TIM MAGUIRE

On this day in 1963, U.S.President John Kennedy announced "Ich bin
ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) at the Berlin Wall.

An estimated 250,000 people crammed a large Berlin square to hear President Kennedy speak at the 1963 rally.  

On this day in 1945, the U.N. Charter was signed by 50 nations in San Francisco, CA.

The Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics Corp. jointly
announced that they had created a working draft of the human
genome.

The first section of the boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ, was opened
to the public on this day in 1870.

Charlie Chaplin’s comedy "The Gold Rush" premiered in Hollywood
on this day in 1925.

(History) – The last Packard–the classic American luxury car with the
famously enigmatic slogan “Ask the Man Who Owns One”–rolls off
the production line at Packard’s plant in Detroit, Michigan on this
day in 1956.

Mechanical engineer James Ward Packard and his brother, William
Dowd Packard, built their first automobile, a buggy-type vehicle with
a single cylinder engine, in Warren, Ohio in 1899 (below).

Richard Benjamin Harrison Jr. (March 4, 1941 – June 25, 2018)

"Richard Benjamin ‘The Old Man’ Harrison passed away this morning
surrounded by those he loved. His son Rick (center below) said he will
be tremendously missed by our family, the team at Gold & Silver Pawn
and his many fans the world over.”

Seen on the History cable channel.

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North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War on this
day in 1950.

On this day in 1876, Lt. Col. Custer and the 210 men of U.S. 7th
Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big
Horn in Montana. The event is known as "Custer’s Last Stand."

George Armstrong Custer
(December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876)

On this day in 1973, White House Counsel John Dean admitted that
U.S. President Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.

The Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C.

Eric Arthur Blair (June 25, 1903 – January 21, 1950)

Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He
is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the novel 
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (June 11, 1910 – June 25, 1997) 

Jacques Cousteau was a French naval officer, explorer,
conservationist, filmmaker, scientist, photographer,
author and researcher who studied the sea and all
forms of life in water. He co-developed the Aqua-lung,
pioneered marine conservation. Jacques-Yves Cousteau
died of a heart attack on 25 June 1997 in Paris, two weeks
after his 87th birthday.

On this day in 1997, U.S. Air Force officials released 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
atomic age caused many Americans to turn their attention to the skies.

The town of Roswell, located near the Pecos River in southeastern New
Mexico, became a magnet for UFO believers due to the strange events
of early July 1947, when ranch foreman W.W. Brazel found a strange,
shiny material scattered over some of his land. He turned the material
over to the sheriff, who passed it on to authorities at the nearby Air Force
base.

On July 8, Air Force officials announced they had recovered the wreckage
of a “flying disk.” A local newspaper (below) put the story on its front page,
launching Roswell into the spotlight of the public’s UFO fascination.