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9th June 747: Abbasid Revolution begins, which overthrows the Umayyad Caliphate

The Abbasid Revolution gained momentum thanks to the leadership of Abu Muslim al-Khurasani, a Persian revolutionary who rallied support for the Abbasid cause in the eastern provinces of the ...

8th June 1959: The world’s only delivery of ‘Missile Mail’ took place when the United States Post Office Department sent 3,000 letters using a cruise missile

The missile was fired from the deck of the submarine USS Barbero towards the Naval Auxiliary Air Station in Mayport, Florida, and completed its 700-mile flight in just 22 ...

7th June 1982: Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee, was opened to the public

Elvis Presley purchased Graceland for $102,500 in 1957 when he was 22 years ...

6th June 1933: Worlds first drive-in theatre opens in Camden County, New Jersey

Richard M. Hollingshead Jr.'s ‘Automobile Movie Theatre’ opened on a 400-acre plot of land on Admiral Wilson Boulevard in Pennsauken Township, and could accommodate 400 cars parked on ramps facing a 40 foot by 50 foot ...

5th June 1947: U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall delivers a speech at Harvard University outlining his financial plan for post-war Europe

The Marshall Plan provided aid to 16 Western European nations, distributing more than $13 billion of aid over a four year ...

4th June 1855: United States Camel Corps initiated when USS Supply departed New York City for the Mediterranean to obtain camels

The camels proved themselves to be both fast and strong, easily outperforming the horses and mules that the Army had used up until that ...

3rd June 1943: Zoot Suit Riots erupt in Los Angeles, California, during the Second World War

The riots began on the night of 3 June, 1943, when a group of sailors on shore leave clashed with Mexican American youths in downtown Los ...

2nd June 1774: The British Parliament passes the Quartering Act, the fourth of the punitive laws passed in the wake of the Boston Tea Party

Just a few months later the First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia, uniting the colonies in the face of increasingly oppressive British ...

1st June 1916: Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jewish justice on the U.S. Supreme Court

As a Supreme Court Justice, Brandeis wrote opinions in favor of individual liberty and freedom of speech, while protecting citizens’ right to ...

31st May 1921: The Tulsa Race Massacre breaks out in Oklahoma

The final report of the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot, published in 2001, estimated that around 300 people may have died in the ...