June 8, 1867

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright is born in Richland Center. Wright died on April 9, 1959, after completing a design for a mile-high office building.

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June 10, 1837

Workers arrive in Madison to begin construction of the first state Capitol building. A ceremony to lay the building's cornerstone was to be held three weeks later on July 4, 1837.

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June 11, 1859

Construction begins in Dodgeville on the Iowa County Courthouse, the oldest existing courthouse in Wisconsin.

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June 12, 1806

John A. Roebling, civil engineer and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge, is born in Muehlhausen, Prussia. The Brooklyn Bridge spans New York's East River to connect Manhattan with Brooklyn.

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June 16, 1775

The Army Corps of Engineers is born. During the Siege of Boston, the Second Continental Congress authorizes the preparation of fortifications. Thus, at the ensuing Battle of Bunker Hill, colonists fired at the British from a redoubt at the top of the hill and from behind fences reinforced with vegetation and brush. The engineers' work proved so valuable that Congress resolved four years later, "That the engineers in the service of the United States shall be formed into a corps, and styled the 'corps of engineers;' and shall take rank and enjoy the same rights, honours, and privileges, with the other troops …"

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June 19, 1885

The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor. The monument was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States intended to commemorate the centennial of the Declaration of Independence. Sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi's "Liberty Enlightening the World" stands more than 300 feet high.

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June 20, 1911

Employees of Andrus Asphalt Co. in Madison go on strike and threaten to kill their foreman if they don't receive an increase in wages for laying pavement. The men demanded a 25 cent per day raise from $1.75 to $2.

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June 25, 1876

George Armstrong Custer and the 265 men under his command lose their lives in the Battle of Little Big Horn, often referred to as Custer's Last Stand.

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June 26, 1870

The first section of the Atlantic City Boardwalk opens along the New Jersey beach. Dr. Jonathan Pitney and civil engineer Richard Osborne began developing the area on Absecon Island in 1850.

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June 28, 1914

In an event widely regarded as sparking the outbreak of World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, is shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

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