BY TRISTAN SASSE After a disappointing 2017 season for the Fort Hays State University volleyball team, the Tigers will be heading into the 2018 campaign…
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Author: Tristan Sasse
Senior Journalist at Fort Hays State University
This Day In History — John Lee Richmond Pitched Baseball’s First Perfect Game
June 12 1880 John Lee Richmond pitched baseball’s first perfect game. A perfect game occurs when no batter reaches a base during a complete game…
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June 11 1509 King Henry VIII married his first wife, Katharine of Aragon. 1770 Capt. James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off Australia .…
View More This Day In History — Great Barrier Reef was DiscoveredThis Day In History — Judy Garland was Born
June 10 1801 The Tripolitan War, between the United States and the Barbary States, began. 1865 Wagner’s opera, Tristan and Isolde, premiered in Munich. 1935…
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June 09 1870 Author Charles Dickens died. 1898 China agreed to lease Hong Kong to Britain for 99 years. 1934 Donald Duck made his screen…
View More This Day In History — Donald Duck makes his Screen DebutThis Day In History — The Death of Andrew Jackson
June 08 632 The prophet Muhammad died. 1845 Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the United States, died in Tennessee. 1861 Tennessee became the 11th…
View More This Day In History — The Death of Andrew JacksonThis Day In History — Vatican City becomes a Sovereign State
June 07 1494 Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the New World between the two countries. 1654 Louis XIV was crowned…
View More This Day In History — Vatican City becomes a Sovereign StateThis Day In History — Troops invaded the beaches of Normandy, France, on D-Day
June 06 1844 The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London. 1933 The first drive-in movie theater opened in Camden, New Jersey. 1934…
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June 05 1783 Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier gave the first successful balloon flight demonstration. 1884 Civil War hero Gen. William T. Sherman refused the Republican…
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June 04 1892 The Sierra Club, led by John Muir, was incorporated in San Francisco. 1896 Henry Ford took his first car out for a…
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