On this day in history.

[Andy_Ross]

Hannah Reitsch.
A piloted version was made to find out why it was unstable.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

BZ

 

[Andy_Ross]

Happy birthday to Paul McCartney. 84 today

 

[PitPat]

1928 American aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean (as a passenger), landing at Burry Port, Wales

I wish I could make history just by sitting down and waiting.

 

[PitPat]

Happy birthday to Paul McCartney. 84 today

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Wow, didn't know he was twins with Davy Jones.

 

[AmyStrange]

TDIH for June 19th

1767
An alleged loup-garou was shot and killed (Gevaudan, France)

1856
First Republican national convention ends

1864
USS Kearsarge sinks CSS Alabama

1865
Abolition of slavery announced in Texas on Juneteenth

1867
Emperor of Mexico executed

1868
Father De Smet talks peace with Sitting Bull

1892
A bloody fingerprint elicits a mother's evil tale in Argentina

1905
First nickelodeon opens

1944
United States scores major victory against Japanese in Battle of the Philippine Sea

1953
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed for espionage

1968
Solidarity Day rally at Resurrection City

1971
Carole King has her first #1 hit as a performer

1976
A strange creature sighting (Hubei Province, China)

1982
Vincent Chin is murdered

2005
Controversy at U.S. Grand Prix

2006
Construction on Global Seed Vault begins

2013
James Gandolfini, TV's Tony Soprano, dies at 51

2014
Felipe VI becomes king of Spain after Juan Carlos I abdicates

 

[AmyStrange]

1971
Carole King has her first #1 hit as a performer

 

[Andy_Ross]

Wow, didn't know he was twins with Davy Jones.

He's 84 but thinks he is 73 because he believes there are eight days a week.

 

[AmyStrange]

 

[arthwollipot]

@AmyStrange you're sneaking in links to your own website again. No, a literal werewolf was not killed in France in 1767.

 

[PitPat]

Kind of a biggie today.

1862 Slavery is outlawed in US territories

Happy Juneteenth!

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Kind of a biggie today.

1862 Slavery is outlawed in US territories

Happy Juneteenth!

On June 19, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Territorial Slavery Act, officially outlawing slavery in all current and future U.S. federal territories. [1]
This pivotal legislation fulfilled a key 1860 campaign promise. Congress passed the act to halt the expansion of slavery into the American West. The law's language, stating that "there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the Territories of the United States," was modeled after the 1787 Northwest Ordinance. [1, 2, 3]
This act directly impacted vast areas of land that were not yet states. This included the future states of: [1]

• Washington, Oregon, and Idaho
• Nevada, Utah, and Arizona
• New Mexico and Colorado
• Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska [1]

This sweeping prohibition in the federal territories was enacted just two months after Congress passed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. That earlier act officially abolished slavery in the nation's capital on April 16, 1862. Together, these acts laid the legislative groundwork for the Emancipation Proclamation and the eventual ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

If you want to know more about the timeline leading up to emancipation, let me know if you would like to explore:

• The text of the Territorial Slavery Act of 1862
• The impact of the District of Columbia Emancipation Act 1862
• The transition to the Thirteenth Amendment

 

[AmyStrange]

@AmyStrange you're sneaking in links to your own website again. No, a literal werewolf was not killed in France in 1767.

Yes, I am sneaking in links to my website? So what?

I agree about the loup-garou. I believe it was a serial killer, but the folks back then didn't understand what that was, but they understood what a werewolf was.

If you actually went to my website, you'd find this link:

Beast of Gévaudan - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

If you have a problem with my source, please take it up with them.

BTW, I actually listed all the strange, mysterious, and/or related to the unexplained events for May in a previous post at the end of same, and I also plan on doing it again at the end of June:

Post in thread 'On this day in history.'

May 31, 2026

Here's a recap of events for the month of MAY that are strange, mysterious, and/or related to the unexplained:


MAY 01 1897
Louisa, the wife of Adolph Louis Luetgert, was last seen alive (Chicago, Illinois USA)


MAY 02 1933
Loch Ness Monster sighted for the first time, igniting the modern legend


MAY 03 1943
Roy Hall witnesses the inside of a tornado (McKinney, Texas USA)


MAY 05 1786
A great quantity of black eggs fell (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)


MAY 06 1897
Alleged UFO sighting (Hot Springs, Arkansas...

• AmyStrange

ETA: You did notice the "alleged," right?

 

[arthwollipot]

BTW, I actually listed all the strange, mysterious, and/or related to the unexplained events for May in a previous post at the end of same, and I also plan on doing it again at the end of June:

I did notice that you've been sneaking in your pet project, yes.

 

[AmyStrange]

I did notice that you've been sneaking in your pet project, yes.

Yeah, so what?

They are actual events that have happened, and besides, how am I sneaking them in exactly, especially since I list them all at the end of the month?

 

[AmyStrange]

I did notice that you've been sneaking in your pet project, yes.

I've been working on this day in the history of the unexplained ever since 1995 when I first got on the internet and bought the domain name amystrange.

I've also done extensive research on many of these events which is why I put alleged before the ones that are controversial or really out there.

I've also found out that many of these events were misreported by the authors who did a lazy job of research and just copied and pasted from other authors.

 

[AmyStrange]

TDIH for June 20th

For those of you who think I'm "sneaking" my pet project events into my TDIH post, you can easily find them because I also include a location in parenthesis at the end. History.com doesn't usually do that. You'll also see them at the end of each month, all in one post.

1782
Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States

1789
Third Estate makes Tennis Court Oath

1815
Alleged sea monster sighting (Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts USA)

1863
West Virginia enters the Union

1875
Mountain man Joe Meek dies

1900
Boxer Rebellion begins in China

1919
German cabinet resigns over Versailles deadlock

1941
Ford signs first contract with autoworkers' union

1947
Bugsy Siegel, organized crime leader, is killed

1963
United States and Soviet Union agree to establish a nuclear hot line

1975
Jaws released in theaters

1981
Stars on 45 single reaches the top of the pop charts

 

[Andy_Ross]

I don't think the thread has any rules on what counts as a valid event worth including.

 

[jeremyp]

Happy birthday to Paul McCartney. 84 today

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Radical idea: when talking about Paul McCartney include a picture of Paul McCartney rather than somebody else.

Or are you trying to make monkees of us?

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

1928 American aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean (as a passenger), landing at Burry Port, Wales

I wish I could make history just by sitting down and waiting.

One of the nine storey dorms at Purdue is named "Earhart". I spent a summer there when I first started at Purdue. (Segregated floors, of course.)