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Show THIS DATE IN HISTORY JUNE 30. 1767 English parliament levied duties on tea, papers, glass, etc., In America one of the causes of the Revolution. . I8 Maynooth college, Ireland, founded by parliament in 1795, permanently endowed. Subject of much church and political contention. IMS Rome surrendered to the French under Marshal Oudi-not. Oudi-not. 1859 Blondln first walked over Niagara Falls on the tight blondih. rope. 1881 Juarex made dictator of Mexico, 1862 Battle of White Oak Swamp, Va.; Federals defeated. 18GS Baltimore placed under martial law by Gen. Schenck. 1870 United States senate rejected treaty to annex an-nex San Domingo. 1880 Jesuits expelled from France. 188 Charles Guiteau hanged for the assassination assassina-tion of President Garfield. 1889 Ordered that the American flag shall hereafter here-after contain forty-two stars, to correspond with the number of states. |