Today in History June 13

1774 Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves
1866 House passes 14th Amendment
1886 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, BC
1888 Congress creates the Department of Labor
1895 mile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)
1898 Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital
1927 Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
1933 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY)
1933 Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized
1940 Paris evacuated before the German advance
1942 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemnde, Germany; reached 1.3 km
1944 Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks
1955 Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans France
1966 Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights
1967 Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice
1980 UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela
1983 Pioneer 10 becomes 1st man-made object to leave Solar System
1988 US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist
1990 Wash DC mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term,

That's quite a history lesson! I must confess I did not know a single one fell on this date. I knew the years, & months for the V Rockets; but not the day.

read it! thsnks

1927 Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC

My grandmother worked at a photography studio in NYC in 1927. My Dad had a picture she took of Lindbergh at that parade. She was helping to develop color pictures at that time.

1972 my son in law was born.

It is much easier to read in this format.

1959 my parents were married.
1997 my grandmother died.

Thanks for the 'lesson'.

My Father was born 1929