On This Date in History

The Origins of Flag Day "That the flag of the United States shall be of thirteen stripes of alternate red and white, with a union of thirteen stars of white in a blue field, representing the new constellation. This was the resolution adopted by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777. The Origins of Flag Day:" www.va.gov/opa/.../flagday.p...United States Department of Veterans Affairs

Phish ~ 17th June 1988 @ Gopher Broke (Commune), Morrisville, VT

No known setlist!

Bob Dylan 17th June 1978 @ Earls Court, London.

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Love Her With A Feeling
Baby, Stop Crying
Mr. Tambourine Man
Shelter From The Storm
Love Minus Zero, No Limit
Tangled Up In Blue
Ballad Of A Thin Man
Maggie's Farm
I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
Like A Rolling Stone
I Shall Be Released
Going, Going, Gone
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
You're A Big Girl Now
One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below)
Blowin' In The Wind
I Want You
Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
Masters Of War
Just Like A Woman
Simple Twist Of Fate
All Along The Watchtower
All I Really Want To Do
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
The Times They Are A-Changin'

Second of four nights on the trot ~ he played exactly the same set list each night 😕

18th June
1815

USA declares war on the UK
Wellington defeats Napoleon at Waterloo

Originally posted by wolfgang59
18th June
1815

USA declares war on the UK
Wellington defeats Napoleon at Waterloo

Today, 18th June, 87 years ago [1928], Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in an aeroplane.

Originally posted by FMF
Today, 18th June, 87 years ago [1928], Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in an aeroplane.

Originally posted by FMF
.... the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in an aeroplane.

Originally posted by HandyAndy
On that trip she was a passenger. She flew the Atlantic solo in 1932.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
What did they fly in prior to that? 😀

Originally posted by wolfgang59
What did they fly in prior to that? 😀

Originally posted by Mammy Blue
The Hindenburg? Just guessing...

Grateful Dead @ Merriweather Post Pavilion - Columbia, MD

20th June 1983

Set 1:
New Minglewood Blues
They Love Each Other
Little Red Rooster
Peggy-O
Hell In A Bucket
Tennessee Jed
My Brother Esau
West LA Fadeaway
The Music Never Stopped

Set 2:
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Samson And Delilah
He's Gone
Truckin'
Drums
The Other One
Wharf Rat
Sugar Magnolia

Encore:
Baby Blue

21st June
1915

100 myears ago ALL US citizens get the right to vote.
(Good old USA ... at the cutting edge of Democracy)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinn_v._United_States

23rd June
1865

150 years ago last (official) Confederates surrender
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Towson