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U.S. Air Force reports on Roswell

History Fact by https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-air-force-reports-on-roswell On June 24, 1997, U.S. Air Force officials release a 231-page report dismissing long-standing claims of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell, New Mexico, almost exactly 50 years earlier. Public interest in Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, began to flourish in the 1940s, when developments in space travel and the dawn of the atomicContinue reading “U.S. Air Force reports on Roswell”

U.S. Constitution Ratified 1788

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-constitution-ratified June 21, 1788: New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last necessary state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby making the document the law of the land. By 1786, defects in the post-Revolutionary War Articles of Confederation were apparent, such as the lack of central authority over foreign and domestic commerce. Congress endorsed a plan to draft aContinue reading “U.S. Constitution Ratified 1788”

Jaws Released in Theaters today in 1975

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jaws-released-2 On June 20, 1975, Jaws, a film directed by Steven Spielberg that made countless viewers afraid to go into the water, opens in theaters. The story of a great white shark that terrorizes a New England resort town became an instant blockbuster and the highest-grossing film in movie history until it was bested by 1977’s Star Wars. Jaws wasContinue reading “Jaws Released in Theaters today in 1975”

The Statue of Liberty Arrives in New York Harbor 1885

Source: This Day in History – What Happened Today – HISTORY On June 17, 1885, the dismantled Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of America, arrives in New York Harbor after being shipped across the Atlantic Ocean in 350 individual pieces packed in more than 200 cases. The copperContinue reading “The Statue of Liberty Arrives in New York Harbor 1885”

What is Juneteenth?

by: BYELIZABETH NIX from What Is Juneteenth? – HISTORY Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. JuneteenthContinue reading “What is Juneteenth?”