This Day in History June 29

June 29

1767 British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America
1776 Va state constitution adopted & Patrick Henry made governor
1854 Gadsden Purchase (parts of Az, NM) from Mexico for $10 million
1862 Day 5 of the 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station
1863 Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, PN
1863 Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
1913 Beginning of the 2nd Balkan War
1916 Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time
1927 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
1929 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca
1936 Empire State Building emanates high definition TV-343 lines
1939 Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe
1940 US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register
1945 Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR
1949 South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
1949 US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
1952 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn-Oriskany
1956 Federal interstate highway system act signed
1961 Launch of Transit 4a, with 1st nuclear power supply (SNAP-3)
1962 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner
1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate
1965 USAF Capt Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15
1966 US bombs fuel storage facilities near N Vietnamese cities
1970 US ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia
1972 Supreme Court-death penalty usually was "cruel & unusual punishment"
1972 USSR launches Prognoz 2 into earth orbit (549/200,000 km)
1976 Seychelles gains independence from Britain
1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended
1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
1990 Marla Maples father sues the National Enquirer for $12M

"1940 US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register." I guess that one has been repealed. TDF

I really enjoy reading this, thanks for taking the time to do it.

glad you enjoy these posts
I enjoy researching them and putting them together

yep I figured there would be a few comments on that

I understand the reasoning but a lot of good people got treated like trash. Guess you gotta take the good with the bad sometimes when you don't know who's your enemy.........and If my version is history is correct, it was a brother of kind or two that helped with the Pearl Harbor attack, residents of Oahu.