This Day in History – June 16, 2011

1567 Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison 1858 Abraham Lincoln says “A house divided against itself cannot stand” 1882 17″ hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa 1883 1st baseball “Ladies’ Day” (NY Gothams beat Cleve Spiders 5-2) 1896 Temperture hits 127øF at Fort Mojave, Calif 1903 Ford Motors incorporates 1904 Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce’s Ulysses) 1909 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000 1922 Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics 1932 Pres Hoover & VP Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down) 1933 US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created 1941 1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC 1967 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival 1975 Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD 1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him 1988 In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins]]]]> ]]>