pickler is 23
I bet your parents were so proud!