Author: Morgan O’Brien

  • Lateran Treaty Signed

    Lateran Treaty Signed

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    Morgan O’Brien

    June 7, 1929, the Lateran Treaty was signed.

  • Normandy Invasion Begins

    Normandy Invasion Begins

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    Morgan O’Brien

    June 6, 1944, the invasion of Normandy began.

  • Roscoe Brown Jr.

    Roscoe Brown Jr.

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    Morgan O’Brien

    Roscoe Brown Jr. was the first 15th Air Force pilot to shoot down a jet.

  • War On Cats

    War On Cats

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    Morgan O’Brien

    Pope Gregory IX waged a war on cats.

  • Six Day War

    Six Day War

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    Morgan O’Brien

    June 5, 1967, a six-day war between Israel and its neighboring countries began.

  • Epsom Derby

    Epsom Derby

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    Morgan O’Brien

    June 4, 1913, Emily Davison interrupted the Epsom Derby.

  • Tiananmen Square Protest Crushed

    Tiananmen Square Protest Crushed

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    Morgan O’Brien

    June 3, 1989, the pro-democracy protest in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, was brutally crushed.

  • Robert Cain

    Robert Cain

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    Morgan O’Brien

    Robert Cain took part in what he called the “South Staff’s Waterloo.”

  • Czech’s Light Pollution Legislation

    Czech’s Light Pollution Legislation

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    Morgan O’Brien

    June 1, 2002, the Czech Republic became the first country to enact light pollution legislation.

  • Cary Grant

    Cary Grant

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    Morgan O’Brien

    Archibald Alec Leach would change his name to Cary Grant and become a star.