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June 20: 'The Ed Sullivan Show' premieres
On this date in 1948, a new show debuted on CBS. It was called 'Toast of the Town,' but by 1955, it would be known famously as 'The Ed Sullivan Show.'
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June 17: First major battle of Revolutionary War
June 17, 1775, brought the first major battle of the Revolutionary War—and one of its bloodiest. That morning, British General Thomas Gage, occupying Boston, woke up to discover that two hills across the Charles River were covered with patriot troops and fortifications.
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June 16: Lincoln accepts nomination for U.S. Senate
On June 16, 1858, Abraham Lincoln gave an address in Springfield, Illinois, accepting the state Republican party’s nomination to be its candidate for the U.S. Senate. There he uttered what has become one of the most famous phrases in American history: 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.'
June 9: Secretariat wins the Triple Crown
On June 9, 1973, a racehorse captured the hearts and minds of spectators in the United States and around the world. Secretariat became the first horse since 1948 to win the Triple Crown by winning the Kentucky Derby, The Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes in the same year.
June 6: D Day
Dwight D. Eisenhower once described the Allied Forces assembled in Britain for the D-Day invasion of Northern France as 'a great human spring, coiled for the moment when its energy would be released and it would vault the english channel in the greatest amphibious assault ever attempted.'
June 3: Betsy Ross, American Flag
Tradition says that the first stars and stripes flag was the work of Betsy Ross, an upholsterer living in Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War. About June 1776, the 24-year-old widow was working in her shop on Arch Street when three gentlemen called. What happened next was truly historic.
