Being found guilty of “certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft and Sorceries,” Bridget Bishop became the first person to be hanged during the Salem witch trials in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1772 Rhode Islanders in the American colonies boarded and sank the British revenue cutter Gaspee in Narragansett Bay.
1829 – The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place at Henly.
1977: The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale. Designed primarily by Steve Wozniak its 6502 microprocessor runs at 1 MHz, programs are loaded from cassette tape and it comes with just 4kB of RAM – the price is $1,298.
1989After an era of 157 years, Britain's last manned lightvessel (Planet LV23, built 1959) was towed away from her position north-west of the Channel Island of Guernsey. She became a cafe / bar and museuum in Liverpool docks and in 2014 Planet became the base for a re-creation of Radio Caroline North, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Radio Caroline pirate radio station. In 2016 she was repossessed by bailiffs for non-payment of mooring fees and was towed from Liverpool to a mooring in Bristol.
The Vale of Glamorgan railway line between Barry and Bridgend was reopened on this day 2005.
Opened in 1897 and originally part of the Barry Railway Company, the line ran from Barry to Bridgend via Aberthaw and Llantwit Major. As well as a passenger service it also served the limestone quarries and the cement works at Aberthaw, and Rhoose cement works. Then in World War II it serviced the 14,000 personnel at the RAF base in St Athan. The passenger service was closed on 13 June 1964, however, after many years of campaigning, the line finally reopened to passenger traffic on Sunday 12th June 2005.
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1966: Janis Joplin makes her singing debut with Big Brother and the Holding Company at San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom.
