The Grumman Fighter That Salvaged the Pacific War
On June 17, 1942, a Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat sat secured to the hangar deck of the USS Long Island, the U.S. Navy's very first escort carrier. Coming just days after the ...
Ordnance Innovator Surveying a Fallen Rebellion
On June 17, 1865, Admiral John A. Dahlgren stood proudly on the deck of the USS Pawnee off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina. With the Civil War officially drawing ...
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The Brilliant Tactics of Crazy Horse
On June 17, 1876, the rolling hills along the Rosebud River in Montana Territory became a brutal, six-hour battleground. A massive force of Sioux and Northern Cheyenne warriors, masterfully led ...
The Extraordinary Hit King Who Transformed the Game
Pete Browning, born in Louisville, Kentucky on June 17, 1861, was a true titan of 19th-century baseball, capturing three batting titles and achieving the rare feat of hitting for the ...
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A French Witness to New York’s New Dawn
The French vessel Isère steamed into New York Harbor on June 17, 1885, carrying 350 individual copper pieces of the Statue of Liberty packed inside 214 heavy wooden crates. Over ...
Wilderness Sanctuary for an Exiled Spirit
In June 1636, a young, radical theologian named Roger Williams arrived at the shores of Narragansett Bay after spending a brutal winter wandering through the freezing New England wilderness to ...
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The Heartbreak Behind the Hero of Gettysburg
Born on June 17, 1837, in Waterford, Pennsylvania, Strong Vincent would secure his place in American history as the young brigade commander who saved the Union flank at Gettysburg. Recognizing ...
A Strategic Defeat That Forged an Army
On June 17, 1775, the raw determination of the American colonial forces was put to the ultimate test during the Battle of Bunker Hill. Though the engagement actually took place ...
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The Luxury Birth of the Jet-Set Era
On June 17, 1947, Pan American World Airways permanently altered human geography by introducing the world's first scheduled commercial around-the-world flight service. For the steep price of $1,700—roughly equivalent to ...
The Pen Stroke That Reshaped American Geography
On June 17, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Newlands Reclamation Act into law, a sweeping piece of legislation that authorized the federal government to sell public lands to fund ...
A Hollywood Icon Bridges the Golden Age and Modern Comedy
Born on June 17, 1904, veteran character actor Ralph Bellamy spent decades playing the dependable, smooth-talking gentleman in Hollywood's Golden Age. However, a new generation of film fans would come ...
The Silent Script That Accelerated the Industrial Era
Born in Ireland on June 17, 1867, John Robert Gregg grew up with severe hearing damage caused by a strict schoolmaster who struck his ears. This childhood isolation drove him ...
High-Stakes Diplomatic Cargo in Low Earth Orbit
Exactly a century after the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York, NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery roared into the sky on June 17, 1985, to begin the historic STS-51-G mission ...
Preserving a Town’s Past: The Day Brookhaven Claimed Its Place in History
On June 17, 1950, downtown Brookhaven, Mississippi, transformed into a bustling open-air theater of civic pride as citizens gathered for the formal dedication of a new state historical marker. The ...
A Reluctant Passenger Prepares to Take the Wheel
A Reluctant Passenger Prepares to Take the Wheel On June 17, 1928, Amelia Earhart stood on the rugged shores of Trepassey Harbor, Newfoundland, wrapped in a heavy flight suit as she boarded ...
