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– Ronald Reagan
June 27
1778 – The Liberty Bell is returned to Philadelphia from Northampton Town (now Allentown) where it is hidden until after the British depart following the Revolutionary War.
1833 – Prudence Crandall, a white woman, is arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury, Connecticut.
1893 – The New York stock market crashes. By the end of the year 600 banks and 74 railroads have gone out of business. This is why the period of time following the stock market crash of 1929 is called the “Great” Depression.
1922 – The first Newbery Medal for the year’s best children’s book is presented to Hendrik Van Loon for “The Story of Mankind.” The award is named for the eighteenth-century English bookseller John Newbery.
This Week in History: June 26-July 2, 2017
for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.”
Machiavelli
June 26
1721 – Dr. Zabdiel Boylston of Massachusetts gives the first untested smallpox inoculation in America to his own son.
1797 – Charles Newbold patents the first cast-iron plow. He can’t sell it to farmers because they fear the effects of iron on soil.
1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the U.S.
1900 – U.S. Army physician Dr. Walter Reed begins research that, in 1901, leads to the discovery of how to beat Yellow Fever. His experiments with other doctors in Cuba prove that mosquitoes transmit Yellow Fever.
US Women s Open: Justin Ray with the key stats from the final round South Korea s A Lim Kim set a number of records in the weather-delayed final day of the US Women s Open, capping a final-round 67 with three consecutive birdies to clinch a one-shot victory
By Justin Ray, 15th Club
Last Updated: 15/12/20 6:33am A Lim Kim came from five strokes behind to clinch victory
After A Lim Kim roared to a remarkable victory at the 75th US Women s Open, stats guru Justin Ray looks at the top 10 numbers from the final round in Houston.
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A Lim Kim assembled one of the most memorable finishing flurries in US Women s Open history, birdieing the last three holes to win by one stroke. Kim is the first player since Eun Hee Ji in 2009 to birdie the final hole and win by one. Kim s final-round, a four-under 67, gained 7.43 strokes on the field, the most in the final round by a US Women s Open champion since Meg Mallon in 2004 (7.88).