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1998 – Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in largest high–tech acquisition. 2001 – Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing . 2002 – Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress .
June 11, 2024 at 9:46 AM. ... Pride events in Texas date back to the 1970s, following the June 1969 riots at New York City's Stonewall Inn. ... This article originally appeared on Austin American ...
1876 – Alfred L. Kroeber, American-French anthropologist and ethnologist (d. 1960) 1877 – Renée Vivien, English-French poet and author (d. 1909) 1879 – Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player and manager (d. 1944) 1880 – Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (d. 1973) 1881 – Spiros Xenos, Greek-Swedish painter (d ...
June 4 – The Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California via the First Transcontinental Railroad, 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City. June 11 – Rutherford B. Hayes selected by the Republicans as presidential candidate.
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Cayuse War, November 29, 1847 – June 11, 1855 Walla Walla Treaty, June 11, 1855; The southeastern portion of the Territory of Wisconsin is admitted to the Union as the State of Wisconsin (the 30th state) on May 29, 1848. The remainder of the Wisconsin Territory becomes unorganized. The Territory of Oregon is organized, August 14, 1848
February 11 – The CIA's Domestic Operations Division is created. February 12 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 705 crashes in the Florida Everglades , killing everyone aboard. February 19 – The publication of Betty Friedan 's The Feminine Mystique launches the reawakening of the Women's Movement in the United States as women's ...
1914 – Around 2,000 members of European society attended a ball at Kenwood House, England, in one of the last major social events before the outbreak of the First World War. 1963 – The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor George Wallace stepped aside after defiantly blocking the entrance to an auditorium (pictured) .