June 20, 1248: University of Oxford receives its Royal charter, and immediately begins to talk smack about Cambridge.
1837: Queen Victoria is crowned; her 67-year reign will see vast social, political, and economic changes, as well as the construction of some really fancy train stations.
1863: West Virginia becomes the 35th state after fifty counties secede from Confederate Virginia and join the Union; plain Virginia protests and eventually takes the matter to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1893: Lizzie Borden is acquitted of taking an axe and giving her father 40 whacks; to this day, you can still enjoy the Borden family experience, hopefully sans homicide.
1931: Olympia Dukakis is born; no word on if she ever got her “I slapped Ouiser Boudreaux” shirt.
1949: Lionel Richie says Hello to the world, and promptly keeps his parents up All Night Long.
It’s also National Ice Cream Soda Day— you can even make one with vodka!
(Robin here!)
Jane, you forgot today is National Hollerin’ Contest Day 🙂