Jun 19, 1934: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was created.

• Jun 19, 1862: Congress abolished slavery in the U.S. territories.
• Jun 19, 1964 : The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved.
• More events from This Day in History: Jun 19
• Jun 18, 1812: The War of 1812 began.
• Jun 18, 1815: Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by British, German, and Dutch forces.
• Jun 18, 1983: Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
• More events from This Day in History: Jun 18
• Jun 17, 1775: The Battle of Bunker Hill took place during the American Revolution.
• Jun 17, 1972: Burglary of Democratic Party headquarters in Washington, DC, started the Watergate political scandal.
• Jun 17, 1885 : The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.
• More events from This Day in History: Jun 17
• Jun 16, 1487: The Battle of Stoke ended the Wars of the Roses.
• Jun 16, 1904: Events in James Joyce's novel Ulysses took place on this day, which is celebrated as Bloomsday, for the main character, Leopold Bloom.
• Jun 16, 1963: Valentina Tereshkova of the USSR became the first woman in space.
• More events from This Day in History: Jun 16
• Jun 15, 1215: King John sealed the Magna Carta.
• Jun 15, 1836: Arkansas became the 25th state in the United States.
• Jun 15, 1844: Charles Goodyear was granted a patent for rubber vulcanization.
• More events from This Day in History: Jun 15
• Jun 14, 1777: The Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the U.S.
• Jun 14, 1922: Warren Harding became the first president to be heard on the radio.
• Jun 14, 1951: The first commercial computer, Univac I, was unveiled.
• More events from This Day in History: Jun 14
• Jun 13, 1900: The Boxer Rebellion began in China.
• Jun 13, 1966: The U.S. Supreme Court set forth in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must advise suspects of their rights upon taking them into custody.
• Jun 13, 1967: Thurgood Marshall was nominated to become the first African American on the U.S. Supreme Court.
• More events from This Day in History: Jun 13
• Jun 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 of at least nine innings.
• Jun 12, 1939: The Baseball Hall of Fame opened to the public in Cooperstown, New York.

Jun 19: Lou Gehrig

1903—41, American baseball player, born in New York City. See biography and links to other people born today...

• Jun 18: Paul McCartney
• Jun 17: John Wesley
• Jun 16: Joyce Carol Oates
• Jun 15: Edvard Grieg
• Jun 14: Ernesto Guevara
• Jun 13: William Butler Yeats
• Jun 12: George Herbert Walker Bush
• Jun 11: Jacques Cousteau
• Jun 10: Maurice Sendak
• Jun 9: Peter the Great
• Jun 8: Frank Lloyd Wright
• Jun 7: Gwendolyn Brooks
• Jun 6: Thomas Mann
• Jun 5: Francisco Villa
• Jun 4: George III
• Jun 3: Allen Ginsberg
• Jun 2: Martha Washington
• Jun 1: Jacques Marquette
• May 31: Patricia Roberts Harris
• May 30: Countee Cullen
• May 29: John F. Kennedy
• May 28: Jim Thorpe
• May 27: Henry Kissinger
• May 26: Sally K. Ride
• May 25: Ralph Waldo Emerson
• May 24: Queen Victoria
• May 23: Margaret Fuller
• May 22: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• May 22: Alexander Pope

London sheriffs' court roll

An edition of the court roll for 1320 is now live. Edited by Dr Matthew F. Stevens, it gives a complete edition and index of London's only surviving such roll for the medieval period, for July-Sept 1320. It was produced as part of the Centre for Metropolitan History ESRC-funded 'London women and the economy before and after the black death' project (2009-10).

• Usability test for BHO and ReScript
• Site changes
• Usability test for British History Online
• Survey of London monographs
• New datasets for London history now live
• New video tutorials available
• Four more Somerset volumes live
• London Record Society
• Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714
• Five more House of Lords journals
• Thoroton's history of Nottinghamshire now complete
• New Ordnance Survey Map Function
• Blomefield's History of Norfolk
• Rymer's Foedera With Syllabus
• Calendar of Papal Registers Now Complete
• Easier Annotation
• Calendar of Treasury Books now complete
• Parliament Rolls of Medieval England now online
• 10 volumes of the Journal of the House of Lords
• New volumes for VCH Wiltshire
• Lincolnshire wills
• Suckling's History and Antiquities of Suffolk
• Calendar of State Papers, Colonial now complete
• New Timeline Function on BHO
• Cecil Papers
• Six Volumes of Papal Documents
• British History Online user survey
• New sources for the history of Norwich
• Calendar of Papers Preserved in France

An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 1 - Eburacum, Roman York

The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England survey, entirely dedicated to Roman York, known as Eburacum. The volume covers roads, military and civilian sites, burials, inscriptions, glass and other fragments of Roman York.

• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 2 - The Defences
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 3 - South West
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 4 - Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 5 - Central
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 3 - Roman London
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 5 - Archaeology and Churches in Northampton
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 6 - Archaeological Sites in North Northamptonshire
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 2 - Archaeological sites in Central Northamptonshire
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 3 - Archaeological sites in North-West Northamptonshire
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 4 - Archaeological sites in South-West Northamptonshire
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 1 - Archaeological sites in North-East Northamptonshire
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Middlesex
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire, Volume 1 - South
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire, Volume 2 - North
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, Volume 1 - South West
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, Volume 2 - East
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, Volume 3 - North West
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex, Volume 2 - Central and South West
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex, Volume 4 - South East
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 1 - Westminster Abbey
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 4 - The City
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex, Volume 1 - North West
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex, Volume 3 - North East
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 2 - West London
• An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 5 - East London

The Treaty of Versailles

A History revision guide that explains the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. The podcast explores the major themes of the Treaty, and how different countries responded to it. The final part of the podcast presents evidence for and against the argument that the Treaty was 'unfair' in order to help students present a balanced answerin the exam.

• The Big Three: The Paris Peace Conference
• Cold War Revision: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
• Germany 1919-1945: The Weimar Republic
• Cold War Revision: The Cuban Missile Crisis
• Cold War Revision: The Origins of the Cold War
• IGCSE History: CIE Paper 2 (German Involvement in the Spanish Civil War)
• IGCSE History: CIE Paper 4 (Alternative to coursework)
• Cold War Revision: Hungary 1956 and Czechoslovakia 1968
• IGCSE History: CIE Paper 2 (Sources)
• American Involvement in Vietnam
• The Road to War
• League of Nations: The 1930s
• Paper 1 Exam Tips
• League of Nations: The 1920s
• Exam Skills: How to succeed with sourcework
• British Depth Study: How did women gain the right to vote?
• British Depth Study: How were civilians affected by World War 1?
• VERY BRIEF OVERVIEW: The Cold War
• Germany 1919-1945: The Rise of Hitler
• Nazi Germany: Life in Nazi Germany
• Nazi Germany: How did the Nazis Keep Control?
• International Relations: The Paris Peace Conference
• British Depth Study: Liberal Reforms
• Paper 1 Exam Tips
• League of Nations: The 1920s
• Exam Skills: How to succeed with sourcework
• British Depth Study: How did women gain the right to vote?
• British Depth Study: How were civilians affected by World War 1?
• VERY BRIEF OVERVIEW: The Cold War